Chapter 477 - Impervious to Poisons (1/2)
It was a quiet night, and the Koo-chee beast blinked its big eyes. Huangfu Xin’er chewed up the Seven-apertured Octarine Core Fruit bit by bit and fed Xiao Chen mouth to mouth with the fruit pulp and juice.
Xiao Chen held his breath, and his heart beat fast as he tasted a cool and bitter taste. At the moment, he had a strong desire to suck her tongue with great strength, but Huangfu Xin’er withdrew her naughty tongue as soon as the two tongues touched. She let go of his neck and stepped backward gently and swiftly.
Xiao Chen tried to pull her back to him, but he only managed to touch her cold fingertips. Huangfu Xin’er looked at him with a more tender expression, yet her voice was still icy when she said to him, “Does it still taste bitter?”
Xiao Chen stared at her quietly, and he seemed to freeze. Huangfu Xin’er continued in a cold tone, “I’ll share whatever you taste bitter.” After saying this, she stretched out for the Seven-apertured Octarine Core Fruits in the hands of the Koo-chee beast. However, Xiao Chen took her hand and said with a smile, “No… no, thanks, Xin’er.”
At the moment, Xiao Chen recalled what happened decades ago. Back then, he was diagnosed to be born without spiritual roots and unable to practice martial arts. Xiao Yifan visited immortals all over the world for cures, and fetched Xiao Chen all kinds of medical herbs he could find to make him medical decoctions.
However, Xiao Chen was very depressed during that time, and he once smashed a bowl of bitter decoctions. Later, when Huangfu Xin’er visited him, she brought him a bowl of decoctions, drank half of it, and said to him, “I’ll share whatever you taste bitter.”
“Xin’er…” Xiao Chen felt something cut his heart. Old memories rushed back to him at the moment. Back when the Huangfu family went to him to break off the engagement, they brought him a Nine-flowered Shrub of Jaded Leaves, which Xin’er tried her best to win, and at that time, she knew nothing about the dissolution of the engagement.
“Hump!” Huangfu Xin’er tossed his sleeves, scoffed lightly, and turned back. Xiao Chen cleared his throat and said with a serious expression, “Brother Koo-chee, how many fruits do you have? Give them all to me.”
“Koo-chee, Koo-chee, Koo-chee.” The Koo-chee beast looked happy and handed Xiao Chen four Seven-apertured Octarine Core Fruits.
Xiao Chen did not frown even a little bit when he put the four fruits into his mouth one by one. He chewed and swallowed them. A moment later, Gui Xian walked in and said with a smile, “It seems the girl always has a measure.”
“Burp…”
Xiao Chen belched and suddenly felt a sharp pain from his stomach. After that, he felt as if he were to be burned into ashes, and his face was covered with bright red streaks. He seemed to be suffering from sharp pain as a restless force rampaged inside his body. Under the force, the Yin and Yang forces in his body became restive as well.
The three forces bumped each other inside his body, seemingly to smash his internal organs. However, in a short time, the forces were neck and neck in terms of power. They supplemented each other yet counteracted each other.
Seeing him in pain, Huangfu Xin’er and Ziyun’er walked to Xiao Chen immediately. However, Gui Xian waved his hand at them and said, “He is fine. These are normal reactions.” After saying this, he walked to behind Xiao Chen, struck several parts of his body, and infused some Mystic Power into his body.
Several moments later, Xiao Chen came to a stable situation and fell asleep. Gu Feng walked in at the moment, with a big bloody snake gall in his hands. Looking at the unconscious Qingluan, he said to Gui Xian, “This is the gall of the seven-colored python I killed. Could you please check if it’s helpful to her?”
Gui Xian stared at the gall carefully and then looked at Qingluan before saying repeatedly, “Great! Great!”
Ziyun’er was all smiles as she looked at Gu Feng and said, “Thank you so much for your help, Senior Gu Feng!”
“Hump!” Gu Feng tossed his sleeves and threw the gall at Gui Xian, saying in a frosty tone, “You lasses know nothing but weeping and making pitiful faces, saying that you lost your sisters. Hump!” After saying this, Gu Feng walked out of the cave.
Ziyun’er froze and smiled gently.
At midnight, a gust of chilling air woke Xiao Chen up. He felt the force that came from the Seven-apertured Octarine Core Fruits turned stable and gathered in his elixir field like an asleep volcano.
Xiao Chen sat up, finding that his clothes had been changed into clean ones. Where his left arm was cut off was wrapped up and felt cool.
“Boy, you woke up? Don’t move your left shoulder in the following several days. I put something on your wound to absorb the toxins in your body,” Gui Xian said slowly while sorting out something.
“Absorbing toxins?” Xiao Chen asked, puzzled. Gui Xian explained to him, “The toxins extracted from Seven-apertured Octarine Core Fruits are the strongest poison in the world. Even an immortal would die once he touches it. If you had not lost one arm, you shouldn’t have eaten the Seven-apertured Octarine Core Fruits. Now, you’re impervious to all kinds of poisons. Well, many people would use poison on their enemies when in danger. However, you are resistant to kinds of poisons. How lucky you are!”
Xiao Chen was stunned by the words “resistant to all kinds of poisons”. He naturally knew that there were many peculiar people who were good at attacking others with strong poisons, and being attacked, even a Rogue Immortal would die.
When Fort Raksasa besieged Danyang Zi on Miasma Mountain Range, the latter, a cultivator at the peak of the Nirvana Realm from Order of the Divine Fire, would not have been killed by those four people if he had not suffered a sneak attack and got poisoned by Su Lianyue. It showed that poison could be really frightening, especially the poison used by an expert.