In Emei, start by obtaining golden attributes.

Chapter 396 turns out to be a treasure-delivering boy.
As he spoke, Fan Sanshan stood up, but as soon as he stood up, he felt as if his bones had been removed. He swayed and tried to stand up, but he was too weak to sit back down. He could only support himself with his hands to prevent himself from collapsing completely.

"I...I can't move. What kind of poison is this?"

Even Gu Shaoan couldn't help but secretly praise Fan Sanshan's performance, saying, "Great acting skills."

Therefore, if a man wants to act, he doesn't need to be three-quarters drunk to make people cry.

The more life experience a person has, the more realistic their acting becomes.

Cheng Shifei's performance was far inferior to Fan Sanshan's.

Even after Fan Sanshan collapsed, Gu Shaoan remained seated, his gaze sweeping over the two poisoned individuals. His brows furrowed slightly, and a look of seriousness and vigilance appeared on his face.

He didn't act immediately. Instead, he took out a pill from his pocket and put it in his mouth. Then, while circulating his internal energy, he cautiously scanned his surroundings.

However, after an incense stick had burned, everything around remained silent, except for the crackling of the campfire and the deliberately exaggerated, painful breathing of Cheng Shifei and Fan Sanshan.

Meanwhile, the fluctuations of Qi emanating from Gu Shaoan's body were getting smaller and smaller.

"They're really careful."

Gu Shaoan naturally knew what the Five Poisons Saint was waiting for.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Shaoan's body trembled slightly, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and collapsed weakly to the side.

About half a cup of tea's time passed.

In the stillness of the night, about thirty feet to the southeast of Gu Shaoan and the others, in a thick, impenetrable shadow, a small ridge suddenly rose from the ground.

Immediately afterwards, something that had blended almost completely with the color and texture of the surrounding withered grass, soil and stones slowly stood up.

Its movements were extremely slow and gentle, without making the slightest sound, as if it were just a shadow naturally stretching and deforming.

Only when it stood completely upright and stepped to the edge of the campfire, barely visible in the afterglow, did it reveal an extremely bizarre human form.

He was only a little over four feet tall, like a ten-year-old child, but his physique was by no means that of a child.

He wore a brightly colored, tight-fitting outfit embroidered with various poisonous insect patterns in strange silk threads, the colors of which shimmered with an ominous sheen in the firelight.

His face was contorted, his features all seemed squeezed together. His eyes were small as beans, his nose was sunken, but his lips were unusually thick, with the corners of his mouth naturally curving upwards, giving off a strange, unsettling smile.

The skin was not the delicate skin of a child, but covered with fine, dark spots and lines, as if left by years of exposure to toxins.

His bald head, devoid of a single hair, gleamed with a bluish-gray sheen under the moonlight, like the skin of a dead person who had never seen the sun.

This is the Five Poisons Saint Son.

He moved with a light and strange gait, as if stepping on cotton or gliding like a venomous snake, silently approaching the campfire.

With each step, he precisely avoided the dry branches and pebbles that might make a sound.

Those small eyes were fixed on the collapsed Gu Shaoan from beginning to end.

After two sharp, hoarse "tsk" sounds, it was like sandpaper rubbing against metal.

"So what if they are top-tier masters? So what if they are rising stars in the martial arts world? In the end, they are no match for the poison of my Five Poisons Saint Son."

As he spoke, the Five Poison Saint walked towards Gu Shaoan and the others.

"Who in the martial world doesn't know that the Great Joyful Bodhisattva is my adoptive mother? You dare to lay a hand on my adoptive mother? You have some nerve."

He walked to the campfire, stopped no more than ten feet away from Gu Shaoan, bent down, and looked closely, his thick lips stretching even wider.

Under the firelight, the teeth of the Five Poison Saint were not the color of ordinary people, but rather a bluish-purple, making his face appear even more ferocious.

Just as the Five Poison Saint stepped forward again with a cruel and triumphant grin, Gu Shaoan, who had just been limp as mud, suddenly sat up.

At the same time, a powerful surge of internal energy burst forth from Gu Shaoan's body without warning.

Then, a surge of powerful energy erupted like a dormant volcano, rushing towards the Five Poison Child.

The campfire flames were suddenly suppressed by the shockwave, and sparks and ashes flew wildly.

"what?"

The smug grin on the face of the Five Poison Saint instantly froze, and his tiny, beady eyes widened suddenly, almost bulging out of their sockets, filled with disbelief, horror, and bewilderment.

He was too close to Gu Shaoan, and the burst of energy hit him hard, sending him flying.

The Five Poison Child reacted extremely quickly.

