Chapter 319: The world is bigger than you think (1/2)
Chapter 319: The world is bigger than you think
It was quiet so late at night, and even more so within the Duke of Qin’s Hibiscus Courtyard. From a distance, one could see the light shining from Leisurely Cloud Pavilion and a figure sitting by one of its windows–Han Yunxi. Long Feiye stood watching for a long while from the covered walkway in the gardens. He seemed a bit hesitant, but ended up going to her quarters anyways. Han Yunxi had already spotted him before he entered her courtyard. She hurried down the stairs and ran to face him with a smile.
“You’re back!”
She’d been waiting for him ever since he left. She had planned to study the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion some more, but her heart was too flustered to calm down, especially when Zhao mama had mentioned that Tang Zijin had arrived. Tang Zijin was Long Feiye’s uncle and the head of the Tang Clan. He probably stood on the same side as Aunt Ru. Truthfully speaking, Han Yunxi had no idea why the woman was so hostile to her. Even though Han Yunxi had never met Tang Zijin before, the fact that he was trying to force his son into a marriage made her think he wasn’t all that great. Long Feiye probably had no idea that Han Yunxi had been waiting by the window for an entire night.
She was currently filled with delight, but he was as calm as ever. All he did was nod before walking into the study. Although he was always cold and chilly, Han Yunxi could sensed that he seemed to be in a bad mood.
She followed him inside and asked, “The Tang Clan…did anything happen?”
Long Feiye examined the various poison plants on her table as he replied, “Nothing.”
“Oh…” Han Yunxi felt a little resentful. She was sure that something had happened, but he just wouldn’t say.
Very soon, Long Feiye noticed the Poison Orchids that Han Yunxi had placed into a colored glaze bottle. These were the highly corrosive plants they’d plucked from the secret underground chambers of the poison grounds of the Poison Sect.
“Any progress with the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion?” he asked simply. It’d been some time since he left the poison in Han Yunxi’s hands to figure out its composition. Han Yunxi had been very busy over the past few days, but she hadn’t neglected this matter.
Poison could be divided into two types. One existed on its own, while the other was a composition of multiple poisons. Standalone poisons usually had one type of toxin. Many poisons that existed in Nature, such as poisonous plants, animals, or stones, etc. all fell under this category. Composition poisons were the results of combining multiple poisons together. Many man-made poisons fell under this category, and were completely new poisons maybe with a combination of other toxins. For example, there was Mu Qingwu’s Ten-Thousand Snake Poison.
Even though composition poisons were made of multiple toxins, the finished product typically only caused one type of poisoning. Poison Orchids were an exception, because their existence straddled the divide between these two types of poisons. The detox system couldn’t detect the Poison Orchids’ toxicity, but it did find the multiple standalone poisons within the plant. Logically speaking, the Poison Orchid should be a composition poison, but records of it didn’t exist in the detox system so its toxicity was unknown. Han Yunxi had divided up all the different poisons that made up the Poison Orchid before finding the same ingredients and merging them together to create a new poison. This created a record in the detox system. Despite this, she still continue figure out the toxicity of the Poison Orchid when she analyzed it a second time.
The detox system had very accurate skills when it came to analyzing poisons. It could even determine the percentage of each different poison present in the Poison Orchid and create new poisons from that makeup. Following that logic, the detox system should be able to figure out the Poison Orchid’s toxicity, too! Han Yunxi didn’t understand why that wasn’t the case. She was even starting to wonder whether her detox system was having problems before she figured it out.
“What I did was extract each of the individual poisons within the Poison Orchid and combine them together in the same proportions. But the Poison Orchid is a plant that grew directly out of the ground, so its toxicity must contain some differences. That’s why the poison I made doesn’t match up with the Poison Orchid’s toxin,” Han Yunxi explained seriously. A non-professional might find themselves lost by the words, but Long Feiye understood immediately.
“In other words,” he said, “The Poison Orchid is a new type hybrid created by crossbreeding other poison plants.”
“Right! This should be a standalone poison plant!” Han Yunxi really felt that he was a smart guy! Crossbreeding plants was nothing new. Pill Fiend Valley’s Gu Qi Sha was an expert in the field, though his main focus was medicinal, not poison, plants.
“Perhaps the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion was grown as well,” Long Feiye muttered to himself.
Han Yunxi still hadn’t figured out the toxicity of the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion. She had alway been strict with it came to the smallest details of poisons, so she said, “That’s not necessarily true. Your Highness, the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion belongs to the Poison Sect, right?”
“Mm,” Long Feiye nodded. “He who owns the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion, owns the world.”
When Han Yunxi had asked the same question in the past, Long Feiye had simply told her there was no need to know so much. She never expected him to offer information proactively. Han Yunxi felt a nameless sense of satisfaction, as if she’d taken another step closer to this man–enough to know a bit more about him. Of course, she never expected that to be part of the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion’s secret.
He who owns the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion, owns the world. What does that mean?
“A single poison can decide the fate of the world?” Han Yunxi said uncertainly.
“That’s what your lordship wants to know too. How can one poison determine the fate of the world?” Long Feiye had thought over the question for over a decade. He didn’t want to believe it, but he’d gotten this in exchange for his mother’s life. Those were the last things his mufei said to him before she took her own life.
“Ye’er, a single poison can decide the fate of the world. This is all that mufei can give you!”
“And the Beauty’s Blood? What about that?” Han Yunxi asked earnestly. She’d waited this long both because she was worried about him and curious about the uses of Beauty’s Blood.
Despite Aunt Ru’s reminders and Tang Zijin’s concerns, Long Feiye didn’t hide the answer from Han Yunxi. “The use of the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion is to be mixed with Beauty’s Blood.”
Han Yunxi knew it. The Beauty’s Blood was related to the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion!
“Use? What else can you use Perplexing Butterfly Illusion for?” Han Yunxi asked. Aren’t poisons just for poisoning?