Chapter 21, Poison Practice 2
Jiang Shanghua didn't know how long he sat there. Ah Qing left, and the two disciples who caught hares still didn't come back. Seeing that the setting sun had already set on the sea in the west, the rays of light in the sky reflected the cliffs of the West Mountain red.
Suddenly, Jiang Shanghua smelled a foul smell. It was light at first, but gradually became stronger, causing him to cover his nose.
He looked down and saw that the smell was coming from the stone holes!
Jiang Shanghua was shocked. Could it be that the creature in the cave was about to crawl out? He quickly grabbed the wooden box, opened the small door of the wooden box, and placed the wooden box at the entrance of the hole!
Such a bad smell made him unable to stay on the boulder and hurried to the cliff of Shenxianmen. The wind was blowing eastward, and Jiang Shanghua finally took a breath of air.
Thinking of such a bad smell, he didn't know what kind of animal it was. He didn't dare to go down to visit alone, so he sat on the cliff and waited.
After a while, I heard the voices of the two disciples. One of them shouted: "Master, where are you? The rabbit has been caught!"
Another person was shocked: "It stinks! What is it?"
Jiang Shanghua said on the cliff: "See if that thing goes into the wooden box?"
The two men tiptoed over and one of them shouted: "It's a pair of big scorpions! They've been put into a box."
"Close the wooden box door quickly!" Jiang Shanghua said.
The disciple said in surprise: "Close it! Master, come and see, two scorpions and a cobra are fighting!"
Only then did Jiang Shanghua remember that there was originally a cobra in the wooden box. He hurriedly jumped off the cliff and endured the stench before jumping onto the boulder.
The three of them peered into the wooden box through the small air holes. On the head of the thick-wristed cobra, there were two black scorpions the size of eggs. The two scorpions waved their pincers and bit the venomous snake's head!
The poisonous snake struggled left and right, but could not get away from the two scorpions. The originally green snake skin on the lower jaw of its head quickly turned into a dark purple! It was actually injected with venom by the two scorpions!
The snake's head gradually hung down weakly, until the snake's body was completely paralyzed and limp. Only then did the two scorpions loosen their grip.
A scorpion clamped the belly of a poisonous snake with its pincers, and actually tore open the snake's skin and flesh, revealing the green-brown snake gallbladder!
The two scorpions immediately removed their pincers and stretched out their mouths to bite open the snake gallbladder. The hot, fresh snake gallbladder was eaten by the two scorpions! The faint sound of the pincers interlacing could still be heard.
After watching for a while, the three of them couldn't bear the stench of the scorpions, so they jumped out of the boulder nest to get some air. Jiang Shanghua was very happy. It seemed that these two big scorpions were more venomous animals than snakes, so they were perfect for practicing whisking!
It's just that the stench is so stinky that it's really unbearable. From now on, I have to face the wooden box every day to do my exercises and activate the poisonous gas of the scorpions, which is really not a good job.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Jiang Shanghua ordered two disciples to pick up the wooden box one after another, and the three of them staggered down the mountain.
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For this wooden box, Xiuzhen Guan built a pergola. Otherwise, no one would be able to bear such a bad smell.
The wooden box was placed under a pergola with no one around.
Jiang Shanghua inserted the jade whisk into the small hole on the top of the wooden box. The two poisonous scorpions swung their pliers and attacked, but they were unable to hurt the jade whisk.
The jade handle of the whisk can actually absorb the venom of scorpions. The handle of the whisk, which was originally green, soon became stained with black and purple poisonous spots!
But the two scorpions soon realized that this was not a living thing, so they stopped attacking and stepped aside, never attacking again.
Jiang Shanghua thought to himself, this is probably how to practice the whisk, so that the poison of the scorpion can be absorbed by the jade. Now that the scorpion is immobile, how to practice the immortal weapon?
He thought again of the set of exercises given to him by the Slender Immortal, and silently recited them according to the formula. Two bursts of breath came out of his hands very quickly!
He raised his hand and faced the wooden box, facing the two scorpions to perform the exercise.
As expected, the two scorpions felt the attack and began to stir inside the wooden box. The stench became even stronger. Jiang Shanghua couldn't bear it anymore, so he took out a mask, put it on, and started exercising again.
Under his provocation, the scorpion became restless and raised its pincers and tail to attack the whisk handle in the center. The whisk handle absorbed the scorpion's venom and soon turned into a dark purple color.
The next day, Jiang Shanghua cooked the scorpion again according to the law, and the handle of the whisk completely changed from the original green color to a light purple color.
On the third day, the scorpions allowed Jiang Shanghua to use his skills and attacked the whisk handle, but it had no great effect. Moreover, their stench was also reduced a lot.
Jiang Shanghua thought about it and understood the reason: the two scorpions had not eaten for three days, and they were afraid that they were weak. So he asked someone to lock up a young hen and put it in a wooden box.
Two scorpions immediately jumped on the top of the chick's head and stung it to death. They then peeled off the chick's body like they peeled off the venomous snake last time, used pliers to pull out the chick's gallbladder, and tore it open for food.
When the scorpion was full, Jiang Shanghua took out the chicken and attacked the scorpion again. As expected, the scorpion appeared again and attacked the whisk handle.
After a whole day, Scorpion was exhausted, but the color of the jade had not changed much.
Jiang Shanghua pondered for a long time before he figured out the reason: It turns out that they need to eat poisonous animal gallbladders to form toxins in their own bodies. He immediately ordered his disciples who cultivated Zhen Guan to catch venomous snakes and feed them to the scorpions.
These two scorpions only eat the bile of animals. After eating the bile of poisonous snakes, the stench returned, and poisonous juice was produced on their pincers and tails, staining the jade.
Chapter completed!