Turns Out, I’m In A Villain Clan! Chapter 746 Scheming Before Even Showing Up

"I-It is poison?"

A Cui Clan member's voice trembled.

Several others immediately shook their heads.

"How can it be?"

"I checked it several times. There was nothing wrong with the food or drinks."

Another Cui Clan member anxiously said,

"I personally inspected every dish before eating. Even the wine was checked with Qi."

"There's no way there could be poison inside!"

With the Cui Clan being a powerful Alchemist Clan, they were extremely confident in their ability to identify poisons.

They had carefully inspected everything before eating.

There was no trace of poison.

But then, if there was no problem with their food and drink then—

How had they lost their Qi?

Cui Yudan desperately tried circulating his cultivation again.

Nothing happened.

His Qi simply refused to respond.

His face became increasingly pale.

"I can't use my Qi..."

"Neither can I!"

The expressions of the Cui Clan members became ugly.

They had no idea what the Mu Clan had done. But one thing was certain.

This had to be their fault.

Otherwise, why would all of them suddenly lose control of their Qi the moment they tried to attack Bai Zihan?

The situation was simply too strange.

Ouyang Jiuding's expression also changed.

He had never expected things to develop like this.

This wasn't part of his plan.

He had wanted to sow discord between the Cui Clan and Bai Zihan.

He had wanted them to clash.

But he had never expected the Cui Clan to lose otherwise that would put him in great danger as well.

But now that they lost their Qi, his fate along with those from the Cui Clan is unknown.

His heart sank.

(What exactly happened?)

Bai Zihan calmly looked at the Cui Clan members scattered across the floor.

A faint smile appeared on his face.

"Everyone from the Central Glorious Continent is truly too polite."

He slowly walked forward.

"You came all the way here and immediately gave me such a grand gesture."

Bai Zihan was sarcastically making fun of these people who collapsed on the ground.

He glanced at the Cui Clan members lying on the floor.

The Cui Clan members immediately became furious.

Cui Yudan gritted his teeth.

"Bai Zihan!"

He roared.

"What did you do?"

His voice echoed throughout the banquet hall.

But beneath the anger—

There was also a trace of fear.

After all, he had just suffered a complete loss of Qi.

Even worse, every member of the Cui Clan was in the exact same situation.

Without Qi, even if they had Golden Immortal Experts, they couldn't do anything..

At this moment, they were no different from ordinary people who could only wait to be slaughtered.

Anyone would feel fear in such a situation.

"What did I do?"

Bai Zihan looked at them calmly.

"Isn't it obvious?"

A faint smile appeared on his face.

"I poisoned you!"

Bai Zihan said as if talking about something very casual.

"Impossible!"

The Cui Clan members immediately shouted.

They couldn't believe it.

They had carefully checked the food and drinks before consuming anything.

As Alchemists, they had great confidence in their ability to identify poisons.

There was no way they could have made such a simple mistake.

"There was nothing wrong with the food!"

"That's right!"

"We checked everything several times!"

One of the Cui Clan members pointed toward the Mu Clan members.

"If there was poison in the food or wine, then why are they perfectly fine? They ate the same food and drank the same wine as us!"

The Cui Clan members looked toward the Mu Clan members.

Indeed, the Mu Clan members were completely unharmed.

Not a single one of them had lost control of their Qi.

They checked with their Qi but they also watched whether the Mu Clan was eating those same things.

Bai Zihan nodded.

"Sharp eyes."

His expression remained calm.

"Indeed, there is nothing wrong with eating any of those dishes alone. You can eat one of them, and nothing will happen."

"That is because there is no poison in it."

The Cui Clan members looked at him with confusion.

Bai Zihan continued.

"But if you eat two of them together..."

His smile became slightly wider.

"Then even something that is harmless by itself can become poison."

The Cui Clan members were stunned.

"What are you talking about?"

"We checked every single ingredient!"

"There is no way..."

Bai Zihan casually pointed toward one of the dishes.

"Heaven Nourishing Flower. By itself, it isn't poisonous. In fact, everyone knows that it is a valuable spiritual herb that is beneficial to the body."

The Cui Clan members immediately looked toward the dish.

Bai Zihan then pointed toward another dish.

