Chapter 718: The Sunlight of the Courtyard Shines upon the Brewing Medicine by the Window

(TN: Way of Choices will be on break from December 25th, 2017 – January 7, 2018)

Zhou Tong stopped, his eyes narrowing.

Even in the dim light of the lanterns, he could still clearly see the color of the blood. The black blood was rather striking.

He felt that the heart underneath his palm was beating faster and faster, causing his hand and arm to tremble with it. Then his shoulders began to tremble, and then his entire body.

His face became abnormally pale, as if he had been afflicted by some grave illness in this brief span of time.

He had been poisoned, and with a fierce and very rare poison.

He had been able to conclude so quickly that this was a very rare poison because the Department for Purging Officials was the place most skilled in the use of poisons.

The poisons he personally saw and used were more numerous than the different foods a normal person ate in their entire life.