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Chapter 203 Chan Yu

Chapter 203: Chapter 203 Chan Yu

"Ah... that’s right!" The old voice murmured, "If it weren’t for that treacherous Xuanyuan Yangguang poisoning me, he wouldn’t be my match! Are you my disciples?"

Bai Yunqi quietly held his forehead, "Senior is pretty deeply poisoned."

The underground palace lies beneath the loamy earth, extending for dozens of miles, with pavilions, towers, bridge corridors, and palaces all constructed from yellow earth, without any other visible elements.

An old dragon with white eyebrows and beard lay at the deepest part, massive eyes shut in long breaths, seeming half awake and half asleep.

"Senior, the poison you’ve caught is too severe, I really can’t cure it." The slightly chubby girl Chan Yu sat amidst a pile of bottles and jars, almost crying.

Originally a poisonous toad who cultivated into a demon, she possessed a cultivation technique of strange poisons, and was skilled in using toxins.

Because she was feared by other demon cultivators due to her strange poisons, she was relatively safe yet inevitably lonely. Chan Yu thought of finding a jeweler to custom-craft a special magical treasure that could conceal her own toxic nature, so she could make friends without always being alone.

Finally accumulating enough spirit stones to craft the treasure, Chan Yu was thrilled upon getting the news and hurried to Cyan Fish Mountain Market for the transaction, only to be attacked by a yellow wind while flying over Yellow Dragon Ridge. When she woke up, she found herself in the underground palace.

And this senior with long breath and overwhelming aura but unclear mind demanded her to detoxify him. Chan Yu, with inadequate cultivation, couldn’t escape or hide, nor did she know what poison afflicted the opposite party. Trapped here with no familiar friends to rescue her, she grew increasingly desperate day by day.

These days, she noticed the old dragon was frequently murmuring as if talking to someone, yet actually dreaming due to a strange poison.

Sometimes angry, sometimes sighing, sometimes muttering dreams, occasionally waking for a moment only to stare at her concocting antidotes.

She cried, pleading, "Please let me go, I’ll find other poison experts outside to successfully detoxify you, Senior!"

"Don’t think about deceiving the old me." The old dragon, confused, opened his eyes to look at her, sneered, "If you walked away, you won’t come back! Hmph, wasn’t the past littered with deceptive juniors, saying they were finding help, taking my rewards only to vanish without a trace? Wait, I will find them one by one and... huff huff..."

Suddenly the snoring arose, leaving Chan Yu in tearless despair, "Wah, why is my fate so miserable!"

Three figures outside the underground palace suddenly couldn’t wait for a reply anymore. No matter how they called out, only a gentle breeze passed through from the palace, leaving the moonlit wilderness silent momentarily.

"You all wait here, I’ll go in to take a look." Jiang Yuan sighed lightly, deciding to take the risk.

After all, once the Five Elements Suppressing Object was excavated uncovering the underground palace, the system provided the final goal—to rescue the missing cultivator Chan Yu.

He thought staying outside wouldn’t lead to a rescue, having completed ninety-nine bows already, only one more effort left. Couldn’t just stay here waiting, or they’d be stuck till dawn if delayed!

"Venerable family..." Bai Yunqi, with a solemn face, extended a hand to stop him, not wanting him to risk.

Seeing the venerable family grab a handful of paper crafts and blow a breath, from the palm they floated, expanding in the wind to form oxen, horses, pangolins, tigers, lions, and even an elephant trumpeting aloud and swinging its trunk.

He quietly withdrew his hand, "Venerable family, be cautious."

"Hmm, even if it comes to a fight, I think having them in front to hold the line allows me a chance to use the teleportation talisman to escape, right?" Jiang Yuan’s greatest reliance was the system notification, as there were no threat tips now, being cautious shouldn’t invite any major danger.

With that in mind, he casually took out the teleportation talisman, filling in the teleport location in advance to ensure immediate activation on click.

Then he cautioned a snake and a fox to retreat quickly to the small courtyard if things seemed amiss, before following the lively paper crafts to enter the underground palace’s gate.

"No friends, no family, I’ve been imprisoned so quietly, even until death nobody would notice." Chan Yu, heart-sunk, reminiscing her short and poisonous life, sorrow welled up, tears running down as she poured various poisons from bottles and jars on the yellow earth table into a large bowl.

"Ice silkworm poison, spirit snake poison, unknown poisons..." She muttered while pouring bottle after bottle, the mixed concoction turning five-colored and black swiftly in the bowl.

Sticky black poisonous ooze bubbled, its oily surface refracting rainbow hues, the mixed toxic cultivation techniques releasing a strong peculiar scent.

Pouring all liquid from the bottles arbitrarily, a sea bowl full of viscous black ooze surprisingly looked apparent enough.

"Either you die or I do; today one of us must perish!" Chan Yu gathered her courage to feed this poison king amalgamated from many toxins to the old dragon who forcibly kidnapped her!

If he didn’t drink, either she would be killed by him or poisoned herself, anyway no other way of survival seemed possible.

In her haste for trading magical treasures without even securing a storage bag, apart from a lot of spirit stones, Chan Yu carried only some snacks as hunger relievers, now long finished and felt dizzy from starvation.

She didn’t want to starve to death nor die so oppressed, resolving to mix a big bowl of venom, took several deep breaths and lifted it, slowly approaching to feed it to the old dragon.

Uncertain if it’d truly poison him, but testing didn’t cost her anything, at worst, death awaited, fight it!

"Senior..." Thus, when the many paper crafts encircled Jiang Yuan reaching the deepest part of the underground palace, he happened to witness a tear-stained, slightly chubby girl attempting to commit such poisoning.

[Chan Yu: A demon cultivator with a poison toad form, the missing customer sought by the mysterious jeweler]

[Zhou Jian: An old dragon formed from the earth vein absorption of the essence of heaven and earth at Yellow Dragon Ridge, embodiment of its land, whose intelligence just awakened before being suppressed here, temporarily mitigated by bee venom]

"Ah! Who are you?!" Distressed by being caught, Chan Yu’s poor vision worsened by the dim palace light, made her see thundering, seemingly massive beings with tiger heads and leopard tails that could speak human language, frightening her into a pallid face.

She tried to hide the poison intended for harming the old dragon, her chaotic motions almost overturning it, mistakenly thinking these strange forms were old dragon’s acquaintances, immediately she cried with the bowl at hand, "My life is too bitter, can’t bear it, better off dead!"

Jiang Yuan stood stupefied, having never imagined rushing in only to find the target seeking death. Unmoving, he dared not provoke her, "Miss, I’m here to rescue you!"

Those who often watch dramas know, during crucial moments, protagonists failing to speak and causing misunderstandings lead to regrettable irreparable outcomes; thus he confidently presented an aroma pouch declaring, "The jeweler from Cyan Fish Mountain Market commissioned me to find you, please don’t seek death!"

"Unexpectedly... someone still cherishes me?!" Shocked, Chan Yu forgot to lower the deadly poison she held.

After years of solitude, she never dared to imagine someone would brave peril to rescue her.

"Wah, someone really came for me!" Chan Yu wailed aloud, waking up the nearby muddled old dragon. His eyelids lifted slightly, "Little friend, have you found medicine to detoxify my body’s toxins?"