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The blood poison possesses the same effect as the poisonous food of the Manggu Toad, and also contains other toxins. Therefore, the poisoned person will be devoured by the blood poison through the blood, and the final state will be death from exhaustion and weakness. It is not that the pure poison of the Manggu Toad can turn a person into pus and blood.

Because he also inherited the drawback of the Manggu Toad requiring blood to take effect, coupled with the effect of constantly devouring himself, Duan Yu appeared to be without any problems, and he did not directly poison others when interacting with them.

Even if a small amount of poison, caused by one's own negligence, falls on someone else, it will be quickly killed by the body's immune system, and it doesn't matter at all if no blood is drawn.

After all, sweat comes from blood. If Duan Yu's blood poison was really that invincible, he could kill countless people just by sweating. As a pure little poison person, he probably wouldn't have survived at all.

Ding Chunqiu cleverly utilized the characteristics of the poison of the Manggu Zhuha, and by mixing it with other toxins, he disrupted the balance of the mixed poisons and achieved other effects. His Huagong Dafa was originally designed to suppress internal energy through toxins, and the poison used in Huagong Dafa would circulate through the meridians and internal organs.

The imbalanced poison loses its autophagy effect, but it continues to devour body tissues contaminated with other toxins to strengthen itself. The effect is that the blood poison, along with the poison used in the Dissolving Power Technique, penetrates deeper into the meridians, acupoints, and internal organs. Therefore, a green line can be seen when activating profound internal power.

The body's own defense mechanisms are bypassed by the unique and extensive meridian system, which is why the mixed poison can take effect so quickly and avoid the drawback of taking effect upon contact with blood. The body's cells are eaten away and destroyed. Even if the body's exterior remains intact, the subtle parts of the body are already riddled with holes. Fever and weakness are the body's warning signs.

Unless a person can directly sever the meridians, there is no way to detoxify. It seems that even Ding Chunqiu himself is probably helpless against this mixed poison.

Furthermore, after the poisoned person dies, the putrefactive toxin, which spreads rapidly in the blood of the corpse, takes effect, ultimately turning the riddled corpse into a cystic container of mixed toxins.

After completely 'consuming' a human, the initially tiny amount of mixed poison evolved into a more intense and readily apparent concentrated mixed poison. Because it was so concentrated, any flesh and blood that came into contact with it would be dissolved.

But this thing is afraid of light and heat.

Mantuo Manor has a gloomy environment full of vegetation and shadows. The poisoned corpses can be preserved for a few more days, but under normal circumstances, they will lose their effect after being exposed to sunlight for a while.

However, these mixed drugs can be diluted and stored in a low-temperature environment to obtain more deadly mixed drugs.

The above conclusions are partly derived from the research of Kumārajīva and Duan Yu, and partly from the research of Su Xinghe and Xue Muhua.

Ding Chunqiu used the maids, servants, and cooks of Mantuo Manor to cultivate a large amount of concentrated mixed poison, which was continuously poured into the water source used in Suzhou City. The diluted mixed poison had no significant effect in small amounts. The human body's meridians were slightly eroded, but they could heal themselves and had no impact at all. The sequelae would only appear after more than ten or even several decades.

However, he was poisoning people every day, and the people of Suzhou would unintentionally ingest the poison through their daily drinking. As the poison accumulated, it would start in the stomach and then penetrate the meridians, eventually causing obvious signs of poisoning.

Of course, his claim about the entire city was an exaggeration. In fact, a large area centered on his residence was heavily poisoned, and people would turn into poisoned corpses within three to five days. There were tens of thousands of such people, and some had already died and become poisoned corpses due to their weakened state.

However, there are over 100,000 people in Suzhou, and most of them are not seriously injured. At most, they will be a little weak, but they will not die.

Some high-ranking officials and nobles don't drink raw water or eat raw food, and they're perfectly fine, since this poisonous creature is afraid of heat.

The hardest-hit areas were actually members of the Beggars' Guild and a large number of ordinary people from the lower classes.

If left unchecked, it could indeed spread like a plague. However, the fact that the environment cannot withstand high temperatures and sunlight means that the mixed poison can only survive until summer at most in the Jiangnan region. The mixed poison is too potent; those who are poisoned cannot run far, and carriers die quickly. The strong destructive power of the concentrated mixed poison makes it impossible for carriers to exist.

According to Su Xinghe's observation.

