"A gift?" She gently wiped the stuff from the corner of her mouth, her lips still numb as she spoke indistinctly.
"If I'm not mistaken, while the cold poison of your martial soul, the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad, gives you formidable combat abilities, it also keeps eating away at your own body as your cultivation grows!" Tian Chen bluntly pointed out the problem with Meng Hongchen's martial soul.
"How did you know?" Meng Hongchen emerged from beneath the covers. Her poison was just like that of the Poison Douluo, Dugu Bo, all those years ago: it poisoned not only others, but herself as well.
Whenever it flared up, the cold poison attacked her heart. Her chest felt tight and painful, her body curled up against the cold, and her breathing grew rapid, as though she were trapped in a frozen hell.
Fortunately, Tian Chen had told her beforehand that his physique was powerful enough that this little bit of poison would not affect him. Only then had she felt safe consummating their relationship.
"How did I know? Mengmeng, don't forget that this is the Soul Hall. We have more powerful experts than you could count. Do you really think they wouldn't recognize your condition?" Tian Chen helped Meng Hongchen sit up.
"What I have here is a soul core left behind by a soul beast after its death. Not only can it help you control your poison, it can also become the key to condensing your own soul core when the time comes, helping you better control your power. Simply put, it will turn your cold poison into a fully controllable weapon!"
This differed from Tang San's method of channeling poison into a soul bone. Soul bones had a limited capacity, and as one's strength increased in the future, the