My Co-renting Lady Boss
Chapter 478 - 0478: Fight Poison with Poison

Chapter 478: Chapter 0478: Fight Poison with Poison

"I didn’t know!" Tang Ming shrugged his shoulders, saying uncertainly:

"After taking the poison you gave me, I was indeed in great pain, especially since each subsequent attack was more painful than the last. When I couldn’t hold on any longer, the Great Elder arrived."

"What?"

Hearing this, Xin Badao’s expression changed slightly, and he looked at Chu Batian sharply: "Great Elder, did you seek out Tang Ming in private?"

"Cough, cough, I just came to see if he could withstand the poison power of the bone-eroding and muscle-parting powder and was only worried that he might die!"

Clearing his throat, Chu Batian coughed and sent discreet signals to Tang Ming while making up an excuse.

"That’s not right! Great Elder, after you came, you gave me a poison called Three Corpse Brain Elixir, and also told me not to inform Sect Master Xin of the Detoxification Pill, or else the poison would be triggered to kill me!"

Tang Ming ignored Chu Batian’s signals and said seriously: "Great Elder, what’s wrong with your eyes? Why do you keep blinking?"

"I..."

Seeing that Tang Ming had actually confessed, Chu Batian was furious!

"So, the Great Elder not only met with Tang Ming in private but also forbade him to disclose the matter of the Detoxification Pill to me. Heh, good, very good!"

Upon hearing this, Xin Badao couldn’t help but exclaim in approval, yet his eyes were filled with rising murderous intent. He had always been aware of Chu Batian’s dissatisfaction with him but never expected him to be this self-serving.

"Don’t listen to his nonsense; I never said such a thing." Chu Batian’s face grew cold, and he looked at Tang Ming angrily:

"Boy, you dare to frame this Elder? What is your intention? If I gave you the Three Corpse Brain Elixir, why aren’t you poisoned, huh?"

Chu Batian wasn’t ready to fully break with Xin Badao. Since the poison in Tang Ming’s body had been resolved, there was no evidence to prove he had poisoned Tang Ming, so he flatly denied the accusation.

"Oh dear, you old thing, daring to act but not to own up?" Tang Ming immediately leapt to his feet, pointing at Chu Batian and shouting:

"And you even said that if I told you the secret of the Detoxification Pill, you could assure the death of Xin Badao, after which you would become the Sect Master of the Poison Sect, and you would spare my life. Lucky for me, I didn’t believe you. With your shameless attitude, as soon as you learned the secret of the Detoxification Pill, you would probably kill me immediately to silence me."

Since Chu Batian was accusing Tang Ming of stirring up trouble, Tang Ming decided to stir it up completely.

"Bastard, when did I say I wanted to kill the Sect Master?"

Hearing this, Chu Batian roared in anger.

"Daring to do but not to own up, you are truly a coward!" Tang Ming looked at Chu Batian with contempt.

"Hmph, so the Great Elder hates me this much. Xin has finally understood."

Xin Badao snorted coldly and, without paying further attention to Chu Batian, turned to Tang Ming to ask: "So what happened after you took the Three Corpse Brain Elixir? Why are you perfectly fine now?"

"I’m puzzled too! After taking the Three Corpse Brain Elixir, I experienced another onset of the poison, but this time it clearly wasn’t as painful as the previous attacks, and it passed very quickly!"

Tang Ming frowned and pointed at Long Duba and Mei Dufeng, "Then these two came."

"You also sought out Tang Ming in private?"

Xin Badao looked at Long Duba and Mei Dufeng with a displeased expression; his aura of authority emanated forth.

Feeling the immense pressure from Xin Badao, Long Duba and Mei Dufeng didn’t dare lie as the Great Elder had.

"Sect Master, you should know how much trouble this Tang Ming has caused us. We came purely for revenge and had no other intentions."

Long Duba explained with sweat pouring down his forehead.

"Yes, indeed, we just gave him some slow-acting poison, certainly not to stop him from confessing."

Mei Dufeng also hastily nodded, afraid that Xin Badao would kill him in a fit of rage.

Hearing this, Chu Batian’s face turned somewhat ugly; Mei Dufeng’s words implied that it was he who caused Tang Ming to be unable to confess, truly a pig-like teammate.

"They didn’t lie!" Just as Long Duba and Mei Dufeng were sweating profusely and looking extremely nervous, Tang Ming spoke up to testify:

"After the two of them came, they made me eat a lot of poison, I can’t even remember the names, anyway, there were a lot of poisons."

"Then how come you didn’t die?" Chu Batian asked through gritted teeth.

"Yeah? After eating those poisons, although I was in great pain at the time, afterwards I didn’t react at all."

Tang Ming shrugged his shoulders cluelessly and said bewilderedly:

"Later, even the ’Bone Corrosion Muscle Separating Powder’ poison didn’t act up, and I felt inexplicably hungry, as if nothing had happened."

"I know now!"

Yan Dujiu, who had been pondering carefully all this while, suddenly understood after hearing this.

"You know what?"

Chu Batian looked at Yan Dujiu with confusion.

"To report to Sect Master, I can now confirm that there is nothing wrong with my research," Yan Dujiu straightened his clothes and said solemnly:

"The reason why Tang Ming is unharmed now is because he ate too much poison. These poisons conflicted with each other inside his body and neutralized each other’s poison power."

"Fight poison with poison?"

Chu Batian and Xin Badao exclaimed in unison, as cultivators of Poison Skill, they were not unfamiliar with the concept of fighting poison with poison. Some Poison Skills rely precisely on this method to enhance cultivation, so they believed Yan Dujiu’s words immediately.

"Exactly, fight poison with poison," Yan Dujiu nodded firmly and confirmed:

"When Tang Ming first took the ’Bone Corrosion Muscle Separating Powder’, because he had only this type of poison, he showed symptoms. But later, as the Great Elder and these two fellows fed him a large amount of other poisons, it caused the poisons to counterbalance each other, eventually neutralizing the poison in his body."

"Makes sense." Xin Badao and the others nodded repeatedly as they felt this analysis was very logical.

"This can work?"

Tang Ming looked at Yan Dujiu with a face full of shock.

Truth be told, even Tang Ming himself hadn’t figured out a plausible reason for the poison in his body being neutralized. He hadn’t expected Yan Dujiu to give such a reasonable explanation—it was sheer talent!

"So, what should we do now?"

Long Duba looked at Yan Dujiu uncertainly, he and Mei Dufeng fed Tang Ming so much poison, not only did they fail to torture him, but they also accidentally cured his poisoning, seriously, what a mess.

"So much money!"

Mei Dufeng felt a pang of pain for the value of those poisons, for he was not as wealthy as some of the others.

"Now, I will administer the ’Bone Corrosion Muscle Separating Powder’ again to see if he reacts?"

Yan Dujiu hesitated a bit, looking for advice from Xin Badao.

"Hmm!" Xin Badao nodded, and the others, feeling guilty, dared not say anything.

Next, Yan Dujiu fed Tang Ming another bottle of ’Bone Corrosion Muscle Separating Powder’, but this time, Tang Ming showed no reaction after consuming the poison.