Lu Changfeng glanced at the bottle of liquid.
It was a purple so dark it was almost black, thick as syrup, with an eerie oily sheen floating on its surface. The rank stench it gave off made everyone nearby cover their noses and retreat.
This was the sample of Void Ruins Poison extracted from Lu Huanzhang's body-the toxic substance formed when Guixu Heavy Water seeped into his meridians and mixed with his true qi and blood.
He reached into his sleeve and took out a pill.
The pill was small, about the size of a longan, and crimson-gold all over. Fine patterns flowed across its surface, with a faint radiance held within. He had specially refined it before coming to the Eastern Sea, using Shennong Qi as the catalyst and dozens of spirit herbs as supplementary ingredients, specifically to counter the poison of Guixu Heavy Water.
Detoxification was his specialty.
Lu Changfeng placed the pill in his palm and crushed it between two fingers.
Crimson-gold powder sifted through his fingers into the bottle of dark purple liquid.
At the same time, he circulated the Six Void Circulation Art, gathering a mass of water vapor in his palm and slowly letting it descend into the bottle to mix with the medicinal powder and poison.
Inside the bottle, the dark purple liquid began to change.
First came the color-from near-black purple to deep purple, then pale purple, and finally light red. The nauseating stench dissipated along with it, replaced by a faint medicinal fragrance, crisp and mild.
Everyone around him stared, dumbstruck.
The steward's eyes widened even further, his mouth hanging open wide enough to fit an egg.
"This... this..." he stammered, unable to get the words out.
"What divine skill!" someone behind him exclaimed involuntarily. "He really neutralized it!"
"A disciple