I Can Neutralise the Poison
“Listen human: is this any place for your nonsense?! The doctor just announced them done for. What are you trying to play hero for?!” reproached Uncle Hama.
“Exactly.”
“There’s no cure for it, ignorant human.”
“I wouldn’t be so sure. There are a lot of ‘it depends’ factors,” objected Mu Yu, having learnt that every poison was essentially a combination of elements and, therefore, could be neutralised once the relationship between the elements were figured out. “Doctor, your job is to treat patients, isn’t it? Why are you telling them to prepare a funeral when you haven’t even tried to treat them?”
“You have no place questioning our doctor’s abilities!” Elder Tiantu lashed out, speaking while eating his meat bun.
“Have you any idea who the doctor is? He’s the most famous doctor in our race for he has helped countless injured and ill patients. What do you know to question him? Even Archfiend Green Dragon has personally praised hm.”
“It’s commonplace for fiends to be poisoned, and there’s no saving them when the poison has already spread too deep.”
“Did you just accuse me of being irresponsible?” fumed the doctor.
“I can neutralise the poison.”
“You can neutralise ruin poison? Was that supposed to be funny?”
“Regardless of how far the poison has spread, try neutralising it before you jump to conclusions,” stated Mu Yu, walking over to the patients, Mao Dajiu, who the doctor placed into quarantine, and Mao Xiaojiu.
“Stay away! Do you know what ruin poison is? Don’t blame me if it infects you. I’m only tolerating you for Qiao Xue’s sake!” yelled the doctor.
“No idea what it is.”
“Then, get away. If we don’t have immunity against it, what makes you think you do, weak human? If infected, you’ll be paraplegic if not dead!”
“Mu Yu, get back here, or Qiao Xue is going to be upset with us!” shouted Elder Tiantu, afraid of entering the clinic.
“I don’t know what ruin poison is, but I do know how to neutralise it,” asserted Mu Yu, ignoring the numerous warnings.
Seeing Mu Yu reach for Mao Xiaojiu’s forehead, the doctor thundered, “Don’t touch him! You’ll kill everyone if you split his skin! Where are Sunshine Valley’s guards? Haul him out of here!” cried the doctor.
The doctor was amidst forcing Mao Dajiu’s poison back into the latter’s body and, consequently, had no time to spare on stopping Mu Yu. The poison could leak into cultivator’s spiritual qi, which was why the doctor had to contain the poison before it corroded any spiritual energy.
A bystander fetched two guards back, yet they only stood at the door to warn, “Come out, or we’ll drag you out!”
“Ying Datian, He Erlang, don’t just stand there shouting! Drag him out!” ordered the doctor.
Ying Datian and He Erlang reluctantly followed the respected doctor’s command, setting foot inside, albeit just inside.
“Get out here this instant if you don’t want to die!”
Eventually, the two guards mustered up the courage to enter. Since Mu Yu didn’t want to get physical with the fiends he respected, he requested, “How about we make a bet, Doctor? Give me some time to treat them seeing as you’ve already given up on them. Let me try as a last resort.”
“This is not something we can make bets about! If you fail and the poison scatters, you’ll kill everyone!”
“I won’t. I’m confident I can do this.”
“But I’m not!”
“The more time you spend stopping me, the more time the poison has to do to damage. Just because you can’t help them doesn’t mean that I can’t. You are indirectly killing them!”
“I’m killing them? I’m worried about you killing them!”
“Doctor, how do you know I can’t help them if you refuse to give me a chance? There are more poisons in this world than we’ll ever know, so it’s only fair that you don’t know all of them, either.”
“Fine, I’ll let you try. If you fail to save them, though, I’ll personally kick you out of Sunshine Valley even if Qiao Xue begs me to spare you!”
“And if I do save them?”
“I’ll kowtow and beg to be your disciple!”
“I’ll pass on taking a disciple. I’m just trying to save lives.”
“Impudent human!” cursed the doctor, thinking, You think you can neutralise a poison even Archfiend Green Dragon has given up on? I can’t wait to kick you out!
The fiends who just developed a positive impression of Mu Yu after he resisted Mei Hu’s seduction turned sour and flipped back to the other end of the spectrum after listening to his impudence.
Mu Yu snapped a piece of wood from the table and gingerly stuck it into Mao Xiaojiu’s skin, draining the poison into the wood fragment so that he could analyse it. He deposited his spiritual energy into the poison on the fragment and reverse engineered the components of the poison based on the varying responses to his spiritual energy.
This is the most complex poison I’ve come across yet, thought Mu Yu.
Seeing Mu Yu almost as still as a statue, the doctor wryly questioned, “What do you know about neutralising poison? Look at you.”
“Doctor, I can always back up my claims. Don’t worry. I won’t make you kowtow, either.”
“I also am a man of his words. As long as you neutralise it, I’ll kowtow three times. Otherwise…”
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