Chapter 562: Words appear on the blank stele (2/2)
He looked at the tears on his fingertips with surprise. Then he quickly recovered and shook his hands vigorously. “Dammnit!”
He sat up as if nothing had happened before stretching lazily. Soon enough, he had jumped off the large tree and vanished into the night. How could a single dream be enough to tell the story of everything that happened ten years ago? The hatred he had in his heart was for more than just one person.
The night was late, but no one could fall asleep. Even Han Yunxi, who had gone to bed long ago, wasn’t really sleeping. Her mind was still filled with images of the blank stele at the Poison Sect’s forbidden grounds. At first, she thought she was dreaming and tried her best to open her eyes, but no matter how much energy she used, she couldn’t wake up. Even her arms and legs weren’t listening to her commands.
But people aren’t self-aware in dreams! She remembered clearly that she had fell asleep and knew she was currently lying on a bed. With her senses so sharp, was her environment really just a dream? While Han Yunxi’s thoughts wandered, the images in her mind suddenly took on physical form around her. She had returned once more to the blank stele in the forbidden grounds. The feeling was similar to the first time she entered the poison storage system. Could it be that my soul’s somehow made a connection with that sacrificial altar?
The dense air of rot and decay emanated from the stone stele. It seemed to come from ancient antiquity as it beckoned her to come closer. Han Yunxi tried to resist out of fear, but found herself unable to back away. Instead, she was quickly approaching it involuntarily. But the closer she got, the more mysterious things turned. She saw row after row of characters appear on the blank stele. They were clearly Chinese words, but their shapes and forms were strange. Despite this, she could read every one of them clearly.
This blank stele held a record of none other than the Poison Sect’s poison storage space!
Han Yunxi was greatly alarmed. Forgetting her fear and the reasons why she’d appeared here in the first place, she stepped forward and carefully read the fine, minute characters, afraid that the records might disappeared if she was too slow.
Soon enough, reality proved Han Yunxi right. Once the trail of characters reached the left side of the stone, they began to disappear row by row at a rapid pace. Han Yunxi grew desperate and started skimming ten rows at once, the words disappearing as soon as she read them. She was so nervous that she even forgot to breathe, afraid to pause even a second to think twice. In the end, it got to the point where a word would disappear as soon as her eyes rested on it. She cold only skim paragraph by paragraph to reach the end in time.
She was rushing and panicking at the same time!
Abruptly, her eyes flew open as she sat bolt upright in bed. She found herself back in the room in the secluded estate. Everything about the sacrificial altar and the disappearing words had been a dream! Han Yunxi panted for breath as her heart pounded. She got off the bed as she reviewed the phrases and words she’d read in her sleep. She didn’t get to read to the end, but realized she still knew every detail from the text.
That…doesn’t seem much like a dream.
The text had recorded how the poison storage space was the strongest existence known to the Poison Sect. It wasn’t every relative of the Poison Sect who owned one. Some were born with it, while others cultivated one after decades of hard work. Some relied on their innate talents to unlock their space, while others lacked the skills to access it even if they were born with it. They were the ones barred from it all their lives. The poison storage space not only stored poisons, but contained three separate abilities. Storage was only the first step.
Level 1 was called Poison Storage and allowed the user to freely store and remove poisons founds in the world.
Level 2 was called Resistance and allowed the user to freely absorb any harmful substances to oneself.
Level 3 was called Acquisition and allowed the user to freely collect any poisonous substances in the world!
Each level required meticulous cultivation to break through. The first level needed mental strength, and a stronger mind made for easier storage sessions controlled by telepathy alone. Still, stronger poisons would cause the user to feel light-headed or turn unconscious while interacting with the system. Some of the strongest poisons might not be able to enter the system at all. Han Yunxi carefully thought back and realized the records matched her own experiences exactly.
Thanks to a never-say-die attitude and her own detox system, her mental strength was already very strong. Thus, she inadvertently managed to unlock the poison storage space. But because she lacked the cultivations to back herself up, she couldn’t move items freely in and out of the space with a mere thoughts. Many times, she’d ended up falling into a coma instead.
Han Yunxi felt even more strongly that she hadn’t just been dreaming. This seemed more like a legacy she had inherited on her own. And because she had her own poison storage system, she’d activated the blank stele into giving her the cultivation records for the Poison Sect’s most powerful tool.
Thinking up to here, Han Yunxi quickly went back to her bed to sit in a cross-legged position. She followed her memories to try activating cultivation energy, but naturally failed to get results so quickly. Still, after sitting for an hour or more, she felt that her energy had improved greatly, almost as if she’d had a good night’s sleep.
“It wasn’t a dream!” she muttered to herself, convinced but shocked. She thought that her own detox system was already powerful enough, but never knew one could use the poison storage space like this. If I cultivate to Level 2, does that mean I won’t have to do anything if people use poisons on me? Instead of fighting it off with antidote, I’ll just absorb it into the poison storage space? After all, the Poison Sect’s poison storage space wasn’t equipped with anything to distinguish between poisons, but her detox system was.
Level 3, which allowed her to take all the poisons she wanted, was simply a gift that defied the Heavens. If she wanted to use the poison storage space to take in all of the world’s strongest poisons, she’d still need to be able to tell the differences between their toxicity levels. Fortunately, the detox system could help her with that part.
It had to be said that the poison storage space, when combined with the detox system, made Han Yunxi practically invincible in the poison communities! Even if another expert from the Poison Sect showed up with access to the storage space, they still wouldn’t be a match for her…