Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 278

Chapter 278 The Poison Everywhere

Back at the banquet, the third brother laughed heartily, “Just drinking is so boring. I’ll give you a sword dance to liven things up.”

He swung his sword around the table. His movements weren’t particularly elaborate, but they were quite entertaining, drawing cheers from the crowd.

In his excitement, the third brother’s hand trembled, and he nearly stabbed the fourth brother. Fortunately, the fourth brother sensed something was wrong and dodged.

“Fourth brother, are you all right?” the third brother asked, a little regretful. The sword had been smeared with poison, so even a touch wouldn’t be a problem.

The fourth brother laughed heartily, holding the golden armor talisman in his hand, and took up the sword. “It’s okay, it’s okay, third brother. You’re such a fool! You haven’t practiced swordsmanship in so long, your skills are rusty. Come, let me play with you.”

Swords flashed, and murderous intent flashed in the eyes of the third and fourth brothers. They exchanged glances, then quickly vanished. With

their elder sister and younger brother present, they couldn’t actually engage in a fight. They could only call it a day, then resigned their swords in frustration.

Unbeknownst to the crowd, two figures were watching them from above.

…

“The mood at this table is really chaotic.” Bai Hongtu, who was invited to watch, shook his head.

“Why not take a guess? Who will survive to the end?” Jiang Li said with a smile.

“No guess.” Bai Hongtu didn’t want to guess Jiang Li’s question. He had never guessed right anyway, so why bother making himself bored.

Jiang Li shook his head. Old Bai had become smarter and didn’t fall for it.

“By the way, I haven’t been here for a while. How come this kid is getting together with his senior sister?” Bai Hongtu looked at Jiang Li suspiciously. “Did you guide him?”

Bai Hongtu knew that since Jiang Li came to the Tonggu World, he had been guiding Yu Feng behind the scenes, trying to prevent him from dying even once.

Judging from the current results, Yu Feng lived safely to the age of eighteen.

With Jiang Li’s emotional intelligence in terms of relationships, could he still guide Yu Feng in love?

If it was Jiang Li’s guidance, Bai Hongtu would have given up his position as the leader of the Dao Sect and switched to being the commander of the Human Emperor Palace.

Talking about this topic, Jiang Li frowned: “I obviously tried my best to guide Yu Feng on how to pursue Wu Lian, but Yu Feng was determined not to do as I said, and he succeeded in catching up with her. It’s really strange.”

“How did you guide her?”

“I told him that since Wu Lian likes to eat candy beans, you should tell her the method of refining candy beans. It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him fish. She will treat you like a teacher, and then her feelings will change, and finally she will fall in love with you.”

“Yu Feng just didn’t do as I said. He always took time out from his practice to refine candy beans and give them to Wu Lian.”

“I also said that women like to hear lies. If she asks you if I’m good-looking, you must say I’m not good-looking.”

“But Yu Feng’s answer was very corny. I got goose bumps when I heard it. To sum it up, it’s two words,’good-looking’.”

“Why say so much about something that can be explained in a few words?”

Jiang Li felt that efficiency was key. If a simple method could be used to solve the problem, there was no need to go through so much trouble.

Bai Hongtu thought to himself that, as expected of someone who had died tens of thousands of times, his willpower was truly formidable, allowing him to disregard Jiang Li’s nonsense.

If he listened to Jiang Li even once, this boyfriend-girlfriend relationship would never be possible.

…

“The sword fight between you two, brothers, was truly spectacular. It was so realistic I thought you were actually going to fight,” Yu Feng cheered from the sidelines.

“Little brother, you’re such a jokester! How could we possibly fight?” The third and fourth brothers were in a cheerful mood, arms around each other. The third brother slapped a time-delayed explosion rune onto the fourth brother’s clothes, while the fourth brother slapped a rune that could easily lead to obsession onto the third brother’s clothes.

“Brother, your technique is a bit rusty. Look, you’ve pierced my clothes.”

“It was a mistake, it was a mistake. I was sweating so much, my clothes were soaked.”

The two laughed at each other and changed their clothes.

“Look, there are fireflies!” Yu Feng pointed to the grass not far away. Mottled spots of light rose from the grass, forming a ball of soft light, which was beautiful beyond words.

“So beautiful.”

Everyone was attracted by the fireflies, except for the fourth senior brother who didn’t go to see it.

The younger junior brother told him that he would arrange a group of fireflies at the banquet to divert everyone’s attention, and then he would poison them.

He secretly poisoned the wine jugs of the third and fifth senior brothers, concentrating on it, fearing that the two would discover him, but he didn’t notice that a firefly swayed and flew into his bowl, gently tapped it, and then flew away.

The way to tame beasts can also be used to tame insects.

After watching the fireflies, everyone returned their attention to the banquet.

Unfortunately, the third and fifth senior brothers had a good memory and were afraid that the fourth senior brother would poison them again, so they didn’t drink.

The fourth senior brother felt that he was really unlucky and had wasted this opportunity in vain, so he ate his meal in silence.

“Come on, let’s raise a toast to celebrate the younger junior brother’s Danjie and officially becoming a Jindan stage cultivator!” Senior Sister Wu Lian suggested.

Fearing the rims of their cups might be poisonous, the third and fifth brothers pretended to accidentally break their glasses and retrieved new ones from their storage rings.

After everyone drank, Yu Feng enthusiastically served soup to his senior sister.

“Sister, try this! Five-fingered ginseng stewed with old hen.”

Sister Wu Lian took a small, elegant sip and said, “Delicious.”

…

The banquet ended, and everyone left.

The third brother returned to his bedroom, suspecting he had been poisoned. He tried to use his Qi to check, but suddenly bleeding

began to form from all seven orifices, and he soon died. The poison the fourth brother had given him was called reverse poison. If one circulated their Qi within three hours of poisoning, their meridians would reverse, leading to death.

Knowing the third and fifth brothers were doomed, the fourth brother peacefully fell asleep, never to awaken.

The elixirs Yu Feng had been feeding him contained a trace of poison, which, over time, would accumulate to a terrifying level.

The fireflies controlled by Yu Feng also contained a small amount of poison, acting as a trigger, triggering the poison in the fourth brother’s body.

The test result would only be excessive use of the pills, leading to pill poisoning.

Yu Feng wouldn’t bring disaster upon himself. He had a way to prove the poison didn’t originate with him, but rather from Fifth Senior Brother’s spiritual plant.

The Spiritual Medicine Sect was a master in both alchemy and poisoning, capable of both saving and harming.

Fifth Senior Brother was cautious, fearing he’d been struck by a poison that would kill him even with the mere act of spiritual energy. He carefully selected antidotes and took them.

In his bedroom, Fifth Senior Brother had a fragrant, nightshade plant, his favorite spiritual plant.

Little did he know, its fragrance would react with lilies and five-fingered ginseng, forming a highly toxic substance within his body.

Fifth Senior Brother clutched his heart, vomiting thick black blood. He fell to his knees, his mind instantly swirling: “Oh no! I’ve been poisoned!”

“Third and Fourth Brothers must have poisoned me!”

“If I don’t survive, you’ll all be buried with me!” Fiercely, Fifth Senior Brother, no longer concerned about revealing his identity, opened the brocade pouch left by his true master. The pouch, a streak of light, flew off into the distance, revealing information about Taoist Tongchen’s weaknesses.

If he still had a glimmer of hope, then he was the true master.

The light in the brocade bag was a method of the Nascent Soul stage. The movement was so loud that it woke Taoist Tongchen from his retreat.

“Who is it?!”

(End of this chapter)