Chapter 145: Poison Spirit
"Y-you... how did you get in here?" Yun Che's brain froze for a second, and he even stammered when he spoke.
"Wasn't it you who asked me to come?" The white-clad fairy turned her beautiful eyes, speaking without any emotion.
"But you're too... fast!" Yun Che silently swallowed a mouthful of saliva... Holy crap! Her being able to silently enter the outer palace and then the middle palace was not strange. But the entrance to the inner palace had extremely strong sealing restrictions, plus there were elders of the Mystic Palace guarding it day and night. Yet she just walked in like that, even faster than him!
As an imperial exclusive of the Cangfeng Empire, the Cangfeng Mystic Palace had stood for a thousand years. Besides Qin Wushang, there must be other Heavenly Xuan realm experts guarding it. Yet she had avoided the eyes and ears of all the Mystic Palace people and arrived here, as if entering an uninhabited land... Was the gap between Half-step King Xuan and Heavenly Xuan realm really that huge?
"When do we start the detoxification?" The white-clad fairy clearly didn't want to talk much with him, asking coldly.
Yun Che walked in, closed the door, thought for a moment, and said, "We can start now. But you've also personally felt how fierce this primal ice poison is. Even with your profound strength, you can't dissolve it, so you must understand that solving it is by no means an easy or simple matter. You and I are strangers. If I just detoxify you for no reason, I believe you wouldn't be at ease either, and I myself am not that selfless."
"I said I would reward you handsomely."
"What kind of reward?"
"...What do you need?" When the white-clad fairy spoke, her gaze remained as bone-chillingly cold as eternal ice on a snowy mountain.
"I want you to agree to three demands!" Yun Che stated directly. Before the fairy could show anger, he quickly explained, "But rest assured, I'm definitely not someone who forces others into difficult positions. These three demands of mine will not violate any of your principles or conscience, nor will they involve anything sinful, greedy, or the like. They won't even harm any of your interests. Moreover, if you think any demand is excessive, you can immediately refuse."
"Are you sure you can completely dissolve the poison on me?" When she heard "three demands," the white-clad fairy's beautiful eyes clearly turned several degrees colder. Only after hearing his subsequent words did she finally soften slightly.
"Not very confident," Yun Che said. "About 99.9999 percent sure. Because during this process, I can't guarantee that a thunderbolt won't suddenly fall from the sky and strike me dead."
An abrupt cold joke, yet it didn't cause the fairy before him any emotional fluctuation whatsoever. Her reply was only two cold, flat words: "Speak."
"Then I'll say it..." Yun Che secretly pouted in boredom, thinking to himself: Although my wife Qingyue has a cold personality, she's still a sixteen-year-old girl, so there's some reaction when teased. But this little fairy... she's like a block of profound ice! Melting her is no easy feat...
"First demand, tell me your name." Yun Che said seriously. "This should be simple enough, right?"
The fairy was silent for a moment, then shook her head: "No."
"Hey hey! Even if you look as beautiful as a fairy, you can't be this stingy. If I dissolve the poison on you, I'm half your lifesaver, and you won't even tell me your name! My name was already told to you completely. Never mind anything else, if you won't even tell me your name, how am I supposed to address you?" Yun Che complained loudly.
"Call me whatever you want," the fairy said coldly.
"Fine." Yun Che showed helplessness. "In that case, I'll change my first demand. I won't ask your name anymore. From now on, let me call you 'Little Fairy' — that should be acceptable, right?"
"Little Fairy?" The fairy's delicate brows slightly raised. "Absurd! My age is enough to be your elder!"
Yun Che jumped up, saying indignantly, "Even if you were a real fairy, you're being too unreasonable! I'm about to dissolve your terrifying primal ice poison, to save half your life! I haven't asked for anything from you, just wanted to know your name, and you refused... Fine, I'll bear with it. You also said yourself that I could call you whatever I want. Now I just want to call you 'Little Fairy,' and you won't agree! You're too much!!"
"And you're even lying on purpose to take advantage of me in seniority! I'm almost seventeen, and you look it too!" Yun Che nodded with a pleased expression, "As for the third demand... I haven't thought of it yet. I'll tell you when I do. Of course, whether to agree or not is still up to you. Now, let's start the detoxification."
Stepping in front of the fairy, Yun Che extended his hand and said very seriously, "Little Fairy, first stretch out your hand. I need to probe the condition of the ice poison in your body."
The address "Little Fairy" made the fairy extremely uncomfortable, but since she had reluctantly agreed earlier, she could only accept it with a frown. However, his subsequent words and actions made her face freeze like ice: "I never allow any man to touch my body."
Yun Che was stunned, then said with a smile, "Rest assured, as a true divine doctor, how could I not know how to take a pulse through the air? I guarantee I won't touch any part of your body."
