70: Chapter 70 Snake Bro, you'd better stand up straight!

That said, Tang Long still kept a close watch on the outside world while practicing.

Things went as he had expected. The Thorn Snake King was truly weak; although its body was massive and its scales hard, it was helpless against a flying monster like Yin Ying.

After Yin Ying toyed with it for about ten minutes, a second barrage of dense Battle Qi strikes directly blinded one of its eyes.

With that, the Thorn Snake King lost its nerve.

It immediately burrowed into the cave, and Yin Ying pursued it closely.

The Thorn Snake King's injuries compounded, and it no longer had much strength left. Its massive weight had now become a burden, and its movements became increasingly sluggish.

However, after using his ultimate technique twice, Yin Ying's spirit energy was also heavily depleted. For the giant snake body, this cave was actually somewhat narrow, and most of the time he could only attack the snake's tail, making it difficult to achieve a decisive victory for the time being.

Chasing it to a bend in the snake cave, the Thorn Snake King's ferocity flared up; it unexpectedly seized a moment to turn around and unleash a blast of poison flame at him.

Yin Ying was burned to the point of being terrified out of his wits. Although he barely managed to escape the cave, his feathers were charred and reeking, and he was heavily poisoned.

He had no choice but to immediately deactivate his transformation state, then quickly took out a small box from his person and swallowed his most precious detoxification pill.

While Yin Ying was dispelling the poison and replenishing his spirit energy, the Thorn Snake King was also listlessly crawling toward its lair.

Just as it neared its lair, it suddenly sensed that its treasure was gone!

"Brother Snake, what's wrong?"

"You are the strongest overlord of Scale Mountain; has this little bit of pain knocked you down?"

"That poison flame breath from just now also burned that turtle-grandson half to death. If you rush out now, you can easily finish him off."

"Brother Snake, you need to perk up!"

The Thorn Snake King's gaze fell upon Tang Long.

Although it really wanted to believe Tang Long, it could sense the lingering aura of its treasure on him.

That was the treasure that had accompanied it since it was small. It had been able to grow to this point step by step entirely because of being steeped in the treasure's aura year after year; it definitely wouldn't misidentify it.

No matter what was said, it was convinced that Tang Long had stolen its treasure.

"You hateful human, you despicable liar, return my treasure!"

It finally opened its huge mouth, revealing its fangs, exhaling a foul, pungent breath, and immediately bared its ferocity toward Tang Long.

Tang Long's face twitched, his expression slightly awkward.

"Aurora Phantom Sound really isn't that reliable; it was dispelled so easily."

"However, Brother Snake, that treasure cannot be returned."

"Since you can't perk up anymore, I'll have to wrong you..."

Before he finished speaking, Tang Long suddenly raised his hand and fired an arrow, aiming straight for the Snake King's only remaining left eye.

This arrow was fired with Heavy Strike, its speed extremely fast. The Snake King couldn't dodge at all; the arrow shaft plunged deep into the snake's eye, and then a cluster of blue flames shot out directly.

In pain, the Snake King immediately thrashed its body violently, hating this human immensely in its heart, wanting to burn this person into poisonous meat jerky with its poison flames.

But Tang Long had already clearly seen that it was now drained of blood and spirit energy; it couldn't use any techniques at all.

After writhing for another half a minute or so, the cave finally fell completely silent, and several beams of illusory golden light flashed and merged into Tang Long's body.

[You have killed the Golden-Horned Thorn Snake King BOSS, gaining 27,606 EXP!]

[You obtained: Snake King Golden Horn * 1, Snake King Golden Scale * 6, Snake King Gallbladder * 1, Snake King Poison Fang * 2, Snake King Heart Blood * 3]

[Snake King Golden Horn: The golden horn of the Thorn Snake King. It converges the metal-attribute spirit energy essence of the Thorn Snake King. Its strength is far higher than ordinary spiritual metals, making it an excellent material for crafting high-quality weapons.]

[Snake King Golden Scale: The golden scales of the Thorn Snake King. It converges the metal-attribute spirit energy essence of the Thorn Snake King. Its strength is far higher than ordinary spiritual metals, making it an excellent material for crafting high-quality armor.]

