85 His Origins Are Mysterious (1/2)

”The poison you have contacted is kind of bizarre. I do not have the antidote,” After a few breathes, Mo Wen looked again at Ren Liusha as he said.

Ren Liusha frowned. Thinking that Mo Wen could not cure him, he stood up to leave.

”Although I do not have the antidote, you have it,” Mo Wen didn't think much of Ren Liusha's actions and smiled as he said this.

”Eh?” Ren Liusha looked befuddled at Mo Wen. Dongfang Yi also seemed interested. If Ren Liusha had the antidote, why couldn't he cure himself and instead sought Mo Wen out?

”The way to cure is none other than to fight fire with fire. Your house is full of venomous creatures. A few of them can be used as an antidote.” Regarding poisons, Mo Wen's depth of understanding was enough to reach the realm of great masters. He had tasted hundreds of herbs, coming across tens of bizarre poisons. To ensure his survival, almost every day was spent combating the poisons. It could be said that he had personally tried out every poison.

So for the poison that Ren Liusha had contacted, Mo Wen did not even need to inspect it. Just by glancing, he already knew the cause.

However, he truly did not have the antidote. He was not that world's Miracle Physician, carrying around a medicine cache on him all the time, pulling out whatever he wanted.

”Which ones can be used for the medicine, I'll get them for you,” Ren Liusha was not ambiguous and asked directly. He originally was a dabbler in the poisons; common sense would dictate that he would be good at detoxifying as well. However, the poison he had been inflicted with was planted by a senior in the same field. That person's knowledge of poisons was greater than his, so he had yet to figure out how to detox the poison.

”Two Three Flower Snakes, five Snow Toads, eighteen Blood Mark Bugs…” Mo Wen listed the names of venomous creatures, seven or eight in total. The speed of which he listed them was as though he knew what venomous creatures where in Ren Liusha's room like the back of his hand.

Ren Liusha started getting nervous as he listened. Mo Wen knew the venomous creatures in his room as well as himself. Could it be that he was an expert in poisons as well?

Also the venomous creatures he mentioned where all rare species. To use them as antidote, Ren Liusha was a bit reluctant to do so.

”The poison you have is rare. The antidote would naturally not be common,” Mo Wen seemed to have read Ren Liusha's mind. His expression was calm as he spoke. He knew something of the personalities of Insect Rearers. Everything else was fine, but when it came to the venomous creatures they reared, then they would be stingy and difficult to talk to.

”Then I'll go get them,” Ren Liusha agreed after thinking for awhile. If it was a simple poison, he could have easily settled it himself. He wouldn't have needed to ask a medical expert for treatment.

Half an hour later, Ren Liusha was lying down on the floor in the living room of their dormitory. His body was covered with all sorts of venomous creatures crawling over him. There were tens of them: mosquitoes the size of fists, snakes thin as fingers, centipedes as thick as an arm…

The venomous creatures crawled onto Ren Liusha's body, sinking their fangs into his blood vessels, channeling their venom into Ren Liusha's body continuously.

So many venomous creatures releasing their venom into Ren Liusha caused his complexion to turn from purple to green then to dark red. The colors kept changing.

Thankfully, Ren Liusha remained calm throughout the process, lying expressionlessly on the floor. His body was in the hands of Mo Wen.

Mo Wen circled around Ren Liusha, occasionally piercing a golden needle into Ren Liusha's acupoints and meridians. He even pierced some straight through the bodies of the venomous creatures, pinning them like nails onto Ren Liusha's body.

Dongfang Yi observed with intrigue on the couch. He was unfamiliar with medicine, but he knew how potent a poison had to be to leave Ren Luisha at a loss on how to detoxify it. He was an expert poisoner, needless to say, a poison that could poison him was extremely troublesome.

One after another the golden needles pierced into Ren Liusha's acupoints. With the passage of time, the venomous creatures crawling over Ren Liusha's body strangely started to die off one by one. The once snow white body of a Snow Toad was now pitch black. A snake with five colours had its scales all shedded off with its body decaying.

All of them seemed to have been poisoned to death. After a full hour, finally all the venomous creatures that were on Ren Liusha's body had died. Mo Wen then slowly retrieved his acupuncture needles, slowly letting out a long breath.