txolops Chapter 306 I Am Invulnerable to Poison
Chapter 306 I Am Invulnerable to Poison
Under the moonlight.
The two figures sipped their wine and chatted idly, creating a very harmonious atmosphere.
Before they knew it, half of the spirit wine was gone.
Li Ping glanced at Zhou Lingyan.
He judges others by his own standards; he wouldn't drink alcohol offered by a stranger.
The reason he mixed the Azure Flame Brew with the Thunder Jade Liquid brought by Zhou Lingyan was mainly to put her at ease.
Although he ended up drinking alcohol as a result, the Soft Dragon Powder was powerful, but he had the protective power of the Health Preservation Technique, making him virtually immune to all poisons. He didn't care about such a strong anesthetic.
However, to his surprise, Zhou Lingyan did not have any doubts and drank the mixed spirit wine very frankly, which saved Li Ping a lot of trouble.
Of course, he didn't know that this was because Zhou Lingyan was also plotting to harm him. She couldn't wait for Li Ping to drink more, so why would she hesitate and arouse Li Ping's suspicion?
"It should be taking effect soon," Li Ping thought as he observed.
On the other side, Zhou Lingyan was also sizing up Li Ping, thinking to herself, "The poison should be taking effect by now."
She had just secretly taken the antidote for the Soul-Suppressing Liquid.
next moment--
The two of them changed their expressions at the same time.
Li Ping could clearly sense two strange toxins erupting simultaneously from his meridians, threatening to knock him down in an instant. However, the power of the Nourishing Life Technique circulated throughout his body, instantly neutralizing both toxins.
"I only used one kind of poison, how could there be two? Could it be..." Li Ping looked up at Zhou Lingyan sitting opposite him, puzzled.
But he saw the other person staring at him with a face full of resentment, his lips slightly parted as if to say: "You despicable and shameless scoundrel, you actually poisoned the wine."
Li Ping looked at him strangely. He had wondered why Zhou Lingyan was drinking so readily; it turned out she had also poisoned the wine.
Indeed, a woman's heart is the most poisonous!
However, I must say, this wine tastes really good, especially after it was poisoned, the flavor is even better.
After putting all the remaining wine into his storage bag, Li Ping's gaze fell on the Hehuan Sect female cultivator on the ground.
In fact, the Soft Dragon Powder is not a poison; it only has the effect of numbing the body and mana. Once the time has passed, the affected cultivator will naturally return to normal.
"Although I don't know why she would want to harm me when we were cooperating so well, I have to hurry. I'll know everything after the soul search."
Li Ping used his magic to control the unconscious female cultivator, who floated to his front. His hands were surrounded by a layer of black light, and he pressed them directly onto her head.
In the more than thirty years since returning to the Western Wilderness, in addition to cultivating his second Golden Core to the Core Formation stage, he has also successfully cultivated the "Myriad Spirits Divine Technique" to the highest level, the fifth level.
His divine sense was so powerful that it exceeded that of a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator by 50%, and was not far from that of a late-stage Core Formation cultivator.
With such powerful divine sense, searching Zhou Lingyan's soul, a mere early-stage Core Formation cultivator, was naturally no problem.
……
Inside the cave of the Crimson Thunder Monster.
Old Monster Chi Lei and Old Demon Wu sat facing each other.
After a long silence, Old Demon Wu suddenly spoke impatiently: "Chi Lei, why did you summon me here for no reason? If you don't speak now, I don't have time to sit here with you."
Old Monster Chi Lei glanced at him before saying meaningfully, "Fellow Daoist Wu, are you aware that Junior Sister Zhou visited Li Jingyu today and has not yet returned?"
"Still haven't returned? Given Fellow Daoist Zhou's personality, what's so strange about that?" Old Demon Wu didn't care.
He wouldn't find it strange that a Core Formation female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect would spend the night in Li Jingyu's cave, let alone run naked in the street or have sex in the open.
Isn't this what dual cultivation is all about?
"Hehe... Junior Sister Zhou knows the location of the ancient cultivator's cave very well. If she obtains the Yin-Yang Star Flame from Li Jingyu..." Old Monster Crimson Thunder paused slightly before continuing, "Junior Sister Zhou is no pushover. She controls the key to open the cave. If the two of us don't keep a close eye on her movements..."
"Could it be that she would abandon the two of us and go explore the ancient cultivator's cave alone!" Old Demon Wu stood up abruptly.
The thought of this possibility filled him with both shock and anger.
Old Monster Chi Lei chuckled: "I didn't say that. But if Junior Sister Zhou really has such thoughts, we two must be on guard. We can't let decades of hard work go to waste and end up benefiting others."
"Hmph! I hope Fellow Daoist Zhou won't do something so unwise." Old Demon Wu's expression kept changing, but in the end he sat back down and waited with Old Monster Chi Lei.
Old Monster Chi Lei stopped speaking, but his divine sense faintly enveloped Li Ping's cave seven or eight miles away.
What is the demonic path?
If a person doesn't look out for themselves, they'll be punished by heaven and earth!
I don’t care about the flood after I die!
This is the true path of evil.
It would be truly ridiculous for a demonic cultivator to easily believe the promises of other cultivators.
If you believe nonsense like "fellow disciples are one family outside the sect".
Let alone forming a golden core, Old Monster Crimson Thunder felt that he would have already died from exhaustion of his life essence due to the other senior sisters' draining of his life force.
Of course, it's not just fellow disciples.
What teachers say, the rules of the sect... should not be listened to either.
