Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 1038 - 263: Step Back, The Sea is Wide and the Sky is High_3

Chapter 1038: Chapter 263: Step Back, The Sea is Wide and the Sky is High_3

The two maids nodded obediently.

Liu Zhenhan, fully armed, had not yet reached the second floor when he heard a collective cheer. Climbing the stairs, he saw a large group of people gathered by a floor-to-ceiling window on the second floor, holding their breath in tense anticipation.

Creeping over, Liu Zhenhan wrapped his arms around Helen, who was tense with nerves. Helen jumped with fright but relaxed upon recognizing who was embracing her.

"How’s it going?" Liu Zhenhan whispered into Helen’s ear.

"The little parrot just finished detoxifying, and Yitiao needs to wait a little longer," Helen said, leaning contentedly against Liu Zhenhan’s chest.

Ning Yu, Moer, and the two Fairy Dragons stood opposite them. Seeing Liu Zhenhan, they all smiled with eyes full of unspeakable tenderness. The little parrot, which had been using its hookbill to comb Moer’s hair, flew "flurrying" to Liu Zhenhan’s shoulder upon spotting its boss, neatly arranging his punk long hair with its beak—this was the little creature’s most endearing quality.

At that moment, Yitiao’s expression and posture were quite odd. Lying back on a table, nose to the ceiling, he dared not move. Guoguo and the two Blood Infants sat on his belly. The sound of their rhythmic drumming on his "evergreen in winter" belly echoed ceaselessly. The two elderly Medusa Witch Doctors standing beside him were tense and serious, their eyes bloodshot and unwavering from Yitiao, occasionally asking, "Do you feel where it is now?"

Liu Zhenhan was also a bit nervous standing by; he had no idea what the Life Gu was, let alone its effects. Seeing Yitiao in apparent agony made Liu Zhenhan’s heart clench.

When Yitiao finally informed the Medusa Witch Doctors that the Gu had reached his throat, one of them immediately ignited a reed stick and gently waved it back and forth under Yitiao’s nostrils. In no time, Yitiao’s nostrils flared, and several golden tentacles slowly emerged. The other witch doctor quickly took out a crystal bottle and placed it beneath Yitiao’s nose.

As the scent of the burning reed stick filled the air, a yellow, centipede-like creature stretched Yitiao’s nostrils wide and forcefully squeezed out through his nose, plunging with a "plop" into the clear crystal bottle. The Medusa Witch Doctor hastily capped the bottle.

Liu Zhenhan felt goosebumps at the sight of the centipede-like creature in the crystal bottle. It resembled a water spider or a stick insect, its body gleaming with gold and bearing over a dozen thin, long appendages, yet it had a triangular praying mantis-like head with eyes as red as heated iron.

"Oh my!" Yitiao sat up abruptly, retching and expelling a gush of clear water from his throat.

"Does this count as the detoxification being complete?" Liu Zhenhan was a bit unclear about the situation, "Is that creature in the bottle the Life Gu?"

"Yes! It’s this thing that tormented me all night, moving up and down inside my belly!" Yitiao nodded to his boss, pointing at the two Medusa Witch Doctors.

"If it doesn’t traverse your entire body, how can the Life Gu cleanse all the toxins from your blood?" The Medusa Witch Doctor spoke sharply.

"Yitiao, don’t tell me you swallowed that centipede-like thing," Liu Zhenhan said laughingly, "It’s pretty disgusting, it must have been tough on you."

"No!" Yitiao shook his head, "When I swallowed it, it was just a tiny, black thing, like a silkworm seed. Who knew it would be this big when it came out."

"Yitiao~" Ning Yu gave Yitiao, who was being sly despite making a good deal, a reproachful look, then turned to the Medusa Witch Doctors and smiled apologetically, "Masters, please don’t be offended, we in Caiyu City are truly grateful for your selfless help."

"There’s no need for politeness, we were simply following orders," one of the Medusa Witch Doctors sneered, "Now our Life Gu is ruined, I wonder if it’s your good luck or our misfortune."

Hearing this, Ning Yu felt slightly uneasy, "Well, to compensate for the masters’ loss, Caiyu City can offer some appropriate compensation... What do you think...?"

"Save it!" the other Medusa Witch Doctor laughed bitterly, his tone containing unrestrained resentment, "Compensation? What can you offer to compensate? Our Life Gu is something we can only cultivate one of in a lifetime! Can you compensate for that?"

"Hehehe... If we don’t compensate, what can you do?" Yitiao sneered at the Medusa Witch Doctors, "You already performed the treatment, so why bother saying more? I warn you both, don’t make trouble for yourselves!"

"You..." The two Medusa Witch Doctors were nearly faint with anger, now having learned what it meant to cross a bridge and draw planks after it.

"Masters, please don’t be angry. He always speaks like this; don’t take it too personally," Liu Zhenhan intervened, holding back the two Snake-men Witch Doctors who were about to leave in a huff, "Since Ning Yu already promised compensation, I will make sure to keep that promise."

"Your Highness Richard, we are not greedy for wealth!" The held Witch Doctor’s face reddened with anger as he turned to look at Liu Zhenhan, "Do you think Life Gu can be bought with money alone? Do you think..."