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Published at 5th of May 2021 09:14:28 AM


Chapter 290: 290

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But wifey, with your skills, even if they fought seriously, you wouldn't put it in your eyes, would you?"

"Well, with this kinds of skills, no. But it'd at least be more exciting since the outcome wouldn't be as obvious. It's not that rare for a breakthrough or epiphany to happen in the middle fo a fight, after all. Those uncertain factors are what makes battles exciting." Shen Tianyu replied to Rong Jian as she looked at him.

"Wifey is generous." Rong Jian responded. 

"I don't know what you mean. Well, I'll still enroll in the Sword Department since I'm focusing on cultivation. Might pick up some special sword skills while I'm at it too." 

The Sword fight tournament ended without much deviation from the supposed predetermined script. Bai Yaoxuan had fallen asleep from the lack of interesting developments during the second match and had to be shaken awake by Shen Tianyu. However, the audience seemed to love it as the whole stadium erupted into applause, with some hollering mixed in, once the end was announced. 

"We're planning on going to the main road to look at the shops, that ok with you guys?" Shen Tianyu asked the rest of her group once they left the noisy Practice Building. 

"Weren't you going to look at the Poison Stage's exhibition?" Bai Yaoxuan asked with surprise.

"The cultivation division's demonstrations are so boring even you fell asleep. You want me to go on to watch the more technical division, where it's even less possible for them to be showy and exciting?" Shen Tianyu raised her eyebrow at the other girl. 

"Oh, well, I guess you're right. I don't really mind either way." Bai Yaoxuan blushed at the mention of her little nap inside Practice Building 1. She hadn't thought the most popular department would be the most boring exhibition. At least the Beast-taming department's circus had more variety. 

Ningwu Liushan and Bai Longtian shrugged, showing that they had no objections either. What she said did make sense after all. The only people that go to watch the demonstrations of the Medical Division are usually obssessive scholars or people that just want the freebies that might be presented to the audience. 

The group of five walked onto the main road, barely a few steps away from where they left and started looking around. There were students selling low-grade pills, medicinal herbs, poisons with no lasting harm, cultivation objects and even talismans. Some more mischevious students were even selling joke items like a poison pill that will make you laugh for a whole day, or a talisman that can fold itself.

"Wifey, didn't you want to see the stalls of the Head Disciples?" Rong Jian asked as he walked beside her. 

"Yes, but we'll get to one eventually, with her roaming around like this." Shen Tianyu indicated Bai Yaoxuan, who was marveling at something at the stall next to them, with her chin. Though the other let out gasps of awe asfrequent as breathing, she had yet to declare she wanted anything yet. On the other hand, though the joke items were interesting, Shen Tianyu didn't think they were really worth buying. But if used correctly, and with the right timing, even joke items can save a life. 

To Rong Jian's mild disappointment, Shen Tianyu didn't display anything beyond interest in the items at the stalls, not even close to a desire to possess anything. "Ah, this is the stall set up by the Poison Stage's elder's head disciple." Rong Jian told his partner when they reached a certain stall.

The stall was a simple wooden window with no roof, easily taken apart once the festivities ended. On display were glass and porcelain bottles, all presumably filled with poisonous pills since liquids were too inconvenient to carry. The person manning the stall was an aloof-looking young man barely Rong Jian's age, wearing the same uniform as all the other students Shen Tianyu had seen this day, with one exception. Next to the school emblem on his chest, there was another pin with a black medicine pot and a skull floating above said pot, signalling his position. 

The stall owner git up from his seat behind his stall and bowed his head to the couple. "Zhu Wangye, and his companion." 

Rong Jian merely nodded back in greeting as Shen Tianyu looked around for her older sister to make sure she didn't get lost. Bai Yaoxuan had already fluttered a few stalls away. Shen Tianyu told her partner to stay where he was and went to fetch her hyperactive sister, dragging her back to the stall. 

"What is it? You want something from here?" Bai Yaoxuan asked once they settled. 

"Mn. I thought I'd buy something from the Poison Stage elder's head disciple." Shen Tianyu looked around at the the capped bottles without labels. "Excuse me but can you tell me what these are? There doesn't seem to be any labels." 

The stall owner started intorducing his ware from their left to their right. The products ranged from near harmless stuff like Throat Sealing Poison, that could make someone go mute temporarily to things that makes one question if they should even appear in a market like this, such as Deviating Blood Poison which can make one's blood go crazy and destroy a body from the inside. 

"Are y ou sure you should be selling something like the Deviating Blood Poison in such an open market?" Shen Tianyu asked the stallowner as she peered over the bottles.

"That one is expressly for display purposes only. The Throat Sealing Poison up until the Ice Poison are the only ones for sale." The Head Disciple quickly responded, putting a defensive hand in front of the bottles on the right of the stall. Ice Poison temporarily makes one's body temperature drop down to that of ice. If one's body and cultivation aren't high enough, they might get knocked out with a cold for a month or two. Nevertheless, it's a good camouflage tool if one is against a demonic beast that senses it's prey using body heat.




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