Ultimate Village Doctor

Chapter 517: Chapter 564

Chapter 564

After traveling several miles into Death God Valley, Long Xiaoshan gathered a bunch of medicinal herbs into his backpack. It had to be said that Death God Valley seemed to be an excellent place, rich in spiritual energy and filled with rare and hard-to-find herbs from the outside world.

It didn’t look the least bit like the terrifying place of legend.

Long Xiaoshan was skeptical, wondering if all of this was just to scare people.

No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than a piercing scream came from afar, utterly tragic. The group turned sober, and after a while, more than a dozen people ran out from the southeast forest—it was the Xingzhou Li Family.

The ancestors of the Li Family came from Hua Country, and their heritage was rooted in the Martial Dao of Hua Country. The legs of these martial artists were unusually thick like those of toads, clearly specialized in leg techniques.

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The middle-aged man leading them had a powerful aura, definitely not below Qiu Haishan whom Long Xiaoshan had encountered before; if he wasn’t a Grandmaster, he was not far off.

But now these martial artists from the Li Family were running frantically out of the woods, as if they had encountered something terrifically frightening.

Once they burst out, they saw the group from the Serpent Witch Sect and their eyes lit up. They quickly changed direction and charged toward them.

The followers of the Serpent Witch Sect were somewhat alarmed and uncertain.

From the direction the Li Family came running, the forest rustled and then, buzzing~~ countless fist-sized wasps surged out in a terrifying number.

Like a dark, yellow cloud pressing down, they swarmed over. One Li Family martial artist was slightly behind and got caught up by the wasps. He screamed and kicked out a barrage of leg shadows, knocking down more than a dozen wasps. However, there were simply too many wasps, and he let out a sudden wail of agony as half of his face swelled up like an inflated balloon; the wasps seemed to be highly venomous. The Li Family martial artist’s movements noticeably slowed down, and he was quickly overwhelmed by the swarm of wasps. After the wasps swept over him, the Li Family martial artist fell to the ground, his body swollen to five or six times its size, unrecognizable from his human shape, just like an inflated balloon.

“Holy shit!” The faces of the Serpent Witch Sect changed dramatically.

“Run!” Snake Spirit Venerable bellowed.

The crowd turned tail and ran wildly, but the followers of the Serpent Witch Sect were sorcerers; they couldn’t outrun the martial artists from the Li Family. They had barely gotten far when they were overtaken.

The Li Family martial artists did not entangle themselves with them and just ran past.

“Li Qinghong!” Snake Spirit Venerable roared in rage, clearly noticing that the Li Family martial artists intended to use them as shields. Snake Spirit Venerable let out a strange cry.

The Divine Serpent’s massive body twisted, viciously lashing out a tail, intercepting five or six Li Family martial artists.

“Family Head!” Those martial artists from the Li Family who were blocked by the Divine Serpent saw the giant wasps approaching from behind and turned ashen.

The Family Head of the Li Family, who was at the forefront, saw that five or six of his clan’s martial artists were intercepted, including two extremely important younger members, and cursed internally that Snake Spirit Venerable was a tough one to crack.

He had wanted to play a trick on him, but now that was impossible.

If he left behind so many clan juniors, he could no longer be the Family Head. Who would then give their lives for him? Li Qinghong was only able to turn back, shouting loudly, “Snake Spirit Venerable, calm your anger. We can only deal with the crisis if we work together.”

Snake Spirit Venerable coldly said, “Li Qinghong, you dare to scheme against me, I will settle accounts with you later.”

He knew that now was not the time to be angry with the martial artists from the Li Family.

If these wasps were so fierce and the two families were to fight now, death was certain.

In the blink of an eye, the swarm of giant wasps had already pounced. Snake Spirit Venerable formed seals with his left and right hands, a stream of dark green fog gushing out towards the wasps.

The wasps touched by the dark green fog all fell to the ground, dissolving into pus.

The Divine Serpent also twisted its colossal body, its tail sweeping continuously, knocking down large swaths of giant wasps.

However, these wasps were highly spiritual and quickly dispersed. There were as many as tens of thousands of them, and it took an attack from both the Snake Spirit Zunzhe and the Divine Serpent to take down just a few hundred, leaving a still terrifying number of wasps remaining.

Without needing anyone’s call to action, everyone began to fight.

The members of the Serpent Witch Sect cast various Sorceries, with streaks of green, black, and red light shooting into the sky, slaughtering the giant wasps, while the Martial Artists from the Li Family gathered to form a circle, which could reduce the area available for wasp attacks.

Buzz, buzz, buzz—as a massive wave of wasps charged over, Long Xiaoshan swiftly dodged, rushing to Lan Wan’er’s side, and threw a punch. An overbearing punch sent a breeze out, and with a series of bangs—

Over a dozen wasps exploded in mid-air.

Long Xiaoshan’s fists were exceptionally hard.

With each punch or kick he launched, he could take down more than a dozen wasps, so Lan Wan’er didn’t even need to lift a finger; the wasps were cleared away by Long Xiaoshan.

Long Xiaoshan effortlessly slaughtered the wasps, paying no mind to others, just standing together with Lan Wan’er.

Lan Wan’er glanced at Long Xiaoshan, a hint of moisture flashing in her eyes.

Although she was no weakling, the feeling of being protected was definitely pleasant.

While Long Xiaoshan dealt with the situation with ease, it wasn’t so easy for the others; the sheer number of wasps was overwhelming, and Sorcerers consumed spiritual power when they cast Sorceries. After casting a few spells consecutively, they had to rest, or else it would place a heavy burden on their bodies.

The speed at which witchcraft was cast had noticeably slowed down.

Suddenly, a scream resounded,

As a member of the Serpent Witch Sect, a Sorcerer’s arm was pierced by the poison stinger of a giant wasp.

His body swelled up instantly, but fortunately, at that moment, the Snake Spirit Zunzhe saved him using a witchcraft from a distance. The Sorcerer immediately amputated his own arm and applied some medicinal powder to prevent the toxin from reaching his heart.

Another scream came from the Li Family’s Martial Artists.

A Martial Artist from the Li Family lay on the ground.

He wasn’t so fortunate. Others were too late to rescue him, and he didn’t know how to detoxify, so he quickly died from the poison.

“This won’t do, if we continue like this, we’ll be exhausted to death!” Li Qinghong said with an unsightly expression.

The Snake Spirit Zunzhe coldly said, “Wasn’t it you who provoked them, or perhaps you have a solution?”

Li Qinghong spoke hurriedly, “Of course there’s a solution, but it’s risky. Just now, we discovered a giant wasp nest in the forest, and inside, a golden liquid was dripping down. The liquid was very fragrant, smelling it made one feel invigorated; we suspected it was a treasure, so we wanted to collect some. Moreover, we only collected what dripped down, without disturbing the nest, and then, this swarm of wasps rushed out. There’s a bee queen inside the nest. If someone could attack the queen now, it would definitely draw away these wasps.”

Long Xiaoshan’s eyes suddenly brightened—golden liquid with a fragrant scent was almost certainly top-grade Emperor’s Royal Jelly, a spiritual material that could be used to directly enhance one’s cultivation, far more valuable than the herbs he had collected earlier.

“Junior sister, hold off the wasps for me; I’ll be back in no time.”

Long Xiaoshan shouted to Lan Wan’er, who nodded, summoning a large swarm of Gu Insects. Long Xiaoshan let out a wild cry, transforming into a shadow as he broke free from the wasps’ entanglement and charged into the forest.

The waves of wasps seemed to sense Long Xiaoshan’s intent and immediately dispatched a large group to pursue him.