So I have to find a way to save Zhai Mo and the others while playing along with Yun Mubai's act.
As he thought this, his gaze fell on the vats of wine the Sword-Worshipping Manor's servants were carrying out.
As long as we aren't poisoned, with our cultivation, escaping the Sword-Worshipping Manor shouldn't be difficult.
Xu Taiping quickly settled on a plan.
A short while later.
Inside the Sword-Worshipping Manor's wine cellar.
"Yun Mubai really is ruthless. He actually poisoned every last drop of wine in this cellar."
Xu Taiping finally murmured this as he watched a servant of the Sword-Worshipping Manor lying on the floor, vomiting mouthful after mouthful of black blood.
Just moments earlier, he had used his Wild Lion Physique to change his appearance, disguised himself as a servant, and slipped into the wine cellar. When no one was looking, he had pulled a servant aside to taste the wine.
As a result, he discovered that, to keep Zhai Mo and the others from noticing anything amiss, Yun Mubai had actually poisoned all the wine in the cellar.
"And this poison is colorless and odorless. Without the Lotus Eye's warning, even I probably wouldn't have noticed it. No wonder Zhai Mo and the others fell for it."
Xu Taiping opened a jar of wine and sniffed it, finding nothing unusual.
Aside from that, he discovered something else: the poison in the wine was not lethal. It merely obstructed the circulation of a cultivator's True Qi and Qi and Blood.
The more vigorously one circulated one's True Qi and Qi and Blood, the more potent the poison in the wine became.
"This poison seems to have been concocted specifically to deal with Otherworlders. Could Yun Mubai have already planned to keep Zhai Mo and the others