With the bandits’ hushed whispers, Xie Lin Lang got a rough idea of what she was heading into.
Xiang Yun Yi noticed and immediately drove all those nosy bandits away.
He raised his eyebrows at her, “So? Are you scared? If you’re scared to go down there then it’s your loss, and your Buddha beads are mine!”
His idea was as simple as this. As long as Xie Lin Lang gets scared and forfeits, then he can easily win the Buddha beads without any effort!
Xie Lin Lang laughed lightly, “Scared? All these years of living and I have never been scared even once! Only, we agreed to gamble life but why am I the only one at risk? Isn’t this gamble unfair towards me?”
“What? Unfair?”
Xiang Yun Yi smiled slyly, “Gambling life is naturally the gambling of lives! You use your life to gamble, and I, on the other hand, use the life of the person you want to save! You must know, the things that you’re looking for, there are no more than ten people in this world who can provide these to you. If your friend could wait that long, then you wouldn’t have had to come to me…
Since my medicine can save his life, then I’ll use his life to fulfill your gamble. Is this still unfair?”
Xie Lin Lang paused for a moment, then gave him a big thumbs up.
“Leader, as expected, you’re really brilliant! Alright…your gamble, I accept it!” As he said, she really couldn’t afford to wait any longer. She had to obtain the medicine by today!
Finished speaking, she lowered her head, bent down, and began tying up her pants appearing as if she really planned to go down there.
Dead set that she wouldn’t dare go down there, seeing her like this, Xiang Yun Yi was completely shocked!
“You’re not serious, are you? You’re really planning on going down?”
His brows creased, “Do you know where this is? Little bro, you’ve never heard of the infamous Chai* Valley, have you?”
*虿[chài]–an ancient name for a kind of scorpion.
After all, a couple of martial arts experts also came here before, wearing full battle outfits and armed equipment yet they all still died in Chai Valley. Listening to this kids breathing technique, it was clear that she wasn’t some martial arts expert. Having this much resolve and courage, she wasn’t insane, was she?
Xie Lin Lang lifted her brows at him, “If I don’t go down, you’re going to just give me the medicine?”
“Impossible!”
“There you have it then,” She rolled her eyes at him, continuing to tie her sleeves tighter.
She was fine with being bit by poisonous bugs, but if they were to crawl into her clothing, then she really might go crazy!
Seeing her determination and not even a single bit of reluctance, Xiang Yun Yi couldn’t help but ask, “The person you’re rescuing is your lover, isn’t it? Who would’ve thought that you’re so young, yet so passionate for love!”
As it’s his second time asking the same question, it was obvious he was very curious. After Xie Lin Lang was done tightening all the outer layers of clothing, she turned around and glanced at him.
How could he describe her expression? Unsullied and determined, yet Xiang Yun Yi didn’t know if it was his imagination, but he had always felt that in Xie Lin Lang’s eyes, there contained something bigger…something sparkling ablaze.
“It’s not only love that is worthy of exchanging for a life.”
Xie Lin Lang lifted her hand and tied her hair* tight, and smiled, “The person I’m rescuing is my benefactor!”
*In transmigration novels, often both men and women will have long hair. So Qin Jue has long hair too~
Then she jumped just like that!
Xiang Yun Yi was startled and couldn’t help but step forward a few steps. But the chilliness in the air rushing toward his face immediately sobered him up!
The malice of Chai Valley cannot be experienced purely from hearing its name. Yet all of the people who have experienced it are all dead!
Will Xie Lin Lang be the next victim to not be able to receive an official burial after death as well?
After Xie Lin Lang descended, because she was still on the very edge, the poisonous creatures didn’t make a move for the time being, but only stared at her silently.
Being stared at by the cold-blooded creatures was extremely uncomfortable. It was as if she had been marked by something, a label she couldn’t shake off even if she tried.
Xie Lin Lang looked at those densely layered bugs crawling on the floor and felt her blood freeze. But remembering her goal for being here, that skin crawling feeling faded by a lot.
Xiao Xi told her that Qin Jue’s body was in a very terrible shape, with his inner injuries and outer wounds forming hundreds of holes and thousands of scars.
