48: The covetousness caused by snakeskin bags

Originally, when he met the manager, Zhang Shan had considered selling the Blood Tempering Agent to the construction site manager.

However, seeing the construction site manager's attitude, he immediately dismissed this idea.

After the construction site manager left, he went to another window to recycle the agents.

The recycling price was 80% of the value.

That is to say, one bottle of Blood Tempering Agent could only be recycled for four thousand shen xia currency.

Zhang Shan decided to recycle twenty of them.

As for the rest, by scraping together his family's savings, he could barely manage to gather enough.

Having gathered the service fees, Zhang Shan hurriedly rushed back to school to pay, fearing that he might delay his son's treatment.

On the other side, time quickly reached the third day of Li Canglan leaving the city.

The forest outside the city was too dense; even with a map, he couldn't determine his exact location.

He thought about it; in the last two days, he had hunted at least a few hundred Demonic Beasts.

If he went any further, he would likely encounter Two-star Demonic Beasts.

The gap between a One-Star Warrior and a Two-star beast was too large; he probably wasn't a match for them right now.

So, he turned back and retraced his steps along the path he had come from.

On the way, he dug up all the markers for the prey he had buried, one by one, and put them into the two prepared snake-skin bags.

However, these two snake-skin bags were too conspicuous and didn't attract bloodthirsty Demonic Beasts; instead, they attracted some Martial Artists!

Just as Li Canglan was passing by a thicket, a rush of wind sounded from his side.

Li Canglan's eyes narrowed; he dropped the snake-skin bags and lunged forward to dodge.

The next instant, a meteor hammer smashed into the spot where he had previously been passing.

"Oh, that's a quick reaction."

The meteor hammer was pulled back along the iron chain, and the thicket returned to its original calm.

But Li Canglan knew that murderous intent was hidden within.

Nourished by Spiritual Qi, even a thicket could give birth to monsters.

Moreover, the thicket was over a person's height, allowing the assassin to conceal their figure.

Li Canglan didn't know the assassin's background and dared not rush into the thicket rashly.

The assassin knew Li Canglan was on guard and didn't make another rash move, so the two sides remained in a temporary standoff.

After some time, a faint voice came from the vast thicket: "Leave the snake-skin bags, and I will let you leave."

Li Canglan tried hard to discern, but he couldn't pinpoint the opponent's location.

"These beast ears were also killed by me with great effort. Isn't it too much for you to come and take them all away?" Li Canglan said deliberately.

"Heh, stop playing dumb with me!" The assassin hiding in the dark sneered, "With just you alone, where would you get two snake-skin bags of beast ears?"

"If I'm not mistaken, you probably snatched them from other people, right?"

"It's just dog-eat-dog. If you can rob others, I can naturally rob you!"

Suddenly, Li Canglan, who had been closing his eyes to sense the surroundings, curled his lips.

"Found you!"

"Wind Sweeps Ten Thousand Thunders!"

A gale swept through, blowing the entire patch of thicket in front of him flat.

Boom!

Two dazzling electric arcs flashed from his fingertips, ultimately turning into roaring thunder, striking the position where the assassin was located!

"Damn it!" The assassin's face changed drastically; using a Martial Skill, he smashed the meteor hammer at one of the thunderbolts.

But the other thunderbolt struck straight down, shattering his left arm!

Blood splattered!

The assassin's face was twisted, and he dared not stay any longer.

He used all his strength to throw the meteor hammer at Li Canglan, while he himself fled rapidly.

The assassin's heart was filled with fear and panic.

He was clearly in the thicket; with such a large area, how could the opponent locate him just by sound?

He had used this move to deal with many Martial Artists; it could be said to be invincible!

Who could have imagined that he would fall here today!

Li Canglan leaped, closing in rapidly with the support of wind elemental power.

He naturally couldn't determine the assassin's position by sound alone, but this was not a professional assassin, after all.

While speaking, the signs of the grass lightly swaying were hard to hide from the perception of the wind elemental power within the Raging Wind Thunder Eagle mark.

Coupled with the movement caused when the meteor hammer was dragged into the grass at the beginning, he was able to judge the general direction.

Li Canglan successfully located the assassin's exact position.

The fleeing assassin only felt the sound of wind behind him getting closer and closer.

He subconsciously turned his head to look, only to find that the young man had already arrived behind him!

Slash!

Thunderbolt Slash descended with a blade.

The assassin's body was slashed into two pieces diagonally, and the two halves of the body slammed heavily onto the ground.

This was not Li Canglan's first time killing someone; the slight nervousness he felt at the beginning was long gone.

He lowered his head and opened the assassin's backpack.

Inside, there were more than fifty pairs of Vicious Beast left ears piled together.

"These were probably all snatched by this guy from other people."

Truly, robbery and murder lead to wealth!

Li Canglan could consider this as eliminating harm for the people and avenging those who had been robbed!

Experienced, Li Canglan squatted down to loot the corpse; besides a few blue pills, he actually found a crystal core!

"This is truly an unexpected joy." Li Canglan grinned.

However, he had already found these blue pills on several people.

What exactly are these things?

"Could it be a must-have item for Martial Artists leaving the city?"

Li Canglan had decided to go out of the city for training on a whim; besides things like a power bank, he really hadn't prepared much.

He opened the Martial Artist forum to check and found that these blue pills were indeed among the essential items for novice Martial Artists.

【Satiety Pill: Eating one allows a One-Star Warrior to feel full, containing a large amount of sugar and oil mixture.】

"So it's this thing." Li Canglan realized.

In the wild, although some Demonic Beasts are afraid of firelight, there are also mature Demonic Beasts that know there will be humans near firelight and specifically come to hunt.

Except for individual Martial Artists like Li Canglan who are highly skilled and bold, most people in the wild only dare to eat food prepared in advance.

"Sigh, I thought it was something good; what a pity."

Approaching noon, because he was too far from the city, he still couldn't make it back to the vicinity of the city gate.

Li Canglan was not in a rush; he found a nearby open space and started a fire to enjoy the recently hunted Sabertooth Boar.

The roasted suckling pig contained a large amount of calories, and with the help of seasonings, it tasted excellent.

Li Canglan ate a whole half of the pig in one go before stopping.

However, at this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded from not far away.

"Buddy, you actually dare to start a fire in this wild; you've got guts."

Li Canglan turned his head to look and found a five-person Martial Artist squad.

These five, except for the youth in the middle who was clearly dressed in fine clothes, the others were carrying backpacks larger than their upper bodies.

The one who spoke just now was the youth in luxurious clothing.

"Although this is not far from the city area, starting a fire will also attract many One-Star Demonic Beasts."

"It might even arouse the covetousness of other Martial Artists."

The youth, Chen Qinian, laughed loudly, "It's your lucky day to meet us."

"As long as we are here, no one dares to touch you!"