Chapter 571 Rouge Poison
Sweeping her soul into the ancient city, Zhong Cai looked at the giant scorpions frantically digging holes in the garden, preparing to lie down, and leaned into her husband Wu's arms.
Zhong Cai was toying with a mirror in her hand.
"What delicacies shall we eat next time?" He raised the mirror. "Let's just use the mirror to find them."
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The couple had already sent all the Blood-Eyed Sand Scorpions into the ancient city.
Because he became more and more experienced in the hunting process, apart from the first three who were killed directly, the others were captured alive. Fortunately, Wu Shaogan's strength has now been reborn, and with a little effort, he found the trick, making it quite easy to capture them alive.
Currently, in the ancient city's designated enclosure for raising rare beasts and mounts, thirty-six scorpions have been placed there to roam freely.
After returning, distribute the spoils to various places—for example, give some to the masters, distribute some to the disciples in the mountain range and the new hall, and sell some within the sect.
Those who can be killed are killed on the spot; those who cannot be killed are killed by the puppet gang disciples.
Fresh ones taste better.
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Logically speaking, the mirror should be able to directly search for this kind of rare giant scorpion. However, although the mirror has a good object-finding function, the two of them rarely used it, so they had forgotten about it before and only suddenly remembered it now.
"If I want to eat any delicious beast in the future, I can just use the mirror to enter its name and find it," Zhong Cai thought. Anyway, Old Wu knows all about those delicacies, so he will definitely be able to choose the best one.
As for the waste of some Hundred Blood Root sap...
Zhong Cai didn't seem to care much.
After all, he and Lao Wu were free right now, so finding something to eat together could be considered a date.
Using a mirror to find something is like going straight to the target, which saves time but lacks charm; it's just "buying goods."
Thinking of this, Zhong Cai patted the back of her husband's hand on her waist.
Wu Shaogan lowered his eyes slightly: "A-Cai?"
Zhong Cai said with a grin, "Come on, let's see how many more of these places there are?"
Wu Shaogan hugged Zhong Cai even tighter, and together they typed the words "Blood-Eyed Sand Scorpion" into the mirror.
Suddenly, at least several thousand dense red lines appeared on the mirror surface. At first glance, it looked like a spider web, but upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the red lines did not actually intersect and were not truly woven into a web.
Although the mirror is only the size of a palm, when the two people's souls enter it, they can clearly "see" that the distance between each red line is actually quite far.
And if you follow the red line, 90% of the endpoints are not in this desert.
In other words, 10% still exists.
Zhong Cai suddenly paused.
Wait, one-tenth!
If it's 10%, doesn't that mean there are at least several hundred more?
Zhong Cai couldn't help but think for a moment, then nudged his old man and whispered, "Then this desert is practically the lair of the Blood-Eyed Sand Scorpion! Wasn't the area we explored before the one with the fewest scorpions?"
But upon closer reflection, it's not surprising, given that this entire desert stretches for countless miles and covers an extremely vast area.
Zhong Caihua's soul perception range is only 100,000 hectares at most; while Wu Shaogan's Nirvana Realm allows him to explore up to one million hectares.
It does seem like quite a lot, but if you convert it to cities, Zhong Cai is exploring a large county, while Wu Shaogan is exploring a level three city.
The desert covers a much larger area than this.
Therefore, even though the couple had been exploring as they went, the area they had traversed only occupied a corner of the desert.
They caught a scorpion, and its number was not particularly large compared to the entire population of the same species in the desert.
Wu Shaogan found it amusing to watch his Ah Cai's expression change constantly, so he lowered his head slightly and kissed him on the cheek.
Zhong Cai felt the warm touch on her right cheek, raised her hand to cover it, and gave Wu Shaogan a bright smile.
Wu Shaogan turned his head and kissed Zhong Cai on the tip of her nose again.
Zhong Cai stopped thinking about the scorpion and simply put her arm around her husband, Wu, and they rolled into the ancient city together.
I'm getting into it!
As for that cheap nephew who's still trying to get through the challenges...
With his last remaining wisp of consciousness, Zhong released an eighth-level puppet to guard the front of the stone fortress.
Once the people are out, the puppet will naturally return to the ancient city to awaken the couple.
At this moment, Zhong Cai hugged her husband Wu's neck, feeling extremely happy.
Wu Shaogan's eyes deepened slightly, and he was extremely pleased.
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Ten days later.
A tall, battered man stumbled out of the stone fortress.
The man was very handsome and possessed a unique charm. At the moment, he was carrying an unconscious young man on his back.
Upon closer inspection, although the man was dressed in black, the black fabric was actually soaked in blood. The dried bloodstains clung to the black clothes, emitting a very strong bloody smell.
Of course, there is also some fresh blood, which is still dripping away.
And the source of the blood was that young man.
