Open a Clinic to Cultivate Myself Chapter 150

Ning Tao's attacker was a hairy giant with a face more than 50 percent similar to a human face, except that his face was covered with black hair. His eyes looked like bronze bells, the pupils and whites of which shared the same color, looking quite horrible. He was at least four meters tall and stood there like an iron tower. He had enormous feet and thick and long arms which were like those of an ape, and his hands as big as palm-leaf fans!

He looked exactly like the legendary savage of Shennongjia.

Ning Tao did not know how many people had entered Shennongjia to explore and look for evidence of the existence of savages, and he either did not expect him to meet one when he came here to collect herbs.

Of course, he would not have been able to come here without the help of the Soil-seeking Inkstone to guide him to spiritual soil and the magic tool, a herb-collecting rope. How was it possible for an ordinary explorer to reach the fog-shrouded canyon, more than 300 meters from the cliff?

Ning Tao came up with all this in a flash.

Clanging!

Ning Tao brandished the firewood chopper and hit the savage hard on the forehead. The blade cut through his dark-furred skin, causing a spattering of blood. But the blow only cut off his skin, and the bones beneath the skin were so hard that Ning Tao felt as if he were striking on a rock with an ordinary firewood chopper. Although the savage was wounded, he did not really hurt.

“Grrrr!” the savage roared while waving his hand sideways at Ning Tao.

Ning Tao had no help in the air, and was hit on the shoulder by the savage. He was blown up like a cannonball, hitting the stone wall, and then falling to the ground.

Due to the protection of the spiritual power airbag and the treatment of special spiritual power, blunt blow couldn't really hurt Ning Tao. However, this could not go on. After all, the strongest defense would collapse at some point. Then the savage could trample him flat with his foot and turn him into a meat cake.

The savage's wound was just above his right eye, and blood ran down into it. He roared, kicked his feet off the ground, sprang up again, and stepped on Ning Tao.

Ning Tao promptly rolled away.

Bang!

The ground trembled as the savage's feet fell upon it.

Ning Tao jumped up from the ground and went around behind the savage. He sprinted toward the savage, raised the chopper to cut on the savage's left ankle, and took advantage of the inertia of his body to cut his hamstring.

The savage had a gash on his ankle, which was bleeding. The hamstring was not as strong as bones, so it was cut, though not broken. The savage was affected. He didn't attack Ning Tao as fast or as agile as he did before. However, even so, the angry savage was still a terror to Ning Tao. Ning Tao ducked from side to side, appearing discomfited.

Crash!

The white-jade holy lotus and a large lump of green earth were lifted from the quagmire. Then Qing Zhui held the spiritual soil she dug with both hands and emerged from the quagmire. In the quagmire she could not hear outside, so she had no idea what was happening. As soon as she emerged from the quagmire, she saw Ning Tao being attacked by a monster. She was startled, and flew into a rage.

“Hisss—” Qing Zhui made a terrible noise and wiggled her tail. She swam in the mud as if on ice and was soon on the shore. She joined the fight at once. As soon as she got close to the savage, her several meter-long green snake tail whistled and swept towards the savage chasing Ning Tao.

Bam!

When the savage was struck by her tail, he retreated several steps, and much of his long hair fell from the point where he had been struck.

“Hiss!” Qing Zhui's nails were shining green, her eyes also turning green. She exuded a strong demon aura.

She was far more powerful in the demon state than in the human state.

The savage was dripping with blood and covered with cuts chopped by Ning Tao. It would be hard enough for the savage to deal with Ning Tao alone, not to mention adding a snake demon full of deadly venom. The savage steadied himself and cast a glance at Qing Zhui. Suddenly he jumped into the thick fog and disappeared.

Qing Zhui swung her snake tail and zoomed toward the direction where he disappeared with extreme speed, like skating on the ice.

She, who was a total demon at the moment, tried to hunt the savage.

Ning Tao bellowed, “Qing Zhui! Come back! Let him go!”

Qing Zhui stopped, turned back to Ning Tao and spat out her long tongue, looking fierce. “Hiss!”

Ning Tao frowned and snapped, “What are you doing? Do you want to bite me?”

This unhappy remark seemed to have worked. Qing Zhui immediately put away her fierce posture, and her eyes first returned to normal. Then her snake tail quickly disappeared, replaced by a pair of long white legs. She knelt on the ground in an enchanting pose.

Ning Tao was amazed to see her transform from a snake demon into a human girl. Every detail of the process shocked and stimulated him.

Qing Zhui got up and went to Ning Tao; with her head down, looking like a child who had done something wrong was admitting it to an adult. “Brother Ning,” she uttered timidly, “I…”

“Never mind,” Ning Tao interrupted in a gentle voice. “I owe you an apology. I shouldn't be so hard on you. But if I hadn't yelled at you, you would have gone after him.”

“I was angry that he attacked you, so I wanted to go after him and kill him,” Qing Zhui explained.

“He should be the legendary savage in Shennongjia,” said Ning Tao. “This is supposed to be his territory. We broke into it. He was excused for attacking me. It's hard for him to live. Let him live. You've already killed a lot of people. Don't commit this unnecessary crime.”

“All right,” Qing Zhui replied softly. At this time she was very obedient, and quite different from the horrible one she had just been.

Ning Tao looked away from her and said, “Well, you go get your clothes on. We have to get out of here.”

He had looked at her when he spoke just now out of politeness, but in fact she was in an inappropriate situation, so he could not remain polite at all.

Qing Zhui chuckled, “Isn't it great that I'm naked? There's no one here but you.”

