Gu Zhiqi heard the words, raised his eyebrows slightly, and nodded toward Gu Xiyue.
Then, he lazily narrowed his eyes, a hint of chill seeping into their depths as he stepped toward Mo Qingsnow.
Although there was not a trace of Vital Energy around Gu Zhiqi, Mo Qingsnow felt an overwhelming sense of pressure engulfing her.
This sense of pressure, devoid of any physical aggression, nevertheless made Mo Qingsnow involuntarily feel fear.
Mo Qingsnow was secretly alarmed, watching Gu Zhiqi with a guarded expression, "What are you going to do to me?"
Gu Zhiqi’s smile was indolently faint, "You sent people to kill me, what do you think I’m going to do to you?"
Upon hearing this, Mo Qingsnow was momentarily stunned, then shook her head repeatedly, "Don’t, don’t kill me." She stepped back while continuing to speak to Gu Zhiqi, "You... you haven’t been poisoned? Don’t you want the antidote? In this world, only I have the antidote."
When she had sent people to assassinate Gu Zhiqi and Gu Xiyue, she gave them two packets of poison powder.
By all accounts, both of them should have been poisoned.
"Poisoned?" Gu Zhiqi asked softly as he closed in on Mo Qingsnow. After a pause of a few seconds, he then remembered, "Ah, I remember now, the poison you mentioned is that colorless, odorless powder that, when sprinkled on a person, seals Vital Energy and strips all strength, right?"
"You... you knew?" Mo Qingsnow widened her eyes as she looked at Gu Zhiqi.
As she spoke, something suddenly came to her mind.
That day, fighting in the Cloud Mist Mountain, this young girl claimed she was immune to all poisons.
At that thought, Mo Qingsnow’s heart sank with dread.
That can’t be, even if she is immune to all poisons, the poison was said to affect even those who normally are, by a grown-up’s words.
How could it be, how could it be...
"I fed it into his mouth." Gu Zhiqi said, pointing at the man in black thrown on the ground, his condition unknown.
During the fight, the man in black did attempt to sprinkle the powder on her, but she had fed it back to him instead.
After the fight, they found another packet on him, which was now in her pocket.
Upon hearing this, Mo Qingsnow immediately turned to look at the man in black lying on the ground, indeed noticing his lips stained with plenty of white powder.
"So you... you haven’t been poisoned?" Mo Qingsnow was already certain that Gu Zhiqi had not been poisoned, but she couldn’t bring herself to believe it.
If Gu Zhiqi was not poisoned, it meant that she could take Mo Qingsnow’s life at any moment.
And Mo Qingsnow was unable to use the antidote to threaten the young girl.
Gu Zhiqi laughed, "If I had been poisoned, how could I have blocked your strike just now?"
Mo Qingsnow, upon hearing this, had a look of utter desolation, her feet shuffling step by step backward.
Backed against the door, Mo Qingsnow’s figure trembled, she stumbled, and as her body fell backward, her entire back pressed against the iron door, "Don’t, don’t kill me, even if you don’t need the poison powder, your brothers still do."
"Right now, the poison powder only seals their Vital Energy, leaving them weak, but in twenty-four hours without the antidote, they’ll all bleed from every orifice and die."
"If you kill me, that’s their end, do you really want to watch, watch... mmph"
"Here, have a taste of this poison for yourself." Gu Zhiqi said, while a white paper packet appeared in her hand, she grasped Mo Qingsnow’s chin and poured the contents into Mo Qingsnow’s mouth.
Mo Qingsnow struggled, shaking her head, one hand tightly gripping the iron door, the other stealthily reaching into her pocket.