Chapter 39

"When we enter the cave in previous years, we will bring a large number of eggs."

Wu Zhaizhu Wu said, "These insects are mainly because the quantity is too large; after entering the cave, throw the raw eggs on the stone wall along the way, and the raw eggs will attract a large number of insects to gather."

"Walk and throw, we can take the opportunity to catch other powerful poisonous things, and then target those insects."

Insect poison originally likes fishy smell and likes to absorb vitality.

But in fact, things like humans and livestock have too large a volume, and although the vitality is strong, it will also counterattack; many insects bite people, which is a great damage to themselves.

And the egg vitality is pure, but weak, and has a fishy smell, which is the easiest to attract those weak cursed insects.

There is a custom among the Miao villages in the Yizhou mountains; if someone is poisoned by cursed insects, if it is shallow, just use a half-cooked egg to roll between the chest and abdomen, and you can suck the cursed insect poison out.

So this egg is also known as the Phoenix Pill.

Wu Zhaizhu Wu waved his hand, asked people to collect eggs first, and continued, "But in previous years, we started saving eggs until the winter solstice; recently, there are not many eggs in the village, and a lot have been used in the gathering these few days."

"Moreover, the flute sound will stimulate the insects, and the effect of these eggs will not be as good as in previous years."

Seeing Chu Tianshu said: "She is not the only one who knows cursed insect arts in your village, right? She can stimulate insects, you have no way to counter and appease?"

Wu Zhaizhu Wu shook his head: "These insects belong to the wild and have not been truly refined; stimulation is easy, appeasement is difficult; if you compete to play, I fear the stimulation will be even greater."

Seeing Chu Tianshu looked into the cave.

Those poisonous insects that were startled by the raging flames before were still crawling everywhere, and the places they crawled over startled more insects in the cracks.

"I seem to have seen someone in your village brushing oil on a few cloaks this morning."

Seeing Chu Tianshu suddenly said, "When passing by, I smelled it twice; that smell should be fire oil, right?"

Wu Zhaizhu Wu sighed.

"That's right, originally that was the clothes to be used in the third trial."

The three trials of Wu Family Village, the pillar in the midst of the stream, the Miao king subduing the ox, the path of bathing in fire!

The last trial is to pave a path eighteen zhang long with charcoal.

In fact, as long as ordinary people are brave enough, relying on the protection of sweat on the soles of their feet and instantaneous evaporation and heat dissipation, they can also walk through the charcoal road surface without injury.

But that kind of road surface is at most three or four zhang long, and it will be very dangerous if it exceeds this length.

And in the eighteen-zhang charcoal road of Wu Family Village, there are also mixed burning firewood knives, hoes, plows, and broken iron pieces.

The challenger wears a cloak brushed with fire oil and must walk through it barefoot.

Not only must they find a way to kick away those burning iron tools, but they must also be wary of whether the cloak will be stained with sparks.

But even if the cloak is not stained with sparks, under that kind of high-temperature baking, the cloak will start to catch fire in the second half.

You must kick away all the iron tools on the rest of the road before the cloak is burned through, and walk straight to the end, only then will it count as success.

In the entire Wu Family Village, only Wu Zhaizhu Wu is confident in passing this trial.

His body has been tempered by medicine all year round and is very resistant to high temperatures, especially his hands and feet; the reason why he dared to put his fist directly into the iron pot flames to bake when establishing the agreement was because of this.

"So that's how it is."

Seeing Chu Tianshu smiled, "Can you let me change the occasion and bathe in fire once?"

Wu Zhaizhu Wu said in surprise: "Do you want to wear those cloaks into this cave? Those fire ants and flying mantis insects will definitely set you on fire."

"It's just setting the outer layer of the cloak on fire, isn't it? Doesn't it take a while to really burn through?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu pointed into the cave and said, "I see that in the cave, although there are flying insects that can directly collide with flames, the vast majority of poisonous insects are still afraid of flames."

"Bathing in fire and walking, it should be able to startle away many poisonous insects."

Wu Zhaizhu Wu reminded again: "If this could work, I could have put on fire clothes and rushed over myself; the problem is that in the depths of the cave, mushroom powder meets fire and will become poisonous smoke; if you take a breath..."

"Then I won't breathe!"

Seeing Chu Tianshu looked into the depths of the cave, "Holding my breath and rushing to the deepest part to catch people is indeed a big challenge."

"But even if there is no such thing, my passing the third trial will also be a big challenge; why not rush into this one before me?"

Cai Shanjun advised at this time: "It doesn't have to be so urgent; why not wait for two days and find a late night to go when she is sleeping?"

"Is her schedule in the cave definitely so normal?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu laughed, "She almost plotted against me before, so I will catch her out within today; I don't want to wait any longer!"

The Xu and Zhou people are indeed fierce and hold military power, so they must wait.

But is this old grandmother worth me waiting any longer?

After a while, the sunlight at the entrance of the cave darkened.

The person's shadow lengthened and was cast into the cave.

The people outside the cave were all watching intently.

