Poison God's Heritage

"Indeed, what a marvelous child and you two have been hiding him away from me?" smiled the Red Sun as he drank from his mug.

"We weren't hiding anything, it was us who brought him here, and it is us who shall guide him to his destiny, but we're mere guides we cannot interfere with his fate. That's why we stopped you," said the Lord of Lords.

"But you stopped me, and I was about to make contact with him, was it not his fate? I understand that you may have feared for the boy, after all, I'm the Laughing Slaughterer, but I wouldn't just kill things that intrigue me," the Red Sun said.

"That was because of my mistake, my belonging which I had given the child when he was but a core cultivator not even a couple hundred years ago has signaled you have it not?"

"Yes, it was your pagoda, I felt its presence in my territory and came to investigate. So you were willing to part with that treasure for this child, impressive," the Red Sun said.

"It was worth it from what I see," said the Wisest Sun. "He even deciphered my Elemental Keys," he grinned.

The Red Sun frowned, "That… is something I might find hard to believe, even your best students were unable to even understand how they work. Did you by chance take him as a secret disciple?" asked the Red Sun.

The Wisest Sun shook his head, "No, as a matter of fact, the keys he understood aren't even the keys I have spread for these foolish people who call themselves my disciples. The keys I have given them are nothing but a replica of the originals, and he understood the originals."

"Now I know you two are lying, aren't the original keys used to create The Vast Expanse, HAH! You're telling me not only did a child who's not even at the Void Stage, go to the Vast Expanse, understand the keys in their entirety and come back with knowledge," the Red Sun snorted.

"Go? He is FROM the Vast Expanse, he was the one that solved they keys, not only did he solve them, He fixed them, as two had broken down he rebuilt them from scratch and opened the gate that led him here," said the Wisest Sun.

The Red Sun put down his mug, "I humored you enough, what you're saying is against all logic and common sense. If that child is from the Vast Expanse, he would have had almost no resources to cultivate and how would he even come up with a diagram to understand and solve the Keys, it is impossible!" the Red Sun said.

"But it did happen," said the Lord of Lords, "Otherwise do you think we'd be moved to assist and aid him, though we have a lot of free time, we're not that free," he added.

The Red Sun leaned back on his chair and smiled, "I see. And interesting child, so you don't mind if I were to accompany you?" he said.

"As long as we don't interfere with the child we can simply watch," said the Wisest Sun.

***

"Damn this is going to be a bit difficult," I said as I continued embedding more and more needles into her body.

"Do you need anything?" asked old Fu.

"Yes, I need some spiritual herbs I'm missing some," I said as I sighed. "Her treatment will take a while. But to offset the damage to her skin and body I need several high tier spiritual herbs that can help with the damages," I said.

"What do you need, give me a list and if I had to go through a sea of fire and a mountain of blades I'd do it for our young lady!" the driver said.

"I don't know if you can find them, but do your best. I'll need two stalks of Celestial Dreamroot, a bottle of Tranquil Lotus Essence, an Ethereal Serenity Blossom. A Divine Whisper leaf and an Eternal Embergrass," I said to the driver.

But instead of rushing to get them, "Are you not making a mistake?" he asked.

I frowned, "What do you mean? We don't have time for you to question me, if they're rare just find replacements although they won't work perfectly I can give you a list of things you can use to replace those with."

"No, but you said you needed rare spiritual herbs, most the ones you mentioned are some of the most common grass you can find anywhere, they're not even worth picking up… I thought you'd need something far more elaborate and difficult to obtain," he said.

I looked at old Fu and saw him nodding.

"…"

"Do I still need to go and get them? do you not need anything more… powerful? The family of the General of the West is really rich so you can order whatever you need," he said.

"No, I only need those," I said and the driver nodded and went out the inn in a hurry.

I continued working while grumbling several profanities under my breath.

"What's wrong?" old Fu asked.

"The fact that some of these treasures back where I come from, you could barely find one if you search through an entire planet, and the man here says that they're so common they're not even worth picking up, that's what I'm pissed about," I said.

