Chapter 283: Chapter 283: Lacking One Herb_1
"A life-and-death game? What kind of life-and-death game?" Qin Feng asked.
"The final round determines life and death. You and I can both use all our skills to poison each other, and if the other party dies from the poison, they had it coming.
If you don’t die from my poison, no matter whether I win or lose the final round, you will have won 2:1 against me.
You can take whatever you want from all the herbs in this pharmacy!"
Ji Wuque dared to say such words because he was one hundred percent certain he could poison Qin Feng to death in the third round.
"Good!" Qin Feng nodded and said, "I am only interested in the herbs in your pharmacy, not a dime in your life. So, I certainly won’t be poisoning you to death."
A cold glint flashed in Ji Wuque’s eyes as he said, "I will poison you to death. I’ll make sores form on your head and pus flow from your feet, and you’ll die bleeding from all seven orifices!"
"Then please, go ahead!"
Qin Feng made a welcoming gesture, eager to see Ji Wuque’s upcoming performance.
He had thought that Ji Wuque would use the medicinal herbs in the cabinet to concoct a deadly poison and kill him.
But Ji Wuque did not do that.
Ji Wuque opened a medicine cabinet, took out a small porcelain bottle, removed the red silk-wrapped wooden cork on top, and poured out a blood-red pill.
This was Hellfire Red, the deadliest poison in the Spirit Realm, without an equal.
Just one pill was enough to kill anyone, man or beast, in the most painful way before sending them to hell.
Ji Wuque handed the Hellfire Red to Qin Feng, challenging him, "Do you dare to eat it? If you don’t, you lose! You won’t be able to take anything from my pharmacy, nor the Spiritual Medicines you stole at the entrance of the valley."
"It’s just a small pill, what’s there to be afraid of?"
Qin Feng took the Hellfire Red, stuffed it into his mouth, then threw his head back and swallowed it.
Being known as the most toxic poison in the Spirit Realm, the potency of the Hellfire Red was not to be taken lightly.
Just getting it into your mouth, you’d have a mere three seconds before you’d start coughing up blood, followed by convulsions.
Skin would soon start to rot, and maggots might even appear.
However, after Qin Feng had swallowed the Hellfire Red that Ji Wuque gave him, there was no reaction at all, even after quite some time had passed.
This made Ji Wuque immediately suspect whether he had given Qin Feng the wrong thing.
Could it be that what he gave Qin Feng wasn’t Hellfire Red?
Wanting to confirm, Ji Wuque quickly poured another Hellfire Red and scrutinized it closely.
The medicine was correct! It was indeed Hellfire Red!
So why did the guy have no reaction after eating it?
Not a single sign of poisoning!
Seeing the astonished look on Ji Wuque’s face, Qin Feng asked with a chuckle, "Are you wondering why the Hellfire Red you gave me didn’t poison me to death?"
Those words shocked Ji Wuque.
He stared wide-eyed and retorted, "You can recognize this as Hellfire Red?"
"Of course." Qin Feng nodded and said, "Not only do I recognize this as Hellfire Red, but I also know that your Hellfire Red is a castrated version—missing one ingredient."
Missing one ingredient?
That statement, coming from Qin Feng’s mouth, took the already shocked Ji Wuque by complete surprise.
Because, indeed, his family’s Hellfire Red was missing one ingredient.
That ingredient was incredibly hard to find and too valuable to waste.
Hellfire Red was the Spirit Realm’s foremost deadly poison, and even missing that one ingredient, it could still kill most demons, ghosts, or humans.
So, when the old man was making this Hellfire Red, he deliberately left out that ingredient.
Was it to confirm whether Qin Feng was bluffing? Or did he actually have the skill to taste it out?
Ji Wuque asked him, "Which ingredient was missing?"
"Soul Severing Grass," Qin Feng answered.
"It seems you do have some real skills! Not dying after consuming my Hellfire Red is one thing, but to actually discern that the Soul Severing Grass is missing...
You’re such an impressive person, now that you’ve entered Valley of Thousand Poisons, there’s no need for you to leave. Because, if I let you go, it would be like releasing the tiger back into the mountain!"
Even if Qin Feng won, Ji Wuque had no intention of letting him go, something he had decided upon when he brought Qin Feng to Wuhuan Stockade.
The challenge to compete in poison-making was to keep Qin Feng and Xue Xiaochan in a gentlemanly manner.
If he couldn’t keep Qin Feng and Xue Xiaochan using the gentleman’s approach, then Ji Wuque would have to resort to acting dishonorably.
Being a gentleman or a scoundrel didn’t matter much to Ji Wuque. What was important was achieving his goal.
The Heaven Yang Physique of Qin Feng and the Heaven Yin Physique of Xue Xiaochan were both once in a millennium occurrences.
Now that they had come before Ji Wuque, how could he possibly let them slip away?
With the feast laid before him, how could he not take a bite?
"Valley Master, are you implying that you want to go back on your word?" Qin Feng asked.
"Valley of Thousand Poisons is Ji Family’s territory. Naturally, everything here is for me to decide. My word is law!"
Having said that, Ji Wuque gently fanned his Fan of Life and Death.
The curtains hanging from the ceiling immediately began to flutter.
Pink powder, like a cherry blossom rain, descended from the heavens, landing on Qin Feng and Xue Xiaochan.
This was Bewitching Powder, a single particle inhaled into the nostrils could cause someone to faint.
The Yin Scroll of Xuanhuang Medical Classic that Xiaochan had learned was only enough to deal with Qin Feng.
She couldn’t handle the Bewitching Powder that fell like rain from the sky, hence she was overpowered by it.
As for Qin Feng, naturally, he was unaffected.
Ji Wuque’s unmethodical tactic infuriated Qin Feng.
He glared at him icily and said, "You cheat when you lose the poison challenge, and now you dare to try to confuse me with Bewitching Powder.
Fine! Since you act so despicably, I won’t be polite with you any longer."
Qin Feng stomped his right foot, and the Bewitching Powder on the ground immediately flew up.
At that moment, Qin Feng formed a strange hand gesture, and the Bewitching Powder flying chaotically in the air suddenly gathered together, turning into a long snake.
Finally, Qin Feng pointed his hand toward Ji Wuque’s mouth and shouted loudly, "Go!"
The long snake made of Bewitching Powder charged towards Ji Wuque and directly burrowed into his mouth.
"Ahh... ahh ahh..."
Ji Wuque cried out languishingly.
Once the long snake had completely entered his mouth, his stomach suddenly swelled as if he was pregnant in the tenth month.
All the Bewitching Powder had entered Ji Wuque’s stomach.
Although according to common sense, the Bewitching Powder should not have confounded him,
the overdose greatly increased the potency of the drug, still causing Ji Wuque’s head to spin, and with a thud, he collapsed to the ground.
