Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle-Chapter 268: The Xuanhuang Gem Exerts Power, Passing the Trial! (Please Follow)

Chapter 268: Chapter 268: The Xuanhuang Gem Exerts Power, Passing the Trial! (Please Follow)

The two of them were shocked and quickly checked their own bodies.

They hadn’t realized before, but now that they looked, they were startled out of their minds.

Their bodies had been infected by a neurotoxin, which had already spread throughout their entire systems—the poisoning was severe, causing serious symptoms and huge changes in their bodies.

On the outside, their skin had turned pitch black, with black veins bulging all over, and they were giving off an extremely foul stench.

Inside, their muscles, blood, and nerves had all become stiff and numb. What was worse, both of their minds had become groggy. *They were losing consciousness, a sign that they were about to become zombies.*

The girl immediately panicked, screaming, "What do we do, I don’t want to die! And I definitely don’t want to become some inhuman monster or walking corpse!"

"We overestimated the immunity of the Light Elemental Body and seriously underestimated how well the neurotoxin could penetrate."

The young man stayed a bit calmer, and said, "I remember that one of the rewards for clearing the third trial in the Bronze Hall was a Detoxification Treasure. As long as we get it, we can cleanse the poison."

"The Detoxification Treasure is Supreme Level and can be split in two. That’s more than enough for both of us to use and eliminate the poison."

The half-zombified young woman rushed into the teleportation array, shouting, "Hurry up! Those three genius kids got here about ten minutes ahead of us. If they finish first, we’re doomed!"

The young man frowned and also entered the teleportation array.

*Honestly, he had wanted to use a Boundary-breaking Talisman to leave the Bronze Hall. Coming from a Saint-level Medical Family, he was confident that someone in his clan would be able to cure this poison.*

The teleportation array activated, and the two of them entered the third floor.

The third floor of the Bronze Hall.

Xiao Ye, Cheng Bingxi, and Nangong Siyao had already been here for ten minutes.

There was a massive altar here, with ten huge pools filled with Venerable Energy Liquid in the center of the altar. Floating above the altar were two ancient boxes, and info about them entered Xiao Ye’s mind.

[Supreme Level Detoxification Treasure][Boundary-breaking Item]

The three of them had circled the altar for ten minutes, finding no Demon Beasts, no living creatures—just the altar and the Energy Liquid Pools.

There had been no other movement at all.

Nangong Siyao squatted next to a pool, confusion in her voice, "City Lord Qin didn’t give us any tips, so now we have no idea what the trial is about."

Cheng Bingxi took off her shoes, showing off her soft, white feet, and started soaking them in the Energy Liquid Pool.

*After thinking it over, Xiao Ye figured that the trial on this floor must involve these ten pools. But what were they supposed to do exactly? He really didn’t know.*

Bzz bzz bzz! Bzz bzz bzz!

Just then, the teleportation array sounded, and two young people emitting a foul stench, pitch black all over with bulging black veins, arrived on the third floor.

"They haven’t cleared the trial yet! That’s great—we still have a chance!"

"Knew it, it’s got to be the ten pools!"

"Look, Supreme Level Detoxification Treasure up there! As long as we clear the trial before them, we get the prize!"

The young man and woman were overjoyed and hurried out of the teleportation array—they couldn’t waste any time while half-zombified.

"Ugh! So smelly."

"How did two zombies make it up here?"

Cheng Bingxi and Nangong Siyao moved in close to Xiao Ye, faces alert, and made a throat-slitting gesture, saying, "Venerable Eight-Star zombies. We’d better be careful!"

Xiao Ye’s eyes narrowed, and he said, "Wait!"

"They aren’t zombies—they’re those two Contractors. What happened—did they get poisoned on the second floor and are about to turn?"

Seeing the three bristling with hostility, the young man quickly said, "We’re not zombies. We’re Trialists."

"You go your way, we’ll go ours. Just don’t get in the way."

