The Pastoral Life of a Cultivation Master

Chapter 2994 The Two's Reflections

Fortunately, Chen Mo flashed to his side, and as he waved his arm, the scent of snake bile smeared on his hands wafted out, causing the Red-lined Serpent, which was preparing to attack, to change direction and continue swimming in other directions.

Just now, because the attack from the first red line was too fast, Chen Mo couldn't reach out to help in time, so Qian Zhenghao was bitten. Yes, it was definitely because the speed was too fast, and he couldn't help in time, not because he wanted Qian Zhenghao to be bitten a few more times.

After being bitten, Qian Zhenghao continued to insult the frontline members, but how could these venomous snakes understand insults? As long as Qian Zhenghao was there, the frontline members would regard him as an intruder, and their instinctive reaction would be to quickly approach and attack.

After realizing he had been rescued, Qian Zhenghao breathed a sigh of relief, almost shedding tears of gratitude. It was just in time; otherwise, he would have continued to be attacked by the First Line Red. He might not have been poisoned to death, but he could have been bitten to death.

"Are there any more Red Thread Fruits?" Chen Mo asked, looking down.

"Yes!" Qian Zhenghao didn't hesitate. If he didn't cherish his own life, who would? So he quickly took out a red thread fruit from his pocket, chewed it, and applied it to the wound. He was also extremely grateful that he had the foresight to save about ten red thread fruits last night; otherwise, he really wouldn't know what to do after being bitten.

"To be on the safe side, it's best to take one Red Thread Fruit," Chen Mo said.

Although there's no direct correlation between the dosage of red thread fruit and snake venom, it's still advisable to consume more red thread fruit after being bitten. After all, the amount of detoxifying elements contained in red thread fruit is limited; if bitten multiple times, and the amount of venom exceeds the amount of detoxifying elements, death could occur quickly.

Qian Zhenghao immediately nodded in agreement and took out another red thread fruit to consume. His arm had been bitten twice, and although he had applied the red thread fruit promptly, the venom of the red snake was potent, causing a slight numbness. Fortunately, the antidote was administered in time, and after using the red thread fruit both internally and externally, there were no major problems.

"Let's retreat together!" Chen Mo said, reaching out to pull Qian Zhenghao up, gesturing for him to go first while he would provide cover from behind as they retreated together.

Qian Zhenghao had also been bitten on the calf, but thanks to timely antidote, he could walk without any problems and even ran with some effort. Seeing that his speed was acceptable, Chen Mo saw no need to drag Qian Zhenghao along. As for his broken arm, now was not the time to set the bone, so he could only let him bear with it for the time being.

Qian Zhenghao naturally understood, so without saying a word, he held the severed arm and followed behind Ouyang Ruoxi, quickly retreating.

Inwardly, however, he couldn't help but wail, "Why am I always the one who gets hurt!" And he secretly made a mental note of Elder Qian Ying.

Fortunately, Chen Mo managed to put some snake bile on the back of the guy's neck while he was pulling him up, so that Yi Xian Hong wouldn't attack him.

As the four ran, the surrounding Red-lined Beasts gave chase. The aura of Red-lined Beasts' bile wasn't intense, so it could only be detected when someone got within three meters.

Snakes don't rely on their noses to detect scents; instead, they use olfactory cells on their forked tongues to distinguish aromas. However, their sense of smell is quite sensitive, so even the slightest hint of snake gall could be detected by Yi Xian Hong, causing her to stop attacking them.

Since Chen Mo was at the back and Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing weren't around, he simply used his divine sense to collect all the Red-lined Snakes that came near him into his Qiankun Bag. Although there was no air inside and the Red-lined Snakes would die after being collected, it didn't matter; all he needed were snake gallbladders.

It took about an hour to walk along the bushes, but the retreat only took about half an hour to reach the edge of the forest.

The Red-lined Beasts had all left when the five of them approached the edge of the forest, and no longer followed. Originally, there were several hundred Red-lined Beasts chasing them, but by the time they withdrew, only about a hundred remained.

If these top-tier heroes were intelligent, they would be curious about where most of their companions had gone and how so many of them could have disappeared.

After Qian Zhenghao walked out of the bush passage, he sat down on the ground, exhausted. He then pulled up his sleeve and used his other, uninjured hand to reset the broken bone in his arm.

While martial artists cannot become healers, they generally have a good understanding of the body's structure and can usually treat simple injuries themselves. As for fractures, they are even more knowledgeable about them. After all, if a martial artist doesn't understand the body's structure, bone shape, and bone setting techniques, then they are certainly not a seasoned martial artist.

Qian Zhenghao's technique was quite skillful. After putting the broken bones back in place, he took a pill to accelerate the healing of the wound and took out a bandage to bind to the broken bone.

As a martial artist, recovery from injury is rapid with the aid of healing pills. However, if the bones are not properly realigned during recovery, rapid healing can turn into a different kind of injury. Therefore, it is necessary to realign the bones before taking healing pills.

At this moment, Chen Mo, under the cover of his backpack, took out two fracture recovery splints from his Qiankun bag and handed them to Qian Zhenghao: "Use these to fix it more firmly and it will help you recover faster."

