Long Jingyi went to the team from Shademantle Academy and asked about the snake that had bitten Feng Yie. The group claimed to have killed the snake, so if they were smart, they would have kept the carcass.
He preferred to identify the snake himself instead of relying on information from the calculating idiots. Sometimes, the smallest detail in the appearance of an animal could determine its identity and subsequently, life and death.
"You!" He addressed the man who had targeted him from the beginning with lingering dislike. "What kind of snake bit Feng Yie?"
"It was a Silver-bellied Viper." The man replied.
"What is your name? "Long Jingyi asked.
"I am Mo Heng." The man said.
"Mo Heng! Are you willing to risk the life of your principal's daughter on your answer?" Long Jingyi asked. "I understand you are desperate to avoid taking responsibility for her death. But believe me, if you are wrong about this, I will make sure you are directly implicated."
Mo Heng was a calculating man with a lot of ideas, but he did not have power. He understood people and knew how to play them. He had only gotten far through knowing how to brownnose in the academy, and he was no longer just a poor student reaching beyond his means.
Long Jingyi was threatening everything.
"We saved the corpse of the snake if you do not believe me." Mo Heng replied with confidence. He did not intend to give up the corpse because it was evidence of their failure to protect Feng Yie. But he could hear the threat in Long Jingyi's voice.
Long Jingyi might be of an unclear origin, but everyone knew he was the golden child of the Hallowflame Academy. He was as honoured in identity as Feng Yie. It was the reason they chose him as a pawn when looking for someone to blame for her death.
The Hallowflame Academy would not abandon Long Jingyi, even if he was accused of negligent manslaughter.
Mo Heng nodded to one of his comrades and he took out the corpse of a small snake from his storage bag. Long Jingyi took it and examined it for a moment. He was familiar with almost all species of animals on the Obsidian Continent.
"Idiot!" He cursed after a moment. "This is a Cobalt-bellied Mamba. If you cannot identify different species, do not pretend to be clever. You could cost someone their life with your arrogance."
Mo Heng was angry at being called an idiot, but he did not have the power to oppose someone like Long Jingyi. Therefore, he could only lower his head and apologise despite feeling indignant. How was he supposed to differentiate two species that looked exactly alike?
Long Jingyi did not care about the feelings of the man. He looked at the cloaked figure of Yuan Haoran, standing in the exact spot he had left him. He turned back to the team and looked at the female members with sharp eyes.
"You two, come and help us with the treatment." He ordered while picking out two random female cultivators in the group.
Just a short distance away, Yuan Haoran was still contemplating the problem of the poisoned girl.
He did not take any action yet because he did not understand the different venoms of this new world. Of course, if he had been with the victim when she was bitten, he would have suggested immediate decapitation of the affected limb.
If he cared...
It would have prevented the spread of poison from the bite to the rest of the body, specifically, the critical organs that sustained human life. His mind reviewed the information from the Flora Encyclopedia he got as a reward, but he could not identify an antidote without knowing the exact nature of the poison.
"You look like you have a plan." Long Jingyi returned and spoke up, disrupting his perusal of the Flora Encyclopedia.
"I don't." Yuan Haoran replied flatly.
Long Jingyi laughed nervously because he did not know if he was serious. "I have brought two female cultivators to help out with the treatment."
Yuan Haoran turned and found two scared girls cowering behind Long Jingyi. At this moment, he remembered that he was in a different time-space with unique sensitivities. To him, Feng Yie was like any other human: a collection of flesh and bones he could manipulate.
"I see," he replied as if he understood. "Did you find out the type of snake that bit her?"
Long Jingyi grinned. "I can do you one better."
He smiled and handed over the corpse of the snake to Yuan Haoran. Yuan Haoran took it and examined it for a moment. The snake was about thirty to forty centimetres long and had a narrow body. The silver-white colour of its body shimmered in the domain's moonlight and the fires the other campers had built as darkness fell.
Yuan Haoran looked at Jingyi in expectation because he did not have a Fauna Encyclopedia. "What kind of snake is this, and how does its venom work?"
Long Jingyi felt his heart sink at the clueless look on the person who wanted to trade a favour for curing Feng Yie. Haoran looked blank and innocent, and he expected an answer. For a moment, Jingyi just wanted to tell him not to bother.
But what did he have to lose?
"This is a Cobalt-bellied Mamba. It is one of the rare ones that cause metal toxicity. Most people think that snakes are only neurotoxic or haemotoxic. But there is a category that releases variants of poisonous metals into the blood and causes death to organs." Long Jingyi explained.
Yuan Haoran was surprised by the concise explanation.
"You are smarter than you look." He commented.
"And you do not seem nearly as smart as you think you are." Long Jingyi countered.
Yuan Haoran only smiled behind his cloak. "Give me the snake and find me bird excrement."
"What?" Long Jingyi did not think he heard him right.
Yuan Haoran turned to look at Long Jingyi. "Hand me the snake body, and then, I need you to find bird excrement. Any random bird is fine as long as it does not have strong spiritual energy. Remember, we are working on a clock."
Long Jingyi was a little flabbergasted, but he found himself handing over the small silverish snake and rushing off into the dark woods to scrape surfaces for bird poo. Yuan Haoran looked at the two female cultivators whom Long Jingyi had enlisted to help him.
"Where is the bite?" He asked them as he looked back to Feng Yie.
One of the girls leaned over the prone body and pulled up the sleeve, exposing two holes in the upper arm. "Senior Feng was bitten as she tried to get an herb growing on a huge tree. She said it was an epiphyte. As soon as she plucked the herb, a small snake appeared and just bit her."
"Oh." That was all Yuan Haoran said before asking. "Do you have spring water and a bowl?"
The two girls rushed to take out a bottle and a simple porcelain bowl.
Yuan Haoran took them and set them on the ground. Then, he sat in a meditative pose while holding the snake in his hand. The Cobalt-bellied snake was dead. There was no question about it. However, his idea for eliminating the venom would require an active snake.
In his mind, he summoned the Necronomicon he liberated from Old Ghost Guo before killing him. He already had an idea for aggregating the metals in Feng Yie's body. However, he needed to deal with eliminating the waste.
He perused through the Necronomicon before he found a low-grade resurrection spell. He looked at the details of the resurrection of a creature like the small snake. His expression did not change as he once again visually assessed the snake.
It would not take a lot of energy from him.
He could deal with the spell.