A growl instantly woke Di Xueyan up from her deep slumber. Instinctively, she rolls herself out of her previous position and drag her painful body up. Her mind is instantly awake, and without even looking at the growling creature, she dashed the opposite way without furthur thinking.
'What a joke!'
It took a whole minute for her to realize what is happening. She can't help but to laugh out loud at her pathetic self that is currently running away from an unknown creature.
'Its good that my unconscious self can still determine that I am not in the best shape to fight right now', her lips twitch at the thought of how her body did not even bother to inform her that they will be running.
The lion beast that was left
behind: '...'
Di Xueyan ran for a while without even bothering to think if the beast really ran after her.
She heard the sound of a running water and figured that she needs some good cleaning. After a while, she saw a small fall as high as a two storey building. Without furthur deliberations, she jumped in the little basin of water below the falls.
After an hour of scrubbing, only then she remembers her rotten flesh.
'God! Why is my brain so disoriented?', she exasperatedly face palm as she checks her arm and waist.
'Maybe it is the after effect of the venom', she noted in her head.
A gasp escape her lips when she saw that her arm is already in perfect shape, signifying how effective the antidote is. Aside from the pain in her whole body, she already has no physical injuries.
'My skill in pill making is still the best!', she laughs in her head in a narcissistic manner.
She relaxed her tense muscles for a bit as she swam around the lake, of course, after checking if there is something wrong with the waters.
She glanced at the falls and saw a portruding big rock in the middle and decided to have some water massage.
Climbing is easy as she can just directly flies upward. She landed but overestimated herself to much, she lost her balance as her sudden exertion of spirit qi made her dizzy and fell face first towards the rock. She never expected that the venom is so potent that even if it is cured, her head is obviously still in the clouds. Luckily no one is there to laugh at her predicament.
Because she fell and not in the right mind, all she can do is to subconsciously cover her head to stop it from bumping into the walls of the falls, but to her surprise, she just collapsed unimpeded with a thud, which helped her clear her head a little.
She gasped and look at the hollow place behind the falls instantly, a sudden pulsating wave rides through her dizzines, making her almost overlook it. But a sharp look glints in her eyes as she hoisted herself up and looks vigilantly ahead.
'A cave?'
She felt like the pulsating wave was just a hallucination, but as another pulsating wave overwhelms her body, she knows that those were not an after effect of the venom.
Di Xueyan decided to stroll inside the cave after much deliberations cautiously.
Eversince she was a child, she has been cursing those people in the horror movies who, even though they knew that something is not right and the place is full of uncertainties and danger, still proceeded to go to the strange place where they heard strange movements and whatnots like damned idiots.
But she is currently entering a cave with something strange while her body is obviously still suffering an after effect of a strong venom.
'I'm a cultivator anyway', she thought in her head while constantly striding inside in a slow pace.
'I can run at most...'
A strong flunctuation almost made her stumble again, making her eyes wide open. But before she can compose herself, she already blacked out.
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The sounds of the running deluge echoes through the background as a woman with blank eyes strides deeper inside the cave.
Di Xueyan would have never thought that she would be controlled one day. An if ever she knew the creature that is currently controling her right now, she would most probably fly off in rage and humiliation.
Di Xueyan walks blankly for a few minute before arriving at her intended destination.
With a sudden jolt, her senses sense danger and her body already flipped before she can register what is going on.
'Phew! Nice intuition!', she said while dodging thousand arrows with red pointed tips from different directions.
Di Xueyan already has no time to survey her surrounding any furthur as she busily tried to wriggle out of the formation of arrows that she is in.
She can only lament in her mind.
She knows that these arrows won't stop even if she used up all her spirit qi, so she surveys her surrounding and found thousands of holes in the cave wall. Her lips twitch at the sight.
'Fuck? How am I suppose to destroy this?', she is currently at loss as she looks at the holes.
What is she supposed to do? Destroy the walls and bury herself?
Or put some stopper each of the thousands of holes like a patient little lamb? Nope, she's too lazy to do so.
Thankfully, she has been educated not only in cultivation and medicine, but also in arrays.
It is a great relief that before her father suddenly went missing, he gifted her mother an array book that her uncle, hee father's brother, wrote. The array is very complicated but the thing is, it does not need any array stones anymore. Di Xueyan kindly 'borrow' the book from her mother and up until now, even if she is a thousand times more intelligent than when she was on Earth, she is still at the fourth of the half of the book.
She immediately performs a hundred hand sign in a minute while dancing along the poisoned arrows.
Instantly, a semi - transparent blue film encloses her as she ceased moving anymore.
The sound of whipping arrows echoes across the surrounding as mini explosions rings from time to time, everytime the arrows hit the array. Di Xueyan's brow lifts up as she muse how strong the array is.
She surveys the place with a piercing gaze.
'Who could have made such lousy mechanism?', she thought in her mind as her lips twitched.
What she doesn't know is that, she just saved herself by making an array rather than attacking the holes. Any cultivator who panics a little at the fast attacks of thousands of poisoned arrows per second will surely try to eliminate the roots to stop it. The cave walls looks so sturdy but it surely cannot be blasted with spirit qi, so it can only be stopped by putting something at the hole, but with a thousands of them.....
Also, once a stopper will be stubbornly placed in the hole, the whole cave will immediately blast into pieces.