Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 231: Poisonous Water

"Junior brother, why did you touch the water?" Tang Man asked in a puzzled voice.

At the same time, he stared at his junior brother; as if trying to see through the person.

"I..." Zhang Chen frowned.

"I thought I was touching a water leaf grass." He finally said.

Hearing this, Tang Man and Yao Guan glanced at each other.

"Did you fall into an illusion?" Yao Guan asked in a confused voice.

After all, they were travelling together and saw the same things.

How could Zhang Chen fall into an illusion while he and Tang Man remained unscathed?

Thinking of this, Yao Guan looked around but didn’t find anything.

"Something is wrong with this pool." Tang Man suddenly said.

"What’s wrong?" Yao Guan questioned.

"We know that the water leaf grass grows beside a pool of poisonous water. However, a detoxifying pill refined with the blue cedar grass is enough to eliminate that poison. That said, Junior bother Zhang has already taken a pill but is still poisoned. Don’t you think there is something wrong with this poisonous water?"

Yao Guan and Zhang Chen were startled when they heard that.

If everything was normal, Zhang Chen should have been cured after taking the detoxifying pill.

However, the detoxifying pill aggravated the poison in his body and his skin turned blackish.

"Junior brother Tang, what do you think is going in?" Yao Guan asked but Tang Man shook his head.

After all, he was neither an alchemist nor a healer.

Although he usually read a lot, he had never come across a similar situation.

"Could the poison..." Yao Guan started but suddenly stopped.

Simultaneously, he looked to the horizon and saw two people walking towards them.

"They are dressed like Tianqi continent cultivators." He muttered.

"Senior brother..." Zhang Chen called and Yao Guan looked at his junior brothers with a solemn expression.

"Two cultivators are walking towards us." He said and quickly continued.

"Let’s collect the water leaf grasses and leave this place before they arrive."

"I think we should stay." Tang Man refuted, causing the other two to look at him with puzzled expressions.

"Junior brother Zhang is poisoned and the ordinary detoxifying pills are useless against the poison. We should try and see if those two have a way to cure him. We can trade some water leaf grasses in exchange for a cure."

"This..." Zhang Chen was a little conflicted and turned to his senior brother. novelbuddy.cσ๓

"Let’s do as the second brother says." Yao Guan agreed.

After that, the three hurriedly collected the water leaf grasses but didn’t leave the area.

Instead, they stood aside and waited for the newcomers to arrive.

.....

On the other side, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu noticed the three people’s actions.

However, they didn’t stop them or change their pace of walking.

"That water..." Zhen Yuan suddenly muttered as they neared the pool.

"Is something wrong with the water?"

"I am not sure." Zhen Yuan answered with a thoughtful expression.

From what he knew, the poisonous water beside the water leaf grasses was due to sun poison.

However, the pool in front of them was different from what he expected.

[Xiaoxu, that pool water contains more than sun poison. It is extremely poisonous but also curative.]

[Curative..., how?]

[It simultaneously contains poison laws and detoxifying laws. However, the poison laws are suppressing the detoxifying laws which is why the water is poisonous.]

[This...] Shen Xu didn’t know what to say.

He originally thought he could exchange a detoxifying pill for a water leaf grass.

However, after listening to Zhen Yuan’s analysis, he realised the situation was more complicated than he expected.

’Will any of my pills work on the poison?’ He wondered but his face remained expressionless.

Soon after, the two arrived in front of the Tianyun continent cultivators.

"Fellow Taoists from the Tianqi continent." Tang Man greeted with a polite smile.

"Fellow Taoists." Shen Xu called and Zhen Yuan nodded.

"May I ask if either of you is an alchemist?" Tang Man asked.

"I am an alchemist." Shen Xu said and pointedly looked at Zhang Chen.

"As my fellow Taoist can see, my junior brother has been poisoned and ordinary detoxifying pills are ineffective. We are willing to trade a water leaf grass and one million spirit stones if the fellow alchemist can help our junior brother."

Shen Xu narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

However, he secretly took a deep breath and calmed his emotions.

"I won’t know if I can help him until I take his pulse." He said and the scene became a little tense.

After all, they were strangers and competitors.

Considering that, it was more natural to kill than to heal each other.

[Senior brother, what do you think?] Tang Min transmitted to Yao Guan.

[I am at the peak of the spirit transformation realm and you are at the mid-stage. We can handle them if they choose to play tricks on us. Also...]

[Also?]

[That beautiful double is an alchemist. We should cultivate a good relationship if possible.]

[I think so too.] Tang Man nodded.

He and his sect brothers had been in the Endless Sun Desert for more than eight years.

As a result, they used-up all their isolation talismans and were barely holding on by refining raw water leaf grasses.

However, this was not a permanent solution.

Since they encountered an alchemist, Tang Man wanted to take this opportunity to request for water leaf pills.

"Fellow Taoists?" Shen Xu raised an eyebrow in question.

"Please help us examine our junior brother." Yao Guan decided, pointing at Zhang Chen.

"Good." Shen Xu nodded and walked towards Zhang Chen.

"Please hold out your arm." He requested when he reached the person.

Hearing this, Zhang Chen hesitated but eventually stretched his arm.

A moment later, Shen Xu placed two fingers on the person’s wrist and began feeling his pulse.

This examination lasted an incense stick.

When he was done, the double narrowed his eyes and took a step back.

"How is my junior brother?" Tang Man asked and Shen Xu sighed before shaking his head.