Chapter 1044: Hypertoxic poison, hurry and escape (2/2)

But he’d hardly spoken when the fire dragon flashed with a vivid streak of violet lightning before a roar filled the skies. The fire mixed with lightning surged down from the skies and struck the Earthly Fire Kun Furnace full on with another massive BOOM!

After that, all of the fire’s light vanished as rocks were sent flying from Fire Spring. Black smoke rose in its place, but Han Yunxi had long taken to the skies to get out of the mess. There was so much smoke and flying debris that everything around Fire Spring was wreathed in a white haze. Add that to the dim skies, and it was impossible to see a thing. Han Yunxi landed on a nearby tree that was about two to three hundred meters away from the spring. She couldn’t see Long Feiye and the rest and was preparing to fly their way when the detox system suddenly shrieked out alarms in her head.

The toxicity of the Earthly Fire Kun Furnace was rapidly increasing. Moreover, its poison was spreading to the surrounding areas! Alarmed, Han Yunxi discovered her tree was quickly withering away. In a flash it was nothing but a dry, dead trunk and branches. She flew up just as the giant tree toppled beneath her. All of the surrounding plants were no more lucky. The poison was so potent and worked so fast that it completely outclassed Han Yunxi’s expectations!

“Long Feiye…”she cried, before soaring into the skies to shout. “Long Feiye, there’s poison, get away! Take everyone away! Leave this mountain, hurry!”

But she only saw Long Feiye, Tang Li, and Xu Donglin flying towards her instead.

“Get away!” Han Yunxi was so scared that her heart almost stopped. If they were poisoned, they’d died immediately with their bodies turning black! There was no way to treat this poison!

Hearing her words, Long Feiye’s group halted.

“Get away! There’s poison! Hurry and get out of here!” Han Yunxi shouted as she flew towards them. Long Feiye reacted immediately and grabbed Pill Furnace Master before flying to the top of the mountain. Tang Li, Xu Donglin, Baili Mingxiang and the various shadow guards all turned and fled for their lives. They only heard the urgency in Han Yunxi’s tone, but had no idea how dire the situation was. Still, Han Yunxi could see everything clearly behind her. The grounds beyond were all reduced to withered husks of their former selves. This poison was already spreading to the air. Han Yunxi started up the detox system so it could analyze the poison’s spread, which was only three steps away from the last shadow guard and Baili Mingxiang. If either of them slowed down, they would risk being poisoned.

“All of you go faster! Flee faster!”

“Mingxiang, hurry up, you’re in danger!”

Han Yunxi shouted as loud as she could, but they were all too far away to hear her.

What to do, what to do?!

The poison was still spreading like crazy, its speed increasing by the minute. She assumed they’d see the earthly fire once the lightning struck, but instead all they got was poison smoke! Steeling her heart, Han Yunxi could only think of cutting the thing off at its source. She whirled back and dove into the smoke, holding her breath to avoid choking. However, it wasn’t as hazy as she expected inside. Instead, she found an extremely bewitching violent flame about the size of her fist floating in the smoke while giving off a strange and mysterious air.

This fire was extremely poisonous!

The detox system’s alarms were almost blaring Han Yunxi’s ears off. She mentally muted the sirens and flew right to the fire, but ended up crashing into rock instead. Recalling that she’d placed the Earthly Fire Kun Furnace atop a stone pillar, she ignored her aching nose to fly straight up. Upon closer inspection, she discovered that the fire came the furnace itself. The Earthly Fire Kun Furnace was lit!

Han Yunxi was still worried about Long Feiye and the rest to be happy, much less wonder if this was Fire of Ten-Thousand Poisons. She quickly opened the lid of Perplexing Butterfly Illusion and dripped a single drop into the flames.

And then!

The fire went out completely and disappeared. In its place sat a fire-red teardrop in the bottom of the furnace, identical to all the other poison teardrops she had collected in the past! Without a doubt, earthly fire was Fire of Ten-Thousand Poisons. Han Yunxi had found her seventh poison teardrop!

Her tension eased at last, but that was when she breathed in a lungful of smoke and started coughing. She quickly took the poison teardrop into her poison storage space, then checked to make sure the toxicity had vanished from the furnace with her detox system, before finally leaving without worries. She was in such a rush to escape the smoke that she never noticed Gu Qishao had been following her the whole time. Instead, she went to look for Long Feiye and the rest.

Although she circled around the entire area, she only found chaotic remnants that resembled a battlefield. There was no sign of Long Feiye or anyone else.

Where are they?

Han Yunxi’s heart seized as she hurried to the top of the mountain next…

1. Also called the “full-moon” month, it’s a traditional Chinese celebration held after the baby is one month old (which coincides with the end of the mother’s confinement period). This is usually when the extended family and friends sees the newborn for the first time. More details here.