Start from a baby to become a Taoist

Chapter 238: Snake Venom
Xu Binghu looked over and saw that the bitten calf of the strong man had turned pitch black, and the poison was spreading upwards. If he was any slower, the whole leg would probably be crippled.

Seeing this, Xu Binghu immediately took out the seven-leaf flower from his body, bit it into pieces with his mouth, and then applied it to the wound.

After the situation stabilized for a while, Xu Ran asked, "Uncle, did you just say that the poisonous snake came out of your cellar?"

"That's right!" The sturdy man nodded. "Today, I just came back from the mountains with a fat rabbit. I wanted to improve my diet, so I went to the cellar and took out some pickled cabbage to eat."

"As a result, as soon as I opened the cellar door, I saw a dark red poisonous snake at the door. Before I could react, I was bitten."

When Xu Ran heard this, his face became serious.

He had never imagined that this group of poisonous snakes would actually enter the village by digging tunnels.

The medicinal properties of seven-leafed aconite are very strong, and it is indeed the nemesis of poisonous snakes, but it can only affect poisonous snakes within ten meters at most.

As long as they dig deep enough underground, where the seven-leaf lily cannot reach, they can easily enter the village.

After all, the village is quite big, and not every place has seven-leafed flower, so you can always find loopholes.

Moreover, the incident happened suddenly at night. How could anyone carry the Seven-Leaf Flower with them at all times?

Just as I got the information, I heard screams coming from not far away.

"Someone was bitten again." Xu Ran had just finished speaking when he disappeared from the spot.

Seeing this, Xu Binghu left a seven-leaf and one-branch flower to the strong man and said, "Take it well, we will leave first."

After saying that, he also left the place at an extremely fast speed, leaving only the confused strong man behind.

"Since when have the hunters in the village become so fast?"

After a while, Xu Ran arrived at a familiar home.

"Grandpa Qi!"

As soon as the wooden door was opened, a baby still in swaddling clothes was seen lying on the ground, crying and shouting. Next to the child was a woman, whose calves had turned black and she was obviously unconscious.

A dark red, thick poisonous snake was standing halfway, its head constantly spitting out its tongue, treating the child in front of it as prey.

At the door of the room, Old Qi dragged his old body, raised his hands, and kept shaking, "Stop, stop now."

The next moment, the poisonous snake opened its mouth, saliva kept dripping and falling to the ground, and bursts of black gas rose.

"Not good!" Xu Ran exclaimed.

Even if there is seven-leafed aconite, if a baby is bitten, the baby will not be able to hold on and will die instantly before the medicine is applied.

The baby's body is too weak.

Xu Ran knew this.

Suddenly, wind blew under his feet, and hundreds of strands of innate energy gathered at his legs, causing a gorgeous white light to bloom.

Under the moonlight, Xu Ran disappeared from the spot, and the next moment, he appeared in front of the child, and his hands, which also emitted white light, tightly grasped the open snake's mouth. With a thousand-pound force, he closed the snake's mouth and could no longer open it.

The poisonous snake knew that it could not break free from Xu Ran's hands, so it swung its tail behind it quickly, and the next moment it came to Xu Ran's feet, trying to use its several-meter-long body to wrap around Xu Ran and force him to let go.

But the next moment,
"Crack——"

A sound of bones breaking was heard, and the poisonous snake that was about to attack suddenly lost its breath.

The venomous snake is dead.

Xu Ran used his thousand-pound grip strength to crush the snake's skull.

When Mr. Qi, who had been standing at the door, saw this scene, he was stunned. He looked at Xu Ran with empty eyes and was extremely shocked.

He saw something.

A one-year-old baby saved his grandson at a speed that he couldn't even see, and crushed the snake's skull with ease.

Even though he had lived for so long, he had never seen such a thing. Perhaps, only the few powerful body cultivators he had met in the depths of the mountains could do such a thing.

Then, Xu Ran flicked his hand and the poisonous snake was thrown away. He immediately applied the crushed seven-leaf flower to the calf of the woman who was lying on the ground.

After doing all this, Xu Binghu just arrived at the door and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the Qi family was fine.

"Dad, you're late again." Xu Ran complained.

"Hey! How can you talk to your dad like that?" Xu Binghu scowled. "Besides, with your speed, who can catch up with you?!"

Then he came to him and asked, "How is it, are you okay?"

