Chapter 0212 – Poison in the Pocket – The Absolute Return

“There are highly poisonous things everywhere here, it’s too dangerous for you to be alone.”

Perhaps that wasn’t the only reason he still took me the long way around and was always wary of me.

I could see that he was loyal to the Poison King, and this loyalty was not out of subordinate obedience, but more like the care of elders for their juniors.

“I wanted to ask you about something.”

“Say it.”

“When did you start following Lord Poison King?”

“I’ve known him since I was a kid.”

“What do you think he was like as a child?”

Sagami stopped and turned her head to look at me.

“What are you asking for?”

“I’m just a little curious.”

“When he was a child, ah ……” Xiangxian fell into reminiscence, “there is no difference from now, intelligent, cautious, cheerful, lively, very much the style of a leader.”

I resisted the urge to spit out the words, “It’s nothing like it is now.”

I knew that Xiang Xian wouldn’t listen to my jokes, his feelings for the Poison King had already surpassed ordinary loyalty, and was more like the care of a relative.

It reminds me of the Blood Sky Witch.

I don’t know if the Poison King is really as smart, cautious, cheerful, lively, and highly capable of leadership as the Xiang Xian said, but I can say for sure that he’s really cute. It wasn’t just because of his baby face.

For example, he would always hang twelve small and delicate scented pouches around his waist, each embroidered with a different pattern. That pattern was no other than the twelve animals representing the twelve signs of the Chinese Zodiac, and it was also the kind of cartoonized, childishly cute drawing style. I had never noticed these details before, and only now did I realize that these scented pouches were so special.

“These scented pouches, were they all hand-picked by you?” I asked, pointing at the scented pouches around the Poison King’s waist.

“I drew it myself.”

I opened my mouth wide in surprise. The patterns on these scented sachets were all drawn by his hand?

“I bet absolutely no one would have thought that these lovely scented pouches were filled with the poisonous poisons refined by Lord Poison King.”

Generally speaking, the poisons of the Poison King were either contained in containers engraved with hideous ghosts and monsters, or in boxes with horrible words such as “devil”, “kill”, “evil” and “death” to emphasize their horrors. Death” and other horrible words in the box, in order to show their terrible place. But the poison king is good, but even use these cute cartoon scented bag to contain poison, the contrast is so big that it is creepy.

“Do you want to know which balm contains the most powerful poison? I bet you wouldn’t have guessed that it would be this cute rabbit scented pouch.”

Saying that, the Poison King made a gesture to open the rabbit scented pouch.

“Don’t!” I backed away in fear, waving my hands in refusal.

When the Poison King saw my reaction, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud. This was the first time I had seen him laugh so openly, and it seemed that he was also taken aback by his actions. I pretended that I didn’t see him lose his temper and continued to talk and laugh with him.

The next day, the Poison King had to make a very important poison.

He was uncharacteristically serious and introduced me, “This Heavenly Heart Poison is one of the main materials I use to refine the Dark Soul Absolute Poison, and with just one drop, it can poison dozens of people to death. You, stand far away …… Why did you run to the door again?”

I had been prepared to run away at any time, so I had been standing near the door.

The Poison King was rummaging around on the table for something.

“Strange, I obviously put it here, why is it gone?”

“What are you looking for?”

“My gloves.”

He was looking for the buckskin gloves he wore when making poison.

“Are you looking for this?” I shook the gloves I wore on my hands.

“Why are you wearing my gloves?”

“I thought you said this poison was dangerous?”

“What about me?”

“You’re the king of poison, do you still need gloves?”

“Give it to me!”

I hastily took off my gloves and handed them to him.

“What do you have in your mouth?” The Poison King noticed what was in my mouth.

I spat out the two Poison Avoidance Pearls in my mouth and showed them to him. The Poison King cried and laughed when he saw that I was actually holding two Poison Avoidance Pearls.

“Even if you eat the Poison Avoidance Bead as a sugar bean, you will never be able to escape my poisonous hand.”

Of course, this is just his joke. If he really wanted to kill me, even if I ate a hundred poison avoidance beads, it wouldn’t help.

I did this just to get closer to him and let his guard down. I believe that deep down, he must still retain the innocence and kindness of his childhood.

The Poison King put on his gloves and began to concentrate on making the poison.

“If it’s just a little bit off, blue smoke will come out, and that means it’s a failure. You have to watch carefully, this is a unique recipe that only I know.”

The Poison King was refining the Heavenly Heart Poison while explaining to me the method of refining the Dark Soul Absolute Poison. Of course, I had no idea what the other ingredients were, so rather than teaching me how to refine the poison, he was trying to show me how rigorous and complicated the process of refining the poison was.

Obviously, he could have kicked me out and refined it all by himself, but he chose to let me stay and watch, so it seems he wanted to show off in front of me.

“See what I mean? When you make poisons, you have to be careful, and you can’t make a mistake at every step.”

“Uh-huh.”

Just then, a green smoke suddenly emerged behind the Poison King.

“Lord Poison King!”

“You get out!”

I turned around and ran out the door in a hurry. The Poison King took an antidote pill, then picked up a nearby bottle of liquid and poured it on the smoking area.

“Snort–“

The green smoke got even thicker.

“Lord Poison King! Lord Poison King!”

I was so anxious that I wanted to rush in and save him, but I was worried that I would get in the way.

Just then, the Poison King waved his sleeves, dispersing the poisonous smoke that filled the room, and walked out from the room.

“Are you okay?” I asked in a hurry.

“What can I do?” The Poison King said in disbelief.

He opened his mouth and exhaled a mouthful of green smoke, then fanned himself with his fan.

“It seems that the path of poison is so vast and profound that it is beyond the reach of any human being.” I sighed.

“I failed on purpose, just to remind you to be careful.”

“……”

“……”

“You must have done it on purpose, how can a hallowed Poison King not even be able to refine the poisons he commonly uses ……”

“Shut up!”

“Yes.”

I looked at Poison King with a meaningful smile on my face. Poison King, Poison King, it’s still unknown who will lose and who will win.

Just then, Xiang Xian hurriedly ran over and reported to me, “Xu Dalong from the Yellow Spring Pavilion is seeking an audience, saying he has something important to report.”

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