Night fell, and darkness poured in from all directions. However, when they came to the side of the tree that was the root demon's true body, they saw divine light coming from the surroundings.
This was the root demon's true body. To avoid the invasion of the darkness in Great Ruins, it had put in a lot of effort to protect itself. Either by stealing or robbing, it had gotten god statues from other places to protect itself.
The area covered by its roots was very wide, but its true body was just a bunch of roots. During the day, it only needed to spread out its roots in all directions and transform into women to lure prey to its door. At night, it could retract its roots and hide in the area covered by the light of the god statue to protect its life.
The white bat brothers, Dragon Unicorn, Xiong Xiyu, and her daughter were all near its roots and within the area covered by the light, so they were still considered safe at night.
However, everyone was either poisoned or paralyzed by Lost Fragrance, so they couldn't move. They could only lie there obediently.
That night, ghosts cried and gods howled outside. There were huge shadows moving in the darkness, and devil language rang out continuously. It was as if someone was whispering in their ears. There were also god statues that suddenly came back to life and said something that they couldn't understand.
There were also times when light suddenly appeared in the darkness, and the darkness suddenly retreated to reveal a world with verdant hills and limpid waters. It should be Great Ruins overlapping with other worlds. There were people in the other worlds who were curiously examining the darkness of Great Ruins.
There were also worlds that were as still as rusty iron and were dusky. They suddenly appeared in their surroundings without any signs of life.
The night was grotesque, and the hearts of everyone under the tree were raised to their throats.
When the sun finally came out, it was already late in the morning. Dragon Unicorn lay on the ground with his limbs facing the sky. He had been poisoned by Mu Yingxue, but he could still speak. He muttered, "Cult Master still hasn't fed me today …"
Another day passed, and when it was evening, Qin Mu rushed over from outside while covered in dust. As he walked, he refined medicine. He had gathered some beautiful jade and refined a Eight Trigrams Five Elements Furnace, which was even more exquisite and complicated than the sealed furnace in Imperial College.
As a forging expert, it wasn't difficult for him to refine such a pill furnace.
Qin Mu came to the bottom of the tree and continued to refine pills.
When refining pills in a sealed furnace, the poison gas wouldn't leak out. The method he used was different from before. Ever since he had fought with Little Poison King, he had improved greatly on the path of refining poison.
This time, the method he used to refine the poison pill was the basic poison pill.
Just like how swordsmanship had fourteen basic sword moves, he could also refine the most basic one thousand and twenty-four types of poison pills. Different basic poison pills could be arranged and combined to form different poisons. The dosage of each poison pill was different, and the ratio was different, so the poison obtained was also different.
Not only that, he had also concocted many basic restorative pills, which could be used to increase the potency of the poison by dozens of times!
After refining these basic poison pills and tonics, he took out a few seeds and a dozen insect eggs and planted them under the tree. Using the Earth Aeon Creation Technique, Spirit Creation Technique, and other techniques, he urged the seeds to grow rapidly and grow into stalks of spirit herbs.
At the same time, he let the eggs hatch, and many small insects came out of the eggs.
Qin Mu fed the venomous insects with tonics and made them fat. Then, he let the venomous insects climb onto the spirit herbs and gnaw on them, increasing their toxicity.
Even though Apothecary's medicinal knowledge had reached perfection, he didn't purposely impart poison techniques to him. These were the abilities he had learned from Little Poison King Fu Yuanqing before merging the poison path and the medical path together.
Qin Mu made the venomous insects kill each other and swallow each other until there was only one insect king left. He then concocted different poison pills to concoct all kinds of pills of great poison and let the insect king eat them.
Before the sky turned dark, Mu Yingxue finally rushed back.
She was riding on a white elephant which swayed back and forth unhurriedly. Behind the white elephant were numerous flowers, grass, and even some birds and beasts.
Qin Mu was astonished. He saw the flowers, grass, birds, beasts, and even insects following behind the woman like a shadow.
'All living things have spirits, and so do poisonous things. Her method of gathering herbs is much more brilliant than mine, to actually be able to make the poisons follow her on their own. '
This was indeed a formidable opponent with brilliant attainments in the poison path!
Qin Mu felt the pressure. In the battle two days ago, Mu Yingxue and he had both won and lost. Both of them had suffered losses, so this was probably the real battle!
Mu Yingxue came under the tree, and the flowers, grass, birds, beasts, insects, and fish also came under the tree.
Everyone lying under the tree felt their blood run cold, and they looked at Qin Mu and Mu Yingxue with eyes full of fear.
These venomous creatures were very ordinary to Qin Mu and Mu Yingxue, but to the others, they were scourges that they couldn't wait to avoid.
Mu Yingxue immediately went to work and executed her technique. She saw the venomous creatures growing on their own, and when their toxicity reached perfection, they plucked off their most poisonous parts and offered them to her.
This girl was very serious and meticulous, wholeheartedly nurturing her own poisons.
Her poisons were slightly different from the poisons of Middle Earth. They mainly targeted vital qi, which was the beginning qi of a human. If there wasn't enough vital qi, the body would be empty, and the blood would decline. The spirit would fade, and the bones wouldn't be strong. If there wasn't enough vital qi, the person would die.
It was the same for cultivators.
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