Poison Genius Consort - Chapter 577

Chapter 577: Definitely won’t hold back 

The next thing they knew, Long Feiye had stuffed the pills down Gu Qishao's open mouth. He didn't have time to react before swallowing the pills down. He grabbed a pitcher of water from the table and gulped down multiple mouthfuls before he managed to get them past his throat.

"Long Feiye, your mother!" Gu Qishao was a devastating beauty, but he was quite masculine when he cursed. Still, that didn't put people off him at all.

Long Feiye simply picked up his teacup without a word, putting Gu Qishao on guard again. Han Yunxi rolled her eyes and silently withdrew from this fight. She still couldn't believe that these two were actually working together now…no, it should be that she still couldn't believe they could cooperate in the first place!

As soon as she left the room, a clatter rose up within. She figured it was better to find a quiet place to cultivate than waste time with those two. Ever since she received the secret cultivation manual from the poison storage space, she'd been working hard in private to master its contents. Sometimes she wouldn't even sleep all night just so she could practice until dawn. Fortunately, she was practicing mental cultivation, which didn't require too much effort or fatigue from her body. By now, she'd gotten to the point where it was effortless to take a toxic item—such as Water of Ten-Thousand Poisons, Perplexing Butterfly Illusion, or Lil Thing—and store them into her space. It took more mental gymnastics to bring them in and out, however.

Thus, Han Yunxi resolved to do more practice with Lil Thing. Sometimes she'd call it out, then put it back in. Lil Thing was lazy, so it didn't mind at first, but eventually, it grew angry enough to bare its fangs. This time, Han Yunxi had hardly called it out when it made noises of protest and glared at her. But since Han Yunxi was concentrating wholly on cultivating with her eyes closed, she ignored it. Lil Thing was nothing more than a paper tiger in front of its Mama Yunxi—its bark was worse than its bite. When it saw that Mama Yunxi was ignoring it, it shriveled. It jumped onto Mama Yunxi's body for another nap when it caught the scent of new poisons—flavors and types it'd never tried before. It immediately grew alert and accurately pinpointed the items in Mama Yunxi's sleeve. Over the past few days, it'd been doing nothing but hiding out in the poison storage space to drink Water of Ten-Thousand Poisons, to the point that it was getting sick of the taste. Now it could finally taste something different.

There were only three poison pills in the sleeve. Lil Thing swallowed the first two whole, but savored the last one bit by tiny bit as it munched through it carefully. Because it was concentrating so much on the taste, it finally realized that something about it was off. The pill contained something delicious that it found intimately familiar, but it couldn't figure out what it was. Lil Thing tasted it again, very carefully, but it wasn't until the entire pill was gone that it realized what it was eating.

These pills contained Gu Qishao's blood!

Back when Mama Yunxi had been attacked by archers, it'd tasted something funny about Gi Qishao's blood. The white-robed gentleman had noticed it too, though Lil Thing had no idea what he had found out. Lil Thing itself wasn't very sure either, only that the poisonous blood it was eating was very similar to the blood flowing in its own poison veins. It was probable that this was Gu Blood1  from the various bloods of ten-thousand poisons, though it still wasn't an exact match. In any case, Lil Thing had never tried Gu Blood personally, so it didn't have the ultimate answer. It only knew it was a great healing agent for its own body and about 100 times more effective than other poisons.

But wait!

Where did Mama Yunxi get these pills? Did Gu Qishao give them to her? Does Gu Qishao want me to recover faster? Thinking up to here, Lil Thing quickly scurried out of the sleeve and cheeped at Mama Yunxi, but she was too immersed to cultivate to notice him.