Chapter 75: The Yellow Springs Road Guide
The noon sky, the sunlight was poisonous and hot. The sun at this moment was in front of the God's remnant face, emitting dazzling light there, making it difficult for mortals to look up and look directly at it.
The God located behind the sun was high above. To all living beings, she was an existence that transcended time and space. Whether day or night, whether reality or dream, whether past or future, she was always eternal.
Witnessing the changes in this world, witnessing life and death, and also witnessing this chaotic world that had become cruel due to her appearance.
And the scorching heat remaining in the sunlight seemed to be affected by the ferocity of the God's remnant face, becoming full of malice, as if unwilling to comply with the Heavenly Dao in this season and leave silently.
So it frantically released all its heat, invading every corner of the Seven Blood Eyes main city, wanting to evaporate all life.
Even under the tree shade and under the eaves, they were all invaded by its invisible intrusion. Even if the sea breeze blew, it couldn't disperse it, as if it were a poison entering the marrow and bones.
Just like, the corner of Xu Qing's Daoist robe.
It looked as usual, but if one looked carefully, one could see some powder stained on it, and most of this powder had already evaporated at this moment.
The aura emitted by the evaporation, just like the scorching heat affected by the God's remnant face between heaven and earth, carried malice, carried ferocity, invading the flesh and bones of Xu Qing under the Daoist robe.
The speed of this intrusion was extremely fast, carrying greed.
From appearance to invasion, it was only a few breaths of time.
Xu Qing looked down at the robe corner with a calm expression, his eyes narrowing, and he walked toward the berth.
The powder on the robe corner was left behind by the Mermaid youth secretly when he fought with him just now. If it were anyone else, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to detect it in the slightest even now.
After all, this poison was colorless and odorless, and to some extent, this might not be a poison.
But Xu Qing was skilled in medicine. This characteristic made at least seven or eight types of similar drug guides surface in his mind. Which one it specifically was, he needed to go back and analyze.
But no matter what, the several touches made Xu Qing's murderous intent toward this Mermaid youth rise even more.
"The time to kill the fish has arrived."
Xu Qing muttered, walked to the harbor berth, and stepped into the magic boat. In an instant, he opened the barrier, isolating everything outside, making the inside of the magic boat completely silent.
Afterward, sitting cross-legged in the cabin, Xu Qing tore off the corner of the Daoist robe directly.
Holding it in his hand, he looked at it carefully. His left hand formed a seal, and instantly a ball of flame floated up in Xu Qing's palm.
Although the Sea-Containing Scripture was mainly based on water, for a magic cultivator, concurrently cultivating various techniques as assistance was the norm.
The technique jade slip had many introductions to this.
At this moment, Xu Qing waved his left hand, and the fireball flew toward the robe corner, covering it, and began to burn.
Sizzling sounds came out incessantly, and even more faint smoke drifted away.
The flickering of the firelight made Xu Qing's face look uncertain in the light and dark.
He watched the robe corner bend continuously as it burned, the red lines burned out at the edges rapidly permeating the entire fabric, and wherever it passed, the gray robe corner turned into ash that shattered at a touch.
Until a few breaths of time later, the robe corner was completely burned, and the flame slowly extinguished.
Xu Qing looked at the ash in his palm, smelled the smoke emitted from within, and muttered in a low voice.
"This is the blood of the Ghost-Desire Horseshoe Crab. It is a poison, and it is not a poison."
The Pharmacopoeia left by Master Bai mentioned the Ghost-Desire Horseshoe Crab. This kind of creature living in the deep sea was very rare. Xu Qing himself had two, but he hadn't found auxiliary drugs, so he had never moved them.
But he knew that its blood, after processing, would become a holy medicine for healing. But if reconciled in other ways, under the two poles of Yin and Yang, the aura emitted by its blood could be loathed by the vast majority of exotic beasts.
"There are also characteristics of the Enlightenment Grass." Xu Qing closed his eyes. After making a judgment, he opened his eyes, his pupils like dark deep pools, incomparably cold and gloomy.
Although Master Bai's Pharmacopoeia didn't mention what would happen after these two medicinal materials were mixed, according to pharmacology, the latter could significantly amplify this loathing.
Slight loathing would make exotic beasts avoid it, but if it were severe loathing, it would be equivalent to attracting the killing intent of exotic beasts.
