Poison Genius Consort

“The competition just then was as clear as day.
Han Yunxi, you’re provoking the authority of Medicine City’s Council of Elders and suspecting my own skills as clan head! This old man has no guilty conscience, but I definitely won’t allow you to look down on my Medicine City’s self-respect!” Head Elder Xie accused sternly.

He wanted to raise sympathy for his views so the crowd would support him, but Han Yunxi shot back, “This wangfei does suspect you all.
Such a big flaw, yet not a single person noticed? How hilarious!” As she spoke, she glanced at Wang Gong with a sneer.
“Head of the Wang Clan, I heard that your medical skills are far above all of the clan heads and equally matched to multiple members of the Council of Elders.
But I never expected you to be so blind today and let your young master admit defeat.
Heheh, you and your son have thoroughly lost face for the Wang Clan today.”

Ouyang Ningnuo had long wondered whether Han Yunxi and the Wang Clan had some sort of ties, but he dropped his suspicions after hearing such words.
She was thoroughly holding a grudge against the Xie Clan.

Knowing that Qin Wangfei was taunting them on purpose, Wang Gong only put on a resentful expression.
“Qin Wangfei, if you don’t explain yourself, the Wang Clan won’t forgive you today even if the Council of Elders does! Just what kind of flaw are you talking about? Speak!”

Head Elder Xie panicked and was about to stop them when Lady Lianxin stood up as well.
For the first time ever, she was on Han Yunxi’s side.
“If Head Elder Xie doesn’t have a guilty conscience, then what’s wrong with hearing out Qin Wangfei? This elder is here to represent Medical City to watch a competition, not play around.
I still have to report my findings to my superiors when I return.
If we can’t get to the bottom of this today, heheh…then Medicine City has no need to send invitations for Medical City in the future.”

Lady Lianxin had been unable to meddle with Mu Yingdong’s affairs, but she still had a say regarding the Grand Medicine Testing Convention.
After all, Medical City would pay close attention to the victor as well.

Head Elder Xie had no choice but to soften his tone.
“Fine.
Then may Qin Wangfei clarify yourself.
However, I’ll say this first: if Qin Wangfei can’t offer a sastisfactory explanation, I definitely won’t be polite!” Even if Han Yunxi can tell that something’s off, so what? Her poison skills are formidable, but these are all common medicinal ingredients.
I refuse to believe that she can explain what’s going on.

Han Yunxi gave a snort of contempt.
“First, bring out Xie Peng’s prescription.”

Head Elder Xie openly handed over the paper, which Han Yunxi read out loud.
Everyone immediately understood why Wang Shuchen had admitted defeat after hearing the list.
Most of the audience had no idea how to make heads or tails of the prescription.
Even with the list and quantities of ingredients, they couldn’t figure out how to put them all together, much less the effects of the final pill.
No wonder Wang Shuchen had been at a loss.

Wang Gong himself was the most amazed of all, because even he didn’t understand the prescription.

“Heheh, so eager to announce the winner without even publicizing the prescription first? Head Elder Xie, isn’t that too careless of you? Or do you think the prescription was so ordinary that it didn’t merit a public viewing?” Han Yunxi mocked.

Head Elder Xie avoided the question to focus on something else.
“Fourth Young Master Wang has already admitted his loss.
According to the rules of the competition, that’s valid enough to determine the winner.
What was wrong with that?”

“Oh…looks like Head Elder Xie feels that this prescription is ordinary after all,” Han Yunxi said before looking towards the audience.
“What does everyone else think?”

The crowd was silent.
Anyone who could attend this convention had to be intelligent, so each of them knew clear in their hearts that this prescription counted as a top-tier formula.
Even if Xie Peng was a child prodigy, it would be impossible for him to think up such a pill within a single incense stick.
Without a doubt, someone had taught him the prescription first.
But it was the Council of Elders who had provided the medicinal ingredients—dozens of them at that—and Wang Gong who had selected 30 from the pile to offer Xie Peng.
It seemed impossible that any sabotage could have been at work.
Besides crediting Xie Peng for his good luck, they had nothing else to say.

“This prescription…heheh, I’m afraid this old man wouldn’t understand it even if I studied it for the rest of my life!” Wang Gong mocked himself before roaring into laughter.

Head Elder Xie’s expression shifted before he feigned anger and rebuked, “What does the Xie Clan mean by this?”

The Xie Clan Head naturally made ample preparations when the clan chose to teach this particular prescription to Xie Peng.
It would have been best if the formula wasn’t publicized, now that it was, he had his own ways to deal with the issue as well.

“Xie Peng, what’s going on here?” he interrogated the boy.

“This… This was taught to me last year by a man in the ingredient storage warehouse,” the once-arrogant brat had instantly morphed into a sorry-looking little child.
With a face full of innocence, he added, “There aren’t any rules that you can’t use other people’s prescriptions for the Grand Medicine Testing Convention.
You can only blame Wang Shuchen for been too inexperienced to see an old prescription like this before.”

Xie Peng’s words were already infuriating enough, but the Xie Clan Head had even thicker skin.
He said, “As things stand, it’s our Xie Clan that got lucky.
By coincidence, the Council of Elders provided ingredients that could create this particular pill.
Heheh, esteemed wangfei, you can’t blame the Xie Clan for that, can you? It was even the Wang Clan Head that picked out Xie Peng’s 30 allocated ingredients.
He wouldn’t have helped out Xie Clan on purpose, would he?”

Everyone was certain that the Xie Clan had cheated, but there was no way to prove it.
No one could tell how they could’ve pulled it off.
Han Yunxi’s jade-like fingers brushed past the extra ingredients she’d taken from the basket as she said in a cold voice, “Head Elder Xie, may I ask just what were the criterion for picking the rest of these 53 medicinal ingredients?”

Head Elder Xie’s expression changed slightly. It couldn’t be, has Han Yunxi…?