Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 121 Saving the Giant Toad

The murky waters near the shore churned, forming a whirlpool.

"Splash—"

With a splash, a huge snake's head emerged from the water, and Ji Yuan finally saw the snake's true form.

Its entire body is covered with bluish-brown scales, and some parts of its back are even covered with moss. The front half of its body alone is more than ten meters long, and if you add the part that is hidden underwater, it is probably thirty or forty meters long!

The giant toad was bitten and seriously injured, but the giant snake wasn't completely unharmed either.

Its scales were scattered and broken, and in many places, you could even see the exposed, bloody flesh. Its head, in particular, was so badly beaten that its mouth couldn't close, and its entire head looked deformed from being crushed.

Even so, the giant snake continued to flick its forked tongue, which was as thick as an adult man's waist.

The giant toad was almost bitten to death.

But the giant snake was also about to be killed.

The two are evenly matched.

Now that Ji Yuan has arrived, the giant snake still seems to have no intention of running away. It slightly raises its head, its tongue flicking in and out, its cold eyes fixed on the figure in mid-air.

Just one glance from it made Ji Yuan feel a chill run down his spine.

So he didn't stop. The flying boat beneath his feet seemed to teleport, and he rushed out in an instant. At the same time, he summoned the Hundred Fish Shield, which floated around him to shield him.

Just as he was leaving, more than ten water arrows suddenly shot out from the water and hit the spot where he had just been standing.

Ji Yuan looked back at the scene. If he hadn't left just now... that one blow would have probably knocked him into the water. Once he fell into the water, wouldn't he be at the mercy of this giant snake?

For a moment, Ji Yuan felt a chill run down his spine.

Come and don't go indecent.

Ji Yuan threw out five talismans with his backhand.

"Boom!"

Where he stood, large patches of dark clouds suddenly appeared, and amidst the surging purple lightning, bolts of lightning struck down one after another.

The entire shoreline seemed to have transformed into a hell of thunder.

Superior-grade talisman – Thunderstorm Talisman!

They used five cards in a row.

The giant serpent was located right in the center of the thunderstorm, and bolts of lightning struck it, while the water around it was constantly conducting electricity.

In the short time it took to breathe, the already severely injured snake was further cleaved and its skin torn open.

Despite the excruciating pain, it suddenly opened its mouth wide.

The hissing sound was incessant.

Immediately, dozens of water columns rose up from the waters around it, rushing upwards and breaking through the calamity clouds.

Ji Yuan's figure grew taller again, and he raised his hands, producing two more drops of black water. One of the drops landed precisely into the gaping maw of the giant snake.

Before the other drop could fall, it had already shut up.

Even so, one explosive drop exploded in its mouth, and another exploded in its head. Under the combined attack, the giant snake's head was instantly turned into a bloody mess, and its huge body crashed heavily onto the water.

"boom--"

A huge splash was created on the surface of the water.

Upon seeing this, Ji Yuan quickly shouted.

"Let's do it!"

The big toad croaked, then immediately opened its mouth and stuck out its still-intact tongue.

With a single flick of its tongue, it seized the body of the giant snake.

After a struggle between the two, the severely injured snake was finally slowly dragged ashore.

The giant snake seemed to have no chance to resist. Only its body was still trembling. As for its head, which was finally brought out of the water, it could no longer be called a head. It was a bloody mess, and in some places, you could even see the bone with flesh still attached.

Ke Jiyuan was still uneasy.

Floating in mid-air, he threw out another sword talisman.

The talisman burned in mid-air, and then the surrounding spiritual energy spontaneously transformed into a giant, azure sword, which slashed down from nowhere.

"laugh--"

When the giant sword touched the serpent's body, it got stuck for a moment, but then it slashed into the mud on the shore with unstoppable force.

The snake's corpse was then split in two.

A head is a head, and a corpse is a corpse.

Seeing this, Ji Yuan finally felt relieved.

Just as he was about to land the flying boat to collect the giant snake's corpse and check on the giant toad's injuries, the snake's head, which had fallen to the shore, seemed to come alive and suddenly opened its eyes.

Then the snake's head suddenly leaped into the air and bit straight at Ji Yuan, who was in mid-air.

"scare--"

Seeing this, Ji Yuan moved the flying boat beneath his feet again, but this time it was even faster. He had already drawn the essence of the Thunder Falcon, and his figure rushed out of the mist in an instant.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the giant toad that had been moving the snake carcass flick its tongue, actually stopping the leaping snake head for him.

As the giant toad grabbed the snake's head, it leaped up and swallowed the snake's head whole with its mouth wide open.

Then it landed heavily on the ground.

Above the mist, Ji Yuan floated in mid-air, feeling his heart pounding like a drum.

He truly hadn't expected that even after the giant snake's head had been cut off, it could still launch a desperate attack.

It seems that in future life-or-death battles, even beheadings will not be a sure thing.

The best way is to turn it into dust instantly!

Ji Yuan waited in mid-air for a while, until the giant toad had already croaked twice, before he steered the Thunder Falcon Boat back to the island.

The giant toad remained squatting in the same spot, its head tilted back, looking around.

Upon seeing Ji Yuan, it croaked several times.

Even if you don't understand it, you can still feel its joy.

