Chapter 991: Cultivating the Poison Technique

Qiong Qi waved his hand, pretended, and said, "Not a single hair left! Only a few broken bottles filled with poison I've collected. Do you want them? Should I give them to you?"

When Ye Liuyun saw his expression, he knew Qiong Qi had definitely found something. Otherwise he wouldn't have spoken so enthusiastically; he would have complained it was all for nothing.

However, in front of Li Qingyun, he didn't expose the truth.

"If it's not there, then it's not. Collecting so many poisonous corpses is enough for us to return to the academy and trade for plenty of resources. Not a loss!"

Ye Liuyun said, retrieved the Barbarian Ox into his Storage Ring, and together with the others, headed back the same way.

Along the way, Ye Liuyun had the Skeleton Puppet excavate all the high‑grade poison True Essences.

Qiong Qi also returned to Ye Liuyun's Space World and discussed his findings with his clone.

"I'll give you the technique, it's perfect for the clone to cultivate. Also these bottles and jars, all filled with refined poison; you can keep them to practice this Poison Technique.

There are also two Divine Rank relics: one is an Antidote Pill that can guard against all toxins, the other is a Staff that can release toxins. Which do you want?"

The clone thought for a moment and said directly, "The Staff then, I'll keep it as a weapon!"

"Alright!" Qiong Qi didn't hesitate and tossed the Staff to Ye Liuyun.

The Staff is made of beast bone. Its exterior looks like white bone, yet it contains multiple toxin sources within.

Qiong Qi himself simply swallowed the Antidote Pill. With it, he no longer needs to cultivate the Ten Thousand Poison Heart Sutra.

Next, Qiong Qi went to forge armor for Ye Liuyun.

He also had the Skeleton Puppet strip the hard shells of many poisonous scorpions to use for forging the armor.

The clone immediately began studying the Ten Thousand Poison Heart Sutra, attempting to cultivate it.

After a brief initiation, Ye Liuyun's clone summoned Lei Ming and Long Nv, having them both cultivate together.

Both of them are strength‑type Martial Cultivators; focusing on a single offensive skill is quite practical.

Cultivating this Poison Technique truly requires carving out a space within the heart to hold the toxin source.

For these Zao Hua Realm Martial Cultivators, creating the space isn't hard, but forging a toxin source, inserting it without poisoning the body, demands extreme caution.

Moreover, they must forge the toxin source in one go, or else the toxins will spread internally and cause fatal poisoning.

Producing a toxin source is now no difficulty for Ye Liuyun and his group.

Poisonous corpses are everywhere here, providing abundant toxin sources they can freely absorb.

Thus, the massive piles of poisonous corpses became their best resource for cultivating toxin sources.

Ye Liuyun's clone first led Lei Ming and Long Nv to carve out a toxin source space.

Simultaneously, within Ye Liuyun's own heart, another toxin source space was being cultivated.

Then the three entered the Xuan Kong Shi and began cautiously absorbing the poisons.

After the poison enters the body, they must immediately wrap it with True Essence, send it into the toxin space, and refine it into a toxin source.

Once the toxin source is refined, any subsequent poisoning will be absorbed by it, causing no harm to the body.

The process is rather lengthy, but cultivating inside Ye Liuyun's Xuan Kong Shi allows uninterrupted, accelerated progress—very suitable.

Ye Liuyun's original self must wait until later to absorb and refine toxin sources.

His cultivation synchronizes with his clone only in technique and realm; if his original self also wishes to forge a toxin source, he must condense it himself using his own resources.

On the way back, Ye Liuyun and the others seized every combat opportunity to hone themselves. Li Qingyun reverted to his previous attitude, ignoring them.

Whenever Ye Liuyun faced an unbeatable opponent, he released the Barbarian Ox and the Azure Wind Wolf to deal with those high‑level foes, and the journey proceeded smoothly.

When they reached the edge of the Ten Thousand Poison Desert, they only saw the senior Elder and a disciple named Liu Yiming.

"Where are the others?" Li Qingyun asked.

The senior Elder shrugged helplessly and said, "When I returned I found them surrounded by poison; I could only rescue this one. The others weren't saved in time and died!"

It turned out that on their way back, Liu Yiming's group was attacked by poison. The other five disciples, to escape, abandoned Liu Yiming there and fled first.

Just as Liu Yiming thought he was doomed, the senior Elder happened to return and casually rescued him.

Not far ahead, they saw the disciples who had abandoned Liu Yiming now being besieged by poison.

The Elder didn't have time to save them; they fell poisoned, devoured by the toxins.

Though the senior Elder avenged them by destroying the poison, the people were already gone.

"They deserved to die!"

Li Qingyun didn't care about those deserter disciples and simply ordered everyone onto the Flying Boat to return to the academy.

"We've located the Ten Thousand Poison Lair; our mission is complete, withdraw!" Li Qingyun briefly instructed the Elder, then had him pilot the Flying Boat back to the academy.

On the way, Ye Liuyun himself returned to the Xuan Kong Shi to cultivate a toxin source.

In these days, the clone and Lei Ming and others have already cultivated toxin sources; their poison absorption speed has increased greatly.

Although Ye Liuyun must start anew, his prior experience with the clone lets him cultivate very quickly. Within three days inside the Xuan Kong Shi, he refined a toxin source.

Afterwards, the group began massive absorption of toxins from those poisonous corpses, lest they be wasted after handing them over to the academy.

The Skeleton Puppet has been busy these days excavating True Essences, stripping hard shells, and storing meat, and hasn't been idle.

Ye Liuyun and his party extracting all the toxins from these poisonous bodies counts as thorough utilization of the corpses.

After returning to the academy, Ye Liuyun immediately handed over the corpses and exchanged them for over 50,000 points!

He couldn't use the points himself, so he gave Ling Shuang and Yuan Datou each 10,000 points. Then he exchanged some Transmission Talismans and a number of pills needed by the soldiers, preparing to send these resources back to Moyu Yi Cheng.

After he and Ling Shuang and others returned to their quarters, Ye Liuyun said he would close his cultivation for a few days, then directly passed through the Black Tower and teleported back to Yi Cheng.

Qiong Qi's armor has been forged. He's been sleepless these days and is thoroughly exhausted.

Ye Liuyun estimates that after forging this batch of armor, Qiong Qi will go out alone again to seek resources for cultivation.

Qiong Qi is that way; when he follows Ye Liuyun to gather resources, he feels the share is insufficient and his realm advancement slows. Ye Liuyun understands, so he doesn't stop him.