So that's it. Those two next door weren't truly incapable of detecting me-or perhaps they were only there for show, and whether they detected me never mattered. What Dongfang Zhi truly trusted was his own art of administering poison!
He never intended to let anyone who dared intrude here walk out unscathed!
The guards knew that, so naturally they wouldn't dare barge in recklessly.
His thoughts flashed like lightning as he swiftly pieced together the whole chain of cause and effect, and he could not help sighing inwardly.
The Poison King of the Eastern Sea truly lived up to his reputation!
Fang Qianyuan did not even know when or how he had been poisoned. Such methods, impossible to guard against, were precisely what made him most wary.
To avoid detection, I didn't touch anything at all. Could it have happened simply because I canceled Wind Transformation and regained physical form? Does that mean there's something wrong with the air in this room...?
He immediately held his breath and focused, sensing the circulation of spirit essence within his body.
Fortunately, he had already slowed both his blood and his spirit essence to an extreme degree to suppress his presence and avoid detection.
What shocked Fang Qianyuan, however, was that a toxin utterly unlike ordinary forces had actually ignored the usual rules of transmission and begun racing through his meridians on its own.
Ordinary toxins spread either through the blood or through spirit essence.
He had truly never encountered anything so peculiar.
But he soon understood.
This was probably no ordinary toxin, but a tiny, Gu Worm-like Jiaoming!
It was an entity with characteristics resembling those of a living organism, so naturally it could move independently.
As far as Fang Qianyuan knew, however, spirit creatures of this kind usually required direct control