A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 423 Return to the Peak
"Oh!"

There was a loud bang, and in the dim light of the stream, a huge black shadow three meters long and as thick as a human waist fell to the ground with a bang.

There were many severe wounds on the python's body, with blood and flesh splattered all over. The most terrifying thing was on its head. Wu Shidao's iron ruler was inserted diagonally into the giant python's exploded eyeball, almost without the handle.

As the giant python fell to the ground, Wu Shidao also turned pale and collapsed to the ground. When he inserted the iron ruler in his hand deep into the giant python's eye socket, he was hit on the back by one of the giant python's sharp claws.

At this time, his back was torn and bloody. The deepest scratch was on the shoulder blade, where the skin and flesh were turned up and the white bones were faintly visible.

Wu Shidao's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he gasped in pain, gritting his teeth.

Fan Hongjiao was not far away, her eyes were sluggish and her legs were weak. She had consumed a lot of energy in the fierce battle. Fan Hongjiao exhaled a breath of foul air and was about to go over to see Wu Shidao's injuries, but she had just taken two steps when her eyes suddenly went dark, her body trembled, her steps staggered, and she almost fell down. Fortunately, a figure flashed over and supported her.

Fan Hongjiao calmed down, turned her head and found that it was Duan Rong standing beside her, looking at her with concern.

On the other side, Lu Geng and Wang Yue had also rushed over and were helping Wu Shidao treat his wounds.

At this moment, there was a sudden violent shaking in the half-human-high grass not far away. Judging from the large pieces of grass leaves falling down, it was obvious that something big was about to rush out.

Everyone by the stream had an unhappy look on their faces.

At this time, Wu Shidao and Fan Hongjiao were both exhausted. It can be said that the two cyclone-level masters had temporarily lost their fighting power. Only Lu Geng and Wang Yue, two Yuanqi-level warriors, and Duan Rong, a newcomer to the trial, were left. If they encountered a ferocious beast again at this time, they would probably die.

But this time Duan Rong did not retreat. Instead, he drew out the Frost-patterned Phosphorus Crystal Knife and stood in front of Fan Hongjiao.

Fan Hongjiao looked at Duan Rong's back, her eyes slightly startled. Although it was only his back, she could sense Duan Rong's nervousness and fear at the moment. After all, it was his first time in the Dark Forest, and he had just advanced to the Yuan Qi realm. Moreover, there was such a big noise in the bush, and it was obvious that another big guy was about to jump out.

Almost at the moment when Duan Rong drew his knife and stood in front of Fan Hongjiao, the thing in the bushes jumped out.

When Fan Hongjiao saw the huge black shadow, she felt relieved. She put her hand on Duan Rong's shoulder and said, "Don't be nervous! This is a moose. It's fine!"

Duan Rong was relieved at this time. He saw that the creature was as big as an elk, but it was covered with bloodstains. There was a deep wound on its back, and blood kept gushing out. Although the creature jumped out of the bush, its steps were trembling and its breathing was difficult. It was obvious that it could no longer run.

At this moment, suddenly a long spear shot out from the depths of the dark grass. With a flash of the spear, the spear tip pierced through the head of the elk and nailed it to the ground at the edge of the grass.

Duan Rong's eyes moved, and he saw that the fallen elk had a big mouth on its belly. At this time, the big mouth was open, and blood kept gushing out of the mouth.

Five or six figures flashed out from the swaying grass.

As soon as these figures flashed out, they immediately discovered Duan Rong and the others.

The eyes of those people instantly became tense and alert, especially when they saw the giant python lying among several people. The horrible python was covered with wounds and there was an iron ruler stuck in one of its eye sockets.

"Is it a two-legged python?!"

Those people looked at Fan Hongjiao and the others with horror, and one of them even recognized them as his direct disciples from Yunfu Peak.

The man immediately clasped his fists and saluted, saying, "I didn't know you were here. We just barged in by accident. We don't mean to offend you. We'll leave now!"

After the man finished speaking, he immediately turned around and winked at the people behind him. They picked up the corpse of the moose with a mouth-open belly on the ground, flashed into the bushes, and soon disappeared.

Seeing those people going away, Fan Hongjiao turned around and looked at Lu Geng beside Wu Shidao, and asked, "Are those guys not in the Ministry of Internal Affairs? They look unfamiliar to me."

Lu Geng said, "No! It should be from another peak. This stream is already a confluence point, and disciples from other peaks often come here."

Fan Hongjiao nodded when she heard this. The stone door they entered was the falling point on Yunfu Peak, where the stone door fell off a cliff into the dark forest through a crack in the ground.

Not only their direct disciples can use it, but also all the inner disciples registered under the name of the Internal History Bureau can also fall in from that falling point.

Those on other peaks naturally came down from other falling points.