The timely evacuation of most of Suzhou's residents and the burying of water sources meant that no one cared how many people at the bottom died; at most, it would just be recorded in history as a major epidemic.

As a result, his own Uncle Zhang acted recklessly as always, organizing some kind of mass power transmission conference. After demolishing a building, he transferred power to hundreds of people at once in an open space. Su Xinghe really couldn't figure out where that internal energy came from, so he just ignored it.

According to the initial idea, the physical constitution of the person who receives the power transfer will be directly elevated to a certain level, and the recovery ability will be strengthened due to the presence of the Northern Darkness True Qi. Therefore, they will be able to survive for at least a few months to half a year. As long as they cultivate with the body tempering method during this period and continuously improve their physical constitution, they can live longer.

What happens if the body-strengthening method eventually dissipates all the internal energy?

Mr. Zhang said he was willing to take responsibility for the power bank.

Interestingly, the poisoned individuals progressed in physical training much faster than normal people, and the fastest group showed significant changes in just a few days.

Su Xinghe examined and observed Li Anu, a child whose physical training progress was the fastest, and discovered the secret within.

First, the presence of mixed poisons poses a high threat to the body, and the efficiency of muscles and bones absorbing true qi for strengthening will be greatly increased.

Then there's Li Anu herself, who possesses exceptional talent and is incredibly diligent. Even without supervision, she cultivates whenever she has free time, never slacking off. This led Su Xinghe to discover the crucial third point—

The mixed toxins rooted in the meridian system become active at night, gnawing countless tiny holes in the meridians. During the day, the temperature subsides, slowing down the rate of erosion and giving the body time to recover.

If you exercise your body in the early morning before your meridians have been repaired, as your body moves and your internal energy is circulating normally, strands of true energy will be squeezed out from the small holes. However, because the toxins in the mixed poison suppress the true energy, the speed at which the true energy dissipates into the muscles and bones is very slow.

Just a few days ago, he and Qiao Feng were discussing how to maintain the state of body tempering for a long time. Now, the poisoned person doesn't need to worry about this at all. He just gets up early every day to temper his body for two hours. The true qi squeezed out of the small hole will naturally remain in his muscles and bones for a whole day. The progress of body tempering is simply like flying.

This isn't poison at all; it's practically a divine medicine for body strengthening!

Chapter 54 Master Qiao, are you ready?

half a month later.

"It didn't work on me? That's ridiculous!"

Zhang Chengyi looked at his palm with a bit of speechlessness.

From the moment Su Xinghe discovered that Ding Chunqiu's mixed poison could amplify his body-tempering technique, they began to impart their skills and martial arts enlightenment to all those poisoned, while gradually dissolving their internal energy and introducing the mixed poison into their bodies.

Everyone else had finished planting the mixed poison and regained their strength, but he only planted the poison as a last resort, and that's where the funny thing happened.

If he doesn't lower his physical constitution, the mixed poison will be killed directly upon entering his body, because his constitution, which has been strengthened to the extreme, makes his body temperature much higher than that of a normal person, so the mixed poison simply cannot survive.

The legendary boiling of blood and qi?

Whether ghosts can get close is hard to say, but the antivirus is really effective.

Zhang Chengyi was forced to lower his physical condition and continue planting the poison. Then, as long as his physical condition improved, the poison would be killed.

They've suddenly hit a dead end. The purpose of planting poison is to strengthen the body and improve physical fitness. Once his physical fitness is maxed out, he will kill the mixed poison.

This means one thing: the limit of accelerating body tempering with mixed poison is about the same as when he maxes out his constitution, so why bother planting poison?

"I shouldn't have had too high expectations after all. I should just continue practicing my external martial arts."

Zhang Chengyi shook his head. As far as the martial arts in the Tianlong world are concerned, he is the true limit. Even if the body tempering method saves the poisoned person, it cannot break the upper limit; it can only raise the lower limit.

Even for a normal person, reaching his limit is an impossible task; the theoretical limits of the body and internal strength will forever remain only in theory.

The martial arts of the Tianlong world still have a very long way to go; at least we need to catch up with its exhaust fumes first.

But he had no interest in staying here and waiting. He'd just start something casually, and the rest was up to the people here.

Anyway, things are pretty much done here. I'm not needed for anything other than passing on my skills, so it's time for me to go.

Zhang Chengyi put the small porcelain bottle containing the mixed poison back into the plate and picked up the external martial arts manual again.

It's time to go.

