Chapter 106

Chapter 106

Wei Zong was stunned.

It felt like he had been struck in the head with a hammer.

They’re dying…

The poison sect forces that were supposed to revive Yunnan’s poison sects.

His ambitions were dying along with them.

Everything was crumbling into nothing like bubbles. Wei Zong’s hideous face became even more distorted.

“Did I cooperate with those b*st*rds just to end up like this?”

The complex conflicts of the martial world raging like a typhoon.

Even in the midst of all that, how hard had he struggled to seek independent survival in Yunnan without interference?

All his efforts and hardships were becoming meaningless at this very moment.

It all seemed over.

But humans are truly frightening creatures.

Despite his feelings of despair, Wei Zong found himself unconsciously observing the faces of those who were dying.

Out of curiosity.

Because he wanted to know how Jin Ja-gang used poison.

Because his pride was hurt that he couldn’t read his opponent’s moves as someone who used poison techniques.

That’s why.

After observing the dying poison sect members in a daze for a while, a thought suddenly flashed through Wei Zong’s mind.

‘Hmm?’

Looking carefully at the poison sect members, they were dying very quickly from the moment symptoms appeared.

This was poison meant only for killing.

How many such poisons could there be in Yunnan?

The limping one had killed Iron Umbrella Sect’s warriors heading to Poison Valley with Abundant Sediment.

This meant he had taken Shadow Bureau’s poison and was using it.

However, he had hardly used Four Emperor Divine Water until now. Four Emperor Divine Water was actually the poison that represented Shadow Bureau more than Abundant Sediment.

‘Could it be… this is Four Emperor Divine Water?’

If the poison that the poison sect members were suffering from right now was Four Emperor Divine Water?

‘Four Emperor Divine Water! Four Emperor Divine Water has been applied somewhere!’

Where!

Wei Zong opened his eyes wide and looked around in all directions, then suddenly looked up at the ceiling.

Drip, drip.

Water droplets falling from the ceiling kept hitting his face.

Wei Zong stuck out his tongue to catch and taste the water droplets.

Though his sense of taste was almost lost due to the Bright Adversity Poison, there was a faint metallic taste. A very slight fishy smell was mixed in. Slightly different from the fishy smell that comes from rain.

Only then did Wei Zong realize where the Four Emperor Divine Water was coming from.

‘What kind of dog-like situation is this!’

Wei Zong immediately gathered saliva and spat it out.

It was rain. The rainwater leaking from above was mixed with poison!

The ceiling or the roof.

For some unknown reason, Four Emperor Divine Water was heavily applied there.

The Four Emperor Divine Water that had been applied fell down mixed with the rainwater leaking from the roof.

The rainwater that fell like that would have splashed on the mucous membranes of the eyes, ears, lips, sweat pores… all over the bodies of the poison sect members.

‘No, wait?’

But there was something strange.

Four Emperor Divine Water was a mixture of various poisons, but the main poison was snake venom. Human skin is surprisingly thick, so snake venom doesn’t cause poisoning just by touching the body.

There’s a reason snakes have sharp teeth. They make holes with their teeth and inject poison into them.

‘What’s falling from the ceiling is definitely Four Emperor Divine Water, but…?’

Something… something else was there.

One other thing was mixed into these raindrops.

Something that Wei Zong and the poison sect members didn’t know about.

Then Wei Zong’s eyes caught sight of an action the poison sect members were unconsciously doing.

The poison sect members’ attention was entirely focused on Jin Ja-gang. They were all just staring at Jin Ja-gang…

Scratch.

He could see someone scratching the back of their neck.

Scratch scratch.

Next to them, someone else scratched their forearm. Another person nearby scratched their forehead and cheeks.

But blood could be glimpsed here and there. Bloody water mixed with the rainwater falling from the ceiling flowed down.

Seeing this, doubt arose in Wei Zong’s eyes.

‘What is that?’

Perhaps because he was watching others scratch, Wei Zong’s arms also became itchy for no reason.

Wei Zong unconsciously tried to scratch his arm but was startled.

Wasn’t this strange somehow?

Not just his arms. His arms, legs, back, and stomach were all itchy.

Could this be itchy for no reason at all?

When Wei Zong looked at the poison sect members again, he could see that those who had been scratching simply at first were gradually scratching harder.

They were even scratching vigorously.

Their attention was entirely focused on Jin Ja-gang.

Most of them didn’t even know they were scratching their own bodies.

They were just scratching unconsciously like Wei Zong had just done!

Until blood showed!

Wei Zong watched quietly.

Those who had been scratching their bodies harder and harder soon twisted their bodies this way and that, then suddenly foamed at the mouth.

