Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 265: Invulnerable to all poisons
Tong Lao listened to Huang Sixi's inference.

She whispered, "Since Master has figured out the secret of the Everlasting Spring, why should he just sit and wait for death? Even if he doesn't want to steal my life, Wuyazi's, and Li Qiushui's life, he can just go and steal the people sent outside!"

Huang Sixi glanced at her and said, "The life of an expatriate is not a life?"

Tong Lao was quite embarrassed: "I mean to find the most treacherous and evil people in the martial arts world. Anyway, it is not a pity for them to die. It is not impossible to take their lives before they die."

Seeing that Huang Sixi did not express his opinion, she continued, "Besides, there are so many filial sons and grandsons in the world, there must be people who are willing to give up their lives and give them to their loved ones! If my master had revealed the truth to me, Wuyazi and Li Qiushui, at least I would be willing to consider giving my life to my master!"

Huang Sixi looked doubtful and obviously didn't believe what she said.

Tong Lao was a little embarrassed: "Little Ah Si, don't think that grandma is just talking nonsense. When I was young, I was full of passion and would stand by my fellow disciples and friends. It's only as I get older and gain more experience that I start to think more about myself!"

What she meant was that before she was twenty years old, if Xiaoyaozi asked her to sacrifice her life, she would not resist because she was full of love and simple nature. But now she would definitely refuse it in a stern manner.

Huang Sixi said to her: "Xiaoyaozi didn't tell you the truth, probably to prevent the secret of Changchun Spring from being leaked, which would then cause an uncontrollable disaster!"

If Xiaoyaozi told the truth to Tonglao, Wuyazi and Li Qiushui, a murder might break out among his fellow disciples.

The Xiaoyao Sect's "Northern Sea Divine Art" can steal other people's skills, but it only steals the outsider's internal strength without harming their lives. However, the Changchun Spring directly steals the outsider's entire lifespan.

If the secret of Changchunquan's life-stealing ability were to be leaked out and known by the emperors of the Song Dynasty, Western Xia, Liao Dynasty, and Tubo, the result would be obvious. The countries would certainly kill each other with blood and sweat, just to take Changchunquan for themselves.

By that time, everyone will go crazy in order to prolong their life.

Huang Sixi turned his gaze and looked outside the cave: "Murong Bo should have escaped from Changchun Valley. He originally had the ambition to restore his country. If he revealed the secret of Changchun Valley to the royal families of other countries, then war would surely break out!"

Just as Tong Lao was about to respond, she suddenly saw Mrs. Wang stand up and walk towards the pool.

"Look, Xiao Ah Si, Li Qingluo is going to save her daughter!"

"Would you do this?"

Huang Sixi looked towards the pool, but saw Madam Wang pointing at the surface of the pool and asking him, "If I drink the water, will Yan'er be able to come back to life?"

Huang Sixi did not comment: "You can try it. What I just said is just a guess and it may not work!"

Mrs. Wang immediately lowered her head and asked for some water to drink.

Huang Sixi suddenly stopped her again: "Wait a minute!"

"What's the matter?" Mrs. Wang looked back.

"Manggu Zhuha is soaking in the pool. The water has been corroded. If you drink a sip, you will be poisoned to death!" Huang Sixi warned her.

"Ah!" Madam Wang quickly retracted her hand. She remembered what Tong Lao had told her on the cliff. Manggu Zhuha was the king of all poisons. If she got a little bit of poison, she would turn into a pool of blood. "The pool water is polluted. What should I do?"

"You can climb up the cave wall to collect water from the waterfall!"

Huang Sixi saw Manggu Zhuha swimming leisurely in the pool, as if it regarded the pool as its nest.

A bold guess emerged in his mind: the reason why Manggu Zhuha was born near Changchun Spring was to guard the pool, pollute the water source, and prevent outsiders from drinking it?
The life-stealing power of Changchun Spring will only be effective when drinking both pond water and spring water. If either water source is poisoned or corrupted, it will be of no use even if you occupy Changchun Spring.

