Poison Genius Consort

der in Cang Qiuzi’s place.
He had the few disciples under the man duke it out amongst themselves.
Now it seemed that the Courtyard had resolved its internal issues.

Long Feiye and Han Yunxi had both assumed that Bai Yanqing would hide himself in the Poison Sect or Northern Li, not set his sights on Celestial Mountain.
But why did he want power from the martial arts factions? Was he forcing the three Honored Elders to subdue the Ganjiang treasure sword for Heretical Sword Sect’s sake, or some other motive? Both of them grew more uncertain as they entered Meteor Sword Depository.
There they saw three to four Heretical Sword Sect disciples standing guard while at least 30 some disciples laid unconscious in the main hall.[8]

Such weak precautions made it easy for Han Yunxi and Long Feiye to slip inside.
To avoid rousing suspicion, they didn’t kill any of the guards and simply landed in the rafters of the main hall, observing the sleeping figures below.

“Bai Yanqing was that certain we wouldn’t come to Celestial Mountain?” Han Yunxi asked doubtfully.

“He controlled all of the secret letters, so it’d be more than easy to guard against our movements,” Long Feiye intoned.

If Chu XIfeng hadn’t caught the last letter, then Bai Yanqing would have been expecting them half a month ago.
That was more than enough time for him to set traps!

“Chu Xifeng did first-rate work!” Han Yunxi smiled.
She found a good vantage point and began to activate the detox system for a closer examination.
Although she already knew the results of the poison from outdoors, it was good to be cautious and check thoroughly.

“Stay here and don’t move, I’ll go find Madame Yan,” Long Feiye murmured.

This time, Han Yunxi listened to him.
She had just finished confirming that everyone in the hall was only victim to one poison when Long Feiye returned.

“Madame Yan’s in the back courtyard with her own exclusive guard,” he muttered.

“Take a look first,” Han Yunxi’s eyes turned shrewd with a plan.

Long Feiye brought Han Yunxi to Madame Yan’s location, but they couldn’t draw too close.
From a distance, they saw the woman unconscious on a bamboo bed while three guards stood both inside and outside her room.
One of them was even a member of Lockheart Courtyard.

“Can you check what she’s been poisoned with?” Long Feiye asked.

Han Yunxi immediately answered, “Ceaseless Poison.
Like Traceless Poison, it causes a stupor, but it’s much more powerful.
Someone must have targeted her for the toxin.”

“Do you have the antidote?” Long Feiye asked, before shaking his head.
“It’s not time yet.”

Han Yunxi smiled.
“Then when it is time?”

“Summon the poison guards here.
Together with Gu Beiyue, we’ll rescue everyone and then head straight for the peak,” Long Feiye said.

Han Yunxi only looked at him with an idiotic smile.
She was thinking the same thing! Since Bai Yanqing’s guards were so flimsy here, they had no need to waste any more time.
Whether or not he was at the peak, they’d just fight their way up!

If Bai Yanqing was there, they have a good fight, but it was even better if he wasn’t! With their minds in agreement, there was no need for discussion.
Han Yunxi grinned and patted her medical pouch.
“Don’t worry, there’s antidotes at any time!”

Long Feiye could set a hundred cares at rest with her words.
After figuring the situation at Meteor Sword Depository, Long Feiye brought her to Celestial Sea and the other sword depositories.
They spent an entire night visiting 30 separate factions between the first and second peaks and discovered that all were in the same state.
Both the disciples and faction leaders had been dosed with poison and were unconscious, with the leaders having the stronger, different strain.

If it was any other poison master, they would have gone crazy after finding out six different poisons in one night and thinking up antidotes to each other.
But this was child’s play for Han Yunxi, who didn’t even need to remember anything when the detox system did all the work.

The third and fourth peaks were more difficult to navigate, so they were extra cautious to avoid arousing suspicion.
It took four nights to finish scouting out the depositories there.
As Han Yunxi estimated, their situations were more or less similar to that of the first two mountains.

Five nights later, Han Yunxi and Long Feiye finished scouring half of Celestial Mountain and prepared all the antidotes.
Now all they needed to do was wait for Gu Beiyue and the poison guards’ arrival.
Chu Xifeng was too seriously injured to practice his martial arts, so he focused on recovering for now.
Han Yunxi seized the chance to calm down and cultivate her poison storage space.

They thought it’d take 10 days minimum for Gu Beiyue to arrive, but who knew…

1.
I made a mistake in Chapter 1055 because it wasn’t the Abstinence Courtyard that revolted, but the Lockheart Courtyard formerly under Cang Qiuzi.

2.
I don’t know, I thought this was the obvious conclusion since Bai Yanqing was involved.
It’s surprising she took this long to consider the possibility…

3.
This also brings me to another point: does no one in Celestial Mountain teach anything about poison resistance? Remember how LFY in the early days was hailed as a strong martial artist except for his weakness to toxins? If Celestial Mountain is supposed to be the top of the martial arts world, then they must 1) not count any poison-users in the community in that ranking or 2) be too strong to be poisoned at all for poison-users to be considered a threat.
We’ve established many times in PGC that #2 is not the case, so what gives? This is a gaping weakness waiting to be exploited by no-good underhanded types…

4.
Madame Yan (殷娘) – Yan niang, in which Yan means “blackish-red.”

5.
Earlier chapters confused this with “abstinence hall,” which was the place where HYX was staying during LFY’s closed-door cultivation.

6.
Some of PGC’s poison names are very literal, like this one here, that I sometimes wonder if HYX’s saying the type or a specific name.
But the structure of the sentence here lacks articles like “a” or “the” before the poison’s name, so I’m capitalizing it yet again.

7.
Perhaps Traceless Poison was the only option, but seven months is an awfully generous time for any villain to kill off their victims while hoping the protagonists don’t drop by.
Did Ban Yanqing have something else planned for the bodies? Maybe some sort of date-determined occult ritual or poison recipe? Bwahahaha…

8.
They either have 1) blankets, 2) excellent heating systems, or 3) strong martial arts immunity from the cold because heck, these people have been sleeping on the floor for the entire winter on a mountain regularly drowning in snow and still aren’t dead or sick?!

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