Granny Snow did not merely fling away the glowing fragment. She actually severed one of her own palms, like a lizard shedding its tail to survive, throwing away even a hand.
The severed palm, once freed from her control, abruptly turned into frost, freezing the ground for dozens of yards beyond the stream. Even a stretch of the stream not far from the tree was frozen solid.
Seeing this, everyone in the tree immediately remembered that, with this old demoness's peculiar demon body, poison was of little use against her.
Granny Snow watched ice crystals emerge from the stump of her severed hand. The crystals quickly condensed into the shape of an ice-carved palm, blue light rippling within them. Once the blue light receded, it returned to the shape of a normal hand. She sneered repeatedly. "It was Bewitching Heart Powder!"
The personnel from the nearby Nine Sacred Lands were already panic-stricken at the sight. They understood why the Boundless Fruit Tree had blossomed. The Boundless Fruit they had been guarding were gone, stolen by someone unknown. The fruits hanging from the tree were actually fakes.
And judging by the situation, whoever had stolen the fruits had not only taken them, but had even poisoned the fake fruits left behind.
Bewitching Heart Powder? At the mention of that name, the personnel of the Nine Sacred Lands exchanged looks. It was not some deadly poison—perhaps it could not even be called poison at all. It was merely a cheap hallucinogen from the cultivation world. Someone had actually tampered with fake Boundless Fruit using such a thing?
Bewitching Heart Powder could not poison anyone to death. It was even ineffective on ordinary people. It only reacted with a cultivator's internal mana, producing hallucinations.
It would not affect a cultivator's mana or cultivation