Chapter 675! (1/2)

AST 675 – Saint Jade Poisonous Pearl

The kind of feeling Qing Shui had caused him to skip a heartbeat. He felt unusually attached. He realized that he had grown to like Lady Duanmu, at least for this moment, this was the thought that he had. It was a kind of feeling which couldn’t be described by words, it felt really beautiful and great.

By the time Qing Shui came back to his senses, he noticed that he was holding Lady Duanmu’s soft hands. What he was surprised about was that he felt calm even after finding out that he was doing it. On the other hand, Lady Duanmu seemed like she didn’t want to call him on it.

“Be careful on your way back!” Qing Shui said gently.

“Alright!”

Qing Shui boldly went forward and embraced her. Aside from that, he didn’t really do anything else. It was just like a hug between friends. At the moment, their two hearts were really close to each other, so much so that Qing Shui could feel her heartbeat.

Upon feeling her soft delicate body, Qing Shui felt a sense of peace in his heart. In addition to that, there was her unique fragrance which made it felt particularly good during this hot summer. It was a cool and relaxing feeling, a kind of beautiful atmosphere.

Qing Shui who was standing on the back of the Fire bird felt really depressed as he saw Lady Duanmu off until she disappeared from his sight. Prior to this, he had always thought that Lady Duanmu was an extreme beauty. If she hadn’t given birth to Duanmu Lingshuang, she would have been considered a youngster.

Qing Shui felt that he wasn’t an imprudent person. As long as one didn’t cross a line, he would find it really hard to let go of his relationship with any particular person. Taking Zhu Qing for example, despite the circumstances they were in, Qing Shui still chose to accept her.

The only exception was Elder Yun from Feng Clan. That woman was the only person whom Qing Shui wanted to completely give up on. As of now, he still hasn’t really planned on visiting her. If it wasn’t for him, would she have acted this way too? At that time, Qing Shui realized that it was the woman’s first time. Even so, Qing Shui would still occasionally think about her.

As for Lady Duanmu, despite Qing Shui being a person who has had countless near-death experiences and a person who has lived two different lives, he was still a bit clueless when it came to facing her. Not only was he a lot younger than Lady Duanmu, he was almost about the same age as her daughter.

Not only did Lady Duanmu feel that this situation was out of the question, even Qing Shui himself found it a bit thorny. He rubbed his forehead and instructed the Fire Bird to head back to Di Clan following the original route. He planned to think about this again in the future because for all he knew, this problem might eventually end up solved on its own.

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In just a short while, the Di Clan had become the mightiest clan, which no one dared to provoke in Seven Stars Country. As of now, people from everywhere, regardless of whether they already knew each other from before, all came forward to congratulate them with the intention of establishing a relationship.

This was the way the world worked. Each and every one of them pretended like they cared deeply for Di Clan and acted like they’re really close to them. Yet during the battles, none had shown up to provide aid.

About all of these, Di Clan could only act like they didn’t know anything about it and pretended to accept. Di Clan obviously didn’t have enough strength to hold up the Seven Stars Country at the moment. Even if they had it now, it didn’t mean that they would still have it in the future. Hence, Di Clan would still have to rule Seven Stars City along with them.

It’s better to provoke a gentleman than to provoke a cheap person. Regardless of how powerful one was, there would come a day when their boat would sink. Even cheap people would turn out to be successful one day. When that happened, it would be the time for the people who have had born grudges with them to suffer.

By the time Qing Shui returned, the people from Di Clan had already started becoming occupied. Already, those people couldn’t wait to approach them. Di Clan had to comply since they couldn’t upset everyone. Qing Shui on the other hand, didn’t care about it. He used the excuse of not feeling well to avoid meeting anyone who wanted to see him.

Qing Shui was looking through the battle rewards with Di Chen and Di Qing. It was the things that were collected from Ten Thousand Poisons Sect and Sima Clan.

Qing Shui saw his own Blackjade Poisonous Spiderweb and a few poisonous beasts that died in it. He immediately put away the Blackjade Poisonous Spiderweb and dissected the poisonous beasts. He left behind a few poisonous pills, poisonous bones, blood and skin for the purpose of using them to draw poisonous talismans and mix poisons.

The majority of Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s collection was related to poisons. Poisonous pills, medicines, grass, flowers, beasts and so on. Di Clan said that these were all for Qing Shui, the reason being that they didn’t have the slightest knowledge about poisons and dared not keep it. They wouldn’t have the opportunity to enjoy it despite how good they were. Even if they had known how to use it, they wouldn’t hesitate to give it to Qing Shui.

Qing Shui had the right to it. Not only that, they were also really keen on letting Qing Shui get it as long as Qing Shui could recover. Qing Shui didn’t refuse them. That was how he ended up here.

The majority of the collections were from Ten Thousand Poisons Sect. The brocade boxes of different sizes as well as medicinal herbs were scattered all around the room. Reason being that some of the things there shouldn’t be interacted with directly.

Heartbroken Flower!

Qing Shui randomly picked up a box. To his surprise, there were a few decent poisonous flowers and Heartbroken Flowers. The flower was just as the name stated. Whoever ate it would end up getting their heart broken.

Rain-Mist Flowers, Bloody Qi Grass, White-Worm Grass, Thousand Years Snake-Marrow Grass, Thousand Years Scarlet Crane Top, Emotion Flowers, Thousand Years Tiger-Wolf Grass, Turtle-dove Pill, Turtle-Dove Blood, Two Thousand Years Poisonous Wood Arrow Venomous Wolf Flowers…

Among all of these, there were also a few poisonous medicines that were more than two thousand years old. Qing Shui looked through it randomly and took some of them. It wasn’t anything much, he was just taking whatever entered his sight. It felt really good to collect rewards. The feeling of not knowing what one might find was really exciting.

“Mn!”

Qing Shui opened up a box which looked distinctly different compared to other brocade boxes and got shocked when he saw the content within it. It was a black jade pearl that looked like an eye.

It looked really similar to an eye when looked at closely. It was really unusual and was sparklingly black. Yuan Su on the other hand made a weird noise. This resulted in Qing Shui glancing towards her in confusion.

“You know what this is?” Qing Shui asked Yuan Su.

“Saint Jade Poisonous Pearl !”

“What’s it used for?”