Improvements to the Five-Element Qi-Clotting Meridian Poison Pill via the Blood-Curdling Hellwart
With the addition of the Blood-Curdling Hellwart to the seed repository of the Jade Seed Sect, one of the greatest desires of the Sect's poisonmakers was at last fulfilled: a more synergistic substitute for the Black Rot-Herb for spiritual poison pills, particularly the Qi-Clotting Meridian Poison Pill. The quality of prior examples of the pill required the use of the Rot-Herb to provide an Earth element, but the herb's physical poison properties were antisynergistic with the pill's primary aspects, making it easier to detect and more difficult to refine. The Elemental Shift properties of the roots of the Blood-Curdling Hellwart allow for a much smoother transition through the Earth Elemental stage of refinement. Naturally though, such a thing is only true in theory. With the Emperor's newly enforced ban on poisonmaking, no member of the Righteous Jade Seed Sect would ever dare create a poison pill to put these theories into practice.
Base Form
-Stone Seed Flower (Spiritual Poison - Secondary) -> Blood-Curdling Hellwart Roots (Elemental Shift - Primary) -> Rose Tallow (Elemental Shift - Primary) -> Spotted Shrub OR White Bark Tree (Spiritual Poison - Primary) -> Star Grass(Meridian Flow - Primary)
Replacing the Black Rot-Herb with Blood-Curdling Hellwart purifies the pill of its more physical contaminants that interfered with its prior state. With such disharmonious elements removed, the Five-Element Qi-Clotting Meridian Poison Pill is easier to create than ever before, and the refinement to focus exclusively on the spirit renders the pill far harder to detect by its victims, lacking in the prior disharmonic contaminants caused by the imperfect melding of physical and spiritual poisons.
Advanced Form
-Stone Seed Flower (Spiritual Poison - Secondary) -> Blood-Curdling Hellwart Roots (Elemental Shift - Primary) -> Orange Rime Slime (Qi Density - Primary) -> Spotted Shrub OR White Bark Tree (Spiritual Poison - Primary) -> Star Grass(Meridian Flow - Primary)
Without the complications brought into the pill by the physical contamination of Black Rot-Herb, more elaborate experiments can be conducted with a reliable degree of success. While the replacement of Rose Tallow with Orange Rime Slime for its Qi Density properties mixing with the Blood-Curdling Hellwart. While the initial clumps of Qi that clot the flow of the Meridians still takes center stage, the Qi around such clots becomes increasingly dense and curdles, congealing and solidifying into additional blockages, which grow exponentially on themselves and gather more and ever-denser Qi within them. Under such stress, the pill creates a fatally toxic buildup at a far more rapid pace, to the point where the impaired Meridians are unable to properly move the Qi, and the dense conglomerations within the Meridians detonate with enough force to make the unfortunate victim a living bomb, and even those able to properly vent the Qi bulidup (far harder with its even faster buildup) would still be at risk of permanent destruction of their Meridians. Given its effects and the new ingredients, some have taken to calling this variant the "Five-Element Qi-Curdling Meridian Poison Pill."
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A/N: Is it presumptuous to make an omake about a new variant of a pill using an ingredient we don't even have yet? Probably, but I got inspired.
