Chapter 332

He touched his chin and sneered: "Women, hehe, women!"

He Lingchuan pressed on the wine jar: "You can't skip the details; your story doesn't make sense. Why would she poison you for no reason?"

"She had a lover outside, the son of another chieftain, with delicate skin and tender flesh, just like you, a pretty boy." Dong Rui smiled. "I sent a ghost ape to tear her lover into pieces and eat him. She cried for two days, and didn't say anything afterward; I thought she had changed her mind."

He Lingchuan touched his own cheeks; he was exposed to wind and sun all day, could he be called a pretty boy? However, even if one only looked at Dong Rui's features, they didn't match the word "handsome" at all. He probably considered all other men with regular features to be pretty boys.

"Later, did you kill her?"

"No." Dong Rui poured two more gulps of wine in frustration. "She ran out while crying and jumped off a cliff herself. Do you think she's sick?"

He Lingchuan patted his shoulder: "She and you, you're not from the same family."

Don't enter the same door.

At this moment, the two's line of sight was suddenly blocked by a huge black shadow.

Zhu Xiuer had come out.

"You have wine?"

So she had come following the smell.

He Lingchuan took out another jar from his storage ring: "Do you want it?"

Zhu Xiuer didn't need him to break the mud seal; she directly stuck her mouthparts in to suck. With her ability to suck a living person dry in one go, drinking a jar of wine only took two or three breaths.

"Any more?"

"Coming."

In the blink of an eye, she had consumed four jars of He Lingchuan's good wine. When she asked for more, He Lingchuan spread his hands:

"None left, that's all there is."

The giant spider actually liked wine; both were a bit surprised. However, wine is a broom for worries; after drinking, Zhu Xiuer was clearly much more amiable, even letting out a wine burp: "Good wine, quite a kick, better than the merchant's."

"Merchant?" He Lingchuan was slightly surprised. "Are there merchants here?"

"Do you think this place is isolated from the world?" Zhu Xiuer chuckled. "You human merchants come once a month to buy spider silk."

That's right, cave spider silk is exceptionally tough, especially Zhu Xiuer's craftsmanship, which is comparable to the most skillful weavers among humans; the cloud brocade she weaves is as light as a floating feather but tougher than iron.

With just two light sentences, He Lingchuan felt his eyes light up.

Over the past few days, Zhu Xiuer had also called him over to ask questions, chatting about idle things, such as the changes in the Yuan Nation over the years, the He family's domestic affairs, and the relationship between He Lingchuan and Dong Rui, etc.

She seemed particularly interested in the Beijia Nation, but unfortunately, He Lingchuan didn't know much about it.

He Lingchuan also wanted to extract some intelligence from her, but Zhu Xiuer was, after all, a great demon who had seen the world, and her mouth was very tight.

Don't look at how happy the two sides were chatting; in fact, it was just pure chatting, without talking about feelings.

And it didn't delay Zhu Xiuer from eating him one day when she felt tired.

When is the next time merchants enter the swamp? He Lingchuan didn't ask, nor did he let Dong Rui ask, just casually changed the subject: "What's wrong with the Beijia Nation? You don't want to stay there."

The name of the northern demon nation is loud, and it has stood for nearly six hundred years, making it almost the longest-lived empire in this world. Monsters in the world yearn for it; why did Zhu Xiuer leave after going there?

He Lingchuan remembered that the Crocodile God also left the Beijia Nation; and Hong Chenglue, who would rather take his wife and retire to Xiazhou, living a life of poverty.

Why is this? "You'd know if you'd been there; it looks glamorous on the outside, but it's a mess on the inside!" Zhu Xiuer sneered. "What kind of demon nation, still having to be humble and careful toward humans! In ancient times, demon immortals each laughed and stood on their own side, and the common people were like ants, eaten when they wanted to be eaten, used when they wanted to be used; there were no such restrictive rules as there are now!"

He Lingchuan and Dong Rui looked at each other; to Zhu Xiuer, they were probably also "consumables to be eaten when wanted, used when wanted"? As an old antique, Zhu Xiuer naturally missed the highlight moments of ancient great demons.

However, times have changed, and her philosophy was no longer compatible with the current demon nation; staying in the Beijia Nation was afraid to cause trouble.

But Zhu Xiuer immediately added: "Those in high positions are quite good to humans, but not to demons! I hadn't been in the Beijia Nation for two months before I had important things stolen!" After saying this, she sneered endlessly.

Both asked what she had lost, but Zhu Xiuer refused to say more.

He Lingchuan had a sudden realization.

Could it be her demon immortal shed skin? The largest and oldest one among the six.

He changed his way of asking: "Did you get it back later?"

"The other party flatly denied it." Zhu Xiuer said. "Their family is high and powerful in the Beijia Nation, with subordinates like clouds, and elemental power to protect their bodies; they thought I, a wild monster from the countryside, had no way to deal with them!"

He Lingchuan thought to himself, if you had a way, would you have avoided this desolate demon nest swamp?

According to Zhu Xiuer, she left her cultivation in the shed skin. In other words, the demon immortal shed skin contained the deepest cultivation.

If that were the case, it wouldn't be strange for the other party to seize the treasure and not return it.

"I couldn't take it, so I beat and killed several of their young ones!" Zhu Xiuer knocked on the ground. "The Beijia Nation sent troops to take me, so I came here."

