Xia Lan: From Meeting a Martial Arts Girl

Chapter 56 7 inches

Not right.

It's too quiet.

The artillery fire stopped, the rain stopped, even the wind stopped.

He opened his eyes.

Liara was still asleep in his arms. Lu Siye gently moved her head away from his chest and placed it against the cave wall, then slowly poked his head out of the cave entrance.

fog.

The outside was shrouded in a layer of fog.

The fog is approaching the cave entrance.

Lu Siye retreated back into the cave, took a deep breath, and then raised his right hand.

There wasn't much Yuan Qi left in my body. The previous battle had consumed nearly 80% of it, and the remaining 20% ​​was only enough to maintain basic bodily functions and release Yuan Qi on a small scale once.

But he did not hesitate.

He drew out most of his remaining primordial energy and released it from his palm, forming a barrier like a water curtain at the cave entrance.

Yuanqi Shield.

The fog surged to the cave entrance, but was blocked by the Yuan Qi Shield.

The white mist crashed against the barrier, scattering to both sides, bypassing the cave entrance, and continuing to surge forward.

Inside the cave, the air was still clean and breathable.

However, the Yuanqi Shield was being eroded at a rate visible to the naked eye.

There's something in the fog; it's not just ordinary water vapor.

Lu Siye squatted down, leaning against the cave wall, his eyes fixed on the fog outside the cave entrance.

His gaze fell on a tree next to the cave entrance.

There was a squirrel next to the tree.

The squirrel's body remained in the same position it had when it was alive.

But its fur had turned white, and there were no external injuries on its body, though its body had hardened.

It died the moment it came into contact with the fog.

miasma.

Lu Siye's pupils contracted slightly.

It is a living thing, an existence composed of countless spore-like organisms.

It is not picky about food, time, or place.

It simply moves, and wherever it goes, everything that is alive dies.

He intended to use his detection spell to see how extensive the fog was.

He closed his eyes, and the vital energy within his body began to circulate according to the path of the Detection Technique.

A snake bit me.

It didn't come from outside the cave entrance, but from a crack in the cave wall.

The snake wasn't big, about the thickness of an adult's little finger, and it was completely black.

It shot out from the crack in the rock, so fast that Lu Siye's eyes only caught a black afterimage.

Then he felt a sharp pain on the right side of his neck.

He reached out and grabbed the snake, then flung it against the cave wall.

The snake bounced off the rock, landed on the ground, twitched twice, and then remained still.

Its mouth was still open, revealing four venomous fangs.

There wasn't enough time to circulate one's Qi.

Lu Siye felt the wound on his neck burning.

The toxins were invading his body.

He cannot be distracted from eliminating the toxins.

The Yuanqi Shield is still in operation. If he removes the Yuanqi Shield to circulate his Qi and expel the poison, the miasma will rush into the cave entrance within three seconds, and he and Liara will instantly turn into that squirrel.

He glanced at Liara in the corner.

Lu Siye closed his eyes and made a decision.

He poured all the remaining primordial energy into the barrier.

Then everything went black before his eyes.

......

......

Confused and disoriented.

Lu Siye's consciousness floated up and down in the darkness.

He felt the wound on his neck changing.

It's getting cold.

The toxins are being eliminated.

He didn't clean it himself.

His vital energy was exhausted, and his dantian was completely empty.

Someone is helping him.

He struggled, using all his strength, and opened his eyes.

The barrier is still there, though it's a bit dimmer than before, but it's still functioning.

The miasma is still outside.

He was leaning against something.

It wasn't rock, it wasn't the ground, but something elastic.

He could feel the texture of the fabric and the softness of the muscles beneath his head as he rested his head on something.

He smelled a familiar scent.

Liara's legs.

He was leaning against Liara's legs.

She sat on the floor with her legs outstretched, resting his head on her lap.

Blood was also smeared on the corner of her mouth, extending all the way to her chin.

