After about half an incense stick of Time, the Junior Apprentice Brother dug out a black jar from underground.
“Senior Sister Linglong, look!”
The Junior Apprentice Brother carried the black jar and walked over to Linglong and Luoyu.
“What is it?” Linglong asked.
The Junior Apprentice Brother said, “I don’t know!”
Cultivators at the Qi Refinement Stage can indeed use Divine Thought to investigate.
However, being at the Qi Refinement Stage, their Divine Thought is somewhat weak; it cannot penetrate sealed objects, only delve into them through gaps.
For example, ‘seeing’ what’s inside a house from outside is done by extending Divine Thought through the house’s gaps.
Another example is observing someone’s cultivation or body, which also involves Divine Thought penetrating through the gaps in their clothes.
But now, this dark jar was sealed with mud, leaving no gaps.
So, neither the Junior Apprentice Brother, Luoyu, nor Linglong could see what was inside the jar!
“Give it to me!” Linglong personally picked up the jar and shook it.
“What is it?” Luoyu asked.
The Junior Apprentice Brother beside her also looked curious.
Linglong shook her head, “I don’t know, but it’s quite heavy. I can feel that there’s something inside!”
“I have a guess!”
Linglong took a deep breath, a hint of gloom on her face: “Could it be that he killed Yang Xu, then sealed Yang Xu’s head in this jar, waiting for us to open it and scare us?”
“And also give us a show of force!”
Luoyu’s body trembled beside her, and she took a step back.
“It’s probably like that!” The Junior Apprentice Brother echoed Linglong, trying to curry favor.
Linglong, however, extended her hand, returning the dark jar to the Junior Apprentice Brother, and said, “Junior Brother, you do it. You open it!”
“I’m a girl, I’m quite afraid of these things!”
“If it really is Yang Xu’s head, I’m afraid I won’t be able to sleep well at night!”
Linglong suddenly became very gentle as she spoke.
Seeing Senior Sister like this, the Junior Apprentice Brother was instantly excited. He quickly took the jar, and without thinking, took out a small sword and dug away the mud sealing the mouth of the black jar.
It’s just a human head, isn’t it?
Heh heh… women are just like that, afraid of everything.
I’m a big man, what am I afraid of?
A large opening was dug out of the mud on top of the jar.
A foul smell wafted out from inside.
“So stinky…” The Junior Apprentice Brother had just spoken when suddenly a Time poisonous snake darted out from the opening, soaring onto his face!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
Immediately after, three more poisonous snakes flew out.
“Ah…”
The Junior Apprentice Brother immediately fell to the ground in pain, clutching his face and screaming, “Damn it… it hurts so much… snakes, snakes, snakes… poisonous snakes…”
Clang…
Linglong, her face pale, drew her precious sword, and with a few swift slashes, she killed all four poisonous snakes.
But it was already too late.
Three of these four poisonous snakes had bitten the man’s face, and one had bitten his hand.
In just an instant, his face swelled up, engorged with blood, like a pig’s head.
His arm was also numb and unable to move.
“Senior Sister… poison… poison, poison, poison…”
“I’m poisoned…”
“Antidote…”
Because of the severe swelling in his face, the Junior Apprentice Brother could no longer speak clearly.
Antidote?
How could Linglong have an antidote?
Even if she did, she wouldn’t give it to him!
After a few more breaths, the Junior Apprentice Brother became completely numb and collapsed onto the ground.
Although he wasn’t dead yet, he couldn’t move.
Nor could he speak.
He just screamed terribly.
After a while, the Disciple even stopped screaming.
“Dead?” Linglong, covered in cold sweat, looked at Luoyu.
Luoyu shook her head and said, “Probably not yet, he just doesn’t have the strength to scream, or rather, the poison has numbed his tongue and throat!”
“This damn thing!” Linglong gritted her teeth in anger: “Don’t let me encounter him again. If I do, I must kill him!”
“I’ll also catch a few poisonous snakes and let them bite him to death!”
“A hundred, a thousand, ten thousand!”
As she spoke, Linglong returned to the branch where the clothes were hanging.
She wanted to see if she could find any trace of He Pingsheng from this place.
As a result, she didn’t find any trace, but she saw another line of text: Linglong, you little bitch, keep digging, there’s another jar below!
“Ah…”
Linglong was furious.
He actually called me a little bitch?
“Clang…” She drew her sword, and with a few swift slashes, she directly cut the clothes and branches there into countless pieces.
But then another problem arose.
There was another jar below, should they dig it up or not?
Humans are curious creatures.
Even though they knew He Pingsheng had buried a trap underground, they couldn’t help but want to dig it out and see what was actually inside the jar!
“Let’s not dig it!” Luoyu advised: “His enmity with you is as deep as the sea; he’s definitely thinking of tricking you!”
“He won’t leave anything good!”
“It’s fine!” Linglong said: “I just want to know what tricks he’s playing!”
“It’s probably poisonous snakes again or something similar. I’ll stay far away and cut it open with one Sword Qi. I don’t believe he can do anything to me then?”
Luoyu thought for a moment and said, “You’re right!”
Linglong personally stepped forward and started digging again, building on the excavation the Junior Apprentice Brother had done earlier.
After a dozen breaths, a jar was exposed in the mud.
Of course, at this moment, only the upper half of the jar was exposed.
The entire jar was submerged in the mud.
“Rise…”
Linglong extended her left hand, grabbed the handle of the jar, and pulled hard.
The entire jar was pulled out of the muddy ground by her.
“Very light…”
Linglong shook her left hand and said, “It seems there’s nothing inside!”
Then, she threw the jar on the ground and retreated rapidly.
Luoyu also followed her back.
“Cut…”
After retreating several zhang away, Linglong stretched out her hand to activate her Flying Sword, and a Sword Qi swept past.
Bang…
The jar was directly shattered.
There was nothing!
It was empty!
“What does this mean?” Linglong didn’t understand.
Luoyu also shook her head.
Just at this moment, Linglong suddenly frowned.
“Junior Sister, what’s wrong?” Luoyu asked with concern.
Linglong said, “My hand… it’s a little itchy…”
A bad feeling surged into her heart.
Linglong quickly extended her left hand.
On her jade-white palm, there was a red mark.
The mark was still deepening.
“Not good!” Luoyu said: “Poison… there’s poison…”
“The handle of that jar just now had poison!”
“This poison has already seeped into your skin!”
“Damn it!” Linglong’s face instantly turned pale: “This damn guy, how could he be so insidious!”
“Not good!”
Although Linglong was anxious, her mind was still clear. She immediately took out her hundred treasure sack, rummaged through it, and then took out a jade-green Medicinal Pill bottle.
Crack…
She crushed the Medicinal Pill bottle, and inside was a red Medicinal Pill.
“This is…” Luoyu’s eyes narrowed, and she said, “Junior Sister… is this a second-grade antidote Medicinal Pill?”