29: Chapter 29 The Invisible Poison, Frost Without a Trace!

"Fairy, what on earth happened? How did you provoke someone from the Inner Sect?"

Qi Yang asked while taking out hemostatic powder from his Storage Pouch and handing it over.

Su Qinghan did not take it. She leaned against the stone table, closed her eyes in despair, her voice trembling.

"Today, I went to the outer Sect market to buy medicine and happened to run into Zhou Yunfei. He saw through my Three-element Profound Spiritual Root Aptitude at a glance and wanted to forcefully take me back to Jianzhi Peak to become Dao Companions through Dual Cultivation!"

The Cultivation World is extremely cruel, and it is common for high-stage Cultivators to forcibly seize low-stage female Cultivators as Dao Companions.

Although Dual Spiritual Roots are powerful, they also require a massive amount of gentle Spiritual Qi to harmonize. For Zhou Yunfei, a Three Spiritual Roots female Cultivator who is a virgin like Su Qinghan is simply a walking great tonic!

"I refused and drew my sword to resist..."

Su Qinghan gave a miserable laugh.

"It is laughable that I thought with my Qi Condensation Seventh Layer, even if I couldn't win, I could retreat unscathed. As a result, he used only one move... Just a single move of Sword Qi shattered my protective spiritual light and severely injured me!"

The gap in Realms is like a natural chasm!

In front of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer is like a babbling infant facing a fully armed strong man, leaving absolutely no room for resistance!

"I desperately used a tier-2 divine mobility talisman and barely managed to escape back to the Special Grade Herb Garden. With Grand Elder Li's Formation here, he cannot enter for the time being."

Su Qinghan's fingernails dug deeply into her flesh, her eyes filled with unwillingness.

After hearing this, Qi Yang sneered inwardly.

The Cultivation World is so realistic; whatever Sect rules there are are all bullshit in the Face of absolute talent and strength.

Zhou Yunfei wants to forcibly snatch Su Qinghan. Let alone an outer Sect manager, even Great Elder Li Changyuan would absolutely not offend a promising Dual Spiritual Roots Genius of the Inner Sect for the sake of an abandoned disciple of the Luoxia Sect!

At this moment, an extremely arrogant burst of wild laughter came from outside the Special Grade Herb Garden.

"Hahaha! Su Qinghan, do you think that by hiding in this crappy herb garden, this young master can do nothing about you?"

Qi Yang turned his head to look.

Outside the fence of the herb garden stood a youth wearing the embroidered white robe of an Inner Sect Disciple, with a handsome Face that exuded an aura of evil.

Carrying a long sword on his back, the terrifying coercion of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer was released, pressing down on the surrounding air and causing bursts of explosive sonic booms!

It was precisely Zhou Yunfei!

Behind Zhou Yunfei followed several flunkeys, all of whom were outer Sect elites of the eighth and ninth layers of Qi Condensation.

"Zhou Yunfei! As an Inner Sect Disciple, you are forcibly seizing a female Cultivator. Aren't you afraid that the Law Enforcement Hall will punish you?!"

Su Qinghan forced herself to stand up, glaring angrily outside the door.

"The Law Enforcement Hall? Hahahaha!"

Zhou Yunfei acted as if he had heard a colossal joke, his Face full of disdain.

"This young master possesses an Earthly Spiritual Root! A future great Foundation Establishment Cultivator! Would the Sect punish me for the sake of an abandoned disciple from a third-rate School? You overestimate yourself too much!"

Zhou Yunfei's gaze greedily swept over Su Qinghan's exquisitely shaped figure, and he sneered.

"This young master taking a fancy to you is your blessing! That so-called husband of yours is merely a hundred-year-old old piece of trash at the Qi Condensation Third Layer. Does he even deserve to possess someone of your supreme quality?"

Zhou Yunfei's gaze passed over Su Qinghan and landed on the hunchbacked Qi Yang, his eyes looking as if he were looking at a pile of stinking garbage.

"Old thing, this young master is in a good mood today and won't kill you. The Formation of this Special Grade Herb Garden was laid down by Li Changyuan. Today, this young master will give him some Face and not force his way in."

Zhou Yunfei lifted his chin, arrogant to the extreme.

"Su Qinghan, this young master gives you three days to consider! In three days, this young master will personally bring people to welcome you as a bride! By then, this young master will take over the signboard of this Special Grade Herb Garden as well!"

"Old thing, you'd better obediently get lost from the herb garden, otherwise, three days from now will be your day of death!"

Having said that, Zhou Yunfei laughed wildly three times and strode away with his flunkeys.

The herb garden fell into a dead silence.

Su Qinghan collapsed despairingly onto the stone stool.

Three days, she fundamentally had no way to escape.

Once she left the Special Grade Herb Garden, Zhou Yunfei's men would immediately capture her.

"Old man..."

Su Qinghan turned her head, looking at Qi Yang, her voice carrying a trace of desolation.

"This time I've implicated you. In three days, you should leave, cede the herb garden to him, and save your old life."

Qi Yang did not speak.