Ning Tao couldn't stay any longer and didn't dare respond to her. He walked over to the spiritual soil and the white-jade holy lotus that Qing Zhui dug. Miraculously, there had just been a fire burning in his abdomen, and a part of his body was in a hard state. But as he approached the white-jade holy lotus, the fire died out, and his body was relaxed and no longer hard.

“What a wonderful white-jade holy lotus! When I get it back, I'll dig a pond and put it in with the spiritual soil.” Ning Tao secretly made up his mind.

Qing Zhui put on her clothes. It was like her second skin, but better than her naked body. After all, Ning Tao was her demon master, and she had to listen to him, of her own free will.

Ning Tao walked around the spiritual soil, estimated, by his eye, its weight to be several hundred kilograms, much more than that he obtained from the forbidden land of the Tang Sect.

Then he bit his finger and drew a blood lock on a stone near the quagmire.

Qing Zhui walked over and asked, “Brother Ning, will we still be here when we get back?”

“Of course,” Ning Tao replied. “I haven't got all the herbs I need to refine the Primary Elixirs, so I have to go on collecting herbs.”

“Then I'm not going back, I'll wait for you here,” Qing Zhui said.

Ning Tao thought for a moment and said, “Okay. I'll take the spiritual soil and the white-jade holy lotus to the Sword Pavilion Cave. Then I'll come back and meet you.”

He turned the blood lock with the key of the Sky Clinic, grabbed the spiritual soil as large as a small table, and stepped into the convenient door.

Back to the outside of the Sky Clinic, he opened the blood lock marked with “Sword Pavilion Cave”. A few seconds later, he arrived at the Sword Pavilion Cave.

Because he worried about Qing Zhui alone in the canyon, he casually put the spiritual soil and the white-jade holy lotus, as well as a few kinds of herbs he picked in Shennongjia in the spiritual field left by Xuan Tianzi, and then returned to the Sky Clinic. After that, he got back to the canyon.

Qing Zhui was still getting rid of the mud in her hair. In the demon state, she had fine snake scales all over her body, which protected her from the mud, but her head didn't have any scales, so she got mud in her heir when she came out of the mud. Ning Tao's sudden appearance from the convenient door surprised he. “You're so quick!” she exclaimed.

“I was worried about you staying here alone. Let's go. It's not safe here,” Ning Tao suggested.

“Wait until I get the mud out of my hair,” Qing Zhui said, clutching at the mud in her hair.

Ning Tao said, “Let's go back to the cliff first. We can find somewhere with water, and I'll get you shampooed.”

“Okay, that's great.” Qing Zhui was suddenly overjoyed and slapped the mud she had just removed on her head.

Afterward, they returned to take the herb-collecting rope.

Bang! Bang! Bang…

Suddenly there was a heavy and terrible running sound from deep in the canyon, and the ground shook.

Ning Tao suddenly realized something and his complexion changed dramatically. “It's savages! Come on up!”

“You go up first. I bring up the rear!” Qing Zhui cried anxiously.

“No nonsense! You go up!” In a rush, Ning Tao grabbed Qing Zhui around the waist and lifted her up.

How could he get a woman to bring up the rear under such a dangerous situation?

After being yelled at by Ning Tao, Qing Zhui knew it was urgent. She grabbed the herb-collecting rope and climbed up. Every time she climbed, the rope contracted.

Out of the fog came a group of dark figures. They were a dozen iron tower-like savages. The wounded savage was among them, running and roaring. After being chased away by Qing Zhui and Ning Tao, he went back to fetch help. And now he came with a rescuer to attack Ning Tao and Qing Zhui.

Ning Tao took a deep breath, concentrated his spiritual power on his legs, and jumped up. His body leaped to a height of several meters. Besides, just as the lift in his body was about to disappear, the spiritual power stored in his legs was suddenly released, creating a force similar to that of the rocket as it ascended, causing his body to rise sharply again by several meters. Then he reached out and grabbed Qing Zhui's ankle.

This was the Ladder under Feet in the pre-school punch skill, which could make him run as if flying, or launch his strength in the air so as to continue to rise.

However, he pulled Qing Zhui's tight pants down a bit. Instantly, a patch of white skin was exposed in his sight…

Those wild men rushed to the foot of the cliff where Ning Tao and Qing Zhui had run away. They all raised their heads and shouted angrily. Some even picked up stones and threw them. All the stones thrown from the savage's hands had the force terrible as that of cannonballs, which pounded the walls of the rocks and caused them to crack!

Fearing that Qing Zhui would be hit by stones, Ning Tao recklessly grabbed her leg and climbed onto her back, protecting her like a cover. As soon as he held Qing Zhui, a stone hit his back, sounding as loud as a drum.

After climbing up the cliff, Qing Zhui and Ning Tao lay on the platform on their backs. Both of them had a feeling of survival. Qing Zhui couldn't beat a dozen savages, and neither could Ning Tao. If they had been slower a moment ago, they would probably have been in a hopeless situation by now.

The sun warmed their faces. It was good to be alive.

“Let's get out of here.” Ning Tao did not dare to stay here. He soon adjusted himself, rolled over and got up.

Qing Zhui didn't respond, still lying.

Ning Tao gave her a wry smile and lifted her pants up.

“You said you would do my shampooing,” Qing Zhui said.

Ning Tao nodded and said, “Let's go find some water.”

Qing Zhui got up from the ground.

Ning Tao squeezed open the healing wound on his right index finger, and walked to the cliff. Then he painted a blood lock on it that wouldn't get wet in the rain, so that they could come here again. Then he took Qing Zhui away.

There must be a tribe of savages of Shennongjia in the canyon below. Ning Tao decided to explore here again someday!

Chapter end