He Lingchuan gave a long "Oh": "So you want a way to counter elemental power, and then go to Beijia to seize back the treasure?"

Zhu Xiuer said grimly: "What they rely on is nothing more than the elemental power of the Beijia Nation to protect their bodies. As long as I remove this trouble, I have a way to deal with them."

He Lingchuan noticed that she used the words "have a way," not "easy to capture," clearly the other party wasn't easy to deal with even without the protection of elemental power.

High and powerful? Not to mention that an ancient great demon like Zhu Xiuer, who had lived for two or three thousand years, had more tricks than eyeballs; how much of what she said was true and how much was false was not easy to judge.

Zhu Xiuer asked Dong Rui again: "How is the progress of my medicinal water?"

"I have a piece of good news and a piece of bad news; which one do you want to hear first?"

Zhu Xiuer didn't hesitate: "The good one."

He Lingchuan gave Dong Rui a wild wink from the side, but he ignored it; Zhu Xiuer saw it, however, and mocked: "Are your eyes cramping?"

She had twelve eyes; He Lingchuan's expression wanting to hide from her was a joke! Dong Rui poured a gulp of wine: "Tested more than thirty spider demons, and one succeeded. This success rate is truly astonishingly high; clearly, your offspring, Zhu Xiuer, inherited excellent bloodlines and are purer than ordinary monsters."

All the spider demons here were considered Zhu Xiuer's direct bloodline, enough to look down on the mixed and impure bloodlines of ordinary monsters.

So the rate of her offspring becoming demons was also astonishingly high.

"Tested more than thirty times, and only one succeeded?" You call this high? Zhu Xiuer was too lazy to belittle him. "Then when can I use it?"

"This is the bad news." Dong Rui sighed. "The medicine made with the materials I have on hand probably can't meet your requirements."

He Lingchuan pressed his temples.

"You mean, it can't be done?" Zhu Xiuer originally had her legs retracted and her belly on the ground, but standing up now was like a small mountain rising on the spot.

The two looked up at her; the spider demon's mouthparts were particularly ferocious in the moonlight.

Dong Rui dared to bring it up now because he had already thought of a follow-up: "I only said the materials were not enough, not that I couldn't do it! Drifting to the demon nest swamp was an accident; this place is a desolate countryside, how could I find all the materials?"

Dong Rui looked at Zhu Xiuer, neither humble nor arrogant: "You were once a demon immortal, and that body was tempered a thousand times; wanting to use medicinal water to induce mutation is like poisoning this rock." He kicked the big rock in front of him. "It's not impossible, but it needs a stronger medicine to destroy the stability of your body!"

"Which one?"

"Poison Dragon Saliva."

Zhu Xiuer stretched her head in front of Dong Rui, her mouthparts hissing: "You actually want to use Poison Dragon Saliva to deal with me?!"

Seeing her provoked, He Lingchuan hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "Does such a thing as Dragon Saliva really exist?"

There are no dragons in the world, so where would Dragon Saliva come from? "Doesn't exist?" Dong Rui raised his face, almost looking at him with his nostrils. "Look at my face; this is the effect of Poison Dragon Saliva diluted a thousand times! It was just one drop, one drop!"

Staring at it for too long would really cause nightmares at night; He Lingchuan turned his head away quickly.

Dong Rui turned to Zhu Xiuer again: "To tell you the truth, even if you get the Poison Dragon Saliva, even if the medicine is prepared, and even if you take it and it takes effect, the pain you feel will be at the purgatory level! For the sake of a treasure, are you really willing to pay this price?"

Zhu Xiuer stared at him with her twelve eyes, seemingly judging whether he was speaking the truth or not.

Dong Rui was not to be outdone, raising his head to look at her.

This guy, he was truly tough when he needed to be; He Lingchuan felt admiration.

After a long while, Zhu Xiuer said grimly: "Did you deliberately bring up this medicine because you knew Poison Dragon Saliva was hidden in the Beijia capital?"

She couldn't counter elemental power, so she left the Beijia Nation; but the most important medicine that could help her counter elemental power was hidden in the Beijia Nation.

If she had the ability to go straight into Beijia to seize the Poison Dragon Saliva, why didn't she just seize the demon immortal shed skin back while she was at it? If she could seize the shed skin back, why would she need to swallow Poison Dragon Saliva?

This was truly a paradox.

He Lingchuan saw her aura gradually becoming violent and hurriedly mediated: "You don't have to go yourself; wouldn't it be fine to find someone to think of a way to steal the Poison Dragon Saliva or your treasure? It can't be that the Poison Dragon Saliva and your... your treasure are both collected by the same family, right?"

"Send whom?" Zhu Xiuer snorted. "You?"

"If you can't find anyone else, we can do it." He Lingchuan patted his chest. "No problem."

Dong Rui immediately said: "I have obtained the personal pardon of the Frost Leaf National Teacher of the Beijia Nation and can travel through the Beijia Nation without worry."

Zhu Xiuer laughed loudly, shaking the leaves above so they fell rustlingly: "Using this little trick, you want me to let you go?"

She turned and climbed toward the top of the sinkhole: "Stay here honestly. If you can't make the medicinal water within thirty days, I'll swallow you alive!"

"Hey!" He Lingchuan was unconvinced. "He's the one who can't make the medicinal water; why are you swallowing me?"

(End of chapter)