I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 203: Driving the tiger away from the mountain
Lin Yan was cautious. Instead of directly entering the snake cave to provoke it, he released his divine sense and openly stared at the snake eggs.

The giant red python, which was sleeping with its eyes closed, suddenly opened them. Lin Yan quickly withdrew his divine sense and, at the same time, "accidentally" made a slight movement outside the cave.

The python, covered in red scales, darted out of its hole with unexpected agility. Upon seeing the humans standing on a tree branch twenty meters away, the snake suddenly raised its head.

Then, something unexpected happened.

Two wings covered in bright red scales sprouted from the neck of this giant red python. With a flap, a strong wind rose from the ground. If Lin Yan hadn't been prepared and dodged back ten meters the instant it moved, he probably would have been slapped by the snake's scales and wings and coughed up blood.

Xiao Qi, who was hiding behind the rock, suddenly widened her eyes. Could this be a snake?

Seeing that the red python had only stood at the cave entrance and slapped him once, showing no intention of leaving, Lin Yan gritted his teeth and gathered his strength to swing his sword at it. However, due to the distance, the power of the sword was really not that great, and it was blown away by a wing before it even reached the python.

Fortunately, this sword strike angered the red python, which flapped its wings and chased after it angrily.

As soon as the red python left, Xiao Qi immediately slipped into the snake cave.

There was only one agave plant, its leaves and flowers a vibrant, fiery red that was incredibly alluring and tempting.

But Xiao Qi only glanced at it before roughly snatching it away, then took out the box in her storage ring that was specially used to store spiritual plants, closed and sealed it, and then quickly left the cave.

A loud, moderate boom came from ahead, like an explosive talisman.

Xiao Qi guessed that Lin Yan was blowing up the snake to buy her time. Of course, it was also possible that he was running slowly and was buying himself time to escape.

Actually, both are present.

The speed of the winged red python exceeded Lin Yan's expectations. Even though he used teleportation techniques to run very fast, he was still unable to get rid of the red python in time.

So he ran while throwing explosive talismans, partly to entangle the red python and partly to slow it down for a moment, buying himself some time.

Xiao Qi quickly left the area, intending to fly towards the exit of Luoxia Mountain, but then she suddenly heard faint sounds of fighting in the distance, in the opposite direction from where Lin Yan had left.

Could it be the Fifth Senior Brother?
"Little Black, is that Fifth Senior Brother?"

"I don't know, it's too far away, I can't see it."

Xiao Qi hesitated, looking in that direction, and said, "Do you think I should go take a look?"

She has been bold since childhood and is not afraid even if she can't win a fight. However, human life is too cheap here, and she is afraid of causing trouble for her fifth senior brother.

But if she didn't go, she worried that her fifth senior brother would find the immortal herbs and soul-nourishing wood that their master needed, and fight with the high-level demonic beasts guarding them, leaving him no time to collect the items.

One attracts attention, the other collects the items; this is the most efficient way to get what you want.

That's how she just got the dragon tongue vine.

"Let's go take a look."

Xiao Qi didn't hesitate for long and decisively decided to go and take a look.

If it weren't for her fifth senior brother, she would have run away immediately.

Following the sound, the two of them, one person and one sword, soon arrived at the place where the loud noise was coming from. Xiao Qi put invisibility talismans on herself and her sword and tried her best to hide her aura.

Before he could even get close, Hei Feng's voice rang in his mind, "It really is Lu Xiaowu. That idiot is actually fighting two Nascent Soul cultivators." Although Lu Xiaowu had done this kind of thing many times before, Hei Feng still couldn't help but curse, "This brute has no self-awareness at all. He's a Nascent Soul cultivator, and those two are also Nascent Soul cultivators. How can he possibly win against two opponents? Does he really think he's invincible?"

Hearing Hei Feng's practiced cursing, Xiao Qi ignored it and instead carefully observed the two middle-aged men who were fighting with her fifth senior brother.

The battle between Nascent Soul cultivators at the Great Perfection stage was extremely fast. Xiao Qi couldn't even see their faces and movements clearly. She only saw the area being leveled, followed by a flurry of sword and blade light in mid-air, leaving only a blur in the distance.

She squinted for a long time but couldn't see clearly before finally turning her gaze to a large, spotted tiger lying in a man-made crater not far away.

The tiger's head was split in half, and its belly was pierced with a hole; it was beyond dead.

Such a big tiger must be worth a lot of money.

Xiao Qi looked up at the fighting scene, which had moved further upwards, and decisively flashed to the tiger's side. She touched the tiger's body with her little paw, and the tiger immediately disappeared from its spot.

"What smells so good?"

Just as Xiao Qi was about to leave after catching the tiger, she suddenly smelled a faint fragrance in the air. She sniffed to confirm that the fragrance was indeed there, and then began to search around.

About twenty meters away from the crater where the tiger was killed, Xiao Qi found a small, dark tree about the height of a person.

She instinctively felt that the black tree was a good thing, but before she could identify it, she grabbed the trunk with both hands, pulled it up, and immediately put it into her storage ring. Then she turned and ran without looking back.

"who is it?"

Although the commotion of uprooting the tree was not loud, it was still noticed by the three people fighting in the air.

Actually, when Xiao Qi appeared to capture the tiger, Lu Xiaowu knew it was her, which is why he led the two of them to move the battlefield upwards again.

As expected, the junior sister was clever enough to quickly find the Soul-Nourishing Wood and put it away without hesitation.

Lu Xiaowu was relieved.

An old man with a goatee who was fighting with him realized that the Soul-Nourishing Wood was gone. He was so angry that he raised his hand and swung it downwards. Although he did not see the person, he sensed the fluctuation of spiritual energy in the air below.

Lu Xiaowu dodged and caught the palm strike. With a loud boom, the two powerful air currents collided, causing the air in that area to distort. The two towering trees directly below snapped in half with a crack.

"You little thief, where are you going?"

Lu Xiaowu scoffed, "Thief? Li Laosi, how dare you call others thieves? I risked my life to kill the tiger demon, and you two bastards ran out to steal it, and you still have the nerve to call others thieves? Where's your face?"

"Oh, I forgot, people from the Wuji Sect are always shameless."

Wuji Sect?
Xiao Qi, who had just run out of the danger zone, stopped running. She turned around and looked at the sky. So, the old man with the goatee and the middle-aged man with the long face were both from the Wuji Sect?
Although he was fighting two opponents at once, Lu Xiaowu did not suffer any losses. However, he had fought a battle with a high-level tiger demon beforehand, which consumed more than half of his spiritual energy. Although he looked imposing, he actually had very little spiritual energy left in his dantian.

However, this was no problem for Lu Xiaowu. He had fought fiercely with others even when he exhausted his spiritual power, and he had never suffered a loss.

Killing two people won't be so easy.

The invisibility talisman on Xiao Qi's body had expired, and her figure was gradually being revealed.

When the old man with the goatee saw that the girl was only about ten years old and was wearing the disciple's robes of the Jade Void Sect, he couldn't help but laugh. "Lu Xingyun, is your Jade Void Sect out of talent? You actually brought a Golden Core disciple into Luoxia Mountain. If we two brothers don't take her in, wouldn't we be letting your good intentions go to waste?"

(End of this chapter)