Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 94 My Aunt's Partner Skills (Available at midnight on the 17th!)

Cheng Ying's gaze swept over the wounded and then landed on a blind old man.

"Old Shi?" Huang Rong was surprised. This Old Shi was a sixth-bag disciple of the Beggars' Sect, and he was just a little short of being promoted to the seventh bag and become a seventh-bag elder. He had been a member of the Beggars' Sect for seven years. Although he had not made any great contributions, he had always been quite capable in handling affairs.

In fact, Huang Rong had long considered promoting him to the position of Seven-Bag Elder to share some of the Beggars' Sect's real power.

The blind old man stood up and slightly clasped his hands in a fist salute towards Huang Rong: "Chief! There must be some misunderstanding here, but I am willing to cooperate with everyone to investigate and find out the truth."

Upon hearing this, Huang Rong glanced at him a few more times, then seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and said, "That's good! Brother Jing, please go and acupuncture Old Shi's pressure points first."

Upon hearing this, Lao Shi's expression remained unchanged, but he suddenly turned around and bowed in the direction of Cha Nan.

The next moment, a plume of poisonous smoke billowed from his collar, shooting straight toward Cha Nan like an arrow. At the same time, he rolled away to dodge Yang Ba Mei's spear, and darted out of the house, sprinkling poison powder as he fled, incapacitating the wounded.

"Capture him, capture him alive!" Huang Rong's expression was icy, and she was almost unable to control her emotions.

The Beggars' Sect, riddled with holes, seemed to have become a den of spies, which truly disappointed her. Of course, the incompetence of Da Wu and Xiao Wu also made her feel suffocated.

Faced with the oncoming poisonous smoke, Cha Nan certainly wouldn't be reckless. She leaped back a step, retreating behind Yang Guo, and then watched as Yang Guo casually dispersed the straight stream of poisonous smoke with a single palm strike, then rolled it into a ball and threw it to the ground not far away, leaving it for later disposal.

However, those ordinary wounded who were overwhelmed by Old Shi's medicine were not so lucky, and many of them were also affected.

Old Shi poisoned so many people, thinking he could create chaos and escape, but how could he possibly escape?
Yang Guo simply flicked his sleeve, and the armless sleeve stretched out, tightly wrapping around Lao Shi's neck and pulling him back.

If Cheng Ying hadn't still had some poison left to clear, and if the wounded hadn't also been poisoned, Yang Guo could have snapped his neck with a single twist of his sleeve.

"Hand over the antidote!" Huang Rong said, pressing a bamboo stick against Lao Shi's neck.

Old Shi fell to the ground, his acupoints pressed by Yang Guo from a distance, but he chuckled: "Except for Miss Cheng, the poison inflicted on everyone else is not fatal, but it will make them very uncomfortable, getting worse day by day. I can only give them a temporary antidote. If they don't take the antidote for a period of time, they will go crazy and commit suicide!"

"Great Hero Guo! Please have mercy... For the sake of these people who shed blood and tears to defend Xiangyang for you, please let me go, okay? I will definitely send someone to deliver the antidote every month!"

"Otherwise, we'll part ways. If you kill me, all these people will be buried with me."

Clearly, this 'Old Shi' also knew about Cha Nan's strange methods. Although he couldn't see, he knew that Cheng Ying had survived in some inexplicable way. Therefore, when he poisoned her again, he didn't use an immediately lethal poison, but a poison that could remain dormant in the body for a long time and control the person.

However, non-lethal poisons are often easy for people to figure out the tricks and find an antidote for.

Therefore, 'Old Stone' did not intend to exchange these people for more; he only wanted to escape this place first.

Upon hearing Lao Shi's words, everyone present became extremely gloomy. They wanted to kill this despicable 'Lao Shi,' but they were all hesitant to act for fear of harming him.

Cha Nan said, "Break his arms and legs, let me handle him!"

Guo Jing and Huang Rong both looked over, puzzled.

Cha Nan certainly wouldn't reveal his secrets to Guo Jing and Huang Rong for the sake of such a despicable fellow, so he said, "We can take him over there and interrogate him carefully. Anyway, with me here, he won't die so easily."

Upon hearing this, Guo Jing and Huang Rong both thought of the wonders of Cha Nan's magical beast world and nodded in agreement.

As a result, 'Old Shi's' hands and feet were quickly broken, and his meridians and dantian were also severely damaged.

Cha Nan took out a low-level Paluka to subdue him, and then returned to the Fantasy Beast World with Guo, Huang, Cheng Ying and others.

Guo and Huang took "Old Shi" to interrogate him, while Cha Nan used mental suppression to make "Old Shi" endure several rounds of torture before he confessed everything he needed to.

When she had a spare moment, Cha Nan also looked through Cheng Ying's data panel. Attack and defense stats weren't worth too much attention; martial artists and mythical beasts were different after all, and the data panel only represented a part of their abilities.

For example, the most crucial element, 'internal strength,' will not be displayed in the data.

However, it was Cheng Ying's partner skills that caught Cha Nan's attention.

Linglong Tower: Each time a higher level of intimacy is unlocked with the rider, it will provide a pure energy that, when timed correctly, can help the rider quickly break through the current level.

"This partner skill... is it a furnace?" Cha Nan felt that this 'intimacy value' had another meaning.

But now is not the time to verify.

If this level of intimacy is really what he's thinking... then this aunt is something else entirely.

And it's really not a good time to get involved right now.

After all, Cha Nan has only just stabilized at the second-rate level, and it's not time for him to break through to the first-rate level yet.

Cha Nan was contemplating Cheng Ying's partner skills, while Cheng Ying was observing this unfamiliar world. Because of her complete trust in Cha Nan, she felt no fear whatsoever.

"Huh!" Cha Nan looked at Cheng Ying's panel and was suddenly surprised.

He hadn't originally planned to look at the other stats and abilities in detail, but a quick glance revealed that Cheng Ying's list of work abilities included not only logging, mining, gathering, and sowing, which most humanoid Palus could do, but also pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Moreover, it's not a Class I pharmaceutical product, but a Class II one.

This is already very rare.

After all, before reaching the higher-level maps of the mythical beast world, most of the mythical beasts that can be encountered are only at the first-level medicine-making stage.

As for breeding higher-level mythical beasts, Cha Nan is already working hard to open a breeding ranch. However, there are still many prerequisites that are lacking. Even if the breeding ranch is unlocked and built, more key resources are still needed to officially start breeding and even hatching eggs.

Moreover, he didn't remember all the breeding formulas.

There are many niche or non-combat/riding auxiliary pets, and Cha Nan has virtually no recollection of their breeding formulas.

The reason is simple: when playing games, if you're using a pet for support or work, unless it's one of the few exceptionally useful ones, you can just catch it directly; there's no need to specially breed one.

For gamers, the significance of breeding ranches lies more in the collection of related terms.

"With Aunt Cheng Ying around, I can consider unlocking the medieval medicine station later."

"Although there aren't many types of potions that can be crafted in the world of fantasy beasts, their effects should be immediate, and they are all quite valuable."

On the other side, Guo Jing and Huang Rong, after a series of interrogations that involved breaking bones and tendons, finally got what they wanted from Lao Shi.

There is no cure for the poison in Cheng Yingzhong's body, but the toxins can be gradually removed by cutting off her veins and bleeding her.

Originally, this method of detoxification should have involved blood transfusion, but since Cheng Ying would not actually die, the blood transfusion could be replaced with bloodletting by cutting off her veins.

The poison inflicted on the wounded was a special mixture of poisons, including datura flower poison. There was no real antidote; they could only take small amounts of palliative medication regularly each month to maintain their condition.

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