"Am I too late?"
When the trio was still running their wild imagination an unfamiliar voice woke them up.
They all looked at the door and saw a young man standing there looking at them.
The trio stood in unison and exchanged greetings, the information they had on Ye Tian was enough for them to recognize him in certain condition like just now.
Rex appraised Sung Huang and found out that he was at Core Breaking 6th stage.
Lerna fiercely stared at him but didn't say anything.
"Master Ye looks much younger than the rumors says," Sung Suyin said with a flattering smile, his strength may be higher than Rex but him being an expert Alchemist and having the same status as the frightening woman sitting near Jiang Shuang was enough to cover up most of the gap, moreover he needed Rex's help to cure his own illness so it was a given for him to show such respect while addressing Rex.
"Haha… Senior Sung sure jests, appearance is but a deception in the world ruled by strength," Rex said with a smile then sat on a sofa beside Lerna.
When Sung Suyin saw Rex addressing him as senior he felt much better, he was prepared to meet an arrogant prideful Alchemist but the miraculous Alchemist Ye Tian seemed much more polite and easy-going even after living with coldblooded as Reaper and arrogant as the green-haired woman.
Lerna raised her eyebrow towards Rex.
'Did he hit his head on the way here or something?' She thought.
She was surely way stronger than Sung Suyin but she didn't remember Rex addressing her as senior even once, furthermore, she was also confused why they were calling him Master Ye instead of Master Rex but because Rex told her not to speak in the meeting she didn't say anything at the moment.
"Master Ye is just too modest, but it would be impolite for me to get addressed as senior with Master Ye's status so it's fine to call me Old Man Sung or Old Sung" Sung Suyin returned with a smile.
"I understand, then Old Sung I would have loved to have a long chat with you all but due to me handling some important business these days I only have very little free time to spend, so I apologize but can we cut to the main topic faster," Rex said with an apologetic expression.
"It's alright Master Ye I understand your reasons so I will skip the formal talk. This is my big brother Sung Huang, a long time ago we both received an important assassination request directly from the Royal Family and because it was from Royal Family we couldn't refuse, our target was the Sect Master of Green Mantis Sect in Myriad Beast Continent, after years of planning and waiting we finally got an opportunity to accomplish our task.
But only after attacking did we realize that the information we had on him was completely wrong moreover he seem to be already prepared for us, while fighting he used a very strange technique against us, the technique didn't look much lethal at that time so we only focused on escaping, luckily we were able to successfully escape but came back with a mission failure.
Only after a year did we come to notice that there is something wrong with our bodies, whenever we mobilized Qi during battles or cultivation, we felt a slight pain in our body but that slight pain has kept increasing over the years, we asked many alchemists for treatment but they weren't even able to find what is wrong with our bodies.
That's why when I heard that Master Ye was able to solve the seemingly uncurbable problem of the people from Cold Heaven Sect, I thought that you can also help us we were just collecting information about Frozen Flame to come in contact with you but it was the guardian of Frozen Flame that approached us," Sung Suyin explained.
Rex slightly nodded.
Sung Suyin's word carried a hidden meaning, they took on an assassination request from the Royal Family and the target of their assassination was already aware of it which meant that there was a high chance that someone else from Royal Family or the client itself plotted against them to kill them with a borrowed knife.
Sung Suyin and Sung Huang were both like hidden tigers in the continent and belonged to an independent organization which hasn't joined or allied with any other big forces and people who had lived for so long would likely have helpers or friend that might come to help them if the situation becomes that worse and even Azure Emperor won't try to deal with such trouble directly so Royal Family plotting against them wasn't impossible.
In normal case, Sung Suyin never planned to reveal the whole matter of the Royal Family and Green Mantis Sect in front of Rex so as not to put pressure on him and for fear of him refusing to help because it was likely that helping them can be taken as an offense to the other party involved in this matter but now that he had taken a glimpse of the strength of Frozen Flame he believed that it wasn't wise to provoke such a force.
"I understand, give me your hand for a second," Rex said without any change in expression.
Offending Royal Family? I have my big wolfy bro and this drakon beauty beside me, come if you dare... oh I also have a Monster King Kid count him in too... Rex thought.
The trio was shocked when they saw that Rex wasn't bothered by making an enemy of the Royal Family or Green Mantis Sect at all, they also saw Jiang Shuang's slightly worried face but completely ignored him, as for Lerna she just finished eating the fruit in her hands then took out a melon slice and started eating it without any change in expression.
After seeing that, the idea of Shadow Lord being King of Forest in their head turned into strong belief.
Sung Suyin excitedly extended his hand towards Rex.
Rex just grabbed his wrist like he was checking his pulse and started analyzing his body.
