Chapter 51 The Trail 13

Tong Kenzhi (age 6, demon boy), Jin Baoyu (age 17, ran away from home), and Chu Yang (general) went to find the the Jade flower to use it's leaves to make the antidote for Gu Xiang's poison. The list said the flowers grow around where the Spiritual Honey Bees pollinate them so their should be a lot around the cave Chu Yang and Gu Xiang found and she leads the way to the bees.

Surprisingly, they found the flowers in 30 minutes and is quite far away from the cave. They checked their surroundings making sure not to get stung and grabbed enough for Wei Ru and Gu Xiang and enough for just in case.

They carefully grabbed the leaves of of the stems. These flowers takes a long time to grow but their leaves can grow as much as they can. They only took around 20 Jade flower leaves because the antidote can become poisonous to the user overdoses and 1 leaf can make 10 antidotes. Of course with the right amount of water and qi, it can cure most poisons.

Reason why they it's the leaves of the flower instead of the petals of the flower is because the flower is the poison the bees use for their stingers. Because their stingers rub on the petals as they grab the sweet nectar inside. They are also the only one that can pollinate these flowers.

They got back to the river and followed the path of the river to reach Chu Yang and Gu Xiang's camp but a Giant Eel came out of the river and stopped them at their path. His big head just smacked the ground to hit the three but they dodged out of the way.

Paying attention to the others movement, Kenzhi eyes both Chu Yang and Jin Baoyu letting them know he is going to attack first.

Understanding, they both distracted the Eel, letting the eel attack them while Kenzhi finds its weak point. It was hard, the only weapon they had was the 2 knives Jin Baoyu made for Kenzhi and herself but it was made with random things she found in the forest.

Chu Yang used the rocks around her and threw them at the eel whenever she can find an opening. But the Eel's skin was tough and the knives and rocks wasn't piercing through.

They fought for another 10 minutes and started getting tired. Chu Yang then felt five other presences near the area. It was behind the eel and it was Zhao Meiying (disciple of doctor), Li Dan E (murdered brother), Peng Ai (uncontrol), Wu Lang (age 10), and Wei Ru (poisoned too) standing behind the eel.

They all join in the fight. Wei Ru stay back to protect Wu Lang, who is sleeping, and watch the fight. Zhao Meiying and Li Dan E stick joined Chu Yang throwing rocks to find the eels weak point and also pay attention to the movements of the others and the eel.

Peng Ai didn't know what to do and stood in the open. The eel notice her standing still and by herself so it swam to her in a flash. Peng Ai moved out of the way just as they quickly planned and the eel's head smashed on the rocks that was below her making an opening of the eels head. Chu Yang following behind the eel making sure the plan is still working and added another punch of the head of the eel, smashing into the sharp hard rocks again, making the wound bigger.

All of them quickly attacked the wound on the head and finally killing the eel. Meiying cut open the snake to grab the heart and to their surprise, found 5 hearts. Meiying was explaining them why it makes since the Eel had 5 hearts, since it's such a big animal, it needed extra hearts to pump blood throughout the body. She notice the hearts are also very small to the size of the eel compared to the heart and body proportion of a human.

And they kept moving. They both explain their situation together and were lucky they met up because Meiying's group needed the jade flower leaves for Wei Ru.

They all traveled back to Chu Yang's camp and was surprised Zhang Haocun and Xie Rong was also there. They are now all together.

Meiying and Xie Rong talked about making the antidote for both the poisons and worked together to make it. Li Dan E joined them and was fascinated with the results. The were able to cure Wei Ru and Gu Xiang.

Zhang Haocun, Wu Lang, Chu Yang, Jin Baoyu and Kenzhi went out to get the remaining herbs. They found out by accident the use of the sleeping powder made from Xie Rong to make the Spiritual Honey Bees sleep and was able to get in and out of the cave with a lot of honey.

They worked together to grab the blood berries as well. The vines hiding Gu Xiang in the trees were sturdy enough to hold up Wu Lang weight. The held of the vine tightly and Wu Lang was able to get the blood berries.

Back at camp, Xie Rong's experiment with preserving worked on the hearts and meat can be preserved the same way as herbs and so for the rest of the time, Meiying, Li Dan E, and Xie Rong used their qi to preserved the hearts they all have gathered before they rot away.

Gu Xiang and Wu Lang got cured instantly was thankful for their help. Gu Xiang felt so useless the whole time so went out to find food and was able to get a huge boar for dinner.

Peng Ai practice the technique Lin Yu Yan taught her for the rest of the day. The others understood because they have witness the use of her power and killed a slave trader for his abusiveness against her and can see the determination in her eyes that she wants better control of her power.

They all have a good dinner as Meiying, Li Dan E and Peng Ai seasoned the boar from natural resources and made it delicious.

They all sit in front of the fire. Everyone but Zhang Haocun looked at each other and nodded their heads. They agreed to finally talk about Zhang Haocun since no one suspicious is around them anymore.

Xie Rong spoked first. "Zhang Haocun."

He was still eating when he looked up confused at the serious tone Xie Rong had. He saw the eyes from the others as well and the only one who didn't understand was Kenzhi.

"What? Why is everyone so serious all of a sudden?" He smiled, a very nervous one.

Jin Baoyu then spoke up, "1st Prince, Wang Haocun… Why didn't you come back?"