It's just that it's not clear where he's injured right now—the young man is also dressed in black, and even though he's unconscious, his expression isn't too bad. If it weren't for the blood still flowing fresh, it would be hard to tell that he's actually seriously injured.
At this moment, the tall man barely managed to keep his balance, preventing the young man on his back from falling off, and cried out urgently, "Uncle Zhong! Uncle! Help! My senior brother has been poisoned!"
As the words fell, a couple walked briskly towards them from under a shady tree not far away, approaching very quickly.
The young cultivator, who was radiating intelligence and had the appearance of a teenager, said directly, "Put the person up here so I can take a look."
As he spoke, another extremely handsome young man slightly raised his hand, and a smooth, lustrous jade bed, just big enough for one person to lie on, appeared on the ground.
The tall man dared not be negligent in the slightest and quickly placed the young man in black on his back onto the jade bed.
In an instant, the milky white jade bed was stained with a faint red.
Yes, this jade bed doesn't exhibit any energy fluctuations, but it possesses an innate ability to store the blood flowing from the person lying on it, preventing it from falling to the ground and causing unnecessary waste. At the same time, it can slow down the blood flow of the cultivator lying on it.
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Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan, the couple, had originally gone to the ancient city on a whim and spent several days there. However, when they came out of the ancient city after their fun, they found that their nephew and his senior brother were still in the stone fortress... They didn't know what they were doing, and they hadn't come out for so long.
However, such opportunities can sometimes take longer to arrive as the intruder's level increases, and who knows, it might be because that unlucky guy has run into some kind of bad luck again...
So they weren't in a hurry, and simply found a shady spot under a tree to sit down, read books and flirt a bit, while also having a few more days of scorpion barbecue—because they had big appetites and ate a lot, they not only finished off the few scorpions they had hunted earlier, but also ate several level-eight scorpions they had fished out of the ancient city.
Now there are only about twenty-seven or twenty-eight live scorpions left... or so? They didn't count them exactly.
Only then did the two of them encounter their adopted nephew, who had just emerged from the stone fortress and was screaming for help.
That loud voice, and the things it was shouting about...
That's really not surprising.
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Zhong Cai's lips twitched slightly as she quickly checked Xuan Bing's physical condition.
Wu Shaogan, who was standing nearby, pulled Wu Dongxiao over to check his physical condition.
Unsurprisingly, Xuan Bing was indeed poisoned by a very rare toxin.
This poison is called carmine poison, and it has two characteristics:
If the poisoned person is not injured, the toxin will accumulate and brew in their body, becoming increasingly concentrated. As a result, their internal organs will dissolve in the poison, and their skin will take on a faint rouge color, adding to the cultivator's beauty and making them even more stunning. However, once this beauty appears, the cultivator will only have about three days to ten days left before dying with this extreme beauty. Seven days after death, they will turn into a pool of blood.
If a poisoned person is injured, no matter how small the wound, blood will continue to flow out.
At first, it's just bleeding, continuous bleeding, but as more and more blood flows out, gradually reducing it to only 30% of its original volume, the toxins will still melt the poisoned person's internal organs and flesh... all of which will turn into a bright red liquid, which looks like blood but is actually a mixture of poison and blood.
At this point, the poisoned person will continue to lose weight, becoming thinner and thinner until even their bones melt away.
In the end, only a lifelike human skin remained.
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Given the current situation, Xuan Bing clearly falls into the second category.
There was a wound on his body somewhere, and it was probably Wu Dongxiao who deliberately cut it open to prevent the rouge poison in his body from directly corroding his internal organs—once corroded, the poison would be like a bone-deep carbuncle, and it would be very difficult to eradicate.
Wu Dongxiao is also an alchemist. He may not be able to make an antidote yet, but he has a deep understanding of this area. So he recognized it at the time and knew how to deal with it in the best way for his senior brother.
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Zhong Cai didn't mince words. She took out a tuberous, precious herb and handed it to Wu Dongxiao, saying, "Open this thing and scoop it out for Senior Brother Xuan to eat. You know how to scoop, how much to scoop, and how much to feed him."
Wu Dongxiao took the precious medicine, and a spoon had already appeared in his hand—clearly, he did know.
Tear open a small piece of the precious medicine to reveal a pale yellow, agar-like ointment inside... Wu Dongxiao scooped out a little with a spoon and quickly stuffed it into his senior brother's mouth.
The ointment melted instantly in his mouth, and within a breath of time after Xuan Bing ingested it, it slowed the flow of blood from his bleeding wound...
And now it's clear that the part of Xuan Bing's blood that was dripping was his right arm—his forearm.
Before anyone knew it, Wu Dongxiao had already torn open the sleeve of Xuan Bing's right arm.
Xuanbing's current bleeding condition is completely clear.
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