
In essence, Grandpa Meng could only believe it or not believe that the white-haired star was not a puppy but a cub. No wonder you can catch fish easily.
After eating all the roasted fish, they decided to continue the pending quest for the herbs. Xiu Jimei found some poisonous spiritual mushrooms on one of the fallen tree trunks.
The trees in the forest were quite large and many were uprooted due to spirit beast fights or cultivator fights in the past. Sometimes some trees that have been more than a hundred years old have rich wood element energy. It will often be poison.
For example, the poisonous spiritual fungus that grows on the tree trunk.The color of the mushroom is darker and gives off a rather pungent aroma. If it inhales the scent of poisonous spiritual mushrooms long enough, then its victim will hallucinate and fall in an endless dream.
Xiu Jimei plucked all the mushrooms with nothing left. It was actually quite dangerous if spirit beasts came here to look for fresh prey.
“Can the mushroom be used as a hallucinatory poison?” asked Xuan Xing.
Grandpa Meng nodded. “Even can be stronger than that. If processed by a high-level alchemist, this poisonous mushroom not only gives hallucinations or illusions but also becomes a sleeping flower poison.”
The poison of sleeping flowers can make people fall into sleep and dream beautifully endlessly until it becomes more and more like reality and eventually do not want to wake up from the dream. If this happens, the sufferer will die. Or at least get stuck forever in a dream until there is a technique that is able to wake him up again.
It was just that such poison was rarely made by any medicinal alchemist or poison, except for the evil cultivators. Not to mention the price for the poison is very expensive because there is no antidote at all. But .. Grandpa Meng glanced at Xiu Jimei. Can the girl make a poison and an antidote from the poison of the sleeping flower?
Xiu Jimei did not know the old man's thoughts. He stored the poisonous spiritual mushroom into the basket he carried.
“I'll make even better poison later. Just wait,” said.
Wang Xuyue was suspicious of the girl's smile. “What poison do you mean?”
“You will know later and you should try it. Don't worry, I'll guarantee your lives stay where they are.”
“...” Wang Xuyue and friends were stunned for a while. No, thank you, inwardly they.
They spend time in the forest until the sky becomes orange. Without feeling much time has passed. They intended to spend the night in the forest this time, but it turned out that the location of the medicine village was very close.
Grandpa Meng brought them all there with teleportation techniques. Upon arrival at the main entrance in the village, several other test groups had also arrived from the very beginning. Including Huang Fu Shi's group, along with Shin Yalong, Lei Yuan and Fu Yiyuan.
“You have finally arrived. I thought you guys wouldn't arrive today,” Lei Yuan said as he put down the bucket filled with water. He had just gone to the river to get some water.
“When did you arrive?” jia Lishan asked.
Huang Fu Shi frowned. “We arrived this afternoon and were directly assigned.”
Lei Yuan wanted to complain but could not. From the very beginning came, the senior alchemists and teachers and the locals worked together to assign tasks to them. Not only did it help them water the herbs, but it also learned to know all kinds of herbs and toxins. He was almost nauseous when he saw the thick book that had to be learned.
Grandfather Meng immediately took Xiu Jimei's group to one of the residents' houses that had many rooms. The house of one of the chosen residents was quite sturdy, the yard was spacious and all the furniture was very simple.
“Tonight, rest and tomorrow come to the alchemy building.” Grandpa Meng paid his respects to the owner of the house and left.
Xiu Jimei's group had gone to the prepared room.
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The next day, Xiu Jimei's group went to the alchemy building after breakfast was over. Grandpa Meng was in his private research room. But since the room could not be entered by anyone else, they waited in the courtyard.
Suddenly they were surprised by the sound of an explosion in one of the rooms not far from there. Black smoke billowed from the slits of doors, windows and roofs. When the door opened a bit roughly, two people came out with bodies full of soot.
Unexpectedly Xiu Jimei will meet with Bai Shiyu the ancient poison king. The old man coughed as he shook his hand to get rid of the black smoke around him. While the one beside him was none other than Poppy, the Poison Flower Emperor.
“What did both of them do until the explosion happened?” Yan Yujie felt that the appearance of the two was very comforting.
Xiu Jimei took out a bottle of yogurt from his innate spiritual room and took a casual sip. “What else besides blowing up the alchemy furnace,” he replied.
Wang Xuyue slightly chills. “Is it so terrible when it fails to mix herbal ingredients?”
“It seems not really, depending on what medicine or poison to make. The higher the type of medicine or poison made, the greater the likelihood of failure is also quite high. Even if a medicine or poison was successfully made, it was not necessarily pure spiritual content. If there is still herbal dirt or powder pulp left behind, then the efficacy is also different,” said Xiu Jimei.
“It turns out being an alchemist is troublesome,” Wang Xuyue muttered.
Xiu Jikai nodded in agreement. But he added. “Then, the alchemists are the richest. Pills or toxins they sell will sell for a high price at auction.”
Just one problem for alchemists, they would definitely be targeted by some parties for some purpose. If the alchemists were to come into contact with one of the stronger parties, their fate was usually bad.
Meanwhile, Xiu Jimei was also an alchemist and his strength had been seen in the sect. But the parties who had always been looking for rare talents from among alchemists never dared to come to his younger brother. When they heard Xiu Jimei's name as a high-level alchemist, they would rather turn the road than meet him.
Poppy and Bai Shiyu were not yet aware of Xiu Jimei's group. They were both busy putting out the fire that started burning the room.
“Do you need help?” asked Xuan Xing.
Bai Shiyu did not notice who asked and was busy collecting the water not far from the courtyard. Fortunately each yard will have a small pond with clear water coming from mountain springs.
“Help, quickly!” Bai Shiyu was a little impatient.
Xuan Xing used his ice element to freeze all surfaces of the room. The cold is getting worse. Not to mention it's entering autumn. Looking at the ice sheet that ended up extinguishing all the flames, Bai Shiyu and Poppy realized something was wrong.