[Snake King Gallbladder: Consuming it grants Poison Resistance +24 {Upper limit increase 50}.]

[Snake King Poison Fang: Contains intense poison; can be used to craft various items.]

[Snake King Heart Blood: Using it provides a continuous replenishment of a large amount of blood-attribute spirit energy.]

Damn.

Tang Long let out a "damn" right then and there, directly giving Brother Snake a thumbs up.

Nothing Brother Snake dropped was trash; it was simply a treasure trove.

He couldn't use the scales, horns, or fangs for now, but he unceremoniously used the snake gallbladder and heart blood directly.

What surprised him even more was that the effect of the Snake King Heart Blood seemed to be even better than the blood spirit stone.

Originally, he only had blood spirit shards and fire spirit stones in his hands. When aggressively pushing his Barbarian Blood, his spirit energy intensity would drop sharply. To prevent his cultivation realm from regressing, he had to practice it in combination with the Aurora Breathing Method to maintain it. By now, the Aurora Breathing Method was almost at level four.

Now that he had this Snake King Heart Blood, perhaps he wouldn't need to anymore.

Moreover... this was dropped by the game system.

But on the giant snake corpse before him, the golden horn was still there. So, could there still be a snake gallbladder and another snake heart inside its belly?

He immediately went to the side of the Snake King's corpse.

The Snake King's large horn was over two meters long. Along with the surrounding golden scales, they had become mottled during the previous battle, but they were still sturdy, and it took quite a bit of effort to pry them off.

The abdomen was relatively weaker. Tang Long quickly sliced it open, and a few minutes later, he indeed retrieved a snake heart the size of a water vat from inside.

Looking at this snake heart, Tang Long felt as if he had discovered a new continent, his eyes glowing green.

"Dual-track... so it's dual-track in this aspect too. This is really damn exciting~"

He tasted a mouthful of the Snake King Heart Blood. To tell the truth, the taste was bad—fishy and astringent, and the toxicity was quite strong. The effect was also quite a bit worse than using it from the game system inventory, but the quantity of this heart blood was much more abundant.

However, his Poison Resistance was already at 29 points, so he could tough it out, but there was no need.

After quickly finding the other snake gallbladder and consuming it, his Poison Resistance increased to 50 points, making him completely immune to snake venom.

Then he jumped directly into the snake heart, soaking his whole body in the heart blood.

On a large tree on the opposite mountain, this scene made Lv Yang 'watch' until he grimaced.

This kid was getting more and more insidious and perverted. He would even scam a snake, and after scamming it to death, he would even eat it clean and wipe it dry.

Although Lv Yang knew very well that the Snake King Heart Blood was indeed a treasure, that thing was definitely highly toxic; an ordinary person would lose their life just by eating a little. That kid Tang Long not only ate it but actually jumped in to take a bath?

Regarding this 'Saint' not fearing poison, Lv Yang already felt there was no need to make a fuss.

But thinking of the taste of that poisonous blood, he still couldn't help but twitch his old face slightly.

"He really doesn't mind it being dirty."

The one from the Blasphemers on the other side was also a little poison thing. It was really quite a coincidence that these two poison things clashed.

However, Lv Yang finally confirmed that what Tang Long was practicing was indeed the Barbarian Blood Breathing Technique. Judging from his breathing rhythm, his mastery was already very deep. At the same time, he was even more unable to understand it in his heart.

First of all, the Barbarian Blood Breathing Technique was originally a Barbarian tribe cultivation method. Although humans could barely practice it, there was an innate barrier in aptitude, so it would be extremely difficult to practice, and progress would absolutely be abnormally slow.

But when did Tang Long start practicing it? Was it after coming into contact with Lu Xiaohu?

Even if he knew it from birth, he was only about a month old.

With such low spiritual aptitude, his cultivation was so fast, and he could even ignore the racial constitution threshold. Just as the High Priest said, he truly could not be measured by conventional logic.

The most shocking thing was that the piece of Golden Spirit Source Crystal he had just dug out... was truly gone.

Even with his own spiritual perception, he could no longer find any trace of that thing.

He must be the Reincarnation of the Saint!

And judging from his style of doing things, I'm afraid he doesn't have anything in common with the saints of other factions at all.