Twenty-Four Poisons 5
The sight of a cobalt blue snake swimming across the sky, undulating and billowing, felt truly alien.
It feels like a sea snake flying through the sky and swimming in the blue sea.
As the creature swam, revealing its side, I could see two emerald horns on its head and something running down its back from its head, catching the sunlight and sparkling.
‘Is that a Dorsal Fin?’
It has a dorsal fin-like thing sprouting out of it and it floats between valleys, so its exact size is unknown, but it is estimated to be about the size of a silk python that was caught a while ago.
There was nothing I didn’t like about it, from its size and appearance to its ability to fly.
But it’s cool, the thing you’re catching is fast, gliding, jumping, lunging, and you can deal with those things in your own way, but catching a flying snake?
Since I had never experienced this before, I could only stare blankly at the guy.
I’m a specialist in collecting crawling things.
‘By the way, how do you catch that?’
I was staring at him for a while, and then he completely disappeared from my sight.
“Well then, I guess I’ll have to step back a bit. I’ll step back about a hundred steps for now.”
As the guy appeared, we scattered and hid, but then I heard my grandfather’s voice ordering us to fall back about three hundred meters.
People quickly followed their grandfather’s orders.
But even though I had heard my grandfather’s orders, my mind was filled with worries about how I should catch it, so I kept looking back, and Seol, my sister, came up next to me and urged me on.
“Ryong-ah, what are you doing? Let’s go.”
“Oh, sis. Yes, I understand.”
First, he came to his senses at the urging of his older sister, turned around, and started following his grandfather.
Just because you keep looking doesn’t mean you’ll find a solution.
Then, as if she had read something in my expression, Seol-niu asked me with a smile on her face.
“Unlike your expected expression until now, your expression seems to be full of worry. Why? Because you don’t think you can catch it? Or because you think it’ll be hard to catch it?”
“Oh, I’m not inexperienced, but this is my first time seeing a flying snake. How on earth do I bring that down?”
As my older sister said, I have no idea how to approach the guy.
My sister, who thought I was cute, grabbed my cheek and shook it as she spoke.
“I thought that Yong-i would naturally know since he carries around a lot of spirits, but So-ryong-i doesn’t know the basics? Is it because he only caught spirits and brought them?”
“You don’t know? What?”
No, you’re talking about basics to this spicy Fabre.
I was about to feel a little sorry for Sister Seol, but after listening to her explanation, I realized that I really am a guy who doesn’t even know the basics.
“I don’t know how it flies, but it can’t fly forever, so it’ll come down someday. It’s alive, so it’ll eat and sleep, right?
In our Beast Palace, we catch and tame wild beasts like that. No matter how ferocious they are, they tend to relax when they eat and sleep, and it’s easy to catch them when that happens.
“It seems that the Lord Mandokshin has pushed us back because he wants to watch the guy for a few days to find out what he eats, when he sleeps, and where he sleeps.”
‘Wow… why didn’t I think of that?’
When I think about it, what Sister Seol said was a really basic approach.
When we caught Seol-i and Bing-i, didn’t we watch them for several days to find food for them?
This is a method that targets a moment in the process.
As Sister Seol said, since we are living creatures, we will sleep and eat.
Even if he lived by eating energy like the Wukongs, it was clear that he would still have to come down to the ground and sleep.
If you think about the games you played in your past life, isn’t the moment of hunting when your opponent is at his most vulnerable?
‘It’s true that the most vulnerable moment is when you have to collect CS.’
Then it was understandable why the grandfather was not flustered by the sight of the flying guy and instead pushed the men back to the entrance of the valley.
“There was such a way!?”
“Yes, so just trust this Seol-niu. She’ll catch it and put it on our Yong’s shoulder. I told you that she’d catch it.”
For some reason, I felt reassured by Sister Seol’s boast.
‘No, what about all my friends who said that my older sister was a nuisance in my past life?’
And then I realized that I couldn’t trust the things my friends who had older sisters in their past lives told me and the things that were floating around on the internet.
***
As Seol Noo-ui had expected, after withdrawing about a hundred chapters, the grandfather immediately started looking for a new campsite.
Up until now, I’d just wandered around and spent the night under a tree, but now that I knew where the guy was coming from, I had to set up a base and move.