Poisoning!

Wei Zong’s eyes widened as if struck by lightning.

Only now did he realize the cause.

If you scratch, you die!

By then, the phenomenon of scratching bodies had completely spread, and almost all the poison sect members in the main hall were scratching their bodies.

It was a truly eerie sight.

Everyone was scratching their own bodies…

Wei Zong drew up his internal energy and shouted.

“Don’t scratch—!”

The poison sect members were startled by Wei Zong’s shout and turned around.

The poison sect members who had been about to scratch their bodies stopped their hands in surprise.

However, there were those who couldn’t stand the itching and soon twisted their bodies while scratching lightly here and there.

Wei Zong shouted again.

“I said don’t scratch— you idiotic b*st*rds—!”

The poison sect members flinched.

But the itching wasn’t something that could be easily endured. The poison sect members didn’t know why, but they bit their lips and endured the itching. Even without scratching, their skin was visibly turning red.

Then some inevitably scratched their arms and legs.

Once you start scratching, you can’t stop.

Due to some other poison that wasn’t Four Emperor Divine Water, their skin had become much weaker. When scratched, sores formed and skin peeled off. Blood appeared.

Pitter-patter.

Raindrops continued to fall from the ceiling.

They knew it was poison rain, but there was no way to avoid it.

It was itchy.

Wei Zong’s arms, legs, and back were also continuously itchy. It was so itchy he could die from being unable to bear it.

His body, soaked in poison rain, continued to cause itching sensations.

But if you scratch, you die.

Because Four Emperor Divine Water penetrates through wounds on the skin caused by scratching.

That was the reason Four Emperor Divine Water caused poisoning.

“This cunning b*st*rd…”

Wei Zong’s gaze met with Jin Ja-gang, who was standing in the middle of the main hall among the poison sect members.

Jin Ja-gang asked with a calm expression.

“Did you figure it out already?”

“Already” was clearly mockery.

Grind grind grind!

Wei Zong ground his teeth.

If there had been even the slightest suspicious sign before, he would have been sufficiently prepared for poisoning. But there had been nothing like that at all.

That’s why he never thought the rainwater falling from the ceiling was mixed with poison.

This couldn’t even be called a mistake.

It was something that happened unavoidably despite paying sufficient attention.

“You…!”

Wei Zong trembled with anger. The poison sect members were forcibly enduring the itching sensation while grimacing and twisting their bodies.

Compared to them, Wei Zong was somewhat better off.

His face had melted due to the Bright Adversity Poison, so he couldn’t feel the itching. His bare flesh just hurt as if it were burning.

* * *

Originally, Jin Ja-gang had planned to apply Four Emperor Divine Water to the roof. If he secretly made holes here and there in the roof while laying tiles, when it rained, the Four Emperor Divine Water would fall into the main hall mixed with rainwater.

Then he could spray Four Emperor Divine Water on everyone below the main hall.

However, that method had a fatal flaw.

As Wei Zong knew, Four Emperor Divine Water was mainly snake venom. Snake venom has almost no effect just from touching the skin or eating small amounts. Even if it fell on the poison sect members’ bodies mixed with rainwater, nothing would happen.

So even if he applied large amounts of Four Emperor Divine Water to the roof, that alone would be meaningless.

What he discovered then was…

Ginkgo.

Wei Zong couldn’t contain his curiosity and asked.

“What… what the hell is it! What kind of poison is this!”

Jin Ja-gang readily answered Wei Zong’s outcry.

“Duck Foot Tree.”

Duck Foot Tree is the ginkgo tree. It’s called Duck Foot Tree because its leaves resemble duck feet.

“Ginkgo? Ginkgo tree?”

Wei Zong repeated the words in disbelief.

The other poison sect members also had expressions of incomprehension for a moment.

That was understandable, because when thinking of ginkgo fruit, one usually thinks of the yellowish-white kernel inside the hard shell. Ginkgo nuts are mainly eaten roasted, but even so, they’re famous for causing stomach pain and inducing epilepsy if consumed in large quantities.

Jin Ja-gang spoke again.

“The outer seed coat of the Duck Foot Tree.”

“Ah…!”

Only then did the poison sect members show expressions of understanding.

The soft outer flesh of the ginkgo tree’s fruit causes considerable itching when it touches bare skin. It causes blisters, makes skin peel off, and even causes redness.

“Then, then this smell was…”

“Ugh!”

The foul smell that had been present since earlier.

Was that smell caused by the outer seed coat of the Duck Foot Tree!

There were so many ginkgo trees around that they hadn’t particularly paid attention to it.

Jin Ja-gang said, looking at the poison sect members surrounding him who were all grimacing.

