Matchless Pill God

5. Corpse King’s Poison

Translator: Flying Lines

The black blood with the corpse poison could even erode the hard rock. A black smoke arose as the poison toched the rock, and the smell was very stinky.

Everyone was stunned and shocked. They couldn’t believe that the senior sister from the inner academy who had all her meridians opened and was strong enough to move a mountain had really been infected with the corpse poison. The stench just made them sick.

Then panic, like the stinking corpse poison, was spreading throughout the mine cave.

Xia Bingning was forceless and pale. Her mood sank to the bottom, and her eyes were locked on Qin Sheng. She said in a deep voice, “How did you know that I’m poisoned?”

Xia Bingning looked at Qin Sheng in surprise, although this man was from a big family in the Dayan City, his talent was just average. Even if he could get into the outer part of Floating Cloud Academy, he couldn’t really do anything other than living an ordinary life, and wouldn’t have any achievement at all.

No one would believe that such an ordinary student could know that Xia Bingning was poisoned and would become a rotten walking dead at any time by just a glance…

“Is he an alchemist?” A surprising thought came across Xia Bingning’s mind, but soon she shook her head, because that was impossible!

Alchemists were rare, even if in the whole Dayan city, there were still less than five real alchemists. Only by one glance and smell could he tell that she was infected with corpse poison because she had picked blood soul flower. This was not something that an ordinary alchemists could do.

Could Qin Sheng be a second-level alchemist?

This was even more impossible. To become an alchemist required control of the medicinal materials and alchemy skills, which were impossible to gain without years of practice.

Most importantly, as far as Xia Bingning knew, the only second-level alchemist in the city was in his fifties.

Xia Bingning took a deep look at Qin Sheng. An ordinary face, and the childish look, were telling that he should be under sixteen years old. Such a young age could not make people think that he had anything to do with alchemists, let alone the rare second-level alchemists.

“Senior sister, he said that Zhao Qiongcang was poisoned by scorpion-tailed tiger poison too.”

“Yes, and detoxicated after a fight with Zhao Qiongcang.”

One of the trainees shouted.

The gaze of the people who looked at Qin Sheng suddenly changed, and the teasing smile all disappeared now.

Qin Sheng calmly explained, “What’s so difficult? Although the blood soul flower is relatively rare, it is not difficult to recognize its unique smell. You can see that there are several black spots in your arm. These black spots will form a unique corpse grain while the poison taking effect.”

There were students who immediately turned to look at the arm of Xia Bingning. There were indeed a few small black spots on her snow-white arms. If people didn’t pay attention, they might thought it was just some black moles.

“Oh my God, the black moles are merged into one. That’s a corpse grain.”

“Senior sister is going to become a rotten corpse!”

A student screamed, his voice was shaking and he stepped back in fear.

“Bingning, eat the detoxification pill first.” Zhao Qincang’s handsome face was full of anxiety. He was pursuing Xia Bingning, so how could he witness her being killed?

Corpse poison spread rapidly. Xia Bingning looked at the detoxification pill in Zhao Qincang’s hand. This was a high-level detoxification pill, which was worth a thousand crystals. It was the best among the inferior pills, and could easily dissolve scorpion-tailed tiger’s poison.

“No need.” Xia Bingning refused, and sat cross-legged. She took out a small jade bottle from her pocket and poured out a blue pill.

This pill was crystal clear with a green aura. Its incense was overflowing. Just one sip of it would make your head perfectly clear and gave you endless strength.

“First-level pill,

Spirit-cleansing Pill!” Zhao Qingcang looked shocked and awkwardly put away his inferior pill.

Spirit-cleansing Pill could purify negative energy, even if it was corpse poison. But only first-level alchemist could refine it, and the success rate was very low.

Therefore, it was more expensive than the average first-level pills. It was worth 10,000 crystals in the black market, and very hard to come by.

Zhao Qincang couldn’t help but look at Xia Bingning. She was not a native of Dayan city, but she was gifted, with a mysterious background, and peerless beauty. Zhao Qingcang got more and more excited by looking at her, and he secretly swore that he must get this beauty!

After taking the Spirit-cleasing pill, the situation of Xia Bingning turned better. The dead air between her eyebrows began to disappear, and her grey face gradually regained its glare. It seemed that the corpse poison had been controlled, and she would not die anymore.

“Eek, the quality of this spirit-cleansing pill is too poor. Messy fire and rusty technique lead to too many impurities. It’s just garbage.” Qin Sheng’s face was filled with disdain, and he laughed loudly.

“This kind of garbage pill, if I had one, should be returned directly to the pill furnace. It could not possibly clear the corpse poison.” Qin Sheng’s face was full of detestation.

Xia Bingning rolled her eyes. This pill was from the Pill Clan, and its quality was absolutely excellent. So it was definitely not the garbage product mentioned by this rude man.

Pill Clan was, throughout the Beichen Kingdom, powerful and scary. It was much more hornored than Cloud-transcendent

Hall which could only sell inferior pills. The pills from there were all excellent.

Why was it so bad when it was mentioned by Qin Sheng?

“Don’t get too excited. I’ll deal with you when we get back to the academy.” Xia Bingning clenched her teeth. Her momentum was very strong. It seemed that spirit-cleansing pill was quite effective, and she was already half way from fully recovered.

Xia Bingning was always cherished, but she had no advantage over this man, which was really annoying. And the worst part was that she couldn’t see through Qin Sheng.

“Everybody get ready. We’ll leave this mining area right away to avoid the corpse poison.” Xia Bingning commanded.

Corpse poison had appeared in the mining area, and if what Qin Sheng said was true–there was a corpse king here, once they encountered it, she would not even be able to protect herself, and this group of students would be dead too.

Therefore, they should hasten to leave the mining area.

“We can’t leave!”

Qin Sheng stood at the entrance of the mine cave and prevented everyone from leaving.

“Are you nuts? I’ve suppressed the corpse poison and I won’t turn into a corpse.” Xia Bingning was very dissatisfied and rebuked angrily.

“Kid, if you’re trying to stir up trouble, don’t blame me for being rude.”

Zhao Qingcang said, with his meta force billowing, and a malicious look flashing in his eyes.

Qin Sheng glanced at Zhao Qingcang and didn’t pay attention to him at all, saying, “I told you, the blood soul flower on your body is cultivated by the corpse king and carried with his poison. Your unqualified spirit-cleansing pill could not clear the poison of corpse king in a short time. And the corpse king can sense the poison.”

“What would happen if the corpse king finds that the blood soul flower that was cultivated so hard by it was stolen?” Qin Sheng asked.

“I wonder if the corpse king would chase us following the corpse poison?”

Xia Bingning’s face became panic-stricken.

“Hoo!”

At that very moment, there was a deafening cry outside the mine cave. It was not like from a beast, and it carried with an inexplicable horror. Some timid students were instantly scared to kneeling down.

“The corpse king is here!” Xia Bingning finally panicked. Because if they got found by the corpse king, it could be imagined how this group of people would end.

Everyone was in panic, trying to run away but afraid of meeting the corpse king.

“Don’t panic. I can clear out this poison.”