Volume 2 Chapter 22.2 Huang Que Zai Hou*
Making a prompt decision, she pulled on the dark green vine from the tree and stuffed it in her space. Afterwards, she picked up Yan Qiyue and began to run. This long of a thing, how could it be worse than the previous one?
Also if they were to receive any injuries then they might get taken advantage of when they are on their way back and that wouldn’t be a fun thing.
Originally Shao Qing thought that once Yan Qiyue and her ran for a duration of time, that large snake would give up after a while. After all, every single creature had its own territory under their control. Especially those big fellows that rarely left their territory, even when they hunt they would stay in their area.
But naturally, the army ants were a dreadful exception.
Yet after chasing 500 metres, it didn’t seem to have any intentions to give up. Shao Qing felt a little sore and she still had to carry Yan Qiyue.
“Us snatching that vine, perhaps it’s something good. That large python probably also had its eye on it for a while, yet there were too many scorpions and moths guarding it and couldn’t make a move. However, now that the two of us have gotten a hold of it, it’s probably reluctant to part from it.” Yan Qiyue analyzed: “With our current circumstances, we can either run outside of the forest or return and fight it out. Wanting it to stop chasing us, I don’t there’s much chance of that.”
Shao Qing nodded her head. In a flash, Yan Qiyue and her made a decision. Turning around, she directly threw Yan Qiyue. When he was midair and adjusted his position, he landed perfectly on the big python’s head. With the dagger in his hand, he fiercely stabbed it towards the python’s eyes. The python suddenly lowered its head and tried to shake him off. This caused Yan Qiyue to slip a bit and the dagger ended up landing above the eye.
In the next second, the python started to roll about. Yan Qiyue unwaveringly held on to the python’s scale. Being flung around, he gritted his teeth and swore he’ll stay on top of the python’s head.
Seeing that he couldn’t be thrown off, the python ran his head towards the tree causing Yan Qiyue to promptly throw himself to the side. Shao Qing’s vines then suddenly appeared around his waist. Pulling hard, Shao Qing pulled him back to her side.
Then the tree that required at least two people to wrap their arms around it easily broke apart and fell onto the ground, sweeping up a big ground of dust.
“The scales on its body were too hard. Trying to stab it by hand is completely ineffective.” Yan Qiyue angrily cursed.
“It’s weak point should be its eyes.” Shao Qing analyzed while still having the mood to make fun of him: “Its butt should also be its weak point.”
Yan Qiyue: ......
“Let’s swap and I’ll give it a try.” Shao Qing mulled over it and then spoke. Yan Qiyue immediately pulled onto her: “I’ll go. You have your vines. At the crucial moment, you can save me. It’s better for me to go.”
“Do you know where Qi Chun is? While it’s trying to throw you around would you be able to accurately pierce it at its vital? Don’t make a fuss.” Shao Qing patted his head and taking advantage of the python still being a bit dizzy she climbed onto it. With a jump, she landed on the top of its head.
Sensing that someone had landed on its head, the snake hurriedly continued to fling its head around. Shao Qing had better endurance than Yan Qiyue. After its efforts of trying to shake Shao Qing off, it caused itself to be a bit dizzy. Dizzily it twisted its body, preparing to crash into the tree again, then grabbing onto a scale, Shao Qing flipped her body around to arrive under its chin.
The python once again crashed into a tree. Taking advantage of its dizziness, she stabbed towards its eyes. What astonished her was that once she stabbed down, she wasn’t able to go any further. Just when Shao Qing was preparing to use a bit more strength to stab down, the python turned over in pain and began trying to roll around on the ground in all sorts of positions to attempt to turn Shao Qing into minced meat.
Opening his eyes, Yan Qiyue could only see Shao Qing constantly changing positions on the pythons body. So even when the python was covered in dirt from rolling about, it just couldn’t press down on Shao Qing.
The python was now completely furious. The scales on its body suddenly all opened up appearing to be like sharp knives. Too late to guard herself, Shao Qing’s hands and waist were immediately sliced. This way when the python once again tried to roll around, then she wouldn’t be able to easily jump around its body. This is because the only thing she could grab onto was the scales but if she were to grab onto them then her hand would be injured.
With no other choice, Shao Qing kicked the python’s and did a backflip in mid-air to land back by Yan Qiyue’s side.
Yan Qiyue’s eyes were red with rage. It didn’t matter if he got injured but how dare that creature harm Shao Qing!
