The Cold And Aloof Senior Sister Keeps Flirting With Me - Chapter 34.1

A flicker of confusion crossed Lin Xi’s eyes. She nodded toward Du Ming and asked: “Junior Sister Du, since you are a member of the Azure Palace and widely read, what kind of snake is this?”

The surroundings were filled with withered vines, and this snake seemed extremely adept at camouflage, having hidden itself among the vines.

Du Ming pulled at the corners of her stiff lips: “This is a Withered Vine Snake (Ku Sha She). Just as its name suggests. It usually hangs motionless on the tree trunk richest in spiritual energy in the forest, looking like a withered vine. But once prey approaches, it will take the opportunity to ambush.”

Lin Xi frowned: “Withered Vine Snake?”

She summoned a small book into the palm of her right hand. Lin Xi’s right fingertip traced across it, and characters rippled across the paper surface.

Yan Jue: “…”

She actually took notes, this Senior Sister was also quite diligent in her studies.

Du Ming: “Also, the Withered Vine Snake… is highly venomous…”

Before she finished speaking, the surroundings fell into a dead silence.

Ji Guiyan suddenly shrieked: “Senior Sister Lin, Senior Sister Lin!”

Lin Xi frowned slightly.

Only then did they see that around the two bloody wounds on Ji Guiyan’s arm from the snakebite, a layer of black residue had appeared at some unknown time. Small cracks also appeared on her skin, looking particularly bizarre around the wounds.

The blackness was spreading, having already covered her entire arm, and it showed signs of climbing upwards!

She had been poisoned!

Ji Guiyan gritted her teeth and trembled: “Senior Sister… I can’t lift my hand anymore!”

Lin Xi quickly rummaged through her Qiankun Bag. Since they were on a trip deep in the old forest, she had brought plenty of medicine. She soon pulled out a bottle of pills for treating poison: “This is the Five Poisons Powder. Quickly take three pills.”

Ji Guiyan let her poisoned left arm hang down, quickly poured out three pills from the bottle with her right hand, tilted her neck back, swallowed them, and sat cross-legged to circulate her energy and recover.

After the time it took for an incense stick to burn, the poison in her arm not only hadn’t receded but was showing signs of intensifying!

The ferocious black markings continued to spread up her arm.

Ji Guiyan’s face turned ashen, and her body weakened, causing her to slump to the ground.

Perhaps sensing the scent of blood from her body, a swarm of green caterpillars suddenly emerged from the ground. Ji Guiyan no longer even had the strength to scream; her face instantly turned pale.

This Empty Mountain was called Empty Mountain because it was rarely visited by humans and was desolate. Yet, this forest was filled with hidden dangers everywhere!

Lin Xi stepped forward, activated a golden protective shield, isolating the pile of unknown green caterpillars outside. She suddenly looked up at Du Ming: “Junior Sister Du, since you know the origin of this snake, do you know how to detoxify this poison?”

This was truly beyond Du Ming’s scope of knowledge.

She smiled awkwardly, her peripheral vision catching sight of Yan Jue behind her.

Yan Jue raised her hand, forming a fist, and quietly said to Du Ming: “It should be…”

Lin Xi, already a late-stage Illumination Realm cultivator, had unusually good hearing and had already heard Yan Jue whispering from behind. In an instant, she became a little furious: “Fellow Daoist Yan Jue!”

Yan Jue: “Ah? What is it?”

Lin Xi glared: “Was that sleeve arrow just now fired by you!”

The air then fell into a dead silence.

Lin Xi: “If you were only at the Foundation Establishment Realm, you wouldn’t be able to control a sleeve arrow with such great power.”

Yan Jue laughed heartily: “To tell the truth, this sleeve arrow was refined for me by a friend, so it really does have that kind of power.”

Lin Xi couldn’t argue with her, so she just stared at her gloomily: “May I ask how to cure this poison? I beg you.”

When it came to detoxifying, Yan Jue glanced at the increasingly severe poison on Ji Guiyan’s arm, and her expression became slightly serious.

She had spent two months immersed in the Scripture Repository and had some understanding of the Withered Vine Snake.

The Withered Vine Snake was one of the most venomous snakes in the world. If one were accidentally bitten, they could only wait for the black poison to spread throughout the body, after which the poisoned person would become an appendage of the snake demon.

