Cold Poison

The ice-blue specks of light made up only a small portion, but for some inexplicable reason, they filled Yi Yun with a bone-chilling cold.

Yi Yun was very familiar with this cold. When he had first broken through the Qi Long Realm and gone down the mountain, he had felt it when he saw the tribesmen burning Savage Bones for the first time.

The ice-blue specks floated silently through the sky like ghosts.

Occasionally, a speck would break free from the mouth of the cauldron and slowly fly outward. Then, it would actually sink into the body of one of the tribesmen tending the fire.

Like a snowflake falling into water, the speck vanished without a trace.

In Yi Yun's vision, he could no longer find that energy speck. It seemed to have been absorbed by the tribesman's body.

Yi Yun's heart lurched. He vaguely realized that these ice-blue specks were probably the cause of the tribesmen's typhoid fever.

He calmly observed for quite a while and discovered that ice-blue specks would occasionally fly out and sink into the bodies of the tribesmen. The men continued tending the fire and chopping wood, completely unaware.

Yi Yun grew more and more certain of his guess. The purple-red energy did not fly into human bodies on its own. Instead, it remained in the "Li Fire Water."

It seemed that the energy within this Savage Bone was divided into two types. One was the purple-red energy beneficial to the human body, which could transform one's body and allow one to break through realms. The other was the ice-blue energy that could kill without a sound!

Energy being poisonous sounded abstruse, but it was actually nothing strange.

There were also many kinds of "poisonous" energy on Earth. Take sunlight, for example. It was "poisonous" as well, and only after being filtered and absorbed by the atmosphere could it nurture all things. Otherwise, if a human body were directly exposed to sunlight in space, it would soon be finished.

Moreover, several of the most terrifying poisons on Earth were all "poisonous" forms of energy. Take the radioactive element polonium, for example. It had poisoned Arafat, who used to appear frequently on the evening news.

If polonium were used to kill people, slightly more than a gram would be enough to kill ten million people. A few hundred grams could kill everyone on Earth. Compared with it, the notorious ** was a million times less poisonous.

Yi Yun believed that these blue specks probably possessed a similar energy nature. Perhaps calling them "poisonous" was not quite appropriate, but in any case, they could kill people.

Just as humans on Earth developed cancer, ulcers, and other diseases after being exposed to radioactive elements, people in the Great Wilderness would likewise contract strange illnesses like typhoid fever after the cold energy of Savage Bones entered their bodies, eventually dying from it.

"Then isn't it very dangerous for me to stand here?" After realizing this, Yi Yun's expression became somewhat ugly. He was not guarding a huge cauldron at all—he was guarding a nuclear reactor!

Thinking about it carefully, many things in this world looked completely different from those on Earth, yet they shared similarities.

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

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

Those experts could overturn mountains and seas, destroying an entire city with a turn of the hand!

Both kinds of energy could create the most terrifying destruction, and if used improperly, they were poisonous to ordinary people!

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

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

Yi Yun tried using the Purple Crystal to absorb the blue specks. Since the blue specks appeared in his vision, they should be absorbable by the Purple Crystal...

However, when he truly began absorbing them, Yi Yun discovered that the results were not very significant.

The Purple Crystal could indeed absorb the blue specks, but the absorption speed was extremely slow, far more difficult than absorbing the purple-red specks.

When Yi Yun finally pulled the first blue speck over, he drew a deep breath and cautiously extended his hand. His heart was pounding a little, but even if the Purple Crystal could not absorb this kind of energy, he would merely be exposed to a single speck. Surely he would not drop dead on the spot, right?

The blue speck sank into Yi Yun's body.

Yi Yun clearly felt the speck fly into his fingertip like an ice crystal before melting into his blood vessels.

"So cold!"

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

Yet strangely, although he felt it so intensely, the tribesmen remained completely unaware. Their physiques were far inferior to his, so there was no way they could withstand the cold better than he could.

It seemed that their senses were dull and they could not feel this bone-chilling cold. But their bodies would not 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 probably already have died.