Ji Yuan looked at the giant snake's corpse with some worry. The giant toad noticed his worry, so it leaped up and came to the side of the snake's corpse, stomping down heavily with both feet.

The giant snake didn't react at all, and Ji Yuan finally relaxed when he saw this.

He then followed the corpse to its side. After gesturing briefly and finding the snake's vital point, he swung his Qingfu flying sword, slashing it horizontally and vertically several times. After removing a large chunk of flesh, a deep blue demon core was revealed inside.

The giant toad's eyes widened at the sight.

So Ji Yuan threw out a half-pound piece of blood essence and put it into its mouth.

As for the demon core... Ji Yuan had no choice but to reluctantly accept it.

Even if we don't need this to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, this mid-stage level 2 demon core can still sell for a lot of spirit stones.

In comparison, it would definitely be more cost-effective to heal the giant toad's injuries using blood essence.

"Croak—"

The giant toad that had eaten the blood essence seemed somewhat dissatisfied. Ji Yuan glanced at it and threw out a pig's head.

Upon seeing this long-awaited food, the dissatisfaction in the big toad's eyes disappeared.

After swallowing it whole, it jumped to the side and squatted obediently without making a sound. As for the snake's corpse, it was left to Ji Yuan to dispose of.

In the end, Ji Yuan actually managed to cut the giant snake into several pieces.

There was no way to put the snake's corpse in the storage bag without cutting it open.

Before leaving, Ji Yuan didn't forget to go into the water and pick up all the scales that the giant snake had dropped. He had just realized that the most valuable parts of the giant snake were its scales, along with its gall bladder and venom glands.

The poison glands went into the giant toad's stomach.

Moreover, judging from the fact that its body gradually returned to its normal color, the poison glands not only had no poison effect on it, but on the contrary, they also had a detoxifying effect.

After collecting the snake carcass, Ji Yuan summoned the Thunder Falcon Boat again.

"Big toad, let's go home!"

Ji Yuan waved his hand, urging the flying boat forward.

"Croak—"

The giant toad leaped after it, jumping directly from one small island to another.

The numerous islands shrouded in mist are like springboards for it.

After a while, the giant toad, who had returned to Misty Island, immediately found a hole in the ground, lay down, and remained motionless.

Ji Yuan wasn't worried, considering that the giant toad had suffered such serious injuries and had consumed blood essence.

Every injury needs a recovery and healing process.

Ji Yuan looked around at the overgrown chicken coop and pigsty, then released Tu Yue.

This is the environment where she can truly shine.

He then went to check on the cave that was blocked by rocks. It was not much different from when he left, except that it had grown some moss.

He finally arrived at the edge of the fishpond.

When he left last time, he didn't deal with the twenty or thirty early-stage spirit fish in the [Fishpond]. Now, a month has passed, and the building's effects have been constantly being turned on and off by Ji Yuan, so...

He looked at the still surface of the ancient well, then tossed a small piece of bloody spirit pig meat onto it.

In an instant, huge splashes of water rose from the entire surface of the water.

More than ten spirit fish swung their tails, frantically vying for it.

"They're mostly mid-stage spirit fish, and there are even two late-stage spirit fish... It's a profit, no matter how much!"

As for those that were missing, they were naturally eaten by the big fish.

After checking that there were no problems on Misty Island, Ji Yuan felt relieved. Over the next few days, Ji Yuan first killed the spirit fish, then drew some high-grade talismans and high-grade spirit-gathering pills. After finishing his work, he disguised himself and went to sell them in several nearby markets.

I also bought a lot of baby dolphins and Lushu chickens.

With Misty Island reopening, the long-absent [Chicken Coop] and [Pig Pen] must be put back up.

After he finished his work these past few days, Tu Yue had already restored the island to its original state.

As for the [Lingtian], Ji Yuan also went to see it.

Although it has been more than a month since we left, it makes no difference to medicinal herbs that are counted over the years.

The medicinal herbs remain unchanged.

Ji Yuan then had Tu Yue cultivate an even larger [Spirit Field] nearby. As Ji Yuan's only level 3 building at the moment, its effect should not be wasted.

So he had Tu Yue plant spirit wheat all over the spirit field.

In addition, this spiritual field also has an automatic insect-repelling effect, so once it is planted, you just have to wait for the harvest.

A few days later, Ji Yuan looked at the large, flat spiritual field and decided to go all out and have Tu Yue continue to cultivate other wastelands. After all, once the land was cultivated, all he had to do was sow the seeds.

Finally, the chicken coop and pigsty were also expanded considerably.

These miscellaneous tasks were all left to Tu Yue, while Ji Yuan devoted himself entirely to cultivation and alchemy.

He needs to raise his cultivation level to the peak of Qi Refining as soon as possible, and then upgrade the [Alchemy Room] to level 2, at which point he can aim for Foundation Establishment.

More than a month passed peacefully like this.

The giant toad is still asleep, but its injuries are no longer visible on its surface. It's estimated that it will wake up soon.

However, in the past month, Ji Yuan's cultivation level and alchemy skills have improved very slowly, and he has truly felt the long process of cultivation.

During a break, he looked at his control panel.

An idea suddenly popped into my head.

Now that everything is stable, perhaps we can start developing other buildings on the panel... such as the [Kitchen] and [Array Room].

Perhaps it will have some other effects.

(End of this chapter)