It was just that those nominal inner disciples were usually of average power, and even if they came in groups, they would not dare to wait by the stream like them. The group of people just now had obviously come here to chase the belly-mouthed elk.

After that group of people retreated, Fan Hongjiao sat cross-legged and began to regulate her breathing. Duan Rong stood beside her, holding a knife, to protect her.

After Duan Rong advanced to the Yuan Qi realm, he had become very sensitive to the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth. After Fan Hongjiao began to regulate his breathing and luck, Duan Rong clearly felt that the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth around him was pouring into Fan Hongjiao's body frantically, and Fan Hongjiao absorbed all of it like a whale.

Duan Rong's eyes were filled with astonishment. He really wanted to use his spiritual sense to penetrate Fan Hongjiao's dantian to see what was happening inside his dantian.

The strong man in the cyclone realm could absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth so terrifyingly that Duan Rong was both shocked and curious.

However, it was obviously impossible for him to do so, as Fan Hongjiao had also achieved the fifth level of the Taizang Sutra. If he made any movement, Fan Hongjiao would immediately sense it.

Wu Shidao's body was covered with bandages, and blood was still seeping out of the bandages on his back, but the golden wound medicine was obviously very effective in relieving pain, and Wu Shidao's face looked much better. After bandaging his wound, he also sat cross-legged and began to regulate his breathing, while Lu Geng and Wang Yue stood by his side, guarding him.

After a few breaths, the vortex of the heaven and earth energy that was madly pouring into Fan Hongjiao's body finally stopped and dissipated like clouds. Fan Hongjiao's face was calm, and the internal skills were running slowly. After about half an incense stick, she suddenly opened her eyes.

At this moment, Fan Hongjiao's eyes were sharp and bright, completely sweeping away the previous listlessness.

The moment she stood up, Lu Geng and Wang Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, Fan Hongjiao and Wu Shidao, two Cyclone Realm powerhouses, were sitting cross-legged and regulating their breathing. However, in this dark forest, it was dangerous everywhere, and without a Cyclone Realm powerhouse standing by their side, they were really unsure.

Seeing that Fan Hongjiao had finished regulating her breathing, they both felt relieved.

Wu Shidao's injury was far more serious than Fan Hongjiao's, and it took him quite some time to bandage his wound. It would probably take him a while to fully recover.

Since Fan Hongjiao had already adjusted his breathing, their safety was no problem. After all, ferocious creatures like the two-legged python were rarely seen in the outer edge of this dark forest. If they encountered one, they could only say that they had bad luck.

They took advantage of the time when Wu Shidao was regulating his breathing to deal with the corpses of the two Yuan beasts they hunted.

Although this two-legged python is not a high-level Yuan Beast and cannot refine bone marrow gray matter, its snake gall is also a very good thing, which is definitely not comparable to those low-level Yuan Beasts on the periphery.

Among the few people, the one who is best at dealing with the corpses of Yuan Beasts is actually Wang Yue.

Wang Yue held two butterfly swords in his hands, his eyes calm and focused, and he suddenly seemed like a different person.

He stood in front of the giant python, pondered for a moment, then moved his body and stabbed a knife into a certain place below the giant python's neck. Then his knife turned, enlarging the wound, and blood immediately gushed out. At this time, Lu Geng had already opened the blood bag and was waiting there. The blood there kept getting thinner, until it no longer poured out continuously, but intermittently. Wang Yue pulled out the knife and patted the wound.

Lu Geng tied up a blood bag in his hand and placed it at his feet.

The blood bag was made of the urine foreskin of an animal and could be used repeatedly. Every time Lu Geng and his companions came down, they would bring a few with them in case of emergency. Then, Wang Yue used the knife to stab the second wound on the giant python again. Lu Geng still followed behind him, holding the blood bag.

So, after three bags of blood were delivered, the python's blood had been almost drained out.

Wang Yue suddenly used his sharp knife skills to pierce the python's abdomen and took out the python's gallbladder.

The snake gall was as big as a fist, and there was a flickering light inside it.

Wang Yue and Lu Geng's eyes lit up. Just by looking at the appearance, they knew that the quality of this snake gall was very high.

Wang Yue turned his head and looked at Fan Hongjiao inquiringly.

Fan Hongjiao turned her head and took a look at Wu Shidao, who was still sitting cross-legged and regulating his breathing. She saw that his face was pale and there was a frown between his brows.

Fan Hongjiao said, "Leave this snake gall to Junior Brother Wu. He was seriously injured in the hunt for these two-legged pythons and paid a heavy price."

Wang Yue and Lu Geng's eyes darkened when they heard this. They had originally hoped to share the snake bile equally. In fact, Senior Sister Fan had always taken care of them. Basically, they would have a share of anything they got in the Dark Forest.

