Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Toxin Cleansing Expert, Innate Realm 6th-Tier! The Girls Got Poisoned?

【Looking out from the capital across Great Qian, it was already a place where talents gathered.】

【But you discovered that most people's Talent Tags were still low-potential white ones.】

【Only a very small number of people had green Talent Tags.】

【As for blue Talent Tags, you could meet 10,000 people and still struggle to find a single one.】

【Let alone pick one that satisfied you.】

【You discovered that those martial arts experts and young prodigies were more likely to produce high-quality Talent Tags.】

【You wandered around like this for over 10 days, until finally, among a group of drug testers at a pharmacy, you stumbled upon a satisfying Talent Tag: Toxin Cleansing Expert.】

【Toxin Cleansing Expert (5-Star Green): Your body naturally generates a purifying force, clearing 1/10 of the residual Pill Toxin every day, and granting immunity to ordinary toxins.】

【The original owner of the Tag was named Liu Ming, a young man from a poor family.】

【Because he possessed a talent for purifying toxins, he drifted between various pharmacies, working as a drug tester to earn a meager income.】

【You immediately pulled him out from among the group of drug testers.】

【Liu Ming was shocked, his face draining of color.】

【He had long heard that some noble young masters had perverse hobbies.】

【Though he was a lowly drug tester, he still had his own dignity.】

【Liu Ming swore he would rather die than comply, so you had no choice but to have your guards knock him out, and amid the crowd's strange stares, he was loaded onto the carriage.】

【After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Liu Ming was sent back out.】

【Liu Ming regained consciousness, tears of humiliation streaming down his face.】

Are rich people really that great?

Can rich people just trample on others' dignity however they please?

【When he pulled a 100-tael Silver Note from his robes, his face instantly broke into a delighted smile.】

Rich people really aren't that great—but as long as they're paying, then they really are the boss.

【Now that you'd obtained 【Toxin Cleansing Expert】, you could rest easy going forward.】

【You only needed to wait 10 days, and the Pill Toxin in your body would be cleared out completely.】

【For the next 10 days, you sang and feasted every night at the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.】

【This term's Top Courtesan title, since you hadn't participated, ended up falling to Dong Xiao-wan.】

【No helping it—who told you to be under house arrest at the time?】

【But now that you were out, you'd make sure to properly satisfy them.】

【In the last Simulation, Li Xiang-jun and Dong Xiao-wan had fled one after another.】

【This time, you wouldn't allow anyone to bully the two of them.】

【You were determined to make both of them know your worth.】

【10 days later, the two beauties and the other Golden Flowers saw you off amid a chorus of tears—bitterness finally turned sweet.】

【You sighed in admiration—the girls of the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion really were too passionate.】

【No wonder it was a century-old establishment—it truly knew how to run a business.】

【When you returned to the Guardian King's Manor, Elder Chen gave your body a check-up, and when he discovered that the Pill Toxin in your body had suddenly vanished almost entirely, his eyes instantly widened like bronze bells, utterly disbelieving.】

How is this possible?

That was Pill Toxin.

Who could clear it out this fast?

【You let out a sly chuckle and said that you'd run into an old beggar on the street, who claimed to be a man of fate, and in just a few hours, had cleared the Pill Toxin from your body completely.】

【Elder Chen's eyelid twitched.】

A few hours?

That would have to be a Martial God acting in person.

Did you actually run into a Martial God, you brat?

Beings like a Martial God, who could level a city with a wave of the hand, were rare even across all of Great Qian.

For you to run into one, you brat, you really must have had dog-shit luck.

