He had heard about Medicine King Village while chatting with Jia Yanrong and others. It’s a very famous village in the area, known for generations as herbalists, having produced many masters of medicine and poison.
However, it was wiped out about fifty years ago.
It’s said that the Medicine King of Medicine King Village offended some unknown powerful figure, leading to the entire village’s annihilation overnight, not a single survivor.
Lin Zheyu felt that perhaps Medicine King Village had grown too famous, daring to call someone Medicine King and hence brought disaster upon themselves.
"Yes, this ‹Poison Canon› was circulated from Medicine King Village back then. They had another book, ‹Medicine Canon›, but it has been lost, its whereabouts unknown."
"In the future, you must not casually reveal the fact that you possess the ‹Poison Canon›, lest you bring disaster upon yourself," Chen Peijun warned.
His father was originally from Medicine King Village, surviving by luck at the time, and managed to carry the Poison Canon away.
But unexpectedly, their possession of ‹Poison Canon› was exposed one day, bringing disaster upon them.
"Yes, I understand," the younger one replied.
Lin Zheyu nodded; he understood the principle that innocence can bring misfortune if one possesses something valuable.
He sat in Chen Peijun’s courtyard, beginning to peruse the canon, while Chen Peijun did not rush him, sitting silently beside him sipping his tea.
"Poison King Body?"
Suddenly, the content of the book caught Lin Zheyu’s attention.
This was the content he saw when flipping to the Chapter on poisoning methods.
Poison King Body doesn’t mean carrying poison all over the body, turning oneself into a poison person, but rather refining the body to be immune to all poisons.
Poisoning isn’t as easy as imagined; often, it results in harming oneself before harming others.
Even if one has an antidote prepared in advance, not taking it in time can still hurt the body.
Having a body immune to all poisons is a requisite foundation for becoming a Poison King, hence called Poison King Body.
Poison King Body is achieved by utilizing poison refinement methods, testing poisons on oneself, and detoxifying, allowing the body to develop poison resistance.
Starting from ordinary poisons, small doses, gradually increasing the dose, strengthening the toxicity, allowing the body to develop an anti-poison effect.
Its principle is using biological resistance and adaptability to produce the so-called anti-poison efficacy.
Whereas Martial Artists, due to their strong physique, will have enhanced anti-poison effects.
However, correspondingly, while gaining this resistance, similar therapeutic drugs will lose their effectiveness, which can be both advantageous and disadvantageous.
"Don’t be deceived by the powerful appearance of Poison King Body; this is just theoretical. The actual effect is not that good."
"Moreover, practitioners will significantly deplete their lifespan, mostly not living past forty years. A single mistake can lead to toxin accumulation, causing early death."
Chen Peijun saw Lin Zheyu’s bright-eyed gaze fixed on the content about Poison King Body and couldn’t help but remind him.
Even Chen himself did not dare to practice it deeply, only having practiced the first stage.
This was merely an experimental conjecture from Medicine King Village at that time, with the seventh generation Medicine King being the only one to achieve anything meaningful, but even he died young as a result.
Furthermore, the poison immunity effect of the Poison King Body wasn’t that good; the first three stages could only resist ordinary poisons, while facing poisons that could affect Qi Blood Realm experts, they were ineffective.
"Thank you for the reminder, senior. I’m just taking a look," Lin Zheyu nodded and said.
"Alright, take it back to read. I’m heading out."
"Just reading the book isn’t enough; you need to continually test drugs, personally engage in research, and immerse yourself long-term to achieve anything in Poison Tao."
"You have to acquire poisonous herbs and powders yourself for research; during the research process, make sure to remember the precautions in the Poison Canon, otherwise, it’s easy to poison yourself to death."
Chen Peijun instructed.
"Yes, senior, I will keep it in mind,"
Lin Zheyu said, closing the pages, standing up, and taking his leave.
...
The first day of the New Year is when juniors pay respects to elders, it was quite lively along the way.
Lin Zheyu took the opportunity to visit Feihong Gang, accompanied by Jia Yanrong and the others, paying respects to several Refining Internal Organ Realm lords in the gang and the Gang Leader, and then visiting Mr. Han.
Leaving the Han Mansion, Lin Zheyu returned straight to his courtyard.
He didn’t know many people in Songyi City, nor did he have many elders to visit.
Back in his courtyard, Lin Zheyu took out the Poison Canon and began to study.
‹Poison Canon› is a Taoist scripture documenting numerous toxic substances and Poison Tao theories, taboos, detoxification methods, and various poison formulas.
Many of the toxic herbs and flowers mentioned above are extremely difficult to find, making it not easy to concoct highly toxic poisons.
The preparation process also requires extreme caution; otherwise, poisoning might occur easily.
"In a short time, mastering toxicology is simply not possible."
"This Poison King Body is somewhat interesting, I wonder if it can be cultivated like martial arts, using Source Power to enhance?"
Lin Zheyu pondered secretly.
The cultivation process of Poison King Body is very similar to martial arts, only the methods are different.
One is through medicinal stimulation to change and enhance the body, the other is through training stimulation, to strengthen oneself.
Thinking of it, he started trying.
Lin Zheyu noted down the first stage’s trial poison materials and headed to the pharmacy to buy them.
The first stage’s materials are all weakly toxic poisons, which can serve as poisons and medicinal materials for treating illnesses, accessible in ordinary pharmacies.