Chapter Twenty-Four: The Hunt

  Lin Xi dug out the internal organs and took a few thorny blood pig bones before setting off on his journey.

  The blood of the thorny pig is very dirty, and its internal organs are completely inedible. The most valuable thing on its body is its bones, which can be used as a material to decoct into medicinal pellets.

  Hush! Hush!

  Not far from where they had walked, several snakes darted out from the grass on the ground and the trees beside them. One of them bit Lin Xi's body with a loud "pa", refusing to let go, while venom spurted out at the same time.

  "Welcome!"

  Lin Xi was not surprised, but delighted. With a single pinch of his fingers, as if pinching beans, he directly burst the heads of these few snakes. With a casual tear, he tore open these several poisonous snakes equivalent to a Quenching Body Period warrior, and the snake blood containing rich yuan qi immediately gushed into his mouth, swallowing it down his abdomen.

  His body felt warm and toasty. With just these few snakes, Lin Xi felt his strength increase by a fraction, his fists becoming even more powerful. Moreover, when he swung them, the coordination between his muscles and bones was even smoother.

  The venomous snakes of the Ferocious Beast Mountain Range are a headache for all warriors. However, Lin Xi is an exception.

  Su Zi Xuan gave him the realgar to expel snakes, but Lin Xi didn't use it. The detoxification pill he refined was completely enough to remove the snake venom.

  For venomous snakes, Lin Xi doesn't have the smell of realgar, and the heat emitted from his body is the most eye-catching target, extremely easy to trigger an attack!

  It's just that for Lin Xi, it was exactly what he needed. Snake blood was indeed a great tonic for him.

  Boom!

  Lin Xi's fist burst out like a mountain flood, shocking the sky and earth. A iron-backed wolf was directly knocked to the ground, its entire skeleton shattered into powder.

  Lin Xi was familiar with the road, and after dissecting the iron-backed fierce wolf, he took out a white beast dan.

  All the way, Lin Xi didn't know how many big and small ferocious beasts he had killed. Iron-backed wolves, thorny blood boars, steel-stabbing boars, steel-backed snakes, strangling pythons... alone, the white beast Dans collected twenty. The number of snakes killed was over a hundred.

  Lin Xi started drinking snake blood, but later he couldn't drink it anymore. His whole body was warm and cozy, with a surge of vital energy rushing inside him.

  Lin Xi had no choice but to hang the snakes on his shoulders. However, snake blood also has a time limit. The longer it is left out, the less fresh it becomes, and its effect will be worse.

  "No way, I need to find a place to practice my fist. To digest the yuanqi in this snake blood."

  Lin Xi's face was red and swollen, that was because he had swallowed too much snake blood, his vital energy couldn't digest it in time, and it surged to his face.

  However, the surrounding trees are dense and ferocious beasts are lurking, making it unsuitable for practicing boxing.

  "Huh? There's the sound of water!"

  Lin Xi's ears twitched, and she heard a gurgling sound of water coming from above.

  "It seems like a waterfall, let's go take a look!"

  Lin Xi was so focused on hunting beasts and snakes that he unknowingly ventured deep into the forest. He was already very far from the entrance, but he wasn't in a hurry, as he had never planned to leave hastily anyway.

  Before long, Lin Xi arrived at the place where the sound of water was coming from. All he saw was a silver-white waterfall, like a white silk, falling from a mountain peak thousands of feet high, into a cold pool, making a loud rumbling sound.

  "This place is not bad, suitable for settling down!"

  Lin Xi stood on the mountain peak, took a glance around and thought to himself.

  The mountain peak is extremely high, and as soon as you look around, you can see any movement in the surrounding area.

  "Never mind all that, first digest the snake blood in your body."

  Lin Xi muttered to herself and immediately began to set up her fist technique.

  Snake blood is a great tonic, and even an ordinary snake's blood has the effect of nourishing and tonifying the blood. Not to mention these snakes that have absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, equivalent to the body-tempering period of a martial artist's alien snakes.

  Rumble!

  Lin Xi stepped on the mountain cliff with flying steps, his fists and feet thundering, the fist strength he brought out was like iron thunder.

  A set of fist techniques later, the red color on Lin Xi's face gradually faded away. The energy of the snake blood continuously merged with Lin Xi's flesh and blood, nourishing his body.

  Crack!

  Lin Xi grasped a piece of Huayang rock, and with a crisp sound, this kind of stone that was known for its hardness, said to be as hard as steel, immediately let out a brittle sound and crumbled into powder.

  "I only swallowed this hundred-snake blood, and I actually increased nearly a hundred kilograms of strength. This ferocious beast mountain range is simply a treasure trove!"

  Lin Xi felt the new power within his body and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

  He now somewhat understands why the Beast Mountain Range is so treacherous. Every year, many sect disciples die here, but still so many people flock to it.

  Lin Xi had only walked around the edge of the Beast Mountain Range for less than a day and had already gained so much. Not to mention, there were still treasures like the Heaven and Earth Exotic Fruits within the Beast Mountain Range.

  Moreover, the more ferocious the beast is, the more potent its inner elixir will be. For top-level warriors, the effect will be even stronger.

  Lin Xi is currently only in the fifth layer of the tendon refinement stage, and these low-grade white beast dan and snake blood are still useful to him. But as his skills become deeper, these things will be useless.

  However, at that time, the inner dan of those powerful fierce beasts deep in the mountains could still play a role.

  "No wonder those big sects with tens of thousands of disciples almost hold multiple hunting sessions here every day to capture ferocious beasts. Although it's dangerous, the harvest is also greater!"

  Lin Xi sighed with emotion.

