256: Chapter 219 256: Chapter 219 “Oh, I’m fine, yay!” Xuanyuan Mengting exclaimed joyfully as she leaped up and excitedly spun around, holding Jiang Tang’s hand.
“Hmm, congratulations to you, I’m fine as well,” Jiang Tang said, unsure why Xuanyuan Mengting was unharmed.
Perhaps she possessed a unique constitution that made her resistant to the poison.
“Impossible, you would be poisoned upon entering this place.
Without our family’s detoxification medicine, you cannot be cured.
You must be lying.”
Tang Yanhong looked at Jiang Tang and Xuanyuan Mengting with disbelief, thinking that they were merely comforting themselves.
“Perhaps your poison is ineffective against me.
I have a pill that can detoxify all poisons.
Tang Yanhong, have you forgotten that I can craft supreme elixirs?
You all know about what happened in Immortal Venerable City, right?
I once used flowers to detoxify those people.
With my supreme elixir, I can not only replenish spiritual power but also neutralize all poisons.”
Jiang Tang’s relaxed tone and smug expression infuriated Tang Yanhong.
She had thought she could control Jiang Tang, yet hadn’t expected him to be so formidable.
She had heard about the incident in Immortal Venerable City and regretted having not considered these facts before speaking.
If she had, she wouldn’t have made her earlier statements.
Would her beloved despise her, knowing she was a poisoner?
Would her actions have already made him loathe her?
Her mother always said she was too young and inexperienced, that she never thought things through, and all her emotions were always plainly seen on her face.
She should have waited for the effects to manifest and brought them to the family head.
She should have acted discreetly and kept it hidden from everyone.
“Jiang Tang, I remember now, I spent a fortune on two of your pills that I bought at the auction.
Those pills were so expensive, it pained me to use them, but they significantly increased my cultivation level.”
Xuanyuan Mengting finally understood why she was not poisoned like the other women—reason being she had purchased the costly supreme elixirs.
Considering what had happened, it was worth buying those expensive pills.
The other women looked at each other in regret for not spending a great deal on the supreme elixirs.
They had thought, by inviting Jiang Tang to their family, that he would supply them with the pills long-term, saving them from having to buy at costly auctions.
Now that they were at the mercy of others, all they could do was desperately look to Jiang Tang, hoping he would save them.
“Don’t be afraid.
Even if Dugu Yan’er just offended me like she did, I won’t hold a grudge.
If Tang Yanhong won’t give you the antidote, I’ll provide you with a supreme elixir that will not only enhance your cultivation level but also detoxify you.”
As Jiang Tang spoke, the girls who had hesitated to spend heavily on the elixirs listened to his generous offer as if he were giving out free cabbages.
It made him seem not only adept at winning people over but also at charming the ladies.
Members of the Tang Family, who were concealed around the garden, heard everything Jiang Tang said.
Seeing his insufferable expression, they were tempted to come out and duel with him.
The family head had ordered them to stay concealed and not to act rashly, assuring that if Tang Yanhong failed to deal with Jiang Tang, they would handle it.
“Jiang Tang, I was wrong!
It wasn’t intentional,” Tang Yanhong said upon realizing that Jiang Tang truly wasn’t poisoned, just like he had said.
After all, would an alchemist be without detoxification medicine?
And not just any alchemist, but a master crafter of supreme elixirs, inherently capable of creating the most potent detoxification medicines.
Another fact was undeniable—in Immortal Venerable City, where many were poisoned, Jiang Tang simply used the fragrance of some flowers to cure everyone affected, even when their family’s own remedies were ineffective.
“Whether it was unintentional or not, I won’t hold it against you.
Please take me to your family to meet the person in charge,” Jiang Tang suggested, waving his hand to release a scent charged with the essence of life, having picked some green flowers from a space and crushed them, dispersing the life-giving aroma toward the seven poisoned women.
The women felt a wave of this vital essence drift toward them, bringing a comfortable sensation to their bodies.
Inhaling this essence into their beings not only freed their restricted spiritual energy and purged the toxins, but also made their spiritual power stronger.
Without concern for being in the garden, the women sat down to meditate and refine Qi, letting go of themselves.
Jiang Tang stood by like a guardian god.
These women had always followed him, and regardless of their little schemes, since they had no personal grievances with him, he found it easier to forgive such beautiful women.
Seeing the women using the vital essence to detoxify, Tang Yanhong bit her lip, knowing that Jiang Tang was telling the truth.
Tang Yanhong herself knew how to detoxify.
From a young age, she was immersed in poisons during her cultivation, like other members of her family, and the blood that flowed from her was black—potent enough to kill a person.
The reason for such cultivation was to have the ability to poison others effectively while being resistant themselves, otherwise, they might die before their targets.
Moreover, she was adept at fighting poison with poison, able to use any toxin without needing an antidote, so the poisonous atmosphere of the garden was already harmless to her.
Tang Yanhong realized that the higher her cultivation level became, she would suffer from a monthly outbreak of toxins, lasting an hour, causing severe pain and rendering her unable to use spiritual power.
Other family members experienced similar side effects from using poisons.
However, they had no cure for these aftereffects.
They used poisons for survival and to become the most powerful figures in the Cultivation World.