“First, I need to find a place to stay for a few days. Is there a cave-like place to take shelter from the rain nearby? Or a large rock in the valley?
I’ll have to follow him around for a few days to find out when he eats, what he eats, where his home is, and things like that, so I guess I’ll have to stay here for a while.
“I thought it would be nice to avoid the night dew.”
Grandfather Mandokshin asks his older sister, who brought the Beast Palace warriors to help us, if there is a place nearby where they can stay for a few days.
My sister asked my grandfather back that question.
“Then, can I make it here?”
“Make it?”
“Yes, I can make it right away.”
“It’s nice here, but… Are you saying they made it?”
Since it is the entrance to the valley, water is flowing, making it easy to get drinking water, and there are quite a few fish swimming around in the water.
As it was not a bad place to camp, my grandfather looked around and answered that it was good, and my older sister immediately gestured to the warriors of the Beast Palace.
“Get ready.”
“Yes, Elder!”
My older sister is the daughter of the Beast Princess and holds the title of Elder.
I heard the story that her father was the chairman and that she wore the hat to gain experience before becoming the princess. At her older sister’s order, the Beast Palace people were quickly sent into the jungle.
-Thud. Thud.
-dump.
After a while, large bamboo and sedge leaves move to the edge of the valley where we are.
And the vines of the tropical rainforest.
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The long swords that the Beast Palace people had brought with them through the jungle were very useful in many ways.
The warriors of the Beast Palace quickly began to build a temporary residence using only bamboo, reeds, vines, and long swords.
He looked quite skilled, as if he had a lot of experience, and he reminded me of YouTubers who made temporary residences in Vietnam in their past lives.
Moisture could rise from the ground, so they cut bamboo to make a platform, erected poles on all four sides, and covered the roof with banana leaves. This temporary shelter was completed in no time.
‘Is this because they live in the jungle? If we bring these people, the views will be sweet.’
The order given as the camp was completed in a matter of hours.
Grandfather immediately put the warriors to surveillance.
Grandpa is also a person who is serious about poison.
It seemed like he wanted to catch the guy as soon as possible, just like me.
“Haha, a place to rest will be prepared so quickly. Then, I can start the next task without worry. For now, I will go up to the top of the valley and secretly watch over him. Will the Beast Palace take care of the night?”
“Yes, sir. We’ll take care of the night. I think we’ll be better.”
“Then, let’s leave it to our party during the day and to the Beast Palace during the dark. Gupae, you take the two of you and follow the guy, confirm his location, and let me know.”
“Yes! Your Majesty!”
During the day, the Tang family would watch over the Beast Palace, and at night, the Beast Palace would watch over the Bicheon Shrine. At the order of his grandfather, the Grand Master of Gupae would lead the members of the Poisonous Blood Corps, where he had previously been a member, up into the valley and secretly move in the direction where the guy had disappeared.
Then came Sister Seol’s order.
“Then, let the people of the Beast Palace rest until nightfall, and let some people prepare dinner.”
“Understood, Elder!”
At Seol Nui’s command, about half of the people of the Beast Palace disappeared into a makeshift bamboo hut, and the rest headed out of the valley, saying they were going hunting.
My sister quietly waved to me.
“Ryong, come this way.”
“Did you call?”
Seol Noo-ni nodded as I approached her, wondering if she had something to say and asked why she had called me.
“Okay. Soryong, when the warriors follow the Bicheon Shinsa later tonight, should we go check it out with my sister? Let’s take Hwaeun too, the three of us.”
“Are we going to talk together at night?”
“huh.”
It seemed like they were saying that we should go out on patrol later that night to see if the warriors were keeping good watch over the shrine, but when I hesitated for a moment without answering right away, my older sister blinked and asked.
“no?”
He asked me if I didn’t like it, but I had an expression on my face that said I probably didn’t.
He quickly waved his hand and answered.
Would you ever refuse me an invitation to go see the Heavenly Shrine?
Even if it’s someone you hate, wouldn’t you still follow them anyway?
When I see a guy I like, what does it matter who’s next to him?
All you have to do is chew everything out and focus your attention only on the guy you like.
However, there was another reason why I couldn’t respond to my sister’s suggestion right away.
“Sir, no way. That’s not it. I learned how to raise my eyesight, but I’m not good at it at night.”
Then, my older sister clapped her hands and remembered what I said about me being a martial arts newbie.