[Found it, the problem in their body isn't poison in the first place it's actually.....]
Rex then released his hand.
"No wonder other Alchemists weren't able to find the poison in your body, it's because it wasn't poison in the first place," Rex's words made them both happy and worried.
His words meant that he was able to discover the problem in their body but it also meant that the problem in their body was not the poison they were thinking of all along, so what could it be?
"Master Ye, what do you mean by that?" Sung Huang asked.
"Before that tell me something, do you often get unusually hungry over a small period of time like just a few days? the pain should have first appeared in your intestines before it started to expand in other parts of your body?" Rex asked.
Sung Huang and Sung Suyin looked at Rex with wide eyes, everything he said was correct.
"Yes, it's exactly what Master Ye said," Sung Huang replied almost instantly. The little doubt he had in his heart about Rex's skills had already disappeared by now.
"I see... so here's the conclusion, if this keeps going on you will probably die in the next 300 years that is if you are smart enough to not mobilize your Qi for battling or cultivation, or else it would be 100 years at most," Rex said with a serious expression.
His words made the two brothers face froze in an instant.
"This.. what kind of illness is it? Master Ye, you have its cure right?" Sung Suyin worriedly said.
Sung Lee was quiet this whole time, he felt like he was not at a level where he could recklessly interfere in such an important conversation. He looked at quiet Jiang Shuang and slightly nodded in satisfaction, he felt that he wasn't alone.
"How should I put it... have you heard that 80% of the mortal children or adults can have parasite in their gut in a number of ways? they help them in some ways but can also result in mostly minor or major problems. When we cultivate and reach a higher cultivation stage, these kinds of parasites die and disappear.
But in your bodies, I found highly similar looking parasites... worm parasites to be exact, but I can tell they are not the same as the normal ones they are just too far apart in terms of level, it seems like someone specially cultivated them... you two couldn't find them out because they are attached to your body and they can even replicate the same Qi as their host which is you, these parasites' moments are limited they cannot move from their position and can only lay eggs to further expand their territory.
When you mobilize the Qi in your body it works like a growth tonic and increases their spreading process, they are slowly sucking out all the nutrients from your body if this goes on and they spread to your whole body especially your brain then you will first go insane which will most likely result in you two going on a rampage to level you sect before all your organ stops working and you die.
Hmmm.... no wonder you were able to 'luckily' escape from your target that time, it's more like that the target let you escape to make its work simpler," Rex said in a very calm and composed tone like he was stating a face.
But his words had made the faces of the Sung Suyin and Sung Huang go pale, no matter how they had trained their mind but listening to what could have happened to them in the next few hundred years was just too big of a scare to them.
Lerna gave a disgusting glance to the two of them, she wasn't fond of worms much less a human carrying them in his body.
"Master Ye, what is the cure?" Sung Suyin quickly asked.
Now he had no will to hear a 'no' as an answer, if Rex didn't know the cure then it was better for him to never ask the reason for his illness.
"If it was a normal person, some certain type of poisons would have easily killed them all without harming the host but you two have already made your body immune to most poisons and the parasitic worms feeding on your body should have also developed immunity to those poison by now, hmm... to make a cure for someone like you I would normally need some rare herbs but... luckily there is another way to cure you.
These parasitic worms grow with you that means they are currently only capable of absorbing Qi of Core Breaking stage cultivators so if someone stronger than you who had a different type of Qi like Monster Qi or Demonic Qi channels their Qi through your bodies then it will be like those parasites are small batteries that are overcharged with high voltage....well you won't understand this one, simply put they will die.
Of course, your body will also receive damage and it could also become fatal if that person channeling the Qi didn't control it properly, but the damage done to your body won't be that hard to cure, it's also the quickest way to cure you and lucky for you I exactly know a person that can help you," Rex looked at Lerna with a smile.
The two brothers clearly understood his meaning, as for considering the offer they didn't have much of a choice.
Sung Suyin and Sung Huang looked at each other then they cupped their hands and spoke in a resolute tone.
"Lady Lerna, we two brothers ask for your help, if you help us we will truly be grateful to you for our whole lives and can do anything for you," They said.
Lerna shot an angry glance at Rex, she didn't even like to touch humans much less helping them, even in Rex's case she takes him as someone of her own kind, not an ordinary human.
According to her humans don't have good nature these two people are being too polite because they need her help if Rex had told them they need the blood of a Seven-Headed-Drakon to cure their illness and she was weaker than them, then they wouldn't have thought twice before killing her.
Although she didn't want to help but she wanted to repay Rex's favor so she couldn't refuse, just when she was about to speak up she suddenly received a telepathic message from Rex.
When she heard the content of the message, the anger on her face disappeared and got replaced by the joy that was shown in her glittering eyes.