"never mind."

"Come out from the cellar again?" asked Xu Binghu.

At this time, Qi Lao had come to his senses, walked over to them, and said, "Binghu, how did you know?"

Xu Binghu explained, "The same thing happened to another family just now. A poisonous snake came out of the cellar and bit a villager, but he's fine now."

Xu Ran picked up the baby in the cradle on the ground and handed it to Mr. Qi.

Elder Qi took the child with trembling hands and thanked him, "Xiao Ran, thank you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know what to do!!"

He recalled everything that had just happened, looked at Xu Binghu in confusion, and asked, "Binghu, what about Xiao Ran?"

Xu Binghu knew that Xu Ran had exposed his strength in order to save people.

"Master Qi, just as you just saw, Xiao Ran is already a strong man who can hold a thousand pounds in his hands, and he is stronger than me."

"Ah!!" Old Qi exclaimed in surprise, looking at Xu Ran, who was less than one meter tall, with disbelief on his face.

With crystal clear skin and baby fat still on her face, she looks like an undeveloped baby. Yet, such a weak body contains a thousand pounds of strength.

Thinking of this, he looked at his grandson in his arms, with tears in his eyes.

Why is the gap so big?
"Master Qi, don't be too surprised." Xu Binghu continued, "Xiao Ran has already experienced his first body refining."

"Ah!!!" Old Qi exclaimed again.

"Mr. Qi, don't be anxious. I will explain the situation to you in detail." Xu Binghu said slowly.

"Xiao Ran's first body refining was not like mine, where he used the blood of ordinary animals. Instead, he used the heart blood of demon beasts, nearly twenty kinds of them. Moreover, it was a whole bottle of heart blood, not just a drop."

At this time, Mr. Qi was completely speechless.

Nearly twenty kinds of monster blood, all in one bottle, are used to refine the body of a baby less than one year old.

Now Xu Ran is standing here, it is obvious that he has made it through.

What kind of world is this?

When he obtained the body refining secret book, he no longer had any chance, but he also knew how dangerous it was.

A one-year-old baby who has undergone such body training has a promising future without a doubt. Moreover, he can be sure that the few people he met in the depths of the mountains at that time definitely did not have the ability like Xu Ran.

"Haha! Great!" After a while, Mr. Qi laughed out loud.

"The Great Wilderness Village is so lucky to have you two from the Xu family."

"Xiao Ran has already done a favor for the entire village, and now he has saved my grandson. I will never forget such a great favor!" As he said this, he was about to kneel down.

Seeing this, Xu Binghu hurriedly stopped him and said, "Master Qi, you can't do that. If you hadn't given us the Body Refining Secret Manual, there wouldn't be such a result."

Xu Ran also said, "That's right, Grandpa Qi, the most important thing now is how to solve the problem of the venomous snake slaughtering the village."

"Right, right, right!" Qi Lao reacted, "What's going on now? Why did the venomous snake appear?"

Xu Binghu turned his attention to Xu Ran. Anyway, Old Qi already knew his strength, so it would be better to let Xu Ran take charge of all matters. This was the way it was originally.

"Grandpa Qi, we guessed that the venomous snakes couldn't enter the village from the ground, so we dug a tunnel underground. After all, the Seven-Leaf Flower's range of influence is limited."

"Are these monsters that smart?"

"These poisonous snakes should just be the vanguards. There is a big demon behind them directing them. Otherwise, how could they be so smart if they are just small demons?" Xu Ran said.

"What should we do now?" asked Xu Binghu.

In the entire Dahuangbian Village, every household has a cellar to prevent the situation of having no food when the cold winter comes.

"Why don't we put seven-leaf lily at the door of each cellar so that they can come out," suggested Old Qi.

"No." Xu Ran rejected it directly. "Except for the seven-leafed lily outside the village, the rest are all at Uncle Xie's house. One plant for each family is not enough."

"Besides, even if we put the seven-leaf lily at the cellar door, won't they find other holes?"

"Even if there's no hole, you can just drill out from the ground."

The poisonous snakes appeared in the cellar simply because there was an empty hole there. Even if there was no cellar, they could still drill a hole in the ground. It would be the same if the cellar was sealed. The only difference was time.

"What should we do then?" Old Qi sighed helplessly.

This is indeed unsolvable.