“Don’t be impulsive!” Shao Qing grabbed on to Yan Qiyue: “Retreat back. Go to the denser area of trees. Once we get there, it wouldn’t be able to be as agile.”
Yan Qiyue forcefully suppressed his anger and followed Shao Qing over to the denser tree area. That python as expected didn’t give up and chased after them.
As everyone knows, pythons rarely are very toxic. They only rely on their enormous body to kill their prey, then they will swallow them down. This one wasn’t an exception. Using brute force it kept on crashing towards them. To the more nimble Shao Qing and Yan Qiyue, there was basically no danger. If it wasn’t for the fact that it wasn’t slow, then throwing it off would have been easy.
Once Shao Qing threw Yan Qiyue to the tree, pushing off the tree trunk with her feet, she soared into the air and once again landed on top of the snakes head. Then she reached down and stabbed at the python’s eyes for the second time.
Shao Qing’s technique was extremely accurate, even though she was mid-jump and the snake kept on shaking its head, she steadily stabbed the same spot she had stabbed last time. This time it went a bit deeper. Even giving up her knife, she immediately leaped back to the tree.
Yan Qiyue immediately used his ability and squeezed the air around the knife. His forehead was covered with sweat, but the knife slowly went in deeper inch by inch and soon it had gone all the way into the shaft.
Unfortunately, the knife was too short and just couldn’t read the snake’s brain. So although it was able to blind one of its eyes causing it an incomparable pain, this was not a life-threatening injury.
The python rolled on the ground from the pain causing numerous trees to be swept away by its tail. Shao Qing hurried and brought Yan Qiyue to another tree as the trees behind her fell one after another. Luckily the speed wasn’t comparable to theirs.
“It’s no good. The snake’s skin is too tough. The two of us can’t destroy it. If this continues, our powers will deplete before it dies.” Shao Qing calmly stated.
Yan Qiyue’s line of thought was twisted for a moment and he couldn’t help but ask: “Do we really have to attack its butt?”
Shao Qing: ......
“Let’s observe it a little longer.” Shao Qing was unwilling to give up. Releasing her vines, she started to tie up the python’s body. But not out of her expectation the thorns from the vines just couldn’t penetrate the python’s body. In addition, with its strength, just one shake was all it took to break free.
Releasing the dodder, they successfully entered the large python’s body. Yet, right when they entered they were corroded by some strange energy.
The man-eating flower didn’t even need to be mentioned and Qiu Tang. Oh right, Qiu Tang. Shao Qing’s eyes lit up. After subduing this vegetation, this was the first time she had released it.
Qiu Tang emitted a comfortable fragrant. It was able to increase the fighting strength of companions. Although it was inferior to the invincible pill, but don’t forget that it doesn’t have any side effects. In fact, it would increase in strength as Shao Qing increases in rank.
Apart from that, Qiu Tang can also emit a fragrance that causes a person to be powerless. Although, it’s unknown if it would affect the snake at all, but they would have to try it out anyways.
When Qiu Tang was released, the eyes of the snake lit up. Scuttling over, it probably wanted to eat the Qiu Tang. However, when it was nearly there, it’s speed began to decrease. Then, finally, it laid limp on the ground.
“It works.” Shao Qing’s eyes became bright. Probing, she stepped forward with her knife and pulled out. Although the python was howling in grief, it had no energy to budge at all.
Circling the snake, they used all their energy to stab the python several times including the Qi Cun area. It was then that they realized they couldn’t stab through its skin, but the Qi Cun area had more delicate scales that could be penetrated. But, it wasn’t a deadly stab.
The most crucial area must be the eyes.
Standing in that area, Shao Qing gave it two strikes. The knife was too short, no matter how she pierced it, it wouldn’t penetrate through the entire eye.
After probing two knives, the python was wailing terribly. Its poor eye was blinded but it was unable to kill it. Shao Qing then stabbed the other eye as well, blinding it. With the ‘blind’ snake, there shouldn’t be any more dangers.
Even though they didn’t murder it, they should be able to depart. How could a ‘blind’ snake chase after them?
“Get out of the way!” Yan Qiyue suddenly shouted out in panic then threw himself over. Shao Qing was stunned but by the time she reacted, it was already too late. It was because that non-moving python had suddenly opened its mouth wide then with one bite, it swallowed her whole.
Shao Qing had forgotten. Snakes don’t rely on eyes to hunt creatures. What it relied on was it’s sense which is... it’s tongue.