Almighty Genius

Chapter 2051 - 1553: Serpent Venom! Saving a Life!

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In the dark passage, a slender figure was swiftly moving forward, with a backpack now half full on her back, acquired at some unknown time.

This was a woman, a young woman with a graceful figure, as indicated by the exposed segment of her pale pink arm.

However, upon closer inspection, there were two very clear holes on her flawless white arm...

At this moment, these two holes were slowly oozing black blood...

The woman's face appeared exceedingly pale, with her lips starting to turn a purplish-black color, obviously showing signs of severe poisoning.

Yet she gritted her teeth, forced her body to endure, quickly advancing forward along the passage... Whenever she felt she was about to succumb, she would pull out a piece of dry, tree-like material from her backpack and gnaw on it, which would slowly reduce the dark aura on her face by a few degrees!

"Almost there, almost there..."

While walking, the woman forced herself to keep moving as her consciousness began to drift. Although the dry "tree-like" material suppressed the poison within her, as she kept moving, the disturbance of her vital energy made the poison retaliate ever more fiercely, gradually overwhelming her.

Seemingly to motivate herself to persist, the woman mumbled to herself silently, comforting and encouraging herself as she pressed forward.

"Damn it..."

But her situation was deteriorating, the wound was no longer just oozing black blood, it gradually turned completely black, showing signs of spreading throughout her entire arm.

"Am I really going to die here today?"

Finally, the woman's body swayed slightly, unable to hold on any longer, tilting towards the stone wall and slowly slipping down.

Her eyelids became unbearably heavy, slowly closing... even though she wanted to reach into her backpack for more "tree-like" material, she lacked the strength to do so!

...

Qin Fang was also quite quick, tracking the trialist ahead of him along some traces... Instead of searching for treasures or herbs himself, it was much easier to rob this trialist directly!

Of course, Qin Fang was not reckless; he naturally needed to assess the opponent's strength first before deciding whether to take action or not...

Confronting a completely unfamiliar opponent, arrogance often leads to quicker death, a mistake Qin Fang would not make!

"Huh, it's a Striped Tiger Snake... Dead?"

However, when Qin Fang followed the traces left by the opponent and reached a certain place, he was surprised to find the corpse of a venomous snake.

The Striped Tiger Snake, like the Three-eyed Viper, was an extremely rare poisonous serpent with toxicity rivaling that of the Three-eyed Viper. It was also a deep-sea snake, named for the tiger-like stripes on its body.

Yet, the Striped Tiger Snake was not as arrogant as the Three-eyed Viper because it was already dead... And its strength was considerably lower, being eight leagues away from a Quasi-Spirit Beast!

But what surprised Qin Fang was...

"Someone fell victim!"

When Qin Fang examined the Striped Tiger Snake, he found bloodstains on its Poison Fang... and traces of venom injection.

This was clear that someone had the misfortune of being bitten by the Striped Tiger Snake...

Of course, such an unfortunate event came at a cost to the Striped Tiger Snake, its seven-inch spot being pierced through with a massive cavity, dying almost instantly.

"Looks like I'm going to profit again..."

Considering the situation and some other factors, Qin Fang showed a slightly eerie smile.

Just like the Three-eyed Viper, the Striped Tiger Snake was extremely toxic, with almost no salvation for those bitten... Only someone like Qin Fang, immune to poisons, would not be afraid of it.

As for others... Although it wouldn't be fair to say there's absolutely no one who can neutralize the Striped Tiger Snake's poison, such individuals are definitely rare.

Qin Fang truly didn't believe anyone could coincidentally detoxify this, especially since the Striped Tiger Snake was not a common venomous snake. It came from the deep sea, with no suitable serum or Detoxification Pill to counter it!

Without an antidote, and in such a perpetually dark maze, even Great Grandmaster-level Experts might not withstand, let alone the trialists who almost all were at the Grandmaster-level Tier.

This means there's a ninety-nine percent chance that the bitten person is certain to die...

Qin Fang suspected that the poisoned person might very well be the competitor who took the Three-Yuan Vine earlier!

Qin Fang originally intended to commit theft directly from this trialist, and now with the opponent poisoned and potentially dying or already dead, Qin Fang felt relieved and was quite pleased!

