At this moment Ye Jingyu had nothing on her body at all, let alone any weapon. She was tightly wrapped up and was fighting bare handed against the head of this giant snake.
But this was in the water, completely the monster’s home ground. Moreover, this monster had extremely thick skin and flesh. When Ye Jingyu punched it, it did not react much.
“Run quickly, run quickly…” Ye Jingyu shouted while swinging her fists.
Lanling did not run. Instead he rushed forward, picked up Ye Jingyu’s curved blade, and roared loudly, “Catch the blade.”
Then he threw the curved blade fiercely towards Ye Jingyu with all his strength.
Lanling threw it very accurately. When the curved blade was still a few metres away from Ye Jingyu, she suddenly released a burst of dragon power and tried to grab the curved blade from the air.
Suddenly the giant snake spat out a breath of air.
Bang… This breath directly struck the curved blade and sent it flying dozens of metres away, falling into the water.
Ye Jingyu immediately let out a despairing cry of alarm. She was a high level warrior but specialised in agility and spirit, so her strength was only average. She relied heavily on weapons, and now that the weapon had fallen into the water, she had even less chance to fight.
The giant snake wrapped tighter and tighter. Ye Jingyu could barely breathe. She used all her dragon power to resist the terrifying constricting force of the giant snake. Otherwise her bones and internal organs would probably be crushed.
“Run quickly, run quickly…” Ye Jingyu shouted loudly.
Lanling stood in place without moving. He fiercely nocked an arrow, took a deep breath, and used spiritual locking.
Whoosh… He shot the arrow fiercely.
Without doubt it hit the head of the giant snake directly and pierced into it, because the black gold plated arrow was extremely hard and sharp.
However, it only penetrated less than half an inch. The power of the arrow was too small, and the skin and flesh of this giant snake were extremely tough.
Lanling threw away the bow in his hand and directly picked up the one hundred and fifty jin bow.
He released dragon power, fiercely nocked an arrow, and aimed at the giant snake’s eye this time.
At this moment the head of the giant snake was stretching and moving desperately while attacking Ye Jingyu, and there was no pattern to its movement at all. The giant snake’s eyes were so small.
Spiritual locking was easy, but aiming and hitting accurately was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Whoosh… After locking on, Lanling shot the arrow fiercely.
It missed the eye but still hit the snake head. This time the arrow pierced in one inch.
The giant snake let out a painful roar, and its fierce gaze shot fiercely towards Lanling.
That gaze was filled with bloodthirst and brutality, as if it wanted to tear Lanling into ten thousand pieces.
“That is exactly what I want, for you to open your eyes wide and stare at me…” Lanling felt delighted.
Opportunity must not be missed, time will not come again. At this moment the giant snake was staring fiercely at Lanling without moving.
Spiritual lock, aim at its eye, shoot fiercely.
Whoosh… Within this distance, even the giant snake’s small eye would not be missed by Lanling.
It hit directly, but at the last moment the giant snake fiercely closed its eyes.
The black gold plated arrow pierced through the eyelid and directly through its eyeball.
Roar… The giant snake roared wildly in pain. Blood gushed wildly from its eye as it rolled and thrashed desperately in the water.
Immediately afterwards, as if it had gone completely mad, it rushed straight out of the water surface, charged towards the shore, and came up to tear Lanling into pieces.
At this time, the force with which it was constricting Ye Jingyu finally lessened a little. Ye Jingyu took the risk of having her arm bitten off, reached directly into the snake’s mouth, grabbed one of its sharp fangs, and erupted with powerful dragon power.
Crack… Instantly, the giant snake’s nearly one chi long fang was broken off alive by Ye Jingyu and used as her new curved blade.
A high level warrior with a weapon instantly became extremely powerful.
Ye Jingyu held the giant snake’s fang and stabbed fiercely towards the giant snake’s head.
Puff, puff…
Almost instantly the giant snake was stabbed with dozens of holes. Blood gushed wildly and it was heavily injured.
At this moment one of its eyes was blind and the other instinctively closed, so it could not see at all. It could only open its mouth and bite wildly, then charge ashore following its senses to chase Lanling.
“You idiot, run quickly…” Ye Jingyu cried out in alarm.
Lanling ignored the giant snake getting closer and closer and still stood in place. He fiercely nocked an arrow.
After taking a deep breath and holding it, he used spiritual locking on the red spot inside the giant snake’s wide open mouth. As long as he shot through there, he could pierce through the giant snake’s brain and kill it with one strike.
The giant snake charged madly towards Lanling, getting closer and closer.
Spiritual locking technique, one second, two seconds, three seconds…
Completely locked. Shoot.
Whoosh… Lanling’s arrow shot out like lightning.
Puff… The sharp arrow flew past above Ye Jingyu’s head and directly hit the red spot on the upper palate inside the giant snake’s mouth.
The flesh there was extremely soft. The black gold plated arrow pierced through it easily and stabbed in half a chi, directly penetrating the giant snake’s brain.
In an instant the giant snake died. It fell to the ground like a huge whip.
Its ferocious snake head was less than half a chi away from Lanling. The completely naked Ye Jingyu quickly jumped to the ground the moment the giant snake smashed down.
