52: Kill the scorpion at the sixth level of Qi training

Dahuang bared his teeth at the scorpion.

Tang Tian said to Dahuang, "Retreat."

"You're only at Lian Qi Second Layer, so don't cause trouble."

Tang Tian didn't plan for close combat and directly released twenty streams of Evil Qi.

Now that his Spiritual Qi absorption speed had increased, he could condense twenty streams daily.

He just hadn't expected this scorpion's cultivation to be so high.

After Liu Ru Shi released a few Fireball Talismans, she went to kill the smaller scorpions around them.

The Lianqi Sixth Level scorpion said, "Human, stop! Leave quickly!"

Seeing Liu Ru Shi killing the small scorpions all over the ground, he said again, "Our clan has a Foundation Establishment individual!"

Tang Tian said, "You're the one I'm here to kill."

His figure shifted, and a Cold Feather shot out.

The scorpion actually retreated from its original shell, dodging the attack.

This shell was the shell of its own kind; it was indeed ruthless.

Tang Tian said, "Senior Sister Liu, go to this scorpion's old nest."

After sending Liu Ru Shi away, Tang Tian took out his White Bone Greatsword; this was his first time using this weapon.

The scorpion recognized it and said, "A Foundation Establishment Weapon!"

Tang Tian said, "I can't let you live."

The scorpion actively charged at Tang Tian.

Tang Tian said, "Dahuang!"

Dahuang instantly spewed flames.

The scorpion was delighted and said, "Beast Fire?! Good, good, good, I'll swallow it all."

The scorpion became even more excited.

With attacks from its two pincers and tail, Tang Tian barely managed to parry.

These Spirit Beasts were indeed stronger than ordinary Cultivators.

The scorpion chuckled, "Is this all you've got?"

Tang Tian roared, "Of course not!"

He leaped up, and the White Bone Greatsword slashed down, but the scorpion's pincer clamped onto his left shoulder.

Now, he had to trade injury for a kill, while Dahuang's flames blocked the scorpion's vision near its eyes.

With one slash, the scorpion's shell was split in half, but the scorpion had already shed its skin, breaking through two layers of defense.

Its own shell was revealed, and its figure swelled into a small mountain.

Good heavens, no wonder its defense was so strong.

If it could put on a few more layers of shells and shrink a bit, that would be something else.

He wondered how large Chi Daizi's body was.

"Die!" The scorpion was enraged, burrowing into the ground and using earth-shrinking to attack him.

Tang Tian said to Dahuang, "Be careful."

Tang Tian held Dahuang and climbed up a tree.

He took out a Medicinal Pill for injuries and stabilized the wound on his left shoulder.

The scorpion said, "What if you're on a tree?!"

The scorpion grew larger, its voice transforming into an extremely powerful roar.

Liu Ru Shi said, "Senior Brother, be careful!"

Liu Ru Shi heard the sound and came over, carrying half a storage ring full of scorpions, and threw a hundred Fireball Talismans.

The scorpion said, "Little girl, die."

Liu Ru Shi threw the Poison Pill her sister had given her.

The scorpion's enraged figure paused, "A Profound Rank Poison Pill!"

Tang Tian said, "You're going to die."

Tang Tian leaped down from the tree and instantly cut the scorpion in half.

The mountain-like scorpion split open, a large amount of blood spilled, and the poisonous blood began to spontaneously combust.

The entire corpse was about to explode.

The death of a Lianqi Sixth Level Cultivator was indeed not like a Lianqi Fifth Level's blood spontaneously combusting; there was also self-detonation.

Tang Tian was quick-witted, taking some of the scorpion's characteristics and its Yao Beast core before leaving.

His storage ring couldn't hold any more.

Yin Sha Old Man's storage ring was considered large, but now it was somewhat insufficient.

Tang Tian and Liu Ru Shi quickly moved away, and with a "bang," a moment later, a huge sound reverberated through the mountain forest.

Dahuang still held a few recently caught scorpions in his mouth.

"Is that enough?" Tang Tian asked.

Liu Ru Shi reluctantly took out her storage ring and said, "Enough."

Tang Tian said, "Alright, Dahuang, no need to search anymore."

The White Bone Greatsword had already been placed in the Medicine Venerable Space by Tang Tian.

After the explosion stopped, he went to take a look.

On the ground was a very deep abyss, with dust everywhere.

It was truly terrifying; if Tang Tian had been caught in the blast, he would definitely have been half-dead.

He picked up the two shed shells.

Tang Tian said, "Dahuang, scout ahead, we're going back."

"Senior Sister Liu, your Medicinal Pills are really effective."

