To leave or not to leave?
The two choices had been troubling Earl Witte.
Judging from the footsteps, Lin Yao had left the basement and gone directly to the ground. This was the best time to escape. Even if he didn't escape through the basement passage, he could still use the ventilation holes in the roof. Although these ventilation holes leading directly to the ground were small, he could easily pass through them after transforming into a bat.
If Witt is given a gap as small as one centimeter, he can escape, because bats have flexible bodies; as long as the skull can pass through, the rest is not a problem.
Lin Yao hurriedly moved the twenty-five bags of flour to the basement, then ignored Witt and let Xiaocao continue her experiments.
Witt did not run away in the end, because he could not see through the Chinese youth in front of him, and even felt a sense of fear towards him.
Even though he was being ignored and doing other things, his body was constantly being tested and controlled in various ways, which was beyond his comprehension. Witt simply gave up on escaping and decided to trust Lin Yao to the end, lest he also kill this only hope.
Sit in meditation, gather your energy, and activate your healing energy to perform hand seals.
A thin wisp of dark blue flame suddenly shot out from Lin Yao's fingertip, streaking into the alchemy furnace. The temperature in the entire basement instantly soared, as if the place had suddenly turned into an oven.
"What? Uh..."
Count Witte immediately shut up after asking his first question. He sensed the high temperature emanating from a small, inconspicuous metal cauldron in front of Lin Yao, which was emitting a faint blue light.
More than twenty bags of flour were stacked beside Lin Yao. Lin Yao's hands moved quickly like butterflies, and an aura of pressure that made Count Witt's heart tremble suddenly appeared, making him feel as if he were facing a vampire prince. Although he had never met a vampire prince, Witt was certain that this aura was far stronger than that of the dukes he had ever met.
The oppressive aura generated by the free-floating witch power that Lin Yao habitually gathered during alchemy was sensed by the sensitive vampire count, which was something Lin Yao had not anticipated. However, he completely ignored these things and just kept tearing a large hole in the flour bag and then pouring the flour into the alchemy furnace.
The flour vanished into thin air the moment it came into contact with the dark blue pseudo-elixir fire in the furnace, leaving only an extremely appetizing aroma.
"Hey, Yaoyao, I did it!"
Xiao Cao's exclamation made Lin Yao's right hand, which was forming a hand seal, tremble. The pseudo-elixir fire in the furnace jumped violently, and with a hiss, it burned the flour that was being poured in into a wisp of smoke, turning it into a burnt smell, no longer the sweet aroma that whetted one's appetite.
"What's the matter?"
Lin Yao managed to calm himself down and regain control of the hand seals he was making with his right hand. His left hand was not idle either, and he continued to pour flour into the alchemy furnace. At the same time, he couldn't help but think to himself that he couldn't be disturbed while practicing his skills and refining pills, otherwise something really would go wrong.
"Witch power, Yao Yao, it's witch power!"
The little grass was so excited that it slurred its words, "I can use my magic to seal the toxins inside the bats and then release them without them exploding."
"Oh?!" Lin Yao was also excited, stopping his hand seals. "And then? What happens after you get it?"
"I didn't try it after I made it, because I thought those things were too small and I didn't know how to remove the seal of the magic power. I could only remove the seal by absorbing the magic power."
Xiaocao's voice was hesitant. She had only obtained the ability to seal and absorb using witch power from Mingjin, but she had no idea how to control the witch power.
"But what if these toxins enter my own body when I absorb them? These things are like living things. What if they turn me into a blood weed too? That would be terrible!"
Lin Yao suppressed a laugh, feeling that Xiao Cao was becoming more and more like a person. At this point, she knew how to protect her body and was worried about turning into a vampire.
"Didn't you hang a lot of 'White Cloud Pills' on your leaves? Use some of the 'White Cloud Pills' energy for protection, and nothing will happen."
"Oh my, really!" Little Grass exclaimed again, "Yaoyao is so smart, I forgot about that."
Lin Yao shook his head slightly and continued refining the pills, keeping his mind focused on the progress of the little grass, so as not to be frightened by it again.
Even after Lin Yao finished refining more than twenty bags of flour, and under the watchful gaze of Earl Witte, whose eyes were practically bulging out of their sockets, thousands of "Bigu Pills" rushed into Lin Yao's body and quickly disappeared, Xiao Cao remained silent and did not disturb him.
"Little grass?"
"Yaoyao, it still doesn't work. After the seal of the witch power was removed, those toxins spread everywhere. In the end, I had to use my internal energy to eliminate them."
Xiao Cao sounded somewhat dejected. She had originally wanted to quickly gain Lin Yao's praise by getting into a tense situation, but she didn't expect to make much progress.
"That's pretty good. It's incredibly impressive that Xiaocao was able to find a way to remove the toxin cluster from Witt's body so quickly," Lin Yao immediately reassured her. "You have to understand that scientists often need months or even decades of continuous experimentation to make even a little progress. Xiaocao is much more capable than them!"
"Really? Hehe." Little Grass immediately perked up and began to boast, "I was watching you refine pills and the free magic power that appeared. I was absorbing it out of habit, and then I suddenly wanted to try using this free magic power, but I didn't expect to succeed."
"The little grass is amazing!"
"Yaoyao, you try it. I will send a little bit of poison to your right palm. Try to seal and unseal it with your witch power. Don't worry, I will use my pill energy to block your wrist at any time and surround your entire palm."
"Alright." Lin Yao hesitated for a moment before agreeing. The little grass absorbed the primordial witch power in Lin Yao's two palms most carefully. Now, apart from his head, only his two palms had no primordial witch power left.
He cast a hand seal to gather the scattered magical power.
"Okay, I've untied it."
As Xiaocao's voice faded, Lin Yao suddenly felt something foreign in his palm. The faint, swirling energy indicated that the toxic clumps were restless, and he could feel the blood in his palm being corroded.
He guided the gathered free-floating magical power to the palm of his right hand and tried to use this power to suppress the abnormal situation in his palm.
"Alright, Yao Yao, you've sealed them away. Now, release them."
Xiao Cao knew that Lin Yao had some knowledge of how to break the seal of witch power. This was because when Lin Yao was learning witch medicine from Le in the valley of the Daika tribe, Le had mentioned a mental technique that used witch medicine to control the bodies of Miao warriors. The technique involved using specific mental methods and techniques to remove this control and allow the witch medicine to take effect.
Back in Chengdu, Lin Yao and Xiao Cao discovered that this was a method of controlling witchcraft. However, the method was very rudimentary and had no other use except to help the Yi family members adjust their physical condition. Unexpectedly, it could be helpful for the experiment at this moment.
Untie it!
Suddenly, Lin Yao felt a close connection to the clusters of toxins in his palm, as if they were originally part of his body and he could control them at will.
"How's it going, Yao Yao? I've noticed they're not running around anymore."
"Little Grass, I don't know, it seems like I've become a vampire, and I actually feel like they were originally part of my body. I wonder if Witt feels the same way."
Lin Yao was surprised, but not too worried, because Xiao Cao had gathered the essence of several "White Cloud Pills" around her palm, making it impossible for the toxins to escape to other parts of her body.
"Witt, do you have any particular feeling?" Lin Yao suddenly turned to Witt, who was in a daze, with a very serious expression.