Chapter 324 — The Poisoner and the Divine Physician
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What the strange beast spat from its mouth was a pearl, shedding a green radiance that bathed everything around in a jade-green glow — and it was not the pearl itself that shone, but what lay within it: something like an azure dragon swimming inside the pearl, and it was the dragon's light that lit the world around them. Xiong Xiyu's expression shifted slightly at the sight of the green light, and she turned her head at once: "The Azure Mystic Water Dragon Pearl of my True Heaven Palace!
" Shen Mu looked back, and saw that the pearl had already grown to more than a zhang across, and the azure dragon within it had grown clearer still, swimming joyfully inside it; the flower maidens that had been pouncing at Yu Bochuan and the others were shone upon by the green light and in an instant turned to wood, becoming wooden carvings, their bodies rigid, frozen in midair.
Po po po — sounds came from within their bodies, and green sprouts soon burst out all over the woodified girls, and then branches drew forth, dressing them in glossy green. And the tentacles behind them, which were the root tendrils of the root-tendril monster, likewise turned to hard wood and could not stir. Yu Bochuan led his host charging forward, and the horned berserk-ape beast held the pearl high in both hands, following close behind the crowd; wherever the pearl's light fell, flower maiden after flower maiden was frozen in place, each in a different attitude, every posture distinct, and no two the same.
"The Azure Mystic Water Dragon Pearl? " Shen Mu was briefly startled.
That a pearl like this could actually restrain a monster such as the root-tendril demon — truly a treasure beyond compare!
"The holy treasure of my True Heaven Palace has been taken by them as well! " Xiong Xiyu gave a cold humph, reached out a hand from afar, and the beast felt the Azure Mystic Water Dragon Pearl upon its palms fly up at once; greatly alarmed, it hastily sprang up and flung itself upon the pearl, trying to press it back down.
Several other experts of the Heaven-Human realm beside Yu Bochuan burst out their vital essence as well, urging the Azure Mystic Water Dragon Pearl on, contending with Xiong Xiyu; the pearl floated in midair, and for a brief moment the two sides were locked in stalemate, each striving to master this holy treasure.
The two white bats wheeled around and flew over at once, spinning in midair and shooting out countless fine hairs at Yu Bochuan and the rest, wanting to help, wanting to seize the pearl.
In the blink of an eye the two white bats were stripped clean of every hair — their hairs had long since been refined into a strange treasure, hairs like needles, and if one were struck, the hairs would turn exceedingly soft and burrow into the body, killing in an instant!
At the same time the dragon qilin shook its body, and dragon scales, one after another, like sharp-edged shields, howled and spun as they sliced toward Yu Bochuan and the others! In a moment the dragon qilin was clean and bare, stripped to the skin, naked as the day it was born, with only a few qilin hairs left on the tip of its dragon tail and on its great head.
Xiong Xiyu's flower-like face paled, and she said in panic, "Do not attack! " Before her words had died away, the hairs shot out by the two white bats were shone upon by the green light of the Azure Mystic Water Dragon Pearl and turned to wood at once, falling to the ground with a shua shua shua.
The two white bats tried to withdraw their hairs, but found they had lost all sense of them; the brothers stared dumbstruck, hugging their shoulders, at a loss.