Cold Poison

This ice-blue light, though present in a small proportion, inexplicably sent a bone-chilling cold through Yi Yun.

Yi Yun was familiar with this cold. The first time he felt it was after breaking through to the Qi Long Realm and descending the mountain, when he saw the strong men of the tribe refining Savage Bones.

The ice-blue light points floated silently in the sky, like ghosts.

Occasionally, a light point would drift away from the cauldron's opening and slowly fly outwards, eventually disappearing into the body of a man tending the fire.

Like a snowflake melting into water, the light point vanished.

In Yi Yun's vision, the energy point could no longer be found; it seemed to have been absorbed by the man's body.

Yi Yun's heart skipped a beat. He had a premonition that these ice-blue light points were the cause of the fire-tending men's typhoid fever.

He observed quietly for a while and noticed that ice-blue light points would occasionally fly out and enter the bodies of the men, who were busy tending the fire and chopping wood, completely unaware.

Yi Yun became increasingly certain of his guess. The purplish-red energy did not actively enter human bodies; instead, it remained within the "Li Fire Water."

It seemed the energy within this Savage Bone was divided into two types: one beneficial to the human body, capable of transforming one's physique and breaking through realms, which was the purplish-red energy; the other was the ice-blue energy, which killed people invisibly!

The idea of "poisonous" energy might sound fantastical, but it wasn't that strange.

On Earth, there were many types of "poisonous" energy. For instance, sunlight itself was "poisonous"; it was only after being filtered and absorbed by the atmosphere that it could nurture all life. Otherwise, if a human body were directly exposed to sunlight in space, it would quickly perish.

Furthermore, some of the most terrifyingly poisonous substances on Earth were also "poisonous" energies, such as the radioactive element polonium, which poisoned Yasser Arafat, who frequently appeared on the news.

If polonium were used to kill, just over a gram could kill ten million people. A few hundred grams of polonium could kill everyone on Earth, making it a million times more potent than the infamous **.

Yi Yun believed that these blue light points likely possessed similar energetic properties. Perhaps "poisonous" wasn't the most accurate term, but it was certainly capable of killing.

Just as people on Earth might contract diseases like cancer or develop sores after exposure to radioactive elements, in the Great Wilderness, people who had the cold energy of Savage Bones enter their bodies would contract strange illnesses like "typhoid fever" and die.

"Then isn't it very dangerous for me to be standing here?" Realizing this, Yi Yun's expression turned grim. He wasn't guarding a large cauldron; he was guarding a nuclear reactor!

Upon closer thought, many things in this world, while appearing completely different from Earth, shared similarities.

In terms of energy alone, Earth's most powerful energy could be used to create atomic bombs, ** , and nuclear power generation.

Here, the most powerful energy could be used to create peerless experts!

These experts could also move mountains and drain seas, and destroy a city with a flip of their hand!

Both types of energy could cause the most terrifying destruction, and if misused, they were poisonous to ordinary people!

Fortunately, Yi Yun possessed a treasure capable of controlling the energy of this world – the Purple Crystal.

"I hope the Purple Crystal can deal with this energy..."

Yi Yun attempted to absorb the blue light points with the Purple Crystal. Since these blue light points appeared in his vision, they should be absorbable by the Purple Crystal...

However, when he actually tried to absorb them, Yi Yun found the effect to be not very significant.

The Purple Crystal could indeed absorb the blue light points, but the absorption speed was very slow, far less efficient than absorbing the purplish-red light points.

When the first blue light point was absorbed by Yi Yun, he took a deep breath and cautiously extended his hand. His heart was pounding, but he reasoned that even if the Purple Crystal couldn't absorb this energy, he would only be exposed to one light point, not die instantly.

The blue light point entered Yi Yun's body.

Yi Yun clearly felt the light point enter his fingertip like a piece of ice crystal, then merge into his bloodline.

"So cold!"

That was Yi Yun's first sensation. It felt like being in the dead of winter, with a mischievous child stuffing a sliver of ice into his collar.

Yet, strangely, despite his strong reaction, the men seemed completely oblivious. Their physical condition was far inferior to his, so they shouldn't be able to withstand the cold better than him.

