Picking Up Fragments in Douluo Continent — Chapter 38

"This is called pinyin, a shorthand script I created myself." Lu Feng spoke calmly. "This is Datura. Just one whiff will put someone to sleep for an entire day."

Osler was about to remove the stopper, but upon hearing Lu Feng's words, he hurriedly stopped.

"Whew~"

Still shaken, Osler patted his chest before returning the bottle to Lu Feng. "Something this important, and you didn't tell me sooner? Good thing I reacted quickly."

Lu Feng smiled lightly, uncorked the bottle, and dripped a drop of Datura into the wine.

The Datura liquid was a pure white. The instant it fell into the wine, a streak of green flashed eerily before vanishing again in an instant.

A moment later, the entire cup looked exactly as it had before, as though nothing had happened.

The instant the green appeared, Osler's body shuddered involuntarily. He had clearly been startled.

"That's incredible!"

Osler widened his eyes and stared closely at the white liquor in the cup, trying to find even the slightest difference.

Yet the wine looked completely unchanged.

He leaned closer and sniffed it. Other than the smell of alcohol, there truly was no other unusual scent.

"Brother Tang Si, are you selling this medicine? Name your price—I'll accept it!" Osler said with a broad smile.

His tiny eyes kept darting around, and who knew what little scheme he was cooking up.

"Not expensive, not expensive. If Brother Osler likes it, I'll sell it to you at cost—one hundred Gold Soul Coins."

Osler immediately beamed with delight.

He carefully placed the medicine bottle into his Soul Tool, then swiftly pulled out a money pouch from it and tossed it toward Lu Feng with a grin.

"Datura dissolves upon contact with water. It is colorless and odorless, and once consumed, it makes people drowsy." Dugu Yan raised her chin slightly, folded her arms across her chest, and explained with utter confidence.

"Brother Tang, why does your Datura produce green pigment? Wouldn't that make it easy for people to notice?" Dugu Yan asked with a faint sneer curling her lips.

Lu Feng smiled. "Plain water is also colorless and odorless. It won't change when dripped into wine either. Before drinking it, who can tell whether you used plain water or Datura?"

"So I deliberately added a tiny bit of color effect."

As Lu Feng spoke, his face was full of smug satisfaction.

"That way, amateurs will think my medicine is incredibly powerful, and I can take the chance to raise the price. Hahaha."

The moment Osler heard that, the smile vanished completely from his face, replaced by utter shock.

Wasn't he the amateur?

A fat sheep?

A complete sucker?

"Hmph!" Dugu Yan snorted through her nose.

Then, with a crisp motion, she took a small bottle from her Soul Tool and placed an untouched cup of white liquor before her.

"Drip."

A drop of eerie green liquid fell from the small bottle.

In an instant, the originally clear, transparent cup of liquor seemed to have been bewitched, turning into a horrifying dark green.

At the same time, a strong, pungent stench rushed into everyone's noses.

The smell was enough to make one want to vomit, and it made their heads spin.

"This is snake venom I brewed myself when this little girl, who doesn't even rank among the poison users on the continent, had nothing better to do. Brother Tang Si, do you dare to appraise it?"

A provocative smile lifted the corners of Dugu Yan's lips.

"If you can neutralize my Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison, then I'll admit you're better than me. And naturally, your master will be better than my grandfather."

Dugu Yan looked utterly proud, her tone brimming with absolute confidence.

After all, this venom had been extracted from her Jade Phosphorous Serpent martial soul. It took effect with terrifying speed. Any ordinary Soul Master who came into contact with even a little of it would have their entire body rot away within moments and dissolve into pus.

Even her grandfather had praised this poison before. In his opinion, its potency had already reached roughly one-third of that of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's venom.

"Oh, I've long heard of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent's great name. Now that I've finally seen it today, it truly is extraordinary." Lu Feng still wore a smile as he spoke unhurriedly.

At the same time, he was secretly thrilled.

Dugu Yan was far too arrogant.

The simplest—and hardest—way to truly deal with her was to utterly crush her in the field she excelled at most: poison.

Make her bear a grudge because of it.

That way, he might have a chance to trick her into giving him her body.

Pah.

A chance to trick her out of her family fortune.

"However, this Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison is no simple matter!" Lu Feng stared at the dark green wine, his expression becoming extremely serious.

In the original story, Tang San had successfully broken Dugu Yan's third soul skill using high-proof Realgar Wine.

At first glance, it seemed entirely Tang San's achievement.

But in truth, that was not the case.

The greatest credit should actually go to Ma Hongjun.

Ma Hongjun's martial soul was no ordinary one. Its evil fire was hotter than normal flames, incredibly aggressive, and highly adhesive. Once it latched onto something, it was extremely difficult to extinguish.

Using it against snake venom was practically effortless.

As for Realgar Wine, while it did have some restraining effect on snake venom, its greatest use was expanding the evil fire's range of damage.

It was precisely through the combination of evil fire and Realgar Wine that the Shrek Team had been able to break Dugu Yan's poison formation.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."

Lu Feng took several small bottles from his Soul Tool. The bottles were colorful and dazzling, enough to make anyone feel a little uneasy just looking at them.