“It was worthwhile. It was worth enduring the terrible smell and chewing and swallowing hundreds of raw ginkgo fruits.”

“Ugh… ugh.”

The poison sect members clearly had expressions of being unable to bear it.

“If it’s hard to bear, you can scratch. Then you’ll be comfortable.”

Jin Ja-gang even kindly explained.

“These raindrops you’re being hit with contain poison extracted from the outer seed coat of the Duck Foot Tree mixed with Four Emperor Divine Water.”

He had extracted almost fifty drops or more of the Four Emperor Divine Water remaining in his dantian. By simple calculation, it was a massive amount of poison that could kill over five hundred people!

That, together with the poison extracted from chewing ginkgo fruits, had been applied all over the roof and was flowing down with the rain.

“F-Four Emperor Divine Water!”

Only then did the poison sect members understand why their colleagues had been continuously dying.

If it was Four Emperor Divine Water, this intense killing power was understandable.

The poison sect members felt like they were going crazy. They were dying from itching but couldn’t scratch freely, and if they tried to endure it, it was painful.

“Ugh, ugh…”

The poison sect members kept twisting their bodies. They wanted to scratch but knew they would die if they did, so they had to clench their fists and endure.

Having been hit by rainwater falling from the ceiling for a long time, some were already shedding skin. Those who got it in their eyes developed eye inflammation, becoming bloodshot and even showing yellow discoloration.

Scratch and die, or stay still and die anyway.

If they ran outside the main hall, the righteous faction members were waiting.

It was truly being surrounded on all sides.

The poison sect members could only stamp their feet, not knowing what to do.

“Rather…”

Determination appeared in the poison sect members’ eyes.

Rather than continuing to be hit by poison rain in this place, it seemed like there was a higher chance of survival by going out and fighting the righteous faction members.

The poison sect members looked at each other, then watched Wei Zong. Though Wei Zong had a hideous appearance with his melted face and collapsed nose, at times like this he needed to say something. He needed to take the lead and fight.

Only then could they all move together and survive.

Wei Zong was not unaware of the poison sect members’ wishes.

But even in the midst of all this, Wei Zong still hadn’t completely satisfied his curiosity. Wei Zong’s eyes gleamed from behind the melted and stuck flesh as he asked.

“No. That’s not all. There’s still more. What’s the other one?”

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Wei Zong was stunned.

It felt like he had been struck in the head with a hammer.

They’re dying…

The poison sect forces that were supposed to revive Yunnan’s poison sects.

His ambitions were dying along with them.

Everything was crumbling into nothing like bubbles. Wei Zong’s hideous face became even more distorted.

“Did I cooperate with those b*st*rds just to end up like this?”

The complex conflicts of the martial world raging like a typhoon.

Even in the midst of all that, how hard had he struggled to seek independent survival in Yunnan without interference?

All his efforts and hardships were becoming meaningless at this very moment.

It all seemed over.

But humans are truly frightening creatures.

Despite his feelings of despair, Wei Zong found himself unconsciously observing the faces of those who were dying.

Out of curiosity.

Because he wanted to know how Jin Ja-gang used poison.

Because his pride was hurt that he couldn’t read his opponent’s moves as someone who used poison techniques.

That’s why.

After observing the dying poison sect members in a daze for a while, a thought suddenly flashed through Wei Zong’s mind.

‘Hmm?’

Looking carefully at the poison sect members, they were dying very quickly from the moment symptoms appeared.

This was poison meant only for killing.

How many such poisons could there be in Yunnan?

The limping one had killed Iron Umbrella Sect’s warriors heading to Poison Valley with Abundant Sediment.

This meant he had taken Shadow Bureau’s poison and was using it.

However, he had hardly used Four Emperor Divine Water until now. Four Emperor Divine Water was actually the poison that represented Shadow Bureau more than Abundant Sediment.

‘Could it be… this is Four Emperor Divine Water?’

If the poison that the poison sect members were suffering from right now was Four Emperor Divine Water?

‘Four Emperor Divine Water! Four Emperor Divine Water has been applied somewhere!’

Where!

Wei Zong opened his eyes wide and looked around in all directions, then suddenly looked up at the ceiling.

Drip, drip.

Water droplets falling from the ceiling kept hitting his face.

Wei Zong stuck out his tongue to catch and taste the water droplets.

Though his sense of taste was almost lost due to the Bright Adversity Poison, there was a faint metallic taste. A very slight fishy smell was mixed in. Slightly different from the fishy smell that comes from rain.

Only then did Wei Zong realize where the Four Emperor Divine Water was coming from.

‘What kind of dog-like situation is this!’

