socalfunplaces Chapter 68 Eye-catching, isn't my bird amazing?
Chapter 68 Eye-catching, isn't my bird amazing?
Chapter 68 Eye-catching, isn't my bird amazing?
The Twelve Constellations are the most bizarre and infamous bandits in the martial arts world over the past five years.
Notorious is understandable, but what does "grotesque" mean? Why is it listed before "notorious"? As a notorious thief, shouldn't notoriety be more important?
When other notorious bandits are mentioned, they are told how many bad things they have done. When the twelve constellations are mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is their "slightly human-shaped" appearance.
The so-called "Twelve Constellations" are a group of strange-looking evil demons who band together for warmth. They have suffered discrimination since childhood, and their hearts have long been twisted like demons.
The deformed and cracked fruits that Granny Cai found were nothing compared to the twelve constellations.
Most of the members of the twelve constellations are exactly the same as their corresponding zodiac animals. The rat is thin and short, the ox is tall and strong, the monkey is shaped like an ape, the fat pig weighs more than 400 catties, and the "dragon" has dragon eyebrows and phoenix eyes.
This raises the question: while other animals might be understandable, what does a "horse" look like?
A "horse" is a mount!
Welcome, chivalrous heroes, to gallop freely on horseback!
In an attempt to appear cultured, they each adopted a refined nickname and addressed each other by code names.
The mouse's nickname is "Toothless";
The ox-drawn horn "transports grain";
Tiger's name is "Mountain King";
Rabbit-shaped "Medicine Pounding";
The dragon is the "head of the four auspicious creatures";
The snake is the "Deer-Eating God";
The horse's name was "Ta Xue" and it was also known as "Tiger Wife";
The sheep's name is "Chishi";
The rooster is the crowing bird at dawn;
The monkey's name is "Offering Fruit";
The dog's name is "Welcoming Guests";
The pig's name is "Black Face";
There are two leaders. One is "Dragon," whose true identity has never been revealed, and the other is "Rat," whose name is Wei Wuya. He is short, looks like a rat, is very learned, has high martial arts skills, and is very arrogant.
After the battle for the Liancheng Treasure ended, the grudges between the disciples of the Poison Hand Medicine King gradually spread throughout the martial arts world. The news of the Poison Hand Medicine King's passing brought a sigh of relief, and soon after, some people set their sights on the Poison Hand Medicine King's legacy.
After much searching, Wei Wuyuan learned that all of the outer disciples of the Poison Hand Medicine King had passed away, and the inner disciple was obsessed with marital discord, with a personal disciple by his side.
The secret manuals recording the lifelong learning of the Poison Hand Medicine King are mostly in the hands of this direct disciple. Wei Wuya led his disciples to fight for them, but Cheng Lingsu planted countless flowers and trees in the valley. Who knows which ones are poisonous? Could the thirty-plus acres of medicinal fields hide a great array of poisons?
Wei Wuya dared not enter the valley casually, and had his disciples try several times, but each time they were knocked unconscious by the poisonous herbs.
After testing the waters for seven or eight days, Wei Wuyuan guessed that Cheng Lingsu was kind-hearted and disliked killing. He gradually grew bolder and decided to launch a final attack tonight.
In fact, Cheng Lingsu did not kill him, partly because she was kind-hearted, and partly because it was a rule set by the Poison Hand Medicine King: poison techniques could not be used to kill people!
In the eyes of the Poison Hand Medicine King, using poison is more compassionate than using swords. If the enemy sincerely repents when using poison against them, they can be given the antidote. Therefore, he uses this to restrain his disciples. Those who violate the rules must either commit suicide to atone for their sins or be expelled from the sect. If they fall into evil ways, they will never be freed.
Wei Wuyuan could hardly imagine such a thing.
He was born a cold and selfish person.
He wouldn't even flinch if it meant cutting off his own son's head, as long as he could gain enough benefits.
Wei Wuyuan took in many disciples, teaching them a little bit of martial arts and poison techniques, but he made them risk their lives. They were disciples in name, but in reality, they were "tools".
Extremely intelligent, extremely indifferent, and extremely selfish.
