Second floor of the wooden house.
Xiang Yuan finally saw Yin Mu clearly for the venomous viper she was. Of the three storage rooms, neither too large nor too small, two were filled with venomous insects sealed in containers. Some were raised on poisonous herbs to grow stronger, while others were kept together to refine gu.
The last room was an insect-breeding chamber. From dried-out to freshly alive, it contained four human-shaped bags of treasures.
The specific sights need not be described. They were riddled with holes, enough to make one's scalp crawl. Whether or not one had a fear of clustered patterns, one look would leave them unable to eat for three days.
Keeping well away from the three storage rooms, Xiang Yuan entered a room that served as both study and bedroom. There were two shelves. One was packed with bottles and jars, along with a great deal of medicinal powder that had yet to be processed. The other was neatly lined with books: a map of the Southern Border marking its many factions, methods used by the Five Poisons Cult to concoct poisons, and the Cloud-Wreathed Emerald Mist Palm manual Xiang Yuan had been seeking.
After trying it out, he found that the Formless Seal Method could indeed imitate it, but this palm technique had additional requirements for its user.
They had to be skilled with poison, or possess intensely poisonous true qi.
Three Yin True Qi would not do. It was too poisonous.
Without intensely poisonous true qi to complement it, the Cloud-Wreathed Emerald Mist Palm could not wreathe mist around itself. Its palm force soared into the clouds one moment and sank into mountain valleys the next, moving with nimble grace. Beautiful as it was, though, shaping clouds and mist into all kinds of marvelous