The Peerless Beauty Stuck With Me

Blood splattered, the air thick with the smell of gunpowder.

The body of the Serpent still twitching, but it was already dead, its brain structure completely shattered.

Tang Rao holstered his pistol, honestly, this thing is really quite useful.

People of Blue Star, mediocre in cultivation, but truly excellent in technology.

In the Seventy-two Domains of the Nine Realms, there also exists something similar to firearms, but they are all based on Spirit Stones, consuming the power of Spirit Stones to fire.

Powerful, but expensive to make; only the wealthy can afford them.

High-grade Spirit Stones are hard to come by and extremely important for cultivation.

Basically, very few people would use them on Spirit Stone Spears; of course, if your family owns a spirit ore mine, then disregard this comment.

"It seems, Qi Gathering late stage, is still somewhat inadequate," Tang Rao sighed heavily, knowing he must reach the peak of Qi Gathering as soon as possible.

If possible, step into Foundation Establishment.

In fact, being able to kill this Foundation Establishment peak Serpent was entirely due to his prior experience, plus the fact that although fierce, the Serpent is still a beast with not fully evolved intelligence.

If he encountered a Cultivator at the peak of Foundation Establishment, he probably would be utterly defeated.

Even those in the late Foundation Establishment stage, he couldn't deal with.

"Come over..." Tang Rao called out, and then took a Jade Bottle from his chest.

Inside was a liquid refined from Dragon Blood Tree branches, excellent for healing wounds.

Soon, Zhou Boxiong and Zhou Sancai ran over, looking at the still twitching Serpent on the ground, both were somewhat silent.

Especially Zhou Boxiong, he may be thick-skinned, but he's not stupid.

He had witnessed all the changes in Tang Rao recently, he just chose not to speak out.

But he hadn't expected Tang Rao to have become so powerful that he was completely beyond his understanding. He had witnessed the entire battle between Tang Rao and the Serpent, a style of combat more martial than martial arts.

"Ah..." As for Zhou Sancai, he let out a strangely mournful sigh at this moment.

"This creature isn't dead, I hated it daily and resented it every moment. But now that it's truly dead, I somehow can't feel happy. After all, it belongs to the Bo Mountain, and we humans, are ultimately just invaders." Zhou Sancai spoke, his old eyes filled with complex emotions.

Tang Rao pressed his lips together and shrugged his shoulders, he respected Zhou Sancai's view but did not agree.

All resources don't belong to anyone; in all things, the strong prevail.

"Let's go, check out the Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng first." Tang Rao grabbed the tail of the Serpent, slung it over his shoulder, and started dragging it towards the slope.

To the current Tang Rao, the entire body of this Serpent was treasure.

Look at those sharp fangs, they could be made into weapons; look at those scales covering the body, they could be fashioned into Protective Clothing, absolutely impervious to both weapons and Spiritual Energy attacks.

Then there's the Serpent Blood, bones, even the organs could be used in medicine, refined into Spiritual Medicine.

According to Tang Rao's plan, he had to transport everything back.

After throwing the Serpent onto the slope, Tang Rao led Zhou Boxiong and Zhou Sancai into a cave.

In the place originally occupied by the Serpent, they found the legendary Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng.

"This thing, to still be here after thirty years!" Zhou Sancai exclaimed in amazement.

"Because it's not yet mature." Tang Rao smiled slightly; what were thirty years? Powerful Spirit Plants could take three hundred years to bloom, three thousand years to mature.

"Then..."

"We've come at just the right time, any later and it would have been a wasted trip," Tang Rao said smiling, his luck was always good.

If he wasn't mistaken, within a few hours, this Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng would be fully mature.

The spreading of strong Spiritual Energy was a sign of its maturity.

"Old man, you keep watch for me, call me if there's any problem, I'll go out and do some work," Tang Rao said before leaving the cave.

Approaching the Serpent, he wiped his sleeves and started skinning, deboning, and extracting tendons.

A set of movements, extremely proficient.

You should know, he has done this sort of thing countless times before.

It took about three hours, and the entire serpent was gone, leaving only a large pool of blood on the slope.

The serpent skin was completely stripped by Tang Rao, even with the scales cut into four large pieces.

Three pieces were rolled up, and one was made into a shoulder-carry storage bag using serpent tendons, placing all useful parts of the serpent into it.

Since there were only a few plastic water bottles at hand, most of the serpent blood could only be sadly wasted.

It gets dark quickly in the mountains, and although it was just after five o'clock, the surroundings had already turned chilly with a rustling mountain wind.

"Tang Rao, come in quick!" Zhou Sancai's voice came from inside the cave.

Tang Rao put down his items and whooshed into the cave.

At this moment, there were no traces of Spiritual Energy fluctuations in the cave; clearly, it had all been absorbed by the Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng. It was indeed maturing.

Tang Rao took out a Jade Box that he had prepared beforehand from his waist.

This kind of thing can only be properly preserved in a Jade Box to prevent the loss of Spiritual Energy.

"Should I dig it out?" Zhou Sancai asked, already holding a small rake.

Tang Rao was startled, fearing that Zhou Sancai would just dig in.

"No, absolutely not!" Tang Rao quickly said, jokingly, if you poke into it, the Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng would be ruined.

"Quick, come behind me," Tang Rao waved to Zhou Sancai, this is no ordinary ginseng, using the conventional method to dig it would destroy it.

Zhou Sancai didn't say anything but got up and walked behind Tang Rao.

Yet, in his mind, he was muttering, does Tang Rao want to dig it himself? After all, I am a veteran of many decades, your skill in digging ginseng probably cannot compare to mine.

The sun set in the west, the light retracted, and the cold wind blew into the cave.

Everything happened naturally yet extremely suddenly.

A burst of red light suddenly appeared above the Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng.

Red items swelled from the central bud.

Tang Rao's eyes sharpened, damn it, it was almost tricked.

The next moment, Tang Rao dashed forward several steps, opened the Jade Box in his hand, and covered it over the Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

A sequence of explosive sounds followed, and the bud of the Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng burst instantly, the red fruit-like items scattering.

Because Tang Rao's Jade Box was timely, all nine fruits fell into the Jade Box.

At the bottom of the Jade Box, several cracks also appeared.

"Luckily!" Tang Rao patted his chest, turned the Jade Box over, and closed the lid.

If he had been a moment later, those nine fruits would have flown away, and he could probably only have caught two or three.

Zhou Sancai looked as if he had seen a ghost, and said, "Is this ginseng? Bullshit, I've lived for seventy or eighty years and never seen anything like this."

"It's fine now, you can dig now," Tang Rao told Zhou Sancai, pointing to the Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng on the ground.

The nine fruits are where the essence lies, as for the rest, there's not much use left.

Zhou Sancai nodded and picked up a set of tools he carried and began to dig the ginseng.

"What the hell is this!" Five minutes later, Zhou Sancai threw his tools to the side, then grabbed the leaves of the Nine-leaf Blood Ginseng and yanked upwards harshly.

All there were, were densely packed roots, clumps of them.

But there was no ginseng!

Yes, there was absolutely no ginseng produced.

"Grandpa, thirty years, and you've dug up a bunch of nothing," Zhou Boxiong said with a grin.

"Bang!" Zhou Sancai picked up the dry tobacco stick, and thudded it repeatedly onto Zhou Boxiong's head.

"Even if I dug up nothing but fine nothing, you shut your mouth!"