When No Poison Beats Poison

Ouyang Ming's movements looked very strange; he wasn't the type to eat the food and then collapse.

Before Ouyang Ming collapsed, his body stiffened first...

Chu Xinghe thought Ouyang Ming was joking with everyone.

What is this? Is there poison in the food?

What the hell are you talking to me about?

I watched Sister-in-law Jiuli make this dish with my own eyes. Although Sister-in-law Jiuli is quite skilled at handling poisonous insects, has Jiuli gone mad?

She cooked this food for me and Feng Fei... What good would it do her to poison us?

What are the benefits of treating Wuj iang *?

Besides, even if we assume the worst, if Sister-in-law Jiuli had any sense at all, she should understand that although she, Medicine Saint Inheritance, doesn't dislike alchemy, it doesn't mean she's a complete novice in it, right?

Poisoning the Medicine Saint Inheritance? Do you think that's realistic?

So Chu Xinghe simply picked up a piece of green vegetable and put it in his mouth...

But the moment the vegetable touched his tongue, Chu Xinghe's first thought was... this vegetable isn't poisonous at all...

This is clearly an impending calamity!

A calamity upon a calamity!

The moment Chu Xinghe took a bite of that green vegetable, he felt his taste buds explode.

In that instant, I racked my brains but couldn't find a suitable adjective to describe the exact taste of that green vegetable.

I can't even find a decent word to describe it...

It tastes bad? This isn't just about the taste!

Who is Ouyang Ming?

Ouyang Ming had led the Ouyang Lineage on a long and arduous journey, eating garbage and swill...

Chu Xinghe once believed that there was nothing in this world that Ouyang Ming n't eat, only things he couldn't get his hands on.

But today... Sister-in-law Jiuli's cooking is absolutely amazing! It completely defeated Ouyang Ming!

What's even stranger is that, from its appearance, this dish looks exactly like a delicious delicacy... it's glistening with oil, and not just shiny.

Even from a distance, you can smell the aromas of various delicious dishes.

But Chu Xinghe couldn't understand how it was possible to make something look delicious, smell wonderful, and taste like it was fried.

Sister -Jiuli... is this the Gu technique of the Wuj iang?

Feng Fei saw Chu Xinghe standing there, looking completely bewildered, but Feng Fei quickly recovered and picked up a piece of lean meat...

The next second... Senior Brother Feng Fei got hard... Don't misunderstand, he got hard all over... Then, like Ouyang Ming, he collapsed...

"Senior Brother Feng..." Chu Xinghe was dumbfounded. Senior Brother Feng, are you out of your mind...?

Didn't you see I only picked up a small piece of greens? From a culinary perspective, greens are harder to flavor...

You've got some nerve, daring to imitate Ouyang Ming and pick up a piece of lean meat with your chopsticks... Don't you know that, from a culinary perspective, lean meat absorbs flavor much more easily than vegetables...?

The scene was somewhat chaotic at this point. Chu Xinghe looked at Jiuli with a bewildered expression, while Jiuli also looked completely lost, as if she had no idea what she had done wrong.

Faced with such a bewildered sister -Jiuli, Chu Xinghe could only say one thing... Sister-in-law... how did you manage to cook to this level?

I had heard of a poison that was more potent than poison itself... but I had only ever heard rumors and never seen it in person. Today, I have seen it...

Not only did you achieve colorless and odorless, you even managed to make it look, smell, and taste amazing... except the texture is absolutely explosive...

Those senior brothers and sisters from the Everlasting Spring Palace used to brag to me about how incredibly vicious the poisons from the Everlasting Spring Palace were...

At this moment, I hereby declare that, in front of my sister-in-law Jiuli, the poison from the Everlasting Spring Palace is nothing...

You consider Everlasting Spring Palace poisonous?

Your poisons are indeed potent, but look at my sister-in-law Jiuli's food. It contains no poison at all, yet it can still leave a person half-dead. I ask you, can your Everlasting Spring Palace do that?

The successive collapses of Ouyang Ming and Feng Fei caused chaos throughout the kitchen; no one knew which unlucky soul started it.

The chefs were also very curious about what kind of food could cause such a reaction in a person.

So, after obtaining Jiuli's consent, the brave cooks decided to try it themselves.

"My sense of taste... my sense of taste..." A cook cried out after tasting a mouthful of soup, then collapsed, his sense of taste gone.

The other chefs were shocked, but curiosity is something that's really hard to control.

Chu Xinghe tried everything to persuade them, but he couldn't stop these incredibly curious chefs. It was just like when someone told you never to put a light bulb in your mouth, or you wouldn't be able to get it out. In the following two weeks, the hospital saw quite a few patients with light bulbs in their mouths.

What? You say it tastes bad... I disagree. As a chef, I've been through the stage of tasting bad food myself, so just how bad is it?

As for just how bad it was, you could tell from the sight of the chefs lying all over the floor.

With tears in his eyes, Chu Xinghe sent a message to the Everlasting Spring Palace...

A moment later, Nangong Yan, the senior disciple of the Everlasting Spring Palace, led a group of junior disciples directly to the kitchen.

For some reason, Senior Sister Nangong Yan, who is usually very kind to me, has been looking at me with evasive eyes lately, as if she has wronged me.