However, this time Wu Shidao was badly injured in order to kill the two-legged python, so he deserved the snake gall.

The bodies were only bled out, not skinned and dismembered here.

After dealing with the giant python, Wang Yue and Lu Geng also dealt with the body of the blue-eyed monitor lizard. It took four blood bags to bleed the blue-eyed monitor lizard.

After dealing with the two Yuan Beast corpses, Wu Shidao finally recovered. He struggled to stand up, and the pain from the wound on his back made him grit his teeth.

Fan Hongjiao glanced at him and said, "I have another pain-relieving ointment. I'll give it to you when we get back to the peak."

Wu Shidao was slightly stunned when he heard this. Over the years, he and Fan Hongjiao had always been at odds with each other. She had not treated him well for several years, let alone cared about him.

Wu Shidao moved his lips and said, "Thank you, Senior Sister!"

Fan Hongjiao hummed lightly and said, "Let's go! Let's go back! Although we encountered some dangers on this trip, we also gained a lot."

As Fan Hongjiao spoke, his eyes swept over the corpses of the two-legged python and the blue-eyed giant lizard. The other people also had delighted looks in their eyes.

Then they packed up and returned the same way.

Along the way, Fan Hongjiao was still in front and Wu Shidao was behind.

Lu Geng, Wang Yue and Duan Rong walked in the middle.

Lu Geng and Wang Yue, each of them pulled a huge corpse, tied it tightly with an iron chain and tied it around their waists.

Although the corpses of the two Yuan Beasts were large, Lu Geng was a warrior at the fourth level of the Yuan Qi Realm, and Wang Yue was also a warrior at the second level of the Yuan Qi Realm. To them, this weight was nothing.

However, it was Duan Rong who was pulling the seven blood bags. Duan Rong tied the seven blood bags together with a thin chain and dragged them directly on the ground.

The blood bag was made from the urine bag of some animal. It had been used for many years and had long lost its smell. However, this thing was extremely tough and could not be scratched by ordinary dead branches and stones.

The group returned along the original route, walking in the dark forest, and saw that they had already walked nearly half of the way. The closer to the outer edge of the dark forest, the safer it was, and the deeper into the hinterland, the more dangerous it was.

At this point, they had already reached this point and there was basically no danger. At most there would be some small beasts, which were no more than mosquito bites.

But at this moment, a scream was heard from the dense forest not far away.

Then, a figure jumped out of the dense forest. The man's face was distorted, and he was obviously extremely frightened. When he saw Duan Rong and his group, he immediately ran towards them.

The rest of the people all frowned, wondering what the Plague God had attracted. At this moment, they heard Fan Hongjiao's voice, saying, "It's okay. It's just a boar-wolf chasing him."

After all, the range of Fan Hongjiao's spiritual sense was the widest among all of them. When her spiritual sense probed into the past, she had already seen the scene deep in the dense forest clearly.

Wang Yue frowned and asked, "A boar-wolf?"

Wang Yue’s doubts are not unreasonable, because wolves usually travel in groups and rarely travel alone.

Fan Hongjiao naturally heard the doubt in Wang Yue's tone. And the horrific scene deep in the jungle also shocked her.

More than a dozen adult boars were killed in the depths of the dense forest, and among the corpses of those adult boars were the bodies of four or five inner sect disciples.

Fan Hongjiao said: "The rest of the wolves died deep in the forest."

Hearing this, the rest of the people felt a chill in their hearts.

Boar-wolves are social beasts. Generally, inner disciples who enter the Dark Forest rarely provoke them because it is troublesome. However, the lethality of groups of boar-wolves is also amazing, and they usually fight to the death.

The scene deep in the dense forest was so tragic, just like a fight between a pack of wolves and the inner disciples. Fan Hongjiao's eyes flickered, and he vaguely guessed the reason. These inner disciples probably killed the wolf cubs of the wolves, and were just bumped into by the returning wolves.

Not long after the man ran out of the dense forest, a huge wolf covered in blood rushed out from behind him. The wolf was panting and pounced on the man again ferociously.

The man had already exhausted all his strength, but he still ran towards Duan Rong desperately.

It was only half a meter away when it jumped in front of Duan Rong and the others. The boar behind him jumped up and bit off his arm with a snap.

The man fell down in pain, and the jackal pounced on him again, this time biting his throat.

The man was about to die, but suddenly he saw a whip flash by, and the wolf was split in half by the force of the whip.

Fan Hongjiao just glared at the man with the broken arm and said coldly: "Let's go!"

The rest of the people immediately walked forward and left this place not long after.

Fan Hongjiao took action only because he recognized the man with the broken arm as an inner disciple registered under the name of the Internal History Department of Yunfu Peak. But it was really stupid for them to provoke the boars and wolves.

(End of this chapter)