Poison Outbreak: Why Is Master So Angry?

Wu Ya tried to channel more Dou Qi into the pill furnace, but at that moment, he suddenly discovered that the Dou Qi in his meridians felt as though it had been filled with lead, completely beyond his control!

Not only that, a wave of weakness surged up from every limb and bone.

"Not good!"

Wu Ya's expression changed drastically as a thought suddenly sprang from the depths of his heart.

Poisoned!

He abruptly opened his eyes, turned his head, and shot a blade-sharp gaze at Dugu Mei, who stood beside him.

"Mei'er! What did you do?!"

In the entire cave dwelling, aside from himself, Dugu Mei was the only other person present.

If she had not poisoned him, who else could it have been?

Startled by his vicious glare, Dugu Mei's heart skipped a beat, but her face displayed a dazed and aggrieved expression.

"Husband? What's wrong? I didn't do anything!"

Her face turned even paler, and her voice carried a tearful tremor.

"I... I don't know what happened either. I suddenly felt weak all over, and I can't even mobilize my Dou Qi!"

"Husband, could something have gone wrong with the Sky Centipede Poison? Did the poison leak out?"

She sounded utterly sincere, and since she truly had been poisoned as well, with symptoms similar to Wu Ya's, even he found himself uncertain for a moment.

Could the poison from the pill furnace really have leaked?

But that was not right. Though the Sky Centipede Poison was tyrannical, he had long since set up a protective formation. It could not possibly have leaked out.

Wu Ya's expression shifted unpredictably as he stared fixedly at Dugu Mei, trying to find some flaw in her face.

But Dugu Mei's acting was simply too good. Aside from grievance and fear, there was nothing else on her face.

"Humph! Whether you did this or not, we'll talk after I suppress the poison!"

With a cold snort, Wu Ya no longer had the time to continue refining poison. He decisively formed seals with both hands and began circulating his cultivation technique, trying to suppress the toxin within his body.

With no more Dou Qi feeding it, the flames beneath the pill furnace instantly dimmed, and the Sky Centipede Poison inside the furnace was declared a failure.

Ten years of painstaking work had been destroyed in an instant!

Though Wu Ya's heart ached, he could not spare the attention for it.

His most urgent priority was to suppress the poison in his body first.

Only when he circulated his cultivation technique did he realize that the situation was even more serious than he had imagined.

That poison was extraordinarily strange, clinging to him like gangrene in the bone. When he circulated his cultivation technique to suppress it, not only did he fail to force it out, but the toxin spread even faster!

In just a few breaths, he felt all the strength in his body being drained away. With his Dou Emperor cultivation, he could now exert less than thirty percent of his power.

"What poison is this?!"

Wu Ya was both shocked and enraged, his face turning an iron-blue color.

He had cultivated poison for decades and considered himself thoroughly familiar with all the world's strange poisons, yet he had never seen anything so bizarre.

Colorless and odorless, it took effect with astonishing speed and could spread along one's Dou Qi!

Just as he was suppressing the toxin, Dugu Mei, standing nearby, moved.

Taking advantage of the moment when Wu Ya had his eyes closed to regulate his breath, she quietly moved to the jade wall controlling the cave dwelling's restrictions and rapidly tapped it several times with her fingertips.

Click!

With a soft sound, the cave dwelling's restrictions were lifted.

The stone door slowly opened as well.

"How dare you!"

Though Wu Ya was regulating his breath, he had kept part of his attention on his surroundings.

Hearing the restrictions deactivate, he abruptly opened his eyes. The instant he saw Dugu Mei standing before the jade wall, he understood everything.

It was her!

She really had poisoned him!

This woman he had doted on for years had actually betrayed him!

"Dugu Mei! You bitch!"

Wu Ya was so furious that his eyes nearly split open. He sprang to his feet, intending to rush over and kill her.

But the moment he stood, his legs went weak and he nearly fell. The Dou Qi within his body had become a complete mess.

"Wu Ya, and you still curse me at a time like this?"

Dugu Mei stopped pretending. The grievance vanished from her face, replaced by resentment and a cold sneer.

"You are cruel and vicious yourself, with countless evil deeds to your name! I merely found a way out for myself!"

"A way out? With you?"

Wu Ya trembled with rage and pointed at her as he roared:

"You think you can deal with me just because you colluded with outsiders? Even if I've been poisoned, killing a Dou Wang like you would be as easy as turning my hand!"

He tried to forcibly gather his Dou Qi and kill Dugu Mei, the traitor.

Just then, an amused voice drifted in from the entrance of the cave dwelling.

"Master, why are you so angry? Could it be... that Mistress has done something to upset you?"

The voice carried a hint of teasing as it rang beside Wu Ya's ears.

Wu Ya sharply turned toward the entrance.

A youth in white was slowly walking in from outside, a faint smile on his face as he looked calmly at Wu Ya.

It was Lu Xia!

It was actually Lu Xia!

Wu Ya's pupils contracted sharply, and disbelief appeared on his face.

"You?! Lu Xia?!"

He looked at Lu Xia, then at Dugu Mei. His gaze swept back and forth between them as his mind buzzed into chaos.

How could it be Lu Xia?

Why was he here?

Could it be... that the outsider Dugu Mei had colluded with was Lu Xia?

Impossible!

Lu Xia was merely a brat at the Dou Ling level, a medicinal catalyst he had raised. How could Dugu Mei have gotten involved with him?

No!

Had the two of them... been in league all along?

One was his disciple, and the other was his woman.

These two had actually joined forces to set a trap for him?!

Watching Lu Xia and Dugu Mei stand together, Wu Ya felt fury shoot straight to his head, and his vision darkened.

He could not understand how two people with no connection whatsoever had come together.

And how they had dared to plot against a Dou Emperor like him.

"You little bastard... so it was you!"

Wu Ya stared fixedly at Lu Xia, his eyes full of venom. "You had her poison me?! You've got some nerve!"

Lu Xia slowly walked to the center of the cave dwelling, a faint smile on his face and an easy tone in his voice.

"Master, that isn't quite right."

"What do you mean, I had Mistress poison you? Clearly, Mistress only felt sorry that Master had worked so hard refining poison and wanted you to get some proper rest. Isn't that right, Mistress?"

He tilted his head and raised an eyebrow at Dugu Mei.

Dugu Mei nodded cooperatively. A seductive smile appeared on her face as she walked to Lu Xia's side, reached out to hook her arm through his, and said coquettishly:

"Young Master understands me after all. Husband is getting old. Working so hard every day is bad for his health. I only meant well~"

The two of them played off each other, making Wu Ya tremble all over. At last, he could no longer hold it in and spat out a mouthful of black blood.

Pfft!!!

The black blood landed on the ground with a sizzling sound.

"You... you adulterous pair!"

Wu Ya glared venomously at them, as if he wanted to devour them alive.

Even now, he could not believe that he had fallen into the hands of these two.

"Adulterous pair?"

Lu Xia gave a disdainful laugh, his gaze cold.

"Master, you shouldn't speak carelessly. Mistress and I have a perfectly proper cooperative relationship."

"On the other hand, Master, you took me as a disciple while plotting to obtain my Woeful Poison Body. Is that what a master ought to do?"

Wu Ya's expression changed.

How did he know?!

He had always believed he had hidden it well. Lu Xia was only a youth; there was no way he could have sensed his intentions.

Yet this brat had known all along!

Could it be... that all these years of his endurance had been an act?