Chu Xisheng watched the silver-armored woman opposite him, uncertainty flickering in his eyes.
She had come bearing the imposing might of consecutive victories over four first-rank experts and several gods' incarnations. He could hardly help feeling alarmed and wary.
Besides, the way she looked at him was truly terrifying, so scorching it could melt him.
Chu Xisheng immediately steadied himself.
Whatever the case, this City-Toppling Sword should bear him no hostility.
He calmly cupped his hands toward her. "City Lord, may I ask-"
Before Chu Xisheng could finish, Wen Zhuyi cut him off with a sweep of her sleeve.
She took a pill bottle from her sleeve. "I can tell that your younger sister carries a deadly poison and a divine curse. Let us make a trade: ten Shennong Heart-Guarding Pills for thirty drops of your blood essence. Are you willing?"
Chu Xisheng froze. Here was yet another person who wanted to suck his blood.
His first instinct was to refuse, but when he recalled the origins of the Shennong Heart-Guarding Pill, hesitation entered his eyes.
It was a divine pill that counteracted poison.
Its formula had been devised by Lieshan Shennong, the Human Race's Flame Emperor of old.
Lieshan Shennong had tasted the hundred herbs and refined and tested all manner of medicinal pills, so he always kept these pills on hand to neutralize the poisons within his body.
Successive generations of alchemists had later improved it. Supposedly, it could now neutralize eighty or ninety percent of the world's exotic poisons, and alleviate those it could not eliminate.
It was unquestionably a fine thing, just a little expensive.
The pill ranked as high as second rank, beyond the ability of ordinary alchemists to refine.
The Formless Divine Sect's treasury held seventeen of them. Chu Xisheng had had his eye