Chapter 579: Toxic Miasma

"Everyone, stop." Chen Yu reached out his hand to make the team stop. He pondered for a moment and took out several pills the size of pigeon eggs: "Toxic Miasma is breeding ahead. Take this medicine; it can prevent the toxins in the Miasma from eroding your hearts."

Everyone followed his instructions, took the medicine from Chen Yu's hand, and swallowed it in turn. The taste of this medicine was truly pungent, but this time Ye Qinglong surprisingly did not object; he was the first to swallow the pill, fearing that if he ate it a moment late, he would be poisoned.

Watching him, Chen Yu couldn't help but feel it was somewhat amusing. This guy really was "once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope."

"Brother Chen, where does the Miasma in this mountain come from?" Wei Hongye asked while walking.

"Although this place has a harsh environment, the location where it sits is also a place where Earth Veins rise. Added to that, it is surrounded by towering trees, with withered branches and leaves piling up layer upon layer on the ground, and it never sees sunlight all day long. After a long time, toxic Miasma will breed," Chen Yu said.

"So that's how it is. Fortunately, we have Mr. Chen with us for this operation; otherwise, I'm afraid we wouldn't even be able to reach this forest," Wei Hongye sighed and said: "My Heavenly Mystery Sect spends a lifetime seeking Heavenly Mystery and asking about the path of the Dao."

"Although we boast of having the ability to seek Dragon Veins and locate acupoints, and to reverse Karma, compared to Brother Chen, we are still quite lacking."

"Mr. Wei is too modest. The Heavenly Mystery Sect divines Heavenly Mystery, with a lineage passed down for over several thousand years, having experienced countless Dragon Vein shifts and the changing of dynasties. Its foundation is definitely not something my meager abilities can compare to," Chen Yu laughed.

The words Chen Yu spoke came from his heart. Although his strength was greater than Wei Hongye's, he focused on the path of Medicine and cultivation.

But regarding Feng Shui Secret Techniques like seeking Dragon Veins and locating acupoints, although he had dabbled in them, he definitely could not compare to the Heavenly Mystery Sect. After all, this thousands-of-years-old heritage was no small matter.

Just at this moment, a bodyguard suddenly let out a miserable shriek and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Liu Jun, what's wrong?" The captain, Huang Wei, stepped forward.

After he lunged forward, a colorful, two-foot-long small snake suddenly zipped off to one side with a 'whoosh'.

Huang Wei was quick-eyed and fast-handed. He raised his right hand, and with a 'whoosh', a Dagger accurately pinned that snake to a tree branch.

"What kind of snake is this?" A bodyguard reached out, intending to grab the snake down.

"Don't touch it with your hands," Chen Yu, who was behind, shouted explosively, stopping the bodyguard in time.

The bodyguard's hand trembled and he pulled it back, but that small snake flicked its tongue outward, assuming a posture of lunging forward. Although it was pinned by the Dagger, the bodyguard still felt the world go black before his eyes, and a wave of dizziness washed over him.

Chen Yu hurriedly stepped forward and lifted the injured bodyguard. He saw that the wound on the bodyguard's leg had already turned black and blue.

Chen Yu pressed down with his fingers a few times and took out a Silver Needle to seal several major acupoints around the wound.

"This snake is highly poisonous; its name is Five-Colored Fairy," Chen Yu said as he took out a Dagger and chopped the snake's head off in one stroke.

Although the snake had lost its head, its body was still twisting violently. Chen Yu took a withered branch, pressed down on the snake's body, and then used the Dagger to slice open the snake's belly to extract the snake gall.

He washed the snake gall clean with clear water, then took a bottle of white liquor and two cups from his Space Bracelet.

He poured two cups of white liquor, then used a needle to pierce the snake gall and dripped a few drops of bile into the liquor.

As soon as the bile entered the liquor, the bottle of white liquor surged, and after a moment, it turned an ink-green color.

"Drink this cup of wine," Chen Yu handed one of the cups to the bodyguard who had just tried to grab the snake with his hand: "This thing is very poisonous. If you get close to it, you will be poisoned just by smelling the scent on its body."

"Yes." The bodyguard was stunned, then hurriedly took the wine from Chen Yu's hand and drank it.

The bodyguard who had been bitten by the snake now had a pale, greenish face. Chen Yu let him take the other cup of wine in his hand, then took out a sharp scalpel and carefully cut away some muscle tissue from the bodyguard's wound.

Although not much time had passed since the injury, some of the bodyguard's muscle tissue had already necrotized, so it had to be removed; this snake venom seemed to have corrosive properties.

The bodyguard was in so much pain that he was covered in sweat, and there was not a drop of color in his face. It was clear he was enduring the pain in his body without letting himself cry out.

"Alright, it's fine now." Chen Yu finally sprinkled on some medicinal powder and bandaged him up.

"Chen Yu, didn't you say your medicine could drive away snakes, insects, rats, and ants? Why is there still a snake coming to bite us?" Ye Qinglong asked.

"I said drive away, not that it's a one-hundred-percent guarantee to drive away all poisonous insects. Some types of poisonous insects and snakes have very concentrated toxins of their own, and they aren't afraid of ordinary insect repellent at all," Chen Yu said: "So, we must be extremely careful from here on out."

Suddenly, a dangerous aura came from one side. Chen Yu turned his head abruptly and shouted: "Everyone, be careful."

Almost at the same time Chen Yu shouted, a long vine shot out from the ground with a 'whoosh' and fiercely coiled toward a bodyguard.

That bodyguard's strength was not weak either. Seeing the long vine coming, he quickly rolled on the ground, dodged the vine's attack, and then backhanded his gun out.

But the vine missed its strike, and instead coiled toward Ye Qingning.

Chen Yu was standing right beside Ye Qingning. Seeing the vine coil over, he grabbed with his right hand, holding Lichen in his grip. He raised his hand and swung the sword; Lichen let out a clear whistle, and with a 'snap', a large section of the vine was severed.

But after that vine, as thick as a child's arm, was severed, fresh blood actually flowed out from inside it.

That vine, having been injured by Chen Yu, quickly retreated to one side.

"It's a Dream-Eating Demon Marrow; we can't let it run away." Chen Yu grabbed Lichen and chased after the direction in which the long vine had disappeared.

"Everyone, stay alert." Huang Wei drew his pistol and lunged forward in a stride.

Rushing through layers of bushes, a piece of open land appeared before their eyes.

A plant with thick branches and leaves stood before them; it was the Dream-Eating Demon Marrow they had seen last time.

Only, what had appeared last time was just one of its branches; now, its true body was revealed.

Its trunk was as thick as two people could embrace, and its thick branches and leaves were covered in bright, basketball-sized flower buds.

Beneath its main body's branches and leaves lay piles of white bones, and on the bones grew the Other Shore Flower they had seen the night before last. These flowers fed on flesh and blood; the place where they lived must be littered with countless deaths and injuries.

Seeing Chen Yu and the others, the countless basketball-sized flowers on this strange plant turned their heads in unison to look at Chen Yu and Huang Wei, with the feeling that they had seen prey that made them drool.

Just at this moment, Chen Yu caught sight of a little girl curled up inside one of the leaves at the very bottom of the Dream-Eating Demon Marrow.

This little girl was about six or seven years old, wearing minority ethnic clothing. She was curled up by the leaf, seemingly in a deep sleep.

"Mr. Chen, that little girl..." Huang Wei also saw the little girl, but the things before his eyes were too bizarre; he dared not be certain whether the little girl he saw was truly a real human being.