Hearing Song Qingshu's words, Xiaolongnü asked blankly, "Can't you force the poison out with your inner strength now?"
Xiaolongnü had been poisoned as well, yet she had expelled the poison using her own inner strength. Song Qingshu's cultivation was far above hers, so she could not understand why he was in such a predicament.
Earlier, Song Qingshu had been too deeply poisoned to expel it. Now that the Golden Wave Poison Flower's venom had been suppressed, he should have been able to force it out with his cultivation.
Song Qingshu gave a bitter laugh. "The Golden Wave Poison Flower's venom is strange indeed, worthy of being named after a heavenly demon. Although my life is no longer in immediate danger, its poison has sealed my meridians. I can sense my strength scattered throughout my limbs and every aperture, but because the poison has penetrated deep into my meridians, my true qi can no longer circulate through a full cycle... In other words, I possess all my cultivation, yet I cannot use it."
It was not that he could not use it at all. Song Qingshu had tried several times just now, and perhaps once in ten attempts, he could muster a fraction of his true qi. Unfortunately, it lasted only an instant, fleeting beyond belief. It was utterly useless for expelling poison, and the sudden disappearance of his true qi could instead drive the venom deeper into his organs. Song Qingshu had only just achieved a delicate balance with the poison inside him. How could he dare continue taking such risks?
The thought that he had become like Duan Yu, with martial arts that worked one moment and failed the next, gave Song Qingshu a terrible headache. Strictly speaking, he was even worse off than Duan Yu. Though Duan Yu