Wu Mei was on the desert ground. Her eyes reflected a bit of fear and a stony determination.
Kong Xiang started, "The Covi Cactus" he pointed at one not too far away. "Being a desert plant that has to adapt to a dry environment with little water reserves, it is interesting to see the evolutionary measures it developed.
Apart from the subtle changes in its internal structure to absorb and store more of the nutrients it needs to grow, the most important is the improved tactic to protect against predatory presence."
Between his index and second fingers, he produced a thin six-inch thorn that looked like a replica of the one under Wu Mei's armipit. "This thorn isn't just a thorn, though. It contains poison"Wu Mei's eyes started to widen in alarm"There's an interesting twist. The bottom three inches under your armpit contains no poison. But the upper three inches do, he he he.
Shall we test that?"He gave her no choice to respond. He used the thorn to tear across her skin, scooping some blood in the center of his palms. He was still talking, "Funny thing's that the non poisonous three inches is imbedded inside the cactus and the poisonous part is the visible part. The thorn's prickly in the first place, so all you have to do is get the slightest injury to get poisoned by touch alone."
He poured from his palm, letting the blood drip on the upper part of the thorn. Upon contact, the blood boiled volatilely, evaporating and congealing soon after.
Silence pervaded. Kong Xiang knew enough about psychology to know she was going through internal turmoil right now. He chuckled evilly and let his glance fall on another thorn and the cut on Wu Mei's arm, his meaning clear.
To be honest, while Kong Xiang tried really hard to be in character and act like an evil maniac, he failed woefully in Wu Mei's point of view. The conflicting appearance and words made him seem like a sadistic homicidal grandpa who had lost count of how many such sessions he had and was now immune to whatever thrill he originally got from the act.
"So, are you ready to talk?"
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Li Luo was teleported inside a formation with two guys. Less than a day later, they were dead, having attempted to jointly rape and kill her. She personally had no qualms killing such scum.
From their storage packs, she scavenged their Spirit stones and supplies, managing to last through the next couple of days.
The formation she was in was an inheritance that required one to break through it to obtain it. With a supply of spirit stones, she constantly struck at it, weakening it little by little.
Right now, there was only a thin layer left between her and the formation. She took a deep breath and channeled her qi.
'PUNCH.'
Finally, the formation crumbled, revealing another formation. Curiosity, there were also people inside this formation. Some of them turned to look at this newcomer.
"How did you get here?" One girl asked.
"I broke through a formation to arrive in this one" With the joint effort of everyone, they had already almost broken through this formation. Li Luo looked at her and asked.
"How is it possible that I broke through a formation alone but your group is yet to break through this one? Didn't we all get teleported here together?
Lin Daiyu grimaced, "We weren't originally teleported here. Most of us got here a few hours ago.
We originally stumbled upon inheritances, but upon passing the tests, we were teleported here."
"Are all of you from the same inheritances"
"No. We were all teleported to different inheritances"
"So this place is likely the center of the secret realm and has an inheritance."
"Probably'
Li Luo went on to describe Kong Xiang and asked if they had seen him. They shook their heads.
When the formation was broken through, they entered another formation with people inside who looked at them warily. Lin Daiyu grimaced and went over to talk to them.
A boy detached himself from the group and went to meet Li Luo. It was Cui Chen. Somehow he stumbled into an inheritance in the desert, passed the tests and got here directly.