Lu Ye glanced at the activity of the Talent Tree within his Source Spirit Aperture, then at Hua Ci before him.
"Why did you poison me, you vicious woman?!"
Hua Ci was utterly astonished. "Are you really immune to all poisons?"
"Do you think I'm joking with you?"
"I don't believe it!"
"What inheritance did you obtain, exactly?"
Lu Ye naturally did not think Hua Ci wanted to poison him to death. Yet from the current situation, Hua Ci looked no different from before apart from having advanced one tier in cultivation. In truth, though, she had gained the ability to poison him without anyone noticing. No... it was more like she herself was steeped in deadly poison.
She had made no motion to poison him and left no trace of it. Simply holding his hand had allowed poison to seep into his body.
If that was truly the case, then his offhand remark about her being a vicious woman had really become a prophecy.
Lu Ye grew even more curious about the inheritance she had gained at Mount Ying!
That had been a Medical Cultivator's inheritance. How had it become connected to poison?
Then again, the mushroom-growing technique Hua Ci had used before had also come from that inheritance, so perhaps it was not all that strange.
Besides, many Medical Cultivators in the Nine Provinces were indeed skilled in poison. Poison was also a branch of medicinal theory, after all.
The Medical Cultivator who had left behind that inheritance... did not seem particularly respectable.
"You're really fine? Don't force yourself."
The two stood close enough to breathe on each other, their hands entwined in an intimate pose. Hua Ci spoke softly and gently. If one ignored the green oily sheen that kept surfacing over Lu Ye's wrist before vanishing