Peerless: I Became Huo Yuhao's Dark Personality

Chapter 135 Backlash from the Cold Poison (Part 2)

At this point, Lin Jiayi suddenly sighed, "The Red Dust Hall Master also said that Xiao Meng's cold poison will continue to increase as her strength grows."

Now, Xiaomeng only needs to deplete her soul power during the cold poison backlash to automatically remove it.

When she breaks through to the Soul Saint realm in the future, the backlash from the cold poison will become extremely severe, and even if she temporarily exhausts her soul power, it won't be relieved.

"Then how can it be unblocked?" Huo Yuhao asked curiously.

"The Red Dust Hall Master doesn't know either. After all, it's extremely rare for a Soul Master to have the Zhu Qing Ice Toad Martial Soul, and it's also rare for one to become a top expert and leave a record."

The Master of the Red Dust Hall speculated that someone stronger than Xiao Meng with ice attributes might be needed to help suppress the cold poison within her body.

As Lin Jiayi spoke, a smile appeared on his face. "I was worried because there are already few ice-attribute soul masters, let alone one stronger than Xiaomeng."

But now that we have you two, the ultimate ice beings, this problem is easily solved.

cough~
The coughing sound came from the direction of Xiao Hongchen, but he did not wake up, seemingly as if it was an unconscious action.

Huo Yumiao glanced at Xiao Hongchen and saw that the wounds on his chest and abdomen had completely healed, leaving no trace of the external injury.

"So fast?" Huo Yumiao asked in surprise, and Huo Yuhao chimed in, "Is the medical teacher's soul skill that strong?"

"You two are too kind. This is mainly due to the effects of the Secret Injury Medicine. We were just accelerating the effects of the medicine."

"What is the Secret Injury Medicine?" Huo Yumiao asked Lin Jiayi, unsure whether the medical teacher was being modest or hadn't really done much.

"The Secret Injury Medicine is a holy medicine for healing injuries. It is the top-grade healing pill. The medicinal materials required for its refinement are extremely precious, and the cost exceeds one million gold soul coins."

"The cost of a level nine soul tool is only a few million gold soul coins. Doesn't that mean that this secret injury medicine is just as precious as a level nine soul tool?"

Faced with Huo Yuhao's exclamation, Huo Yumiao shook her head, "It's different. A level nine soul tool may seem to only cost a few million gold soul coins, but in reality, who knows how many mistakes will occur during its production."

It's virtually impossible to create a core magic array flawlessly on the first try; sometimes it can cost tens of millions of gold soul coins to craft a single level-nine soul tool.

“Yu Miao is right. Although this secret wound medicine is precious, the production process is not complicated. It’s just that the medicinal materials are rare and hard to find, and it is far from being comparable to a level nine soul tool.”

Lin Jiayi explained with a smile that the number of level nine soul tools in the Sun Moon Empire is countable. In fact, the cost is only the least noticeable aspect of level nine soul tools.

The most important thing is time. Most level nine soul masters may spend a year and a half, but they make a mistake at one step, causing the whole thing to fail.

Those millions of gold soul coins were actually the least noticeable expense; the real pain was that failure meant all the time spent was wasted.

It's already quite good for a level nine soul master to be able to wear two level nine soul tools, and having three is very rare among level nine soul masters.

This involves another issue: the production of a level nine soul tool is extremely difficult, but compared to the design, it is still a small matter.

Designing a level nine soul tool is ten or even a hundred times more difficult than making it. Every level nine soul master values ​​this level of research more than their own life, and they might not even pass it on to their apprentices.

Therefore, if a level nine soul master has several level nine soul tools, it basically means that he has designed several level nine soul tool blueprints on his own. This is not something that can be achieved by simply waiting for time to accumulate.

Cough!

This time the sound was much louder than the previous one, but it didn't come from Xiao Hongchen; it came from Meng Hongchen.

Meng Hongchen was not injured, and Huo Yumiao had just given him a regular pill to accelerate the recovery of his soul power, so it was not surprising that he had woken up now.

Meng Hongchen, who was lying on the ground, opened her eyes. Her fair hands tried to push off the floor several times, but she kept slipping away. Huo Yumiao saw this and squatted down to help her up.

Although Meng Hongchen stood up, half of her body was leaning against Huo Yumiao. If Huo Yumiao let go of her hand on Meng Hongchen's shoulder, Meng Hongchen would immediately be able to perform a backward lean.

Meng Hongchen's beautiful eyebrows were furrowed, and her face was pale, but it was hard to tell because of her fair skin. The only indication that she was not in good condition was her pale, rosy lips.

