“Not bad at all.”
“Did you make this yourself?”
Chu Feng asked Song Yun.
“Yes! I made it especially to thank you, brother Chu Feng. Quick, drink it while it’s hot, or it won’t taste as good.”
Song Yun urged him on while already taking action.
Her small hands tugged at Chu Feng’s arm, lifting the opened gourd toward his mouth.
Chu Feng simply smiled.
“I never imagined a little girl like you had such cooking skills. I’m actually impressed.”
With that, he tilted his head back and drained the entire gourd of chicken soup in one go.
“Not bad, not bad. Really tasty.”
Chu Feng wiped his mouth, nodding in satisfaction.
But suddenly, his expression froze. The smile on his face instantly turned to shock.
He crushed the gourd in his hand to powder, then glared at Song Yun with burning anger.
“You little brat, you put poison in the soup?”
Chu Feng snarled at her.
He had already sensed something wrong. A strange power was enveloping his soul and sealing his cultivation.
Not only his martial power, even his spirit power was being locked away.
Both his cultivator cultivation and his world spiritist abilities were rapidly being suppressed.
The culprit behind it all was the chicken soup Song Yun had just fed him.
“Brother Chu Feng, don’t be angry. I would never harm you.”
“What I gave you isn’t ordinary poison. It’s poison that will benefit you.”
Song Yun said.
“Poison that benefits me?”
“In all my years, this is the first time I’ve heard of such a thing.”
“I helped you out of kindness. Why would you do this to me?”
Chu Feng was furious. As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed the collar of her dress.
Yet his cultivation was plummeting at terrifying speed. By now it had already fallen to mid-rank Venerable.
At this moment, he was no longer a match for Song Yun.
After all, even at her weakest, she was still peak Venerable.
But faced with Chu Feng’s furious advance, something strange happened. Song Yun did not dodge.
She let him seize her collar.
“Brother Chu Feng, I’m really not lying to you.”
“It is indeed poison, but it isn’t ordinary poison. It’s called Overlord Star Soul Poison.”
“Once ingested, your cultivation will be temporarily sealed, but very soon it will fuse with your soul.”
“After fusion, your cultivation will return.”
“Not only will it return, as long as you obtain the antidote, the Overlord Star Soul Poison will combine with the antidote and transform into heaven-and-earth energy.”
“That energy contains extremely profound martial comprehension.”
“It might even raise your cultivation. Breaking through a realm isn’t impossible.”
“Brother Chu Feng, I’m not lying. You’ll believe me once we enter the forbidden cultivation ground.”
Song Yun said.
“The antidote. Where is it?”
The anger on Chu Feng’s face remained, but he released her collar.
He felt this girl might actually be telling the truth.
At the very least, judging by her pitiful expression, she did not seem to be lying.
Still, he was furious at her actions.
“The antidote is inside Overlord Star Mountain Manor’s forbidden cultivation ground.”
“I didn’t come here to capture the thief. I came to use this Overlord Star Soul Poison together with the antidote inside the forbidden area to improve my cultivation.”
“However, if I took it myself, I could only consume a portion. Too much and my body wouldn’t be able to withstand it.”
“But you can, brother Chu Feng. You’re a rank five Sovereign, after all.”
“So I hid the entire amount of Overlord Star Soul Poison in that chicken soup.”
Song Yun said.
Hearing this, Chu Feng felt utterly helpless.
This girl really was treating him too well. She had actually given him everything.
But it was still poison, after all.
“What exactly is the antidote?”
Chu Feng asked.
“Deep inside the forbidden cultivation ground are two caves.”
“One is the immortal cave that once housed the Overlord Star Immortal Herb.”
“The other is the demonic cavern that contains the Overlord Star Demonic Flower.”
“The Overlord Star Demonic Flower hidden in that demonic cavern is the antidote for the Overlord Star Soul Poison. Eating it will produce the effects I described.”
Song Yun said.
“Is there a time limit?”
“If I don’t obtain the antidote within the time limit, what will happen?”
Chu Feng asked.
“Brother Chu Feng, please don’t worry. I would never harm you.”
“Although it’s called Overlord Star Soul Poison, apart from the temporary sealing of cultivation, it does no actual harm to the body.”
“As time passes, the toxicity will gradually dissipate on its own.”
“So yes, there is a time limit.”
“The sooner you consume the antidote, the stronger the resulting heaven-and-earth energy will be.”
Song Yun said.
“You little girl, you’re not lying to me?”
Chu Feng asked gravely.
“I’m really not lying.”
“Why would I lie to you?”
“You’re my benefactor. I only want to repay you.”
Song Yun looked deeply wronged.
Chu Feng could only feel helpless.
Repay him? This was the first time he had ever encountered repayment like this.
“Then why didn’t you tell me the truth and instead tricked me into drinking it?”
Chu Feng asked.
“Brother Chu Feng, you’re someone of extraordinary status and strength. You must have seen many things.”
“You should know that something like Overlord Star Soul Poison is priceless.”
“To be honest, even the current Overlord Star Mountain Manor doesn’t possess it.”
“If I hadn’t tricked you, would you have taken it?”
“You definitely wouldn’t, right?”
“You’d feel it was too precious to use, wouldn’t you?”
Song Yun asked.
Chu Feng did not reply, because she was right.
Such a valuable treasure had clearly been left to her by her sister.
He really might not have been willing to consume it.
“Fine. I’ll trust you for now. But if you’ve lied to me, I won’t let you off.”
Chu Feng said.
“Brother Chu Feng, just relax. I absolutely wouldn’t lie to you. If I wanted to harm you…”
“With your cultivation as it is right now, is there anything I couldn’t do?”
Song Yun said.
“Uh…”
Chu Feng was speechless. His cultivation had indeed stopped falling.
But it had stopped at rank one Venerable.
As for his spirit power, it was completely sealed. He could not release even a trace of spirit formation power.
Right now, faced with Song Yun at peak Venerable, he truly had no strength to resist.
Dong—
Dong—
Dong—
Suddenly, the harsh toll of a bell rang out above the square.
When the bell tones faded, a resounding voice followed.
“My young friends, thank you all for coming to my Overlord Star Mountain Manor and lending this old man your strength to capture that unforgivable thief.”
Hearing this voice, both Chu Feng and Song Yun knew that the testing phase had ended.
They would soon be allowed into the forbidden cultivation ground.
Although still angry, Chu Feng could not be bothered to argue further with Song Yun. He hurried out of the palace.
Sure enough, the exit from the testing ground had already closed.
Almost everyone who had passed now emerged from their respective palaces.
Above the centre of the square floated an enormous bell. Beside it stood a group of people.
They were the top experts of Overlord Star Mountain Manor, and the leader was a white-haired man whose face still appeared middle-aged.
He was none other than the manor lord of Overlord Star Mountain Manor.
