Earth Egg Appears

Earth Egg Appears

Wu Daochao hesitated for a moment, then sprang away swiftly, running toward the mouth of the cave.

I gritted my teeth and chased after him, making him believe I would use the White Worm to deal with him.

Wu Daochao retreated very quickly. When he reached the cave mouth, he shouted, "Martial Nephew, you'll be even more vicious than me. The Innate Poison Insect is a poison insect of utmost yin and utmost evil. It will influence you, slowly turning you into a black-hearted villain beyond all forgiveness. You'll become the 'evil spirit' everyone speaks of! Everyone will come to execute you... They'll come looking for you."

His voice was still echoing in the air, but he had already vanished, fleeing without a trace.

I deliberately shouted a few times, "Don't run! Don't run..."

Only after waiting for quite a while did I finally gasp for breath and sit down straight on the ground.

Wu Daochao, don't worry. I, Xiao Kunlun, will absolutely never become a villain. I let you escape today, but once I heal the Black and White Worms, I'll naturally have a way to deal with you, I said silently in my heart.

I struggled to my feet, checked Ma Erlei, and found two long, thin poison needles.

Fortunately, Ma Erlei had black scales on his body, and only a very small part of the poison needles had pierced into him. I pulled the poison needles out and saw that their tips were black, as if they had been quenched in deadly poison.

I held the poison needles to my nose and sniffed them. They had been quenched in snake venom. Then I took Ma Erlei's pulse and listened to his breathing. His pulse was strong, and his breathing was normal. His life should not be in danger.

Ma Erlei had fainted because the snake venom had spread through his body and caused him to pass out. But judging from the signs his body showed, the snake venom had not damaged him. His face had not developed any bruised, blackened symptoms.

After sleeping for a few more hours, he would wake up.

After I finished dealing with Ma Erlei, I dragged him over beside the brazier.

The blood on Xiao Yudao's chest had dyed her clothes red. That Black Snake Staff was still stuck in her chest. I examined her carefully and found that the Black Snake Staff had not injured any vital area.

Xiao Yudao's reaction in that moment of danger had kept her internal organs from being harmed. Only her right shoulder had been pierced through by the Black Snake Staff. I found the fallen bamboo basket, found two kinds of herbs with hemostatic effects, and rubbed them into dregs for later use.

I took a deep breath and said, "Xiao Yudao, bear with it. I'm going to pull the Black Snake Staff out for you now. The longer we delay, the worse it will be for your body. Bear with it..."

My heart was pounding wildly, and I was extremely tense.

Not long ago, when I had bled Ma Huoxin to neutralize the gu poison, I had accidentally caused Ma Huoxin to lose sight in both eyes. Now that Xiao Yudao had been pierced through by the Black Snake Staff, I absolutely could not let good intentions turn into disaster.

I pressed one hand against Xiao Yudao's body and grabbed the Black Snake Staff with the other. This Black Snake Staff was made from tough bamboo, and its surface was slick. I wrapped it in a layer of torn cloth and took a deep breath.

"Ah!" Xiao Yudao, unconscious, let out a groan.

I pulled the Black Snake Staff out, then looked at the fresh blood gushing from Xiao Yudao's wound. It was red tinged with black. This Black Snake Staff had also been quenched in deadly poison. I held it to my nose and sniffed, and could not help being startled.

This Black Snake Staff carried a total of three kinds of snake venom and four kinds of insect poison. Together, there were seven poisonous substances, and the wound surface was so large. The deadly poison within had already followed the flow of blood and spread throughout her whole body.

Cold sweat rolled down me. I hurriedly applied the hemostatic herbs around the edge of the wound and pressed torn cloth against it, stopping the bleeding first. I pressed for several full minutes before the blood finally stopped.

Only then did I catch my breath, but another difficult problem appeared.

Although the bleeding had stopped.

There was no way to neutralize the seven kinds of deadly poison inside Xiao Yudao's body. This place lacked the necessary medicinal herbs, so there was no way to detoxify her. The longer this dragged on, the more Xiao Yudao's life would be in danger.

I sat beside the brazier, no longer having the strength to move. Not only was I so hungry my belly felt scraped hollow, my body was becoming somewhat stiff and rigid, black lines had appeared on my arms, and my head was dizzy beyond endurance.

The Little White Worm's body swayed, and it rolled straight off my shoulder onto the ground. Looking carefully, the Little White Worm's body was no longer as white as snow, but faintly tinged with black.

I picked up the Little White Worm, put it into the iron jar, and said, "I know you've already done your best. Rest well!" Then I put the black insect into the jar too.

They had fought with everything they had and driven Wu Daochao back, but they themselves were also on their last breath now, their injuries even worse than before.

After the Little White Worm left my body, the discomfort in my body became more and more obvious. Before long, I too would faint dead away.

First, the golden silkworm poison flared up. Then the residual toxins from the Seven-Colored Gu and Silver Snake Gu inside my body flared up as well. The injuries Luo Dayuan, the Golden Silkworm Deity, and Wu Daochao had inflicted on my body all came surging up; old wounds and new wounds broke out together.

With so many factors combined, as long as I fainted dead away, I would not survive.

I looked at Xiao Yudao, guilt filling my heart, and tears unconsciously fell from the corners of my eyes.

Ying, ying, ying! The paper man's cries came over.

I turned my head and looked over. It was the Great Gu Master.

It had just hidden itself away, and after Wu Daochao ran off, it miraculously appeared again. It ran over swiftly, stopped two meters away, and pointed at the brazier, indicating that it could not come close.

