Jiang Mang had just stepped within ten meters of the nether flower when he heard a sweet but alluring voice speaking to him and he heard the voice say: " Pretty boy, you are quite exceptional to have made it until here through my miasma. I am quite thankful as I have been looking for a suitable body to host my spirit, and you are just perfect."
These words startled him and made him want to run, but he was too late as he just felt an incredible coming from his soul. He immediately stopped moving and the miasma was slowly becoming thinner. Inside his mind was a beautiful figure with the blackest of black hair and the darkest of dark eyes looking around curiously as if she was inspecting her future home. In front of her stood a young pretty boy looking at her but without the ability to move as he was being pressured by a powerful aura.
The beautiful figure eventually looked towards the boy and said the following: " Your body has quite the potential, you even have a peak rank bloodline with a purity of the highest grade, I really am satisfied with your gift and thus will allow you to say your final words before I take your body over." Jiang Mang stayed quiet before saying: "You won't succeed in taking my body unless you kill me, nether flower. I am amazed to be able to see a rare nature spirit in this place. While a poison spirit is even a rarer occurrence."
The poison spirit laughed at his words, before heading towards him and raising her hand before summoning an orb which warned Jiang Mang that he would die if it touched him. She slowly brought it towards his soul, but when it was only a short distance from him, she felt danger and stopped moving. A second later, she saw two items in front of her, one was a white flute with a green glow, while the other was a black zither with a sinister black glow. These were his flute of life and death zither from Jiang Mang's dantian, and they were now protecting his soul.
The poison spirit was currently feeling an unprecedented feeling of danger, but before she could speak a word. The flute and zither moved and formed green and black symbols around until those symbols formed a diagram which sealed the poison spirit until she looked like an orb. The orb was then pushed to Jiang Mang by his profound spirits until it merged with his soul. This brought wrenching pain onto his soul until he fell unconscious, while his profound spirits returned to his dantian.
Outside his mind, the other three had caught up with his body and were scared of his condition. First, he stopped moving when the miasma suddenly started dispersing while the nether flower started wilting. Then his body fell unconscious on the ground after a minute before it started twitching. His face started contracting like he was being tortured until he suddenly calmed down and started calmly breathing like he was asleep. This happened all in five minutes while both Hua Ye and Feng Xue were going crazy. Chu Lingxin calmed them down, before taking the lead and deciding to return to the cave and take care of Jiang Mang until he woke up, as everything seemed fine now.
Chu Lingxin was as anxious as the other two about her friend, but she had to stay strong and bring him back to safety. The trio returned to the cave during nighttime, while carrying the unconscious Jiang Mang. Their bodies were injured and bleeding from fighting the saint beast during their way home, but none were life-threatening.
They first cleaned their wounds before recovering their qi, both Hua Ye and Feng Xue were sitting beside the unconscious Jiang Mang and keeping an eye on him.
This situation continued for the remainder of the night and morning until Jiang Mang finally woke up at noon. This made all three breath a sigh of relief, but they kept their eyes on him to see if anything was wrong.
Jiang Mang had just woken up with an incredible headache when his thoughts cleared up. He started remembering what happened the previous day. He sighed a breath of relief that all was fine. He then started listening to his surroundings and found out that he was back in the cave while his body was in between Hua Ye and Feng Xue.
He opened his mouth to talk to his friends, but before he could, Feng Xue pounced on him and started crying while Hua Ye started chiding his reckless behavior. Chu Lingxun watched this all happening with a smile and a relieved look. Jiang Mang eventually explained that he fell unconscious due to the hallucinations, which had ultimately trapped him in a nightmare for a day.
He didn't tell the truth as he found it better to keep that secret., but his words managed to convince his friends to let him rest. He then started checking his soul and mind to see what happened with the poison spirit and his soul.
When he entered his mind, he felt that the orb was inside his soul and he could feel that he could control it, like it was a part of him. He could also still feel the presence of the female poison spirit inside, but she was now fully under his control, which relieved him. He also found something that made him ecstatic, he found out that he had gained precious knowledge about many poisonous herbs and substances while he had grasped the poison intent, and it was even grasped to perfection.
He knew that this knowledge and intent came from the poison spirit, which had now merged with his soul. The perfected poison intent was an intent capable of transforming qi into poison, and he could transform his life qi and death qi into all types of poison. His strongest types would be hallucination types and aphrodisiacs with his life qi for aphrodisiacs and death qi for hallucination types.
He could also form the poisonous qis into either liquid or miasma, which could inflict any creature below the king realm. At last, he had also gained a skill called Nether flower, which is a technique with no grade and can be used at any cultivation stage and is only dependent on the user's comprehension of poison. This technique allows the user to create the form of a nether flower, which will release a hallucination miasma, and its potency is dependent on the quality of the used qi and the user's comprehension level of the poison dao.
This is the inborn skill of all nether flowers and nether flower poison spirits gain comprehension of the poison dao dependent on their cultivation realm.