Chapter Forty-Two: The Antidote

After swallowing the Scarlet Flame Lily, Yun Zhiqiu immediately felt a blaze ignite within her body, fighting against the demonic energy inside. She promptly coordinated her cultivation techniques to expel the dark aura.

Less than an hour later, the demonic energy was completely purged from her body.

“Finally rid of the demonic energy. Thanks to that Scarlet Flame Lily— I wonder which sect it came from. I must repay them properly afterward,” Yun Zhiqiu breathed a sigh of relief.

Yet, for some reason, she still felt a burning heat coursing through her entire body.

“Could the medicine be too potent?” she pondered.

But strangely, her thoughts seemed disordered, and involuntarily, certain images surfaced in her mind.

“What on earth is happening?” Yun Zhiqiu could not make sense of it.

As time slowly passed, her consciousness grew increasingly hazy.

In a daze, she saw a man lying on the ground and, without control, moved toward him.

After leaving the Wind Moon Pavilion, Chen Xuan rushed nonstop to the herb garden searching for the Heart of the Exotic Flower but found nothing.

As the effect of the Hehuan Spirit Elixir intensified, Chen Xuan’s consciousness became thoroughly muddled and uncontrollable.

Having been reborn, he had been careful at every turn, yet fate still betrayed him—he was utterly unwilling.

Three days later, Chen Xuan groggily awoke.

“I didn’t take an antidote, so why didn’t I die? Could the Hehuan Spirit Elixir have been fake?” Chen Xuan was puzzled, though he distinctly remembered feeling as if he were burning alive.

The elixir didn’t seem fake.

Suddenly, he noticed all his clothes were torn to shreds, and beside him lay a woman with snow-white skin.

He recalled another antidote method mentioned by Ruyan: to unite intimately with a person possessing the Ice Vein Sacred Body.

“Could she be the Ice Vein Sacred Body?” Chen Xuan was astonished.

Name: Yun Zhiqiu
Cultivation Level: Early Feather Transformation
Fortune Value: Gold
Spiritual Root: Immortal-grade Ice Spiritual Root
Physique: Ice Vein Sacred Body
Comprehension: Peerless Genius
Technique: Ice Vein Sacred Art (Sacred Grade, Superior)
Filial Piety Score: -50

Chen Xuan opened his mouth wide in disbelief—he had actually encountered the Ice Vein Sacred Body and, in his dazed state, used her to cure his poison.

Most importantly, this woman was at the Feather Transformation realm.

Chen Xuan swallowed nervously.

She was at Feather Transformation, while he was merely at the early Enlightenment stage; she could probably crush him with a single hand.

And yet, he had slept with her.

Glancing at the negative fifty filial piety points, his heart tightened.

If she woke up, she would surely tear him apart.

But he couldn’t blame himself; he had been poisoned with the Hehuan Spirit Elixir and had no awareness, driven purely by instinct.

Still, Chen Xuan found it strange that, with her cultivation level, she should have stopped him.

Looking at the sleeping Yun Zhiqiu, he reconsidered and abandoned the idea of killing her.

Without her, he would have already perished in the flames of desire.

He resolved to find a way to make amends and resolve their entanglement.

Thinking of the root cause of all this, Chen Xuan’s anger flared.

“Su Yu, you actually poisoned me.”

“This grudge must be avenged; otherwise, I am not worthy of being Enlightened.”

Suddenly, he sensed a wave of spiritual energy fluctuating within the Xuan Dan Sect.

Outside the Xuan Dan Sect:

“Is the information accurate?” Su Yu asked Red Qingtao.

“Yes, it is. Chen Xuan has not appeared for three days. He must have died burning in the flames of desire,” Red Qingtao confirmed.

“Excellent!” Su Yu laughed heartily. “Attack the Xuan Dan Sect immediately. After we find the Immortal’s treasure, I will bring you into the Lingxiao Holy Land.”

“Thank you, Holy Son! Thank you!” Red Qingtao was ecstatic and promptly ordered the disciples of Hehuan Sect: “Hehuan Sect disciples, obey my command—attack the Xuan Dan Sect together!”

The disciples stormed into the Xuan Dan Sect.

“Who dares cause trouble in the Xuan Dan Sect?” A powerful pressure swept over them as an elder appeared, easily repelling over a hundred Hehuan Sect disciples with a single move.

