Inside the stone cave, miasma lay thick and still, and all was deathly silent.
Wang Yuan sat cross-legged atop a Blue Stone platform, his mind clear and empty, the meridians throughout his body completely relaxed as he slowly circulated the Myriad Poisons Body Devouring Great Method from the "Myriad Poisons True Scripture" in strict accordance with its principles.
He did not rush for success. Instead, following the essence of the technique, he first laid a foundation with medicinal poisons that were the most yin and gentle, with the longest-lasting penetration, refining his mortal flesh and blood layer by layer.
With a lift of his hand, three Seven-Leaf Snakeprolonging Grass plants, flawless in quality and with dark, glistening juice seemingly about to drip from their stems and leaves, floated above his palm.
This grass grew only in the thousand-year poison-miasma lands of Qingteng Valley. Its seven leaves curled and twisted like coiling vipers, and its medicinal nature was yin, clinging, and treacherous.
It excelled at slipping through cracks and invading the meridians, specifically cleansing the skin, flesh, sinews, bones, and minute impurities within the human body. It was the safest entry-level poisonous material for Myriad Poisons body tempering.
Force Power lightly surged from Wang Yuan's fingertips.
With a soft pop.
The three Snakeprolonging Grass plants instantly exploded, their ink-black poisonous juice turning into fine strands of toxic mist that seeped into every opening, drilling through Wang Yuan's pores, mouth, nose, and seven apertures.
In the next instant, dense, needle-like pain spread through his limbs and bones.
This pain was nothing like the explosive agony of directly resisting external force.
Rather, it was the searing, numb agony of countless tiny snakes drilling into the gaps in his flesh, winding through his meridians and tissues as they gnawed away.
Every inch of skin