Shadow in the Fire

As for the choice of poison, the easiest to obtain was undoubtedly arsenic.

As long as it was mixed into water, there was a chance of poisoning even if one did not drink it and merely used it to wash their body. Thanks to Jinxia City's increasingly prosperous trade, arsenic was not difficult to purchase as a medicinal substance. To avoid arousing suspicion, he had specifically entrusted groups of people to buy it separately, gathering more than a dozen sacks of crude product in just two weeks.

This arsenic, whose impurities had not yet been fully removed, was unsuitable for quietly murdering someone for money, but it was perfect for large-scale poisoning. Once it was carried through the water pipes into the homes of Jinxia City's residents, it would be hard for anyone to imagine that deadly poison had been mixed into it.

After working for roughly half an hour, all the arsenic had finally been poured into the pool.

"That should do it." Zhou Sheng stared at the churning water and said in a low voice.

With her victory in the Shenzhou War, Her Highness the Princess's reputation among the people had reached its peak. He now understood that to destroy such a rebel, the proper path was to strike from within. Just imagine it: people drank the fresh water delivered by the Affairs Bureau with hearts full of gratitude, only to suffer poisoning and collapse dead one after another. What would the situation become then?

By then, the Affairs Bureau would become executioners in every sense of the word!

And no matter how they tried to argue their way out of it, they would never escape blame.

With a little more fanning of the flames from him afterward, he would surely stir the whole city into a storm