Chapter 291: Poisoned

"What a pity."

Cang Lang acted as if he hadn't seen the little moves Yun Li had made; the smile on his face had somehow turned eerie.

"If you had agreed to what I just proposed, I could have kept you around a while longer, but now..."

Before he finished speaking, it was as if Cang Lang had eyes in the back of his head; in the blink of an eye, he transformed into his beast form and began fighting with a giant serpent that had somehow circled around behind them.

Jia Sha was also greatly startled. When the giant serpent's tail swept toward her, she didn't think twice—she hugged Yun Li tightly and rolled to the side.

But just as she escaped that danger, the next second she was surrounded and attacked by Mu Qing and the others. If not for the fact that they were wary of Yun Li, whom she was clutching tightly in her arms, she would likely have had her head pierced through by their weapons the moment she hit the ground.

Yet even with Yun Li in her grasp, Yun Li saw an opportunity and was not about to stay docile.

"Bang!"

As Yun Li slammed backward with force, Jia Sha instinctively winced in pain, but her grip on Yun Li remained tight. She knew clearly that if she let go, death would be the only thing waiting for her.

So not only did she not let go, but whenever she had a chance, she viciously pinched Yun Li. Caught off guard, Yun Li let out a pained "Hiss," causing Mu Qing and the others' expressions to shift slightly.

"Don't move, or don't blame me for being rude to her."

Yun Li's eyes darkened, and her voice was full of persuasion. "Are you and Cang Lang both Beast Slaves of the Giant Tribe? You help him like this, but he hasn't told you anything. Why bother risking your life for him? How about we each take a step back? You let me go, and I'll have my Beast Husbands let you go too—what do you say?"

Jia Sha didn't respond to her, only snorted coldly and tightened her grip around Yun Li's neck.

She held on so tightly that Yun Li couldn't headbutt her again like before.

However, seeing Cang Lang held up by Ke Si, and Ji Xuan also fighting with that Master Meng, although she didn't understand how he, clearly poisoned and unable to handle even Cang Lang before, could now tangle with Ji Xuan for so long, one thing Yun Li and the others were sure of was that they had to seize the moment to escape.

Otherwise, if something unexpected happened midway, none of them could bear the consequences.

Mu Qing transformed into a half-beast form, and when Jia Sha's attention was diverted by Leng Xiu and the others, his serpent tail lashed out fiercely at Jia Sha's back.

The two females were sent flying together, finally crashing heavily to the ground. At that moment, even though Jia Sha wanted to hold onto Yun Li tightly, she couldn't help but loosen her grip upon landing.

Leng Xiu and Leng Xiao seized that instant—one pinned Jia Sha's head down and quickly dislocated one of her arms, while the other unhesitatingly pulled Jia Sha's other hand away and pulled his own female into his arms.

As a result, by the time Yun Li came to her senses from the suffocation and saw clearly that the beastman before her was her own Beast Husband, before she could relax, a hot surge uncontrollably rose in her throat, and she spat out blood with a "Wah."

The blood was black, but that wasn't what shocked Leng Xiao and Leng Xiu the most. What was most important was that the blood seemed alive; after it landed on Leng Xiao, it wasn't long before he seemed to be infected as well, and the next moment he too spat out a mouthful of blood.

However, what he spat wasn't black blood, but a dark red, and one could still see something alive moving within that dark red blood.

"A Li! A Xiao!"

Leng Xiu, who was pressing down on Jia Sha, was enraged at the sight. He lowered his head and reached out to grab Jia Sha's neck. "What did you do to A Li?"

Jia Sha's breathing was choked off by his grip, but to survive, she still forced out words one by one in reply to Leng Xiu, "It—is—the—Thousand-Leaf—Gu."

Seeing that she knew, Leng Xiu suddenly released his grip, but he didn't let her go. After dislocating both her arms, he pressed her head to the ground and asked:

"What is the Thousand-Leaf Gu, and how do you cure the poison? Speak!"

On this side, Yun Li was already curled up in pain. Mu Qing pulled his female into his arms, stuffed two detox pills into her mouth, and then said to Leng Xiao, "Can you still hold on?"

It seemed the detox pills Leng Xiao had taken before acting were useless. He forced two more into Leng Xiao's mouth, but clearly, the pills' effect was poor.

Leng Xiao said in a low voice, "Take A Li and go first."

Mu Qing shook his head. "A Li is poisoned."

He didn't know how to cure poison, and given A Li's current condition, there was no time to rush back to the Tribe to find the Witch Doctor for treatment.

"Stay away from me."

Yun Li sensed another beastman nearby. She forced her eyes open, breathing heavily. "My blood is problematic."

She didn't need to say that—Mu Qing and the others had already seen it. But what kind of poison was this?

"The Thousand-Leaf Gu isn't a poison, but a poisonous insect. Yun Li ingested the insect's eggs. After the eggs hatch inside her, they multiply rapidly. At first, a beastman infected with the Thousand-Leaf Gu only suffers excruciating pain. After a month or two, the infected beastman will cough up blood day and night, completely becoming a host for the Thousand-Leaf Gu.

Her blood is another kind of Thousand-Leaf Gu..."

Jia Sha's explanation chilled the hearts of Leng Xiu, Mu Qing, and the others who could hear her.

"Then how do you cure it?"

As Leng Xiu pursued this, on the other side, Ji Xuan and Ke Si also noticed the situation with Yun Li, but they couldn't spare the attention to help them.

Master Meng was one thing—Ji Xuan had fought him before breaking through to Purple-rank and knew how troublesome he was. If not for Ke Si's poison and Ke Si sharing half the attention back then, he would have died at this man's hands.

But Cang Lang's strength was enough to suppress Ke Si in a fight, which caught Ke Si off guard. Not only that, he found his own movements growing slower and slower.

Damn it! When had he been poisoned by the other?

Ke Si himself was a poison doctor, extremely skilled in using poison. Who would have thought that one day he would fall to someone else's poison?

As for Cang Lang, catching a glimpse of Yun Li's condition from the corner of his eye, a dark glint flashed quickly through his eyes. Seizing the moment when Ke Si's poison flared up, he turned and lunged at Leng Xiu.

The powerful gale forced Leng Xiu to abandon Jia Sha, who was just explaining "how to remove the Thousand-Leaf Gu from a beastman's body." After rolling a few times on the ground, he transformed into a black wolf, dodging Cang Lang's sharp claws.

However, hindered by the gap in strength, although Leng Xiu dodged well, he still ended up with two deep wounds on his body after Ke Si reacted. The wounds were nearly deep enough to show bone, and the sight of torn flesh was truly horrifying.

Ke Si, realizing it was his own mistake that allowed Cang Lang to attack the other beastmen, felt his anger surge. Ignoring whether he himself was poisoned, he continued to engage Cang Lang.

And although Cang Lang's beast form was large, his combat effectiveness on the ground was truly inferior to the Black Mamba's, especially since his size was unexpectedly large. So while Ke Si wanted to tangle with him, Cang Lang was more eager to kill the two weaker ones first.

Jia Sha, seizing the opportunity, rolled into a corner.