However, it was not incurable.

Because… she had already killed that snake.

Ji Guiyan lay on the ground, her face deathly pale.

She had heard her Master speak of poison before. Although she hadn’t experienced it, she could already feel her vision gradually blackening, knowing the poison was severe. She couldn’t help but start to cry.

Yan Jue stepped forward: “It’s actually very simple to cure this poison.”

Ji Guiyan: “Nonsense! I can see for myself that this poison is very potent. How could it be simple!”

Yan Jue: “To treat the poison, one must use poison to fight poison.” She drew the large iron sword issued to outer disciples of the Water Cloud Sect from behind her back, used it to lift the snake corpse from the tree, and threw it onto the ground. “The venom of the Withered Vine Snake is potent, but its flesh has a strong adsorptive effect on poison. Senior Sister, if you want to cure the poison, you must eat this Withered Vine Snake flesh raw.”

Yan Jue said this very seriously. Since she had already been exposed, she couldn’t bother pretending anymore.

These two Senior Sisters were not bad people; they were just pitiable individuals blinded by the male protagonist’s protagonist halo.

The reason that rabbit was there just now was probably just bait placed by the snake demon that had cultivated some intelligence.

The snake had absorbed spiritual energy, so it was naturally smarter than outside snakes.

The little rabbit was so cute; if Yan Jue hadn’t read the relevant books, she might have gone up to touch it too.

This was not their fault.

Yan Jue propped her long sword on the ground, then cut the snake corpse on the ground into three pieces, handed one piece up, wrapped the other in paper, and placed it in her Qiankun Bag.

The world of cultivation was so treacherous; it was always better to collect as many materials as possible.

This snake flesh… making it into pills later should also have good effects.

Yan Jue suddenly noticed something and paused her movements.

Damn. Her Qiankun Bag was already squeezed to its maximum capacity and couldn’t hold anything else.

As cannon fodder for the protagonist’s plot, she couldn’t use anything too good, and her Qiankun Bag was the most basic kind, with a capacity equivalent to a mere burlap sack at most…

When she didn’t have many things before, she didn’t feel it at all, but now it was embarrassing.

Yan Jue only hesitated for a moment before taking out the iron sword from her Qiankun Bag and strapping it to her back so she could barely stuff the snake flesh inside.

The bloody snake flesh lay on the ground, emitting a strong stench of blood.

Ji Guiyan’s face was green. She glanced at Yan Jue: “We treated you badly just now… don’t tell me you’re playing a trick on me.”

Yan Jue shrugged. She wasn’t the type to hold petty grudges. Although these two Senior Sisters hadn’t been very kind to her, she wouldn’t go so far as to wish them dead.

It was just…

In the current chaotic scene, Yan Jue couldn’t help but wonder if this scene would have happened if Qi Xianqing were here.

Indeed, when descending the mountain for trials, one must choose the right senior brothers and sisters.

The black mist on her skin had already spread to her shoulder. If it reached her brain, even an immortal couldn’t save her. Ji Guiyan had no choice but to tentatively believe Yan Jue’s words, force down her disgust, slowly eat the snake flesh, and then begin meditating to circulate her energy.

If she knew Yan Jue had lied to her… Ji Guiyan clenched her fists secretly, having gone to great lengths not to throw up.

After circulating the Peace Cultivation Art (Ping Xin Jue) for one complete cycle, the black marks on Ji Guiyan’s arm actually began to slowly fade.

Ji Guiyan looked at her restored fair arm and was momentarily incredulous.

Lin Xi looked at Yan Jue, her expression also slightly changed.

Lin Xi: “Fellow Daoist Yan, you…”

“I often spend time in the Scripture Repository and have read relevant books.” Yan Jue said: “There are still two hours until nightfall. Please, Senior Sister, hurry up.”

In the next hour, Lin Xi and Ji Guiyan dared not be distracted by strange things around them again. Upon seeing a Thousand-Peak Spirit Ganoderma with a special cap, they immediately squatted down and cut it off with a dagger.

Yan Jue focused intently on searching the surroundings. She spotted a house-shaped Thousand-Peak Spirit Ganoderma growing near a large tree, its cap having at least a two-story house shape, which was quite rare.

Yan Jue squatted down, used the dagger to cut off the root of the Ganoderma, and threw it into the bamboo basket. She glanced at the basket at the same time.