Wei Zong immediately gathered saliva and spat it out.

It was rain. The rainwater leaking from above was mixed with poison!

The ceiling or the roof.

For some unknown reason, Four Emperor Divine Water was heavily applied there.

The Four Emperor Divine Water that had been applied fell down mixed with the rainwater leaking from the roof.

The rainwater that fell like that would have splashed on the mucous membranes of the eyes, ears, lips, sweat pores… all over the bodies of the poison sect members.

‘No, wait?’

But there was something strange.

Four Emperor Divine Water was a mixture of various poisons, but the main poison was snake venom. Human skin is surprisingly thick, so snake venom doesn’t cause poisoning just by touching the body.

There’s a reason snakes have sharp teeth. They make holes with their teeth and inject poison into them.

‘What’s falling from the ceiling is definitely Four Emperor Divine Water, but…?’

Something… something else was there.

One other thing was mixed into these raindrops.

Something that Wei Zong and the poison sect members didn’t know about.

Then Wei Zong’s eyes caught sight of an action the poison sect members were unconsciously doing.

The poison sect members’ attention was entirely focused on Jin Ja-gang. They were all just staring at Jin Ja-gang…

Scratch.

He could see someone scratching the back of their neck.

Scratch scratch.

Next to them, someone else scratched their forearm. Another person nearby scratched their forehead and cheeks.

But blood could be glimpsed here and there. Bloody water mixed with the rainwater falling from the ceiling flowed down.

Seeing this, doubt arose in Wei Zong’s eyes.

‘What is that?’

Perhaps because he was watching others scratch, Wei Zong’s arms also became itchy for no reason.

Wei Zong unconsciously tried to scratch his arm but was startled.

Wasn’t this strange somehow?

Not just his arms. His arms, legs, back, and stomach were all itchy.

Could this be itchy for no reason at all?

When Wei Zong looked at the poison sect members again, he could see that those who had been scratching simply at first were gradually scratching harder.

They were even scratching vigorously.

Their attention was entirely focused on Jin Ja-gang.

Most of them didn’t even know they were scratching their own bodies.

They were just scratching unconsciously like Wei Zong had just done!

Until blood showed!

Wei Zong watched quietly.

Those who had been scratching their bodies harder and harder soon twisted their bodies this way and that, then suddenly foamed at the mouth.

Poisoning!

Wei Zong’s eyes widened as if struck by lightning.

Only now did he realize the cause.

If you scratch, you die!

By then, the phenomenon of scratching bodies had completely spread, and almost all the poison sect members in the main hall were scratching their bodies.

It was a truly eerie sight.

Everyone was scratching their own bodies…

Wei Zong drew up his internal energy and shouted.

“Don’t scratch—!”

The poison sect members were startled by Wei Zong’s shout and turned around.

The poison sect members who had been about to scratch their bodies stopped their hands in surprise.

However, there were those who couldn’t stand the itching and soon twisted their bodies while scratching lightly here and there.

Wei Zong shouted again.

“I said don’t scratch— you idiotic b*st*rds—!”

The poison sect members flinched.

But the itching wasn’t something that could be easily endured. The poison sect members didn’t know why, but they bit their lips and endured the itching. Even without scratching, their skin was visibly turning red.

Then some inevitably scratched their arms and legs.

Once you start scratching, you can’t stop.

Due to some other poison that wasn’t Four Emperor Divine Water, their skin had become much weaker. When scratched, sores formed and skin peeled off. Blood appeared.

Pitter-patter.

Raindrops continued to fall from the ceiling.

They knew it was poison rain, but there was no way to avoid it.

It was itchy.

Wei Zong’s arms, legs, and back were also continuously itchy. It was so itchy he could die from being unable to bear it.

His body, soaked in poison rain, continued to cause itching sensations.

But if you scratch, you die.

Because Four Emperor Divine Water penetrates through wounds on the skin caused by scratching.

That was the reason Four Emperor Divine Water caused poisoning.

“This cunning b*st*rd…”

Wei Zong’s gaze met with Jin Ja-gang, who was standing in the middle of the main hall among the poison sect members.

Jin Ja-gang asked with a calm expression.

“Did you figure it out already?”

“Already” was clearly mockery.

Grind grind grind!

Wei Zong ground his teeth.

If there had been even the slightest suspicious sign before, he would have been sufficiently prepared for poisoning. But there had been nothing like that at all.

That’s why he never thought the rainwater falling from the ceiling was mixed with poison.

This couldn’t even be called a mistake.

It was something that happened unavoidably despite paying sufficient attention.

“You…!”

Wei Zong trembled with anger. The poison sect members were forcibly enduring the itching sensation while grimacing and twisting their bodies.

