Chapter 196: Parted Ways... Poisonous Insects in South China (2/2)

After pretending, Junior Leopard changed his costume again and went to South Yuezhou State overnight as Xiao.

”Now is the best time. Everyone in Jianghu is focusing on Shuzhou. Doing something in Yuezhou will never get too much attention. I might as well take a chance to get the Blue Moon Pearl. It should be hard for Golden Rooster to get away anyway.”

He considered it in this way. However, when he arrived in Yuezhou, he changed his mind.

It was because the situation in Yuezhou was more complicated than he thought.

The Governor Mansion of South Yuezhou State was in Goldenrim Commandery in Yuezhou. The regional city's city wall of Goldenrim Commandery was much shorter than Qinlingjun City's. Compared with tall mountain-like walls of Qinlingjun City's, it was just like a fortified village. However, Junior Leopard felt a sense of extreme danger. Greenblack moss covered the city walls seemed like no big deal, but there was a faint fishy smell in the air, which made Junior Leopard uncomfortable.

No, it should be said that it made him extremely comfortable.

As a matter of fact, as soon as he approached the city walls, his Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique had a telepathic connection. It worked and vaporized the smell which he breathed in his belly.

At this point, Junior Leopard realized that the city walls had been emitting poison gas. Every man who entered Goldenrim Commandery would inhale a bellyful of poison gas.

”What the hell is this place? Why are such things on the city walls? Isn't that deliberately killing people?” Junior Leopard queried in his heart.

Looking at the people around him, he was amazed. The people inside and outside the regional city looked rosy and refreshed without a hint of poisoning.

Not to mention the officers and soldiers who guarded the city gate. They were in high spirits.

”It's weird. This is clearly poisonous. Why are these people so energetic?” Junior Leopard swaggered toward the gate of Yuezhou as he marveled privately.

His present attire was exactly what he was dressed up in for the day of bride kidnapping. But he didn't wear the mask because he was afraid of getting into trouble. However, he had done a lot of work on his face to make himself look a decade older than he was. Hence no one could see his true identity.

Besides, he was obviously dressed up like a man in the martial arts world. The officers and soldiers at the city gate were all discerning. When he came with a cold air, leading a horse, they naturally dared not provoke him, but they secretly memorized his appearance. By the time he entered the city, they had reported to the Garrison Mansion, reminding the officers, soldiers, and guards of the regional city to pay more attention to him.

Actually, it was the most applicable method all over the world.

The gatekeepers of the city gate were mere finger men. For those who were dressed in strange attire and were hard to deal with, the official did not want to provoke them, let alone the gatekeepers. Every city had a tolerant attitude towards people in the martial arts world. You could come and live in the city, but you could not make trouble here.

As long as you didn't make trouble here, the city would never mess with you. They would make you comfortable here until you went away.

Therefore, Junior Leopard did not have any trouble along the way.

In the city, he went around and soon easily found Flyingcrane Restaurant, because it was a very famous restaurant in Goldenrim Commandery City, which should be a five-star hotel in his previous life.

After ordering a room in Flyingcrane Restaurant, he settled down there and waited for Golden Rooster.

Although he just came to Goldenrim Commandery City, he could clearly tell its differences from Zhonghe City and Qinlingjun City.

There was a strange smell everywhere. It was extremely faint. If he did not have strong five senses beyond those of ordinary people, he would not have felt it. This strange smell came from tiny insects floating in the air.

After entering the city, an instinctive sense of danger had almost made his Fiery Eyes automatically open again. Forcing down the impulse, he opened his Fiery Eyes after settling down in Flyingcrane Restaurant.

As soon as he opened the Fiery Eyes, he was stunned by what he saw.

There were insects permeating the air everywhere. The insects were twice as small as the dust in the air and their bodies were grey. If you didn't look carefully, you would not feel them and might even treat them as ordinary dust.

Junior Leopard didn't know the origin of these insects, but he knew that the insects that filled the air were not good.

”It's weird. How could this be? I have heard that South China was humid and sultry, full of poisonous insects and beasts, but not as exaggerated as this! The insects are small, but they can't hide from martial artists. With a close look, they can discover them and soon the news will spread across the world. But why is there never such a rumor in Jianghu? Have these insects just come up recently?”

Junior Leopard was full of confusion, but he didn't dare to neglect it. You knew, in the midst of these tiny insects, even if he was not hurt, he felt sick and numb on the scalp. Then, he poured out the Internal Qi of Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire in his body to remove all the insects in his room.

It was at this time that Junior Leopard discovered some characteristics of these insects. It seemed that they were afraid of fire. As long as the temperature exceeded 70 degrees centigrade, they would be steamed, and even if inhaled, they would die soon. It was just that they would leave a trail of faint odor. The odor was too weak, and they were too small, so the smell was weak even if thousands of them accumulated together. Moreover, the climate here was humid and sultry, and the air was very smelly. Thus it was hard to notice.

”Even if the smell is extremely weak, it can't hide from masters' and experts' spiritual mind!” Wondering in his mind, Junior Leopard placed the Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique in his Dantian. After his cleaning, there were no tiny poisonous insects in the whole room. However, his doubts deepened.

At this moment, he felt a heat in his arms and something seemed to be reacting.

”This is...” Reaching into his arms, his expression suddenly became strange. It was the Emerald Pearl which he acquired from the Monster Toad in a deep pool in Misty Mountain.

Getting the bead and after a trial, Junior Leopard discovered its function, detoxification.

It was a Detoxicating Bead.

Although he did not know that how many kinds of poisons it could detoxicate, it detoxicated all poisons that Junior Leopard had experimented with.

That was in Junior Leopard's expectation. The Monster Toad was a giant poisonous monster, so the bead it cultured was naturally linked to poison. It was either going to be toxic or detoxifying.

Junior Leopard had already heard that this place was full of miasma, poisonous insects, and beasts, so he stayed vigilant. He took the bead with him when he left in case of an accident.

Junior Leopard almost forgot about it because there were no poisonous insects or anything like that along the journey. Unexpectedly, it reacted at this time.

Taking the Detoxicating Bead in his hand, Junior Leopard felt a gust of heat emanating from it. The heat emanated regularly like the pulse of the human body. With the pulse, there was a very deep light from within the Emerald Pearl.

”It's interesting. Is it not a Detoxicating Bead but an egg?” Junior Leopard thought to himself. The thought that if this was an egg, it would probably hatch a strange Monster Toad, made him involuntarily shiver and he dared not think of it anymore.

Before he could figure it out, something more bizarre happened. The frequency of the bead's heat rose sharply to pulse several times every second from original to pulse once every three or four seconds as if it was summoning something. With the pulsation, the door and windows, which had been tightly closed began to rustle.

Junior Leopard's expression made a sharp change. Through the cracks of the door and windows, a lot of gray fog darted to the Detoxicating Bead in his hand like a moth to the fire. Junior Leopard saw clearly that the fog was made up of the tiny poisonous insects that had just been all over the air. At first, the fog was wisps and rays, but soon it formed a huge pile and went straight to the Detoxicating Bead.

After these gathered poisonous insects rushed to the Detoxicating Bead, the Detoxicating Bead suddenly lit up as if something in it was aroused. It was emitting a kind of soft green light, and then naturally, the pulse disappeared.

As more and more poisonous insects rushed to the Detoxicating Bead, the radiance of the bead was growing. Gradually, Junior Leopard was wrapped in it. At his feet, the poisonous insect carcasses began to pile up.