[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star":3,"chapter-after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-18":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","After Fifteen Years of Secret Cultivation, I Start as a Top-Grade Ultimate Peak!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2282126,4464,"Chapter 18: Mules Are More Useful Than People","after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-18",18,"\u003Cp>At these words, Meng Shan froze for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately turned toward the Blood Alliance disciples in the valley, torches in hand, drenched in blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he saw a man not far off begin to cough lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man even complained a few times, blaming the cold night air in these deep mountains and how rushed they’d been when arriving, not bringing enough extra clothes and so on…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, others nearby began coughing sporadically too; at first, no one paid attention, thinking it was just a common cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when someone suddenly spat blood, his skin erupted in unbearable itching, then gradually turned to open sores and pus, only then did they realize the severity of the problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Worse! Poisonous miasma has been released in this valley—retreat at once!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black-robed middle-aged man barked sharply, immediately holding his breath and channeling his Qi to form a palm seal, aiming to disperse the valley’s poison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But clearly, it was already too late—the surrounding Alliance disciples were deeply poisoned; even if they heard his command and tried to flee, they could no longer move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uncontrollable itching and the agonizing pain of decaying flesh had long made them forget about escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each one clawed frantically at their own bodies, scraping off layers of skin from face and limbs, even digging out raw, crimson muscle tissue, yet showing no awareness of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the entire valley echoed with piercing screams and wails, everyone rolling on the ground, drenched in blood, as if it were a hellish realm on earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the black-robed middle-aged man’s face twisted in unbearable anguish; he exchanged a glance with two other elders, then immediately retreated from the valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the masked woman rose from the green stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She surveyed the valley’s current state, her eyes revealing unhidden delight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You think escaping the valley helps? Within a three-li radius, I’ve scattered ‘Falling Goose Poison Powder’—odorless, colorless, lethal even to geese flying overhead. Do you really believe you can escape?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She raised her hand and seized the blackish-green mist swirling around the four of them; thread by thread, like rivers flowing into the sea, it surged toward her palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within moments, she absorbed it all into her Qi, drawing it fully into her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three men beside the woman remained silent, as if afraid to speak, and dared not even glance at the horrific sight of the Blood Alliance disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afraid that a single misstep in speech might anger the masked woman and cause her to silently strike them down, leaving them with the same fate as these Blood Alliance disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You stay here. Those three are poisoned—they won’t get far. I’ll deal with them first!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The masked woman cast a meaningful glance at the three, then immediately pursued the direction the black-robed middle-aged man had fled, her eyes brimming with lethal intent:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I kill these three martial masters, my ‘Blood Aspect Poison Claw Art’ will advance further.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, outside the valley, Yu Changlu, hiding behind a rock, had inevitably been poisoned by the Falling Goose Poison Powder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He and Cang Yin Yue had both been secretly observing the valley’s situation, hoping to find an opportunity to beg the Blood Alliance for help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before long, he witnessed firsthand the horrific sight of the Blood Alliance disciples being poisoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was just stunned and secretly relieved he hadn’t rushed out to beg for aid—when he suddenly realized he too had been poisoned, following in their footsteps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Yu Changlu had clawed his own face into a gruesome mess; the bone-deep itching and pain made him writhe uncontrollably on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Save… save me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, when he saw Li Muxian beside him, seemingly unaffected, he seized him like a lifeline and desperately reached out for help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sorry, I’m really not good with poisons.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Muxian spread his hands, indicating helplessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him, Cang Yin Yue pulled a porcelain vial from her robes, poured out a detoxifying pill, and swallowed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She studied Li Muxian carefully, then did not waste the pill on him—she simply tucked the vial back into her robes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Yu Changlu, she never even glanced at him; she had no intention of saving him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Cang Yin Yue sat cross-legged, channeling her internal Qi to expel the poison with the pill’s potency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why aren’t you poisoned?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cang Yin Yue asked suddenly, her gaze straight ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In my self-created Wu Gong, there’s one called Indestructible Golden Body. I don’t understand poison, but mastering it makes me immune to all toxins.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Muxian explained casually, crouched down, his eyes fixed on two suddenly collapsed, foaming-at-the-mouth mules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Cang Yin Yue merely glanced at him, then asked no further questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Li Muxian stared at the poisoned mules for a moment, then shook his head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These mules can’t die—we still have a long way to go. I don’t plan to walk all the way to Shangyang City on foot.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he reached out and lightly patted the mule’s back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the mule, previously foaming and trembling, shuddered violently, then sprang to its feet as lively and healthy as if nothing had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Li Muxian repeated the same motion and revived Cang Yin Yue’s mule as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Changlu, writhing in agony beside them, caught sight of this and nearly dropped his eyes in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just moments ago, he’d begged Li Muxian for help, and the man had claimed incompetence, saying he couldn’t help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d believed it, accepted his fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now he saw that the worthless mule, nearly dead from poison, was instantly revived by Li Muxian with two simple pats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difference in treatment between him and the mule was like heaven and earth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cargo mule was worth next to nothing—so was his life worth less than a mule’s?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Save… save me…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Changlu, enduring his agony, painfully crawled toward Li Muxian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his mind, if Li Muxian could revive a mule, saving him should be effortless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Cang Yin Yue’s phoenix eyes widened in disbelief, fixed on Li Muxian with stunned intensity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had seen what just happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know how he’d done it, but she knew that to revive a mule so quickly without a detoxifying pill, one would need overwhelming Qi to purge the poison from its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet she had detected no Qi fluctuation from Li Muxian at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How did he do it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cang Yin Yue couldn’t figure it out; she didn’t believe his claim about self-created Wu Gong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sensed he held a great secret—one surely tied to his fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, seeing Li Muxian approach Yu Changlu, she suppressed her doubts and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t save him. He’s committed countless atrocities within the Blood Alliance—he deserves to die.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1136,"2026-06-20T01:43:38.503Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","fd5b559a70f750b34cb50d654ad25ab346c38b4c0d32020342122247278433e8","after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-19","after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-17",259,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-cover.jpg"]