Sword drawn from the constellations, poison as its edge.

Chapter 38 The White and Green Twin Demons
When Azi saw Jiang Mingzhe protecting the princess, she immediately became agitated.

Considering Jiang Mingzhe's previous rudeness towards the princess, Azi reluctantly restrained herself, but her words were still far from pleasant: "What? You don't really want to become a high-ranking official with her, do you?"

Jiang Mingzhe laughed heartily: "The Qing Tang Kingdom's own official position was granted by the Song Dynasty. If I wanted to be an official, wouldn't I go to the Song Dynasty? Besides, didn't my senior sister say that we, the Qingbai Twin Demons, roam freely across Kunlun for 30,000 miles? How carefree we are! Why would we need some damn official position!"

Azi was overjoyed, but didn't forget to correct him: "It's the White and Green Twin Demons!"

Looking down at her purple robes, she thought: "My name is Zi, so I love wearing purple. But now that we, the White and Green Twin Demons, have made our debut, I should probably switch to white, unless we're called the Purple and Green Twin Demons. But snakes don't come in purple. Hmm, scorpions do come in purple. Maybe I'll become the Great Purple Scorpion Demon, and let Big Ginger become the Great Green Snake Demon..."

If Jiang Mingzhe knew these thoughts of hers, he would surely be speechless: it is said that a young girl's feelings are always poetic, but Azi is single-mindedly thinking of becoming a great demon.

At this moment, Jiang Mingzhe pulled Azi away seven or eight steps and asked in a low voice, "Senior Sister, does the method of dissolving poison actually require a living person?"

Azi nodded, her expression becoming serious: "That's right, our sect's method of neutralizing poison is actually quite simple. We let a poisonous creature bite a person, squeeze out the poisonous blood, smear it on the palm of our hand, and then absorb it through internal energy. In this way, even if the poison is potent, the person will not turn into an ugly monster."

Jiang Mingzhe tried his best to recall the chemistry knowledge he had learned, thinking: In this process, the human body actually plays the role of a reaction vessel, pre-metabolizing and diluting the biological toxins through the blood. What is absorbed is not the original secretion of the toxic glands, but a more complex mixture that has undergone preliminary processing by the human body, or it can also be regarded as a product separated by blood dialysis or chromatography...

This also prevents the toxins from directly entering one's bloodstream, making the absorption process relatively safer.

Even reaction vessels aren't scrapped after just one use.

Unable to resist asking, "Senior sister, after squeezing out the poisonous blood, can't we detoxify immediately?"

Azi looked at him strangely: "Of course it's possible! Didn't I tell you before? The area next to the residences of the sect's unregistered disciples, with the high walls, is where the 'poison people' live. Otherwise, with so many disciples cultivating, if one person dies every time they fuse with poison, where would we find so many living people?"

Jiang Mingzhe raised an eyebrow, quite certain that Azi had never mentioned it. It seemed that there were still many things that the Xingxiu Sect itself did not understand.

“However, those that can be saved are all common poisons,” Azi added.

“Take Master’s poison-melting treatment, for example. It’s always a matter of life and death to melt a poison!” She cited Ding Chunqiu as an example, her eyes showing a hint of envy: “Because the poisons Master uses are all extremely rare and exotic species. Even if you can be saved if you are bitten by these powerful poisonous insects, the price is extremely high. It’s better to go through the trouble of capturing a living person.”

Jiang Mingzhe nodded, thinking that the six-winged iron centipede must also be a different species.

After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "Since all that's needed is poisoned blood, why not use livestock?"

Azi rolled her eyes and said, "Do you think no one has thought about this? Sometimes the blood of livestock is completely useless, sometimes the toxins take effect immediately after entering the body, and there is no time to even enter the acupoints. Sometimes the properties of the poison will change. In short, it is unusable. Otherwise, there are plenty of cattle and sheep in Xingxiu Sea, why would we need to use living people?"

So, it seems that the protein profile of animal blood plasma differs from that of humans, and their immune systems also differ, making it impossible to form effective or mild complexes. Therefore, even for humans…

A thought occurred to Jiang Mingzhe, and he slowly said, "Senior Sister, if I'm not mistaken, the effects of dissolving the poison will differ depending on the living person, right?"

"Huh!" Azi, who had been getting a little impatient with his question, suddenly perked up: "How do you know? It really is different! For example, if I use Zhang San's blood to dissolve the poison, the effect might not even be half of Li Si's, while if someone else uses Zhang San to dissolve the poison, the effect might be much better than using Li Si. Master said that this is called fate. You have to find someone you are destined to meet for the best results."

After speaking, he turned to look at Princess Qing Tang and her maid Sang Zhu, licking his lips and saying, "I wonder if these two people are destined to be with you." Jiang Mingzhe's eyes lit up, for he had already found the answer he was looking for: blood type!
People these days don't understand blood types, but according to Azi, so-called destined people are mostly those with the same blood type.

He laughed and said, "I'm probably not meant to be with any of them, but I know one person with whom I'm definitely destined to be together!"

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Azi's face turned pale, and she pointed at her own nose in horror, saying, "Are you talking about me? You, you, you want to use me to dissolve the poison? If it were any other poisonous creature, it would be one thing, but the six-foot iron centipede will definitely poison me to death!"

Thinking of how she died helping Jiang Mingzhe neutralize the poison, Azi's eyes instantly welled up with tears, but a strange and tragic pleasure rose in her heart.

But the thought immediately frightened her, and she shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, no, I don't want to die. If the two of them are not meant to be, I will go and catch more people for you. We will eventually meet the right one."

Jiang Mingzhe was both amused and exasperated by the little girl. He couldn't help but reach out and flick Azi's smooth forehead: "What nonsense are you thinking? Who wants to use you to dissolve poison? Even if you were the only one in the whole world who was suitable, how could I bear to part with you?"

"Ayo!"

Ah Zi covered her forehead where she had been flicked, feeling both ashamed and angry. Just as she was about to explode, she heard Jiang Mingzhe say his last words, and all her anger vanished.

She blinked, a blush rising to her cheeks, but she was still somewhat unconvinced, glancing sideways at Jiang Mingzhe and saying, "How do you know I'm not suitable? I think I might be the most suitable!"

“Even if it’s suitable, I’d be reluctant to part with it!” Jiang Mingzhe said casually, then grinned, “Besides, the most suitable person is actually myself!”

"You yourself? You're the one who mixed the poison, you're using yourself? I don't understand at all!"

Azi looked confused, but Jiang Mingzhe was very clear-headed. He asked again, "The Six-Winged Iron Centipede is extremely poisonous, but I have internal energy. If I am poisoned, can I immediately use my internal energy to expel the poisonous blood and guarantee my safety?"

"You want to use your own blood to dissolve the poison yourself?" When Azi heard him say this, she understood, but her expression became even more puzzled.

Jiang Mingzhe nodded: "Senior sister, think about it, in this world, who has a deeper connection with me than I do? So I am my own most destined person. Using my blood will definitely have a better effect than using anyone else."

He was unwilling to give up his poison skills, but he was even more unwilling to kill an innocent person every time he used poison.

So after asking around with Azi for a long time, and combining his own rudimentary knowledge of chemistry, he finally came up with a method that sounded a bit strange.

“Uh…” Azi blinked her big eyes repeatedly, thinking that, yes, what Da Shengjiang said made sense. Who else could be more destined for him than himself?
"Hmm!" Azi lowered her head, fully considering the feasibility of Jiang Mingzhe's method.

Jiang Mingzhe rarely saw a thoughtful expression on A Zi's face, and he couldn't help but wonder what kind of answer she would give.

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