The Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill and the Five-Poison Pill!

The medicinal broth Luo Luo had taken was indeed meant to replenish her qi and blood.

But someone had tampered with it, adding black blood vine.

Black blood vine was also a spirit herb that replenished qi and blood and greatly benefited the body-but only for someone in good health.

Yet black blood vine had another, little-known use: feeding gu insects, even causing them to evolve.

Luo Luo was already frail, so taking medicinal broth to replenish her qi and blood would certainly have helped her. But adding black blood vine changed everything. It could replenish Luo Luo's qi and blood, but it could also strengthen the God-Devouring Gu Insect inside her.

Ning Chuan could sense that the gu insect inside Luo Luo had fully awakened. Moreover, the seal he had left with the Thirteen Life-Taking Needles was teetering on the brink of collapse, about to be destroyed by the insect.

The seal Ning Chuan had left should have suppressed the gu insect for a month. Yet how little time had passed, and already the insect was about to break through it?

Furthermore, Ning Chuan detected signs that the gu insect was about to go berserk. Once it broke through the seal, the gu poison it released would be incredibly potent. Luo Luo would undoubtedly die!

"What a vicious scheme! Have her take broth containing black blood vine, then send Zhang Xiaoxiao to bring me here to purge Luo Luo's poison. At that point, the gu poison erupts in full, and Luo Luo is doomed. Even with heaven-reaching abilities, I would struggle to cure her! City Lord Zhao unleashes his thunderous wrath and kills me. What a masterful move!"

Ning Chuan laughed in fury, his gaze icy cold.

He told Zhao Songzhai everything he had discovered, and Zhao Songzhai instantly flew into a rage.

"What?! Damn them! They dare scheme against me and Young Master Ning Chuan? Who is behind this? Damn them, damn them all! I'll kill every last one of you!"

Zhao Songzhai was like an enraged lion. Wild fury surged in his increasingly bloodshot eyes, and a savage aura radiated from his entire body.

"It's the Li Family. It must be the Li Family! They're utterly vicious! They want the City Lord to wipe out our Shen family!"

Shen Qingqing's little face turned pale with fright as she spoke in utter fury.

Only after Ning Chuan's explanation did she realize how dangerous and vicious the scheme was.

Only then did she understand why Zhang Xiaoxiao had come looking for Ning Chuan. How could it possibly have been to ask him to buy her freedom?

She had clearly intended to send Ning Chuan to his death!

"The Li Family? They're courting death!"

Zhao Songzhai seethed with rage, the killing intent in his eyes almost tangible.

"City Lord Zhao, this isn't the time for anger. Saving Luo Luo comes first! Fortunately, the gu insect hasn't broken through my seal yet. Take me to the pill-refining chamber immediately, then bring over all your spirit herbs and natural treasures!"

Ning Chuan spoke gravely.

"That's right, saving Luo Luo comes first! Young Master Ning Chuan, please, you must save Luo Luo. You must cure her!"

Tears streamed down Zhao Songzhai's aged face. His eyes filled with pleading, he bowed deeply to Ning Chuan as he spoke.

"Don't worry. I'm here!"

Ning Chuan helped Zhao Songzhai straighten up and spoke earnestly.

The City Lord's Manor had a pill-refining chamber, where an Earthfire Formation drew on the power of an earthcore flame vein to refine pills.

After Ning Chuan arrived at the pill-refining chamber, Zhao Songzhai had servants bring over all the spirit herbs and natural treasures.

Zhao Songzhai did not remain idle either. He immediately apprehended the physician at the City Lord's Manor himself and deployed a large force to seal off the manor, determined to catch the poisoner.

"The seal on Luo Luo should hold for a few more hours! I hope I can succeed on the first attempt and refine the Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill and the Five-Poison Pill!"

Ning Chuan took a deep breath as he spoke.

He first needed to refine a Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill. It was a two-star spirit pill that could protect Luo Luo's heart meridians. After all, when he neutralized the God-Devouring Gu Poison, the gu insect would inevitably go berserk, unleashing its poison. If it struck her heart meridians, Luo Luo would certainly die.

The Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill would protect Luo Luo's heart meridians throughout that process, allowing Ning Chuan to focus on purging the God-Devouring Gu Poison.

Next, he wanted to refine a Five-Poison Pill. It was also a second-grade spirit pill, but it was an extremely poisonous one. An ordinary person would die instantly after taking it.

However, the Five-Poison Pill could suppress the gu poison inside Luo Luo, fighting poison with poison to ultimately eradicate the God-Devouring Gu Poison.

Boom!

Vast spiritual energy surged from Ning Chuan's palm, directly activating the earthcore flame vein. Flames roared to life, enveloping the pill cauldron before him.

Ning Chuan steadily tossed spirit herbs into the pill cauldron, one after another.

He employed an incredibly profound fire-control technique, continuously controlling the rising flames and the pill cauldron as he refined the spirit herbs.

Spirit tempering, fire control, nurturing, pill formation...

Ning Chuan refined the Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill as smoothly as drifting clouds and flowing water. With his cultivation now at the Spirit Sea Realm sixth level and his mental power immensely strong, nothing unexpected occurred. He easily produced a Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill.

Then, without the slightest hesitation, he began refining the Five-Poison Pill, which required five kinds of poisonous insects and five kinds of highly toxic spirit herbs.

The ten highly poisonous ingredients danced in the flames, melting together inside the pill cauldron and gradually condensing into a mass of inky-black venom.

Two hours later, the Five-Poison Pill was successfully refined as well.

Ning Chuan grabbed the Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill and the Five-Poison Pill, swiftly left the pill-refining chamber, and hurried toward Luo Luo's bedchamber.