Seeing Chu Tianshu, wearing a hooded cloak, walked inside without a sound.

He didn't bring any raw eggs.

He had to fight for speed later; that way of using raw eggs was not suitable for him, and bringing them would only be a burden.

When he first entered the cave, because he didn't have any footsteps, the grandmother guarding the ancestral hall in the depths of the cave didn't notice.

After walking in for thirty or forty meters, those poisonous insects that had not been stimulated by the flute sound gathered more and more around him because of their instinctive viciousness.

Hundreds of flower-footed spiders on the top of the cave hung down one after another, and the centipedes on the ground crawled toward him in pieces and piles.

The number of poisonous insects resting on the rock walls also increased, and they were about to gather into the "insect smoke" look around him.

Seeing Chu Tianshu took a very slow and fine, but also very long breath, then pressed his eyes into a slit and suddenly stomped his feet.

Boom!!!

The rocks on the ground were stomped out of cracks, and his figure moved like a crossbow arrow, suddenly rushing inward.

The violent speed of that kind of speed caused the insect smoke to be scattered by him at once.

Some insects bumped into his face, but before they had time to have any actions, they were scattered by the strong airflow coming toward them.

In the blink of an eye, he crossed two or three more steps and had already rushed out a full twenty or thirty meters.

The person in the depths of the cave felt something was wrong and blew the flute.

The poisonous insects in the cave were stimulated and guided.

Specific species began to fly and gather before Seeing Chu Tianshu arrived.

When Seeing Chu Tianshu arrived, those insects happened to bump into each other.

Bang!!

Violent flames exploded in the air.

But as soon as it exploded, it was split extremely rapidly by a black shadow falling from the sky.

That was Seeing Chu Tianshu's arm.

He split the most violent position in the middle of the flames with a whip hand, and his figure had already passed through it.

The flames on both sides stained the corners of his cloak, burning along the fire oil on the outer layer.

But Seeing Chu Tianshu's speed was really fast, and the cloak shook behind him like a big flag blown by a strong wind.

The flames just had a tendency to spread, but were pressed out in the strong wind and shaking.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!!

In the narrow mountain cave, one group of firelight after another exploded.

When Seeing Chu Tianshu's figure rushed out of the fifth fire group, the outer layer of the cloak on his body was completely ignited.

He was like a fire dragon flying close to the ground, rushing rapidly in the winding mountain cave.

In the position where he needed to make a sharp turn, his figure even soared into the air, and his steps stepped on the stone wall beside him one after another.

The poisonous insects in front buzzed, becoming more and more dense; many were no longer the kind of insects that could explode into flames, but were good at biting and stabbing people.

Seeing Chu Tianshu pulled the cloak over with his left hand, blocked it in front of him, and rushed wildly with his head buried.

This time, he really became a fireball moving at high speed.

The poisonous insects like clouds were bumped and startled away one after another.

The mushrooms growing in the stone cracks and the mushroom powder floating between the soil were also ignited by the firelight on his body.

A kind of pale green smoke began to drift in the cave.

The flute sound in the depths of the cave became more and more urgent.

The grandmother guarding the ancestral hall leaned against the stone wall in the depths of the cave, her eyelids too nervous to blink, her eyeballs slightly red due to dryness, and the bamboo flute in her hand was blown into a sharp whistle that could pierce stone.

But she still saw the light and shadow in the distance getting closer, and at the corner ahead, the flames flashed suddenly, and he rushed over.

Slap!!

The grandmother guarding the ancestral hall grabbed the bamboo flute in her hand in horror, suddenly changed to her right hand, and blew toward the jade flute.

"Woo—"

The sound blown out by that jade flute was extremely hollow and long.

The tone was so deep that it didn't look like a flute could play it at all, but rather like a jade xiao.

The deep cave mountain stones seemed to resonate because of this sound.

Seeing Chu Tianshu, who was flying over, suddenly groaned and his steps slowed down.

He felt as if his internal organs had been hit by something.

His body surface didn't suffer any blows, but his internal organs were directly hit; his heart was pressed, his lungs were squeezed, his stomach was shriveled, and his liver and gallbladder trembled.

The grandmother guarding the ancestral hall also covered her stomach, as if in extreme pain.

But her right hand was still holding the jade flute, using a unique breathing method, making the flute sound stop for nothing, suddenly becoming deeper and farther.

Suddenly, a roar that shattered the war drums and exploded a hand grenade completely covered the flute sound.

"Get out!!!"

Seeing Chu Tianshu spread his arms, exerted force with his internal organs, and his whole body's muscles exerted force outward, penetrating the close-fitting clothes and conducting onto the cloak on the outermost layer.

The burning cloak exploded on the spot, flying around in all directions.

The influence of the flute sound on the internal organs was suppressed at once in this violent exertion of force, and it was almost impossible to feel it.

As soon as the grandmother guarding the ancestral hall heard this bomb-like roar, she felt dark before her eyes.

Seeing Chu Tianshu slapped her face, squeezed her head against the stone wall, and she fainted instantly.

(End of chapter)