Powerless, I said, "Great Gu Master, this calamity was written in my fate. First it was the Three-Corpse Snake Gu, then the Blood Mantis, and after that the Golden Silkworm Gu. I want to live, but every time I draw close to hope, new difficulties appear. My current body is like a candle in a wild wind. It won't hold out much longer!"

The Great Gu Master cried ying, ying, and stretched out its hand to point into the depths of the cave. It looked extremely anxious, gesturing again and again, then hopping about.

I looked at the Great Gu Master and asked, "Are you telling me to walk a few more steps inside? But I have no strength left."

The Great Gu Master hurriedly gestured again. Its body turned, and it picked up that Black Snake Staff, placed it by my hand, then tossed me the fire striker that had rolled onto the ground.

It cried ying, ying, ying, and I could hear that it was extremely sincere.

"All right! I, Xiao Kunlun, am about to die anyway. But you are a senior of Camellia Village, and I am a junior. Even if I'm going to die, when a senior asks a junior to do something, I won't run from it." I took the Black Snake Staff and used all my strength to support my body, walking forward step by step.

I passed through the huge space and went by those murals of the five poison insects left behind from ancient times. I stopped and looked for a while, something stirring faintly in my heart. I felt that the Five Poison Sacred Insects were filled with the power of the ancient primeval wilderness.

The Great Gu Master led the way ahead. Between several strange rocks, there was a small opening. The entrance was not large and was extremely hidden. If the Great Gu Master had not led me in, I would never have discovered this entrance.

I supported myself against the stone wall and walked inside.

The cave was pitch-black, so dark I could not see my fingers before my face.

"Great Gu Master, is there something inside here?" I asked. "What did you lead me in here for?"

The Great Gu Master cried ying, ying.

I blew the fire striker alight, and the cave brightened at once. The floor inside was very flat, and near the innermost part stood a protruding stalagmite. At the top of the stalagmite was something the size of a fist, just like an egg.

The Great Gu Master reached out and pointed at it, letting out two ying-ying cries. My heart stirred, and I asked, "Is it that little ball?"

Then I remembered the two characters he had written—"Earth Egg"—and exclaimed in surprise, "Could this be the Earth Egg?"

Seeing that I had guessed correctly, the Great Gu Master nodded again and again, crying out excitedly several times.

I studied it carefully for a while, thinking, Something that grew out of the earth—calling it an Earth Egg really is fitting. But what use does this Earth Egg that sprouted out have, exactly?

The Great Gu Master walked behind me and pushed me forward with his paper hands.

I walked up to the Earth Egg and discovered that a small part of its base was embedded in the stalagmite.

But from the look of it, the Earth Egg was about to fall off at any moment.

Curious, I asked, "Will it fall off by itself?"

The Great Gu Master took my right hand again, signaling for me to place it on top. I hesitated for a moment, thinking the Great Gu Master probably had no ill intent, then put my hand on the Earth Egg.

A warm current, cool yet soothing, flowed naturally into my body, leaving my whole body indescribably comfortable. In surprise, I cried, "Why is this Earth Egg so strange? What exactly is its origin?"

The Great Gu Master waved both hands, extremely excited.

My spirits lifted. I set the fire striker aside and placed both hands on the Earth Egg.

The warm current spread through my whole body, and even the dizziness in my head improved greatly.

Immediately after, I heard a series of cracking sounds. The stone on the stalagmite began to fall away. In the blink of an eye, the Earth Egg had completely separated from the stalagmite.

I naturally took the Earth Egg in my hands, my heart filled with astonishment. When the melon is ripe, it falls from the vine; this Earth Egg that had grown out of stone had also matured at this moment.

I was stunned by the scene before my eyes and looked at the Great Gu Master, hoping he could tell me what all of this was because of. But the Great Gu Master only knew how to jump and cry out, unable to say anything at all.

"Wu Daochao lived here for the sake of this Earth Egg too? What use does it have..." I asked the Great Gu Master again.

Before I had finished speaking, I sensed a faint clicking, turning sound coming from one wall of the stone cave, as if some mechanism were revolving. The Great Gu Master was frightened and hurriedly retreated to my side.

I, too, looked at the stone wall in alarm, thinking, Please don't let a vicious zombie like Wu Daochao pop out.

The stone wall slowly opened, and a ghostly wind drifted over. The first thing I saw was a red sash flying out from within. Then came the flutter of a white skirt, and when I looked higher, I saw an incomparably beautiful woman.

With just one glance, I felt that the woman's features were exquisitely beautiful, prettier than any woman I had ever seen, and her skin was exactly the same as an ordinary person's.

The cave's stone wall had split open, and an unrivaled beauty had suddenly appeared—this kind of shock was hard to describe in words. The peerless beauty suddenly opened her eyes, her pitch-black pupils turning as she looked toward me.

"You... who are you? How were you hidden inside the stone wall? Don't you need to eat?" After a moment of shock, I spoke. "My name is Xiao Kunlun. I came to Chiyou Valley to look for Black Flower Herb, but ended up barging in here by mistake."

The peerless beauty jumped down from the stone wall and said, "I am Jade Corpse. I don't need to eat; I sleep inside the stone wall. That Feng Shui Earth Egg in your hands—did you forcefully break it off?" Her delicate brows faced me coldly, carrying a trace of anger.

I hurriedly shook my head and said, "I didn't break it off! I'd just put my hands on it when it could already move. I didn't use any force at all."