Poison Genius Consort

ong Feiye, then at Gu Qishao, her expression a little floored.

Five years? What kind of joke is this?

Didn’t the letter say it’d take two months at most? If they waited for five years, they might as well go searching for a complete Returning Dragon Pill! Why waste all this time making their own instead?

“Old man, you don’t cry until you see your own coffin, huh?” Gu Qishao strode over.
“If this old man has to wait that long, why would I find you in the first place?”

Although Returning Dragon Pill was rare, a normal furnace could make one in five years.
Yet how could a giant pill furnace like this one take five years, too? Did Pill Furnace Master really take them to be ignorant outsiders?

Pill Furnace Master ignored him to look at Han Yunxi instead.
“Lass, based on the snow wine you measured out, it would take 10 years to create Dragon Returning Pill.
Even this old man’s furnace would take at least five years.
If you guys destroy the furnace, this old man promises that no other will be able to make the pill within five years!”

Pill Furnace Master didn’t sound like he was lying.
Han Yunxi grew stunned.
She thought that Pill Furnace Master wanted to tie down Gu Beiyue and pressure them, but never expected the dosage of snow wine would affect the time it took to make the pill.
In other words, Pill Furnace Master already had his plans in place when I went to assist him personally?

“And if you were the one controlling the dosage?” she asked.

“With this old man controlling the dosage, it’d only take one and a half months.
However, the patient taking the pill would be poisoned with Drunken Craving and be forced to take an antidote for the next three years,” Pill Furnace Master replied.
“Returning Dragon Pill can help a person recover their internal energy, which is already a defiance of natural order.
Naturally, there are limits.
Even if you lot find a completed pill, it’ll still poison the user!”

His diagnosis of the pill was identical to Han Yunxi’s own judgment, infuriating her.
“Old man, why didn’t you say so earlier?”

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Gu Beiyue would recover his vitality once he regained his internal energy again.
A solid foundation like that would only help him, not hurt him.
Although Drunken Craving was bad for the body, it was better than delaying his treatment and weakening his vitality for the next five years! It was worth more to recover his internal energy first, then deal with the fallout from Drunken Craving afterwards!

“It’s not like you asked, hehe.
You were the one who measured out the snow wine too, so why resent me?” Pill Furnace Master laughed coldly.

“You!” Han Yunxi felt stifled.
Would Pill Furnace Master have told her this much if she asked him? Would he even tell the truth? Pill Furnace Master had clearly predicted that she’d see the poisonous element in the prescription and intentionally held back.
If Pill Furnace Master had sincerely wanted to tell her the truth, then he should have spoken up while she was preparing the snow wine so they could choose then.

Long Feiye’s face had already blackened, while Gu Qishao narrowed his eyes.

“I still have snow wine.
Immediately make another batch!” Han Yunxi declared.

Pill Furnace Master only laughed out loud.
“Too late, too late! No one can change the materials inside the furnace once the lid is shut.
You have to wait until the dan pellet finishes refining!”

“There are other levels in the pill furnace!” Gu Qishao fumed.

“Heheh, the rest are all full.
Even the fastest one will take another three years.
You can just wait slowly.” Pill Furnace Master laughed happily after throwing them a shocking counterattack.

“You’re fooling with us, aren’t you?” Long Feiye said coldly.

Gu Qishao immediately took to the skies and withdrew his Moye sword spirit.
He slashed hard at the pill furnace, but was instantly rebuffed by a scorching hot energy.
Pill Furnace Master’s laughs intensified as he said in a wanton tone, “Once all the levels are filled in the Celestial Fire Qian Furnace,[2] even the Ganjiang treasure sword is incapable of hurting it, to say nothing of your Moye sword spirit! Hehe, you lot can just keep waiting!”

Celestial Fire Qian Furnace? Tian Huo Gan Lu?

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Hearing this, Han Yunxi’s first reaction was whether this furnace was part of a pair.
The gan (乾) in “hollow furnace” was another word for “sky” when taken in relation to kun (坤) in the phrase qiankun (乾坤).
The saying qiankun tianxia (乾坤天下) were opposites.[3] If this furnace used celestial, or “sky” (天) fire, then was there another one that used earthly (地) flames? If so, then it’d probably be called Earthly Fire Kun Furnace.

Gu Qishao refused to buy it and wield the Moye sword spirit to hack at the thing.
But no matter how much strength he used, he couldn’t even scratch the Celestial Fire Qian Furnace.
At this moment, Long Feiye suddenly unsheathed his Profound Frost Sword.
Seeing this, Pill Furnace Master only gave a snort of contempt before closing his eyes to rest.

However!

Long Feiye didn’t attack the furnace itself, but cleaved harshly at the ground, creating a fissure! Pill Furnace Master gave a start at the sight.

Gu Qishao broke into guffaws.
“Long Feiye, you’re vicious!”

So speaking, he too added a slash to the crack, widening the gap.
Half of the floor sank as a result, leaving the pill furnace atop it toppling precariously.

The Celestial Fire Qian Furnace couldn’t fall, or else it’d be destroyed!

1.
Yes the author really did use three exclamation points.

2.
Celestial Fire Qian Furnace (天火亁炉) – tianhuo qianlu.

3.
This is eight trigrams and heavenly stems/earthly roots stuff, so make of it what you will! Think, uh, Daoist principles.