Chapter: 128

“It is the poison.”

“W-what... but how..”

He couldn’t understand how he had been poisoned.

“But I was fine when I meditated and I didn’t make any contact! I always ate alone too!”

This was why Bakgi ate alone. It was to defend himself from Chun Jongsum so he couldn’t do anything to him.

“Well... this one is a bit different.”

“What?”

“This one shows the effect when it’s inside your lung or stomach.”

“Lung?”

“You can consume it through food, but you can also be poisoned by breathing it in while you sleep. And the poison is so little that you won’t notice it when you’re asleep. Do you share a room with someone who might be using the poison?”

Bakgi then glared with reddened eyes and shuddered in anger.

‘Chun Jongsum, you bastard...!!!”

Bakgi was already at the level of a master when he entered the academy. He quickly overpowered Chun Jongsum who threatened the other group members on the first day of the academy. Chun Jongsum warned him when he lost.

‘You enjoy your victory now. The claw of the Poison Clan is like good wine. It gets deeper as time goes on.’

Therefore, Bakgi always watched out for any signs of a poison attack, but he still got poisoned in the end.

“Hmph.”

Baek Jongmeng brought out more medicine to take out the poison. Chun Yeowun then asked the doctor, “How bad is it for him?”

Jongmeng smiled.

“He’s okay. Luckily, we detected it early. He’ll heal after a week of antidotes.”

“But isn’t it severe if he has the red dots?”

He remembered Baek Jongwu’s explanation to him regarding the poison. He said that since the red dots covered her entire body, Lady Hwa had no way to survive.

“Oh, that happened because I got it through his lungs.”

“Lung?”

“Yeah, it’s to check if he’s been poisoned. If he shows the signs of being poisoned without it, then it is too late.”

Yeowun then remembered that Hou Jinchang pressed on Bakgi’s chest during the duel.

‘Oh, so that’s what triggered the symptom!’

“So do you need that smoke to check it?”

“Not really. If your lungs get damaged, the poison might go into the wound and show the symptoms also.”

“Oh... I see. So, that’s why.”

Yeowun then realized why Bakgi showed the symptoms earlier. Jongmeng quickly boiled the medicine. Bakgi was still infuriated from the fact that he had been poisoned.