After the blue speck entered his body, Yi Yun tracked its movement the entire time. It had been absorbed by the Purple Crystal, and in the end, it was decomposed and absorbed by the Purple Crystal as well. It then transformed into a stream of pure energy that merged into Yi Yun's blood.

When this energy stream returned to Yi Yun's body, the bone-chilling cold had already vanished, replaced by a familiar coolness that flowed throughout his body.

It was as comfortable as a mountain spring washing over his body.

This made Yi Yun sigh with emotion even more. He had no idea what level of treasure the Purple Crystal was. Even energies harmful to the human body—whether the ice-blue specks in the Savage Bone or the primordial energy released when Lian Chengyu had struck from the shadows—could all be absorbed by the Purple Crystal. It could even transform them into the most ordinary yet purest energy streams to nourish his body.

Yi Yun did not know that in the Great Wilderness, Savage Bones containing energy harmful to the human body were not rare. The Cold Python Savage Bones were merely a relatively low-level variety, and even a low-level Savage Heaven Master could neutralize them. To the Purple Crystal, neutralizing poison of this degree was nothing at all.

"Boy, what are you doing?"

Just as Yi Yun was engrossed in studying the differences between the two energies within the Savage Bone, he suddenly heard one of the tribesmen roar at him. In everyone else's eyes, Yi Yun had already been standing there in a daze for quite some time.

The tribesman who was intent on becoming the leader of this group naturally could not stand by and watch Yi Yun slack off.

"Uh..." Yi Yun gave a silly smile. "Sorry, Uncle. This ax is too heavy..."

"Hmph!" The tribesman looked as if he had known all along that Yi Yun was useless and said indignantly, "I really don't know what the people above are thinking, sending a little brat like you to burn Savage Bones. Aren't you just dragging me down? My good-for-nothing son Big Head is about your age, but he's got the strength of two of you!"

Setting aside Yi Yun's age, even among children his age, the former Yi Yun had been thin and weak, with little strength.

In the Great Wilderness, people worshiped the strong. Those rough-skinned, dark-complexioned, burly men took pride in their physiques.

Someone like Yi Yun, with his refined features and tender skin, belonged to the ranks of the "sickly," and was completely despised.

"I'm really sorry, Uncle. I didn't just drag your leg—I dragged it all the way to your balls. I'll try to do better from now on."

Yi Yun continued smiling foolishly. The tribesman was capable enough at work, but his reactions were naturally somewhat slow. For a moment, he did not understand what Yi Yun meant. He merely snorted before cursing as he went back to work.

Yi Yun also chopped wood without hurry. To avoid attracting unnecessary trouble, he slightly increased his speed. One piece of wood... well, he chopped it ten or eight times, spending five minutes hacking away before finally splitting it.

After all, he had to match his identity.

Yet at the same time, no one saw that all the purple-red energy surging within the great cauldron flew toward Yi Yun like fledglings returning to their nest.

As for the ice-blue energy, Yi Yun was doing his best to absorb it as well. Yi Yun felt that if he absorbed all this blue energy, the surrounding tribesmen would not be killed by it either.

Unfortunately, the Purple Crystal's absorption of the ice-blue energy was not very effective. A small amount of energy still seeped into the bodies of the dozen or so tribesmen nearby.

Seeing this, Yi Yun felt somewhat moved. Although these people were not likable, they did not deserve to die. However, there was nothing he could do to save them.

If he revealed the truth, not only would these tribesmen refuse to believe him, they might even report him to Lian Chengyu for spreading rumors and inciting the people to revolt, all to obtain the reward of cured meat.

These people were absolutely capable of doing that. When the time came, Yi Yun's fate could only be described with a chuckle.

In the Great Wilderness, the weak had to face their own suffering. There was nothing that could be done about it.

It was like pigs, cattle, and sheep. They had done nothing wrong, yet humans kept them in captivity before slaughtering them.

The reason was that they were useless. In this Great Wilderness, being useless was a crime! The useless could not decide their own fate; the useless could only be slaughtered at will!