Ling Qi took a mont to recollect himself before he continued with his testimony. Yang Qing being intimately familiar with the burden of guilt having gone through it himself, only too recently, could tell Ling Qi was still clothed in it, but he seed much better than he was a few seconds ago.
The little interlude seed to have done him so good for now. But much later, when it was just him and his thoughts, that was sothing else.
"They didn't ntion, but when the tricolored white-eyed tortoise retaliated, Daoist Hua Ying and Daoist Wu Shen took the brunt of its attack while Daoist Xin who has the highest speed, tried to help avoid what was left.
We still ended up getting caught in it.
The cover they provided was what gave the chance to use my cultivation spell to try and contain the poison.
From the mont it launched its toxin toward us, I knew it wouldn't be sothing simple, but I didn't think it would be that bad. It was virulent, beyond anything I've ever seen.
While the Lunar Petal Wave isn't a universal bane against toxins, it is sothing the sect master, a few elders of the sect, myself, and so alchemists from the Sumrfield Kingdom, took the ti to refine.
We have continuously refined it over the years and have seen the effort bear fruit. The art forms a water wave with strong detoxifying properties against a good number of poisons including a few potent ones such as the ghost fog poison of the ghost blade mantis or the decaying poison of the decay-spike centipede.
If it can't detoxify the poison, it acts as a barrier that delays or encloses the poisonous substance giving enough ti for an escape or counterattack.
When I launched it, I thought to myself that no matter how potent the poison of the tricolored white-eyed tortoise seed, the Lunar Petal Wave could restrain it, even if for just a few minutes, providing room for Daoist Hua Ying and the rest to counterattack, or even flee if need be.
But it didn't last even a second against it. The poison seed to have assimilated my art and used it as a dium to spread itself to a wider range.
My greatest achievent and confidence were decimated and used against in but an instant.
But at least the art had an inadvertent effect on the poison when it mixed, which made the poison slightly heavier giving us a chance to dodge a few of the splashes, but not enough to escape unscathed.
The effects struck instantly with immobilization first, followed by rapid peration, and then corruption and erosion of our blood and qi, which it used as a conduit to spread to the rest of our bodies.
I have never seen poison spread so fast. It felt almost sentient, especially with how it reacted to all the detoxification asures we used against it.
Anything we used, it seed to retaliate aggressively, almost as if to warn us against trying anything.
None of the recipes or detoxifying natural materials we had on hand seed to work on it. It was only when we were at the end of our ropes, did one of the supre elders of the sect suggested sothing he had read on a scroll.
It was unverified and highly dangerous. The scroll was a traveling journal of so unknown herbologist. Neither their na nor rank was recorded on the scroll.
Said herbologist liked to tour places in search of exotic herbs, and that search led him to the Green Fog Region..."
Ling Qi paused as his mind seed to float to that mont which elicited a wry smile from him.
"Only now do I realize, how desperate the situation was..." Ling Qi said with a slight shake of his head, a hint of fear evident on his face.
Wu Shen and the rest joined in, as they smiled fearfully themselves.
Yang Qing filled with curiosity about their reactions asked,
"Why is that?"
"The scroll...well...it wasn't exactly a normal one.." Ling Qi said with so slight hesitation born out of embarrassnt which only served to draw in Yang Qing's curiosity.
"The scroll was more of the rumblings of soone who thought they were about to die than a standard discovery journal.
It looked like sothing had happened to the herbologist, and it prompted them to create the scroll. However, it seed that whatever it was that they were suffering from seed to affect their mind.
Instead of the scroll containing their legacy or sothing that one would want to entrust to others before they t their demise, theirs was different. The author was delirious, with thoughts all over the place.
One minute, he would be describing spiritual herb harvesting techniques, the next he would go into vivid details about how he loathed soone by the na of Li Yao who stole soone he liked, and how he would tornt him as a ghost, then he would go back to talk about plants, and then jump over to describing whatever symptoms he had with his panic state showing up in the words.
The thod used to try and slow down the spread of the tricolored white-eyed tortoise was obtained from those rumblings.
As the author was busy cursing his luck, he did write a few redies he had thought up that may have worked against the poison that afflicted him, and one of those redies was fighting a virulent poison with another virulent poison and balancing the reaction with a parasite, specifically a baneblood leech.
I'm surprised the supre elders were crazy enough to try it considering how deadly the baneblood leech is or using poison to fight off the tricolored white-eyed tortoise's poison.
When I read that scroll, I still can't believe they went through with it. That author had even suggested kidnapping a taotie and forcing it to devour his poison as one of the redies.
I can't believe they went through with so of his suggestions..but I am glad they did. The sect used the five flas poison to counteract the venom within our bodies and used the baneblood leech as the tether that prevented the two poisons from overrunning our bodies.
The thod worked but not completely as the five fla poison and the baneblood leech were unable to completely contain the tricolored white-eyed tortoise's poison.
After six weeks, the five fla poison was drained and the baneblood leech had died. Another batch couldn't be created as it seed like the poison had evolved, had they tried using the five fla poison or the baneblood leech again, we would have died instantly and in the most violent way possible.
Long Zemin's arrival was tily as we had nothing else to rely on. Despite being an alchemist organization ourselves, our circle of connection is rather small so we couldn't verify his background and could only judge him based on his abilities.
Since we couldn't verify his background and whether he was from the Ocean Refining Crucible Pavilion, the vice sect master thought the only way to asure the man, was through his abilities, so he used so covert ans to test his understanding.
He used so of the discoveries they made with the poison to test him out and Long Zemin showed to have extensive knowledge of the matter, extensive enough to entrust our care to him..."
Ling Qi paused as he sighed, his eyes flashing with complex emotions.
"He did heal us and singlehandedly managed to do sothing our entire sect couldn't. As alchemists ourselves, we intimately understand how wonderous his abilities are, seeing how he handled the venom.
This was why in addition to the resources we agreed to give him, our Moon Essence Cauldron Sect added 30 unique recipes we researched ourselves and a botanical report of the spiritual herbs around the Deer Mountain Range that we have co across since we ca here.
We did it not to even repay him for saving our lives but as respect and recognition of his abilities..."
"Ling ..You?" Xin Zephyr asked with a stupefied look. She wasn't the only one as Hua Ying and Wu Shen showed looks of surprise too.
Clearly, they had no idea of the trade the Moon Essence Cauldron Sect had made. What they gave was no different than giving away their legacy art as it the recipes and botanical report were sothing born out of their blood, sweat, tears, and lives.
They were surprised the Moon Essence Cauldron Sect would hand it over to a stranger, a stranger who conned them at that.
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