Chapter 943: Lil Thing tries hard (1/2)
That night at the Poison Sect’s forbidden grounds, Lil Thing had intended to run after the gentleman when he fell off the cliff. It’d even jumped over the edge, but ended up falling into this dimension instead. All of the poisonous creatures in this realm were strange and absurd, like jellyfish from the sea. They seemed to be simultaneously flora and fauna. Lil Thing had no idea what they actually were, but the disgusting stench they gave off was more horrific than rotten corpses. The smell had made Lil Thing vomit multiple times, but it’d gradually grown used to it in time.
Lil Thing called this scary dimension the Darkspace. It didn’t resemble a poison storage space and cut him off from everything outside, but Lil Thing could use it as a point of comparison. It had no idea what else in the world could trap it besides a poison storage space. Because Lil Thing had recognized Mama Yunxi as its master, it had a contract with her. Unless Mama Yunxi confined it to her poison storage space on purpose, it was free to go in and out. But when faced with poison storage spaces of other direct bloodline descendants of the Poison Sect, Lil Thing had no way to escape on its own. It had to wait until its cultivation level surpassed that of the space owner before it could leave. Otherwise, everything was up to the whims of the human.
If Lil Thing’s poison teeth had recovered by now, then its cultivation level in the Poison Sect would be the highest without compare. After all, no one in the world was capable of curing the poison from its fangs! Yet it had been foolish enough to let Mama Yunxi take its blood to save someone else, thus greatly injuring its vitality. Then there were the serious injuries it’d incurred at Celestial Mountain, so it had no way to recover quickly despite ingesting large amounts of nutrients. Lil Thing still had no idea which human Mama Yunxi had saved with its blood, but every time it recalled the fact, it wanted to bite that human once.
Bereft of its full powers, it could only eat poison plants like a madman to replenish its body while drawing power from Mama Yunxi’s own cultivation base. She had ascended to level two of the poison storage space precisely because of Lil Thing’s recovery, so now their cultivation advancements were linked. Although Mama Yunxi hadn’t been cultivating much recently, Lil Thing was giving its all in the poison storage space. Because of its efforts, it had affected Mama Yunxi and left her feeling exhausted. Lil Thing hadn’t stopped cultivating since it’d been locked into this space until it felt Mama Yunxi reach her limit and faint away. Now it had stopped.
It was a poison beast who knew no death, but Mama Yunxi was only a human. Her endurance couldn’t be compared to its. Currently, Lil Thing was curled up in a corner of the dim, dark space with its tail wrapped around itself like a hand cradling its body. It had been so frantic to cultivate since getting trapped that it’d lost all track of time. Now that it’d stopped, it suddenly wondered how many days had passed and remembered the gentleman.
Was the gentleman...doing well?
How could he be well after falling off a cliff?
It didn’t dare to think further, but it couldn’t help but speculate. The more it thought, the more fearful it grew. It could only make itself busy so it wouldn’t think so much. It was certain the assassin that night couldn’t be Papa Long, but his sword skills had been on par with the man. There was something familiar about him as well, but it couldn’t tell what. It had sensed the same familiarity once back at Medicine City’s conference.
Could the assassin be a direct bloodline descendant of the Poison Sect, which was why it felt the man was familiar? Could the very same assassin be the one who trapped it here?
Lil Thing had a sensitive nose capable of identifying individuals’ scents, but to determine whether the assassin was a descendant, it would have to smell his blood. Lil Thing couldn’t figure it out. If the assassin really was a bloodline descendant of the Poison Sect, then why didn’t he acknowledge Mama Yunxi? But that question was so complicated that Lil Thing only got a headache trying to figure it out. Still, what else could it think of, if not this? It couldn’t cultivate, so it had to busy its brain. Only then could it stop itself from missing the gentleman. As long as it closed its eyes, it could pretend that the entire world had grown dark.
Can I pretend the gentleman’s okay as long as I don’t think about him?
But it’d be repeatedly probing the black-robed assassin’s identity for so long that there was nothing left to think about! Lil Thing crawled to its feet and began to pace in circles. The more it paced, the faster it got until its tail was almost touching its head. What to do? It was going to think of the gentleman again, and how he’d fallen off the cliff while nursing wounds. His form had been as weak and frail as a butterfly, torn to pieces by the winds…
No!
Lil Thing screeched to a halt! It had to busy itself another way so it could stop thinking. Besides cultivation, it could still eat--gorge itself until the world came to an end. Without hesitation, Lil Thing raced to the side of a nearby vine. It was a vigorous plant entwined around a tree, but it had long swallowed it up. Every leaf on the vine was the size of a grown man’s palm and exuded sticky yellow toxic sap that dripped to the ground. The entire vine seemed to be sick, leaking sap in a disgusting way. Lil Thing climbed up the vine-covered tree without hesitation and allowed the gross sap to stick to its snow-white fur. The foul stench was even more putrid at the top, but Lil Thing only buried its head into the thicket of leaves and started munching nonstop like a madman!
Soon enough, Lil Thing lifted its head to throw up. But right after that, it started eating again. After vomiting a few more times, it stopped throwing up altogether. It had its share of nonstop eating days, so it could eat until the sky fell for all it cared. It could pretend this was a delicious poison feast, that it didn’t have to think as long as it was preoccupied, that everything would be fine as long as it stopped thinking. Lil Thing ate and ate, never knowing that the poison plants here would affect its fate drastically in the future. It had a huge appetite, so it only took a day for Lil Thing to get rid of all the plants near its vicinity. Naturally, the owner of the Darkspace could sense it as well. But he could only keep Lil Thing trapped here since he had no other choice.