Chapter 32: Left Life, Right Death
"Also ...... also poison?"
The Bone Blade's eyes widened, revealing despair as he tried to say something, but the next instant his head became dizzy, and the entire person passed out.
The mist also shrouded towards them at this time, engulfing Xu Qing and Bone Blade's figures within.
Two hours later, at the edge of the forbidden jungle, at a crossroads, the Bone Blade's body ached as he awoke and opened his eyes.
The moment he opened his eyes, he looked around blankly, but soon he jumped up nervously.
Only after determining that there was no danger where he was, and that he didn't see Xu Qing's figure, did he breathe a sigh of relief, and was also the first to realize that the swelling of his face had subsided, and that his entire body had changed very little from before he was poisoned.
"I'm not dead?"
Bone Blade's heart accelerated, the feeling of survival after the robbery was extremely strong, and at the same time, he also noticed that there was a piece of bamboo beside him, with a line of writing carved on it.
"Insurance has passed."
Looking at these four words, the Bone Knife's heart rose in a burst of complexity, moreover, he was somewhat ashamed of his own previous tricks, after a long time he sighed softly, and towards the depths of the jungle, he made a deep obeisance.
"Thank you."
Murmuring, he turned to look at the two directions ahead, the right side was the necessary path back to the camp, and the left side was the path away from the camp and into Songtao City.
As he stood, he didn't feel anyone around him, and there was a long silence.
"The camp master is from the Vajra Sect, and the Vajra Sect's sphere of influence encompasses all the nearby cities, I'm afraid that even if I escape into Songtao City, I'll still find it difficult to avoid the camp master's wrath, especially since all of his people are dead."
Bone Blade's heart struggled, he knew that there was a way to give himself a chance to live, that was to go to the camp and inform on the child's beheading of the camp master's subordinates, thus throwing everything onto the child, and with this matter, he should be able to live.
Just to do so, against his conscience, the child after all saved himself, but after contemplating for a moment, his inner struggle turned into decisiveness.
"This chaotic world, one's own survival is the focus, can't care about others!" Thinking of this, he suppressed the guilt within his heart, his body swayed and sped in the direction of the camp.
But just in the instant his body, stepped into the direction of the camp, a cold light came whistling from behind him at an astonishing speed, penetrating his head in an instant.
With a bang, Bone Knife's whole body shook, blood splattered everywhere, his eyes widened, and he fell to the ground and convulsed a few times, the world was covered by an approaching figure in his eyes, and it slowly turned pitch black until it turned into eternity.
He died of exhaustion.
Xu Qing stood in front of Bone Knife's corpse, silently pulling out the iron sign.
Xu Qing knew a lot about human nature, so he didn't leave, but instead gave the Bone Blade a choice.
The left side was life.
The right side was death.
The Bone Knife chose the right side.
With an expressionless face, Xu Qing took out the corpse destroying powder and sprinkled it down, and as the Bone Knife's corpse melted, Xu Qing calmly turned around with a wobble and sped towards the depths.
As for the battalion master's matter, he was too lazy to get involved.
At the moment, between speeding through this jungle, although there was mist present, it didn't particularly affect him, so at dusk, Xu Qing had already traveled through the mist to the canyon's pharmacy.
Almost at the same time he entered, there was a faint wolf howl echoing, which Xu Qing didn't care about.
He first cautiously observed, making sure that the small arrangement he had left behind before he left last time had no traces of being touched before he pushed open the door of the pharmacy and stepped inside.
The pharmacy wasn't big, there were no resting beds, the only thing was that there were small compartments built out of wood all around, and in each of these compartments, different herbs and poison glands were placed.
Some of these herbs and poison glands had already been treated, while others remained intact, and there were quite a few of them, densely packed in the hundreds.
Xu Qing swept his gaze across, his heart fluttering with satisfaction.
These were the ones he had collected within this forbidden zone since he had been studying under Master Park, most of which came from the periphery of the forbidden zone, with a small portion taken from the depths.
Poisonous herbs were predominant in there, and medicinal herbs were few and far between.
Xu Qing first inspected them, then sat on the ground with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
The White Dan formula given to him by Grandmaster Park, although it was all hidden in his daily lessons, Xu Qing had the habit of taking notes and his memory was also very good, so it had long been sorted out by him, just ...... the herbs used in refining the White Dan he didn't have all of them.
"So there's no way to completely follow the Dan formula to refine it, but it should be possible to replace it with other herbs or blend it out based on the medicinal properties of the herbs."