"I need to hurry, lest anyone else gets ahead of me..."

Having once been beaten to the punch, Qin Fang was now very anxious, increasing his speed significantly as he chased ahead quickly.

Of course, necessary precautions were still a must. The Striped Tiger Snake had just ambushed that trialist from the shadows, otherwise, in a face-to-face confrontation, it would not have been so easy to bite a Grandmaster-level expert.

After all, the strength of this Striped Tiger Snake was far inferior to the Three-eyed Viper, completely lacking the power to contend with a Grandmaster-level expert...

Only a sneak attack was its best option, allowing it to poison to death those much stronger experts with its weaker strength...

"Over there!"

Qin Fang sped up, and the small map quickly lit up the surrounding area, gradually gathering the nearby situation all in sight.

In less than three minutes, a figure appeared on Qin Fang's small map, now only about a hundred meters away from him.

Qin Fang just needed to take another passage to reach that person's side...

As Qin Fang had anticipated, this person was poisoned, and deeply so, with their life force weakening to an extremely low level, almost on the brink of dying from the poison...

"A woman?"

But what surprised Qin Fang was that this was a woman.

"I remember all the trialists this time were men, so how can there be an extra woman?"

It was precisely this oddity that left Qin Fang a little perplexed.

There were a total of nineteen trialists. Including Qin Fang himself, there were eighteen others, and Qin Fang had met all of them.

Qin Fang had even used scouting skills on many of them to discover their identities and backgrounds...

But Qin Fang remembered clearly that these trialists were all men, not a single woman among them... In the underground world, the strong ruled, and women were traditionally subservient to men; though there were a few exceptionally strong and domineering women, they were very rare.

And precisely because there were so few, any woman who grew into an expert was invariably famous, like Lin Shinan's wife, Shadow, for instance.

But this time, only about five or six women had come to undergo the Devil's Trial, and considering those who died in the first trial, maybe only about three survived.

And none of these three women had become elite trialists of this second trial...

Moreover, Qin Fang had never even heard of a female expert named Jiang Shan! It seemed this name didn't exist in the entire underground world...

"What's going on?"

Because he had never heard or seen her, Qin Fang was quite puzzled by this woman's appearance, leaving a big question mark in his mind.

And precisely because of the question, after thinking it over briefly, Qin Fang took big strides over to where this woman named Jiang Shan was.

"Already poisoned..."

Looking at the woman before him, she wasn't very old, around twenty-seven or twenty-eight at most, maybe just thirty, still very young.

Her appearance was quite beautiful too, but now with the venom acting, her whole body turned jet black, looking especially odd, making her appear somewhat ugly.

Jiang Shan had a backpack on her back, from which Qin Fang saw the Three-Yuan Vine poking out, indeed taken by her.

However, Qin Fang did not hurry to take the Three-Yuan Vine, becoming increasingly curious about this woman's identity instead... Qin Fang was sure that she was not a trialist, but her sneaking into the labyrinth itself was very telling.

"Seems like she really needs to be saved..."

With a big question in his heart, but no immediate answer, Qin Fang hesitated slightly before deciding to save the woman first.

So, Qin Fang pulled out a Detoxification Pill from his body and directly stuffed it into Jiang Shan's mouth, helping her breathe and dissolve the Detoxification Pill.

This was just the beginning of course...

Subsequently, Qin Fang produced silver needles with both hands, swiftly sealing Jiang Shan's head, heart, and dantian, among other vital points...

Then, using his own abundant True Qi, he slowly forced the venom that had entered her heart out, gradually pushing the poison back into Jiang Shan's arm...

When the venom flowed back into her arm, the once fair and jade-like arm turned black as coal, pitch-black as ink, and emitted a strong, nauseating stench.

Nevertheless, Qin Fang did not disdain it. After forcing the venom back, he immediately sealed the meridians in that arm with silver needles, then supported the woman's arm, sucking out the venom from the puncture wounds, mouthful by mouthful...

Pooh~~ Pooh~~ Pooh~~

As Qin Fang sucked the black venom out, mouthful by mouthful, Jiang Shan's arm gradually returned to its original color, and her face began regaining some color too, though she remained unconscious, not likely to wake up anytime soon... (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, feel free to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)