Chapter 1607: Double-kissed Rabbit
"In the world, everything exists in harmony and opposition. While it’s essential to follow the pill recipes, one must not adhere rigidly to them. Often, understanding how to adapt can be a way to solve problems!"
Yun Xiao’s voice seemed to contain a kind of magic power. As he spoke again, even Ye Ku fell silent. Within those few short words, there lay a profound truth.
"Ah! I understand now!"
Just as many were pondering, Si Mo suddenly shouted from the plaza, nearly jumping up in excitement. His loud declaration left the cultivators who weren’t Poison Vein Masters somewhat bewildered.
"Do you really understand?"
A slight smile finally appeared on Yun Xiao’s face. He could see something entirely different from before in Si Mo’s eyes, knowing that his actions had taken effect. Yet, he still asked with a gentle smile.
"I haven’t fully understood, but just give me a few more days, and I am sure I will become a true Earth Rank Advanced Poison Vein Master!"
Si Mo, who had just been shouting "I understand now," was now humbly scratching his head, though his tone was filled with a strong sense of confidence.
"Si Mo, aren’t you going to thank Senior Brother Yun Xiao for his guidance?"
Ye Ku, on the outskirts, felt a bit like iron cannot become steel. Yun Xiao’s words just now had benefited him greatly. Combined with Yun Xiao’s previous Poison Meridian Skill cultivation method, he felt his Poison Meridian Skill had also improved, so he shouted immediately.
Listening to Ye Ku’s shout, many of the cultivators outside were slightly envious, thinking that receiving guidance from him was probably every cultivator’s dream now on the Tenglong Continent.
"Thank you, Senior Brother Yun Xiao!"
Hearing this, Si Mo snapped out of it, intending to bow. But as soon as the words left his mouth, he felt an invisible force holding him up, making it impossible for him to bow.
"We’re fellow disciples, there’s no need for such formality."
Yun Xiao had a good impression of this Sky Poison Institute genius. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have easily offered guidance. Those insights were considered precious even in the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, let alone in a lower plane like the Tenglong Continent.
If the former Long Xiao Battle God had expressed a desire to take on disciples, the doors of the Dragon Cloud Palace might have been trampled down. Unfortunately, that was in the past. Now, he could only reign in the small Tenglong Continent.
"Senior Brother Yun Xiao, I have a question I’d like to ask you!"
Just as Si Mo was expressing his gratitude, a slightly shy female voice suddenly came from somewhere. As everyone turned to look, they found it was a young girl about fourteen or fifteen years old.
"Tsk tsk, this Junior Sister Miao Ye sure has some guts!"
Ye Ku also turned at this time. As the foremost genius of the Sky Poison Institute, he recognized the girl at first glance. She’s the newly rising genius of the Sky Poison Institute, named Miao Ye.
This Junior Sister Miao Ye had a flair very much like Ye Ku’s back in the day. After activating a Fire Attribute Ancestor Vein, she became a genuine Poison Vein Master, with her Poison Meridian Skill advancing rapidly.
Don’t be fooled by Miao Ye’s young age of just fourteen or fifteen; her Meridian Qi Cultivation and Poison Meridian Skill already surpass some veteran geniuses of the Sky Poison Institute.
The little girl was at the age of early romantic stirrings. Initially, her idol was always the Son of Thousand Poisons, Ye Ku, but recently, that has changed.
Who could possibly rival Yun Xiao in the Poison Meridian Path? Such a dazzling figure had already filled young Miao Ye’s heart completely.
Unfortunately for her, Yun Xiao only had eyes for the senior sister at the Sky Poison Institute, Liu Hanyi, or the senior sister at the Heavenly Hospital, Mo Qing. He paid no attention to such a young lass.
Feeling the stirrings within, Miao Ye knew this was a rare opportunity to seek guidance, and a rare chance to get close. She knew that missing this chance might be a lifelong regret.
"What is your question?"
Yun Xiao naturally didn’t recognize Miao Ye, having spent little time at Lianyun Mountain and unfamiliar with these newly rising talents. Yet, he asked kindly.
"Senior Brother Yun Xiao, I... I’ve recently refined a highly toxic Meridian Spirit, but even though its spiritual wisdom has been erased, I struggle to control it. Can you take a look and see what’s wrong?"
Looking at the slightly smiling face, Miao Ye, who had just mustered the courage, inexplicably lowered her head, yet she still voiced her question.
"Oh? Is that so? Let me see your Meridian Spirit!"
Intrigued, Yun Xiao waved for Miao Ye to present her Meridian Spirit after his interest was piqued. Yun Xiao, with his experience spanning two lifetimes of cultivation, was puzzled by this. A Meridian Spirit stripped of spiritual wisdom should only obey its master’s commands. How could it make the master feel awkward?
Swish!