But there was one positive note from all this. And it’s that with his current body condition, it’s the most suitable time to get rid of his innate poison as well!
The only problem was that it’s very hard to find the medicine to remove the poison. So if she was to give up this chance, who knows how long it’ll take until this type of opportunity presents itself again.
Thinking thus, she took a step into the Chai Valley’s domain!
As expected, the moment she crossed the threshold, all the poisonous snakes began to move, raising their heads and heading in her direction!
Xie Lin Lang didn’t dare hesitate. After she had spotted a blotch of flamboyant red color belonging to the FenXiang Flower, she began to run towards it at her quickest speed!
However, as the valley was completely filled with poisonous snakes and bugs, no matter how fast she was, it was inevitable she would step on them. Ignoring the already impossible to describe sensation of stepping on the creatures and only talking about the pain from their bite from being stepped on made Xie Lin Lang wrinkle her brows painfully!
But she didn’t stop even after getting bit, still maintaining the same speed, targeting her objective, and grabbing it in one swoop!
Seeing her get bit, Xiang Yun Yi sighed, already marking her as dead in his mind.
As he expected, other than having an impenetrable rock solid body, who would be able to leave Chai Valley alive?
On top of that, after being bitten, the faster the person runs, the faster the poison will spread throughout the body, especially for Xie Lin Lang who had been bitten by multiple snakes. Her white pants were stained with dots of red, and it probably wouldn’t take more than a few more seconds until she falls on the ground, never to wake again…
Xie Lin Lang was oblivious to the thoughts towards her. At this moment, she was reaching her hand out to grab a piece of PuLuo Root but her hand was suddenly stunned by a poisonous scorpion hidden under a leaf!
She retracted her hand under reflex but the back of her hand had already begun to swell up. Along with the spreading of purple blood through her veins also came the feeling of numbness…
She stood there paused for two whole seconds, not because she wanted to, but because her body had taken in too many different kinds of highly toxic poison that her body wasn’t able to adapt fast enough to them.
Xiang Yun Yi sighed again, finally shouting at her.
“That’s enough, little brother, just come back! You already have poison running through your heart. There’s no point in heading any deeper. Seeing that you’re about to die and the beads are going to me, I’ll agree to help rescue the one you want to rescue. As for you, come back now so your corpse will at least be in one piece!”
Xie Lin Lang was originally in a trance but her mind bounced back instantaneously after hearing him!
She turned her head and glanced at Xiang Yun Yi, suddenly, reached her hand and grabbed a small dotted snake that had climbed on her shoulder and was getting ready to bite her.
She chuckled quietly, “They want my life but––are they worthy?”
As she said that, her fingers’ hold began to tighten, and that small desperately struggling snake was crushed just like that!
Xiang Yun Yi was bewildered! When he actually went back to look at the situation inside the valley in more detail, he sucked in a violent breath!
Because there were too many poisonous creatures in the valley, he didn’t notice it before. But as the numbers added up, it became impossible for him not to notice…He saw that all of the poisonous bugs and snakes that had bitten Xie Lin Lang were shriveled up and dead in place on the floor! No matter if it was the extremely toxic HuaGuan Snake, or the QianZu Bug with its heart-piercing poison, none of them were spared from death!
He could hardly believe what he was seeing! No wonder she dared go down there, because her blood was actually more poisonous than these poisonous creatures in the first place!
As all these thoughts flashed through his mind, Xie Lin Lang had already grabbed the last medicine, HuanHun Herb…and by this time, her whole body had poisonous creatures crawling and hanging from it. In all honesty, the disgusting crawling sensation made her more uncomfortable than if they were to bite her instead!
After tossing all the poisonous creatures off her body, Xie Lin Lang used her completely ‘mediocre’ GongFu to climb back up from Chai Valley.
Seeing her head in his direction, Xiang Yun Yi immediately took three steps back!
What if Xie Lin Lang still had some poisonous creatures remaining on her body? He couldn’t guarantee that he could stay alive long enough to consume the antidote if he was ever bitten.