Although the poison had been blown away by the explosion and its toxicity reduced, the ground where they had just rolled was still black.

Liu Ru Shi said, "When I just saw such a huge venomous scorpion, I remembered that Sister Ruyan had also given me a Profound Rank Poison Pill."

Tang Tian: ...

If she had remembered it when guarding the medicinal garden, that Lianqi Sixth Level Xiao Feng Qing Peng wouldn't have been so difficult to kill.

Tang Tian said, "I didn't expect this Yao Beast to be so troublesome."

Tang Tian handed the meat he had cut off during the chaos to Senior Sister Liu.

"Senior Sister Liu, your family actually practices Earthly Fiend Fist, so take this meat."

This was Lianqi Sixth Level insect meat; he didn't know if insect meat was edible, but it should be...

Tang Tian cut off some meat from the two pincers, the scorpion head, and the back.

He gave half of the back meat to Liu Ru Shi.

As for the pincers and scorpion head, it wasn't that Tang Tian was being greedy, but rather to report back to Chi Daizi.

Tang Tian sighed, "A Lianqi Sixth Level already possesses such intelligence."

The huge explosion caused the Yao Beasts deep within the Dense Forest Stone Nest to go into a frenzy; the two waited for a while, and after the Yao Beast rampage stopped, they left.

By a pond, Tang Tian changed his clothes, and by early morning the next day, the two walked out of the Dense Forest Stone Nest.

Completing all this in three days was undeniably fast...

Tang Tian asked, "Senior Sister Liu, are you returning to the mountain first? Or staying down here for a few days?"

Tang Tian planned to stay for two more days.

Liu Ru Shi said, "I'll go back to the mountain first and turn in these scorpions."

The two parted ways.

Overall, Tang Tian felt that he knew too little about the Cultivation World and decided to ask how to achieve Foundation Establishment.

In an uninhabited place, he put Dahuang into the Medicine Venerable Space.

Dahuang had been affected in that battle, so he should go in to heal.

Tang Tian's injuries were not too severe; he was a Body Refining Cultivator to begin with, and he had plenty of detoxification pills in his storage ring.

With intentional recovery, he quickly recovered.

They arrived at Qingmu County for a short rest; he had originally wanted to go to Jinque City, but riding a horse there and back would take two days.

He found Yu Ping.

Tang Tian said, "I found some poisonous herbs; for the rest, it will probably be next month."

Yu Ping was surprised and said, "It's fine, Brother Liu, is there a problem with your Cultivation Technique?"

Tang Tian: ...

You really don't trust your Yu Family enough.

Tang Tian placed fifteen poisonous herbs on the table.

Tang Tian said, "Actually, I also have an important matter to ask; unfortunately, my family's knowledge is insufficient. Do you know how to achieve Foundation Establishment?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Ping slowly broke into a bitter smile and said, "Yu... Brother Liu, we Cultivators can only dream; someone like me with a three-Spiritual Root simply doesn't dare to think about it. Foundation Establishment is divided into three types... My Old Ancestor only achieved Human Dao Foundation Establishment."

"This was still something he was rewarded with in the Sect. For us Cultivators to obtain foundation establishment grass and refine it into a Foundation Establishment Pill, it's difficult."

He hadn't expected Yu Ping to also have a three-Spiritual Root. Yu Ping was currently at Lianqi Third Level and not yet twenty years old; a three-Spiritual Root indeed provided some assistance...

Tang Tian asked, "Why is a three-Spiritual Root not enough?"

Fourth Senior Sister's was mockery, Liu Ru Shi's was helplessness, Yu Ping's was lamentation—why was a three-Spiritual Root not enough?

Before Yu Ping could answer, Tang Tian asked again, "Then is your family's Old Ancestor a dual-Spiritual Root?"

Yu Ping said, "My Old Ancestor also has a three-Spiritual Root... Alas, I'll take you to ask him."

This was exactly Tang Tian's goal. Yu Ping used to be just as arrogant, but after realizing the difficulty of finding Spirit Medicine in the Cultivation World...

And with Spirit Beasts guarding them, he became cautious.

It was still the same secret passage as before. He gave the fifteen poisonous herbs to Yu Su.

Yu Su asked, "Not bad, these are enough for me to refine pills for a while. Do you want to watch me refine pills? Just stay by the side."

The Yu Family Ancestor asked, "Young friend, what brings you here?"

The Yu Family Ancestor could tell at a glance that Tang Tian's visit was not to return the herbs.

How could someone return fifteen out of two hundred? He could tell at a glance that Tang Tian had something to ask of him...