Regarding Senior Brother Yun Xiao’s words, Miao Ye naturally wouldn’t show the slightest negligence. She extended her right hand, and immediately, a Meridian Spirit resembling a rabbit appeared out of thin air in front of her.
"Is this... the Double-kissed Rabbit?"
When Ye Bing saw this seemingly harmless rabbit, he was first taken aback, then recognized its nature, silently noting that such things were rarely seen on the Tenglong Continent.
Generally, rabbits pose no threat to humans, but the Double-kissed Rabbit is different because it has two rabbit lips. One is no different from an ordinary rabbit’s lip, but the other contains an extremely potent poison.
This is the origin of the so-called double-kissed name, and this Double-kissed Rabbit hides its venomous lip very well. It won’t use it easily unless at the brink of life and death, and once it does, it’s a lethal poison.
This Double-kissed Rabbit undoubtedly possesses strong deception. Imagine an ordinary cultivator facing a girl like Miao Ye and seeing her summon a snow-white rabbit. They’d likely be caught off guard, wouldn’t they?
"Oh?"
As Yun Xiao stared at the Double-kissed Rabbit for a moment, his eyes suddenly sharpened, and he couldn’t help but let out a sound of surprise, with a hint of a smile on his face.
"Junior Sister Miao Ye, how long have you been refining this Double-kissed Rabbit?"
After a moment, Yun Xiao recalled the name of this new genius girl from Sky Poison Institute and asked directly. His gaze discreetly glanced at that calm Double-kissed Rabbit Meridian Spirit.
"It’s been a month!"
Miao Ye replied truthfully, secretly wondering if this had anything to do with her problem. In fact, she asked this question only to strike up a conversation with Yun Xiao, not really concerned about the awkward Meridian Spirit.
"Did you find it particularly easy to refine this Double-kissed Rabbit, even facing no resistance whatsoever?"
Yun Xiao wasn’t going to concern himself with Miao Ye’s thoughts, and as soon as he asked, even those on the periphery like Ye Ku and Nie Xiaosheng realized something. If his guess was correct, it was undoubtedly quite abnormal.
"How did you know, Senior Brother Yun Xiao?"
Indeed, upon hearing Yun Xiao’s follow-up question, Miao Ye’s little face immediately showed a look of surprise, because she had never told anyone about the situation of refining the Double-kissed Rabbit.
Moreover, Yun Xiao had been in seclusion for some time. It couldn’t be that he had been watching her from the shadows when she was refining the Double-kissed Rabbit Meridian Spirit, could it?
Miao Ye then pondered too much, and after getting her answer, the smile in Yun Xiao’s eyes instantly turned to coldness. He stepped forward a few paces, and with a sudden twist, lifted the seemingly calm Double-kissed Rabbit by its ears.
"As is well known, refining a Vein Demon into a Meridian Spirit is not that easy and will definitely be met with strong resistance from the Vein Demon!"
Yun Xiao stared at the Double-kissed Rabbit’s slightly blood-red eyes for a moment, then said, "Even if the rabbit-form Vein Demon’s combat strength isn’t strong, the poison of the Double-kissed Rabbit is extraordinary. I guess when you were erasing its spiritual wisdom, it didn’t use its poison, right?"
"Indeed it was!"
Miao Ye nodded, her little face showing a look of amazement, because what Yun Xiao said matched exactly her experience when refining the Double-kissed Rabbit.
"Have you thought about the reason? Perhaps it wasn’t because your Poison Meridian Skill or Meridian Qi Cultivation is powerful, but... it was intentional?"
There was a constant sharpness in Yun Xiao’s eyes, and by the time he said his last sentence, it carried a hint of depression, causing many around to change their expressions with a hint of doubt.
"Isn’t that unlikely?"
Even Nie Xiaosheng murmured, as the first genius of Shenxiao Sect at the early stage of the Earth Bending Realm, he had also refined several Meridian Spirits, thus feeling puzzled.
How could a Vein Demon, no matter how foolish, intentionally allow a human to erase its spiritual wisdom? That’s hardly different from not resisting at all.
Once the spiritual wisdom is erased, it becomes a mere walking corpse. In such a situation, deliberately not resisting makes no sense.
"It seems you still don’t understand, so let me make it clearer. In fact, what you erased was not the Double-kissed Rabbit’s spiritual wisdom. Before you acted, its spiritual wisdom had already been erased by someone else, or something else!"
Yun Xiao, twisting the seemingly motionless Double-kissed Rabbit, spoke. Following his words, the blood-red eyes of the Double-kissed Rabbit noticeably flickered, which was extremely abnormal for a Meridian Spirit with erased spiritual wisdom.
"What?"
This truly startled Miao Ye. Her beautiful eyes fixed on the Double-kissed Rabbit, seemingly trying to verify the truth of Yun Xiao’s words, yet she saw nothing. She then turned her puzzled gaze back to Yun Xiao’s face.