“So it’s the Hehuan Sect. Instead of managing your Wind Moon Pavilion properly, you come here to cause trouble? Do you intend for the Hehuan Sect to be destroyed?” Li Yangzi stood with folded arms, showing no fear toward Red Qingtao and the others.

“Destroyed?” Red Qingtao smiled mockingly. “Li Yangzi, do you think the Xuan Dan Sect is still what it once was?”

“Our Xuan Dan Sect is flourishing, and our sect leader’s cultivation has reached the Nascent Soul stage. It is naturally not the same as before,” Li Yangzi declared proudly.

The current Xuan Dan Sect could be considered the foremost sect in the Great Xia.

And all this was thanks to Chen Xuan.

Everyone in the sect revered Chen Xuan as a deity.

“A Nascent Soul stage sect leader? Haven’t you noticed Chen Xuan hasn’t appeared for three days?” Red Qingtao sneered.

“What do you mean?” Li Yangzi frowned, sensing Red Qingtao’s hidden meaning.

“Chen Xuan was poisoned by our Hehuan Sect’s supreme treasure, the Hehuan Spirit Elixir. There is no cure for this poison. Chen Xuan is now burning in flames of desire, and no one knows where his corpse lies.”

“Witch, what nonsense are you spouting? Our master’s cultivation is immensely powerful, and he is skilled in alchemy. What poison could harm him?” Chu Lingyun heard this and flew into a rage at the suggestion that her master was dead.

“Am I lying?” Red Qingtao sneered. “The Hehuan Spirit Elixir is the most potent lecherous poison in the world. Just one whiff, and even an Immortal Realm expert would be helpless.”

“Even Immortal Realm experts are powerless?”

The crowd’s expressions changed drastically. Such a lecherous poison existed in this world? That meant whoever possessed this poison could compel anyone to be intimate with them.

“I’ve read about this poison in ancient texts. The Hehuan Spirit Elixir is made from the nectar of the Exotic Flower, but its power was so great the cultivation world united to eradicate the Exotic Flower to extinction,” Li Rou said gravely.

“What? That strong?”

Hong Luan hurriedly asked, “Grandmother, is there an antidote for the Hehuan Spirit Elixir?”

“There are only two ways to cure the poison,” she explained.

“First, the Heart of the Exotic Flower.”

“Second, to unite intimately with someone possessing the Ice Vein Sacred Body.”

“The Exotic Flower has been completely exterminated, so there is no antidote in this world. Moreover, the poison manifests within a day, and finding someone with an Ice Vein Sacred Body within that time is nearly impossible.”

“What!”

Hong Luan’s face turned pale. “Then Master…”

“Even if your precious medicine is that powerful, you have no chance of poisoning my master,” Chu Lingyun insisted, though her expression darkened. Remembering Chen Xuan’s strength, she firmly believed he would not fall for their trap.

“No chance?” Red Qingtao laughed scornfully. “Everyone knows Chen Xuan is lustful to a fault. First, he seduced his adopted daughter, then you disciples, and this young lady nearby is probably the same. Our Hehuan Sect is full of beauties, and our Holy Maiden has a naturally enchanting body. With just a flick of her finger, she could easily take Chen Xuan down.”

“As long as the Hehuan Spirit Elixir is applied beforehand, Chen Xuan is surely doomed.”

Chu Lingyun’s face turned deathly pale.

The beauty opposite her, Ruyan, was just as stunning, with a more seductive, enticing figure. No man could resist her.

Furthermore, Red Qingtao dared to come so brazenly to the Xuan Dan Sect.

Chen Xuan might really have been poisoned.

“If you surrender obediently now, I can choose to spare your lives,” Red Qingtao boasted.

“Dream on.”

Li Yangzi snorted coldly. “Even if our sect leader is absent, the Hehuan Sect’s strength is no match for the Xuan Dan Sect.”

“The Xuan Dan Sect relies solely on Chen Xuan; the rest are just commoners,” Red Qingtao sneered. “You are only an elder at the early Nascent Soul stage. It would be effortless to annihilate you.”

With that, Red Qingtao unleashed a burst of spiritual energy at Li Yangzi.

“Pft.”

Li Yangzi spat a mouthful of blood.

His Nascent Soul cultivation was artificially boosted by pills from Chen Xuan and was no match for Red Qingtao’s genuine late Nascent Soul power.

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