Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 232: Countless Poisons

[What’s wrong?] Zhen Yuan transmitted.

[This person has countless poisons in his body.] Shen Xu answered and subconsciously frowned.

He was confused.

Normally, when different poisons encountered each other, they would react and eventually form a new kind of poison.

However, that wasn’t the case in this instance.

Rather than mesh into a new poison, the different poisons still retained their individuality and showed no signs of mixing.

This was a strange and unexpected situation.

However, it was because the different poisons balanced each other that the man was still alive and walking around.

’He will immediately be poisoned to death if the balance is broken.’ Shen Xu thought.

[Can you treat him?] Zhen Yuan asked but the double shook his head.

[I don’t dare.] He said and quickly continued.

[This person is one mistake away from being poisoned to death. I...]

"Fellow daoiost..." Zhang Chen called, looking at Shen Xu with expectant eyes.

"Fellow Daoist, how were you poisoned?" Shen Xu asked, pretending not to know about the pool water.

"I touched the pool water."

At that, everyone turned to look at the pool water.

However, only Zhen Yuan could see anything beyond a pool of stagnant water.

’Xiaoxu is right. This water contains countless poisons including sun poison.’ He thought, his eyes narrowed into slits.

"Fellow taoist..." Shen Xu started but frowned, feeling awkward that they hadn’t introduced each other.

"I am Tang Man; an inner disciple of the Tianyun sect in the Tianyun continent." Tang Man said and soon continued.

"This is my senior brother, Yao Guan, and he is Zhang Chen; my junior brother." He said, respectively pointing at his sect brothers.

"It’s nice to meet the fellow Taoists from the Tianyun continent." The double said before introducing himself.

"I am Shen Xu and he is Zhen Yuan. We are from the Tianqi continent."

"It’s nice to meet alchemist Shen and fellow Daoist Zhen."

After the introductions, Shen Xu looked at Zhang Chen with a solemn expression.

"There are countless poisons in fellow Daoist Zhang’s body." He said and quickly continued.

"The poisons are in a tentative balance but anything could unsettle the situation."

"This..." Zhang Chen, Tang Man, and Yao Guan couldn’t help but be shocked when they heard that.

"Alchemist Shen, what do you mean?" Yao Guan asked in an incredulous voice.

"I also don’t know what is going on." Shen Xu said in an uncertain voice.

"Is fellow daoist Zhang sure that he only touched the pool water? Could he have touched or eaten another poisonous thing?" Zhen Yuan asked.

Although he was confident in his analysis of the pool water, he couldn’t reveal his certainty so he played along and pretended to seriously consider the matter.

"I didn’t touch or eat anything else." Zhang Chen immediately said.

Hearing this, everyone looked at the pool water.

"The pool should only contain sun poison. Why does it contain so many poisons?" Yao Guan asked and narrowed his eyes.

"Alchemist Shen, did you make a mistake?"

Shen Xu frowned when he heard this.

"The fellow Daoists can ask another alchemist if they don’t believe me." He said, turned around and took Zhen Yuan’s hand.

"My taoist partner and I will leave now."

"Wait..." Tang Man immediately stopped the two.

"Alchemist Shen, fellow Daoist Zhen, please don’t be offended. My senior brother is just a little anxious and didn’t mean to doubt alchemist Shen. I apologise on his behalf."

Hearing this, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan glanced at each other and subtly nodded.

"Fellow Daoist Tang, your junior brother’s condition is very serious. I am not certain I can help him." Shen Xu said, his face clouded with regret.

In fact, he wasn’t lying.

If it was just two or three poisons, he could target each poison with a different detoxifying pill.

However, Zhang Chen had countless poisons in his body and Shen Xu could only identify a few.

Considering that, he didn’t try to be brave and promise to cure the person.

"Alchemist Shen, is there no way to remove the poison?" Zhang Chen asked in a trembling voice.

Hearing this, Shen Xu sighed and shook his head.

"I can’t say there is no way but..."

"But?"

"I heard that someone once found a few drops of pure light water in the Yunshan secret realm. You can try to find it."

"Pure light water? What is that?" Zhang Chen asked, turning to his second brother.

"Pure light water is a detoxifying liquid." Tang Man said but frowned before continuing.

"It’s a precious natural treasure that can detoxify ten thousand poisons."

Hearing this, Zhen Yuan clenched his hands and subconsciously narrowed his eyes.

[What’s wrong?] Shen Xu transmitted when he noticed the changes in his lover’s demeanour.

[Xiaoxu..., I think...] Zhen Yuan started, stopped, and rephrased his sentence.

[What do you know about pure light water?] He asked.

[Not much. I only know it can detoxify most poisons.]

[Xiaoxu, this water pool has extremely powerful detoxifying laws. Could the pure light water be mixed with some kind of poisonous water?]

Shen Xu froze when he heard the question.

Now that Zhen Yuan mentioned it, the double felt the possibility was extremely likely.

[Ayuan, I think you are onto something.] Shen Xu transmitted in an excited voice but his demeanour did not change.

After all, pure light water was a precious resource.

If the poisonous pool had a trace of the pure light water, Shen Xu didn’t want to alert the others to prevent them from coveting his treasure.

"Pure light water can only be found but not sought. Alchemist Shen, is there another way to treat my junior brother?" Tang Man asked.

"I recognise some of the poisons in his body. However, I don’t dare to remove them for fear it will affect the balance and cause your junior brother to be poisoned to death." Shen Xu sighed and quickly continued.

"For now, I can only advise your junior brother not to take any pills and avoid using his qi. Even an ordinary qi replenishing pill could offset the balance, causing a fatal disaster."