Xu Qing muttered, he didn't know if this method would work, but thought that even if it failed, it could increase his experience on blending and refining.
Thinking of this, Xu Qing waved his right hand, and instantly, seven or eight types of medicinal herbs flew out from within different small compartments and landed in front of him.
After carefully examining them, Xu Qing thought for a moment and left the pharmacy to go to the backyard, where, in addition to various colorful flowers, there was also a small piece of mud field that had been opened up and planted with quite a few medicinal herbs.
These, all of which were herbs that had a limited time of use and couldn't be removed from the soil for too long, were relocated here by Xu Qing, and over time, it had become a small medicinal field.
At the moment, as Xu Qing approached this small medicinal field, the sound of wolves howling not far away came more clearly.
Xu Qing looked as normal and didn't pay any attention to it, plucking three kinds of herbs in the medicinal field and turning around to leave.
Returning to the pharmacy he took out a stone basin and began to blend according to what he had learned.
Whether it was picking the leaves, taking the juice, or popping out the pollen, he did it carefully, striving for the slightest difference After the constant blending, the medicinal liquid inside the stone basin slowly darkened in color.
"Five herbs are missing ......"
Xu Qing looked at the small compartments around him, and after thinking about it, he took out some more, and with the help of the yin and yang bipolar method, he attempted to blend a satisfactory effect.
But it was obvious that this kind of thing was difficult, so it wasn't until a night had passed, when it was dawn outside, that he was barely able to match up the required herbs.
Looking at the dark slime within the stone basin, Xu Qing frowned.
This wasn't quite the same as the White Dan he had imagined, but having made it all the way here, giving up was clearly impossible.
So Xu Qing clenched his teeth and took out a large handful of Seven Leaf Grass, blending it in according to the ratio.
In the next instant, the medicinal liquid within the stone basin actually boiled directly, and signs of a change in color appeared, but the change only lasted for three breaths before stopping.
When one looked, the medicinal liquid within the stone basin was no longer pitch-black in color, but had instead turned brown.
Xu Qing hesitated and touched the purple crystal on his chest, considering that he had strong antibodies against toxins, he was slightly relieved, raised his hand and carefully probed into the stone basin, grabbed a bit of medicinal mud and kneaded it into the appearance of a medicinal pill, placing it in front of his nose and smelling it.
A fishy odor spread out, making Xu Qing somewhat afraid to eat it.
"Can I eat it ......," Xu Qing looked a little struggling, and after pondering, he took the pill and walked out, going to the medicinal field.
Just close, the sound of wolves howling again, Xu Qing pace ceaselessly, through the medicinal field, straight to the place where the wolf howl came.
Soon, in a patch of weeds at the back of the medicinal field, a large cage built of iron rattan wood appeared in front of Xu Qing.
Inside the cage, there was a dry and thin black scaled wolf, lying there weakly.
It immediately stood up after seeing Xu Qing, revealing its teeth and letting out a low growl, but the terror in its eyes already indicated its fear of Xu Qing.
This black-scaled wolf was one that Xu Qing had encountered once when he was picking medicines in the depths of the jungle, and at that time, the other party had tried to sneak up on him, but after he caught it and didn't kill it, it was locked up here to become a pill-testing beast.
Noticing the black elixir in Xu Qing's hand, this Black Scaled Wolf immediately trembled and backed away.
But it was still too late, Xu Qing's left hand reached into the cage and gripped the Black Scaled Wolf's neck, forcibly dragging it in front of him amidst its whimpering struggles.
Xu Qing's face was expressionless, his gaze icy cold as he watched this trembling Black Scaled Wolf, his right hand taking out the refined elixir and placing it by its mouth.
The black-scaled wolf shivered more and more, eventually succumbing to the threat of death, opening its mouth and obediently eating it.
After a long time, this black scaled wolf was covered in black smoke, vomiting, its head was bulging with a large bag, and soon, with a bang, the large bag shattered, and its body went soft, lying there panting.
Xu Qing's brows furrowed, threw a few pieces of meat in, turned around and returned to the pharmacy, sitting there meditating.
"How could it be ineffective ...... The final onset of the medicinal effect, something is wrong, this is not dissolving the heterogeneity, this is bursting the heterogeneity open."
After a moment, Xu Qing felt that it should be due to the lack of a primer, he needed a medicinal primer to purify the effects of these medicinal liquids.
