Chapter 18 : Chapter 18
Chapter 18 – Testing Medicine with Her Own Body
After returning to her residence, the entry disciples immediately gathered around Ye Liuyun again, asking about her condition.
“Senior Sister Ye, you were not exhausted, were you? Sigh, the sect’s punishment really seems unreasonable…”
Ye Liuyun’s ears were filled with their chattering voices. She knew very well that their enthusiasm toward her existed purely because of Lin Aoxue.
She casually said a few words to brush them off, then prepared to enter her cave residence.
“Miss Ye, you are back?” At that moment, Xiao Hansheng appeared.
She did not want to deal with most of the others, but she still needed to be polite toward Xiao Hansheng.
“Oh, Brother Xiao. Today’s punishment has ended. I am exhausted. There are still twenty-nine days left… this will be difficult,” Ye Liuyun sighed.
“This… well… Miss Ye, you should be more careful in the future. A cultivation sect is not the same as the mortal world. The rules here are even stricter. If you are not careful, you can easily violate the sect’s regulations,” Xiao Hansheng said with a smile.
Ye Liuyun nodded. Of course she knew that once she entered the cultivation world she needed to be more cautious. Today had simply been an accident.
“Mm. Thank you for the reminder, Brother Xiao. I will return to my cave residence to rest first. Once my punishment is completely over, we can chat again,” Ye Liuyun said.
Xiao Hansheng nodded and watched Ye Liuyun enter her cave residence before returning to his own.
The moment she entered the cave residence, Ye Liuyun immediately stuffed a Burst Spirit Pill into her mouth. In the next instant, a large amount of spiritual energy gathered around her, making her feel refreshed.
The fatigue in her body was completely washed away by the storm of spiritual energy.
After she fully absorbed the pill’s power, she began researching pills again. The reason she had been so exhausted yesterday was because she had refined many pills with different effects throughout the entire night. None of them had been tested yet.
“I will not refine pills today. Today I will mainly test medicine. Hehe… I, Ye Liuyun, will imitate Shennong and taste a hundred herbs.”
She casually grabbed a purple pill and tossed it into her mouth.
This pill had been made from a mixture of three medicinal ingredients. At first glance, it did not look like a proper pill at all.
After the pill entered her body, a strange purple medicinal force began spreading through Ye Liuyun’s body, and the effects of the medicine started invading her system.
“Eh?”
Ye Liuyun suddenly opened her eyes. Blood vessels filled her eyes, and her originally rosy lips turned blackish-purple as if she had been poisoned.
“Ugh!”
She clutched her chest and immediately vomited a large mouthful of pitch-black poisonous blood.
“Damn it! It is actually a poison pill—and an extremely toxic one.”
After vomiting that mouthful of poisonous blood, Ye Liuyun collapsed and died on the spot.
This woman truly dared to eat any pill she created. Had she just poisoned herself to death?
However, something strange soon occurred. A translucent figure slowly floated out of Ye Liuyun’s body and hovered above it.
It was Ye Liuyun’s soul.
“What the hell? I did not add any poisonous herbs. How did I refine such a deadly poison pill?” Ye Liuyun muttered calmly while looking at her lifeless body.
Did she not realize she had already died?
“Nonsense. Who told you that poison pills must use poisonous herbs? Medicinal ingredients are not inherently poisonous or harmless—it all depends on how they are combined,” Lin Qingyou’s figure also floated out.
“Ah… this pill is not very interesting. Boring.” Ye Liuyun shook her head in dissatisfaction.
“No, no. This pill still has room for improvement. If refined to its limit, it could easily poison even high-level cultivators. Besides, have you not always said that the cultivation method I taught you has no combat power? Since you lack fighting ability yourself, why not refine some pills that can protect you?” Lin Qingyou suggested.
Her words suddenly opened a new world in Ye Liuyun’s mind.
“That is true. Why did I not think of that? Then I will continue testing medicine. I have already died several times anyway, so it does not matter,” Ye Liuyun laughed.
Indeed, when she was still in Qixia Town, she had already died seven or eight times.
The first time happened after she successfully cultivated the Eternal Evergreen Art.
In order to test whether Lin Qingyou had lied to her, Ye Liuyun secretly left Qixia Town and found a very high cliff. She jumped off and died instantly from the fall.
However, after a short while, she revived again—and her body was completely intact.
After that, Ye Liuyun experimented with mortal medicines and poisoned herself several more times. Randomly mixing medicines was naturally likely to kill someone.
Sure enough, about a minute later, Ye Liuyun’s body began emitting a dense life force. Under the influence of that vitality, her body rapidly recovered, the toxins inside her were completely purged, and her flesh revived. Her soul was immediately pulled back into her body by its power.
As her soul merged with her body again, Ye Liuyun opened her eyes.
“Alright, continue. The ingredients of this pill are…”
She took out her pill-record notebook and wrote down the ingredients of the poison pill.
After recording it, she prepared to test another pill.
This time, she picked up a pink pill. However, just as she was about to eat it, Lin Qingyou stopped her.
“Hey, brat. That pill should not be eaten,” Lin Qingyou warned.
“Huh? Why? It does not look like poison,” Ye Liuyun said in surprise.
Lin Qingyou rolled her eyes.
“Judging from the color, it appears to be some kind of aphrodisiac pill. Are you sure you want to eat it?” Lin Qingyou asked with an odd expression.
“Oh? An aphrodisiac pill?”
Ye Liuyun did not show the shy reaction a woman might normally have. Instead, her expression carried the curiosity of a man.
Seeing that reaction gave Lin Qingyou a strange chill.
“Hey! You should have some self-awareness. You are not a man anymore. Do not act so recklessly like before,” Lin Qingyou said.
Unfortunately, while she was speaking, Ye Liuyun had already eaten the pill as if it were candy.
Since Ye Liuyun was not worried about anything going wrong, she felt there was no reason not to try it. Besides, without testing it, how could she know the pill’s exact effects?
So she swallowed it without hesitation. Even among aphrodisiac pills, there were different types.
“Hey! You—” Lin Qingyou was stunned.
After the pill entered her body, Ye Liuyun initially felt nothing.
“Strange… it does not seem like anything is happening. Don't people say that after taking this kind of thing you lose control and become overwhelmed with desire? That is how it is always written in television dramas and novels,” Ye Liuyun muttered.
But she quickly learned how powerful it truly was.
As the pill gradually dissolved inside her body, a strange heat spread throughout her entire body. Ye Liuyun suddenly felt dizzy, and the surrounding environment began spinning around her.
“Hey! Brat, stay conscious. I told you not to eat it, but you refused to listen. Now look at what happened,” Lin Qingyou warned.
Ye Liuyun shook her head.
Then something bizarre happened.
Lin Qingyou, who stood before her, gradually transformed into the appearance of Lin Aoxue.
“Liuyun, Liuyun, what is wrong with you?” Lin Aoxue held Ye Liuyun’s shoulders and shook her.
Ye Liuyun felt as if her consciousness were about to leave her body. Unable to control herself, she suddenly embraced Lin Aoxue.
“Aoxue… why are you here? This is strange. I—”
Just as she was about to say something more, she suddenly heard the faint sound of a droplet falling onto water.
Her muddled consciousness instantly cleared.
When she came back to her senses, she realized that the person in front of her was actually Lin Qingyou.
Where was Lin Aoxue?
Lin Qingyou was currently using her power to remove the medicinal effects from Ye Liuyun’s body.