Poison Genius Consort - Chapter 465

Chapter 465: A very provoking sight Original and most updated translations are from volare. If read elsewhere, this chapter has been stolen. Please stop supporting theft.

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As Gu Qi Sha flipped piece after piece to expose the inside layer, Han Yunxi and Long Feiye realized that their surfaces had changed to become pitch-black!

How could this be? What kind of substance would change the color of white porcelain?

Glazed porcelain containers were very stable, inert products. Aside from high heat, they rarely showed any reactions and were situation for storing acids or medicinal ingredients. Even a highly corrosive substance would have trouble eating its way through such surfaces, so most medicine were kept in these types of bottles. The antidote to Broomcorn Millet Poison was only moderately acidic at best, but it wouldn’t affect the porcelain even if it was stored in the bottle for years! Were the miscellaneous medicinal dregs to blame?

Han Yunxi immediately looked to the bottle containing the collection of extraneous medicine while Long Feiye fixed an uneasy stare at Gu Qi Sha. Gu Qi Sha’s previous bad temper had all been for show. Ever since learning of Long Feiye and Han Yunxi’s arrival, he’d been in nothing but good spirits. Now he shot Long Feiyei a meaningful look as he leisurely kept mute.

All three of them were silent, each filled with their own thoughts. Han Yunxi had already started up the detox system to analyze the miscellaneous dregs of medicine she’d filtered out from the antidote. Before, she had determined that these dregs wouldn’t affect the antidote, so she had been relieved and concentrated wholly on the issue of quantities. She suspected that they were to blame for turning the porcelain black now. Either they’d reacted with the bottle itself or other agents in the original antidor, thus dying the surface black.

Where it was the study of Western medicine, Chinese medicine, or poisons, all three aspects of medicine had connections with chemistry. It was the reaction of different elements that produced such things. But to understand such reactions, one would need an intimate knowledge of the ingredients used in the mix. Gu Qi Sha mixed too many types of useless powders together to create his dregs. Han Yunxi didn’t understand the fine points of all its elements, but she could have the detox system analyze their effectiveness, characteristics, and appearance. She didn’t understand much else, however.

Under these circumstances, the only way to figure out why the porcelain had turned black was to perform an experiment of her own. The presence of the all powerful detox system would save her much trouble when she did perform any tests.

Gu Qi Sha stared at Han Yunxi’s concentrated expression as the amusement in his eyes intensified. For the sake of trapping Long Feiye, he’d created this mix of medicinal dregs on purpose. Han Yunxi might have amazing skills, but she’d probably never be able to guess this piece of info. He prudently calculated that any experiments the lass wanted to try on her own would take two to three days to complete at most. Still, he was quite happy to wait for a couple days—or even a couple of years or more—if he could accompany her. Whenever he saw this woman, time seemed to move faster so that his life felt less tediously long.