Awakened: The Spirit King! - Chapter 8

Lord Xie Yang was extremely shocked to see the several greyish grains of sand in his elixir field as they were all spiritual energy dispersing powder. It’s an infectious poison that either corrodes or forces spiritual energy from the elixir field. It was a vicious poison that poison masters use on their enemies or their children to enact their revenge. The bewildering thing was that the poison was in his body, and it wasn’t a short amount at all!

An apprehensive look appeared on Lord Xie Yang’s face. His eyes flashed sharp glints. The poison in his elixir field was an accumulation of many years. He only needed a single look to determine that as there was too much of it in there.

When did he take it?

Never!

Did someone feed it to him?

He had no memories of such an event!

Lord Xie Yang didn’t have any memories of taking or getting fed this poison.

‘Ah! I remember that this poison adapts the color of the liquid in which it resides. So there is a high chance someone had been secretly mixing my drinks with poison before giving them to me, secretly poisoning me to ensure that even if I somehow recovered and gained the talent to cultivate, I would amount to nothing! They want to make sure that I, Xie Yang, the son of City Lord Xie Yong, would remain a waste of space. What a vicious person!’

As he was the king of spirits, Lord Xie Yang had plotted against many people in his past life, and many had schemed against him, too. So it was easy for him to judge the motive behind why he got poisoned.

Someone was targeting him, and they wanted him never to cultivate.

Who could it be?

Lord Xie Yang didn’t know.

What methods did they use to poison him?

Well, he knew that!

He was sure that liquid seemed to be the medium the poisoner used to poison him.

Lord Xie Yang’s brows furrowed as he pondered hard to determine a few things.

What had he drunk over the years? As his body was too weak, his father hadn’t allowed him to touch alcohol. He had never taken it either—that only left glasses of water and medicinal soups as suspects. The first one was given to him by the maids, and the second one was given to him by doctor Zhang!

‘The culprit behind my poisoning is either the maids or Doctor Zhang.’

Lord Xie Yang, like a thousand-year-old crafty fox, summed down the suspects to merely several people! From that, it was easy for anyone to determine that he was well versed in the games of schemes and extremely intelligent once he put his mind to use.

He looked out the pavilion and stared at the pond that was so clean that it showed his reflection. A few petals floated on its surface, and white and black fishes swam inside it. He didn’t know who, and he didn’t have the power to find it out either. Thought, he knew that what he needed to do right now was get this infamous poison out of his elixir field as fast and as soon as he could.

The spiritual energy scattering powder was famous ten thousand years ago. It was one of the top thousand poisons. And it shot to the ninety-ninth rank because of General Shi of Divine Empire. The story went like this; he was a famous warrior of the Divine Empire. He fought off thousands of barbarians and claimed the territories of neighboring empires for his homeland. He became extremely famous, and people respected him more than the Divine Emperor, who was a tyrant that killed anyone he found unpleasant to the eyes and picked up any men and women he found pleasant to the eye and raped them.

After hearing of his fame, the emperor, a very paranoid man, decided to get rid of General Shi. But General Shi was too handsome, and when the emperor first saw him, his plan changed. He no longer wanted to kill his general but enslave him and bound him to his bridal chambers. For that reason, he needed to subdue General Shi and make sure that he wouldn’t have any military power.

A grand battle later, which was won by General Shi and his army, the emperor invited them all to the capital to attend a banquet that he was going to hold in their name. Everyone knew that it was actually a plot that the divine emperor would use to take down General Shi. He also knew that, and even though his comrades told him to stay, he still went to the capital.

When the emperor heard that General Shi had come to the capital, he was extremely happy and eager for the upcoming banquet. The foolish emperor that was a slave to murder and lust didn’t know that General Shi had already made plans with his ministers and other court officials to overthrow him!

On the banquet day, they slipped the spiritual energy scattering poison into his wine. The emperor drank a lot of wine that day. He didn’t know that with each cup, he was destroying his cultivation! By the time he noticed that he was already weaker than the people in his surroundings. Even though he had weakened a lot, it took three great sacrifices, the death of the left and right ministers and General Shi, to take down the tyrant emperor!

After that, the Divine Empire flourished under the rule of a new divine emperor, which was him, Lord Xie Yang, the spirit king!

At the same time, the energy-scattering powder shot to fame.

It had no cure, and a cultivator couldn’t use their spiritual energy to purge it out of their body!

It was typically used by poison masters to degrade the cultivation of their opponent. Some vicious people use it on the children of their enemies so that they would shed tears of blood after knowing that their children would never become cultivators and die after 50 to hundred years.

Lord Xie Yang didn’t look too bothered, although he was infected with the same infamous poison.

Why?!

It was because he knew the cure to it, and he was the very inventor of this cure.

‘A single pack of purifying powder will seal the deal and clean my elixir field from this poison, but I would need to get some alchemy ingredients.’ Lord Xie Yang rubbed his temple and sighed, ‘I can’t help it. I will need to trouble father once again, ah.’

After admiring the view of the back garden, Lord Xie Yang stepped out of the pavilion.

With his hands behind his back and his head held high, Lord Xie Yang moved towards a better future!