"What... what???" The cultivator's face turned green. "So many people in Vermilion Bird Hall, and I was the only one who didn't give you spirit stones. You... remembered that???"
"Yeah, what's so strange about that?" Xiao Hua said smugly. "This Xiao has always been stingy. Now that I spent a huge price to obtain Green Python venom, someone actually refused to pay spirit stones. Of course this Xiao would remember it. There's nothing strange about that! Since you didn't need an antidote, then... you definitely weren't poisoned. But how could a cultivator at the tenth layer of Qi Cultivation possibly not be poisoned? Just thinking about it is strange. At that point, even using your heel, you could tell there was something wrong with you!"
"This..." The cultivator did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Couldn't I... couldn't I simply refrain from drinking the spirit wine, like you?"
"This spirit wine is extremely useful to Qi Cultivation cultivators. If you didn't drink it, wouldn't that mean you had no use for the spiritual Qi within it? Wouldn't that make the problem even more obvious?" Xiao Hua spoke with great assurance, as though victory were already in his grasp.
"Damn it..." The cultivator gave a bitter smile. "Of course I drank it. Of course I knew the spirit wine was poisoned. But... I am a Ghost Cultivator. How could I let you detoxify me? Once your magical power reached me, you would naturally see through me!"
"Ghost Cultivator???" Xiao Hua was stunned. He had only heard of soul cultivators, never Ghost Cultivators. Sweeping his gaze over, he saw that Huang Tianle was equally dumbfounded, presumably just as ignorant as himself.
"What is a Ghost Cultivator?" Xiao Hua asked.
"Hehe, must I personally explain that to you?" The cultivator slapped his