The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 173 Provoking Conflict
After obtaining the Qingfeng Sword, Wu Chengyu first covered the original stone slab of the sword mound, slid down the cliff, and then cleared away the traces of his previous footsteps.

The Sword Tomb is not the stone tomb of Dugu Qiubai. The Bald Eagle lived with the stone tomb day and night. This Sword Tomb is on a cliff more than 20 feet high. Judging from the moss just now, the Bald Eagle has not been here for a long time and does not usually pay much attention to it.

It is estimated that the sword tomb will only be remembered when Yang Guo comes in the future and wants to teach him swordsmanship, if Yang Guo is still around in the future.

Next, Wu Chengyu carefully observed the area using a 3D model to erase all traces of himself after entering the valley.

After he left the valley, he saw the bald eagle on its way back to the valley. However, the bald eagle was not in good condition today. It was walking unsteadily, as if it was injured. Wu Chengyu hid to the side and waited for the bald eagle to leave. Then he picked up a feather that it had dropped from the ground.

That's right, the bald eagle must have suffered a loss in today's battle with the snake king. The bottom of this feather contains the snake king's venom, and a piece of flesh was torn off. The venom is extremely potent and is visibly corroding the flesh.

After reading it, Wu Chengyu understood and hurriedly returned to his shelter with the feather in hand.

More than twenty days have passed. Wu Chengyu has been drinking five snake gallbladders and a bowl of medicinal wine every morning and evening. The more than two hundred snake gallbladders he had stored have all been used up. All that is left in the shelter is the jar of strong liquor that was prepared for the snake king's gallbladder.

Now Wu Chengyu's physical injuries have been fully healed, and his body has returned to its original shape, like half a wall. Despite consuming so many snake gallbladders, his strength has not increased much; he still possesses the immense strength of over 800 jin. The essence of the snake gallbladders has been used to repair his physical injuries.

It is worth mentioning that the internal energy generated from absorbing snake gall was absorbed by the silkworm to restore the meridians. Now that the cracks in the meridians have been completely repaired, the additional internal energy is gradually stored in the dantian.

Since it is an external force, the reserves are not large and it cannot be used as easily as one's own limbs. However, Wu Chengyu's lightness skill can be used with difficulty now, and internal energy can be infused into his fists and feet, but it is consumed very quickly. He can only fight a few dozen moves before his internal energy is exhausted, unless he swallows snake gall again.

Wu Chengyu looks no different than before, but he knows in his heart that ordinary snake gallbladders are no longer effective for him.

Once the foundation is destroyed, it is destroyed. The most obvious sign is that although his meridian injuries have healed, he is still unable to circulate his former nameless divine skill. Now his meridians are blocked, and he cannot use any of his methods.

According to the bamboo slip, he is now considered to have all his meridians destroyed. Unless he eventually completes the silkworm transformation, he will never be able to cultivate internal energy again. Moreover, his physical condition will only last for ten years at most. After ten years, his body will gradually collapse, and after twenty years, he will be like a cripple.

Fortunately, Wu Chengyu was not unprepared. He went down the mountain several times during this period and bought a lot of new medicinal herbs.

For the past twenty days or so, the bald eagle has been very quiet, probably because it was injured before. At first, it stayed in the valley and did not go to Snake Valley to hunt, until recently it started to cause trouble for Snake Valley again.

When the time was finally ripe, Wu Chengyu first captured several live Bosqu snakes and placed them in the sanctuary for experiments.

Afterwards, they moved a bronze cauldron from the foot of the mountain, and then went to the entrance of Snake Valley to kill a few meaty Bodhi snakes and bring them back.

For the past twenty-odd days, aside from eating snake gall to heal his wounds, he devoted all his energy to researching a new type of snake soup and a special snake medicine.

Before noon one day, the bald eagle usually went to Snake Valley to feed at noon. Having suffered a loss some time ago, it seemed to be venting its anger these past few days, and it has been hunting Bosqu snakes with even greater ferocity.

The snake king came out again and fought the bald eagle. He only had three snake queens with him. It was likely that one of them had been killed by the bald eagle last time, and now he was even less able to defeat the bald eagle. However, the snake king always retreated back to the snake valley as soon as he saw that the situation was not good and he suffered a slight loss.

Before noon, Wu Chengyu set up a pile of dry firewood on the path the Bald Eagle would take to Snake Valley, a spot closer to the valley. He placed a bronze cauldron on top of the firewood, poured in the semi-finished snake soup he had prepared earlier, and then lit a fire. The fire grew stronger and stronger, and the aroma of the snake soup spread throughout the valley. Wu Chengyu himself hid in a nearby tree.

Before long, noon arrived, and the bald eagle appeared precisely on time. It quickly discovered the bronze cauldron and tasted the snake soup inside.

Wu Chengyu didn't know if the bald eagle ate cooked food, but he added something to the snake soup.

The day he received the feathers covered in the flesh and blood of the bald eagle, he first took out his homemade antidote and poured it onto the flesh and blood.

This antidote is specifically designed for the Bosphorus serpent. The venom on its feathers and flesh decomposes rapidly under the action of the antidote, which was to be expected.

Strangely, that piece of flesh, which was clearly dead, almost instinctively absorbed the antidote.

The flesh and blood of the bald eagle were fresh, having just fallen, but the pieces of meat were dull, resembling a piece of rotten meat that had been left for several days. The blood on it had a fishy stench, which caught Wu Chengyu's attention because the stench was similar to that of the Bosqu snake.

According to Wu Chengyu's understanding, the mild toxicity of snake gallbladders can accumulate in the body. Over the years, the bald eagle has been feeding on the Bosphorus snake and ingesting snake gallbladders. It is unknown how much toxicity has accumulated in its body, to the point that it has developed tumors on its head and lost all its feathers.

Wu Chengyu's antidote is effective in removing these toxins.

Wu Chengyu believed in the instincts of living beings, and the bald eagle was probably already troubled by toxins in its body, but it just didn't know how to solve it.

Therefore, Wu Chengyu immediately improved the antidote, mainly changing it to be taken internally. In particular, he added the antidote to snake soup. According to the explanation in the bamboo slips, the chemical reaction between the two could release a kind of pheromone.

As soon as the bald eagle senses this pheromone, it immediately knows that eating snake soup can resolve the poison in its body. Once the poison is neutralized, it can regain its youth. This almost life-or-death instinct makes the bald eagle unable to resist devouring the snake soup whenever it sees it.

Just as Wu Chengyu had predicted, the bald eagle sensed the stimulation of the antidote in the snake soup. It was initially puzzled, but then let out a cry filled with joy and surprise. Regardless of whether it was a trap or not, it used its wing to extinguish the firewood under the bronze cauldron and then plunged into it.

Meanwhile, the snakes in Snake Valley also rioted.

Wu Chengyu deliberately placed the bronze cauldron upwind, so that the wind in the mountains would carry the aroma of snake soup into Snake Valley.

Wu Chengyu added more than just antidote to this snake soup.

He conducted numerous experiments with live Bosqu snakes and finally developed a completely different pheromone. When stewed with the Bosqu snakes, other snakes would be greatly stimulated and become highly aggressive simply by tasting the snake soup.

So, while the bald eagle was feasting on snake soup, the snake king, along with his queen and a host of giant snakes, swam frantically out of the snake valley and set their attack on the bald eagle, with whom they had a blood feud and who was now devouring snake soup.

Wu Chengyu's idea was simple: if he couldn't win over the Bald Eagle to help him kill the Snake King, then he could only let them both suffer heavy losses.

(End of this chapter)