Each small bottle had a label bearing the name of the medicine.

However, these were not words from Douluo Continent. They were all written in "pinyin."

The instant Osler saw those bottles, a chill ran down his back.

Osler had always been close to Dugu Yan, and their families were even neighbors. Because of that, Dugu Yan had pranked him countless times when they were children.

So now, the moment he saw those poisonous substances, his scalp went numb.

Yu Tianheng frowned as well.

He had originally thought Lu Feng was merely a rather talented Soul Master. He had not expected the other party to be so skilled in medicine-making.

If he suddenly uses these poisons in battle, I really can't be sure of victory, Yu Tianheng thought to himself.

Yu Tianheng did not realize that he had already subconsciously begun treating "Tang Si" as a rival.

As the saying went, amateurs watched the spectacle, while experts saw the craft.

Dugu Yan was not intimidated by these small bottles. After all, she was also an expert when it came to refining poisons.

However, among the poisons Lu Feng had taken out, there were several whose potency Dugu Yan could recognize merely from their scent.

Dugu Yan found herself believing Lu Feng's words a little more.

This rather handsome young man seemed to be truly extraordinary.

Chapter 53: Jade Phosphor Five Poisons

Ignoring everyone's astonishment, Lu Feng calmly dripped several medicinal liquids into the cup before him one after another.

The wine was initially that horrifying dark green, but then its color gradually changed, slowly becoming an inky green.

In the end, it turned completely black, like ink.

The black liquid looked gloomy and sinister, radiating danger.

Osler swallowed unconsciously, as though recalling some unpleasant memories.

Dugu Yan frowned and spoke with some uncertainty:

"Th-this is mixed poison?"

After his little operation, the toxicity of my snake venom has increased by at least thirty percent! Dugu Yan could no longer maintain her composure.

She was certain that the other party's attainments in poison arts were extraordinarily high.

At the same time, she began to wonder, Wasn't the challenge I gave him to detoxify the poison?

Lu Feng's movements did not stop. Creating mixed poison was only the first step; he had not yet begun the most crucial part—"detoxification."

"Swish, swish, swish." Lu Feng methodically added ingredients to the cup.

"Puff!"

Soul Power surged through Lu Feng, and a flame slowly rose from the cup.

A faint fragrance spread through the air. Everyone immediately felt dazed, their bodies becoming light and floaty.

Dugu Yan fixed her gaze tightly on Lu Feng's movements, not daring to blink even once.

Toad urine.

Green-Eyed Gecko mucus.

Millennium Jade Scorpion Poison.

Dugu Yan recognized several of the poisons Lu Feng used.

But when these poisons were combined, Dugu Yan could not understand at all what Lu Feng was trying to do.

Watching Lu Feng's practiced movements, the confusion in Dugu Yan's eyes grew deeper and deeper.

She vaguely sensed that this rather handsome young man before her was hiding many unknown secrets.

Lu Feng was completely focused on preparing the poison in the cup. After adding the final ingredient, the wine changed once more.

Lu Feng held the cup in his palm, and Soul Power slowly began to circulate within his body.

As his Soul Power flowed, the so-called "wine" in the cup began to sway gently without ceasing.

Slowly, that ink-black color began to fade, like darkness being gradually driven away by sunlight.

In the end, it became no different from ordinary white liquor—pure and colorless, as though none of those changes had ever occurred.

An exceptionally rich medicinal fragrance drifted leisurely from the cup.

The moment everyone caught a whiff of it, they felt invigorated and refreshed, instantly becoming incomparably energized.

It felt as though they had swallowed an immensely precious tonic, their entire bodies suffused with indescribable comfort.

"This!!!"

Everyone who witnessed this widened their eyes involuntarily, their faces filled with disbelief.

"Brother Tang Si, what is this...?" Yu Tianheng asked in confusion.

After all, he had only obtained his third soul ring two months ago, and he was still far from Level 32.

Yet now, after merely smelling the aroma of this cup of wine, he faintly felt as though he were about to break through.

Yu Tianheng swallowed. He could even clearly feel his body desperately craving that cup of wine, wishing he could drain it in a single gulp.

Holding the cup steadily, Lu Feng spoke slowly with confidence in his expression:

"The Jade Phosphorous Serpent, Jade Scorpion, Green Jade Centipede, Emerald Toad, and Green-Eyed Gecko—these five soul beasts are all exceptionally poisonous. Any one of their poisons, extracted separately, is deadly enough to take a life with ease."

"However, in the field of medicinal research, there is never any absolute poison, nor is there any absolute medicine. Things that are incomparably toxic can, in turn, become powerful tonics with immense nourishing effects."

"Take these five poisons, for example. When fused together, their toxicity instantly rises severalfold. But as long as they are prepared with certain special medicinal ingredients, they become an extraordinary tonic."

"Well, Miss Dugu, does this count as neutralizing your Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison?"

"This..." Dugu Yan murmured softly. Her eyes remained fixed on the cup in Lu Feng's hand, but she said nothing.

To be honest, she was already utterly convinced by Lu Feng.

Just from those strange medicine bottles of his, she could tell that his understanding of medicine far surpassed her own.