"Click, click, click..."
Just as Zhao Er looked at Li Qi, he heard a faint sound coming from her.
"A centipede!"
Zhao Er knew the rapid clicking of this arthropod's joints all too well. After all, he had earned his first money by catching centipedes, so he could recognize the sound no matter how faint it was.
Hearing it, Zhao Er's gaze instinctively shifted toward its source: Steward Li Qi's collar.
As he looked over, a scarlet centipede crawled out of her clothes. It settled on Li Qi's pale collarbone, instantly lending an uncanny allure to her otherwise gentle appearance.
"Hiss..."
After crawling out, the scarlet centipede opened its mouth toward Zhao Er and gave a faint hiss. As it hissed, a wisp of emerald venomous mist began to seep out.
After passively absorbing the venomous mist earlier, however, Zhao Er had deliberately restrained himself from absorbing the surrounding toxins. Thus, the emerald mist sprayed from the fiery-red centipede's mouth simply drifted through the air.
As the emerald mist dispersed, Zhao Er hesitated over whether to absorb it again. Then he saw Li Qi make her move.
Li Qi merely raised her hand, and the airborne mist gathered toward her palm as though summoned. In the blink of an eye, the venom rested obediently in her hand.
"Sorry about that. This little fellow probably sensed that its venom was slipping out of its control, so it got a little upset. Please forgive it, junior brother..."
Li Qi held the venomous mist in one hand and soothed the fiery-red centipede on her neck with the other, explaining to Zhao Er as she did so.
So this was what a Meridian Opening Realm expert could do? True qi could actually achieve something like this!
Watching how effortlessly Li Qi had controlled the