"...Ah, hah, ah, ugh!"
"Damn it, this little bastard's poison..."
Inside the Northwest Hall of Souls Branch, Mu Gu's face was mottled blue and purple, and swelling covered much of his body. His expression was one of utter agony.
He had been poisoned after all.
Although he could temporarily force down Sun Buxiao's poison with his origin flame and Dou Qi, this toxin had come from what might have been the strongest woeful poison body in the entire history of the Dou Qi Continent. Could it really be suppressed so easily?
An ordinary Dou Wang who inhaled Sun Buxiao's poisonous gas might die within three breaths and rot into a puddle of flesh within a minute. A Dou Huang expert was somewhat stronger and might last five minutes. Although Dou Zong experts already had some resistance, even they could not withstand it forever. The three Dou Zong who had died at Sun Buxiao's hands were ample proof.
Mu Gu could suppress it, but only for a while. If he kept trying to suppress it instead of eliminating it, his death would probably be only a matter of time...!
He took several pills from his Storage Ring and swallowed them. Yet even as he felt the warm currents produced by the dissolving medicine, his complexion did not improve.
Even the pills he had refined himself could not eliminate the toxins completely. Some still lingered inside him, though at least he was out of danger now. He only needed to spend some time studying the remaining poison to neutralize it.
"The woeful poison body is truly... terrifying."
Mu Gu exhaled a stale breath, his voice tinged with lingering fear.
If he had not fled back then, he might truly have lost his chance to escape.
Most of his Dou Qi had gone