"For a lead, you can use snake venom to blend it."
With a wave of Xu Qing's hand, three different venom glands flew in, and after he squeezed out the venomous juice, the medicinal liquid within the stone basin immediately emitted a bared sound and a green smoke.
This smoke contained a high level of poison, Xu Qing saw this and immediately raised his right hand and waved it, kicking up the wind to disperse the poisonous mist outside the room, and then placed the pot aside to wait for it to ferment.
While waiting, Xu Qing closed his eyes on his knees and practiced the Hai Shan skill.
Until the day grew late, Xu Qing opened his eyes, examined the more and more viscous medicinal liquid after fermentation, took out some and rubbed it, and went back to the Black Scaled Wolf.
A few moments later, amidst a series of thumping echoes, Xu Qing dejectedly walked back and sat down to continue pondering, even as he took out the finished White Dan and melted it down to study it a little bit.
Just like this, time passed, and soon six days passed.
During these six days, Xu Qing seemed to have forgotten about everything outside, immersing himself in the development of the White Dan.
The herbs in the small compartments in the pharmacy had already been used by him for the most part, and the medicinal fields were almost empty, and the White Pill medicinal liquid that had been refined by him had also been improved more than ten times.
As for that black scale wolf ......
After the last test of the medicine, the other party's internal heterogeneous quality instantly reached its limit, and even triggered the heterogeneous quality within the surrounding spiritual energy to converge, instantly turning into a blood mist and collapsing.
If not for Xu Qing's shadow being able to absorb the heterogeneous matter, he was afraid that the heterogeneous matter convergence of that one time would be able to invade his entire body.
This scene made Xu Qing a little discouraged.
However, he knew that the White Dan wasn't that easy to concoct, especially if he went to blend it himself without all the herbs.
However, despite this, his experience with blending had increased, and at the same time, the last of these ten or so improvements, though not successful, had some effect.
It was just that this effect was the complete opposite of the White Dan.
The white dan was to dissolve the heterogeneous qualities, while Xu Qing's last improved dan was to attract the heterogeneous qualities over at a rapid pace.
At this moment, he looked down at the stone basin in front of him.
There was a greenish colored diaphragm on the surface of the basin, which was formed by the melting of the Seven Leaf Grass, while underneath this diaphragm was the pitch-black, incomparable medicinal liquid.
The reason why the diaphragm was used was because once the diaphragm disappeared, this medicinal liquid didn't even need to be swallowed, and it would attract the dense heterogeneous convergence on its own.
That Black Scaled Wolf, half of its deaths were due to this.
Xu Qing sighed, rubbed his brow, and felt the fluctuations in his body's cultivation, which dissipated some of his frustration.
Even though things hadn't gone well with the pills, his cultivation had grown very rapidly under this period of cultivation, and he had now reached the consummation of the fifth layer of the Hai Shan Technique.
"Tonight, it should be possible to break through to the sixth layer."
Xu Qing took a deep breath and put the matter of the pills aside, his eyes revealing anticipation as he went all out to impact his cultivation.
Being in a chaotic world, every additional point of one's own toughness increased, then the possibility of surviving would grow by one point with it.
That night, when the bright moon was high in the sky, a loud roaring sound emanated from Xu Qing's body.
This time, the sound was too much louder than before, and Xu Qing, who had originally thought that there was no dirt in his body, had once again scattered a large amount of impurities from his body in this instant.
An unprecedented sense of permeability filled Xu Qing's entire body at the same time, a hissing roar faintly emanated from behind him.
The elf shadow that had once only manifested when he threw a punch also manifested behind him at this moment, with a larger body, a stronger ferocious intent, and even no longer a single leg, but rather, a double leg appeared.
Especially ...... this appearing elf shadow, its head actually vaguely seems to have a horn!
This is not a mandrill, this is the fledgling kui!
The moment it appeared, the silent hiss from the fledgling kui spread in all directions, causing the cries of quite a few beasts within this dark jungle to come to an abrupt halt at this moment.
Xu Qing's eyes slowly opened, and the purple light instantly illuminated the entire pharmacy, as if a purple lightning bolt had crossed.
And in this purple light filled with the hissing of the daisy kui behind him, Xu Qing, who sat there expressionless, actually gave people a sense of oppression that they had never felt before.
A long time later, as the purple light in his eyes disappeared, as the shadow of the kui behind him faded away, Xu Qing muttered and whispered.
"Hai Shan Skill, sixth level!"
