Allure of a Country Maiden-Chapter 421 - 419

Having obtained the essence blood of the golden python, Xiao’er also found several large mirrors.

"Let’s set up the training room. Hold on a little longer, Feng Xing, it will be over soon," Xiao’er said to Feng Xing, who was in extreme pain.

Feng Xing nodded his head. Although he was in intense pain, his face was pale, his lips and nails were turning black, and there was a fine sweat on his forehead, but his expression remained calm, and he didn’t utter a sound.

Shangguan Xuanyi’s guards, those with names starting with ’Feng’ and ranked in the top ten, were all exceptional talents, each capable of holding their own against a hundred men. Feng Xing was ranked fourth, and someone who had undergone severe martial arts training with his master. So, this degree of pain was not enough to break him.

Xiao’er took a glance at Feng Xing.

She knew that if they want the nocturnal elf insect to come out more easily, they couldn’t take an antidote pill to counteract the poison it had released; doing so would scare the timid creature and cause it to retreat. Instead, they had to act as if everything was normal, to slowly excite the insect.

The best time to lure the nocturnal elf insect out is during the darkest time before dawn. At that time, Feng Xing will have to consume a cold-shattering pill to put his body in a rapid freezing state. Meanwhile, the outside temperature needs to be relatively higher. In short, everything needs to be arranged according to the preferences of the nocturnal elf insect.

"Brother Shangguan, please arrange for four more people who can react quickly to come over."

At Shangguan Xuanyi’s whistle, four more hidden guards appeared.

Shangguan Xuanyi had once taken Xiao’er on a tour of the Sixth Prince Mansion, so she knew where the training room was and promptly led the way.

Upon reaching the training room, Xiao’er had the curtains drawn, instantly plunging the room into darkness.

Xiao’er brought out eight pearls as big as melons, each glowing in the dark. She handed them to Shangguan Xuanyi, Shangguan Xuanhao, Shangguan Xuanjun, Di Shaowei, and the four hidden guards.

Once the pearls were out, the room was filled with light.

Xiao’er had a square table placed in the center of the training room. Then, she directed the eight of them to stand in the eight corners of the room, "Try to reflect the light from the pearls onto the table using the mirrors."

Hearing this, the four men started adjusting the positions of their mirrors and the pearls. They quickly managed to reflect the light onto the table.

"Taking the light reflected by the Second Prince as a reference, everyone else should try to overlap their light with his."

So, Shangguan Xuanhao held his position while the others adjusted the direction of their mirrors. But this made Di Shaowei unhappy, "Xiao’er, why should we use his light as reference? Aren’t you being too biased?"

That Shangguan Xuanhao could stand there without moving while everyone else worked, made Di Shaowei protest.

"Xiao’er sure knows to respect her elders. Here, I’m the eldest, okay!" Shangguan Xuanhao looked pleased.

"You’re overthinking it. I just feel that the Second Prince uses his brain more in medicine and not in other areas. I was worried that if I let him adjust according to one of you, he’d need half a day’s practice. That would be a waste of time."

Pfft! Di Shaowei couldn’t help but laugh. If his hands weren’t both occupied, he’d be in fits of laughter.

That girl is utterly ruthless! What a classy way to disrespect someone!

"Don’t worry, I’ll do my best to match with the Second Prince!" Di Shaowei’s grievances had dissipated in a jiffy, and he was feeling quite jubilant.

"I second that!" Shangguan Xuanjun laughed.

Oh, how incisive the missy of Rui’an County was!

"I am in agreement too!" Shangguan Xuanyi chimed in.

He had picked up this way of speaking from Xiao’er.

"You’re all just picking on me because I’m not good at martial arts!" Shangguan Xuanhao’s face had turned completely black, and his earlier sprightly mood had plummeted.

An insult because of his poor martial arts? No, this was a critique of his sluggish thinking and slow reaction!

Prejudice, pure prejudice!

This made him livid!

He decided to stand here, not paying them any attention anymore!

"Curb your speech and hurry to master the process. Once the elf insect comes out in the dark, you all have to coordinate and focus the light together."

Xiao’er took out a magnifying glass. The magnifying glass would focus the light onto its surface. Once the elf insect came out in the darkness, she would instantly focus this bundle of light on it. She was not sure if the light is strong enough.

All of them were nimble and quick, they managed to focus the light at the same spot on cue with Xiao’er’s whistle after practicing for several times.

Night descended gradually.

Xiao’er had several charcoal basins placed in the room, raising the room temperature to a certain level.

Everyone in the room was sweating because of the heat. It was incredibly hot and they were using charcoal, truly suffocating!

As the night became the darkest, Shangguan Xuanyi sent Xiao Fuzi to call Feng Xing over.

The charcoal furnace was removed. The room became so dark that one couldn’t see their fingers.

Xiao’er pulled out the bottle containing the essence blood of the golden python. An odd medicinal scent mixed with a faint scent of blood spread throughout the dark room as she uncorked it.

She poured the drop of golden python’s essence blood from the bottle into a black bowl and placed it in the middle of the table.

In the dark, the drop of essence blood shined with a fleeting golden light.

The medicinal scent in the air spread even quicker at this point, refreshing anyone who smelt it.

The elf insect in Feng Xing’s body became even more active, spurting toxic juices! The pain made Feng Xing bite down tightly while sitting next to the square table, gripping the edge of the table with fingernails turning deep black and knuckles pale white.

Xiao’er gave Feng Xing a package of frost powder.

Feng Xing took it with a grimace of pain, lifted his head, opened his mouth wide and poured all the frost powder into it. He swallowed it in a gulp and felt as though his mouth to stomach was frozen in an instant. He couldn’t even shiver from the cold! Soon, a thin layer of ice formed over his body.

The surface of the poisonous insect inside him also formed a layer of ice, which shook off countless icicles, but instantly formed a layer of ice again.

Finally, it could not bear it anymore and broke out of his body, shook off the ice on it and jumped into the black bowl to start sucking the golden python’s essence blood.

A whistle sounded. Eight people in the corners uniformly unveiled the black cloth covering the night pearl. They moved the mirror and a shadow of light shone on the square table.

At the same time, Xiao’er took out the magnifying glass and quickly laid it on the edge of the bowl, projecting the concentrated light on the elf insect swiftly.

The light shone on the insect, causing it pain. It quickly pierced through the magnifying glass and flew towards the darkest corner.

"Xiao Fuzi, quick!"

The flying glass shards nearly went into Xiao’er’s eyes. She quickly turned her head aside, but a shard still scratched her face.

Others quickly covered the night pearls in their hands when they heard Xiao’er’s command.

It was darkness in the blink of an eye!

Xiao Fuzi quickly uncovered the lid.

In less than a second, the dazzling light made everyone in the room unable to open their eyes.

The elf insect fell right at the center of the light, and within a blink of an eye, it was shot into a sieve by the light, then turned into slag, then ash.

Xiao Fuzi blew out a breath. A pile of tiny black ash on the night pearl was scattered!

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It was fortunate that they had made a contingency plan, prepared with a large wooden box full of night pearls!