【Of course you hadn't met any Martial God—you'd simply made up an excuse to fob off Elder Chen.】

【That said, Elder Chen's background was rather mysterious too.】

【He had drifted here from the Wu Kingdom over 10 years ago.】

【Because of his exceptional medical skill, he had cured Old Master Zhao of quite a few stubborn ailments, and was thus kept on at the Manor.】

【He only ever said that both his parents had died and that he was a wandering physician—you had no idea what his actual background was.】

【But in the last Simulation, he had used the Earth-Escape Art, revealing strength at the Mystic Core Realm.】

【His background was definitely not as simple as he claimed.】

【For now, it seemed he held no ill will toward you, so you couldn't be bothered to pry further.】

【Still, this old guy had screwed you over in the last Simulation, after all, by not taking you with him when he fled.】

【So don't blame yourself if this time, you found a chance to screw him over in return.】

【Next came another joyful round of pill-popping.】

You hadn't popped pills in over a month, and you were dying for it.

【Now that you were at Innate Realm 5th-Tier, breaking through to Innate Realm 6th-Tier required your Internal Force to spread through every inch of flesh and blood in your body.】

【Achieving this step was far harder than spreading it through the five organs and six viscera.】

【Mainly because within the flesh and blood, there were simply too many tiny meridians and acupoints.】

【And Martial Force was rather violent in nature—the slightest carelessness could easily injure one's own body.】

【To break through this tier, you planned to take two types of medicine simultaneously.】

【One was the Hundred Refinement Body Tempering Pill, the other was the Spring Restoration Blood-Clotting Dew.】

【The former strengthened the physique, the latter healed injuries.】

【If it weren't for the 【Toxin Cleansing Expert】 Tag, you would never have dared to do this, because you feared your body couldn't withstand it.】

【But now that you had it, you decided to go all out.】

【Tempering your body while healing at the same time.】

【This way, the effect would undoubtedly be the best.】

【You first took a 【Hundred Refinement Body Tempering Pill】 worth 6,000 taels each, and your expression instantly twisted into a mask of agony.】

【This medicine's effect was just too intense.】

【Had you known, you'd have bought the ordinary 1,000-tael Body Tempering Pill instead.】

【After you refined the 【Hundred Refinement Body Tempering Pill】, your physique strengthened by at least 1/10.】

【But your body was also left with no small amount of hidden injuries.】

【You immediately used the 【Spring Restoration Blood-Clotting Dew】 to heal them.】

【Once your body had mostly recovered, you took the ordinary Body Tempering Pill again, and its pathetic effect immediately made you frown.】

【Forget it—a little pain was just a little pain.】

【When Heaven is about to confer a great mission on someone, they must first endure some suffering.】

【Just like that, 2 months passed in a blink.】

【You only stopped once the 【Hundred Refinement Body Tempering Pill】's effect on you had become negligible.】

【By this point, your physique had strengthened by more than 3 times over.】

【Your physical body's strength had reached a staggering 100,000 catties.】

【If you couldn't break through to Innate Realm 6th-Tier after all this, you might as well find a block of tofu and smash your head into it.】

【Another half a month later, you successfully spread all your Internal Force through every inch of flesh and blood in your body.】

【You had stepped into Innate Realm 6th-Tier!】

【This time, it had only taken 2.5 months of cultivation to complete the breakthrough—a frighteningly fast pace.】

【In all this, your 【Toxin Cleansing Expert】 deserved most of the credit.】

【If not for how powerfully it purified toxins, you wouldn't have dared pop pills this aggressively.】

【After the breakthrough, you planned as usual to head to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion to relax a little.】

【However, the place was now filled with plenty of unfamiliar faces.】

【The Madam hinted to you obliquely, saying that all the girls you'd previously been with had been poisoned, and that she'd had to bring in girls from other cities.】

【You were utterly stunned.】

Poisoned? How could that be?

You weren't poisonous.

Could it be…

【Suddenly, it hit you—the last time you'd come here, you had just obtained 【Toxin Cleansing Expert】, and it had been continuously expelling the toxins from your body, especially the Pill Toxin.】

Could it be that these toxins were what poisoned the girls?

【You demanded of the Madam why she hadn't told you in time.】

【Madam: ……】

You had nearly beaten the son of Wang Er-he, the Minister of Revenue, to death.

If she dared say it was you who'd poisoned them, you'd probably smash the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion's signboard to pieces.