The corners of Tang San's mouth curled upward. Seeing the veins bulging on Dugu Bo's forehead, he was rather amused. He calmly sat down, retrieved the earlier drawing, and filled in the complete details with a sweep of his hand before placing it in front of the old man.
Option one: take the Ice-Fire Immortal Herbs together, then absorb and refine them.
Benefits: completely removes the toxins from the body and grants a body impervious to ice and fire.
Drawbacks: the toxins are eliminated so thoroughly that the user loses all their original poison arts.
Option two: force the toxins into Soul Bones.
Benefits: afterward, the user no longer needs to regulate toxin absorption and can continue increasing the potency of their poison. The Soul Bones receive some enhancement, and the body can hold more toxins.
Drawbacks: a Soul Bone has a limited capacity for poison. Once one is full, another must immediately take its place. If all six Soul Bones in the body fill up, another outbreak will mean certain death.
Of these two methods, one treated the symptoms and the other cured the root cause. In any case, Tang San felt that the latter, relying on Soul Bones alone, seemed unreliable no matter how he looked at it.
At the very least, it would have to be paired with a weakened version of the ice-fire medicinal power to neutralize the toxins while the Soul Bones held them.
But this really did only treat the symptoms. They could not stop there. Admittedly, if someone lacked talent or did not live long enough, the method's flaws might never become apparent, but...
Unless they solved the problem at its roots, the increasingly potent poison in the old poisoner's family would sooner or later bring their bloodline to a complete end.
Seeing