The next morning.
Before dawn had broken, Wei He set out in a carriage. The wheels jolted and rattled, rocking the carriage up and down.
Inside the carriage.
Wei He carefully checked all his preparations—his equipment, tools, medicines, and the special antidotal items he would need.
Though the White Jade Skill had detoxifying effects, it could only resist most relatively mild poisons.
It had little suppressive effect against extremely potent drugs.
At its root, the White Jade Skill was a cultivation process that continuously increased resistance to several targeted types of medicine.
This martial art required one to constantly consume medicinal herbs with different properties, thereby strengthening the body's drug resistance.
But this enhancement was not without a solution. As long as the drug's effects far exceeded those of the herbs used in training, it could break through that resistance. And against categories one had never trained against, it was equally useless.
Put bluntly, the White Jade Skill is really just using modern biological drug resistance and adaptability to create so-called detoxifying effects. It's only that a martial artist's powerful physique takes that resistance to an extreme.
But accordingly, while gaining this poison resistance, medicinal treatments of the same type also lose their effect. It has both advantages and drawbacks.
Wei He sat in the carriage, listening to the horses snorting outside, and his thoughts gradually settled.
There was some distance from Xuanjing City to Zhongling Mountain Villa, and he would pass Heavenly Seal Sect on the way. It was even farther than the route from Heavenly Seal Sect.
Halfway through the journey, just after passing Heavenly Seal Sect, Wei He saw an increasing number of horses and carriages.
They seemed to be heading in the same direction as him, toward Zhongling Mountain Villa.
Along the way, the flow of