Chapter 271 — A Pair of Twin Sisters
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
"The little miracle doctor says such amusing things. You are still at the Five Luminaries realm, while the Little Poison King and we sisters are at the Seven Stars realm. Besides, the Empress Dowager gave us treasures precisely to deal with the Little Poison King. With us sisters here, if the Little Poison King dares come, he will surely be taken down by the two of us!
" Shen Mu shook his head and stopped trying to persuade them to leave.
"Pill masters kill without regard to realm. You are too naive.
I alone can poison several Heaven-Man realm experts to death without breaking a sweat, let alone the Little Poison King. If you insist on following me, then be on your guard; I fear I will not be able to look after you. " The two maids giggled without stopping. The streets were crowded. The two maids carried their lanterns one before and one behind; lanterns in broad daylight were quite conspicuous, but they wore palace attire, and no one came forward to question them.
The Imperial Academy was a good distance from the palace, and they walked six or seven li without incident. Shen Mu refined pills as he walked, refining all the way, using up the several packets of herbs he had been carrying; then he reached his hand into the Taotie Pouch, and one could see only his arm and shoulder trembling faintly, but not what pill-refining technique his hand was performing inside the pouch, nor what pills he was refining there.
The two maids were very alert; along the way, any fly or spider was cut down by the sword light from their lanterns and could not come near them. As they walked, a cool wind suddenly blew up, and the two maids at once stirred their vital essence; the light of the lanterns abruptly blazed bright, forming two great domes of radiance that covered them over and kept the wind out. One of the maids laughed.
"Is this all the Little Poison King has. . .
" She had barely spoken when her delicate face turned black and she toppled straight backward.
The maid behind her also pitched to the ground with a thud, unable to move.
Ling Yuxiu was stunned.
She hurriedly looked around. "Why are we all right.
. .
" Thud.
She fell on her back.
After the three women fell, several dark tentacles crawled out of the ground, bristling with sharp spines; the three had been pricked on the calf by the underground tentacles and so were poisoned.
Shen Mu flicked his fingers, and the tentacles writhed wildly, hissing as they dissolved into puddles of water. The ground shook; something enormous seemed to be hidden beneath it, withdrawing little by little. Shen Mu took out three spirit pills and suppressed the poison in the three women, bringing them back to their senses.
Suddenly a muffled grunt came from afar: "You gave my precious darling a tonic? " Boom!
The earth shook and split; house after house collapsed, and out of the ground burst a monstrous insect more than ten zhang tall and over thirty zhang long, covered in tentacles, a king insect the Little Poison King had raised!
The Little Poison King had just summoned this king insect to his side when Shen Mu's tonic made its body swell and expand beyond all control.
At that moment the Little Poison King was sprawled on the insect's back in utter disarray. "Still not making your move? " Shen Mu said to the two maids beside him.
The two maids were still somewhat dazed, but at his words they stirred all their vital essence into their lanterns, and the lantern light shone like swords upon the king insect; countless rays of sword light pierced it through and through, riddling it like a sieve!
The Little Poison King took several sword strikes and suddenly turned into a wisp of poison smoke that burrowed into the ground. The two maids hurriedly raised their lanterns to shine at the ground, and under the light the earth turned transparent; the lantern light could actually reach dozens of zhang deep.