Chapter 2946 — Wei Zhao Is Poisoned
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"True enough—it is time we talked business!" Old Master Zhao narrowed his eyes and smiled, though the smile was exceedingly strange.
"What are you laughing at?" Wei Zhao frowned.
"Wei Zhao, how do you feel right now?" Old Master Zhao asked abruptly instead.
At that question, Wei Zhao's heart gave a sudden start! Old Master Zhao had always addressed him as Senior Lin before, and this sudden switch to calling him Wei Zhao struck him as somewhat off. Moreover, the old man was asking how he felt—could there be something wrong in this?
"What do you mean?" Wei Zhao asked, watching Old Master Zhao coldly. "Don't tell me you're scheming something crooked again?"
"Heh heh, Wei Zhao, the debt you owe our Zhao family is due," Old Master Zhao said, rising to his feet and regarding Wei Zhao with a half-smile. "Wei Zhao, do you not yet feel that something is amiss? You have been poisoned!"
"Poisoned?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. Then he asked, "You put poison in the food?"
Yet though he asked, Wei Zhao did not believe it! After all, Wei Zhao had grown up among medicine jars, and he was exceedingly sensitive to poisons. If there had been poison in the food, he would certainly have noticed—he would not be sitting here oblivious as he was now!
Besides, Wei Zhao's jade pendant had a warning function. If the food truly held poison that could take his life, it would surely have warned him; yet to this moment he had received not the slightest warning signal—and that was another reason Wei Zhao did not believe it.
"Indeed. You may try it—circulate your mental cultivation formula and see what happens," Old Master Zhao said mildly, looking at Wei Zhao.
"Circulate my formula?" At those words Wei Zhao instinctively began to circulate the Xuanyuan Dragon-Riding Art, but the very next moment he discovered to his astonishment that he could not stir the true qi within his body at all—the Xuanyuan Dragon-Riding Art simply would not circulate!
What was going on? Wei Zhao was greatly alarmed. It was as if the true qi in his body had been suppressed by something; not only could he not circulate his formula, he found that he could not even condense the most basic true qi bomb!
"Well? No good, is it? Turned into a limp shrimp, haven't you? Hahahahaha!" One look at Wei Zhao's expression told Old Master Zhao that the man had fallen for it! And truly, the poison the Hidden You family had provided was remarkably effective!
"How did you do it?" Wei Zhao asked, his face dark.
"This poison is an ancient and marvelous toxin. Yet though it is called a poison, in truth it is not one—for it will not kill you, nor will it affect your ordinary life. It merely suppresses your strength, turning you into an ordinary person who cannot use his power!" Old Master Zhao explained.
"What!? An ancient marvelous toxin?" Wei Zhao's gaze swept over the dishes on the table. He had tasted every one of them, yet he could not judge which dish was the culprit!
Impossible! Even if it was not a poison, so long as it could harm his body, why had the jade pendant not warned him?
"Indeed—an ancient marvelous toxin! You needn't look. The truth is, I administered the poison in separate parts. Each herb by itself is not poisonous, but mixed together they become a poison!" Old Master Zhao said calmly. "This method of poisoning should not be unfamiliar to you, Wei Zhao, should it?"
"Medicine King Zhao?" Wei Zhao remembered at once—a case of mass student poisoning he had encountered back at Songshan No. 1 High School. Zhong Yongliang had used the Seven-Herb Death-Despair Powder that Medicine King Zhao had given him, putting it one by one into each dish, poisoning them by mixture!