Xu Ran thought for a moment and made up his mind, "Gather all the Seven-Leafed One-Branch Flowers in the ancestral hall. All the villagers will go inside to guard the ancestral hall and let all these poisonous snakes in."

"What!" Old Qi and Xu Binghu said in unison.

"No." Xu Binghu rejected it immediately. "Isn't this just handing the village over to the venomous snakes?"

"That's right." Elder Qi also agreed. "Even if this method works fine in the short term, what about the long term? There will always be a day when it can't be maintained."

Both of them thought Xu Ran wanted to defend to the death.

"It's not about defending, but taking the initiative to attack." Xu Ran explained, "Let all the poisonous snakes into the village and catch them all in one fell swoop. This is the solution."

It turned out to be the case.

Old Qi and Xu Binghu both nodded.

For the current situation, it is indeed the best solution.

After a while, he agreed.

"I'll be in charge of telling the villagers that you two should go back and rest. After all, you and your son are the most powerful fighters in the village right now."

The two nodded, patrolled the village again, and left after finding any remaining poisonous snakes.

After returning home, Xu Binghu told Lian Ji and Cuihua about this incident.

"You two, go to the ancestral hall early tomorrow morning and don't go anywhere else."

"What about you?" Lian Ji asked.

"We're fine. We have the Seven-Leaf Flower on us, so even poisonous snakes can't get close to us." Xu Ran's words made Lian Ji feel much more at ease.

What's more, they also have Xiaobai.

Silent all night.

The seventh day of the poisonous snake slaughtering the village.

Xu Ran and his group went to the ancestral hall early in the morning with the Seven Leaves Flower. When they arrived, the hall was already surrounded by people, all of them were villagers, and everyone had a very heavy expression on their face.

The hunters in the village were all saying goodbye to their families.

"I've already made an agreement with them. After a while, we'll go and pull out the seven-leaf lily at the village gate to let those poisonous snakes in." Old Qi came to them and said.

Xu Binghu nodded, turned around and said to Lian Ji, "My lady, please stay here and wait for us to come back."

Unexpectedly, Lian Ji said to Xu Ran beside her, "Xiao Ran, you must bring your father back safely."

"I am the father. If anyone needs to bring him back, I should be the one to bring him back." Xu Binghu looked indignant.

Lian Ji joked, "Come on, you have no idea what Xiao Ran's strength is, or what your strength is."

Xu Binghu was about to retort, but when he thought of the scene where Xu Ran knocked him back with one punch, he stopped talking immediately.

Xu Ran looked at Lian Ji and said, "Mom, don't worry. I will bring back not only Dad, but everyone in the village safely."

After saying goodbye, Xu Ran and Xu Binghu came to the hunter team.

When everyone saw Xu Ran, they were surprised and asked, "Xiao Ran, why are you here? Go back quickly!!"

"Xiao Ran, even if you have the Seven Leaves and One Branch Flower, you can't do such a dangerous thing!"

Before Xu Ran could say anything, Old Qi spoke first, "Come on, Xiao Ran is better than all of you here. You might as well worry about yourselves instead of worrying about him."

Xu Binghu also chimed in, "Don't worry about Xiaoran's safety."

Seeing that other people’s fathers said this, even if you have a hundred questions in your mind, there is nothing to say.

Everyone just thought that Xu Binghu and Old Qi believed in Qiye Yizhihua extremely, otherwise they would not find any reason to let Xu Ran go.

Could it be that Xu Ran’s fighting power is stronger than theirs?
If this is really the case, then they should stop being hunters and start over.

After checking the weapons he was carrying, Elder Qi ordered, "Remember, you must carry the Seven-Leaf Flower with you, and you can only pull out the Seven-Leaf Flower at the village gate."

Everyone nodded and replied, "Got it!"

After that, the group set off in a mighty procession. The women, children and old people in the ancestral hall all watched them leave.

There was a shadow following them on the clouds that they could not see.

Soon, they arrived at the village gate. Xu Binghu took a deep breath and said, "Okay, go pull out the herbs. Be careful."

"it is good."

Several people nodded, walked towards the village gate, and pulled out the seven-leaf aconite planted by Xu Ran himself.

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from the grass not far away.

"Here it comes." Xu Binghu reminded.

Hearing this sound, everyone clenched their weapons and stood ready.

(End of this chapter)