Chapter Thirty: The Poisonous Needle of the Heart

  Looking at the two Dan medicines, Xia Chen revealed a faint smile.

  Just after being forced to swallow two elixirs, he directly put the elixirs into the storage space of the Gathering Treasure Basin. The whole process was mysterious and elusive, and Han Dongyu was completely unaware of it.

  Tomorrow, I'll go to the cave behind the mountain and let Senior see what this strange smell of refined tendons is all about. Xia Chen thought to himself.

  Although he had never seen the mysterious woman's face, in his heart, he felt a closer relationship with her than with the sinister Han Dongyu. Staying in this vast medicine garden was not as comforting as that messy cave behind the mountain.

  A night without words.

  On the second day, Xia Chen came to the cave in the back mountain and said respectfully: "Senior, junior has arrived."

  "You seem to have changed." The mysterious woman's voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

  Xia Chen didn't panic at all. For half a month, the mysterious woman had been communicating with him in this way, and he was already used to it. As for where the mysterious woman herself was, she couldn't be found anywhere.

  "Is it? Maybe it's because of what happened last night." Xia Chen was taken aback.

  "Oh?" The mysterious woman's voice seemed quite interested, "What have you experienced? Tell me about it."

  "Senior, do you want to hear?" Xia Chen was stunned again.

  In this half month, apart from practicing and alchemy, the mysterious woman hadn't said anything else to him. Xia Chen understood that their cultivation levels were too far apart, and the mysterious woman didn't want to get entangled with him in any way, so they wouldn't communicate, but today, why did this senior suddenly change her ways?

  "It's better than nothing," the mysterious woman said. "I've been here for a long time... With you around to talk to me these days, I won't feel lonely."

  She suddenly let out a sigh of melancholy, subtly tinged with a hint of sorrow, and in the midst of loneliness, she unexpectedly revealed a few hints of gentle elegance. She seemed to be not at all like an unfathomable mysterious master, but rather more like a gentle and beautiful woman.

  Xia Chen blinked his eyes, and couldn't help but feel a little dazed. He thought that this senior was not an unfeeling person after all, and the affection in his heart grew stronger.

  He sat down and recounted the events of last night one by one.

  Last night's affair was purely an internal strife among the orthodox sect disciples, and it shouldn't be spoken to outsiders. However, facing the mysterious woman, facing that one sigh like a lament, Xia Chen suddenly had a strong urge to pour out his heart.

  This feeling is very strange, although I don't know the other person's appearance and details at all, I can completely let go of my guard and pour out my feelings.

  After a long time, Xia Chen finally finished speaking. For some reason, after he finished, his heart suddenly felt like it had put down a huge boulder, becoming lighter and clearer than ever before.

  "I'm sorry to have made you laugh, senior." Xia Chen said with embarrassment.

  "It's very normal, the world of cultivators is indeed a place where the strong prey on the weak, full of hidden calculations and struggles. What you've experienced is too common within the sect." The mysterious woman smiled slightly: "However, your experiences are indeed shocking, it seems that you didn't have an easy time in Zhengxuan Sect."

  "If it weren't for your guidance over the past half month, I'm afraid I would have been doomed last night." Xia Chen said with a bitter smile.

  He was indeed grateful to the mysterious woman in his heart. If it weren't for this half-month of cultivation, he wouldn't have been able to defeat Chu Zhenhai by skipping ranks.

  "It may have something to do with me, but it's not a big deal." The mysterious woman said seriously: "Xia Chen, remember, you can only rely on yourself. No matter how strong your cultivation is, it's secondary. What ultimately determines your fate is your will."

  "Yes, thank you for your guidance, senior!" Xia Chen's body shook slightly.

  "Who would have thought that the explosive yuanqi dan you refined would come in handy." The mysterious woman sighed.

  "It's all thanks to that Exploding Yuan Qi Pill, otherwise it would have been a desperate situation." Xia Chen smiled.

  He actually only refined one Exploding Yuan Qi Pill, the rest were all replicated using the Gathering Treasure Basin, but such a secret, of course, would not be revealed even if he was beaten to death.

  The mysterious woman said: "Since you have a strong enemy in the Zhengyuan Sect, after I refine the elixir for you, I will give you some extra benefits, so that you can have enough self-protection ability."

  "Thank you, senior!" Xia Chen was overjoyed.

  The mysterious woman's strength is still far above Han Dongyu, and the benefits she offers are naturally not worth mentioning.

  "Ah, senior, I have a batch of Jin Dan here, but the medicinal properties are different from what I refined. Can you take a look and see what's wrong?"

  Xia Chenxiang suddenly remembered something and took out the medicine bottle Han Dongyu had given him from his bosom, poured out a pill of Calcined Tendon Dan, and placed it in the palm of his hand.

  "Poison Dan?" The mysterious woman's eyes scanned and she exclaimed in slight surprise.

  Xia Chen was shocked: "Senior, is there poison in this pill?"

  The mysterious woman said, "Not bad, the poison in this Refining Muscle Pill is very clever, called Zi Wu Stabbing Heart Poison! It's colorless and odorless, not only does it not affect the efficacy of the medicine, but its smell is also extremely close to that of the Refining Muscle Pill. The refining technique is also good, much better than yours. If one doesn't have a deep understanding of Dan medicine, they wouldn't be able to distinguish it at all."

  "Sure enough, there's a problem!" Xia Chen's eyes twitched involuntarily. Immediately, countless questions surged up.