She sucked out the toxins for him, using her mouth to suck out the blood mixed with toxins from the wound on his neck, bite by bite.

Lu Siye reached out and touched his neck.

The wound is still there, but it doesn't hurt much anymore.

He sat up, pulled Liara's head into his arms, supporting the back of her head with one hand and placing the other on her lower abdomen, at the dantian point.

Then he began to circulate his Qi.

The vital energy in the body is almost zero.

But it's okay.

Qi is everywhere in the world. As long as he can breathe, sense things, and circulate his meridians, he can absorb those energy particles floating in the air into his body and transform them into his own primordial Qi.

This process was very slow, much slower than his usual rate of recovering his vital energy.

Because his body is very weak now, his meridians have become fragile and narrow due to the erosion of toxins.

The Qi in the air was like countless invisible threads, seeping into his pores and advancing along his meridians little by little.

He carefully poured the primordial energy he had painstakingly collected, drop by drop, into Liara's dantian, and then guided the primordial energy to spread along her meridians to neutralize the invading toxins.

This is a very long process.

I don't know how much time has passed.

It could be ten minutes, it could be an hour, it could be longer.

The primordial energy shield at the cave entrance is gradually darkening.

But Liara's complexion was indeed improving.

The purple on her lips faded, and they returned to their original pink color.

Her eyelashes fluttered once, then twice, then three times, and then slowly opened.

"You're so handsome, little brother."

Lu Siye was speechless.

He ignored her and continued to circulate his Qi to cleanse the last bit of toxins remaining in her body.

Liara didn't mind his silence; she lay in his arms, her eyes half-open and half-closed.

About five minutes later, Lu Siye finally confirmed that the toxins in her body had been completely cleared.

He withdrew his hand, let out a long breath, and leaned against the cave wall.

Liara rolled over, buried her face in his chest, and rubbed against him.

"You saved me once," her voice muffled against his chest, "and I saved you once. We're even."

"I was already detoxifying before you saved me," Lu Siye said.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Liara looked up at him, a smirk playing on her lips. "You were completely out of it back then, like a dead man. If it weren't for me..."

Her words were interrupted by the sounds outside.

Footsteps.

Many footsteps.

Soldier.

Lu Siye frowned.

Why would soldiers be approaching this area?

The miasma hasn't dissipated yet; it's foggy everywhere outside. Going in means certain death.

Unless... they weren't approaching the cave entrance, but were fleeing something.

What could be more terrifying than miasma, that would make soldiers risk being poisoned by it to run this way?

Before he could figure it out, a loud bang suddenly came from outside the cave entrance.

boom!

Lu Siye had no time to think.

He scooped Liara up in his arms, pushed off the ground with his feet, and channeled all his vital energy into his legs, launching a short-distance lunar chase.

His body was propelled out 0.5 seconds before the cave entrance completely collapsed.

A loud crash of collapsing rocks came from behind.

If they had been half a second later, he and Liara would have been buried underneath.

Lu Siye carried Liara as they ran through the fog.

He couldn't use Moon Chase anymore, and his Yuan Qi was depleted, so he could only run, running at top speed.

He stepped on something soft, neither like rock nor soil.

He glanced down at it.

It was a corpse.

More than one.

He would step on a body every few steps he ran.

One, two, three, five, ten.

The corpses lay scattered haphazardly in the fog.

That thing.

Lu Siye ran and ran, and he could feel something chasing him from behind.

He glanced back.

Winged Fire Serpent.

No, it's not the Winged Fire Serpent.

It is a winged fire serpent, but it is not a winged fire serpent.

Its body is still the same size, and it still has that serpentine shape.

But its scales have changed.

It's no longer dark red, but green.

Why did the scales turn green?

Lu Siye didn't have time to think it through.

The winged fire serpent is too fast.

You can't outrun them.

Lu Siye knew he couldn't outrun them.