Compared to them, Wei Zong was somewhat better off.

His face had melted due to the Bright Adversity Poison, so he couldn’t feel the itching. His bare flesh just hurt as if it were burning.

* * *

Originally, Jin Ja-gang had planned to apply Four Emperor Divine Water to the roof. If he secretly made holes here and there in the roof while laying tiles, when it rained, the Four Emperor Divine Water would fall into the main hall mixed with rainwater.

Then he could spray Four Emperor Divine Water on everyone below the main hall.

However, that method had a fatal flaw.

As Wei Zong knew, Four Emperor Divine Water was mainly snake venom. Snake venom has almost no effect just from touching the skin or eating small amounts. Even if it fell on the poison sect members’ bodies mixed with rainwater, nothing would happen.

So even if he applied large amounts of Four Emperor Divine Water to the roof, that alone would be meaningless.

What he discovered then was…

Ginkgo.

Wei Zong couldn’t contain his curiosity and asked.

“What… what the hell is it! What kind of poison is this!”

Jin Ja-gang readily answered Wei Zong’s outcry.

“Duck Foot Tree.”

Duck Foot Tree is the ginkgo tree. It’s called Duck Foot Tree because its leaves resemble duck feet.

“Ginkgo? Ginkgo tree?”

Wei Zong repeated the words in disbelief.

The other poison sect members also had expressions of incomprehension for a moment.

That was understandable, because when thinking of ginkgo fruit, one usually thinks of the yellowish-white kernel inside the hard shell. Ginkgo nuts are mainly eaten roasted, but even so, they’re famous for causing stomach pain and inducing epilepsy if consumed in large quantities.

Jin Ja-gang spoke again.

“The outer seed coat of the Duck Foot Tree.”

“Ah…!”

Only then did the poison sect members show expressions of understanding.

The soft outer flesh of the ginkgo tree’s fruit causes considerable itching when it touches bare skin. It causes blisters, makes skin peel off, and even causes redness.

“Then, then this smell was…”

“Ugh!”

The foul smell that had been present since earlier.

Was that smell caused by the outer seed coat of the Duck Foot Tree!

There were so many ginkgo trees around that they hadn’t particularly paid attention to it.

Jin Ja-gang said, looking at the poison sect members surrounding him who were all grimacing.

“It was worthwhile. It was worth enduring the terrible smell and chewing and swallowing hundreds of raw ginkgo fruits.”

“Ugh… ugh.”

The poison sect members clearly had expressions of being unable to bear it.

“If it’s hard to bear, you can scratch. Then you’ll be comfortable.”

Jin Ja-gang even kindly explained.

“These raindrops you’re being hit with contain poison extracted from the outer seed coat of the Duck Foot Tree mixed with Four Emperor Divine Water.”

He had extracted almost fifty drops or more of the Four Emperor Divine Water remaining in his dantian. By simple calculation, it was a massive amount of poison that could kill over five hundred people!

That, together with the poison extracted from chewing ginkgo fruits, had been applied all over the roof and was flowing down with the rain.

“F-Four Emperor Divine Water!”

Only then did the poison sect members understand why their colleagues had been continuously dying.

If it was Four Emperor Divine Water, this intense killing power was understandable.

The poison sect members felt like they were going crazy. They were dying from itching but couldn’t scratch freely, and if they tried to endure it, it was painful.

“Ugh, ugh…”

The poison sect members kept twisting their bodies. They wanted to scratch but knew they would die if they did, so they had to clench their fists and endure.

Having been hit by rainwater falling from the ceiling for a long time, some were already shedding skin. Those who got it in their eyes developed eye inflammation, becoming bloodshot and even showing yellow discoloration.

Scratch and die, or stay still and die anyway.

If they ran outside the main hall, the righteous faction members were waiting.

It was truly being surrounded on all sides.

The poison sect members could only stamp their feet, not knowing what to do.

“Rather…”

Determination appeared in the poison sect members’ eyes.

Rather than continuing to be hit by poison rain in this place, it seemed like there was a higher chance of survival by going out and fighting the righteous faction members.

The poison sect members looked at each other, then watched Wei Zong. Though Wei Zong had a hideous appearance with his melted face and collapsed nose, at times like this he needed to say something. He needed to take the lead and fight.

Only then could they all move together and survive.

Wei Zong was not unaware of the poison sect members’ wishes.

But even in the midst of all this, Wei Zong still hadn’t completely satisfied his curiosity. Wei Zong’s eyes gleamed from behind the melted and stuck flesh as he asked.

“No. That’s not all. There’s still more. What’s the other one?”

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