[A few days later, you've tested all the bugs in this small area.]
[You catch a wild pheasant, bury it in the soil, then you lure centipedes to bite the chicken.]
[Then, you eat both the chicken and the centipedes together.]
"Holy crap..." Seeing his simulated life, only one word passed through Takumi's mind:
'Hardcore!'
Good grief, some people's toughness isn't confined to their surface or body.
It's their actions and behavior!
Operations like deliberately letting bugs bite you, deliberately testing poisons... probably even Uchiha Madara wouldn't dare try it!
Too hardcore!
'Continuing like this... I might really become the Poison King!' Takumi nervously took a sip of tea and continued the simulation.
[Half a month later, you leave the forests of the Land of Fire and arrive at the border of the Land of Rain.]
[The ecological environment here is markedly better than the Land of Fire's.]
[Abundant rainfall, damp soil... the forest looks completely like a tropical rainforest, with trees several times taller than elsewhere.]
[Ordinary people hardly dare enter the forests of the Land of Rain. In such a damp, cold environment, one might be done for by just cutting their foot on a poisonous plant before even encountering other creatures.]
[Sure enough, you fall victim.]
[Just after entering the forest, before walking two minutes, you feel a numbness in your ankle. Looking down, you find you've been cut by a red serrated grass.]
[And this thing is highly toxic. You immediately feel some numbness in your calf.]
[You sit on the ground to rest, while your body begins to detoxify itself.]
[At this moment, you spot a toad with golden patterns and white spots nearby.]
[You feel a surge of excitement, because toads are famously one of the 'Five Poisons'.]
[Although you tried catching a few toads in the Land of Fire's forests and squeezed the mucus from under their skin, their toxicity wasn't high.]
[But this one clearly feels different.]
[That golden skin looks highly toxic!]
[You immediately pounce on it.]
[After a struggle, you successfully caught the toad.]
[You put it in a cloth bag and set it aside.]
[Two minutes later, your hand reacted.]
[The palm that had grabbed the toad, and the places touched by its skin, developed huge blisters, crystal clear and ready to pop at a touch.]
[This scene stunned you because, although you had been injected with so many poisons in Orochimaru's laboratory, you hadn't undergone any physical changes.]
[But now, just touching a toad had infected you.]
[Along with surprise, you were also excited!]
[And at this moment, you finally understood why Hanzo of the Salamander became so toxic just by transplanting a salamander into his own body.]
[Your admiration for biological toxins greatly increased.]
[You couldn't wait to explore this unknown world and find more highly poisonous creatures.]
[Half a day later, the numbness in your foot disappeared.]
[A day later, the blisters on your hand were reabsorbed.]
[You felt you probably had antibodies to these toxins now. So, gambling a bit, you extracted the toad's venom and blood and injected it into yourself.]
[1 minute later, you passed out.]
[5 minutes later, your body began to ulcerate, swelled all over, blisters formed on your skin, your hair fell out, and you lay in the forest like a pile of rotten flesh.]
[Your ears rang, your mind went blank, and your consciousness gradually blurred.]
[You felt you had gone too far this time. You even thought you would die here.]
'This...'
'This really is going too far!'
Takumi's heart pounded.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
Whether he could become the Poison King depended on whether he could survive this ordeal.
[You felt your consciousness growing increasingly fuzzy, your lungs felt like they were twisting in agony, about to burst, your bones seemed to be melting.]
[You developed a high fever, unable to move, could only lie helplessly in the dirt.]
[You endured two difficult days.]
[After two days, your consciousness began to recover somewhat.]
[You felt less pain than before. You stuck out your tongue to lick the rainwater from the leaves.]
[You tried your best to survive.]
[Five days later, your limbs could begin to move slightly, and your mind recovered to about half its usual clarity.]
[You knew you might have pulled through. Your immune system had successfully resisted the toad's toxicity and secreted antibodies.]
[A week later, you could finally move your body. The swelling on your body had mostly subsided, the blistered skin had smoothed out, though your hair hadn't grown back yet.]
[After resting on the spot for two weeks, you had completely recovered your health, or rather, completely restored your previous highly toxic body.]
[You began to move forward again, searching for the next prey.]
'Damn...'
'Truly dancing on the edge of life and death...'
Reading this part of the life simulation, Takumi felt his heart racing, a layer of sweat breaking out on his body.
This was too desperate, and too crazy!
Injecting toxins directly into the bloodstream… one misstep and it's instant death!
And what's with this mindset?
Other people seeing these highly poisonous creatures would flee, getting as far away as possible.
He actually hunted these creatures like a hunter!
Takumi took a sip of tea, infinite emotions surged in his heart.
He felt that, with his death-wishing mentality, if he continued, he might really become the Poison King!
After all, nothing ventured, nothing gained. His constitution was natural made for taking risks!
…
[Soon, you encountered your second target in the forest: a group of red ants.]
[They looked a bit like the fire ants you'd seen in your previous life, but these things were clearly more toxic. After just one bite, you felt excruciating pain, the wound burning like fire.]
[But your death-wishing mentality and your craving for potent toxins led you to take even crazier measures.]
[You found the ant nest, took off your clothes, and lay down beside it.]
[Countless ants bit you frantically, injecting large amounts of toxin.]
[You felt all the blood in your body burning and boiling like chili oil, every cell in pain, huge blisters rising all over your body once again.]
[But you felt satisfied because the symptoms this time were different from last time. Last time it was dizziness and nausea, this time it was just burning pain. Well... a brand new poisoning experience.]
[You passed out from the pain.]
[Having the experience from the first time, your recovery time this time was shorter than last time.]
[A week later, you were fully conscious. Your body had accumulated large amounts of toxins and produced antibodies.]
[You had become immune to these ants. No matter how much they bit you, you felt no itch or pain… instead, it even brought a special pleasure.]
[So you grabbed a handful of ants and put them in your pocket.]
"…"
'So perverted...'
[On this journey, you sought death in every way possible.]
[You encountered bees, poked their hive, deliberately luring them to sting you.]
[You encountered a poisonous snake, pounced on it like it was treasure.]
[You lived in the forests of the Land of Rain for a full year. You visited every toxic creature in the area.]
[Your body had become a huge poison sac.]
[Before leaving this forest, you found a small pond and decided to test your body's toxicity.]
[You urinated in it. An hour later, all the fish inside floated to the surface.]
[And at that moment, you discovered a special creature.]
[A purplish-black body with two whiskers. You recognized it at a glance: it was the highly toxic creature transplanted by Hanzo of the Salamander… the salamander.]
[You hurried over to check and indeed found it still had a faint breath.]
[You praised it inwardly, truly worthy of being the famous poison fish. So you immediately extracted its bodily fluids and injected them into yourself.]
[This time, you were unconscious for a full ten days. Luckily, before passing out, you had set up a water device to let rainwater drip continuously into your mouth.]
[After absorbing the salamander's toxicity, your poison level rose to another tier. You put on a specially made breathing mask to prevent the poison released by your breath from killing the surrounding creatures.]
[You left the Land of Rain. Before leaving, you bowed to this forest you had lived in for over a year, because you knew you had become the most toxic creature in this forest.]
'Damn, he can even handle Hanzo's poison now?'
Takumi excitedly clenched his fist.
He knew that Hanzo of the Salamander was a very difficult person to deal with.
Especially in his living state.
Ordinary people would die from poisoning just by inhaling the gas he exhaled. And now, he had actually endured even Hanzo's poison? It seemed Hanzo was no longer a match for him.
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FOR EVERY 50 POWER STONES, I'LL UPLOAD ONE CHAPTER