Cultivation begins with the Druid panel

Chapter 159 Hallucinogenic Toxins

Lu Lin glanced at the spider in Shi Jiayi's hand. There was no spiritual energy fluctuation on the spider, as if it were just an ordinary poisonous spider. Logically speaking, the venom of such a spider should not have any effect on cultivators, but at this moment Lu Lin felt dizzy and lightheaded.

How did the spider manage to inject him with venom without his senses noticing?

Seeing that Lu Lin's state was becoming increasingly dazed, Shi Jia slowly explained, "The greatest characteristic of poison cultivators' methods is that they are undetectable. You let your guard down, and I succeeded. If I were a poison cultivator who was your enemy, you would have been killed by now."

My master said back then that you lacked practical experience, and he was right.

As she spoke, Shi Jiayi emerged from the bamboo grove and came to stand before Lu Lin.

However, at that moment, Lu Lin's lips curled up slightly, his mood immediately improved, and he stared at Shi Jiayi with a normal expression.

Shi Jia was clearly taken aback, immediately frowning and asking in surprise, "You weren't poisoned?"

"Of course he's been poisoned." Lu Lin nodded, but then bit his finger, dripping a drop of blood onto the stone. Shi Jiayi was very close to Lu Lin at that moment, and immediately sensed an extreme amount of yang energy in that drop of blood. Her expression changed slightly, and she blurted out, "Pure yang energy?"

Lu Lin nodded slightly. "Senior Sister is right, it is indeed pure Yang energy. The toxin from earlier belonged to the Five Senses Poisons," which is neither Yin nor Yang, so I have no immunity to it. However, the toxins of the "Five Poisonous Insects" are Yin, which are countered by my pure Yang energy, and have very little effect on my body. Therefore, the little spider's toxin is useless against me."

Shi Jia was taken aback by Lu Lin's unexpected methods and was momentarily stunned.

Shi Jia said, "Most toxins are of the Yin attribute. If you possess pure Yang energy, then the vast majority of toxins in the world will be ineffective against you. It seems that poison cultivators can only do so much harm to you."

Lu Lin smiled confidently: "Of course."

Upon hearing Lu Lin's words, Shi Jia continued, "However, those who need to train still need to train; that's unavoidable."

As she spoke, Shi Jiayi sat cross-legged on a rock in the bamboo forest and gestured for Lu Lin to sit beside her. Lu Lin did as she asked and sat cross-legged on another rock next to Shi Jiayi.

However, just as he sat cross-legged on the rock, he suddenly frowned.

He hadn't noticed anything amiss when he was standing on the ground, but now that he was sitting cross-legged, he sensed something was wrong through muscle memory. Usually, when he sat cross-legged on the stone, he could hear the rustling of bamboo leaves in the breeze, but why couldn't he hear it now?

As Lu Lin thought of this, a sharp pain suddenly shot through the depths of his mind. When he looked up again, he found that Shi Jia, who had been sitting cross-legged beside him, had disappeared, replaced by an invisible and intangible void.

This is— Lu Lin rubbed his head, only then realizing that everything that had just happened was a hallucination, and the poison he had been given at the beginning had never been cured.

Realizing this, Lu Lin immediately took out a book from his Qiankun bag and carefully opened it.

The poison Shi Jiayi gave him was not just a "sense poison," but also a hallucinogenic drug.

This hallucinogenic drug can not only pull people into a hallucination without them even realizing it, but it can also gradually cause the poisoned person to lose their five senses, making it capable of killing people invisibly!

"How could my senior sister be so cruel to me? She gave me such a potent poison right from the start." Lu Lin thought to himself as he immediately looked at the book in his hands.

The panel in front of me was refreshing rapidly, and the experience points for Heart of Nature and Divine Enlightenment were rising even faster.

But Lu Lin's heart grew increasingly heavy.

Finally, he found a way to break the poison in a book, but the prerequisite for detoxification was to break free from the illusion. Breaking free from the illusion was simple: find something in the illusion that did not belong to the illusion. Once he found that thing, he could escape the illusion.

Lu Lin immediately began searching around.

This bamboo forest is part of an illusion, as are the stones. So what here isn't something that originally existed in the illusion?

Lu Lin's mind raced, and finally his gaze fell on the book in his hand. After hesitating for a moment, he threw the book on the ground, only to find that it was completely free of dust. Clearly, the book was actually a classic text that the illusion had reproduced based on his original memories.

"If it's not a book, then what is it?" Lu Lin frowned, then suddenly remembered something: when he lay down just now, he felt a slight chill, and that chill was real.

Thinking of this, Lu Lin immediately turned his head, only to see that a silver needle was stuck in the originally smooth stone. Lu Lin immediately walked over, reached out and pulled the silver needle out of the stone. The scene in front of Lu Lin changed the moment the silver needle was pulled out.

Shi Jia was sitting cross-legged on a rock in front of Lu Lin, reading a book in her hand.

He remained standing still, only using his right hand to remove the silver needle inserted into his left shoulder.

Shi Jiayi noticed Lu Lin's movements, raised her eyes slightly, and a look of astonishment flashed in her eyes. She looked up at the sky and realized that only half an hour had passed since Lu Lin was poisoned. He had broken the illusion in just half an hour. Lu Lin's detoxification speed had exceeded Shi Jiayi's expectations.

After Lu Lin's consciousness returned to reality, he immediately sat cross-legged on the stone next to Shi Jiayi and began to use his spiritual power to refine his meridians and acupoints, forcing the remaining toxins in his body to his throat in the manner recorded in the book.

A burning pain shot through his throat, a pain that even his spiritual power couldn't shield him from. Lu Lin could only endure it, then spat out a mouthful of blood. The blood, stained with dirt, emitted a strange smell.

It was the smell of the toxins that Shi Jia had injected into his body.

Seeing that Lu Lin had already done this, Shi Jia closed the book in her hand and laughed at Lu Lin: "The detoxification time is only half an hour. The speed is not slow, but if I am really a poison cultivator, you will have died within this half hour."

Lu Lin wanted to explain.

However, the numbness in his vocal cords did not recover quickly after the detoxification. At this moment, Lu Lin was still speaking unclearly, and in the end, he could only use his spiritual power to transmit his voice: "If I didn't trust you so much, Senior Sister, I wouldn't have fallen for this so easily."

Shi Jia raised her hand and tapped Lu Lin, scolding him, "If I weren't your senior sister, you wouldn't have survived. You let your guard down, so don't make excuses for yourself."

"Rest for a moment now, and we'll continue once your vocal cords have recovered."