309 Poison King Technique
Yang Erbao led Qin Huai to a building resembling a warehouse. It was bustling with activity as Blood Poison Gang disciples sat on wooden boxes and the ground, ingesting various colorful powders.
Qin Huai quickly identified the composition of the powders and mumbled, “Blood leaf flower and ox bone grass are poisonous herbs. A poison that affects blood but takes effect slowly?”
Yang Erbao smiled and said, “Brother Qin, you have good eyesight. These have been ground to such a state, yet you can still distinguish them. Most of these poisons are used to assist in cultivating the poison king technique. After eating these, they’ll cultivate according to the technique.”
Qin Huai narrowed his eyes, observing the group’s expressions. “I’m afraid they’ll die quite easily.”
“Wealth comes from danger. Besides, we didn’t force them,” Yang Erbao replied nonchalantly. “Our Blood Poison Gang plays with drugs. If we can’t even withstand this little poison, we won’t live long in the future.”
“Fair enough.” Qin Huai nodded in agreement.
Yang Erbao then led Qin Huai through several rooms that looked like storehouses. After some time, a row of exquisitely decorated small houses near the Qingzhou River came into view. Although not large, they were significantly better than the cluttered storehouse.
“This is the residence of the Blood Poison Gang’s martial artists above the great blood refinement realm,” Yang Erbao explained as he opened a small courtyard.
The fifty-square-meter space was divided equally between the courtyard and a wing. There were also some poisonous seeds planted in the ground, brimming with vitality.
“Brother Qin, what do you think of this place?”
“Not bad.” Qin Huai nodded, considering it as his temporary residence.
After that, Yang Erbao personally showed Qin Huai around the Blood Poison Gang’s living quarters. The gang was indeed one of the four largest in the outer city, boasting decent facilities in all aspects.
Qin Huai primarily sought to identify where the Blood Poison Gang members cultivated. Observing the martial artists practicing near the storehouse, he found that his experience orbs automatically merged into his body, causing his experience bar to skyrocket.
“Ding! You have collected a [Poison King Technique Essence (Blue)], [Poison King Technique] experience points +544!”
“Ding! You have collected a [Poison King Technique Essence (Purple)], [Poison King Technique] experience points +1,333!”
“Ding! You have collected a [Poison King Technique Essence (Green)], [Poison King Technique] experience points +23!”
In his memories, Qin Huai was indeed a poison path genius. Using the poison that could affect a bone pattern realm expert to aid him, the poison king technique progressed rapidly.
After the first round of experience harvesting, Qin Huai’s poison king technique had earned him 100,000 experience points and reached the fourth refinement level.
Unfortunately, the Blood Poison Gang’s bone pattern realm experts seemed elusive and lazy. Qin Huai only saw a few bone pattern realm experts, but none of them practiced martial arts.
Although Qin Huai was in the bone pattern realm, his poison king technique was not at a high level, and he was new to the Blood Poison Gang.
The fact that Yang Erbao could bring more than ten bone pattern realm experts to Tong Treasure Shop demonstrated the Blood Poison Gang’s power.
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In the blink of an eye, Qin Huai had been with the Blood Poison Gang for half a month.
During this time, he had no tasks, and it seemed Yang Erbao had forgotten about him. Qin Huai understood this as the gang investigating his background.
Yang Erbao had told him that as long as he wasn’t associated with the three hostile gangs, he would be fine. They didn’t care if he was a disciple of Qingzhou City’s major sects, and they even welcomed him warmly.
Thus, Qin Huai spent the past half a month quietly cultivating and harvesting experience. He wasn’t stingy with his resources, using poison that could harm a bone pattern realm martial artist as a supplementary technique, just like in his memory.
With this support, his poison king technique improved rapidly, reaching the ninth refinement level in just half a month. The poison level also increased to 35%, and the poison king technique’s patterned bones overlapped with the divine power book of a thousand creations on his arms.
The interaction between the two made Qin Huai smile bitterly. It seemed that the white dragon qi produced by refining the broken axe technique contained a hint of poison.
Qin Huai had completely refined the broken axe technique and added it to the nine dragons true qi technique, now at 41% of the second stage.
However, within the Blood Poison Gang, it appeared that Qin Huai, who had always kept a low profile, had been targeted since the day before. Someone stared at his courtyard from afar without moving, every day.
Bang!
Qin Huai threw a punch. As the purple-white light exploded, a faint blood mist dissipated in the aftermath. Immediately after, the weeds under the courtyard wall withered as the thin blood mist swept past.
Qin Huai felt gratified. Other than the terrifying destructive power of his forbidden technique, he also had the powerful poison king technique. This made his punches even more difficult to defend against.
After testing a few more punches, he sat quietly in his room. Beside him were bottles and jars of various sizes, containing valuable old medicinal herbs.
Qin Huai had 180,000 taels of silver, but he had spent 150,000 taels in half a month on these medicinal herbs.