Xu Qingya pushed open the door and saw this "living ghost that God had chopped up a rat, a fox, and a wolf, then mixed together with a bottle of poison and a bowl of stinky water, and haphazardly molded into a living ghost," and his face suddenly turned cold.
"Wei Wuyuan, leave now, and I might spare your life. This is your last chance!"
"Who are you?"
Wei Wuya's face was twisted and ferocious, like a hungry wolf ready to devour its prey. Normally, even if he wanted to kill someone, he would have shown a smile. But now, facing Xu Qingya, Wei Wuya's face was full of anger.
Wei Wuya is physically disabled and ugly. He hates handsome men the most. Note that Wei Wuya only hates handsome men; he is very fond of beautiful women.
"My name is Xu Qingya!"
"So you're Xu Qingya? Tsk tsk tsk—I can sense you're injured! You can't hide it from me! I'm skilled in using poison, and of course, I'm skilled in healing! How much of your power can you use right now? What can you do to me?"
"Wei Wuyuan, are you really not going to back down?"
"Aren't you Cheng Lingsu's lover? You're quite pretty, but your taste is terrible! You'd rather have a country bumpkin than a queen! Fine, I'll arrest you right now and use you to threaten Cheng Lingsu!"
At this time, Wei Wuya had not yet gone to Yihua Palace to propose to Yaoyue and Lianxing, had not had his legs broken by Yaoyue, and was not depressed. He was in the healthiest and most enthusiastic state of his life in terms of physical function and mental will.
Before he finished speaking, Wei Wuya leaped up, his ten dark fingers reaching for Xu Qingya. His fingertips reeked of a pungent, fishy stench, like a dead rat that had been stagnant in a sewer for half a month, his entire body exuding a putrid smell.
Xu Qingya was injured and could not delay. He had to finish the battle quickly. Seeing Wei Wuya coming, Xu Qingya took a half step back, pulled into a bow stance, shrugged his shoulders, and the Magpie Blade popped out from his back. He waved his hand and used the move "Peerless"!
"boom!"
The blade struck Wei Wuyuan, but he felt no flesh or blood. Instead, he felt no force. The blade only cut through a black robe, which shattered into hundreds of pieces, like the rotting butterflies in a fantasy story that feed on corpses.
"brush!"
Wei Wuyuan was a fox among foxes and a rat among rats. Using his black robe as cover, he darted to Xu Qingya's crotch and his rat claws slashed out fiercely.
Xu Qingya's slash missed its mark, his strength depleted. Wei Wuya's rat claws had already reached three inches below his crotch, the stench of decay assaulting his nostrils. If this claw had landed, Xu Qingya would have had to consider joining either the Eastern or Western Depot, spending the rest of his life as a sworn brother to King Zhuanlun, working together to steal the "Remains of Rama".
"laugh!"
Xu Qingya stomped down with his right foot, causing the bluestone threshold to crack. He used the force to flip himself up. Wei Wuya was about to change his move and tear it apart when he saw the cold light of the Magpie Blade return and the blade slice against his left shoulder, the blue light appearing and disappearing.
"A feint? Out of energy?"
Wei Wuya's rat-like eyes narrowed suddenly, and he gave a sinister smile.
He had long noticed that Xu Qingya's aura was weak and unstable. At this moment, the light from his sword was scattered, which clearly indicated that he was seriously injured and unable to continue.
Now or never!
Wei Wuya's emaciated body, as thin as a rat, spun rapidly like a top. His ten fingers gripped Xu Qingya's ribs, and suddenly his sleeves burst open, releasing three large gray-black rats that lunged straight at Xu Qingya's face!
Saliva drips from its sharp teeth, its claws gleam with an eerie light, and blue smoke rises when it touches the ground. This is the "Bone-Eating Rat," which has been fed with corpse poison for seven or eight generations. Once it touches the skin, the flesh rots and the bone is exposed.
"Well done!"
Xu Qingya had been waiting for this moment!
His left leg swept across like a whip, accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder.
Wind God Leg - Swift and Decisive!
The energy burst like a thunderbolt, and amidst the sound of wind and thunder, the three poisonous rats exploded into a bloody mist. Xu Qingya seized the opportunity to step forward, his right leg swaying lightly like a willow branch, his toes pointing towards Wei Wuya's wrist bone "Shenmen acupoint," as fast as the wind and as powerful as lightning.
