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"": ""Dead?" Qin Tianqing asked.
Luo Bin shook his head. "No. After my Gu Arts reached nuo purple, my Gu Control grew stronger. The centipede gu's venom ranks second from the bottom among the five poisons gu. With proper control, it's just enough to knock him unconscious. He won't even know why he passed out."
Qin Tianqing nodded slightly, then frowned. "He wasn't lying, he wasn't possessed by a ghost, and Xiang Ke knows him. So where's the problem?"
Qin Tianqing was merely asking, not questioning Luo Bin's actions.
Xiang Ke looked the most bewildered of them all.
Just then, Luo Bin made a slight hand seal and issued a command.
The black-gold toad leaped out of the jar at his waist and landed on the ground.
A faint sound came from its body.
It wasn't an obvious croak. Its cheeks swelled and gave off a faint vibration. The sound was so soft that, without listening carefully like this, the mountain wind or their footsteps would have drowned it out.
Luo Bin drew a deep breath before saying, "The black-gold toad's greatest use isn't as a gu, but for living suppression. It reacted strongly when we entered the mountain. I could hear it calling the whole time. Once we were fully inside, it quieted down. It didn't react while we were moving, either."
"After this man approached us, the black-gold toad started reacting again."
"The connection between my life gu let me faintly sense that the black-gold toad considers him very dangerous. Even though he wasn't lying, even though he's human, that feeling won't go away."
Once, the black-gold toad had been very effective at warning him of danger.
When had those warnings disappeared?
Now, that feeling had returned.
It wasn't just the black-gold toad. Even