Chapter 209: Chapter 209: Poison Fight_1
"Doctor Ge, do you have pen and paper here? Those herbs cannot be spoken of, they can only be understood through implication."
Qin Feng’s words took Ge Buqun by surprise.
However, he quickly composed himself.
"Yes, I have pen and paper." Ge Buqun bowed deeply at 90 degrees, warmly inviting them, "Please come in, both of you!"
The three entered the main hall, where Ge Buqun found some paper and a pen and handed them to Qin Feng.
Qin Feng elegantly began to draw on the xuan paper; he didn’t write a single word but rather sketched various plants and flowers.
These plants and flowers seemed merely beautiful to Ouyang Bingbing, and she didn’t recognize any of them.
Upon seeing the drawings, Ge Buqun was immediately shocked.
Being in the same profession, he naturally knew what Qin Feng’s drawings represented, which herbs they were?
And, of course, he also knew what Qin Feng intended to use these herbs for?
If he truly provided these herbs to Qin Feng, Ouyang Rui’s illness could be completely cured. In doing so, wouldn’t he be losing a big customer?
Ge Buqun would never do something to cut off his own wealth.
Therefore, he shook his head and said, "The herbs you are asking for, I don’t have them here."
"You have both the Rejuvenation Pill and the Gentleman Pill, and you’re telling me you don’t have these few herbs? Do you think I would believe that?"
"Believe it or not, that’s your concern, I simply don’t have them."
Qin Feng glanced at Ge Buqun and said indifferently, "It seems that these few herbs cannot be bought with money here. Then I will have to use something else to make my purchase from you."
These words made Ge Buqun exhibit a hint of suspicion.
"Something else? What else do you have to use?" he asked.
"Your life!"
This reply from Qin Feng elicited a cold laugh from Ge Buqun.
"Heh!"
Then, staring at Qin Feng, he said coldly, "Judging by what you mean, are you trying to cause trouble in Lingfang Pavilion, or even take my life?"
"Cause trouble? I have no interest. Take your life, even less so. When I say I will use your life to trade, I mean that, should I choose not to act, within half a month, you will be dead as a doornail!"
Qin Feng’s words left Ge Buqun utterly flabbergasted.
"What do you mean?"
"Whether it’s the Rejuvenation Pill or the Gentleman Pill, you’ve made some modifications to the ancient formulas. From this, one can infer that the other pills you’ve produced have also been altered from their original recipes.
Modifying formulas means you must test the medicines on yourself.
Your body, due to long-term trials of various substances, is deeply poisoned. The poison has already seeped into your marrow.
Although you’ve used detoxifying prescriptions on yourself, they are not merely enough to eliminate the root cause, and only temporarily suppress the toxins in your body.
Within half a month, those toxins you’ve forcefully suppressed will erupt. At that time, your body will be riddled with sores, your head will fester, your feet will ooze pus, and you will bleed from all seven orifices and die!"
"Stop spouting such alarming nonsense; do you think I would believe these ghost stories of yours?"
"Whether I’m telling ghost stories or the truth, why don’t you feel your own chest and you’ll know?"
Ge Buqun instinctively reached for his chest, and as soon as he touched it, he felt a pain as sharp as a needle prick.
At the same time, his heart pounded fiercely, as if it was trying to burst out of his chest.
What’s going on?
Why did his chest suddenly start hurting?
With a suspicious look on his face, Ge Buqun turned to Qin Feng and demanded, "Are you pulling some trick?"
"Last night at 01:45, are you unclear about what you consumed?" Qin Feng reminded him cheerfully.
Ge Buqun recalled the events in his mind and was instantly shocked.
Looking at Qin Feng as if he were a freak, he asked, "What did I eat last night, and how do you know? How do you know I ate it at 01:45?"
"I deduced it from your complexion. If you let me take your pulse, I could tell you everything you’ve eaten over the past ten years."
Qin Feng’s words were met with a cold laugh from Ge Buqun.
"Heh!"
After laughing, he said, "Diagnose ten years from a single pulse? There have been very few such Divine Doctors throughout history. With your tender age, you could have such skills? Bragging like this doesn’t work on me."
"If bragging is useless, what is useful?" Qin Feng asked.
"True skill is what’s useful!" Ge Buqun paused, then said, "If you really have true skill, the herbs you drew earlier, I can give them to you."
"What kind of true skill?" Qin Feng asked.
"A poison challenge."
Ge Buqun intended to set a trap, and Qin Feng knew it.
However, Qin Feng didn’t care and instead asked, "What kind of challenge?"
Ge Buqun pointed behind him at a row of medicine cabinets, saying, "Any of the herbs in this row of cabinets, take your pick. You prepare a prescription, I prepare a prescription. You take the pill I mix, I take the pill you mix.
After ingestion, using the same row of medicine cabinets, we prepare our own antidotes. Whoever can’t neutralize the other’s poison loses!
If I lose, I’ll give you the herbs you asked for earlier, free of charge. If you lose, I don’t want anything from you. Because, if you can’t neutralize my poison, you’ll be dead."
When Qin Feng drew out those several herbs earlier, Ge Buqun realized that this youth had come to challenge his authority.
Since he came to challenge, naturally, Ge Buqun had to accept!
Ge Buqun was skilled in using medicine, and even more so in using poison.
The poison that Ge Buqun concocted, no one under heaven could neutralize.
Daring to come to Lingfang Pavilion to challenge, Ge Buqun had to poison Qin Feng to death. Otherwise, where would he put his old face?
Qin Feng, without a second thought, nodded and said, "Fine!"
"Since it’s a poison challenge, we should sign a life-and-death contract in advance, to prevent any regret after a fatality occurs.
As for Miss Ouyang, she will be our witness tonight. She must sign as a witness on the life-and-death contract!
Tonight’s poison challenge is something you willingly participate in with me, I didn’t force you!"
Ge Buqun picked up paper and pen and wrote out a life-and-death contract with relish, then handed it to Qin Feng.
"If you regret it now, it’s not too late."
Regret? The word ’regret’ doesn’t exist in my dictionary. It’s just a poison challenge, let’s do it. Don’t worry, I won’t take your life," Qin Feng made his stance clear.
He truly wasn’t going to take Ge Buqun’s life, because there was no need.
Coming to Lingfang Pavilion today, he was simply here to collect medicine.
As for the poison Ge Buqun had set, Qin Feng naturally didn’t care at all. Because no matter what kind of poison Ge Buqun concocted, it definitely wouldn’t kill him!
"You won’t take my life? That’s a bold claim! I was actually thinking of sparing you, yet you’re so insolent?
If I don’t teach you a lesson, you won’t realize my prowess!
I won’t take your life either, but I will make you wish you were dead."
From the herbs that Qin Feng had depicted, he seemed to have some ability. Thus, Ge Buqun suddenly had an idea.
That was to keep Qin Feng at Lingfang Pavilion, to take on the youth as his disciple, and then to use Qin Feng for testing medicines.
This, much more than directly poisoning Qin Feng to death, would be beneficial.