However, Huang Sixi thought again: "If this is really the origin nest of Manggu Zhuha, even if Manggu Zhuha is far away from Changchun Spring, there should be Manggu Zhuha's poison left in the pool water. Then after Murong Bo successfully stole Wang Yuyan's life, neither of them was poisoned. What is the reason for this?"

While he was pondering this question, Mrs. Wang had already taken a full pot of spring water from the waterfall and came over to ask him when she could drink it.
He asked Mrs. Wang to wait for a while and moved to the pavilion and the well.

The waterfall pool has abundant water, but the spring well appears dry.

Huang Sixi reached into the bottom of the well and worked for a long time before he collected a cup of water droplets from the well wall.

He didn't know whether the amount of water was enough, but he still gave it to Wang Yuyan to drink. Anyway, the girl was already dead of old age, and the worst outcome would be to maintain the status quo.

While he was giving Wang Yuyan the spring water to drink, he gestured to Madam Wang to drink the pool water at the same time.

Mrs. Wang gulped down the entire pot of pool water in one breath.

As a result, no changes occurred.

Mrs. Wang and Tong Lao began to question it, thinking that Huang Sixi's statement might not be correct.

Huang Sixi pondered for a moment, and suddenly summoned Manggu Zhuha to leave the pool and return to his shoulder.

Huang Sixi then took out a red-eyed ice toad corpse and handed it to Madam Wang: "Hold this toad corpse in your hand, it can help you avoid poison!"

After Mrs. Wang took the toad corpse.

Huang Sixi said again: "Go into the pool now and try again to see if there is any reaction!"

Mrs. Wang didn't understand what he meant, but she still did it.

The entire pool was a hundred feet in circumference, but only a few feet deep. When Mrs. Wang stood in the pool, the water did not reach her upper body.

The waterfall beside the pool is cascading all year round, but the pool is never overflowing. This is because there is a flood discharge outlet at each corner of the pool bottom.

Mrs. Wang had just stood in the middle of the pool when she saw torrents suddenly erupt from the four flood outlets, colliding with each other and forming a large whirlpool.

As luck would have it, Mrs. Wang was standing in the center of the whirlpool. The water waves spiraled along her legs and soon rolled over her head, enveloping her like a water ring.

Just as Mrs. Wang was submerged in the whirlpool, a magical scene happened.

Huang Sixi and Tong Lao looked down and found that Wang Yuyan's aging body began to change at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her white hair turned black and her wrinkles disappeared bit by bit.

"Huh? This girl has regained her youth!"

When Tong Lao saw this miraculous scene, she no longer had any doubt about Huang Sixi's words.

After a while, Wang Yuyan had changed from a hundred-year-old old woman to a middle-aged woman in her thirties, and the change stopped there.

Tong Lao came down and checked Wang Yuyan's body, and found that she was breathing again and her heart was beating again.

In the pool on the other side, the whirlpool collapsed with a "whoosh!" and the waves surrounding Madam Wang also disappeared.

Huang Sixi took a closer look and saw that Mrs. Wang had turned into a white-haired, dying old woman. She had successfully given her life to her daughter Wang Yuyan, but she herself was dying.

She was so weak that she could not stand steadily and was about to fall.

Huang Sixi stepped forward, carried her out of the pool, and placed her next to Wang Yuyan.

After a while, Wang Yuyan woke up. She felt the vitality in her body and her face looked very confused.

She hurriedly half sat up and looked at the people around her. When she saw Mrs. Wang's old appearance, she burst into tears and fell in front of Mrs. Wang, saying in great sorrow: "Mom, have you given your life to me?"

Madam Wang said with a hint of anger: "You damned girl, you already knew that the Eternal Spring Spring and the Eternal Spring Pool could be exchanged for life, right?"

Wang Yuyan heard the blame from Madam Wang and quickly explained, “When I first came to Changchun Valley, I didn’t know this secret! I gave Murong Bo the water from Changchun Spring, but found it had no effect. I tried my best, but still couldn’t save Murong Bo. There was nothing I could do! I planned to wait for Murong Bo to die so that I could bury him! Who knew…” Wang Yuyan pointed to the waterfall pool, “When I first came here, the pool was full of aquatic flowers and fruits. I had been traveling for days and was thirsty, so I went to pick flowers and fruits to fill my stomach and drank the pool water to quench my thirst. As a result, after I drank the pool water, a whirlpool suddenly appeared on the surface of the pool and covered me. When the whirlpool subsided, I became a centenarian old woman!”

