The "whoosh" sound of the knife cutting through his throat was immediately stuck there.
Unable to spit it out, unable to swallow it down.
The blade turned red from holding it in.
Ling Yuan couldn't help but burst into laughter again, laughing so hard that several leaves fell off.
Huo Qing wanted to laugh too.
But when I smile, half of my swollen face hurts, so I have to endure it.
I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
After laughing, he instantly switched to the demeanor of a virtuous gentleman.
“Nini…”
"Don't call me Nini!" Dao Yizhan shook his body violently, then said fiercely, "My name is Dao Yizhan, the Dao Yizhan of 'cutting with one stroke'."
"What? You dislike the name your master gave you?" Xingyi leaped out of the water and asked with a smile.
"Don't talk nonsense." Dao Yizhan immediately deflated and hurriedly shook his head.
"Alright, stop bullying Yi Zhan." Yan Xi, being the most soft-hearted, stepped in to smooth things over.
"It's fine to tease him occasionally, but it gets boring if you keep doing it." Li Xue raised her hand, slashed her knife to free herself from Ling Yuan's vines, and said.
"As long as Yizhan doesn't talk nonsense anymore, I promise I won't call it Nini." Huoqing raised one wing, covered its swollen face, and said.
Yuehua glanced at Huoqing's swollen and bruised face and kindly suggested, "Why don't you take care of yourself first?"
"Ling'er, Huo Qing is your husband, how could you use so much force?" Ling Yuan cleared his throat and said seriously.
Fire Spirit flapped its wings, as if it were about to say something.
Ling Yuan continued, "Did your wings hurt? If you want to fight in the future, just tell me, Brother Teng, and I'll do it for you for free."
"Me too, me too!" Mo Xuan said repeatedly, raising his little paws.
Huo Qing proudly puffed out his chest: "When my wife hits me, I always choose the softest spot to touch her, so that she won't hurt herself."
"You're quite proud of yourself?" Ling Yuan couldn't help but laugh.
"What do you know! Getting beaten by your wife is a kind of fun." Huo Qing glanced at Ling Yuan and said with his nostrils pointing to the sky, "People without wives simply don't understand the fun in it."
Ling Yuan was so angry that he almost uprooted himself.
This little rooster's gotten too cocky.
"Stop fooling around, the master is back." At this moment, Yan Xi said, swaying her branch gently.
The spirit pets quickly dispersed in the courtyard.
In just a moment, silence returned, just as it had been before Bai Qingqing left.
As the courtyard gate was pushed open, Bai Qingqing and Yun Zhan walked in from outside.
The two chatted and laughed, and seemed very happy.
They headed straight for the study.
After settling down, Bai Qingqing casually took a medicinal herb from herb-gathering basket and placed it in front of Yun Zhan.
"Observe carefully, and then tell me how you feel."
“The Dark Buddha Vine is a vine-like plant that is tough, has sticky sap, is non-toxic, bears no fruit, has dark leaves, and has long, multi-segmented rhizomes,” Yun Zhan said as he observed.
"Is there anything else?" Bai Qingqing asked.
Yun Zhan remained silent for a moment, then shook his head: "Miss Bai, please forgive my lack of knowledge, I really cannot perceive its medicinal properties."
Bai Qingqing pulled out the alchemy furnace and threw the dark Buddhist vine inside.
Flames flickered, instantly enveloping the dark Buddhist vine.
It turned into a drop of ink-colored liquid.
The fruit is about the size of a mung bean, opaque on the right side, and has a faint sweet aroma.
Bai Qingqing took out the liquid from a jade bottle and handed it to Yun Zhan: "Observe it again."
Yun Zhan took it, and spiritual energy surged from his fingertips, enveloping the drop of liquid. He closed his eyes and carefully sensed it for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise, "It can stop bleeding and reduce swelling."
Bai Qingqing nodded and then took out a Dark Buddha Vine.
It was still thrown into the alchemy furnace.
This time, however, the flames in the alchemy furnace were much gentler, burning softly and slowly.
A moment later, the Dark Buddha Vine was burned into a small clump of black granules.
Very few, but each grain is distinct.
Bai Qingqing still used a jade bottle to hold it, and handed it to Yun Zhan again: "And this time?"
Yun Zhan glanced at Bai Qingqing, then his spiritual energy surged from his fingertips again, enveloping the small black particle before he closed his eyes and focused his mind.
A moment later, Yun Zhan suddenly opened his eyes, disbelief filling them: "This, this..."
The liquid that was just calcined can stop bleeding and reduce swelling, so why is this small amount of powder now considered highly toxic?
Aren't they all transformed from the Dark Buddhist Vine?
"What did you sense?" Bai Qingqing asked.
“These black particles are highly poisonous and can harm cultivators below the Core Formation stage.” Yun Zhan pursed his lips, suddenly realizing something.
Three years ago, in a small town in western Central Continent.
Three families were entrenched in the town.
One of the families, because one of its disciples was exceptionally talented, joined the local Yunjian Auction branch.
Therefore, there is some connection.
Just as the family's development was flourishing because of this disciple, it was wiped out overnight.
Of the eighty-six people, not a single one survived.
Although they were burned beyond recognition by the fire, the person in charge of the Yunjian Auction branch discovered that they had all died of poisoning.
However, after several days of investigation, no suspects could be found.
It was as if the poison appeared out of thin air and then killed an entire family out of nowhere.
Although the disciple was unwilling to give up, he investigated many times but still found nothing.
In the end, it could only be left as an unsolved case.
Now that I think about it, could it be that the fire caused by an accident ignited the Dark Buddha Vine, leading to poisoning?
After all, this kind of "weed" is very resilient and can be found in many open spaces along roadsides.
Normally, no one took it seriously.
Thinking of this, Yun Zhan couldn't help but swallow.
“That’s right.” Bai Qingqing nodded: “Actually, these are just two states of the Dark Buddha Vine.”
"Could there be more?" Yun Zhan asked in surprise.
"Of course." Bai Qingqing smiled. "But what follows is a test for you. You'll have to list the rest."
"Okay." Yun Zhan rubbed his hands together, saying excitedly.
Bai Qingqing sat to the side, resting her chin on her hand and watching.
Yun Zhan was indeed intelligent and quick-witted. He could draw inferences from one instance to another and quickly listed two more states based on different levels of heat.
Grayish-white powder and a viscous, dark red substance.
However, the effects of the drug are similar in both forms as in the liquid form, but the effects are somewhat weaker in the liquid form.
Yun Zhan pursed his lips, looked up at Bai Qingqing, and asked, "Does this count?"
"Yes." Bai Qingqing nodded.
Yun Zhan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But before he could even finish exhaling, Bai Qingqing said, "However, your thinking is a bit too rigid."
“Strict?” Yun Zhan murmured, his brows furrowing tightly.
“When it comes to alchemy, the first thing that comes to mind is fire, so it’s easy to get stuck on the details,” Bai Qingqing reminded her. “Actually, many times, more than just fire is needed.”
Yun Zhan was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up immediately.
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