Back at the inn, Qin Yu pushed open the door, casually took off his outer robe and draped it over the back of a chair, then turned and beckoned to Xiao Yi Xian.
"Come over. Sit down."
Xiao Yi Xian froze for a moment. Seeing Qin Yu's face, so serious it was almost stern, she inexplicably felt a little nervous.
Still, she obediently sat down, placing both hands properly on her knees like a patient waiting for a physician to take her pulse.
"That new idea of yours... what exactly is it?"
"What Frank said today gave me some inspiration."
Qin Yu sat across from her and began explaining his thoughts.
"Wood and fire are fundamentally mutually opposing forces, yet in an Alchemist's hands, wood can instead control fire."
"So I thought, if wood and fire can defy common sense, then perhaps wood and poison can as well."
Xiao Yi Xian only half understood, but as she pondered his words, she extended her hand.
Qin Yu grasped her wrist, and his consciousness extended through the Earth Vein.
A moment later, he drew a strand of gentle Wood Attribute energy up from deep underground and passed it through his body into Xiao Yi Xian.
But the instant that energy entered Xiao Yi Xian's meridians, Qin Yu furrowed his brow.
No. This wasn't the feeling.
The Wood Attribute energy within the Earth Vein was extremely pure, but once it entered Xiao Yi Xian's body, it was like a river.
It was indeed flowing, and it was indeed nourishing everything along its path, but it did not obey Qin Yu.
Qin Yu could draw it in, guide it, and make it complete a full cycle through Xiao Yi Xian's meridians.
But he could not make it actively sense where the poison was, much