"Blood Pool Origin." Zhou Xuan drew the droplet back into the bottle and sealed it. "Spoils I intercepted when I severed the channel earlier. Highly pure."
Old Ancestor Xuanming shifted his backside, putting a few more inches between himself and the bottle. "Why are you keeping that stuff? Didn't your last dose of poison already put her through enough?"
Zhou Xuan did not answer him. Instead, he looked at Emperor Jiang Wu. "Senior Jiang, what state is the Old Hag in now?"
Emperor Jiang Wu pondered for a moment. "After you poisoned her, her Dao Fruit came under siege from within and without. She cannot possibly return to her peak anytime soon. But her Blood Pool is still operating. As long as she keeps devouring origin source, she will suppress the deadly poison sooner or later."
"Exactly." Zhou Xuan nodded. "She needs origin source. Desperately."
The Alliance Leader added, "That was why she activated the Tether Line inside Chen Changgeng from afar. She wanted to feed on him right there, even at the cost of exposing her methods."
"She's starving." Zhou Xuan leaned against the back of his chair, his tone languid. "When people are starving, they want to shove everything they see into their mouths."
Old Ancestor Cangwu frowned. "What exactly are you planning?"
Zhou Xuan patted the bottle.
"I just planted marks in those people outside, right? Her Blood Pool's tether can no longer connect to them. As far as her senses are concerned, this group has suddenly vanished from the map."
The four Old Ancestors nodded.
"But what if..." Zhou Xuan paused, lightly flicking the bottle with a finger. "What if I diluted this drop of Blood Pool Origin, wrapped it around the Black-Gold Marks, and tucked it into the Dao Fruits of Xie Yuan and the