After Qian Bing obtained the White Snake Flower, the two found a relatively secluded, dry cave in the Soul Hunting Forest to shelter in.
Tang San briefly assessed the White Snake Flower's toxicity and advised Qian Bing to consume its petals one at a time, stopping the medication whenever the poison had been sufficiently expelled.
Following his instructions, Qian Bing took two White Snake Flower petals, and the purple-black discoloration all over his body completely faded away.
Seeing this, Tang San circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill through Qian Bing's body once more. Only after confirming that no Snake Venom remained did he finally relax completely.
By then, the sun was already high in the sky. It was the following morning.
Though the Snake Venom in Qian Bing's body had been cured, his body had inevitably become weak.
Tang San alone naturally could not deal with the Snake Root Thorns, so he gave up on continuing to hunt soul beasts and planned to return to the academy before classes resumed on Monday.
But Tang San had not expected that although Qian Bing was physically weak, his mind remained sharp. He actually came up with a plan involving fire.
He had Tang San buy seven or eight bottles of kerosene from the market outside the forest.
Then, under cover of the dark and windy night, he had Pidgeotto drop them all from the sky around the Snake Root Thorns.
Finally, he had Tang San use a Sleeve Arrow to secure a burning piece of beechwood and hurl it at the Snake Root Thorns.
The Snake Root Thorns' only weakness was fire, and with so many bottles of kerosene helping things along, the outcome went without saying.
This delay inevitably set back their return to the academy by two days. By the time