With a hunchbacked back, he slowly picked up the broken broom in the corner of the wall and began to sweep the fallen leaves in the courtyard.

The rustling sweeping sound appeared exceptionally piercing in the quiet courtyard.

On the surface, he was like a coward who had been scared stupid.

But no one saw that Qi Yang's cloudy old eyes were surging right now with a bloodcurdling, monstrous killing intent!

"Snatching a woman? This old man doesn't care."

"But you want to overturn my lair? You want to take over my Special Grade Herb Garden?"

Qi Yang muttered word by word in his heart, the veins on the back of his hand holding the broom bulging.

The Special Grade Herb Garden was his absolute safe zone for dragging out a lingering existence!

The underground secret chamber hid his biggest secret, hid the black gourd, and hid his hope for Foundation Establishment!

For Zhou Yunfei to usurp the herb garden meant cutting off Qi Yang's path to longevity!

"Dual Spiritual Roots Genius? Qi Refining Tenth Layer?"

"Even the King of Heaven must die if he dares to touch my turf!"

...

Night fell, and the Special Grade Herb Garden was shrouded in dead silence.

Su Qinghan locked herself in the West Wing Room, seeming to have resigned herself to her fate, lacking even the thought of healing her injuries.

As usual, Qi Yang double-locked the wooden door of the thatched cottage and pressed the blue brick beneath the bed.

The stone steps slid open, and he walked expressionlessly into the underground secret chamber.

As soon as he reached the secret chamber, the senility on Qi Yang's Face vanished without a trace, his eyes filled with ruthlessness and bone-chilling coldness.

He didn't pay attention to those Spirit Medicines; instead, he sat cross-legged directly on the bronze stone platform and took out the Incomplete Manual of the Five Poisons Nourishing Spirit Art.

"At the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, the spiritual power protective shield is indestructible. Ordinary poison cannot even break his protective spiritual light. In a direct head-on clash, I can't even block a single sword of his."

Qi Yang's brain spun rapidly, calmly analyzing the gap between the enemy and himself.

The gap in Realms is the most desperate natural chasm in the Cultivation World. Zhou Yunfei not only has high cultivation, but he is also an Inner Sect elite, definitely possessing top-tier Magical Artifacts to protect himself.

Relying on a strong attack would lead to certain death.

"We can only use underhanded tactics, and it must be a kill in one strike, without giving him any chance to react or cry for help!"

Qi Yang opened the Five Poisons Nourishing Spirit Art, his gaze locked firmly onto a secret technique recorded at the end of the Incomplete Manual.

Formless Poison!

This records a strange poison specifically targeting high-stage Cultivators, named Frost Absolute Shadow.

"This poison is colorless and odorless, resembling air. After being inhaled into the body, it doesn't break out immediately, but instead lies dormant deep within the Meridians. It will only detonate when the Cultivator violently urges their Spiritual Qi, completely freezing and shattering the Meridians along with the Dantian!"

Qi Yang looked at the record on the Incomplete Manual, a brilliant light flashing in his eyes.

This is simply a divine medicine for assassination!

However, the conditions for refining Frost Absolute Shadow are also incomparably harsh, requiring an extreme chill as an primer, and then fusing it with a dozen or so century-old deadly poisons.

"Extreme chill?"

Qi Yang sneered, and with a reverse hand from deep within his Storage Pouch, he pulled out a heavily sealed large jade bottle.

Once the bottle stopper was opened, a bone-piercing extreme cold qi permeated the entire secret chamber.

Ice Python's heart blood!

Back then, after poisoning to death that first-stage Late Stage Ice Python, Qi Yang used its heart blood to cultivate the heavenly spirit fruit, but a few drops of the purest cold blood still remained at the bottom of the jade bottle!

"Zhou Yunfei, you can be considered to have died with style, having the essential blood of a first-stage Late Stage Yao Beast send you off to your grave!"

Without any hesitation, Qi Yang directly offered up the purple copper alchemical furnace.

Crimson pill fire ignited, Qi Yang's gaze was focused to the extreme.

He threw more than a dozen century-old deadly poisons such as heartbreak grass, blood-dissolving vine, and fatal spider silk into the furnace one by one. Using Poison Wood Spiritual Power, he carefully removed the Impurities and fused them into a pitch-black puddle of venom.

Finally, he took a deep breath and dropped those few drops of Ice Python's heart blood into the furnace!

Hiss!

The pill fire collided with the extreme cold blood, erupting into violent white smoke.

Qi Yang's hands formed Seals like a butterfly flitting through flowers, frantically driving the spiritual power of the Five Poisons Nourishing Spirit Art into the Pill Furnace, forcibly fusing the extreme coldness and deadly poison perfectly.

A whole night passed.

When the first ray of morning light penetrated the ground surface, Qi Yang fiercely slapped the Pill Furnace.

The furnace lid flipped open. There was no pungent stench, nor any Spiritual Qi fluctuations. At the bottom of the furnace quietly lay a small pinch of nearly transparent ice-blue powder.

Frost Absolute Shadow, refined!