Got It

Watching the little cutie happily sipping tea, Long Xuan pondered for a moment. Then a gleam flashed in his eyes as a plan sprang to mind, and a sinister smile curled across his lips.

"Do you like tea? Fine tea is the one thing I never lack."

He still had some stir-fried Enlightenment Tea left over from his tea ritual. Its quality far surpassed every tea tree in this Medicine Garden. He refused to believe that such divine tea would fail to lure her in.

Long Xuan hesitated no longer. He immediately took out a cup of Enlightenment Tea and set it on the ground, then removed the Calamity Poison Gu from the Insect-Rearing Pouch and ordered it to spit a drop of venom into the teacup.

The Calamity Poison Gu could imitate any poison it had swallowed. The poison it spat into the cup was nonlethal, but it could make a living creature faint instantly.

"This tea...?"

Looking at the cup and lightly inhaling its drifting fragrance, Zhu Jiǔge's expression turned exceptionally grave.

She carried Shadow Tea with her and was naturally an expert tea connoisseur. Merely from the scent wafting from the tea, she could tell its quality. She knew that even Shadow Tea fell far short of it.

Upon seeing this tea, she finally understood why the River God Secret Realm's difficulty had risen. So it was all this fellow's doing.

If divine tea of this caliber were secretly poured into the river, it would be stranger if the River God Secret Realm did not undergo some upheaval. This man truly sowed wicked karma.

She could not help rolling her eyes at Long Xuan.

"There's no time to explain. Let's go!"

After setting down the poisoned Enlightenment Tea, Long Xuan saw its rich fragrance beginning to spread