Chapter 1272 - Starry Sky Auction (1/2)

The Sword Saint went crazy after confirming that he couldn’t spit the poison out. He rushed to the members of the supervision team, planning to snatch the Golden Crown Potions they were carrying, but unfortunately for him, he wasn’t able to take more than a few steps before two large stone hands appeared from under his feet and restricted his legs.

“You have 2 minutes and 22 seconds left.”

Lin Yun was looking at the Sword Saint with a calm expression as he kept counting down.

The Sword Saint’s expression crumbled as he watched his skin darken.

“It wasn’t my plan, I swear it’s not my plan! The Great Elder sent me, I was promised a large amount of natural resources as long as I managed to frame the Gilded Rose…

“Save me! Save me! I said everything! I don’t want to die, I’m still young! I still have the opportunity to advance to the Heaven Rank! I don’t want to die here… Give me a bottle of Golden Crown Potion, I’ll pay for it, I’ll pay double its price…”

The Sword Saint admitted that he had come to frame the Gilded Rose in front of everyone, and his confession caused an uproar. There were two Artisans, six Heaven Rank powerhouses, and seven Master Alchemists unaffiliated to the Gilded Rose watching this event, and everyone knew what truly happened.

“Forty more seconds.”

Lin Yun kept counting down as the Sword Saint was going insane.

“The Hughes Family, I come from the Hughes Family, I’m Bushi! Delind’s Three-Hours Curse was given to me by the Great Elder. That corpse of an Expert Swordsman was picked up randomly, I don’t even know him.

“Right, there is also that guy, Wilhelm, that member of the supervision team. After poisoning that guy, he immediately gathered the medicine supervision team.

“Save me, save me, I don’t want to die! I said everything, give me a bottle of Golden Crown Potion…”

Halfway through his sentence, the Sword Saint’s expression greatly changed and he started puking blood as his vitality rapidly weakened.

One of the members of the medicine supervision team had a nervous expression, which was quickly replaced by resolve as he released a Wind Blade towards the Sword Saint. Unfortunately, the Wind Blade scattered before reaching the insane Sword Saint.

Lin Yun had spat out a rune and completely sealed his mana.

While the crowd was gaping at the series of events, blood was already pouring out of the Sword Saint’s mouth like a small stream.

His skin had also thoroughly turned black. Some parts of his body were darker, and some were lighter, forming black circular patterns of some sort. He only had a dozen seconds left.

The supervision team members finally regained their wits and recalled that this was an important witness. If the witness died, they would be unable to explain the mistake of the medicine supervision team. More importantly, one of their own had participated in this event. This was a huge scandal.

One of them took out a Golden Crown Potion and frantically poured it over the crazy Sword Saint. The latter stopped spitting out blood less than five seconds later, and his pitch-black skin regained its natural color in ten seconds. He looked very weak, as if he was about to breathe his last.

After five more seconds, the crazy Sword Saint’s weak body rapidly recovered. He looked no different from a normal person, and even the swollen pustules were fading away, exposing his original appearance.

Some people immediately recognized him.

“Eh!? Damn, it really is that thieving Bushi! That damned guy still owes me thirty purple golds. I didn’t expect to see him here.”

“That guy is an infamous scoundrel who doesn’t hesitate to steal, rob, and blackmail, but I didn’t expect him to dare pull something like this. He really has big b*lls! Those b*stards of the Hughes family have been insufferably arrogant these past few years, all because they are backed by the Rodney Family…”

Although Bushi had recovered, he was now lying on the ground with extreme fear visible in his eyes. To this kind of scoundrel, there was nothing more terrifying than feeling death slowly approaching.

Nothing else needed to be said; the facts were proven. The person that said that the Gilded Rose’s potion was highly poisonous confessed in order to get a bottle of Golden Crown Potion once he was poisoned.

The onlookers weren’t completely stupid. Once he was poisoned, the first thing he relied on was the “poisonous” Golden Crown Potion.

The medicine supervision team took Bushi away while the confiscated Golden Crown Potions were naturally returned to the Gilded Rose. They even used purple golds to pay for the Golden Crown Potion they’d used.

Lin Yun didn’t really care about this matter, since the situation displayed how formidable the Gilded Rose’s Golden Crown Potion was. The villain who framed the Golden Crown Potion ended up begging for it when poisoned because he knew that it would save his life.

Moreover, someone on his deathbed completely recovered in fifteen seconds and didn’t seem to be in a weak state afterwards. Everyone saw it.

There was no need to question the potency of the Gilded Rose Potion. The sales of the potions increased by 30%, and the stock of Golden Crown Potions was emptied on that day. Moreover, the price of a Golden Crown Potion was 200,000 purple golds! These weren’t the gold coins of the Andlusa Kingdom. Every single purple gold was worth at least nine golds!

Lin Yun didn’t care too much about these matters, but three announcements and research results were made public by the Starry Sky College the next day.

One was released by the Starry Sky College’s supervision team which included a detailed analysis and explanation of the Golden Crown Potion. Unfortunately, due to the scandal of the supervision team, many people doubted the veracity of that report.

The second one was published by Assistant Dean Zeith. He apologized to the Gilded Rose for what happened with the supervision team on behalf of the Starry Sky College. Moreover, the Hughes Family became permanently blacklisted by the Starry Sky College, and none of their members were welcomed in the territories or stores of the Starry Sky College.

With that strict announcement, the Hughes Family would have trouble doing business in the Odin Kingdom in the future, especially in the field of alchemy. The black market might be their only option.

The third report surprised everyone, yet everyone believed it because it was written by Gurrig House, the Artisan of the House Family whose field of research was plants and potions.

It described the effects of the Golden Crown Potion in a very impressive manner. All the tested lesser poisons were cleansed. Moreover, all the poison samples of the House Family were tested at least once and also ended up being cleansed.

Furthermore, the Golden Crown Potion could also increase the user’s poison resistance. Hundreds of poisons would be completely ineffective against the user within a week of use, and after seven days, the user’s resistance to poisons would still be significantly improved.

Of the three reports, everyone was convinced by Gurrig House’s. It was because Gurrig was living in a world of alchemy. Everyone thought that he had a weird character, and whoever suggested that he had been bought would be spat on.

“Idiot! Do you think Gurrig can be bought? Do you have brain damage?”

The Great Elder of the Rodney Family spat at the man who came to report. He almost kicked his face when he mentioned that Gurrig House might have been bribed.

Even if they were enemies, the Great Elder wouldn’t believe that Gurrig, someone who hadn’t changed in close to a millennium, would be bribed. That could only mean one thing: The results of the report were true.

Wilder’s face turned as black as charcoal when he heard the news.