Rise of The Demon General

The three were full of sweat as they were panting. From the look of it, they had been going at it for a while. Amon wondered if the effect of this world's cultivation also allowed cultivators to have longer sexual stamina. He also sensed strange aether flow around them.

The three were completely unaware of the two intruders as they were utterly engrossed in their carnal act.

Lin Dong glanced at Amon with a wicked smile, expecting the kid to become awkward by the scene. The kid was just a six years old boy, after all. But when he saw the kid's face, he was bewildered to see his indifferent expression. The boy even glanced at him when Amon detected his stare, as if the scene in front of him was not that special to waste his attention on.

One of the men on the bed finally saw the two. He uttered, "Lin Dong? Do you want to join? Hey! Who is that kid?!"

Madam Lin, hearing the man's words, finally turned around. "Amon? What are you doing here?"

Interestingly, Amon perceived, the three didn't slow down their movements in any way even after noticing his presence. They continued to fuck as they looked at him.

Amon couldn't help but smile.

"It seemed that your adopted son was a perverted one," Lin Dong commented. He was rather annoyed actually. Again with that smile. No matter what he did, it appeared the boy was unfazed.

"Son?" The man who was lying on his back said. "He is that brat you adopted?"

"Silence you all!" Madam Lin uttered. To Amon, she asked again, "is there anything you need?"

Amon bowed before saying, "I'm sorry to disturb you, mother. I am just wondering if I can get a book regarding the Item Engraving method."

"Item Engraving?" Lin Dong scoffed. "That is not a subject for a kid like you. You should look for fairy tale books instead."

Amon ignored Lin Dong's mockery. His eyes continued to stay on Madam Lin.

"What do you want with such a book?" Madam Lin asked.

"For learning. I need this engraving method for something that concerned my alchemy study," Amon replied.

After a brief thought, Madam Lin said. "Go back, I will have a servant deliver the book to you. But it will only be a basic introductory guide to the Engraving method. Books with more comprehensive details are only available in our main tome chamber, and even I can't get it without a good reason."

"I thank mother for indulging me," Amon said. An introductory guide would have to do for now. He would just look for another way if it wasn't enough. He excused himself and walked out of the room.

Before he closed the door, he heard Madam Lin say to Lin Dong, "take off your clothes and come here."

*

Since he had to wait for Madam Lin to deliver the basic introductory book on Engraving, he could only put the learning on hold. He went back to studying the poison recipes described in the first few pages of the 101 Primal Poison tome. They mostly used exotic ingredients that he knew not of. He also didn't see such ingredients from the stock left behind by Hei Pho, the servants that he usually asked to search in the market also informed him that none of the shops knew of those ingredients.

There was one page however that contained a recipe that had available ingredients, it was the very first page of the tome. Probably it contained one that used the most common ingredients for a starter. Still, even though the ingredients were available, they did not come cheap. The servants that procured ingredients for him only managed to buy four sets of these ingredients, while Hei Pho's stock had seven sets, so he could only do eleven trials.

The main ingredient of the poison was the Seven-colored Toad's toxin. The Seven-colored Toad was a lower inferior spirit beast that was actually rather common, but they only appeared close to a human settlement when it was rainy days. Other than that, they would hide in the depth of the swamp which made them hard to be caught.

The toad was not a strong spirit beast. However, one still needed particular care when dealing with them. Their skin could change color triggered by their condition, hence their name. Their toxin's effectiveness changed following the color of their skin.

Anyone who planned on catching these toads was warned that once they saw the creature's skin turned black, they should run away as fast as possible. As that was when its toxin became most deadly. Even a peak Human realm cultivator could be killed when the toad was in this condition. However, the toad only changed to this black color as a last resort, because they would also die once their skin turned dark. The hunters who hunted this toad usually used paralyzing drugs to keep the toad sedated, preventing them from using this suicide attack.

The trick for this poison recipe depicted on the tome was about how to turn the toad's toxin effectiveness into the same as it was when the toad turned black. The recipe itself was called Black Slaughter Poison.

Amon learned about the characteristics of each ingredient, trying to determine how they could serve as the catalyst to drive the toad's toxin into its black state.

He was not exactly an academic person in his past life, but he was also not a stranger to this alchemical process. Selling illegal drugs had been one of the many avenues financing his operations in his early rise to power. On many occasions he had directly supervised the production of these drugs, so he was more than familiar with the job. Still, it was much more complicated when he had to do everything himself.

Still, he enjoyed the process. Thinking about how this poison could help him excited him to a large degree. If he could infuse this poison into his dagger, that would be even more wonderful.

He continued to postpone practicing martial arts, first to let his body to further recover, second because he was currently too engrossed in the poison study.

After roughly understanding the ingredients, he started making a test on their mixing. He tested various elements, the heat used during the mixing, the amount, and exposure to elements. The page in the tome did illustrate the steps, but it still required sufficient practice and trials to master the technique.

He wasted six of the ingredients set in failure before getting one working on his seventh try. It also took him four days for that. He put the completed poison into a small bottle and decided to test its lethality by giving a small drop of the poison to a rat, one that he had caught and put inside a cage. It was said that the poison only needed to touch the skin of a creature to take effect.

Once the small drop fell on the rat, it displayed discomfort behavior as it started to run endlessly around its cage. Soon it started to make a screeching sound as its body convulsed. Amon saw with fascination as the hairs on the rat started to fall off and he could also see the skin underneath blistered and slightly melted. Foam could be seen from its mouth as its eyes became red before blood started flowing out of its eyes, ears, and nose. It soon laid motionless.

After successfully making one working poison, he proceeded to use up all the remaining ingredients to make another four bottles. The page described that one dose of the bottle was able to kill a Martial realm practitioner of the Mystic stage if the said victim didn't receive immediate treatment. If he had used this poison on the Hei clan, he would not need to deal the killing blow to Hei Gong, the poison itself would be enough to do the killing.

After finished concocting the poison, he was ready to practice martial arts again. As he was about to, Madam Lin came to visit him. She was wearing her usual broad dress. If he had not seen it himself, he wouldn't believe behind that dress was two large mountains.

"Mother," Amon greeted and handed her a small bottle. "This is the drug usually concocted by grandma for you. I believe its function should be the same."

Madam Lin simply received the potion without comment. Amon handed him another two small bottles and said, "this is to return the medicine that mother has given to me. I studied the potions and concocted similar ones from the ingredients available. I believe mine should have a better potency."

"Oh?" This time Madam Lin gave a response, her eyebrows were lifted in a surprised expression. She accepted the two bottles and fondled them. "If this is true, I might be able to give you access to more ingredients or resources you like."

Amon bowed at him and said, "mother can give it to someone to test the potions yourself. If I am allowed more ingredients, I can create more of the potions."