  The Five Thunder Sect didn't have such strength, the six great elders of the sect could at most venture into the Ferocious Beast Mountain Range once a year. But other sects were different, they ventured into the Ferocious Beast Mountain Range seven or eight times a year, and even more than ten times. Each time was also quite long.

  However, although the harvest is great, the risk and cost taken are also very high!

  Lin Xi swallowed the remaining snake blood and practiced a set of fist techniques to digest the yuanqi in the snake blood. The sound of the waterfall was deafening, Lin Xi sat on top of the waterfall, his heart moved, and an idea faintly emerged:

  "I'm still at the fifth level, and what's most important is to temper my entire body. I need to borrow external forces, this waterfall is so high, the impact force it generates must be considerable. Why don't I use this waterfall to temper my muscles, bones, and skin?"

  At this time, the sky was getting late, Lin Xi thought for a moment and decided to go under the waterfall again tomorrow.

  "Roar! ——"

  In the mountains of ferocious beasts, roars echoed back and forth. It was almost time for the ferocious beasts to gather and emerge in large numbers.

  At night, there was no difference for fierce beasts. However, it greatly affected the warrior's field of vision, and even the most powerful warriors could only see more than ten zhang away. Relatively speaking, this was extremely disadvantageous.

  "First find a place to set up camp!"

  Lin Xi swept a circle on the mountain, and finally on the leeward side of the mountain top, on a bulging rock wall, he dug a cave with his bare hands that one person could enter. It was not deep, only seven or eight zhang.

  Lin Xi dug the hole and then put things down.

  He brought a lot of things with him this time, including flint, four days' worth of dry rations, a cloth bag, and a medicine cauldron for refining elixirs, as well as sulfur, cinnabar, and other materials for alchemy.

  The medicine cauldron was heavy, but for Lin Xi, it didn't count as anything and had almost no impact. On the contrary, it could be used to hold some fierce beast bones that could be used for alchemy.

  Before long, a fierce flame rose up on the mountain, and on top of the flame was placed a medicine cauldron filled with water.

  "Knock knock!"

  Lin Xi threw six fierce beast inner elixirs into the medicine cauldron and immediately stepped inside, starting to temper his body.

  This medicine cauldron was directly used by him as a quenching body bucket.

  "What a fierce medicinal power!"

  Lin Xiyun initiated the "Dominating Heaven and Earth" technique, and immediately felt a surge of fierce medicinal power, like a venomous snake, drilling into his body.

  This medicinal power is so fierce, it feels like you can scoop it up with your hands.

  Lin Xi hastily gathered his mind and spirit, using all his strength to absorb the ferocious beast's inner dan's wild and violent yuanqi. Wave after wave of the beast's yuanqi surged into his body, and with each passing moment, Lin Xi's power grew stronger.

  His skin membrane couldn't thicken in this way, but the strength in his muscles was constantly soaring. All the way from the initial stage of the fifth-order tendon period to the middle stage of the fifth-order power direction.

  Unconsciously, it was already late at night, and the sky had completely darkened.

  Whoosh!

  Lin Xi suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze gleaming like a knife's edge. He sprang into action, making several swift movements before charging headlong into the darkness and vanishing from sight.

  "Roar! ——"

  A moment later, from the forest below the mountain, a fierce beast's roar was heard. But the roar soon turned into a wail and a mournful cry. After a while, all the beastly roars were suppressed.

  This group of fierce beasts seemed to have seen something terrifying and were frightened into fleeing in all directions in the dark night.

  A beastly horde is very bold and dares to attack anything. Unless they encounter an opponent who is completely unbeatable, they will disperse and flee in all directions.

  "This is indeed a land of treasure and wonder. The progress in martial arts is so rapid that even a thousand miles a day cannot describe it."

  Lin Xi left and returned, his whole body exuding a murderous aura. On his body was a cloth bag, which could only hold twenty or so fierce beast inner elixirs with such a small amount of space.

  Lin Xi absorbed the six fierce beasts' inner elixirs, causing his power to surge. Originally, nighttime was extremely disadvantageous for warriors, but Lin Xi relied on his immunity to snake venom and his suddenly increased strength to charge into the beast pack and start a massacre. Relying on his overwhelming power and ferocious fighting style, he directly scattered these wild beasts.

  "After power soared, killing these ferocious beasts is as easy as killing chickens."

  Lin Xi slowly walked into the flames. Although he had just been in a fierce battle, there was no blood on his body.

  His current strength has far surpassed that of an ordinary fifth-order Jinpi period strongman, and with the coordination of the Zhizhu Sanlian style, warriors below the sixth-order Shenxing realm are directly invincible.

  These most peripheral ferocious beasts can hardly threaten him anymore.

  The rest of the time, Lin Xi spent practicing "Dominating Heaven's Might" in the mountains. The spiritual energy in the Ferocious Beast Mountains was much thicker than that on the Five Thunder Mountain. Practicing here had an effect far surpassing that on the Five Thunder Mountain.

  Lin Xi was like a bird released from its cage at this time. Without the various constraints of Mount Wulei, Lin Xi let loose and cultivated his own national arts and the ultimate techniques on the Wanhuangtu.

  Every moment, Lin Xi's strength is progressing.

  …………

  The east began to dawn, and the sky gradually turned white. Lin Xi appeared at the foot of the waterfall.

  "What a magnificent waterfall!"

  Lin Xi sighed and said.

  When standing on the mountain top, it just feels that the waterfall is very high. However, only when standing at the foot of the mountain can one feel how terrifying the impact of this waterfall is.

  That feeling is like a giant axe opening the sky, striking the earth again and again. It doesn't seem to be something that human strength can contend with.

  Standing at the bottom of the waterfall, you can feel that the entire ground is shaking, as if it's about to collapse.