Mrs. Wang saw that she had no idea and had just given away her life unintentionally, so she couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Wang Yuyan continued, "After I lost my lifespan, I turned around and found that Murong Bo had rejuvenated into a teenager. I then realized that my lifespan and Murong Bo's had been swapped! I begged Murong Bo to come drink the pool water, and I would drink the spring water to return my lifespan..."

Mrs. Wang interrupted angrily, "Has he paid it back yet?"

This is actually a question you ask even though you already know the answer.

Wang Yuyan shook her head slowly: "He ran away and never came back! I lived alone in the pond for who knows how many months. I thought I would die of old age alone, but I didn't expect you, Mom, to find me!"

She felt very comforted, so she lowered her head and tried to put her face against Mrs. Wang's, but Mrs. Wang pushed her away with all her strength.

Madam Wang stared at Wang Yuyan and left her last words: "Humph, the Murong family has been dreaming of 'restoring the Yan Kingdom' for hundreds of years. Mom taught you since you were a child not to associate with the Murong family, otherwise you will be implicated by them sooner or later, but you always disobey! Yan'er, you didn't listen to mom, and now you have implicated me to death, hey, hey..."

Mrs. Wang sighed twice and died.

Wang Yuyan was in great pain upon seeing this. She picked up Madam Wang's body and ran to the well in the pavilion. She skillfully collected water droplets from the well wall and fed them to Madam Wang to drink.

After Mrs. Wang drank the Changchun Spring water, Wang Yuyan ran to the pool again, buried her head in the pool, and drank the water in big gulps.

Her actions were obviously intended to return life to Mrs. Wang.

Huang Sixi had just warned Mrs. Wang that the water in the pool had been polluted by Manggu Zhuha and had become highly toxic. Drinking a sip of it would surely cause poisoning and death.

Tong Lao wanted to remind Wang Yuyan not to drink the pool water carelessly.

But before Tong Lao could speak, she was stopped by Huang Sixi.

Tong Lao said nothing, silently watching Wang Yuyan running back and forth.

Wang Yuyan jumped into the pool, but there was no reaction at all. She collapsed in the pool and cried to Huang Sixi and Tong Lao: "I want to give my life back to my mother, why can't I do it?"

Tong Lao didn't know the reason, and grumbled: "Your mother gave you her life, so you should use it well. Why should you pay her back?"

She thought that Mrs. Wang was much better than Li Qiushui. At least she would not abandon her daughter and was willing to fight for her.

Huang Sixi said to Wang Yuyan: "The Changchun Spring is irreversible. Your mother gave you her life, and she can never take it back! Just like you gave your life to Murong Bo, you can't take it back either!"

Wang Yuyan was in a daze, and her face suddenly showed sorrow: "Murong Bo wants to take my life and live happily, that's wishful thinking, I will definitely take my life back, no matter what the cost!"

Changchunquan can no longer make Murong Bo give back Wang Yuyan's life. Wang Yuyan's plan is to kill Murong Bo directly, which can be regarded as a disguised form of recycling.

At that time, Murong Bo only stole Wang Yuyan's life. Wang Yuyan's internal energy was still preserved in her body, and she still possessed Wuyazi's more than seventy years of Beiming true qi.

She decided to kill Murong Bo with her own hands. If Murong Bo had not stolen her life, Madam Wang would not have died.

But just as Mrs. Wang said, Mrs. Wang had long told her not to have any contact with anyone from the Murong family, but she just didn't listen and regarded her cousin Murong Fu as her ideal person. It was because she loved Murong Bo that she would rescue Murong Bo at all costs.

In the end, she not only lost her own life, but also Mrs. Wang's life.

The person she really has to blame is herself.

Her eyes gradually turned red: "I should have listened to my mother a long time ago! I shouldn't have left Mantuo Villa!"