Although bones can heal even without a fracture recovery plate, having one can better protect the fracture site and eliminate the risk of secondary fracture.

Qian Zhenghao took the bone recovery aid and thanked him. Just as he was about to start working on it, Ouyang Nan stepped forward to help.

At that moment, Qian Zhenghao looked up at Chen Mo, then at Ouyang Nan, his eyes seeming a little moist. However, this feeling came and went quickly, disappearing after the wound was treated.

He was, after all, a martial artist from the Qian family, and a high-level acquired martial artist at that. Showing emotions was really not suitable for him.

However, he secretly decided that he would not target these people again in the future.

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On the other side, Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing moved forward quickly. Since they were not hindered, the attacking Red-line Poisons were all blocked by their domains. Of course, it was not easy for them to catch a Red-line Poison. Almost as soon as their domains expanded, those Red-line Poisons that came close would retreat like lightning.

If they wanted to catch a single red snake, they would need to spend time practicing here, and perhaps they would be able to catch it. However, since the two of them did not know the importance of the single red snake's gall, they naturally would not waste time practicing how to catch it.

As long as you have the antidote for the venom of the First-Line Red Snake, it doesn't matter much whether you can catch it or not.

"Hey, Elder Zhou, look, there seems to be a fork in the road here!" Qian Ying stopped and pointed to the fork in the road that Chen Mo had specially cleared out in search of the Red Thread Fruit.

"Shall we go take a look?" Zhou Zixing asked.

“Let’s go take a look!” Qian Ying said.

Although he could already hear buzzing sounds as he got here, and he knew that these sounds were the sounds of the red bees that Qian Zhenghao had described in his report, he was even more eager to see where these side paths led.

In his report, Qian Zhenghao mentioned that the paths through the bushes were cleared by Chen Mo, but he hadn't described where the side paths led. Out of curiosity, he wanted to see where these side paths led and what their purpose was.

The two of them quickly ran down the side road.

But to their surprise, they reached the end of the road in less than ten minutes. So what was the purpose of this fork in the road?
Zhou Zixing noticed the uncut bushes ahead of the fork in the road, as well as the messy bushes around it, some dense and some sparse. In the sparse areas, there were traces of cutting, and upon closer inspection, he discovered that in each of the seemingly sparse areas, there was a plant that was different from the bushes.

In fact, after Chen Mo searched for the red line and caught the red line, he made some restoration to the fork in the road. However, after all, the bushes were cut down and could not be restored in a short time. No matter how much they were covered up, traces would still be left. Therefore, Zhou Zixing would naturally find these traces after careful observation.

“This is…” Zhou Zixing lowered his head and thought for a moment, then realized that it was the red thread fruit plant.

"Elder Zhou, you noticed it too?" Qian Ying asked.

Zhou Zixing could see something, and Qian Ying could naturally see it too; both of them were old foxes, so it was impossible for them not to see it.

"This should be a red thread fruit plant."

"It seems this young friend named Li Mo is quite interesting," Qian Ying said. To be able to clear a path through the bushes for so long, and even find these red thread fruit plants, especially considering the venomous nature of the red thread fruit snake, his abilities are truly remarkable.

“Yes!” Zhou Zixing naturally knew Chen Mo’s abilities; they weren’t incapable, but rather quite formidable. However, he couldn’t say it outright, so he could only agree.

The two returned and continued walking at the fork in the road. However, during this process, they began to pay attention to some traces on both sides of the bush path. Sure enough, they saw many places with red thread fruit plants, but all the red thread fruit had been picked.

Therefore, both of them saw the plant, but never saw the red thread fruit.

However, in Qian Ying's mind, Chen Mo's strength level was raised by another level.

It's true that in such dim light, to carve out a path and find and collect these red thread fruit plants would require a tremendous amount of effort, even for him.

However, he himself was already a peak expert at the third level of the Innate Realm, while the young man named Li Mo was only a martial artist at the tenth level of the Acquired Realm. How could this not make Qian Ying suspicious?

"We've arrived!" Qian Ying could see the bright spot not far away through the branches of the bushes. There were no trees there, but a fairly wide strip of black earth stretching into the distance.

On the black soil, a few red flowers crawled across the landscape, not many, but not few either. Above this black soil, fist-sized bees flew by frequently, their buzzing a sound that could be heard from afar. On both sides, a sea of ​​flowers stretched out, and among the flowers, numerous beehives could be seen faintly.

On the beehive, you can see bees going in and out.

“This must be the red bee they’re talking about,” Qian Ying said, pointing at the bee.

“There are no other bees besides this one,” Zhou Zixing added.

"This quantity seems a bit too much!" Qian Ying exclaimed.

“Yes!” Zhou Zixing echoed.

The two men stared at the swarm of bees and at the somewhat blurry scene several kilometers away, momentarily speechless.

If the entire expedition team were to cross the canyon and then proceed into the forest, they might be able to evade the venomous red serpent and safely pass through the bush passage, but they would then face an enormous number of red hornets. What should they do then?