A Deadly Trap (4)

She looked back to see the creature charging full speed towards her. She turned around digging her heels into the ground as she extended her hands forward.

"Such a pain in the a**!" Her left eye quickly ignited red as electricity bounced around.

The creature lowered its head as it charged forward aiming its horns towards Shi Rong. She latched her hands around the horns wrapping her delicate snow white fingers tightly around its spiral and shape until her knuckles turned blue and purple.

She screamed as she muscles bulged from her chest as the creature rushed forward trying to pin her body into the tree. She kicked her feet forward allowing her body to explode with energy as she pushed the creature away with all her strength.

Fresh blood poured from the corner of Shi Rongs lips as she quickly picked up her naginata jumping high into the tree and landing on the branch beside Xia Lingxiao.

She huffed as she breathed a short sigh of relief.

Xia Lingxiao quickly jumped down on the same branch sitting beside Shi Rong as he examined the young woman. 'Dear sister…"

His slender fingers carefully gripped her arms as he ran his other hand over and bruised and cuts then stomped when he noticed a small puncture wound on her biceps.

Xia Lingxiao knitted his brows close together. "Little sister…."

Shi Rong quickly cut him off. "Please dear brother we don't have time for simple injuries when there's that to worry about." She pointed her finger aiming it directly at the large creature circling the tree below them. She quickly looked around the tree then pulled several leaves from a branch of two different colors.

She grinded the light red and brown levels in her fist then placed the particles in her mouth. She pulled a piece of tree sap from behind her back from the tree then began ripping it apart as she chewed the crushed leaves in her mouth. She she managed to crush and rip the tree sap into a thick paste she spit the wet chewed leaves from her mouth mixing it into the tree sap. She mixed it in her fingers into a medium slimy ball then handed it to Xia Lingxiao.

He glanced at her in disgust.

She quickly became annoyed. "Take it we don't have time for this." She pulled herself to her feet using the branch above her to aid with her balance. She used her free hand to point at the creature as a guide while she explained her plan. "That thing maybe large but its afraid of the trees for a certain reason. That creature is blind and relays on body heat which is why when its was shooting that black venom at us it kept missing. Once we got in the trees it switched to a bait technique coming out from its hiding place to try and lure us out, which worked. Its body, back legs in specific and support bringing lifted from the ground which is why is hasn't tried to balance itself on the trees to get us, also it can't detect us in the trees due to the red leaves. It has something in its chemical makeup preventing that thing from seeing us but it can still smell us which is why it's circling." She pointed at Shen Cao. "It won't attack Shen Cao because she's already trapped in its venom but that thing I mixed should free her it'll take some time."