“Father.” Lily Cooper let out a soft sigh. “Your fire poison is not something an ordinary alchemist can remove.”

Without waiting for Autumn Cooper to speak, she drifted away.

As soon as she left, the intermittent roars from within the secret chamber erupted once again.

……

Ethan Brooks swallowed a “Vein Expanding Pill.”

As the medicinal power of the pill began to disperse, he immediately activated the “Nine Radiant Heavenly Wheel,” and, using his “Primordial Embryo Body,” absorbed the sparse spiritual energy drifting in the area into himself.

When nine clusters of spiritual energy circled around his dantian’s Yellow Court and finally condensed into a stream of spiritual light, the power of the “Vein Expanding Pill” also spread into his meridians.

“Whew!”

The moment that stream of spiritual light surged toward the ninth meridian, Ethan Brooks immediately sensed a clear difference!

The ninth meridian, under the influence of the “Vein Expanding Pill,” was opening up much faster than before, and there was no unbearable swelling pain.

“Ha! As expected of a pill tailored to the problem!”

In his previous life, he had also tried using the “Vein Expanding Pill” to see if he could use its power to clear his blocked meridians.

Unfortunately, every attempt ended in failure, each time so painful he felt like dying, even fainting, yet still making no progress.

This time, he finally truly experienced the wonders of the “Vein Expanding Pill.”

Before taking the pill, the ninth meridian was like a riverbed filled with gravel, making it difficult for water to flow through.

After taking the pill, it was as if the hard gravel in the riverbed had turned to quicksand, and the surge of spiritual light suddenly became much easier.

Moreover, the pill’s power not only relieved pain but also repaired tiny damages in the meridians, allowing them to recover faster.

With this, Ethan Brooks’s efficiency in opening his meridians naturally increased greatly.

He estimated to himself that, with the help of the “Vein Expanding Pill,” each attempt at opening a meridian was eight or nine times more efficient.

Most importantly, he could continue without interruption!

Previously, when opening meridians, the soreness and swelling would cause tiny tears that needed time to heal before he could continue.

With the “Vein Expanding Pill,” its slowly dispersing medicinal effect helped heal the torn flesh during cultivation, so it wouldn’t affect subsequent practice at all.

“A single Vein Expanding Pill releases its effects slowly and can last for more than ten days. If I use these five pills wisely, with the wonders of the Nine Radiant Heavenly Wheel, I should be able to open two more meridians and reach the Tenth Heaven!”

To avoid wasting the pill’s power, over the next few days, Ethan Brooks spent all his time cultivating, except when he asked the maid Emily Hayes for food.

Cameron Brooks, after he told that lie, did everything he could to help him and made sure no one disturbed him.

Thus, Ethan Brooks was able to enter a state of selfless cultivation.

One night, deep into the night.

Ethan Brooks suddenly felt a chill all over and was jolted awake from his intense cultivation!

The reason he woke up was that the spiritual energy he was absorbing through his pores was mixed with unnatural spiritual energy.

That energy carried an icy coldness that clashed with his “Nine Radiant Heavenly Wheel” cultivation, not only failing to help but even threatening to harm him.

He was forced to stop cultivating.

“Spiritual energy so cold—Ashley Reed? Or that dog servant called Blake Turner?”

Ethan Brooks frowned, his face dark as he stared at the tightly closed doors and windows. Then, unhurriedly, he took out a pill from his robe.

A “Turtle Blood Pill” made by reprocessing a semi-finished “Vein Expanding Pill.”

The “Turtle Blood Pill” used the ashes of the “Red Turtle Blood Worm.”

Its ashes were wrapped in a pitch-black sticky substance refined from various poisonous insect corpses by Ethan Brooks, and skillfully fused into the “Vein Expanding Pill,” thus creating three “Turtle Blood Pills.”

This was a poison pill, specially prepared for Blake Turner.

“If I can refine the Turtle Blood Pill, I can naturally also neutralize its poison. If the intruder is not an enemy and is poisoned because of me, I will cure them. But if it’s an enemy… then they’ll have to fend for themselves.”

He suddenly shook the porcelain bottle containing the “Turtle Blood Pill” vigorously.

Under the violent shaking, the pill inside the transparent porcelain bottle suddenly turned into a crimson blood mist.

Ethan Brooks stood up abruptly, moved to the window, quietly lifted a corner of the window, and then twisted out the cotton plug blocking the bottle’s mouth, aiming the opening outside.

The crimson blood mist drifted out of the bottle and immediately thinned and faded.

Microscopic toxins, invisible to the naked eye, mixed into the air and naturally drifted toward any source of life energy.

If a cultivator with heaven-defying powers could see the minute details, they would notice countless blood-red worms, hundreds of times smaller than mosquitoes or flies, opening their mouths, their tiny bat wings serrated, joyfully and bloodthirstily fluttering about.

This was the blood poison released after the “Turtle Blood Pill” volatilized.

The blood poison, upon sensing the breath of living flesh, would actively pounce toward it.

……

In a corner of the pavilion, where the moonlight could not reach, a figure merged with the shadows.

Dressed in a gray-black long robe, Blake Turner covered his face with a matching veil, revealing only a pair of eyes as cold as a venomous snake lurking in the darkness, ready to strike.