The young man and woman didn’t go near Xiao Ye’s group. Instead, they headed to one of the pools, secretly messaging each other:

"Look at those three—one’s soaking her feet, one’s zoning out, one’s just wandering the altar. Looks like they have no idea that you have to purify the Energy Liquid Pools to clear the trial."

"Heh, let ’em guess all they want. Let’s hurry up and refine—one pool each."

"The Detoxification Treasure is as good as ours!"

The young man and woman each took a pool for themselves and began using their Medical Innate Skills, purifying the negative substances contained in the Energy Liquid.

Some of these negative substances were toxins, others were strange pathological factors and so on.

This round was meant to test the Trialists’ purification abilities in Medical Dao.

Nangong Siyao looked adorably confused. "So it was those two geniuses. What are they doing—is something wrong with the pools?"

Soaking her feet, Cheng Bingxi, barefoot, tilted her head and mused, "There seems to be some weird stuff in the Energy Liquid Pool, all trying to get into my body, but my skin’s surface keeps blocking it out."

"But my feet are still itching a little."

She kept scratching her itching feet, making her soft, white soles turn bright red.

Xiao Ye crouched down, grabbed her foot, and held it up to his nose to sniff. He frowned, "Kinda stinky. Is that athlete’s foot?"

"Bingxi, you’ve got athlete’s foot now."

"Try filtering that and your skin with Destructive Energy. You won’t itch anymore."

Cheng Bingxi’s eyes widened, a bit annoyed—just soaking her feet had given her athlete’s foot?

She did what Xiao Ye suggested, and a few seconds later, her eyes lit up. Her feet really didn’t itch anymore.

"Something’s up!" Nangong Siyao, always watching the young man and woman, called out, "Looks like the amount of Energy Liquid in front of them just went down."

Xiao Ye looked them over, puzzled. "What are they doing?"

Since the young man and woman put all the purified Energy Liquid into their storage rings using a really complicated and tedious process, Xiao Ye’s group hadn’t figured out what they were doing.

But the Energy Liquid levels in the pools in front of the pair kept going down.

Xiao Ye tried asking, but they ignored him, waving him off and refusing to come any closer.

*Seeing the cold shoulder, Xiao Ye didn’t bother to press his luck and ask again.*

Nangong Siyao looked relaxed and said, "Even if we fail the trial, it’s fine. We already scored the Soul-type Healing Treasure, so we’ve completed our main goal."

"I say this Bronze Hall isn’t any place to hang out anyway—danger everywhere, one slip and you’re zombified, even soaking your feet gets you athlete’s foot, and there’s all kinds of weird stuff in these pools."

Cheng Bingxi completely agreed. "Exactly! Xiao Ye, let’s get out of here. We don’t need to push any further in this Bronze Hall!"

Xiao Ye nodded, "Fair enough."

"But we can’t leave this third floor empty-handed at least. Gotta take a little interest with us."

He pulled out the Rule-Level Treasure Profound Yellow Gemstone and released suction toward the eight pools not claimed by the young man and woman.

Immediately, the Energy Liquid in those eight huge pools seemed to get sucked toward the Profound Yellow Gemstone.

The Profound Yellow Gemstone glowed blue and quickly absorbed all the Energy Liquid.

[Rule-Level Treasure Profound Yellow Gemstone: Absorbs and purifies all messy, furious, unstable energy, Dao Rhythm Energy, Conception Energy, Rule Power.]

The Profound Yellow Gemstone erased all the negative substances in the Energy Liquid.

Xiao Ye controlled the Profound Yellow Gemstone, compressing the purified Energy Liquid, condensing it into eight compact Solid Energy Ores.

After putting away the Solid Energy Ores, a force in the Bronze Hall descended on Xiao Ye and moved him into the teleportation array floating above the altar.

The two boxes opened automatically, and both treasures saw the light of day again.

Xiao Ye was stunned, "I cleared the trial?"