Shooting him a cold glance, the fairy finally extended her right hand. Her palm was excessively fair, faintly showing an icy crystal clarity. When Yun Che saw it, he felt a momentary dizziness and even found it hard to believe this was a woman's hand... He was more willing to believe it was a perfect work of art painstakingly carved by the heavens.
Calming his mind, Yun Che extended his hand, making a peculiar gesture and suspending it above the fairy's jade hand. He gently released his profound force, brushing it over her wrist and slowly spreading along the wrist to the meridians of her body... Of course, even if he had ten times more courage, he wouldn't dare behave improperly while his profound force was inside her body; otherwise, this fairy could slap him to death with one palm.
Under this probing, Yun Che was secretly shocked.
Because the primal ice poison she had been poisoned with was far heavier than he had imagined.
Such terrifying primal poison... It seemed that the beast this little fairy had killed was at least a Heavenly Xuan beast!
Yun Che's heart twitched slightly... To single-handedly kill a Heavenly Xuan beast, just how terrifying was this little fairy?!
Yun Che's profound force continued to extend. When it neared her profound veins, his brows suddenly tightened, and his face changed dramatically — because at the center of her profound veins, there was a small, mist-like mass constantly squirming and emitting an icy, gloomy cold aura. Just touching it with his profound force, Yun Che could still feel how astonishing the cold aura released by that mass was.
This was...
A poison spirit!!
The primal poison from a powerful ice-type poisonous beast was so terrifying that it had developed consciousness and formed a poison spirit! Obviously, this consciousness must have been infused into the primal poison by that ice-type poisonous beast before its death.
Originally, it would have been simple for Yun Che to dissolve the severe poison for her — he just needed to purify it with the Heavenly Poison Pearl. But upon discovering the existence of the poison spirit, he could no longer simply use the Heavenly Poison Pearl for purification. Because the poison spirit grew by devouring the host's profound force, dwelling within the profound veins, and to some extent had already merged with them. If forcibly purified, while removing the poison spirit and the severe poison, it would cause permanent damage to the profound veins.
When Yun Che's profound force touched the poison spirit, the fairy also sensed it, and her complexion changed slightly.
Yun Che withdrew his hand and said solemnly, "Little Fairy, you should have felt it too just now. The severe poison in your body has actually given birth to a poison spirit! To dissolve this kind of poison, we must first destroy the poison spirit! To destroy this ice-type poison spirit, we need to use sufficiently pure flame force to sever the connection between the poison spirit and your profound veins, then force the poison spirit out of the profound veins, and then use flame force to forcibly draw the poison spirit out... This poison spirit hasn't fully formed yet. My flame force can barely manage it, but if we let it develop further, it will become completely dangerous... Don't move!"
Yun Che shouted in a tone that was almost commanding. He focused his eyes, the phoenix blood within him boiling, and a crimson flame ignited on his palm.
"Phoenix flame? Are you from the Fenghuang God Sect?"
As a Half-step King Xuan level peerless expert, how broad was her knowledge! She had once fought with disciples of the Fenghuang God Sect and knew the characteristics of phoenix flame. When the flame ignited on Yun Che's hand, she immediately recognized it as phoenix flame — and it was even several times purer than any phoenix flame she had encountered.
"This is indeed phoenix flame, but I am definitely not from the Fenghuang God Sect." The Cangfeng Empire held great reverence for the Fenghuang God Sect, which Yun Che clearly knew. He casually explained, then aimed his palm at the fairy's chest a few centimeters away, extending the phoenix flame through the air into her body.
All ice-type things fear flame, and the fragile ice-type poison spirit was even more so, especially since this was phoenix flame of a very high level. The moment the phoenix flame burned within the fairy's body, the connection between the poison spirit and her profound veins was forcibly severed. The flame force directly enveloped the poison spirit.
Next was to force the poison spirit out of the profound veins... Yun Che closed his eyes completely, because to drive out the poison spirit, he had to concentrate fully. The little fairy also closed her eyes, feeling the movement of Yun Che's phoenix flame force within her profound veins, waves of surprise rippling in her heart... She became increasingly certain that this was undoubtedly phoenix flame.
He said he wasn't from the Fenghuang God Sect... but if not, how could he possess phoenix flame?
The poison spirit struggled and fled in fear... Within just a few breaths, it was forced out of her profound veins by the phoenix flame.
Very good... Yun Che breathed a huge sigh of relief. The speed of the phoenix flame suddenly accelerated, completely enveloping the fleeing poison spirit in an instant.
Alright, come out... Yun Che muttered in his heart. He fiercely swung the phoenix flame force, controlling the flaming right hand to quickly grab forward... At the moment his palm touched the poison spirit, it also firmly grasped a mass of high, soft flesh. His spread fingers sank deeply into it...