In such a corrupt and chaotic environment as the Demonic Sect, how many good people can climb to high positions?
Anyone who listens to the rules they set is a fool.
……
"This is troublesome!"
Li Ping removed his hand from Zhou Lingyan's head, recalling the information he had obtained from the soul search, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.
He didn't expect that Song Yushu's prediction was right; the Fiery Immortal and Feng Guan, grandfather and grandson, were indeed killed by Zhou Lingyan.
To be precise, they were killed by three Core Formation cultivators: Old Monster Chi Lei, Old Demon Wu, and Zhou Lingyan. Their goal was to obtain the map of an ancient cultivator's cave after True Person Liehuo had destroyed a certain immortal cultivation family.
By a twist of fate, the actions of these three people actually served to avenge the destroyed immortal cultivation family.
The cycle of cause and effect, and the inevitable retribution, that's probably what it means.
What Li Ping found troublesome was that, according to Zhou Lingyan's memories, a third-order Yin-Yang Star Flame was needed as a key to open that ancient cultivation cave.
Unbeknownst to everyone before, at an auction more than a decade ago, Feng Guan used the Two Elements Star Flame to exchange for the Condensing Yuan Pill from Li Ping.
That's why the three of them started targeting him again.
The reason Zhou Lingyan deliberately approached him and even poisoned his spirit wine today in an attempt to assassinate him was to obtain the Yin-Yang Star Flame.
After a series of bizarre maneuvers, Zhou Lingyan ended up being poisoned, while Li Ping subdued Zhou Lingyan.
But the problem is:
Li Pingyuan initially thought he only needed to deal with Zhou Lingyan, but now he discovered that she had two other accomplices at the Core Formation stage, one of whom, the Crimson Thunder Old Monster, was a cunning old man who deliberately disguised himself as a rogue cultivator.
Now, figuring out how to deal with Zhou Lingyan has become a troublesome matter.
Even if she doesn't become an idiot after the soul search and wakes up, she will probably lose most of her memories.
This state is obviously impossible to hide from other Core Formation cultivators of the same level.
Besides, things have already come to this.
He didn't dare to let Zhou Lingyan go back just like that, lest he cause himself a lot of trouble.
"Or, I might as well just kill Old Monster Crimson Thunder and Old Demon Wu together!" Li Ping had the idea of killing them to silence them, but he quickly shook his head.
Core Formation cultivators have unpredictable methods, so it's hard to say whether they can simply and cleanly kill the two of them.
Most Core Formation cultivators have life tablets left in their sects. Given their status in the sect, their death would definitely cause a huge uproar.
At that time, he wouldn't need to bother going to the Hehuan Sect's Secret Techniques Pavilion to check on the teleportation array.
If he had known earlier that Zhou Lingyan's crimes were committed by a group rather than an individual act, he would not have targeted her.
But now, it has to be said, he's in a difficult situation.
"bother!"
……
As the night passed, Old Monster Chi Lei only saw a graceful figure fly out of Li Jingyu's cave and head towards another cave.
"What's going on?" he asked, puzzled.
Regardless of whether she succeeded or not, shouldn't Junior Sister Zhou have come here to discuss the plan with the two of them? Why did she go straight back to her own cave?
"Red Thunder, how is it?" Old Demon Wu noticed that his expression was strange and couldn't help but feel curious.
Old Monster Chi Lei shook his head: "Junior Sister Zhou came out of Li Jingyu's cave, but she went straight back to her own cave."
Upon hearing this, Old Demon Wu's expression froze: "Could it be that we failed?"
"It's hard to say." Old Monster Chi Lei frowned. "It's possible that Junior Sister Zhou failed and was worried that Li Jingyu would notice something when she left, so she didn't come to us to discuss it, but went straight back to her own cave."
He recalled the first time he met Li Jingyu, when the latter was so cautious that he wouldn't even drink a drop of the spiritual tea Li Jingyu offered him.
"Junior Sister Zhou poisoned his wine in an attempt to assassinate him, but it's not certain that she'll succeed. This Fellow Daoist Li is not like True Person Liehuo, who is obsessed with skills and lacks understanding of human relationships," Old Monster Chi Lei murmured.
He sighed and said, "Let's wait a bit longer. Junior Sister Zhou should come and discuss the details with us later."
……
Inside Zhou Lingyan's cave, Li Ping used his token to shut down the cave's array, his expression grim.
Just now, he transformed into Zhou Lingyan's appearance and changed into her clothes. On his way back to the cave, he indeed sensed a divine consciousness observing him.
He quickly made a judgment: "Mid-stage Core Formation, this divine sense should belong to Old Monster Crimson Thunder."
Old Monster Chi Lei could check on a cultivator in the early stage of Core Formation without being detected, but Li Ping's divine sense was even stronger than his, so his actions were naturally exposed to Li Ping.
"They're watching from the shadows. It won't be that easy for me to leave Donghua Mountain."
While searching Zhou Lingyan's cave and collecting everything useful, Li Ping was also silently thinking about how to leave Donghua Mountain.
He was not worried about the Hehuan Sect's retaliation if things were exposed.
As long as you can quietly leave Donghua Mountain, take a stroll through the Hehuan Sect's Secret Method Pavilion, and find the information you need...
The alias Li Jingyu will no longer appear.
It's just a disguise. With the ever-changing power of the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture, he can easily create different disguises.
The key question now is: how can he create a time gap so that he can return to the Hehuan Sect and consult the scriptures in its secret manuals pavilion without alerting the two old monsters, Chi Lei and his companion?