Because loathing to the extreme was evil.
Thus, after these two were mixed, they would form a special medicinal liquid.
Its essence could make the person who touched it have its aura stained all over their body, invading their flesh and blood.
Because it wasn't a poison in itself, it wouldn't be poisonous, and even had slight nourishment for the body, so it was almost impossible to be detected. And wanting to disperse it was even more difficult; its existence time was at least several years.
As for its function, it was to attract exotic beasts and cause them to have intense malice. Just like when he was in the forbidden zone jungle of the scavenger camp, when Xu Qing participated in the Thunder Team's action for the first time, the small medicine bottle in the Savage Ghost's leather bag was this type of drug.
It was just that the Savage Ghost's small bottle back then couldn't be compared with the material of what Xu Qing was currently infected with; between the two, it was like the difference between heaven and earth.
"If it were inside the sect, being invaded by this kind of aura wouldn't have too much danger, but if it were going out to sea..." Xu Qing knew very well that once he went out to sea carrying such an aura, he would definitely have no return.
This method of killing was without a trace, incomparably sinister like a poisonous snake, and existed for a very long time. If it weren't for Xu Qing knowing pharmacology, if it were anyone else, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to guess who the real enemy was even after they died.
"I wonder if you have the ability to detect my poison guide." A cold glint rose in Xu Qing's eyes. The Mermaid youth had poisoned him, but in reality, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind—Xu Qing had also poisoned the other party when he took action before!
This poison was also harmless, and also a mark.
It was just that what the Mermaid youth marked him with was the unknown exotic beast malice in the sea, while what he marked the other party with was the footsteps of the God of Death on the shore.
Xu Qing's expression didn't have the slightest ripple. He collected the ash from the burning robe corner, afterward opened the storage bag, looked at the elixirs inside, and then looked up to scan the medicine cabinet all around.
He wasn't skilled in detoxifying, especially this kind of aura, which wasn't a poison in itself, so the body recovery power brought by the purple crystal couldn't play a role in this point.
But he was skilled in poison.
Thus, Xu Qing calmly took out some poison powder and poison elixirs, swallowed them with an expressionless face, and even mixed seven or eight types of poison powder and scattered them, taking a deep breath, inhaling them all into his body.
The next moment, his body trembled violently, and sweat slowly appeared on his forehead, but he still sat there cross-legged, silently enduring the pain of the poison burning in his body, brewing the murderous intent in his heart, calm as before the arrival of a storm.
His poison burned his five internal organs, burned his bones, and burned his flesh and blood in his body.
The aura of the Ghost-Desire Horseshoe Crab and the Enlightenment Grass couldn't be driven away, so he simply used poison to invade them, and then used his own recovery power to recover again.
This process lasted for a full two hours.
Until dusk outside, Xu Qing slowly opened his eyes, bloodshot eyes permeating, and the poison in his body was completely driven away under the body's astonishing recovery. Along with it, the aura infected by the Ghost-Desire Horseshoe Crab was also driven away.
After checking and confirming, Xu Qing looked up, looked at the sunset outside the cabin, his gaze deep, muttering in a low voice.
"Soon, I will be able to sleep well."
Thus, he stood up silently, washed his body, and closed his eyes.
A moment later, the sun in the sky seemed to be making room for the appearance of the moon, so the dusk was dim, and the dark moon hung in the sky.
The sparse stars in the sky were like little fireflies in a cemetery, insignificant, only fit for embellishment.
This night was suitable for slaughter.
Xu Qing opened his eyes, quietly placed the black iron skewer in his sleeve, sharpened his dagger again, and stuffed it into his shoe tube.
Afterward, he checked his own poison, organized it calmly, and only then walked out of the magic boat, his speed erupting, and he went far away in an instant.
The moonlight spilled on the ground, carrying coldness, refracting on the figure of the youth moving forward on his waist in the dark, like the wind, and also remaining in his eyes like a lone wolf, becoming an even colder glint.
The sea breeze blew, carrying chilliness, landing beside the youth, lifting his long gown, floating his black hair, but it couldn't blow away the special aura of the mark permeating the main city.
Finally, it turned into the whistling sound in the youth's ears, as if playing the horn of murderous intent.
He was going to slaughter.
Operation error, this chapter wasn't posted, it was reversed... covering my face... ===== CHAPTER 76 =====
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