Chapter 256: Dark Delirium

The Red Palms Plague that Yu Jinqi concocted disturbed him more than anything else he had created in this exam. The single vial of dark red liquid was enough to infect half a dozen people, but within a month, those six people could infect dozens more, unleashing a plague that might kill hundreds or thousands before it was contained. 

As much as Yu Jinqi wanted to burn the vial of poison to ash as soon as he'd concocted it, he knew he'd need to wait until he left the consortium and Master Duzhen's watchful eyes before he could do so. Instead, he set this vial alongside the others he'd prepared and turned to the final concoction, the powerful elixir that only a true Alchemy Novice would be able to complete.