Meng Hongchen not only felt extremely weak physically, but also vaguely felt that her soul power had weakened considerably.

Although her soul power had not yet recovered to its full strength, as a soul master, she still had some control over her body.

This discovery made Meng Hongchen somewhat uneasy, after all, the importance of soul power to a soul master is self-evident.

"What's wrong with me?" Meng Hongchen said weakly, subconsciously glancing around. When she saw Xiao Hongchen lying on the ground, she was stunned and her tone was filled with doubt.

"What's wrong with laughing? Are you lying on the floor to sleep?"

However, after Meng Hongchen said these words, Xiao Hongchen, under the effect of the secret wound medicine, not only recovered completely from the wounds on her chest and abdomen, but also had a rosy complexion and her breathing was long and powerful.

If Huo Yumiao hadn't watched the whole thing, he wouldn't have associated Xiao Hongchen's appearance with the word "injured."

"Meng, how much do you still remember?" Huo Yumiao asked softly, and Meng Hongchen fell into thought upon hearing this.

As Meng Hongchen was recalling the events leading up to this, a flicker of fear suddenly crossed her eyes, as if she had remembered something terrifying.

Although the fear quickly disappeared, Huo Yumiao still keenly noticed that Meng Hongchen's gaze towards him was slightly different from before, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was different.

After a long pause, Meng Hongchen frowned and said, "I have no recollection of what happened after the illusion. What happened next?"

Huo Yumiao nodded. He had expected this result. It seemed that Meng Hongchen had been too stimulated in the illusion, which affected the circulation of soul power in her body and caused the backlash of the cold poison.

"What! I've been attacked by the cold poison again! And I even injured Xiao? And I actually took a secret wound medicine?"

After Huo Yumiao's explanation, Meng Hongchen was shocked, her face filled with disbelief.

Immediately afterward, Meng Hongchen's expression turned tense, and her tone revealed a hint of panic as she urgently asked, "How is my brother now?"

Clearly, she was aware of the effects of the secret wound medicine, and the fact that she was able to use it also reflects the severity of Xiao Hongchen's injuries.

"Don't worry, Meng. Xiao's injuries have stabilized. She just needs to rest for a while longer to fully recover."

In this situation, the words of the medical staff were undoubtedly the most authoritative. After hearing this, Meng Hongchen's expression visibly relaxed, and her excited emotions quickly calmed down. "We'll take Xiao Hongchen with us now," the medical staff said, and immediately led Xiao Hongchen away on their own.

Seeing this, Lin Jiayi turned his concerned gaze to Meng Hongchen, "Xiao Meng, how are you feeling now?"

"Thank you for your concern, Director. I feel fine now, and I should be able to regain my strength in a little while." Meng Hongchen shook her head to indicate that she was alright.

"Alright, since you're all alright, I'll be going now." Seeing that the three of them were all okay, Lin Jiayi gave them some instructions and then left the testing site.

"Yu Miao, I'll have to trouble you later."

"It's nothing." Huo Yumiao shook her head at Meng Hongchen's somewhat apologetic expression, telling her not to take it to heart.

"Yuhao, you go back to the lab first. I'll take Meng back."

"Okay." Huo Yuhao responded to Huo Yumiao's words and walked outside.

"Can you still walk now?" Huo Yumiao asked in a low voice, because Meng Hongchen was basically leaning on Huo Yumiao, and was also very tall as a Soul Master who had developed very early.

When Huo Yumiao turned her head, their faces were only a few centimeters apart.

Looking at Huo Yumiao so close to her, Meng Hongchen recalled the scene of her and Huo Yumiao sleeping in bed in the illusion. Her expression immediately became unnatural, and she quickly lowered her head and said softly, "It should be fine."

“It’s definitely not a problem, but at your speed, we won’t get there even by nightfall.” Huo Yumiao said with a hint of helplessness, looking at Meng Hongchen, who took more than ten seconds to move one step.

"What should we do then?" Meng Hongchen was stunned and said blankly.

"What else can we do? Rest here until you regain your normal mobility, or I'll just carry you back."

Huo Yumiao said casually, and Meng Hongchen was stunned again. Thinking of the scene of Huo Yumiao holding her, various emotions suddenly appeared in her eyes, but they quickly disappeared.

To be honest, Meng Hongchen didn't resist being carried back by Huo Yumiao, but when she thought about how it was a holiday today and the academy would be crowded with people, she immediately gave up the idea.

"Then let's rest here," Meng Hongchen said weakly. Upon hearing this, Huo Yumiao took out two stools from her storage soul tool, helped Meng Hongchen sit down on one stool, and then sat down on the other stool herself.

