Chapter 64: THINK!

Xi Son turned to see a massive beetle that was about to prey on him, it was probably the Queen, and it had been the only one that wasn't lured by my pill, it waited for Xi Son to drop his guard to attack, but while it was attacking, it too had dropped its guard. Though I would have not been able to beat it in a frontal attack, this method was more than effective at spilling the Beetle Queen's blood.

The poison Qi seeped through the area and I pushed Xi Son aside so that he doesn't get affected by the poison. I turned then blew a poison breath behind us and shouted, "The gate, move!"

Xi Son dashed to the tree and walked inside it first, while I followed after him after blowing an even thicker poison breath clouding the exit and stopping any beetle from trying to follow after us.

Once I was inside the tree, I found myself back at the same cave we walked in from. I was suffering from Qi deficiency. That I didn't account for, for when I trained in that room, I could use my spells and skills as much as I wanted due to the abundance of Qi. But here, just after using the -Tiger Stinger, yes I decided on the name of the fused skill-, the poison escape. And a couple of poison breaths, I was already down to a tenth of my Qi reserves, quite dangerous. I now remember why the Poison God's book heavily implied for one to fully comprehend the base of Poison Tiger Claw before learning Poison Escape, as the first will allow the user to tune his Qi expenditure and will have enough experience on how to manipulate his Qi thus enabling the user to know how to manage the Qi reserves. Qi micromanagement was the basis of most of the Poison God's skills, they all required huge amounts of Qi, but when one was proficient enough, they'll be able to use the spells without losing much of their reserves.

But, as I was now, exhausted and weakened, I seemed like a pretty damned good target to Xi Son who held a sword up to my neck.

"I won't kill you, but you'll have to hand over your holding pouch." His hands were already shaking and he tried his best to steady his grip