In the instant his body was thrown into the air, a glint of extremely venomous and resolute light flashed in his eyes, which were filled with horror.

He didn't even try to steady himself; instead, he used the momentum to unleash all the Yin Poison True Essence he had accumulated from cultivating the Five Poisons Divine Skill to his back.

At the same time, from within his wide sleeves, several colorful, fine black lights, as thin as cow's hair, and a cloud of silent, spreading gray-green poisonous mist burst forth and enveloped Gu Shaoan's original location.

A faint rustling sound could be heard from within the poisonous miasma.

Faced with the overwhelming poisonous miasma carried by the powerful energy, a hint of mockery flashed in Gu Shaoan's eyes.

As he stood up, he raised his right palm.

"Roar--"

A deep, powerful dragon's roar, seemingly from the ancient wilderness, suddenly erupted from within Gu Shaoan's body without warning.

As the dragon's roar arose, Gu Shaoan gently pushed forward with his right hand, which had its five fingers slightly spread, towards the oncoming poison needles and mist.

"boom--!"

A more abundant and refined golden aura than before erupted, like a torrent bursting from a dam, mixed with terrifying palm force, gushed forth from his palm.

Wherever the force passed, the fine needles, tempered with countless kinds of deadly poisons, as well as tiny poisonous creatures such as centipedes, scorpions, and venomous snakes hidden within the poisonous miasma, all exploded within the powerful palm strike.

Following this palm strike, Gu Shaoan's figure appeared in mid-air like a ghost, his right hand resting on the hilt of the Heaven-Slaying Sword.

"Keng——"

The clear, melodious sword cry, like a dragon's roar, tore through the night sky, drowning out the sound of the wind and the crackling of the campfire.

There was no dazzling sword light preceding it, only a sword intent that was condensed to the extreme and so cold and murderous that it could freeze one's soul, soaring into the sky.

The next moment, Gu Shaoan's wrist holding the sword trembled only very slightly.

In the air, it was as if an invisible silk was instantly sliced ​​open by an incomparably sharp blade.

A dazzling, three-zhang-long golden sword aura burst forth from the tip of the Heaven-Slaying Sword without any hindrance, illuminating the dim wilderness.

The sword energy pierced the air like a meteor falling to earth, arriving in an instant.

The Five Poisons Saint felt his eyes light up as the condensed sword energy rushed in front of him, passing through the center of his short and strange body without any hindrance, like a paper cutter slicing through thin paper.

Time seemed to freeze for a split second at that moment. The next instant...

"laugh--"

The Five Poison Saint Son in the air was split in two, his internal organs mixed with foul-smelling blood and the remains of what appeared to be poisonous insects, spilling all over the ground.

"pat...pat..."

The two mangled pieces crashed heavily onto the cold, barren ground, stirring up some dust.

From Gu Shaoan's sudden outburst to the Five Poison Saint being severed in two by a single sword strike, the entire process took only a flash.

However, as the blood and corpse of the Five Poison Saint fell to the ground, the surrounding air was not filled with any foul smell, but rather with a strange sweet fragrance.

The moment he smelled the sweet fragrance, Gu Shaoan frowned, his internal energy circulation route changed, and terrifying gusts of wind surged forth from his body once again.

Two breaths later, as the sweet and pungent smell that permeated the surrounding air disappeared, Gu Shaoan finally withdrew his Qi and returned the Yitian Sword to its sheath.

"No, you're just going to kill him like that? Don't you want to play around a bit more?"

Just after Gu Shaoan sheathed his sword, Cheng Shifei, who had been pretending to be poisoned, stepped forward.

No sooner had he finished speaking than a slap landed on Cheng Shifei's head.

"Play? You think the Five Poison Saint can be played with? Look carefully."

As he spoke, Fan Sanshan pulled a burning stick from the campfire and threw it next to the Five Poisons Saint.

By the light of the fire, Cheng Shifei looked out and saw that when the blood of the Five Poison Saint spread out, the ground was boiling like sulfuric acid, emitting wisps of purple smoke.

The grass near the corpse, stained with blood and purple smoke, withered quickly.

"Sigh~"

Upon witnessing this scene, Cheng Shifei couldn't help but gasp.

"Have you forgotten what He Baiyao, the leader of the Five Poisons Sect, said? Because the Five Poisons Saint has been practicing poison techniques for many years, his blood is full of poison. Even a little bit of it would be unbearable for a martial artist who has just condensed his Qi. When facing such a poisonous person, we should kill him as quickly as possible, just like Brother Gu did. Otherwise, there are too many variables. If we are not careful, we will fall into his trap and perish together."