Wei Wuya grinned and retracted his claws, then leaped back several feet in a "rat jump." Unexpectedly, Xu Qingya's kick was a feint, and the raging wind and lightning were just a bluff. The leg shadow disappeared, and the blade flashed angrily.
"Sweep through the enemy ranks!"
Wei Wuya was about to leap up to dodge when he saw the Magpie Blade slashing down on him. He cursed Xu Qingya for being so despicable, shouting "sweep through a thousand armies" but using "split Mount Hua with force."
"You forced me to do this!"
Wei Wuyuan made a careless move and had no time to dodge. He gritted his teeth and used his final killing move in a counterattack.
The iron cage attached to his lower back suddenly exploded, and a one-eyed giant rat, as red as fire, bared its teeth and pounced out. Its body was the size of a tabby cat, and it emitted a grayish-yellow poisonous mist.
This is the "Heart-Burning Rat," extremely ferocious, even able to overcome its instincts and hunt cats instead. Due to its fierce nature, it is also known as the "Cat-Killing Rat."
The sharp teeth, claws, and tail of this rat are all poisonous. Those poisoned will either fall into a coma or suffer excruciating internal burns. Seeing the rat coming, Xu Qingya turned around, and as if anticipating this, the Magpie Blade spun around and slashed back. The blade light was like a cold moon hanging over the river, and the continuous blade light shredded the rat's body, turning it into a cloud of blood mist.
Xu Qingya channeled his true energy, his sleeves billowing open to disperse the blood mist. His face turned deathly pale, and he staggered a few steps. Looking back, he saw that Wei Wuya had already run up behind him, his sharp claws viciously clawing at his back.
"Xu Qingya, go to hell!"
"boom!"
Xu Qingya stomped his leg heavily on the ground and spun around at high speed. The fragments of herbs mixed with the remains of poisonous rats rose into the sky, and the hurricane, carrying blood mist, completely engulfed Wei Wuya.
Wind God Leg - Wind Sweeps Away Building Ruins!
This move was supposed to pulverize Wei Wuya's bones like a washing machine, but Xu Qingya's internal injuries were too severe, his strength was insufficient, and his internal energy dissipated.
The gale subsided, revealing Wei Wuya.
"A trivial matter—"
Before Wei Wuyuan could finish his mockery, a shower of fire and meteors fell from the sky. Tang Dun'er, with eyes as bright as lightning, swooped down from the treetop, his two sharp claws striking out simultaneously.
Blade flashes, leg shadows, staggering steps, and weakness—it was all a disguise. Xu Qingya had no intention of engaging this giant rat in close combat; Tang Dun'er was the ultimate killing move.
As a bird of prey, catching snakes and mice is an instinct ingrained in Tangdun'er's genes. Wei Wuya, though a larger mouse, is still just a mouse.
"Pfft!"
Tang Dun'er grabbed his two eyeballs, and two streaks of blood floated through the air. Wei Wuya covered his face and screamed in agony, black blood flowing from between his fingers. When his eight disciples saw this, they hurriedly ran away, not daring to stay for even a moment.
"Sweep through the enemy ranks!"
This time, the shout was correct. The blade swept across, and Wei Wuyuan's head flew into the air. When dealing with a giant rat covered in poison, you absolutely cannot give him any chance. Either kill him with a combo or launch a long-range attack.
After defeating the formidable enemy, Xu Qingya rolled his eyes and collapsed limply to the ground, this time truly falling.
Wei Wuyuan's poison skills are too powerful.
The rats he carried were poisonous, his sharp claws contained deadly toxins, and his blood was also poisonous.
Xu Qingya's attack was too powerful, pulverizing the poisonous rats into a bloody mist, which mixed with the medicinal herbs in the herb field, forming wisps of poisonous mist that made people feel weak and sore all over.
Cheng Lingsu only knew some basic martial arts. Xu Qingya and Wei Wuya were fighting to the death, and the battle was too fast for her to intervene. Seeing that the battle was over, Cheng Lingsu rushed out of the thatched hut and took out golden needles and spiritual medicine from her bosom.