Lanling immediately lost all his strength and collapsed weakly to the ground.
Then he and the completely naked Ye Jingyu stared at each other. Only after several seconds did he realise he should close his eyes, but by then he had already seen everything he should and should not see.
However, the demon star inside his body could not care about Lanling’s embarrassment at all. It was unprecedentedly excited and overjoyed.
After the giant snake died, the dragon bloodline energy in its body slowly dispersed into the air, about to return to the world.
However, the demon star spun madly and devoured frantically.
It devoured for a full five minutes. Not only the demon star, even Lanling trembled bit by bit.
The feeling of devouring energy so frantically was truly too refreshing, even giving a feeling of the soul leaving the body and floating like an immortal.
It was completely impossible to describe in words.
After the devouring was completely finished, both Lanling and the demon star seemed immersed in some kind of aftertaste.
“Do you not feel that you owe me an explanation?” Ye Jingyu said coldly.
Lanling immediately opened his eyes and saw that Ye Jingyu had already put on her clothes and even picked up her curved blade, which she now held in her hand.
He quickly said, “I am sorry. I should have closed my eyes immediately.”
“Who is talking about that?” Ye Jingyu said. “Why did you not run when I told you to run just now? Do you know that just a little bit more and your little life would have been gone?”
Lanling was stunned. He had not expected Ye Jingyu to be talking about this.
“But… I should save you.” Lanling said.
Ye Jingyu said, “Even after losing my weapon, although I was very passive, there was no danger to my life. As long as you gave me an instant of opportunity, I could break off the giant snake’s fang as a weapon and kill it. However, if you were touched by it even lightly, it would be a bloody mess. Do you know that?”
Lanling remained silent.
“Besides, what is my life worth? Your life must be preserved. You are the only hope of the Suo family.” Ye Jingyu scolded.
Lanling was silent for a moment, then looked up and said, “Yes, you are right. But wanting me to turn around and run away, I cannot do it.”
Ye Jingyu’s face twitched slightly. She stared deeply at Lanling for a while, then said, “Fool.”
Then she pulled Lanling up and asked, “Do you still have strength?”
“It is all used up.” Lanling panted. “Do you need something?”
He saw a shocking bruise on Ye Jingyu’s neck.
“It is not a big problem.” Ye Jingyu said. “Come, find a safe place to set up camp. Hunting ends for today.”
…
They found a spot by a shallow lake to set up camp.
Lanling and Ye Jingyu continued in the water. Ye Jingyu recited the Peaceful Mind Art while Lanling recovered his spiritual power.
At the same time, the demon star helped Lanling with bloodline refinement.
Today he had devoured the dragon power of two prey, one blood cloud leopard and one blood horn giant snake. Lanling was very much looking forward to how much dragon power these two exotic beasts had.
He asked the demon star, but the demon star did not tell him directly. It said he would know after the refinement was finished, which made Lanling even more expectant.
It was another long dragon power refinement.
Just refining the arm tendons and meridians took a full five hours. Next, refining the arm bones took three hours, and finally refining the muscles took two hours.
Throughout the entire process, Lanling felt as if his body was about to burn and burst open.
A full ten hours passed.
The refinement ended. Lanling opened his eyes. The sky was already dimly bright, and Ye Jingyu was no longer in the water but vaguely inside the tent.
Lanling climbed out of the water and immediately took out a bow from his bag to test how much his arm strength had increased.
He first picked up the one hundred and thirty jin bow, took a deep breath, and pulled it open fiercely.
No problem, and he could hold it steady for half a minute without moving. Next he picked up the one hundred and fifty jin bow and pulled it open fiercely.
Still no problem, and he could hold it steady without moving for half a minute. But after half a minute it started to feel strenuous.
The result was out. Lanling’s arm strength was now one hundred and seventy jin, a full one hundred and seventy jin.
It was truly heaven defying. Yesterday one blood cloud leopard and one blood horn giant snake had increased his arm strength by fifty jin with just two exotic beasts.
Moreover, Lanling felt that the most important contribution came from the blood horn giant snake.
“Suo Lun, you…” At this moment Ye Jingyu lifted the tent flap and happened to see Lanling pulling open the one hundred and fifty jin strong bow and holding it steady without moving.
“Did you use dragon power?” Ye Jingyu asked.
Lanling shook his head and said, “No.”
Immediately Ye Jingyu widened her beautiful eyes in shock. In the previous month’s practical cultivation, Lanling’s arm strength had increased by sixty jin and she had already been extremely astonished.
She had not expected that at the very beginning of the second stage of trials, he had increased another fifty jin.
At this point his arm strength was already a full one hundred and seventy jin. There were only one hundred and thirty jin left until the graduation major examination target of three hundred jin.
Ye Jingyu could not imagine at all how Lanling had done it.
“You, you really are a monster.” Ye Jingyu said. Then she beckoned with her hand and said, “Monster, come in and help me.”
“Oh.” Lanling suppressed the excitement of his strength increase and walked into the tent.
After entering, he was instantly stunned.
Because Ye Jingyu was lying on the sleeping bag with her back to him. That was nothing, but the key point was that she had nothing on her entire body.
Immediately Lanling’s nosebleed almost sprayed out at once.