The jade-green poisonous mist flowed slowly through her meridians, clinging to their walls wherever it touched and greedily eating away at them like bloodsucking leeches.
The main branch was the thickest, coiled around her dantian and almost completely enveloping it.
The smaller branches spread through her limbs and bones in a fine mesh, with the thinnest strands already burrowing into the meridians at the tips of her fingers and toes.
Several branches had already approached the meridians around her heart, barely an inch away!
The jade-green poisonous mist had already stained the outer walls of those meridians green.
Dai Mobai's expression grew grave.
He dared not hesitate for even a moment. The instant he determined the course of the serpent poison, three blood-colored Soul Rings appeared beneath his feet.
The three dark-red Soul Rings slowly revolved beneath his feet, their glow reflected on the walls of the Bedchamber, bathing the entire room in a deep, dark red.
Dai Mobai took a deep breath and summoned the power of all three Soul Rings.
He pressed two fingers together and gently rested them against Dugu Yan's lower abdomen.
Her skin was icy to the touch, even carrying a faint, prickling sting.
It was as though a layer of frost covered Dugu Yan's skin, and the temperature beneath his fingertips was unnaturally low.
The chill spread from his fingertips into his palm, as though he were holding a piece of thousand-year-old ice.
The sting came from the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison clinging to the surface of her skin. The visible jade-green poisonous mist tried to burrow into his fingertips the instant it touched him.
Dai Mobai ignored those probing traces of poison.
He channeled Soul Power into his fingertips, instantly crushing the serpent poison invading the surface of his skin.
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