118: The battle is over

These two swords had been flying over since Tang Tian first said "Life Extinguishing Spirit Gathering Sword." They had been flying for a long time, proving that Great Yellow and Wuqi were very far away...

Tang Tian controlled these two swords to strike at the Teng Snake, but they were quickly broken, leaving only the White Bone Greatsword.

The White Bone Greatsword was plunged directly into the Teng Snake's skull and stopped moving. Finally, the Qilin's two curved daggers pierced through the Teng Snake's body, and everything was over...

The Teng Snake collapsed to the ground, already dead.

Just as the Teng Snake died, and the Qi Refinement stage eight Yao Beast was about to spontaneously combust, the Qilin quickly ran to the Teng Snake's body, retrieved its two curved daggers, and emitted a white light between its two horns.

It stopped the Teng Snake's spontaneous combustion...

Tang Tian said: "It's finally over."

The Qilin said: "What do you mean by that? There is still the Teng Snake's body to deal with."

Tang Tian nodded, walked to the Teng Snake's head, and pulled out the White Bone Greatsword.

The Qilin, meanwhile, dug out the earth-attribute Yao Beast core from the Teng Snake's Dantian and threw it to Tang Tian.

It then went to dig out the lightning-attribute Yao Beast core. The earth-attribute Yao Beast core that the Qilin handed to Tang Tian was as big as Tang Tian's body.

Tang Tian clicked his tongue in wonder; although it was just a Yao Beast core, it still retained the ferocity of the Teng Snake while it was alive.

Tang Tian put it into his storage ring.

At this moment, the Qilin had also dug out the Teng Snake's lightning-attribute Yao Beast core, and then extracted the Teng Snake's tendon, which was a full thirty meters long, and threw it to Tang Tian.

Tang Tian asked: "What is the use of this?"

This tendon was the meridian of a Qi Refinement stage eight Yao Beast, but Tang Tian did not know how to use it.

The Qilin said: "You can shrink this tendon and make a bow out of it; I have no use for it, so I'll give it to you..."

This tendon was thirty meters long, and shrinking it would consume a significant amount of spiritual power. It just so happened that he remembered obtaining an arrow in the Medicine Venerable Real Person's Secret Realm, so perhaps this really would be useful.

The Qilin swallowed the lightning-attribute Yao Beast core directly, and the lightning-attribute Yao Beast core turned into specks of lightning light and disappeared into the Qilin's mouth.

Then, the Teng Snake's body turned into specks of light and entered the Qilin's mouth. In an instant, the Teng Snake's body disappeared.

The Qilin said: "We Yao Beasts can increase our strength by devouring other Yao Beasts; even my promotion to the Qi Training Ninth Level depends on this."

Tang Tian expressed understanding, as this was common among Yao Beasts. Then Tang Tian asked: "Why haven't I seen Great Yellow devour Yao Beasts? Wuqi and the others haven't told me about this either?"

The Qilin said: "Perhaps they have eaten too many Spirit Medicines and don't want to devour them, so they didn't tell you."

Tang Tian asked: "Do Yao Beasts increase their cultivation very quickly by devouring other Yao Beasts?"

The Qilin said: "If Yao Beasts do not devour other Yao Beasts, they basically cannot advance."

No wonder Great Yellow and the others were slow to advance; the case was solved.

At this moment, Great Yellow and the others ran over, each licking Tang Tian's hand.

Tang Tian asked: "Great Yellow, do you all need to devour Yao Beasts to advance?"

Great Yellow was stunned, hurriedly shook its head, and let out a "Woof," meaning: "No, don't talk nonsense, we rely on Spirit Medicines to advance."

Tang Tian said: "Fine, fine, fine! No wonder you are slow to advance. You will now hunt Yao Beasts with me in the Dense Forest Stone Nest, and you can only leave once you reach the Lianqi Sixth Level."

That meant Great Yellow would advance one level of cultivation, and Wuqi would advance two levels.

The Qilin said: "Stop chatting, let's go get the earth-attribute Spirit Medicine and the lightning-attribute Spirit Medicine."