Cheng Shifei touched the spot where Fan Sanshan had slapped him and said in a muffled voice, "I was just saying!"

"If you dare to say it, it proves that you have this idea. Brother Fan is right to teach you a lesson. When facing someone like the Five Poison Saint, it is best not to get close and deal with him as quickly as possible."

Seeing that Gu Shaoan had spoken, Cheng Shifei stopped talking.

Upon seeing this, Fan Sanshan turned to look at the corpse of the Five Poison Saint, and his expression visibly relaxed.

"Fortunately, Brother Gu was well prepared; otherwise, I don't know how long these days of anxiety would have lasted."

In response to Fan Sanshan's words, Gu Shaoan nodded and said, "Yes! The Five Poison Saint's method of concealing his aura is indeed unique. Just now, even when he was within three zhang of me, I could not feel any fluctuations of true essence or aura in his body. Combined with his disguise technique, even I could hardly detect him. No wonder he was able to follow us around silently and poison us in secret."

The fact that the Five Poison Saint could accurately poison them was enough to show that he had been following them around town all day.

But Gu Shaoan couldn't tell from the surrounding pedestrians who the Five Poisons Saint Son was.

This made Gu Shaoan glad that he had decided from the beginning to use himself as bait to lure out the Five Poisons Saint.

Otherwise, if he startled this guy and he fled far away, Gu Shaoan would probably have no peace of mind in the days to come.

As he spoke, Gu Shaoan walked to the corpse of the Five Poison Saint and took out a white medicine bottle from his pocket.

The medicinal powder inside was wrapped in a protective aura and then injected into the body of the Five Poison Saint.

Immediately afterward, to the astonishment of Fan Sanshan and Cheng Shifei, the corpse of the Five Poison Saint began to dissolve rapidly, as if a basin of sulfuric acid had been poured on it, producing a cloud of green smoke.

In less than a hundred breaths, the corpse of the Five Poison Saint was completely dissolved, leaving only his clothes on the ground.

"What kind of poison is this? It actually dissolved a person?"

Gu Shaoan said, "Corpse-dissolving water, although it is a poison, is ineffective on living people. It is something specifically used to dispose of corpses."

"The Five Poisons Saint's poison skills have been integrated into his blood and bone marrow. If he is left unattended or buried directly in the ground, I'm afraid this area of ​​several dozen feet will become a poisonous land, and ordinary people passing by will also be affected by the toxins."

Fan Sanshan nodded and said, "Brother Gu is indeed very thoughtful."

After explaining to the two, Gu Shaoan stepped forward and walked up to the Five Poison Saint.

By the light of the still-burning wooden stick on the ground, Gu Shaoan noticed that there seemed to be something underneath the Five Poison Saint's clothes.

With a gentle flick of his long sleeves, he lifted his clothes, revealing a collection of bottles and jars, as well as a palm-sized jade box.

With a flick of their fingertips, Fan Sanshan and Cheng Shifei opened the jade box and discovered that inside was a colorful flower that looked like it had just been picked, as well as a fragment of jade.

It was when his gaze fell upon the flower in the jade box that Gu Shaoan's eyes suddenly lit up.

Immediately, he spread his five fingers, and the yin and yang energies directly guided the jade box into Gu Shaoan's hand.

"This is... a spider king flower?"

After examining it carefully, Gu Shaoan confirmed the contents of the jade box.

The Spider King Flower, resembling a peony in shape and with patterns resembling a spider, can only appear in places where poisonous spiders gather.

The poison is extremely potent; even a martial artist at the Celestial Realm level would be severely injured if poisoned by the Spider King Flower, even if they survive.

However, although the Spider King Flower is highly poisonous, it is the main ingredient in the Mingyu Pill.

Once a martial artist takes this Mingyu Pill, it will not only increase their internal energy by five years and purify their true essence, but also grant them immunity to all poisons.

When traveling the martial arts world, the most worrying thing is poison.

The ability to be immune to all poisons is obviously what it means for a martial artist.

Not to mention, the Spider King Flower also has the effect of increasing a martial artist's power and purifying their own true essence.

This spider flower is absolutely worth its weight in gold.

Among the medicines that Gu Shaoan asked Sun Baifa to inquire about was the Spider King Flower.

But even now, Sun Baifa has not found any information related to it, which is enough to show how rare this Spider King Flower is.

After confirming the contents of the box, Gu Shaoan couldn't help but smile with a beautiful curve.

"He's actually a treasure-delivering boy."

Gu Shaoan never expected that the Five Poison Saint Son would carry a rare Spider King Flower with him.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Shaoan shifted his gaze slightly to the jade stone in the box, a hint of doubt appearing in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)