Li Banfeng held a candle, searching all around for Gold-rimmed Glasses’ and Hu Gaizi’s corpses.
He didn’t find the corpses, only some miscellaneous items in a corner.
He found their tattered clothes. From the extent of the damage, it was evident that the clothes had been forcibly torn from their bodies by some external force.
The items in the clothes were still there; Li Banfeng found both men’s wallets.
The cloth bag containing the Snake-Patterned Lotus was also present, and the Lotus Flowers inside were all intact.
Li Banfeng also found the pair of gold-rimmed glasses next to the Copper Lotus Flower. Beside the glasses was a wooden glasses case, and beside the glasses case was an Iron Tobacco Box.
But one item was missing: the Folding Fan belonging to the man, Gold-rimmed Glasses.
Li Banfeng was very interested in his peculiarly fragrant Folding Fan. The material and craftsmanship of the Folding Fan were very special. When folded, it could be used as an iron rod; when unfolded, it could serve as both a knife and a shield.
It had swallowed the two corpses and snatched away the weapon of Gold-rimmed Glasses.
Li Banfeng carefully peeled the three Lotus Seeds from the Seven-Hole Lotus Heart, and the Lotus Flower immediately closed.
Two of the Lotus Seeds swelled in his palm. After a dozen or so seconds, the two Lotus Seeds cracked, each bursting open to reveal a round, red bead.
These two round beads were slightly larger than the Snake-Patterned Pills. Their color was pure, and they appeared very lustrous under the candlelight.
As he pondered, the third Lotus Seed also burst open. Inside was only one round bead, rust-colored.
Not only did its color resemble rust, but it also felt like rust; it felt unpleasantly gritty in his hand.
It wasn’t just gritty; there was also a stinging sensation. Li Banfeng tossed the Rust Pill aside and discovered a red mark on his palm, where the sting was accompanied by a slight numbness.
Li Banfeng didn’t know how to react when he suddenly saw the red mark split open and a trickle of blood emerge.
After the blood flowed, the stinging and numbness disappeared.
As a Home Cultivator, he possessed strong self-healing abilities within his own residence; the bleeding just now was likely an active detoxification process.
But Li Banfeng hadn’t expected that such brief contact with the rust-colored bead could cause him so much harm.
Thinking this, Li Banfeng suddenly sneered and muttered to himself, "Am I crazy?"
Li Banfeng emptied Gold-rimmed Glasses’ and Hu Gaizi’s wallets, used the tattered clothes from the ground as padding for his hand, stored the two Elixirs separately in the two wallets, and squatted down to study the characteristics of the Copper Lotus Flower.
The Copper Lotus Flower had turned them all into Elixirs. Li Banfeng couldn’t understand the exact principles behind this, nor did he know the uses of these two Elixirs for the time being.
The question Li Banfeng was most concerned about right now was, by what principle did the Copper Lotus Flower choose its materials for Alchemy?
Li Banfeng picked up the bag of Snake-Patterned Chrysanthemums and approached the Copper Lotus Flower, but it showed no reaction.
As he pondered, Li Banfeng’s head started to spin again.
This was a normal reaction after inhaling the poisonous fog: dizziness, followed by an urge to vomit.
Li Banfeng remembered something: the first thing he did when he returned to the Portable Residence was to vomit. Since he couldn’t find a suitable place, he had vomited directly into the cloth bag that had contained the flowers.
Before that, Li Banfeng had dumped the Snake-Patterned Chrysanthemums out of the cloth bag.
Li Banfeng opened the cloth bag and poured out the more than forty Snake-Patterned Chrysanthemum plants Gold-rimmed Glasses had picked near the Copper Lotus Flower.
The moment the Snake-Patterned Chrysanthemums hit the ground, the petals of the Copper Lotus Flower began to quiver.
HISS~ HISS~
The sound of grinding metal arose, and the seven petals of the Lotus Flower unfolded one by one.
Once again, Li Banfeng was awed by this exquisite mechanism. He currently couldn’t comprehend whether modern civilization or these strange technologies were more advanced.
After the seven petals unfolded, Li Banfeng could clearly see the Seven-Hole Lotus Heart.
Li Banfeng felt the air in the Portable Residence flowing in an abnormal direction.
The air was swirling, forming a vortex with the Seven-Hole Lotus Heart at its center.
The more than forty Snake-Patterned Chrysanthemum plants on the ground were lifted by the vortex, dancing up and down in the room.
Li Banfeng instinctively moved two steps away from the Copper Lotus Flower, fearing he would be sucked into the Lotus Heart.