Tang Tian asked: "Don't you need to refine it? After all, that Teng Snake was so big."

The Qilin said: "I can hold on for a while; after all, if we don't take the two Spirit Medicines, they might be snatched by other Yao Beasts in the Dense Forest Stone Nest."

Tang Tian said: "That's true."

The Qilin started running in front, while Tang Tian rode on Wuqi's back.

Three days later, the Qilin had already run to that place, while it took Tang Tian six days to arrive.

The Qilin was guarding the two Spirit Medicines. Seeing Tang Tian arrive, the Qilin said: "You're here. Take this earth-attribute Spirit Medicine and stand guard for me; I'm about to break through."

Tang Tian was shocked by the Qilin's Breakthrough speed. It had only devoured a Qi Refinement stage eight Teng Snake, and it was already breaking through to the Qi Training Ninth Level so quickly?

Tang Tian said: "Rest assured, no one can get past me to attack you."

Tang Tian even plunged the White Bone Greatsword into the ground. The Qilin nodded, instantly leaped into the air, and began to refine the Qi Refinement stage eight Teng Snake.

The Teng Snake's blood energy was refined by the Qilin. A powerful aura radiated from the Qilin's entire body as it floated in the air.

Seeing that the Qilin had already begun to break through, Tang Tian collected the earth-attribute Spirit Medicine and sat cross-legged nearby to meditate.

Great Yellow and Wuqi kept watch nearby...

A moment later, the Qilin was enveloped by the Teng Snake's blood energy and stayed inside a blood sphere.

A faint thirty-meter-long phantom of the Teng Snake appeared outside the blood sphere, as if the Teng Snake had been reborn.

Tang Tian said: "Great Yellow, did you see that? If you had told me earlier that you could advance by relying on Yao Beasts, I would have prepared them for you long ago."

Great Yellow let out a sheepish "Woof."

Three days later, the Teng Snake's blood energy enveloping the Qilin became transparent. As night fell, the entire blood sphere vanished, and the Qilin disappeared as well.

While Tang Tian was astonished, the Qilin transmitted its voice to Tang Tian: "It will take me one year to refine this Qi Refinement stage eight Teng Snake. When I appear after one year, I will be at the Qi Training Ninth Level."

"I have now completed the Elementary stage of refining, and I was not attacked by Yao Beasts during my most vulnerable moment. Thank you, Fellow Daoist; you may leave now."

Tang Tian said: "Then I wish you, Fellow Daoist, an everlasting Dao. Great Yellow, let's go."

Tang Tian curiously went to the area where the Qilin had just been and touched it with his hand. He could neither touch the Teng Snake's blood sphere nor the Qilin. The Qilin had actually vanished into thin air; it was truly strange...

Tang Tian rode on Wuqi and left the area. Originally, Tang Tian had wanted to take the Qilin out with him; it turned out that this was the "matter" the Qilin had mentioned.

Now that Tang Tian himself had no Spirit Stones left, he was also preparing to leave the Dense Forest Stone Nest. He would hunt a few Lianqi Sixth Level Yao Beasts so that Great Yellow and the others could reach the Lianqi Sixth Level, and then they could leave...

Tang Tian said: "The time has come to unleash your talent as a dog. Sniff around and see where there are Yao Beasts."

Great Yellow ran on the ground for a while, then ran forward.

Tang Tian said: "Wuqi, hurry and follow it."

Soon, before Tang Tian and the others even had to search, the Yao Beasts that had been scared away by the Teng Snake returned to see if it was dead, and they ran straight into Tang Tian.

This Yao Beast drooled when it saw Tang Tian and the others, but Tang Tian also looked at it with ill intent...

Tang Tian himself unleashed a thousand strands of Evil Qi, leaving a Yao Beast corpse on the ground.

Tang Tian skillfully dug out the Yao Beast core of this Yao Beast and said: "Great Yellow, quickly absorb it, lest it spontaneously combust like the Lianqi Sixth Level one."

Great Yellow was reluctant, left and right, but in the end, it let out a "Woof" and swallowed the Yao Beast.

A large amount of blood energy turned into specks of light and floated into Great Yellow's mouth...