"Yu Miao, can you tell me about the scene when I suffered a backlash from the cold poison?" Meng Hongchen spoke first, breaking the silence between the two.

Meng Hongchen stared intently at Huo Yumiao, forgetting all her strange emotions from just now. After these few minutes, Meng Hongchen was completely certain that her soul power had decreased.

She trusted her ability to judge soul power, which made her extremely uneasy. Soul power was the foundation of a soul master, and she couldn't afford to be indifferent to it.

Huo Yumiao thought for a few seconds, organized her thoughts, and described the scene where Meng Hongchen suddenly woke up in a state of backlash from the cold poison and attacked Xiao Hongchen, and then he used the ultimate ice to suppress the ice attribute.

Meng Hongchen listened attentively, and as soon as Huo Yumiao finished speaking, she immediately asked, "You just said that you used the Extreme Ice to help me suppress the cold poison in my body. Could you elaborate?"

Upon hearing Meng Hongchen's words, Huo Yumiao immediately recalled what Bingdi had said earlier. Connecting this with Meng Hongchen's strange behavior just now, Huo Yumiao understood, "Have you noticed that the soul power in your body has decreased?"

"Yes! Do you know what happened?"

Meng Hongchen's eyes lit up. She had originally planned to wait for Huo Yumiao to finish explaining the process of suppressing the cold poison in order to find the reason, but judging from Huo Yumiao's tone, she seemed to know what was going on.

"Before I explain the reason, I need to tell you something else: how much do you know about the backlash from the Zhu Qing Ice Toad's cold poison?"

Huo Yumiao's words startled Meng Hongchen, who was clearly surprised by Huo Yumiao's strange remarks. However, she did not ask any questions but pondered for a moment before giving her answer.

"Actually, I don't know much about the backlash of the cold poison. There are few records about the Zhu Qing Ice Toad to begin with, and even fewer about Soul Masters, let alone information on how to deal with the backlash of the cold poison."

Various descriptions of Zhu Qing, the Ice Toad Martial Soul Master, only mention her eventual death from the backlash of the cold poison. My understanding of the backlash of the cold poison comes more from the Zhu Qing Ice Toad Soul Beast.

My grandfather also went to the far north and caught a few Crimson Ice Toads. He tried to raise them and artificially induce their soul power to become disordered in order to observe the backlash of the cold poison up close and obtain relevant information.

But as you know, the only way to raise a soul beast is to start from its cub stage, and cubs are often the rarest species in the soul beast population.

My grandfather went to the far north many times, but he only managed to catch two young Crimson Ice Toads.

But let alone observing the backlash from the cold poison, both cubs died inexplicably after only a week.

Despite our best efforts to simulate an extremely cold environment similar to the far north, they still did not survive, and the matter was eventually dropped.

After Meng Hongchen finished speaking, she paused for a moment, then looked thoughtful. After a moment, she shook her head and said, "That's basically it. What's wrong?"

After listening, Huo Yumiao's expression became tense. It turned out that after saying a whole bunch of things, she actually knew nothing.

However, this makes sense, as the soul beasts in the far north are already a minority, let alone a niche soul beast like the Zhu Qing Ice Toad.

If it weren't for the long history of Soul Masters, perhaps no one would even know what the Zhu Qing Ice Toad is.

"I do know something about the backlash from the cold poison of the Zhu Qing Ice Toad."

"Oh?" Meng Hongchen was taken aback at first, then her eyes lit up as she stared at Huo Yumiao. "Do you know anything else? Can you tell me?"

Meng Hongchen had always been concerned about the backlash from the cold poison that was related to her life, but she was really distressed by the scarcity of such information, to the point that it was almost non-existent.

They even tried capturing baby Zhu Qingbing toads to study this method; they really tried every possible means.

"The backlash from the Zhu Qing Ice Toad's cold poison is the same type that's affecting your body. Actually, it's divided into two categories: one is ice devouring fire, and the other is fire devouring ice..."

Huo Yumiao recounted everything the Ice Emperor had just told him. After listening attentively, Meng Hongchen showed a grateful expression and sincerely said:
"Yu Miao, thank you for telling me all this. If it weren't for you, I probably would never have known such important information in my entire life."

Meng Hongchen felt genuinely grateful, as this information about the backlash from the cold poison was directly related to her life.

If she hadn't known about the two drastically different backlashes, it wouldn't have been impossible for her to die the next time the cold poison flared up.

Upon realizing this, Meng Hongchen's face showed a thoughtful expression. "So, is this so-called other kind of backlash the reason for my decreased soul power?"

(End of this chapter)