Towards Eternity
Ch 615's
When Weng Lou and Du Zhe were doing a two-week training routine every day, Weng Ying Luan on the other hand was busy doing something that had become her new hobby.
The hobby is poison drinking.
This hobby he discovered accidentally while he was leisurely in the fighting arena of Tiesha City.
At that time, he passed by a fighter who could rely on wild beasts, and it just so happened that the beast belonging to the fighter was an extremely poisonous snake. Curious about his beast-control technique, Weng Ying Luan finally tried to persuade him to teach her.
After being offered a large amount of gold coins, the person was finally willing to teach Ying Luan. He taught Ying Luan hurriedly, and was forced to impress. But given how powerful Ying Luan was, she still taught her of the most basic things about controlling ferocious beasts.
After giving the demonstration to Ying Luan, the person finally asked her to give it a try as well, although she was actually doubtful whether Ying Luan would be able to or not. The ability to control a savage beast was based on talent, if that person was not talented at it, then it was unlikely that it would succeed.
For starters, he asked Weng Ying Luan to take control of his ferocious beast, his Seven Poisons Snake. The beast that had been his first attempt had been successfully tamed by someone else, so it should have been a little easier for Weng Ying Luan.
However, the unexpected happened. Before he could try the technique of controlling the beast on the snake, the snake had already pounced and bit off Weng Ying Luan's shoulder.
The startled Weng Ying Luan, reflexively struck the snake and killed it in a single hand slap.
Unfortunately, the poison of the Seven Poisons Snake had already entered his body and flowed rapidly towards his heart.
The owner of the snake, who also did not expect it to happen immediately fled leaving Ying Luan who instead stayed silent after killing the snake. He sensed clearly the poison flowing into his body and affecting his organ's working system.
After a while, the poison began to affect his heartbeat. Yet he did not panic in the slightest, a poison like the Seven Poison Serpent might be extremely dangerous, but it only affected people below the realm of Soul Unification.
This was because Martial Practitioners in the realm of Soul Unification could control their Soul Power, and use it as protection from foreign objects that tried to affect the body's work system. But at this moment, Weng Ying Luan did not use the slightest amount of Soul Power.
He only allowed the poison to spread and affect him.
His two eyes started to get a little red, and his vision turned colorful.
It happened for a while, before then Ying Luan's body let out a hot steam and her vision returned to normal.
"So like that, my bloodline has immunity to poison, but it takes time for my body to produce its anti-venom."
That explanation made Ying Luan become excited. Finally, apart from fighting and eating cakes, he had other activities that he loved.
Almost every day, he would consume poison directly by drinking it, and would change after making sure his body was completely immune to one particular poison.
This habit finally continued when he arrived at the Lin Family Residence.
He found many good items that had fire poison, which he was selling in the city, which was a type of poison that he had not yet developed his anti-venom inside his body.
His gold coins were quickly drained, and there was only half of his savings left at the moment. Items containing fire poison were quite rare and most had prices of tens to hundreds of gold coins.
Currently inside the city, Weng Ying Luan was going around and looking for shops that sold metals with poison fire content. The vastness of the city makes the search only includes a quarter of the stores in the city.
Even so, he already had dozens of liters of fire poison in various types of levels, as well as several kilos of other ingredients that contained fire poison.
Quite rarely anyone sold fire poison, but the ingredients that contained it were quite a lot within this city.
"According to what the merchant had said earlier, half of the ingredients containing the fire poison in the city were provided by the Treasure Pavilion belonging to members within the Lin Family. Only quality items were traded inside the place. There were also occasional crosswalks held once every few months, many of which were precious items never found anywhere other than this place."
Weng Ying Luan walked with brisk steps towards the center of the city, where the Treasure Pavilion was located.
On his journey, he will cross paths with some sellers who are familiar with him in just two weeks. They will greet him, or just give a nod.
This was purely due to his ability in trading. He has to admit, he is great at this. Even he thought, if he was done in the pursuit of strength, he would start doing business.
"Mr Luan, let's stop for a while and have some tea with me here."
"Young Master, I saw you yesterday buying fire poison in another shop, it makes my heart ache. Come to my shop, there's some supply of fire poison I just got yesterday, we can negotiate the price, how?"
"Come, come, Mr. Luan. We have prepared something special for you, this is a fire poison made by our ancestors. This fire poison is famous for its explosive temperature rise, you will definitely love it!"
One by one the merchants who were familiar with Ying Luan started to invite her to visit. Some people who also visited the city seemed confused to see this.
They knew very well how high the pride of each member of the Lin Family was, even just an outside member would act extremely arrogant within this city. But seeing Weng Ying Luan who was not a member of the Lin Family being treated in such a way by the shopkeepers within the city, left those watching to be astonished.
"Who exactly is this guy? Just walking down the city, but the merchants instantly greeted him with arms wide open, as if he was an inner member of the Lin Family. Even the members within would not cause this kind of reaction!"
"Hm, like I've seen it before, but where is it?"
"That's Luan!"
"Gosh that's really him! Luan! The number one fighter in the Tiesha City Battle Arena! He was the one who managed to defeat Lin Bei, the leader of the Lin Family's Pursuit Army!"
"Is that really him?! He's really handsome!"
"It seems like the rumor that she was much younger than Lin Bei was indeed true, she was obviously only in her twenties. With such strength, it was no wonder he was truly famous among the shopkeepers within the city!"
One by one the people started talking about Weng Ying Luan. The person who was being talked about by them actually seemed to not care at all, he continued to walk quickly and hurriedly went to the center of the city.
He did not like being the center of attention within the city like this, as it reminded him of his fanatical fans who made him have to pay the cost of repairing public facilities in Tiesha City.
"These people make me feel bad" he murmured as he quickened his footsteps.
As he was planning on adding even further to his speed, his footsteps suddenly came to a halt and he immediately looked back.
The direction he was looking at was the direction towards the Lin Family Residence, where their palace was currently living.
For a moment, he felt like something was calling out to him. But she was not sure, considering Weng Lou had not even cared about her for these two weeks, and she did not plan on making him care. He knew Weng Lou would actually hit him when he said he was going to break some of his ribs.
But when he began to think about it, the same sensation re-emerged, but accompanied by something that made him jerk.
His eyes were wide and wide in disbelief. He immediately raised his right hand and caught a stone that almost hit his face. If only he had not reacted quickly, the stone would have already hit his face.
He did not feel any Qi or Soul Power within the stone, thus making it too late to detect it.
This was one of the obvious weaknesses of the Qi experts or even the Soul Strength, they were likely to be caught off guard against unexpected things like this.
After all, who would have thought of receiving a fist-sized stone throw in the middle of the city? Even that stone throw could kill a person in the peak Soul Cleansing realm very easily.
"Fuck that! Is he really planning to kill me?!" Weng Ying Luan was already about to grumble furiously, when then she realized there was something strange with a stone in her hand.
It turned out that in the stone, there was a small crack where there was a small roll of paper tucked into it.
He quickly picked up the paper and began to open it. His angry face immediately turned to surprise and disbelief.
The paper was squeezed and immediately smashed to pieces.
With a single step, he darted swiftly between the city streets. Since there was a ban on flying, making him only able to rely on his running speed to rush towards the back to the Lin Family Residence.