"But when it is combined with this Vitality Nourishing herb..."

His voice remained completely casual.

"It turns into a Qi-Dispersing Poison."

The Cui Clan members were stunned.

For one, they didn't think about eating two different herbs and turning them into poison in their stomach.

For another, they never heard that combining Vitality Nourishing herb with Heart Nourishing herb could make one's Qi dissipate.

Bai Zihan nodded.

"Once the two are consumed together, they will interfere with the circulation of Qi within the body. And with a sufficient dosage..."

His gaze swept across the Cui Clan members.

"It can leave a cultivator completely unable to use their Qi for several days."

The expressions of the Cui Clan members became increasingly ugly.

However, one of them suddenly realized something.

"Wait!"

His eyes lit up.

"That's impossible!"

He pointed toward the dishes.

"We didn't eat the Vitality Nourishing herb!"

"That's right!"

Another Cui Clan member immediately agreed.

"We only ate the Heart Nourishing one!"

The other Cui Clan members also regained some confidence.

They still didn't believe that they had fallen into such an obvious trap.

They were Alchemists from the Cui Clan.

How could they be defeated by something so simple?

"This must be some other scheme."

"Exactly! There's no way we would overlook something this obvious."

"Bai Zihan if you don't want to tell us the truth, no need to make up such obvious lies!"

Bai Zihan looked at them.

Then he casually pointed toward the wine.

"You might not have eaten it. But you certainly drank it."

The expressions of the Cui Clan members instantly froze.

Bai Zihan smiled.

"Those wines..."

He pointed toward the wine cups scattered across the tables.

"They were all brewed using that Vitality Nourishing herb."

Silence!

The Cui Clan members stared at the wine in disbelief.

Bai Zihan continued.

"You ate one herb. You drank another. Separately, neither of them is poisonous. But once they entered your bodies together..."

His smile became faintly amused.

"They became a Qi-Dispersing Poison."

The Cui Clan members were completely stunned.

That was why—

No matter how carefully they had inspected the food and drinks—

They had found nothing.

There had been no poison in either one.

The poison was created only after both entered their bodies.

And this is precisely why those Mu Clan were perfectly fine as well.

Those who ate food with Heart Nourishing Herbs didn't drink wine and those who drank wines didn't touch those foods with Heart Nourishing Herbs.

The Cui Clan members' faces became extremely ugly.

Bai Zihan's gaze swept across them.

If an ordinary person had consumed the same dosage—

It wouldn't simply be a matter of having their Qi dissipated.

They wouldn't even have the chance to complain about being unable to muster Qi.

They would most likely have already dropped dead.

Anyways, everything had been carefully planned from the moment Mu Qingyuan sent him a message.

He had never intended to rush directly to the Mu Clan Estate and fight the Cui Clan directly.

The first step was to make the Cui Clan believe that the Mu Clan was weak.

Mu Qingyuan had deliberately acted submissively.

He had agreed to almost everything Cui Yudan said.

Even when Cui Yudan demanded to take Mu Linyue as his concubine, Mu Qingyuan had immediately agreed.

To the Cui Clan, it had made the Mu Clan appear frightened of them.

It made them believe that the Mu Clan wanted nothing more than to cozy up to the Cui Clan.

The second step was to delay them.

Mu Linyue had deliberately spent time refining pills earlier. She knew that Bai Zihan would need some time to arrive.

And finally, there was the poison.

Bai Zihan had used his knowledge of Alchemy to prepare everything.

He had chosen two completely harmless Grade-5 spiritual herbs.

One was the Heart Nourishing Herb.

The other was the Vitality Nourishing Herb.

Neither herb was poisonous by themselves.

In fact, both were valuable spiritual herbs with beneficial effects on the body.

No Alchemist would suspect them when they saw them.

And that was precisely why they were so useful.

When consumed separately, there was absolutely nothing wrong with them.

Even the Cui Clan members had carefully inspected them with their Qi.

Because there was nothing to find.

But when the two herbs were consumed together—

Their medicinal properties reacted with each other.

Instead of nourishing the body, they became a terrifying Qi-Dispersing Poison.

And unless someone already knew about this reaction in advance—

There was simply no way to discover it!