"What kind of medicine is this?"
"Poison! Will you eat it or not?"
"eat!"
"Young Master Xu, you're completely powerless right now. Aren't you afraid I'll force myself on you? We've only just met, and you've already fought tooth and nail for me. How careless of you! I may look like a good person, but I could very well be a witch!"
Cheng Lingsu repeated Xu Qingya's words from dinner verbatim while sealing seven major acupoints on Xu Qingya with gold needles, then switched to silver needles, turning Xu Qingya into a hedgehog in just a moment.
"A witch? I've seen witches before!"
"and then?"
"She thinks I'm the witch!"
"How could you possibly be a witch?"
"Because I'm too charming!"
"Boasting and bragging, how shameless!"
"Do I need to remind you? We just met, and you put me on your bed. Judging from your home furnishings, you have severe mysophobia. How could someone with mysophobia allow a stranger to lie in their bed and cover themselves with their own blankets!"
"Do I need to remind you? I'm treating you. If I misplace the needle, at best you'll be paralyzed, at worst you'll lose some bodily function. Young Master Xu, for your health, I suggest you don't speak."
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"I really want to say a few words of praise to you now."
"That won't work either. Happiness, anger, or shyness can all cause emotional fluctuations, making it difficult to insert the needle accurately. Keeping your mouth shut is the best help you can give!"
"Humans have mouths not just for eating!"
"And to catch your breath!"
"Ling Su, aren't you done yet? Even a hedgehog doesn't have this many needles! What kind of needling technique is this?"
"I'm going to suppress your internal injuries, external injuries, and poisoning at the same time. Do you think that's easy?"
There is a cold, yin energy lurking in your body. You originally suppressed it with your pure yang energy, but after the fierce battle with Wei Wuyuan, your energy was severely depleted, and you could no longer suppress this cold, yin energy. Do you feel very cold?
How many people have you actually fought against?
What do you consider physical health to be?
What is it that's worth you working so hard for?
Cheng Lingsu rarely showed "anger".
Xu Qingya looked at Cheng Lingsu with great interest.
In terms of appearance and figure, Cheng Lingsu was somewhat inferior to Yin Susu, Yang Yan, and Liu Qingci, but her eyes were dark and bright, and the pure kindness that belonged only to Cheng Lingsu was hard to find anywhere else in the world.
"What are you looking at? Answer the question!"
"You just told me to shut up—"
"You just listen to whatever I say?"
"I am a patient, and I must strictly follow the doctor's orders!"
"Hehehehehehe————"
Cheng Lingsu had an impulse to die together with him.
When Xu Qingya doesn't open his mouth, he is a quiet and handsome man with unparalleled charm. But when Xu Qingya opens his mouth, the words he says can make people furious. The more they think about it, the angrier they become. But she can't get angry; she has to carefully insert the needles.
Cheng Lingsu possesses exceptional talent in medicine. She has mastered about 70-80% of the medical skills of the Poison Hand Medicine King from books, but the rest requires practical experience. It is no joke that a divine doctor becomes more sought after with age.
"Ah! Ah!"
Two screams came from afar.
The one screaming was Wei Wuyuan's disciple.
Two disciples secretly ran back, not to avenge Wei Wuyuan, but to kick him while he was down.
They were responsible for feeding the poisonous rats. They knew that the rats Wei Wuya raised could release a deadly poison that would cause people to fall into a coma after they died. They timed it perfectly and wanted to see if Xu Qingya had been poisoned. Before they even got close to the valley, they were ambushed by Tang Dun'er, who gouged out two of their eyes.
Lao Jiu galloped over, raised his hooves, and crushed the skulls of the two men. The bird and the horse stood guard outside, like two guardian generals, firmly protecting the valley.
"Lingsu, isn't my bird amazing?"
"Young Master Xu, do you think I'm an naive country bumpkin who doesn't know anything?"
"Huh? What—ah—"
Cheng Lingsu inserted a needle into the "pain point".
Xu Qingya's eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
You can offend anyone but your attending physician.
I was just showing off Tangdun'er, I really didn't mean anything by it, Miss Cheng, you've misunderstood me!
Tangdun'er: Serves you right! Why didn't it hurt you to death!