"Well, the difference in age of the Beyond and your world is far too great. What is rare for you might be very common here and the opposite is also true, for example you can find some simple grass in the Vast Expanse that you'd have to scour the entire Beyond to find a stalk of it. Granted that grass is utterly and completely useless but it is rare never the less." He said.

I sighed as I continued working and soon the lady looked like a pincushion from the sheer number of needles in her.

Not before long I heard a loud crash downstairs and someone seemed to be rushing up the stairs.

Behind me was a man of a massive size, he barely fit the door frame. He reminded me of Old Beast the Earth Lord due to the sheer size of his bulky body. Only this man was fully armored up unlike Old Beast who only wore pelts for clothes.

The man's armor was that of a high-ranking soldier, as it was adorned in gold and red embroideries. He had a helmet under his armpit that he held on to tightly as he was holding back an insane amount of rage as he looked at me.

"Speak! WHO DID THIS!" he shouted with enough power that I was about to mess up on the treatment.

"Old Fu, can you calm that person down?" I asked.

"I could, but it'll probably destroy half the city trying to, I can take a wild guess, are you the General of the West?" old Fu asked as he faced the man.

"It is indeed I, who are you? Are you responsible for what happened to my daughter? Or related any way sort or form?" he asked.

"I understand your concern and anger, but choose your words carefully, if we meant this person harm, all we had to do was to not interfere, Brother Shen, I told you we shouldn't have helped," he said.

"I know, but if we didn't, she would have died," I replied.

"And look at what helping her is causing us. Nothing but issues, instead of gratitude," old Fu spoke those words with grit teeth making sure to reveal his cultivation to calm the general down.

The general sighed and peaked over old Fu's shoulder, his whole body seemed to shudder as he staggered forward.

"Jia'er" he said as he tried to get to her.

"Don't get any closer, you'll be afflicted," I said to the man as I continued my treatment.

The general stopped in his tracks. No longer was he a general of a powerful army or region, no longer was he a mighty cultivator, and no longer was he a man of influence or power, he was nothing but a father scared for the safety of his daughter.

"Just relax, she'll be fine, and I'll make sure to get her to look as or better than before, you won't have to worry about how she'll look," I said as I placed the final needle in.

"Thank you…" said the general. "But why are you helping me?" he asked.

I looked up, then at the old man and said, "I don't know, call it providence, fate or divine intervention, but the smell of this poison led me here, and I don't want to see another suffer the same fate I did," I stood up from my spot.

"Now, we'll have to wait for the driver, once he brings in the herbs it'll be fine," I said.

And just as I finished my words, the man rushed in with all the materials I asked him, and in several batches, not missing a thing.

I spat on the ground, cursing inwardly some more. As I snatched the materials and began working while constantly grumbling profanities under my breath.

I couldn't help but hear the general leaning toward old Fu and asking, "Is something bothering him?"

"Don't worry about it, he's just a bit… annoyed,"

Immediately I slammed both hands together and pulled them apart, manifesting the Emerald Flame. My very own Veridian Heart Flame.

"What's he going to do with that weak flame, surely you're not going to do Rceptarism with a Veridian Heart Flame?" said the general.

"What do you mean weak?" I asked the general as this stopped me from working. "A Veridian Heart Flame is the best flame to make poison pills and medicine," I said.

The general frowned but didn't dare correct me, until general Fu sent me a divine sense message. "You're exposing your background, here a Veridian Heart Flame is something that kids can play with… it's nothing more than a fire starter…"

I almost threw up blood before old Fu smirked at me, "I'm just kidding, it is indeed powerful, but there are other Soul Flames that are far stronger than a Heart Flame, you just didn't reach the Void Stage yet to be able to use a Soul Flame, even your Veridian Heart flame can be upgraded. You might want to ask the general for that flame after you're done."

I sighed and continued my work as I fused all the herbs together working on creating not only a pill but also a liquid solution from the remain that I can use as a balm over the wounds of the lady.

Once she wakes up, we'll deal with the general at hands. We can get more information on the auction house too and might be able to use this favor so I can grab whatever the Queen at the ant cave wants from that place.