Chapter 41 The Five Venoms Soup is Really Useful

　　Inside the Wandu (Ten Thousand Poisons) Tribe, Fang Xun and the others stared at Qiao Yu with looks of utter amazement.

　　They had just witnessed Qiao Yu eating a whole toad, along with centipedes, scorpions, and geckos, all while munching on garlic.

　　Qiao Yu didn't feel much, closing his eyes and trying not to think about these things being the Five Venoms. Eating them with garlic actually made them quite fragrant.

　　As the saying goes, eating meat without garlic reduces the flavor by half.

　　After finishing the soup, Qiao Yu glanced at his attribute panel and said.

　　"The Five Venoms Soup is indeed useful, my poisoned state has disappeared!"

　　Fang Yuan was silent for a moment before saying,

　　"Qiao Yu, after seeing you eat the Five Venoms with garlic, I wouldn't be surprised even if you punched the World Serpent to death, let alone shattering a boulder."

　　"Qiao Yu, you're like a cow riding a motorcycle – incredibly awesome!" Fang Xun gave a thumbs up.

　　"Hurry up and drink it too, quickly restore your condition. There might be more dangers ahead." Qiao Yu said, glancing at the big clay pot with a lingering look.

　　"Brother Yu, how does this thing taste?" Yang Xiangdi asked.

　　"Hmm... it's actually not bad. Toad and snake taste like very tender chicken, centipedes and scorpions are like crispy chicken cutlets with bursting gravy; as for gecko, have you ever had jelly? The texture is similar." Qiao Yu said.

　　"Ugh!"

　　Hearing Qiao Yu's description, Fang Yuan couldn't help but cover her mouth and run out again.

　　Upon hearing this, Yang Xiangdi's eyes lit up. So the Five Venoms Soup tastes this good?

　　"Little Dong's dad, I want garlic too!"

　　Yang Xiangdi ate heartily, revealing his gluttonous nature.

　　"Brother Yu, you didn't lie to me, it really tastes good!"

　　Seeing Yang Xiangdi enjoying himself, Fang Xun and Long Chang exchanged glances. Birds of a feather flock together.

　　A pervert's friend... generally can't be a normal person either.

　　In the end, to detoxify, the other three had no choice but to pinch their noses and drink the Five Venoms Soup.

　　They weren't as fierce as Qiao Yu and Yang Xiangdi, only daring to swallow it directly without even chewing.

　　Fang Yuan even forced herself to swallow while retching.

　　The little adult-like Xiao Dong walked over and, after carefully examining the wrists of Qiao Yu and the others, breathed a sigh of relief.

　　"Okay, the Celestial Silkworm Gu has been removed, you are safe now."

　　"Xiao Dong, can you tell us about the origins of your Wandu... Wanling (Ten Thousand Spirits) Tribe?"

　　Seeing Xiao Dong's expression tighten, Fang Yuan quickly changed her words.

　　Their second task was to eliminate all Gu worms, and Fang Yuan just wanted to solve it quickly and leave this hellish place.

　　Fang Yuan secretly made a vow in her heart that she would never touch any副本 (fùběn, instance/dungeon) related to Gu in the future!

　　"I don't know the origin of the tribe, I only know that the patriarch requires us to live in seclusion and not to use Gu techniques casually." Xiao Dong said, spreading his small hands.

　　"Everyone, now that you have all been detoxified, please leave quickly. Our Wanling Tribe doesn't welcome outsiders." Xiao Dong's mother said apologetically.

　　"Mom! Why are you like this!" Xiao Dong said, pouting.

　　"It's not easy to have a few people come from outside, why do you want to drive them away!"

　　Xiao Dong's mother smiled awkwardly and didn't continue speaking.

　　Xiao Dong turned to look at Qiao Yu and the others, revealing a smile with small tiger teeth.

　　"Don't worry, don't listen to my mother's nonsense, you can stay as long as you want."

　　"Then we will trouble your family. We just finished detoxifying from the Gu poison and our bodies are indeed not very well."