It seemed their senses were dulled, and they couldn't feel this bone-chilling cold. But their bodies wouldn't lie; under the invasion of the cold poison, they would slowly lose their vitality. If not for the red pills issued by the higher-ups of the Lian Clan, they would have probably died already!

After this blue light point entered his body, Yi Yun continuously tracked its whereabouts. It had been absorbed by the Purple Crystal, and ultimately, it was decomposed and absorbed by the Purple Crystal as well, transforming into a stream of pure energy that flowed into Yi Yun's blood.

When this energy flow returned to Yi Yun's body, the bone-chilling cold disappeared, replaced by a familiar coolness that spread throughout his body.

It felt incredibly comfortable, like being cleansed by mountain spring water.

This made Yi Yun sigh with emotion. He didn't know what level of treasure the Purple Crystal was. Even harmful energies, whether it was the ice-blue light points from the Savage Bones or the Vital Energy emitted by Lian Chengyu when he attacked, the Purple Crystal could absorb them and convert them into the most common yet purest energy flow to nourish his body.

In reality, Yi Yun didn't know that in the Great Wilderness, there were quite a few Savage Bones containing harmful energies. The Cold Python Savage Bones were just a relatively low-level one, which could be neutralized by a low-level Savage Heaven Master. For the Purple Crystal, neutralizing this level of toxicity was nothing.

"Kid, what are you doing!!"

Just as Yi Yun was engrossed in studying the difference between the two energies contained within the Savage Bone, he suddenly heard a strong man shouting at him. To others, Yi Yun had been spacing out for quite some time.

A strong man who aspired to be the "leader" of this group naturally couldn't stand Yi Yun's apparent laziness.

"Uh..." Yi Yun gave a sheepish grin. "Sorry, uncle, this axe is too heavy..."

"Hmph!" The strong man replied with an air of "I knew you couldn't do it," sounding displeased. "I really don't know what the higher-ups were thinking, letting a scrawny kid like you refine Savage Bones. Aren't you just holding us back? My son, Big Head, is about your age, but he's twice as strong as you!"

Never mind Yi Yun's age; even among children his age, the Yi Yun of the past was thin and weak, with little strength.

In the Great Wilderness, people worshipped strength. Rough, dark-skinned, burly men were proud of their physique.

Those with delicate features, fair skin, and tender flesh, like Yi Yun, were considered "sickly" and unwelcome.

"I'm truly sorry, uncle. I'm not just holding you back; I'm dragging you down completely. I'll try to do better from now on."

Yi Yun continued to smile sheepishly. The strong man was competent at his work but somewhat slow-witted. He didn't immediately grasp what Yi Yun meant. He just snorted and grumbled as he went back to work.

Yi Yun also slowly chopped firewood. To avoid attracting unnecessary trouble, he slightly increased his speed. One piece of firewood... well, it took about ten to eight chops, taking five minutes to split.

He had to live up to his identity, after all.

But at the same time, no one noticed that the purplish-red energy churning in the great cauldron was all flying towards Yi Yun like young swallows returning to their nest.

As for the ice-blue energy, Yi Yun was also doing his best to absorb it. Yi Yun felt that if he could absorb all this blue energy, then the surrounding strong men wouldn't have to die from the energy.

However, it was a pity that the Purple Crystal's absorption effect on the ice-blue energy was not significant, and a small amount of energy still seeped into the bodies of the dozen or so strong men around.

Seeing this, Yi Yun couldn't help but sigh. Although these people were not likable, they didn't deserve to die. However, he couldn't save them.

If the truth were revealed, these strong men would not only not believe him, but they might even report him to Lian Chengyu for spreading rumors and inciting rebellion in order to get the cured meat reward.

These people were absolutely capable of doing such a thing, and Yi Yun's fate at that time could only be described with a "heh."

In this Great Wilderness, the weak had to face their own suffering. There was no other way.

It was like pigs, cattle, and sheep. They had done nothing wrong, but they were raised by humans to be slaughtered.

The reason was their incompetence, and in this Great Wilderness, incompetence was a crime! Incompetence meant not being able to decide one's own fate, and incompetence meant being at the mercy of others!