Chapter 4680 — Curing the Poison Wound
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"Mm—strictly speaking, this thing isn't a spirit beast at all. It belongs to the insect class," Gui Dongxi said after a moment's pondering.
"This is an insect?!" Wei Zhao was startled. He glanced at the corpse on the ground—by every appearance a mutated, highly venomous lizard—and never would have guessed it was actually an insect. It truly had character.
"Correct. If my memory serves, its full name is the Eight-Legged Kache Insect. Its intelligence isn't particularly high, but its body carries a potent venom of extraordinary ferocity—enough to easily bring down even a Xuan Ascension cultivator," Gui Dongxi explained.
"Bring down even a Xuan Ascension cultivator?" Wei Zhao was shocked. From his experience, ordinary poisons had long since lost much potency against high-tier cultivators—many could kill common folk with ease, yet their effect diminished sharply against the powerful, and by the Nascent Soul stage they were practically no threat at all. He had never imagined this bizarre creature's venom could be so potent!
"Indeed. This creature ranks among the rare poisons. You can put its carcass away—it may prove useful later. Alchemy and artifact forging could both make use of it," Gui Dongxi said.
"Right." At a mere thought, Wei Zhao stowed the Eight-Legged Kache Insect's carcass into the jade pendant's space, then looked at Huo Yudie, whose life force was ebbing ever weaker, and said with a headache: "So what do we do about her? If we don't think of something fast, she'll die, won't she?"
From the very beginning until now, he had gone to enormous trouble trailing them this long, and still hadn't even caught a glimpse of the Thunder Mystic Vine. If Huo Yudie really did go and die in a place like this, Wei Zhao would be well and truly screwed.
"What's there to do about it? It's simple—just draw the poison out for her," Gui Dongxi said, his tone indifferent and unconcerned.
"How do I do that?" Wei Zhao couldn't help scratching his head.
"It's not hard. The most primitive method will do—suck it out with your mouth," Gui Dongxi said with a laugh.
"Huh? Suck it out with my mouth?" Wei Zhao nearly choked on the words, coughing for a good while before managing, speechless: "Ahem—wouldn't that be the death of me? Didn't you just say, Senior, that this venom can easily bring down even a Xuan Ascension cultivator…?"
"Others would die, but you, brat, won't," Gui Dongxi said with utter certainty.
"Why not?" Wei Zhao asked, astonished.
"Don't think I don't know about your immunity to all poisons. Wasn't it brewed for you by that Old Man Wei? Your constitution was tempered from childhood, and now that your strength has grown, it has only become more firmly established. No matter how potent the poison, it would do nothing to you," Gui Dongxi said.
"You even know about that?" Wei Zhao grew all the more astonished. True, Gui Dongxi had been residing within his body for no short while, but that had only begun shortly before he came to Cloud Tier Island. Anything earlier—if he himself had never brought it up—there should be no reason for Gui Dongxi to know. Especially something like his immunity to all poisons, which traced all the way back to Old Man Wei.
"Oh, when I had nothing better to do, I had a casual rummage through your past in your sea of consciousness. So I retain a vague impression of things like that," Gui Dongxi said, curling his lip as though it were nothing.
"What? You snooped through my memories?" Wei Zhao was greatly alarmed. He had never considered such a possibility before—if Gui Dongxi could casually leaf through his memories, then he could have no secrets left at all before him. This feeling of being laid utterly bare was terrifying!
Granted, Gui Dongxi was hardly an outsider. At least for now, they shared honor and ruin, fortune and misfortune alike. Even so, this sense of having every secret exposed was enough to send a chill down one's spine at the mere thought of it.