"Senior Sister Nangong, hurry and save them... They must be poisoned..." At this moment, Chu Xinghe couldn't think of a better word than "poisoned" to describe the situation.

With a solemn expression, Nangong Yan led her fellow disciples from the Everlasting Spring Palace to get to work.

But a moment later, Nangong Yan looked at Chu Xinghe and Jiuli with a blank expression.

"Who poisoned you? What... what kind of poison is this?"

The scene was somewhat out of control... Nangong Yan, the senior sister of the Everlasting Spring Palace Nangong, is said to be born with Myriad Poison Physique, making her an absolutely invincible figure among the younger generation when it comes to the art of poison.

Even the head of the Everlasting Spring Palace said that in a few years, Nangong Yan's ability to use poison would definitely surpass his.

But today, Senior Sister Nangong, who is known as the Little Poison King, shamelessly asked what kind of poison this was?

Senior Sister Nangong, if your chief elder heard what you just said, he'd probably vomit blood on the spot, you know that?

What happened to the promise that Nangong Sister Nangong could identify all the world's rare poisons with just one glance?

Are you being polite by asking us what kind of poison it is?

Nangong Yan's forehead was now covered in cold sweat, because she had just checked it very carefully.

But that's where the weirdness lies... These people on the ground look like they've been poisoned; otherwise, why would their faces be green?

The problem is... I checked their entire bodies, but there were no signs of poisoning.

That's impossible... As someone with Myriad Poison Physique, I've never encountered a poison that I couldn't completely identify?

Could it be something that Junior Brother Xinghe created?

Just as Nangong Yan was wondering, Jiuli spoke up with an embarrassed look on her face, "Um... Senior Sister Nangong... it wasn't poison, it was my food..."

Everyone in the Everlasting Spring Palace: "???"

Nangong Yan Yanren was dumbfounded. "Sister-in -Jiuli, are you kidding me?"

Has your food reached a point where it's better to be non-toxic than toxic?

Subsequently, under Nangong Yan's command, a disciple of the Everlasting Spring Palace stepped forward and volunteered to test the poison on himself.

He first circled the food, then leaned down to smell it. His opinion of the food was quite positive...

But after he casually picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth...

There was another disciple of the Everlasting Spring Palace on the ground...

He didn't even last a second longer; the moment the meat entered his mouth, he foamed at the mouth and collapsed... And this was supposed to be a poison test?!

You could at least say one word so Nangong Yan can figure out what's going on...

Look, you've made Nangong Yan's face turn green.

Nangong Yan's face turned green, especially when she saw the bewildered looks on Jiuli and Chu Xinghe's faces. Nangong Yan felt that today might be the biggest challenge she had ever faced in her life.

If we can't identify the poison today, we'll be risking the entire reputation of the Everlasting Spring Palace, won't we?

Keep testing the poison!

Soon, the Everlasting Spring Palace disciples, undaunted by the deadly poison, launched their attack. And the result... apart from Nangong Yan, only Chu Xinghe and Jiuli remained standing in the kitchen.

"Senior Sister Nangong, don't be impulsive..." Chu Xinghe grabbed Nangong Yan, who was about to risk everything by testing the poison on herself. Senior Sister Nangong, although I know you have Myriad Poison Physique definitely can't withstand my sister-in-law Jiuli's cooking.

Nangong Yan's tears fell. Since its establishment, Everlasting Spring Palace had never won the title of the best in the world. However, everyone knew that it wasn't that Everlasting Spring Palace was incompetent, but that using poison was not a very honorable method. So, even if they won the title of the best in the world, they wouldn't show their face, right?

But the people of the Everlasting Spring Palace never doubted that their poison skills were not the best in the world.

Even when she heard that Jiuli was coming from Wuj iang, Nangong Yan said that she wanted to spar with her junior sister Jiuli.

After all, Wuj iang is also a master of poisons; we should all learn from each other and improve together, right?

But today, Nangong Yan felt that Everlasting Spring Palace had been challenged by a huge force. Jiuli had defeated a group of elite disciples of the Everlasting Spring Palace with just one meal. It was a disgrace to the Everlasting Spring Palace!

While Nangong Yan was lost in thought, the green color on Ouyang Ming's body had almost faded away, and he slowly woke up from the ground.

Looking at the people lying all around him, including some from the Everlasting Spring Palace, Ouyang Ming's mind was completely blank.

What happened here? Why are so many people collapsing?

But soon, Ouyang Ming finished turning on the device and finally remembered everything that had just happened. When his gaze fell on the food on the table...

Ouyang Ming felt a chill run down his spine. Ouyang Ming realized that it wasn't just the food that was poisoned; it was the food containing Jiuli's sister-in-law's poison...

Compared to Sister Jiuli's dishes, what's so scary about poison?

But... even though Sister-in-law Jiuli's food is more terrifying than poison, why... do I still find myself savoring it?

As time went by, the others also woke up one after another, but each of them looked at Jiuli with a hint of respect in their eyes.

Especially the junior brothers and sisters of the Everlasting Spring Palace, each of them had a bit of fanaticism in their eyes.

Just as Chu Xinghe was saying that they should quickly clean up Jiuli's sister-in-law's dishes and make sure there were no more victims, a thud was heard. Everyone turned to look... and saw Ouyang Ming, chopsticks in hand and half a piece of vegetarian chicken still in his mouth, had collapsed again...