Chapter 5: Black Yin Poison

The garden of flowers and trees had become Tian Hu's hiding spot. After he had delivered two crates, Tian Hu noticed that this place seemed rare to have visitors. Aside from occasional young kids of Xie Family using the garden to walk the Treasure Palace or Training Field, no one aside Tian Hu stayed here.

Tian Hu placed an isolation formation and sat cross-legged. He had to think the part of his assassination plan.

Poison. A good choice. But if he wanted two kills with one stone, he had to think it through.

Furthermore, he had no poisons with him. During the process of his assassination days, he was a rare breed of assassin that rarely used poison. Thus, Tian Hu didn't bring any with him.

Tian Hu pondered and slapped his bag of holding. Thousands of high-grade spirit stones gathered around him, and the assassin murmured few words as an otherworldly phenomenon happened.

A suction void emerged on Tian Hu's stomach, engulfing the spirit stones like a thirsty beast. When all the stones were absorbed, a dark aura emerged within the suction void.

The dark aura slowly covered Tian Hu whole until nothing remains. And the next moment he opened his eyes, he had arrived in a mysterious void.

This place had no earthen smell. The ground was void. It was dark, but the tiny light dots up above the horizon illuminated the world. Near the north, a huge palace stood erected.

The palace was made of crimson rocks with some ancient bloody designs. At the top of the building was a giant fanged humanoid sculpture with two horns on its head. If someone could witness the palace, terror would intensify.

Meanwhile, the entrance gate was colored in black. Till this moment, Tian Hu, who had spent ten years in this pocket world, had no clue what was the material used to build the sturdy spikes, but the bolded words atop it, the [Ancient Demon Palace] says it all.

When Tian Hu had gotten this treasure. It was unnamed. The word [Ancient Demon Palace] atop the gate was one of the reasons that convinced Tian Hu to renamed the pocket world as [Demon Domain]

[Demon Domain] was the treasure who let Tian Hu rebirthed out the water of mediocrity. He had leaped through the dragons' gate after a decade of using the [Demon Domain Treasure].

He had gotten [Demon Domain] thirteen years ago; after seven years of having his harshest days of witnessing his village annihilated.

Thirteen years ago was where Tian Hu considered himself as a beginner of Tomb Raiding. Those days, he had raided between ten to twenty C-Class tomb. He can't remember the exact number, but Tian Hu acknowledged that he was an inexperienced raider back then.

After all, twenty years ago, he had just cultivated into the Foundation Establishment realm; the realm where most cultivators started their debut of raiding tombs.

On a faithful day thirteen years ago, Tian Hu's raiding team had entered the rare [Zeta] C-Class tomb.

The tests were very harsh and weird. The tests weren't based on personal strength but on mind, willpower, and desires.

Though the tests seemed simple, the ten thousand odd Raiders who partake the raid, only Tian Hu and less than a hundred people had survived.

It was because the higher the classification was, the harder is it to clear the tomb.

The lucky less than a hundred people and Tian Hu back then had respectively obtained rewards. And this [Demon Domain] was what he had received.

[Demon Domain] was not a simple treasure. Tian Hu considered it higher than a Divine Treasure. Thus, he had never spoken a single word after receiving it.

[Demon Domain] was a time and space treasure. As for its specialty, the assassin discovered every three days he spent here, it was a day in the real world.

The only bad side of [Demon Domain] was that it consumed almost half of Tian Hu's earnings on his raids. Fortunately enough, he had his Assassination Consultant Office to sustain the needs of his [Demon Domain].

Tian Hu passed the entrance gate and headed straight to the Alchemy Division.

The palace was divided into five divisions. Namely, the Talisman, Alchemy, Refinement, Array, Martial Arts.

The Alchemy Division was located northern part of the palace, and the soon as Tian Hu arrived, he took a medicine book on the Alchemy Library.

He opened its contents and got on the lists of poison. There are thousands of poison on the list. After a minute of searching, the Assassin found what he needed.

[Black Yin Poison: a poisonous medicine that originated from the Death Yin Flower. One sip enough to kill anyone below Golden Core Realm otherwise not effective.]

"Below Golden Core." Tian Hu nodded in understanding. Golden Core Experts were cultivators who formed the base core of their souls. Since their soul had condensed into a small golden ball on the dantian, poison naturally doesn't work on them.

Tian Hu closed the book and put it in its rightful place. He then headed to the core of Alchemy Division.

Alchemy Division had its cultivation ground for crops, herbs, and medicine on its core. Unauthorized people wouldn't be able to enter the location. Since the [Demon Domain] had recognized Tian Hu as a master, the restriction array let him in.

Tian Hu looked around and his eyes were overwhelmed by the thousands of herbs as usual. However, pity enough he couldn't grab them all for some reason.

Every time Tian Hu entered [Demon Domain] he could only enjoy the privilege of Alchemy Division for free and a single set of herbs daily. As for the other Division, he had to pay a certain amount of spirit stones to enter them.

The last time Tian Hu entered the Martial Arts Division was three years ago. That year, he had spent one thousand spirit stones in the entrance, five thousand high-grade spirit stones for his [Enshroudment Art], ten thousand high-grade spirit stone on [Transformation Art], and another fifteen thousand on buying a low-grade Earth Rank [Shadow Movement Art].

That year was where Tian Hu's wealth turned into a speck of dust. He had struggled to earn money that year until he had built his assassination business.

The good side was Tian Hu received good martial arts techniques.

The bad side was they were all [Demonic Arts].

Tian Hu also entered the other Division such as Array Division. He had learned a few formations from there.

After Tian Hu harvested a set of [Death Yin Flower], he left the [Herbal Land] of Alchemy Division and heeded to the Alchemy Ground.

Alchemy Ground was a beautiful quarter filled with Alchemy Furnaces. Tian Hu had been using this place to concoct pills and medicines.

As usual, the Alchemy Ground looked hideous. And the rooms and alchemy furnaces also looked creepy.

Tian Hu entered a room and sat cross-legged.

Nine minutes had passed since Tian Hu entered the [Demon Domain], which means 3 minutes have passed in the real world. Brewing a good tea for higher class people usually takes five minutes. Another five minutes to go from the Guest Hall to the Chef Hall back in forth.

"I had to make the poison in six minutes." Tian Hu said. "If I can't make the poison on time, the chance of killing Xie Yu is no longer that easy."

He took out the set of Death Yin Flower and continued: "That Chen Wuxian and Xie Yu are planning to raid a [Epsilon B-Class Tomb]. And they had a replica of [Spy Diagram] to help them during the raid, if they come out, they would become even stronger. And the chances of assassinating Xie Yu wouldn't be that easy anymore."

After having these thoughts, Tian Hu opened the top of the Alchemy Furnace, heat it up using his Alchemy Flames, and started a concoction.