  Han Dongyu poisoned him, what does he want to do? Does he want to poison himself to death? Can't he just kill himself directly? Why bother poisoning and even waste his energy to heal his wounds? What is his purpose?

  "Isn't this Refining Muscle Pill refined by you?" the mysterious woman said, "Although the Zi Wu Stabbing Heart Poison is not a highly toxic poison, it is extremely difficult to detect, and for a long time, there will be no abnormalities. You won't even feel anything. However, if time passes, the toxicity will seep into your blood and even your bone marrow, making it incurable!"

  "It was refined by my Master Han Dongyu, he is a Divine Transformation Realm cultivator." said Xia Chen.

  Suddenly, he thought of something and exclaimed, "This is terrible!"

  "What?" The mysterious woman asked in surprise.

  Xia Chen said in alarm: "Senior, I used to take the yuanqi dan refined by my master frequently, I don't know if I've already been poisoned by the zi wu ci xin toxin?"

  As soon as he thought of when he first entered Yao Yuan, he often took the yuanqi dan given by Han Dongyu, and Xia Chen suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

  The mysterious woman said, "Is this Refining Muscle Pill refined by your master? Didn't he save you last night? He's been very good to you, why would he poison you? And what deep hatred could there be that would lead him to use the Subsidiary Noon Heart-Toxic Poison?"

  Xia Chen shook his head and said: "I don't know either, senior. I can only feel that my master has some ideas about me, but I don't know what he wants to do!"

  Suddenly, an incredibly powerful force descended from the sky, instantly enveloping him, and then invaded his body.

  Xia Chen was shocked and instinctively wanted to resist.

  "Don't move, I'm checking your internal condition." The mysterious woman said.

  Xia Chen let out a sigh of relief, gave up resisting, and allowed the mysterious woman's power to circulate within his body. The same powerful force that had grabbed him and thrown him against the wall earlier was now at work.

  This power is intangible and non-substantial, not true energy, nor gang energy, yet it's even more powerful than Han Dongyu's innate gang energy. With just one move, Xia Chen can feel an extremely terrifying power that can instantly reduce himself to nothingness.

  It's said that the Second Realm of Driving Objects can condense one's thoughts into substance, possessing boundless and powerful mental strength. It seems that this senior is at least a cultivator of the Driving Object Realm, but he's much stronger than Han Dongyu. Xia Chen thought to himself.

  The mysterious woman's divine thought flashed through his entire body, and when it passed through the dantian, it didn't stop at all, but swept past, without even noticing the treasure basin.

  Xia Chen didn't find it strange at all; he even had a feeling that even if there was someone with cultivation ten or a hundred times higher than this mysterious woman, they still wouldn't be able to discover the聚宝盆.

  Half a moment later, the mysterious woman's divine sense slowly withdrew from Xia Chen's body.

  "There is a poisonous needle in your body!" The mysterious woman's one sentence almost made Xia Chen jump up.

  "Senior, what should I do?" Xia Chen gritted his teeth and said.

  "Don't worry too much." The mysterious woman's tone changed, "You've only been taking the poisonous pill for a short time, the amount of poison is not much, and it has only penetrated into your muscles. When you break through to the fourth heavenly layer, I'll help you again, and we can force out the Zi Wu Xue Xin toxin."

  Xia Chen settled his mind: "Thank you for your help, senior."

  "You don't have to thank me, I still need your help in refining the elixir, and naturally I won't just watch you get poisoned and do nothing." The mysterious woman said, "You also need to be careful of your master Han Dongyu, although I don't know what he wants to do with you either, but it's very likely that when you grow up to a certain level of cultivation, he will use the Zi Wu Heart-Piercing Poison to control you and achieve his own goals. From now on, whatever elixirs he gives you, you must not take them."

  "Yes, I understand." Xia Chen looked at the poisonous pill in his hand and slowly put it back into his storage space.

  At this moment, he didn't know what kind of feeling was in his heart, with both hatred and loss, it seemed to be a mixture of five flavors.

  From the perspective of a master-disciple relationship, Han Dongyu was indeed good to him. Not only did he rescue him several times, but also personally guided his cultivation and even gave him elixirs to take, which helped to refine his physical body.

  Even other divine transcendence cultivators may not be so meticulous with their own disciples.

  Xia Chen is a person who values relationships deeply. Since Han Dongyu treats him exceptionally well, Xia Chen naturally regards his teacher as a father figure!

  But all of this was based on Han Dongyu's ulterior motives, and everything ultimately boiled down to Han Dongyu wanting to harm him!

  Xia Chen had also wanted to ignore the vigilant feeling in his heart more than once, wanting to convince himself that Han Dongyu was a good master and he was just having an illusion. However, the appearance of the poisonous needle ultimately shattered all his comfortable fantasies.

  Han Dongyu, from now on, our master-disciple relationship is truly written off! Xia Chen's face changed colors, and finally let out a long sigh.

  "Xia Chen, don't think about unhappy things anymore." The mysterious woman's voice suddenly became gentle as if she knew what he was thinking. "Let's start refining the elixir now, your current cultivation is almost enough to help me refine it."

  "Yes, senior." Xia Chen came back to himself, "I don't know what kind of pill you want to refine, senior?"

  "What I want you to help me refine is the Treasure Elixir! It's called the Pure Yang Treasure Elixir!" The mysterious woman said slowly.

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