Lu Li had thrown several fireballs just now, but found the three-headed snake to be extremely agile. The moment a fireball flew out, it simply tilted its head and dodged, taking no damage at all.
Hearing Wu De's urgent urging, he dared not delay and immediately prepared to charge forward.
But after running only a dozen zhang, rows upon rows of three-headed snakes abruptly appeared ahead. These three-headed snakes all held their heads high, bobbing slightly. They were arranged in orderly lines, like well-trained soldiers-a truly shocking sight.
Lu Li's heart skipped a beat. He thought to himself that these beasts actually possessed such high intelligence; this was going to be troublesome.
Wu De naturally noticed this as well. While blasting fire snakes at the three-headed snakes behind them, he shouted, "Go right!"
Lu Li took a deep breath and broke into a run.
Seeing this, the rows of three-headed snakes let out a collective hiss and immediately swarmed in pursuit of the duo.
A ruthless expression flashed across Lu Li's face. He pulled out a handful of Talismans and threw them behind him. Instantly, a series of rumbling explosions echoed from his rear, sending crimson 'long ropes' flying in all directions.
Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a sudden cold wind blew toward his front. He decisively arched backward. Almost instantly, three triangular snake heads shot right past his abdomen.
Beside him, Wu De was quick and deft. With a flash of fiery red light on his hand, he grabbed the three-headed snake clinging close to Lu Li's abdomen. Gripping the snake's body, he twisted hard, directly snapping the creature into two pieces.
Lu Li pushed off his feet to stand upright. Suddenly, his Divine Sense stirred. He hurled another handful of Talismans behind him and urged, "Hurry, go!"
Watching the three-headed snakes drop to the ground one after another, Wu De, however, hesitated. "Kid, these three-headed snakes' gallbladders are worth quite a bit. How about... we gamble on this?"
Leaving behind so many three-headed snake corpses would truly be a great pity.
"What do you want to do?" Lu Li asked while still hurling fireballs.
"Fight them head-on!"
"Are you sure?" Lu Li was also short on True Essence Pills now. Truthfully, he was somewhat unwilling to leave so many snake corpses behind.
"What sure or not sure? Attack!" As Wu De spoke, he turned around and charged straight into the snake horde behind them, acting rather valiant.
This time, however, he didn't use spiritual arts arts. Instead, he summoned his turtle shell to block in front of him, wielding a long sword in his hand to slash wildly. Whenever he saw a snake head biting toward him, he simply raised the turtle shell to block it.
Surprisingly, this tactic left the three-headed snakes completely helpless against him. Instead, they were ambushed one by one by Wu De, having their heads chopped off.
But right at that moment, several three-headed snakes slithered up behind Wu De.
Wu De instantly felt a chilly breeze on his backside, but he dared not turn around, lest his rear become even colder. He could only push forward behind the turtle shell while shouting loudly, "Kid, stop dawdling, come help me!"
"Coming!"
Lu Li's body swayed as he instantly darted toward Wu De. Midway, a black light flashed in his grasp, and an axe appeared in his hand. He swung it smoothly down at the three-headed snake attacking Wu De's backside.
"Pfft!" The snake's body and its three heads were instantly separated.
Lu Li arrived at Wu De's back, standing back-to-back with him. Simultaneously, he pinched a high-grade Turtle Armor Talisman and poured his True Qi into it with a pained expression.
With a hum, a brownish-yellow turtle shell immediately materialized before him. Though not a real turtle shell, it was still quite thick and sturdy.
Wu De inwardly praised Lu Li's willingness to spend. This way, the two of them had omnidirectional protection. Wu De would occasionally slash out with his sword, and Lu Li would chop with his axe.
Before long, several hundred three-headed snakes had perished beneath their sword and axe.
This high-grade Turtle Armor Talisman wasn't a physical entity, after all. After enduring over a hundred impacts, it could hold on no longer. With a sharp crack, it turned into green smoke and vanished.
Lu Li glanced at the corpses littering the ground, hesitated briefly, and took out another high-grade Turtle Armor Talisman.
Just as he was about to use it, Wu De interrupted him. "Don't waste it. Leave the rest for this old man to deal with."
Lu Li thought this old fellow wasn't too bad. He nodded and put away the Turtle Armor Talisman. "Alright, I'll leave it to you!"
Saying that, he separated from Wu De to pick off the isolated snakes.
A while later, the great battle finally ended.
Across a two-li radius of grassy land, three-headed snake corpses lay scattered in a messy heap. Utterly exhausted, Wu De plopped down on his rear, but his small eyes shone with brilliant light.
With so many snake gallbladders, they were going to make a fortune this time.
Lu Li was similarly fatigued, but he had tempered his body and wasn't in nearly as sorry a state as Wu De. He walked slowly over and sat down beside him. "Old man, are these snake gallbladders very valuable?"
In his view, given Wu De's personality, he would never have risked his life hunting these three-headed snakes if they weren't worth money.
"Of course. Why would this old man go to all this trouble if they were worthless?"
"How much are they worth?" Lu Li immediately looked at Wu De with anticipation.
Wu De slowly extended five fingers. "At least fifty for one."
"Fifty!" Lu Li's face was filled with shock. "These three-headed snakes are only rank-one mid-grade spirit beasts. Can they really be worth that much?"
"Hehe, you just don't understand. The bile refined from these gallbladders can be used to concoct many kinds of Pills. It's something many factions vie to purchase. Moreover, the Scarlet-Refining Three-Headed Snake is extremely difficult to find, so its price naturally cannot be compared to ordinary mid-grade spirit beasts."
"So that's how it is."
Hearing this, Lu Li was secretly pleased. He thought to himself that it was perfect timing, as his True Essence Pills were almost used up; it was like someone offering a pillow just as he was getting sleepy. Amidst his thoughts, Lu Li remembered the refining materials for the Meridian-Nourishing Pill, so he probed tentatively:
"Right, old man. One of the ingredients for the Meridian-Nourishing Pill is the Buddha-Heart Fruit, yes? Do you know where to find Buddha-Heart Fruits?"
"Buddha-Heart Fruit?" Wu De glanced at Lu Li and casually replied, "The Buddha-Heart Fruit is sold at the Myriad Treasure Pavilion. If you want to search for it yourself, you can try your luck in lands of extreme yang. As for where exactly, this old man doesn't know either."
"They sell it? Is it expensive?"
"About fifty-something True Essence Pills per fruit."
"That's not too expensive."
Lu Li's eyes flickered. He figured that this way, as long as he found the Soul-Calming Flower, he could begin refining the Meridian-Nourishing Pill. A breakthrough was right before his eyes. His mood instantly soared.
However, Wu De let out a sorrowful sigh. "It's not expensive, but unfortunately... we're still missing one ingredient, Earth Milk Essence. Who knows when we'll be able to find it."
Lu Li opened his mouth, then swallowed the words that had reached his lips, sighing in kind. "Yes, indeed!"
After the two shook their heads and sighed with emotion for a while, they finally stood up and began collecting the snake gallbladders.
After busying themselves for a full small half-hour, they finally gathered all the snake gallbladders together. Upon counting, they discovered there were actually five hundred and twenty pieces. Divided equally, each received two hundred and sixty.
According to Wu De's estimation, this would be enough to exchange for thirteen thousand Low Grade True Essence Pills.
It was truly a substantial income. Lu Li planned to visit the Myriad Treasure Pavilion to purchase the Buddha-Heart Fruit after finding the Soul-Calming Flower. Then, he would find a place to hide and quietly refine Pills to break through...
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