A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 200 The Ultimate Poison Way
Shen Ping completely ignored Duan Rong's surprised expression and said calmly, "This Wild Boar Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, with dense old forests and crisscrossing streams. It is a natural treasure trove of medicinal materials. Not only are there various rare herbs, but there are also many kinds of poisonous insects, snakes and ants in the forest, which are inexhaustible."

"It is only after living in this precious place and studying hard for more than 20 years that I can finally reach the end of this poisonous path..."

As Shen Ping spoke, he sighed deeply. He suddenly turned his head and looked at Duan Rong with a sharp gaze. His tone was like asking Duan Rong, but also like asking himself, "Do you know what the end of the poison path is?"

Shen Ping's expression was a bit creepy at this moment. Duan Rong felt uncomfortable when he looked at him. He murmured in agreement, "What is it?"

“It’s a wasteland!”

"A wasteland?" Duan Rong looked puzzled. He obviously couldn't understand what Shen Ping meant.

Shen Ping said angrily: "A barren land means a dead end, a dead end!"

Duan Rong could see that Shen Ping was very excited, but he totally couldn't understand what Shen Ping meant and could only remain silent.

After a few breaths, Shen Ping seemed to have gradually calmed down, and the two of them continued to move forward.

After passing another hill, we finally stopped at a cliff.

Shen Ping looked at Duan Rong and said, "Jump down!"

Duan Rong twitched his nose and shouted, "Jump down?"

He was extremely depressed. What the hell was this a cliff?

Shen Ping said, "Don't you know Qinggong? There is a cave under this cliff. My Dantian is destroyed and my internal energy is completely gone. You take me down."

"Can you please stop breathing heavily when you speak?" Duan Rong rolled his eyes at Shen Ping.

Shen Ping was thin, so Duan Rong held him under his armpits and suddenly jumped off the cliff like a big bird.

Duan Rong had just jumped off the cliff, with one hand still around Shen Ping's waist, when he quickly pulled out the oxtail knife with his right hand and stabbed it into the hard stone wall of the cliff.

Duan Rong infused his inner energy and stabbed the oxtail knife into the stone wall like cutting tofu.

The weight of two people was hanging on the hilt of the knife. Duan Rong used his toes to cut the wall and stabilized his body.

Duan Rong took a quick look and saw a small cave not far from him. The stone platform at the entrance of the cave was worn and smooth, obviously because people had been coming in and out for many years.

Duan Rong's body suddenly turned around, and his feet quickly stepped on the cliff as if he was walking on flat ground. Holding Shen Ping in one hand and a knife in the other, he flashed towards the cave entrance.

Duan Rong's feet changed quickly, causing stone chips to fly from the wall.

But the cliff is not flat ground after all. Duan Rong has used up all his strength to balance his body, and he is also carrying Shen Ping, a burden.

Seeing that they were about to reach the cave entrance, Duan Rong was unable to land gracefully and could only roll in with Shen Ping in his arms.

Shen Ping was not careful for a moment and hit his head on the ground, leaving a big bump. Shen Ping was so angry that he jumped up and down and yelled, "Can you slow down? Do you want to kill me?"

Duan Rong looked at the big bump on Shen Ping's forehead. His forehead was already bigger than others, and now there was another big bump. It looked so funny and ugly that Duan Rong couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Shen Ping cursed a few times and calmed down. He didn't want to waste time with Duan Rong. He put his hands behind his back angrily and walked into the shadows in the dark cave.

Shen Ping has lived in this cave for more than ten years. Even in the dark, he can clearly know the locations of all his belongings.

He took out a tinder from the corner, blew it, and lit an oil lamp.

A tiny bit of dim light immediately illuminated the dark cave.

Duan Rong stood at the entrance of the cave, feeling surprised. The cave was actually quite deep, and both sides of the cave were filled with all kinds of messy things.

Shen Ping was holding the oil lamp and rummaging through a pile of debris deep in the cave. Shen Ping rummaged through several places before putting down the oil lamp, walking to the cave entrance, looking at Duan Rong, and saying, "Come on, take me up."

Duan Rong touched his nose and thought to himself: That's good. This old guy just came here to bring some things, and he made me run here like a little follower.

Although Duan Rong was depressed, he had no choice but to kidnap Shen Ping again and bring him to the cliff.

The two men stood on the cliff, the mountain wind blew and filled their sleeves.

Shen Ping suddenly stuffed a black porcelain bottle into Duan Rong's hand.

Duan Rong was stunned for a moment and asked, "What is this?"

"A poison."

"Poison? What poison?" Duan Rong almost wanted to ask if it was the poison of corpse decay.

Shen Ping did not answer Duan Rong's question. He suddenly stood on the cliff, looking far away at the vast forest below the cliff, and said as if talking to himself, "I was born into a medical family, and I was born with a good talent for martial arts. It is not an exaggeration to say that I am a genius in both medicine and martial arts."

Duan Rong felt depressed after hearing this. How could anyone call himself a genius? However, he saw a painful look on Shen Ping's face.

He continued, "Unfortunately, halfway through my cultivation, I suddenly became obsessed with poison."

"I have been studying this for decades, trying to reach the pinnacle of this art. Recently, I think I have finally achieved it."

"Achieved?" Duan Rong looked at Shen Ping with confusion. He was trying to figure out what this 'achieved' meant.

Shen Ping suddenly turned his head and looked at Duan Rong, saying: "Yes. It's reached. The poison in your hand is the ultimate poison. I call it Poinsettia!"

"Poinsettia? The ultimate poison?" Duan Rong felt cold all over, his eyes filled with horror.

Although he didn't know how powerful this poinsettia was, he had seen the corpse-corrosion poison that also came from Shen Ping's hands.

The toxicity of the corpse poison was so strong that it left a very horrifying impression on him.

But Shen Ping told him that the poison in his hand, called Poinsettia, was the ultimate poison.

Doesn't that mean that this poison is much more powerful than the poison of corpse decay?

The Ultimate Poison! Poinsettia!

Duan Rong couldn't imagine how poisonous it was.

Duan Rong couldn't help but hold the porcelain bottle in his hand tighter, fearing that it might slip out of his hand and fall...

Duan Rong looked at Shen Ping and suddenly asked, "Mr. Shen, you just said that the end of the Poison Path is a wasteland? Since you have refined the ultimate poison, how can you say it is a wasteland?"

After hearing what Duan Rong said, Shen Ping looked at him with admiration and said, "Duan boy, you really have some talent. What a pity..."

Shen Ping's eyes flashed a hint of gloom, and then he changed the subject and said, "Compared to martial arts, the way of poison is just a minor way. This is the conclusion that our predecessors have already reached. However, when I was young, I was obsessed with the way of poison and was quite conceited. I refused to believe it and thought I could break the rut."

"After decades of hard research, I finally determined that the path of poison is indeed a dead end. I have been stuck in a dead end all my life, but it is only in vain."

"The reason why the Way of Poison is only a minor path compared to the Way of Martial Arts is that poison can only be effective against warriors at the Inner Breathing Realm."

"For warriors who have achieved the True Qi realm, poison has a hard time hurting them. This is because True Qi is much denser and more delicate than Internal Breath. Internal Breath cannot enter many tiny blood vessels and meridians, but True Qi can penetrate everywhere. Therefore, running True Qi can force out poison!"

"As long as your true qi is strong enough, you can block all the ways for the poison to spread in your body, and force it out of your body along the meridians."

Duan Rong felt cold all over and was shocked when he heard this!
It turns out that in this world, using true Qi to force out poison is a real thing!
(End of this chapter)