　　Qiao Yu stretched out his foot and kicked Yang Xiangdi under the table.

　　"Ah, yes, yes, yes!" Yang Xiangdi quickly echoed.

　　"Yay! Handsome big brother is staying! Yay!" Xiao Dong happily jumped up and down and ran out.

　　Xiao Dong's mother's expression was a little complicated. She opened her mouth, seeming to want to say something, but in the end, she didn't say it.

　　She just silently arranged accommodation for Qiao Yu and the others.

　　"You two, do you have any clues about the Wandu Tribe?"

　　As soon as Fang Xun entered the room, he couldn't wait to ask, firing questions like bullets.

　　"Irene said that Wandu is a very evil tribe, but I didn't see anything evil about them? They even helped us detoxify from the Gu poison."

　　"And the system task asks us to eliminate the Gu worms, but besides the Celestial Silkworm Gu at the beginning, we didn't see anything else."

　　"We didn't even know what the Celestial Silkworm Gu looked like before we were poisoned, how can we eliminate all the Gu worms?"

　　Yang Xiangdi was unhappy when he heard this, and he retorted directly.

　　"Don't you have a brain yourself? We are your teammates, not your dads!"

　　Obviously, this vengeful little fatty hadn't forgotten that Fang Xun had asked him to drink the Five Venoms Soup first.

　　"Didn't we smell a fragrance before we were poisoned? This shows that Gu techniques are not that mysterious, and Gu worms also need certain conditions to enter our bodies."

　　Qiao Yu stroked his chin and slowly opened his mouth.

　　"As for other specific information, we have to go out and explore the situation tonight."

　　The system said that this is Wandu, but Xiao Dong said that this is Wanling. There must be some secret here that they don't know.

　　Night gradually darkened, and as soon as the moon appeared, it was particularly bright, giving the entire architectural complex of the Wandu Tribe a layer of silver gauze.

　　Several sneaky figures appeared in the streets and alleys of the architectural complex.

　　"Brother Yu, are you sure it's okay to cover our mouths and noses and block our ears?"

　　Yang Xiangdi, wrapped like a silkworm chrysalis, only revealing a pair of eyes, asked.

　　"Since the spread of Gu worms requires a medium, as long as we don't expose our skin, the Gu worms won't be able to enter our bodies so easily."

　　Qiao Yu also wrapped his whole body with cloth strips.

　　"As for whether it's useful..."

　　Qiao Yu hesitated for a moment.

　　"I'm not very sure either, I can only say it depends on luck."

　　Qiao Yu and the others circled around the Wandu Tribe and found that the entire Wandu Tribe was distributed in a ring shape, and in the very center of the tribe was an ancient well made of bluestone bricks.

　　Qiao Yu sneaked over and took a look, and found that the ancient well was deep and dark, with no bottom in sight.

　　As for their target, not to mention Gu worms, they didn't even find a mosquito.

　　"Qiao Yu, is it possible that we are looking in the wrong place? There are actually two tribes on this mountain, Wanling and Wandu. Is the Wandu Tribe full of Gu worms that we are looking for in other parts of the mountain?"

　　Fang Xun couldn't help but ask after searching without success.

　　"Xiao Dong might lie, but the system prompt sound in the Otherworld won't." Qiao Yu said.

　　"Look over there!" Fang Yuan exclaimed.

　　The others looked along Fang Yuan's voice and found that hundreds of people had gathered by the bluestone ancient well at some point. They were all members of the Wandu Tribe.

　　Xiao Dong's parents were also among them.

　　They all knelt down and bowed to the bluestone ancient well, chanting words as if they were performing some mysterious ritual.

　　The leader was a beautiful woman, wearing a black-purple dress, standing in the night.

　　The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and the night wind lifted her black hair, drawing a chilling smile. Qiao Yu keenly noticed that her fingertips were dripping blood!

　　The woman dripped blood into the well.

　　The next second!

　　Countless Gu worms swarmed out of the bluestone ancient well!

　　That bluestone ancient well was actually the cave where the Gu worms lived!