The entire Lu Residence soon sprang into feverish activity.
Lu Chengen personally led men through every apothecary and trading house in the city, then sent others beyond the city to the Nine Islands of the Eastern Sea and the Forty-Two Caves to search for those rare materials.
The Lu Family's retainers and household guards were divided into several groups, some gathering intelligence, others watching the Liu Family's movements.
Lu Changfeng, meanwhile, shut himself away in a secret chamber deep within the Lu Residence.
Inside the chamber, bottles and jars covered a long table. The furnace blazed, and medicinal fragrance filled the air.
Lu Changfeng sat before the table with the Shennong Ruler in hand. Brilliant green light shone from it as he refined, purified, and blended the ingredients one by one.
What he intended to concoct was an imitation of "Dragon-Falling Dust."
True Dragon-Falling Dust required one crucial ingredient-[Dragon Whisker Vine].
This legendary poisonous herb grew only deep within Guixu, where True Dragons had fallen, nourished by their blood and souls. To the Dragon Race, it was the deadliest of poisons. The slightest trace could contaminate Dragon Essence and refuse to dissipate. In all of Dragon-Slaying City, only the Liu Family controlled a source of this herb.
Lu Changfeng had no Dragon Whisker Vine.
But he did not need to poison the Liu Family's people to death outright.
He only needed to weaken their counterattack-to impede the circulation of their true qi, expose flaws in their body-tempered defenses, and render them unfit for a Sixth Realm battle to the death.
The rest would be easy.
His poison arts had never relied solely on a single potent drug. True poison moistened all things without a sound, drawing people into its trap before they knew it. By the time they noticed, it