He had never longed to leave this place as much as he did now. Being a high-ranking 'adult' was far more boring than he had imagined.

Hopefully, the next world will be an interesting one.

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That night, the crescent moon hung high in the sky in the study.

"Thump~ thump~ thump"

"Enter."

Zhang Chengyi closed the martial arts manual he hadn't finished reading and looked up at the door.

Qiao Feng pushed open the door and entered. As he walked in step by step, the shadows on his face gradually faded, illuminating the oil lamp.

"Brother Zhang." He stood not far away, looking preoccupied, and asked, "Since you said you would leave Suzhou and return in a few days, what are your plans for dealing with those people in the city who practiced the body-tempering technique?"

He speaks very directly. After knowing each other for so long, how could I not know the other person's personality? Just say what you want to say directly. Beating around the bush won't please the other person anyway.

"what?"

Zhang Chengyi made a slightly puzzled sound, and then said, "They have hands and feet, do you expect me to provide them with food and lodging?"

He even joked, "With their martial arts skills, as long as they graduate from the Beggars' Sect or the Murong Clan, they're all emperor material."

Qiao Feng was startled. He did have some of Guan Yu's traits of being arrogant towards superiors but not tolerant of inferiors, and bullying the strong but not the weak, but he was still an ancient person and had an instinctive awe of imperial power.

Even if he used his strength to storm into the palace, twist the emperor's head off, and say that emperors take turns being emperors, and that today it's his turn, no one would dare say a word against it.

But he had absolutely no interest in it, let alone making fun of the emperor.

"You see, this is why I'm leaving." Zhang Chengyi saw Qiao Feng's serious expression, spread his hands, shook his head, and said, "You guys are too boring."

Yes, it's boring.

Unable to catch jokes, always restrained, and with too many constraints, when the heroic and chivalrous hero sheds his chivalrous guise, the real person below becomes too boring for the 'players'.

Before Zhang Chengyi demonstrated his ability to turn tens of thousands of people into unparalleled masters, others only looked at him with awe. Now, they almost worship him like a god.

Qiao Feng remained silent for a moment, then said, "Are you just going to leave them here?"

He could easily imagine what the world would be like if he let go and tens of thousands of unparalleled masters rushed out of Suzhou.

Anyone could imagine that many of the artificially created peerless masters were already prepared to take revenge, act like lords, and do whatever they pleased.

Even many of his Beggars' Sect disciples had inappropriate thoughts due to the sudden increase in his power.

"Or should I just kill them all?" Zhang Chengyi suddenly asked.

Qiao Feng subconsciously thought the other party was joking, but after realizing what was happening, he immediately said, "Brother Zhang!" He was a little worried that this was not a joke.

Among the tens of thousands of poisoned individuals, even if there are lurking bad guys, the number is not that large. Moreover, if they have ulterior motives but haven't committed any evil deeds, killing them directly would be too extreme.

"Just kidding." Zhang Chengyi stood up with a grin, looked the chivalrous man straight in the eye, and said, "You see, you're unwilling to let them go, and you're unwilling to kill them either. So, what do you want?"

His tone wasn't harsh, as gentle as ever, yet it felt like a needle piercing Qiao Feng's heart and lungs.

"I……"

Qiao Feng paused for a moment, then gave a self-deprecating laugh and said, "I don't know."

He didn't know; he didn't even know what he was going to do in the future, let alone plan the future of other people.

His uncertainty about the future led him to instinctively turn to the 'gods' he could trust.

"Then let's go find it."

Zhang Chengyi smiled, his hunter's face, which wasn't particularly handsome, now filled with a reassuring expression. "If you can't let them go, then take them with you yourself."

If you don't know what you want, then go and find it slowly.

“But I am a Khitan.” Qiao Feng hesitated even more.

"Haha." Zhang Chengyi laughed even more heartily. "What's so important about that? The bloodline of the Khitans doesn't matter at all. At least we're all human, right?"

"Moreover, we are all of the yellow race. If we go back thousands or tens of thousands of years, we might all have the same ancestor."

“If you think this is a problem, if the world rejects a Khitan as the leader of the Han people, then go and change it.”

What are you afraid of?

Yes, what do I have to be afraid of?

Qiao Feng asked himself honestly, with his current strength, who in the world, apart from the 'immortal' before him, could withstand three or two punches from him?

Internal strength does not represent power. Exquisite internal strength is just a standard. Even if someone's internal strength is much higher than his, he still cannot defeat him.