Jiang Wang fell silent for a while, recalling the marquis who had been stripped and whipped at the grand ceremony until he could barely stand. At last, he digested the news and said, "Does Master Wu mean that Tian Xili was the one who did it back then? How did he dare?"
Lin Youxie did not answer directly. Instead, she explained, "Myriad Spirit Frozen Snow isn't a naturally occurring poison. It isn't even really a poison at all. It was first created for a Daoist Art called Three-Nine Cold Cicada. The art is powerful and strange, and its cultivation is incredibly difficult. Among ten thousand cultivators, hardly one can master it. But with Myriad Spirit Frozen Snow to aid them, they can achieve it very quickly."
Jiang Wang thought that it was much like an Art Medium to Immortal Arts.
Lin Youxie continued, "To make Myriad Spirit Frozen Snow, you need the fingertip blood of nine infants with completely different fates, the brow blood of nine girls with very different temperaments, the heart-tip blood of nine adults with different professions, and the life souls of nine different creatures. Then you use the secret method of Three-Nine Cold Cicada to meld them together... In the end, a snowflake forms. Since there are more than ten thousand possible combinations of ingredients, too many to calculate, it's called Myriad Spirit Frozen Snow."
"Later, people discovered that even without using it to cultivate Three-Nine Cold Cicada, Myriad Spirit Frozen Snow alone was enough to bring Cold Poison into a person's life the instant it touched their blood. There was no saving them. Only then did it come to be regarded as a poison, one of the most deadly in the world. Every batch made by a different person is unique."
"After Myriad Spirit Frozen