She said this as she took a step to leave the pool.

Huang Sixi walked to the edge of the pond and stopped her: "Do you have any treasure to ward off poison?"

Wang Yuyan looked surprised and said, "No! I have nothing else on me except this set of clothes! Why are you asking me this, sir?"

Huang Sixi let Manggu Zhuha lie on his palm and handed it to Wang Yuyan to watch: "This toad is known as the king of all poisons. It just released a deadly poison in the pool. Anyone who jumps into the pool will be corroded by the deadly poison and become a pile of dry bones. But you are safe and sound. I think it is quite abnormal!"

Wang Yuyan then pointed at Madam Wang's body and said, "My mother also jumped into the pool just now. She didn't show any signs of poisoning!"

Tong Lao suddenly added: "Your mother was given a poison-proof treasure by Xiao Ah Si, which can dissolve the poison of Manggu Zhuha!"

Wang Yuyan couldn't help but ponder.

She suddenly remembered something from the past and recalled to Huang Sixi: "Sir, when I first came here, this waterfall was covered with a kind of strange vine. The vines extended along the cave wall into the pool and produced aquatic flowers and fruits! I lived here for several months. Due to my weak body, I couldn't go out, so I could only look for food locally. Whenever I was hungry, I picked flowers and fruits in the pool to fill my stomach!"

Huang Sixi asked curiously, "Could it be that these flowers and fruits are things that can ward off poison?"

Wang Yuyan nodded. "There were very few flowers and fruits, and I ate them all in a few days. Later, I was so hungry that I started eating vine leaves and roots until the pool and waterfall were completely empty. During that time, a poisonous snake once crawled in from outside the cave. I didn't want to live here alone, so I deliberately let the snake bite me so that I could get rid of it completely. Who knew that the snake couldn't hurt me at all. The flowers, fruits, vine leaves and roots I took in the past seemed to have a miraculous effect of detoxification!"

After hearing these words, Huang Sixi suddenly understood.

He had doubts before. Since Changchun Valley was the origin of Manggu Zhuha, there should be some poison left in the pool.

But everything in the world can defeat something else. In the place of origin of Manggu Zhuha, there are also natural detoxifying herbs.

This herb is the nameless water vine that Wang Yuyan took.

When Wang Yuyan arrived at Changchun Spring, she ate the water vine flowers and fruits first, and then drank the pool water. Even if the pool water contained a deadly poison, it would be neutralized by the water vine flowers and fruits.

The current Wang Yuyan should have a special physique that is immune to all poisons.

Thinking of this, Huang Sixi immediately moved to the edge of the pool and carefully searched the pool, but was greatly disappointed because there was not a single water vine flower or fruit in the pool. He guessed that Wang Yuyan had eaten them all.

He asked Wang Yuyan: "Did you eat all the vines, flowers and fruits you mentioned? Was there no residue left?"

Wang Yuyan's face flushed with shame: "I have lived here alone for several months. I can only eat vines every day. Everything edible has been eaten by me!"

Wang Yuyan suddenly raised her head and looked towards the top of the waterfall: "The vine extends from the source of the waterfall. There may be some old roots. Young Master, you can climb up to the top of the cave and search. Maybe you will find something new!"

Huang Sixi followed her instructions, climbed up to the crack at the top of the waterfall, and searched inch by inch. Sure enough, he found a piece of snow-white vine root.

The color of this vine root was surprisingly similar to that of his Red-Eyed Ice Toad's corpse, but it exuded a chilling aura.

The vine roots and the ice toad's corpse suddenly touched each other and froze together.

Huang Sixi used the same method to forge the Dragon Subduing Sword to polish the two objects.

A few days later, Huang Sixi obtained a snow bead the size of a pearl.

This snow bead is Huang Sixi's treasure for detoxification. Even the poisonous gas of Manggu Zhuha will dissipate on its own after it touches the snow bead.

From now on, as long as Huang Sixi holds the snow bead in his hand, he will be immune to all poisons.

Moreover, the snow beads can not only be used by himself, but also can help outsiders neutralize poisons, so he will not have to worry about poisons in the future.

(End of this chapter)