After about three hours of effort, the bamboo basket was almost full of Thousand-Peak Spirit Ganoderma.

Many had caps shaped like carriages and horses, and there were quite a few house-shaped ones. The rarest, the Supreme Grade Thousand Peak Spirit Ganoderma, rumored to be able to revive the dead and flesh the bones, did not appear.

It was almost dusk, and everyone was gradually becoming tired.

At some unknown point, the group walked out of the forest and onto the mountain path.

Lin Xi had the highest cultivation among them, so she carried the heavy basket full of Thousand Peak Spirit Ganoderma.

If nothing unexpected happened, this mission would be completed.

Since ordinary Thousand Peak Spirit Ganoderma generally grows on the outskirts of the Empty Mountain, the mission difficulty was not very high.

The Affairs Hall had assessed that a one day round trip for this mission was very considerate.

The sun began to set, casting a glow over the lush forest.

The group left the forest and slowly walked down the mountain path. After walking a short distance, Lin Xi felt the spirit stones in her hand growing heavier and heavier, and fine sweat appeared on her forehead, so she put the basket on the ground to rest.

The surrounding scenery was beautiful; the landscape of the Empty Mountain possessed an added wildness compared to the Five Dragons Mountain.

Suddenly, Lin Xi saw something and paused slightly.

Ji Guiyan: “Senior Sister, what’s wrong?”

Lin Xi was momentarily stunned, then raised her finger and pointed to the cliff opposite: “Look over there.”

Yan Jue followed Lin Xi’s gaze and couldn’t help but freeze.

On the distant cliff face, a Thousan Peak Spirit Ganoderma bloomed quietly.

The deep ink-like sunset scattered on it, presenting a brilliant golden color.

The cap of the Ganoderma looked like flames, or perhaps a phoenix.

Ji Guiyan was stunned and then too excited to speak: “It’s… it’s actually the Supreme Grade Thousand Peak Spirit Ganoderma.”

“Senior Sister! Can you use sword flight to get over there and get it?” As soon as Ji Guiyan asked, she suddenly realized she had asked a rather irrational question.

The Empty Mountain was a cultivation site divided among the Six Great Immortal Sects. To prevent the resources within from being endlessly mined by cultivators, the Six Great Immortal Sects had placed very strict prohibitions on the Empty Mountain.

Cultivators entering the Empty Mountain could not use sword flight.

Ji Guiyan pouted: “Does anyone here know the art of lightness skill (Qinggong)?”

Qinggong belonged to martial arts cultivation, which was part of the Body Refinement path.

Since most disciples of the Five Dragons Mountain were Sword Cultivators, they could use sword flight after reaching the Illumination Realm, so very few specialized in Qinggong.

Lin Xi shook her head.

That Supreme-Grade Spirit Ganoderma growing on the cliff was undoubtedly a great temptation to cultivators.

But below this cliff was a bottomless abyss. To risk it all for just one Supreme Grade Thousand Peak Spirit Ganoderma was too reckless.

Yan Jue frowned, staring at the other side for a long time, slightly calculating the distance between the rock walls, and her pupils contracted slightly.

The Five Dragons Qinggong footwork that Qi Xianqing taught her was indeed… indeed…

Deep in the Empty Mountain, the faint sound of a stream could be heard murmuring.

Yan Jue’s ears twitched slightly, and she suddenly heard an extremely faint sound of footsteps scraping.

Ji Guiyan: “What a pity. If we could get the Supreme Grade Thousand Peak Spirit Ganoderma, it would be a bonus. I wonder how much more reward we would get from this mission.”

Lin Xi: “It’s too dangerous; we shouldn’t be greedy”

While the two were still talking, Yan Jue suddenly turned around and saw a creature covered in long bristles squatting behind them.

As if sensing her gaze, the monster turned around while clutching the bamboo basket.

Yan Jue’s pupils suddenly constricted. This thing covered in long bristles actually had a human face, just like the giant snake from before!

The bamboo basket was empty; the twenty Thousand Peak Spirit Ganoderma they had painstakingly collected had vanished without a trace.

The monster looked at Yan Jue. The large white face that resembled a human slowly twisted, and it licked its lips stained with the juice of the Thousand Peak Spirit Ganoderma, revealing a satisfied smile!