His vital energy was almost depleted, and his physical strength was rapidly declining. He was carrying someone in his arms, while the thing behind him was at least five times faster than him.

At this speed, it will catch up with him in ten seconds at most, then swallow him whole or smash him into a meat patty with its tail.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, each one a dead end.

You can't beat them, you can't outrun them, you can't hide from them, you can't conceal yourself from them.

Then a chaotic sound rang out.

"Seven inches."

It's very brief.

Very peaceful.

No further explanation is needed.

Lu Siye stopped.

It wasn't despair, nor was it giving up; rather, he understood the meaning of chaos.

Seven inches.

The snake's seven-inch spot.

It's not the location of the heart.

That's a misconception from folklore; a real snake's heart is located further forward.

However, the seven-inch mark is indeed a vital spot for snakes.

The most vulnerable vertebra, the section that connects the head and the body.

If that vertebra is damaged, the snake's nervous system will be disrupted, and the entire body below the head will lose control.

The Winged Fire Serpent is not an ordinary snake, but it is still serpentine in shape.

Lu Siye turned around and pulled Liya behind him protectively.

Liara stood behind him, wondering what he was up to.

But she saw his expression, and then she closed her eyes.

"The realm of lust."

The force spread outwards from her center, in concentric circles and waves, covering an area of ​​tens of meters around her.

The winged fire serpent paused for a moment.

Its head tilted slightly, and the dark red flames in its eye sockets flickered, as if it were trying to determine the source of this power, or to confirm where it had smelled this scent before.

One second.

enough.

The power of chaos struck the winged fire serpent's scale at its vital spot in that instant.

The emerald green scale shattered rapidly before the power of chaos.

Lu Siye's right hand was already raised.

Wind and Sun - Cold River Snow.

The fire serpent's body stiffened abruptly, and all its movements stopped in that instant.

Lu Siye did not stop.

At the same time, he extended his left hand, palm facing forward, and zero force was drained away in that instant.

Zero Fiend struck the spot where the ice spike had pierced.

The winged fire serpent's body trembled violently.

not enough.

Dry sky, cracked frost.

Kui Mulang's moves.

Countless golden blades simultaneously slashed at the wounds of the winged fire serpent from all directions.

Those forces penetrated deep into the weak points, exerting their power simultaneously in the most vulnerable areas.

The winged fire serpent finally cried out.

That roar was so loud it sounded like the sky was falling.

Lu Siye's eardrums almost ruptured in that instant.

The winged fire serpent's body writhed violently, its tail lashing wildly at the ground.

The miasma was dispelled by its roar, revealing the sky and the distant horizon.

The miasma is dissipating.

At the same time, the sound of dozens of helicopters could be heard from above.

A huge net was hanging below the helicopter. The material of the net did not look like ordinary rope, but rather like metal wire.

The net covered it.

The winged fire serpent struggled violently the moment its body touched the net.

Its tail thrashed, its body twisted, and flames shot from its head as it tried to burn the net.

But the net didn't burn, didn't break, and didn't even deform.

The silvery-white mesh glowed in the flames, becoming even brighter.

Lu Siye and Liara exchanged a glance.

No need to speak.

They both saw the same thing in each other's eyes.

They both extended their right hands at the same time.

Then two black lines emerged from the mark of sin.

Two lines shot towards the winged fire serpent simultaneously, their tips piercing the serpent's scales and penetrating inside.

A red medium traveled along the line.

The winged fire serpent began to struggle violently.

Its body writhed wildly, flames spewing from its head and distorting the surrounding air.

The helicopter shook violently as it struggled, and the pilot did his best to stabilize the fuselage. The roar of the engine was so sharp that it became ear-piercing.

But as time went on and more and more of the red medium was drained away, the winged fire serpent's struggles weakened.

Its tail stopped thrashing, its body stopped writhing, and it lay limply on the ground, the flames on its head extinguished.