Chapter 424: Dual Exotic Poison

"The poison that has taken hold of Guo Ling should be a rare exotic poison called 'Black Demon Worm.' This poison is extremely vicious—the toxic energy condenses into worms that flow through flesh and blood, gradually devouring it and growing stronger in the process. Moreover, this toxic energy has an extremely strong corrosive effect on phase force, so using ordinary phase force to neutralize it won't do much."

"Even a strong practitioner at the Celestial Gang General Stage would find this exotic poison quite troublesome if they were afflicted by it. That Manager Pei Hao really went all out this time to force Uncle Yuan out."

Inside the room, after spending the better part of a day analyzing the toxic blood within Guo Ling's body, Li Luo had gathered quite a bit of information, but his expression had grown even more solemn because of it.

The poison afflicting Guo Ling was far more troublesome and thorny than he had imagined. Compared to this, the poison that Tang Yun and the others had suffered last time was truly a case of a minor witch meeting a great one.

The fearsome reputation of this "Black Demon Worm" was well-earned, and crafting it was also extremely difficult—the various materials required were exceptionally demanding. This exotic poison was rarely seen on the market; even Li Luo had only come across it mentioned in some detoxification manuals over the past few months. To put it bluntly, using this poison against Guo Ling was really overkill.

Behind Li Luo, Yuan Qing heard his words and couldn't help but clench his fists tightly, a shade of gloom and fury in his eyes. That damned Manager Pei Hao!

Yuan Qing had been away for many years and had not returned to the headquarters of House Luolan Mansion. A large part of the reason was the disciple he had taken a liking to. It was only that Guo Ling was still young in previous years, so he had not brought her back to House Luolan Mansion with him. But he never expected that now the time had come, it would plunge this disciple directly into an utterly hopeless situation.

This left Yuan Qing feeling extremely self-reproachful..

If he had known it would come to this, he should have come back alone first.

"Is there any way to neutralize it?" Jiang Jiang Qinge asked in a solemn voice from the side.

Li Luo was silent for a moment, then said: "Neutralizing it is very difficult, but I can temporarily help her obstruct the toxic energy and slow down its corrosive spread. That way we'll have more time to find a way to neutralize it."

"Have all the detoxification materials I ordered earlier been prepared?"

"Please rest assured, Young Mansion Master. I have already had every single detoxification material you required purchased back without missing a single one, and the quantities are sufficient." A soft, gentle voice drifted in from outside the room. Cai Wei was seen entering gracefully, her mature, charming face showing a hint of worry as she looked over, while also instructing people to bring the materials in.

"Sorry for the trouble, Sister Cai Wei."

Li Luo smiled and nodded. Sister Cai Wei's way of handling things always put one at ease.

Next, he didn't delay any further and immediately set about crafting the antidote. During the process, he failed several times, but finally, after two hours, he successfully refined the antidote.

However, though it was called an antidote, it was fundamentally impossible to neutralize the "Black Demon Worm" inside Guo Ling's body. At most, it could only slightly obstruct its tendency to spread.

At this point, Guo Ling had already fallen into a coma. Li Luo pinched her mouth open and forcibly poured the antidote down.

Then, with a solemn expression, he extended his palm and grasped Guo Ling's somewhat chilly little hand. What followed was the most dangerous step: he needed to channel his own water phase and wood phase power into Guo Ling's body, using his unique dual-phase detoxification power to alleviate the "Black Demon Worm."

Under the somewhat tense gazes of Yuan Qing, Jiang Jiang Qinge, and the others, Li Luo closed his eyes. The water phase and wood phase power within his body began to circulate, then surged into Guo Ling's body through their clasped palms.

On Guo Ling's skin, a faint sheen of blue and emerald hues could be seen spreading with the naked eye.

Then, very quickly, it came into contact with the toxic energy that resembled wriggling black worms.

At the initial point of contact, the detoxification effect emanating from Li Luo's water phase and wood phase power was quite decent. The direction in which the Black Demon Worms were attempting to spread toward Guo Ling's heart was blocked, and the rate of spread was also somewhat slowed. But just as Li Luo had anticipated, even though he possessed the dual detoxification effect of his water and wood phases, it was still difficult to directly neutralize this extremely potent "Black Demon Worm."

It truly lived up to its reputation as a strange poison that even practitioners at the Celestial Gang General Stage had to be careful of.

Fortunately, Li Luo hadn't been expecting to resolve the poison in one go—he only needed to slow down its rate of spread. From that standpoint, he had already achieved his goal.

But just as a breath of relief seemed to escape Li Luo's heart, the "Black Demon Worm" suddenly began to tremble violently at that moment. Then Li Luo sensed that the condensed mass of "Black Demon Worms" seemed to be torn apart right then and there. The very next instant, the original black color began to transform, rapidly taking on a dark crimson hue.

In Li Luo's perceptual field of vision, the toxic energy seemed to metamorphose at that moment from a "Black Demon Worm" into a dark crimson "butterfly."

This metamorphosis made Li Luo's heart jolt, and he instantly understood something.

This was a dual exotic poison.

Hidden within the so-called "Black Demon Worm" was another exotic poison called "Blood Demon Poison Butterfly." When the two were mixed and layered together, even a practitioner at the Celestial Gang General Stage could be severely wounded if afflicted by this poison.

Using an exotic poison that could threaten practitioners at the Celestial Gang General Stage against a phase master realm Guo Ling? Does Manager Pei Hao have so much money he doesn't know where to spend it? Li Luo would bet that even Manager Pei Hao must have paid an enormous price to obtain this exotic poison.

If it wasn't meant for Guo Ling, then who was it aimed at?

Li Luo's thoughts raced, and then he withdrew the phase force surging into Guo Ling's body with lightning speed.

But the very instant his phase force retreated, the dark crimson butterfly toxic energy seemed to be triggered and driven by something, and it abruptly gave chase to his phase force.

As for Guo Ling's body, the toxic energy didn't want to stay there in the slightest.

Li Luo had withdrawn his phase force quite decisively, but he had still underestimated the speed at which the butterfly toxic energy pursued. Just as his phase force was about to withdraw completely, the butterfly toxic energy touched his phase force.

In that instant, Li Luo's mind experienced a momentary daze, and the sound of a butterfly flapping its wings seemed to reach his ears.

Li Luo's eyes snapped open.

"What happened?" Jiang Jiang Qinge, beside him, was the first to notice the change in Li Luo's expression and immediately asked in a solemn voice.

Yuan Qing looked at Li Luo, then at Guo Ling on the bed, whose complexion had unexpectedly begun to recover some color, and said with some disbelief: "Young Mansion Master, did you neutralize the toxic energy?"

Li Luo shook his head with a complicated expression and said: "It's not neutralized... it's been transferred."

He slowly rolled up his sleeve, and then Jiang Jiang Qinge, Yuan Qing, and Cai Wei in the room immediately saw, with drastically changed expressions, that a dark crimson butterfly-shaped mark had appeared on Li Luo's arm.

The butterfly seemed to be a living thing, still slowly flapping its wings, and an unsettling aura emanated from it.

Li Luo was also staring at that dark crimson butterfly, and even his voice had grown somewhat complicated.

"As expected... that bastard Manager Pei Hao, this time he was actually aiming at me. He really knows how to scheme."

"Such a lavish exotic poison—even practitioners at the Celestial Gang General Stage would feel dread at the sight of it."

"This guy really thinks highly of me."