“Oh, that’s right. You said that Yong-i hasn’t been a martial artist for very long, right?”
“Yes, sister.”
“Then, until night falls, Soryong and I will have to learn how to raise our eyesight.”
“I already know. Sister Seol?”
It’s not that I’m not used to raising my eyes, but I’ve already learned how to raise my eyes.
Seolnu said, snapping her fingers, that there was no need to learn it again.
“Do you know why the Lord Mandokshin entrusted the night to our Beast Palace?”
“well?”
As I scratched my head at my sister’s question, she pointed to her own eyes and laughed.
“Look carefully.”
When I awkwardly met her eyes at her words telling me to look into her eyes, her pupils slowly began to dilate.
Soon, my sister’s irises completely disappeared, leaving only the pupils in her eyes, as if her eyes had been opened.
“What is this!?”
As far as I know, the pupil is something that automatically adjusts depending on the amount of light coming in, but you’re adjusting it on your own, sister.
With pupils that dilated, they take in a lot of light even at night, so it’s natural that they can distinguish objects or feel much brighter with just moonlight or starlight.
“Isn’t it amazing? It’s one of the tricks that the ancestors of the Beast Palace came up with when they saw the cat-headed hawk. If you keep focusing your internal energy hard on your eyes, you’ll get tired easily, but this is a way to see the night a little brighter with less internal energy. It’s called the Cat-Cat Dark Night Skill.”
‘Such a great martial art?’
Most of the poisonous creatures I want to catch are nocturnal.
Most animals, such as foxes, scorpions, snakes, toads, and frogs, are nocturnal.
But if there was such a sweet martial art, I had to learn it right away.
It’s like having night vision goggles.
“Do you want to learn?”
I quickly nodded my head three hundred times per second in response to my sister’s question with a bashful smile.
***
-Whoaaaaah!
The fin-like structures that had spread out between the green horns on his head folded, and the celestial god plummeted into the moonlit valley water, creating a spray of water.
And after a while, a guy flew up with a carp in his mouth.
As the boy slowly began to swallow the large carp flapping in the air, Seol Nooi and Hwa Eun admired the sight and spoke in low voices.
[As expected, it’s a fire carp!]
[It was the same three days ago. Then, it becomes clear that the guy eats the Hwari living in this valley.]
[But why do you only pick and eat the firefish? It’s definitely not something like the hundred-year-old firefish.]
[Well? Is that particularly tasty?]
What the guy had in his mouth wasn’t just any carp, it was a red silk carp.
I checked just in case, and it wasn’t a spirit-level carp.
Seol and Hwa were amazed that the guy was eating Hwari, but the first thing that came to my mind when I saw him was, ‘Wow, that kid is no joke when it comes to food.’
‘It’s not just any carp, it’s a silk carp that you pick and eat···.’
I would never have been able to raise it in my previous life, but since the food wasn’t mine to pay for, my father-in-law would, I decided to focus on catching it.
So, I decided to summarize what I’ve found out so far.
[So, all we know so far is that the guy eats a meal once every three days, and that he has no home, eats a meal, and sleeps on a rock that is heated during the day?]
[It is also said that once you fly, you can only eat one meal.]
[Oh, there was that too.]
As Hwa-eun said, the guy’s flight had its limits.
A flight of up to thirty minutes is his limit.
The speed wasn’t that fast, and once it flew, it had to rest for a similar amount of time.
Looking at the way he caught the fish, it seemed that Dokdo wasn’t that strong, just like his grandfather said.
When you see the hair stiffen, it feels like paralyzing poison.
I found out pretty much everything I needed to know, so the next day I compiled all the information I had found out so far and went hunting for the guy when he pounced on me.
The information I had found out so far was more superficial than I thought, and I was wondering why this guy was the first head of the Twenty-Four Poisons, but once they got into battle, his true worth was revealed.
-Shaaaaah!
-bang!
“Kwaaak!”
A large body, nearly six meters long.
Oddly tough skin.
Added physical shock from the falling energy.
It’s obvious that the poison won’t be able to enter the teenage poison, but when the guy hits the stone floor like he did when he caught Hwari, there were many injuries from the rock fragments flying in all directions.
‘What kind of missile is that!?’
“Everyone step back!”
The first try of the Bicheon Shrine was a spectacular failure.
