Chapter 76 Hunting and Killing
Soon, Qin Ziling felt the valley shaking slightly, and a rustling sound came from the cave.
"It works!" Qin Ziling was delighted. He had already hidden behind a huge rock a hundred meters away from the dried meat.
Soon, the Eight Desolate Green Python swam out of the cave.
The scales on the Eight Desolate Green Python were now in tatters, with deep scars visible in several places.
The breath on its body was obviously much weaker and somewhat disordered, and its speed of swimming close to the ground was somewhat sluggish. It was obvious that it had touched the wound and was feeling pain.
When the Eight Desolate Green Python came to the rotten dried meat, it did not swallow it. Instead, it wrapped it up with its tail and turned around to return to the cave.
At this moment, an extremely cold wind suddenly blew up in the valley.
Under the moonlight, the creature with four lantern-like heads spread its pair of broken wings that were more than ten meters long and leaped up from the huge rock. Its huge body rose seventy or eighty meters up, like a huge eagle swooping down on its prey. Its four claws that shone with yellow metallic luster took advantage of the momentum and grabbed the body of the Eight Desolate Green Python fiercely.
Almost at the same time, Ape No. 1 and Ape No. 2, whose bodies seemed to be made of brass, crouched down and leaped high into the air.
One of them smashed the Eight Desolate Green Python's head with a clenched iron fist, while the other stretched out all ten fingers, each with a claw that flashed with cold light, and grabbed the Eight Desolate Green Python's tail fiercely.
The three bronze corpses were hidden in the corpse-raising ring in advance. Because Qin Ziling had integrated the corpse power, his blood and energy were already subtle and calm. In addition, he deliberately restrained himself and hid a hundred meters away. The Eight Desolate Green Python's attention was attracted by the dried meat and it did not notice his existence.
Now Qin Ziling suddenly released the three bronze corpses and launched an attack. Even though the Eight Desolate Green Python was a third-grade exotic beast, it was confused for a moment.
Just as the Eight Desolate Green Python realized how powerful its enemy was, a huge shadow loomed over it, and a cold and sharp force penetrated its body from the air.
"Hiss!" The Eight Desolate Green Python let out a sharp cry, and its thick and long body suddenly straightened. Just as it was about to hit the four heads flying down from the air , "Swish! Swish!" The friction sound of a sharp object piercing flesh and blood suddenly sounded in the valley.
The leather armor of the Eight Desolate Green Python, which was so tough that even Xu Yuanwu's powerful sword could hardly cut it, could not withstand the four sharp claws.
The sharp claws pierced deeply into the python's body, and blood spurted out from the wound.
The Eight Desolate Green Python curled up its huge body in pain, tightly wrapping around the four-headed man's claws and body, strangling him fiercely.
The pockmarked-faced man's body was entangled by the Eight Desolate Green Python, and soon his bones were broken, his flesh and blood were blurred, and he screamed in agony. However, the four heads seemed to feel no pain at all. Although the bones made crackling sounds, it ignored them. The hard and sharp beaks on the four heads pecked at the body of the Eight Desolate Green Python one after another. Every time it pecked, a hole would appear on the Eight Desolate Green Python's body, and blood would spurt out.
But the Eight Desolate Green Python refused to let go of the four heads.
Just then, Ape Da and Ape Er arrived.
Ape Da's iron fist smashed down hard on the head of the Eight Desolate Green Python. The Eight Desolate Green Python opened its mouth and shot out a bright red tongue with a barb, but Ape Da was not afraid at all. He simply wrapped his arm around the python's tongue and pulled it hard.
On the other side, Yuan Er couldn't find the tail of the Eight Desolate Green Python, so he stabbed his claws directly into the python's body and tore it apart in a very bloody and savage manner. Even then, Yuan Er felt that it was not enough, so he opened his mouth wide and bit the python's body.
The sharp fangs pierced into the python's body, blood gushed out, and a look of satisfaction appeared on Yuan Er's stiff face.
The Eight Desolate Green Python was attacked by the three bronze corpses one after another. Not only was it in extreme pain all over its body, but the blood was constantly draining from its body. It finally panicked and stopped clinging to the four heads, but instead shook its body wildly, trying to shake off the three bronze corpses.
The huge body of the python hit the ground and the cliff, the earth cracked, and cracks appeared on the cliff. The gravel rolled around, as if it was about to collapse.
But the three bronze corpses were like sharks seeing blood, and they refused to let go.
Within two minutes, the Eight Desolate Green Python gradually lost its strength, and its huge body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The brass luster on the three bronze corpses became stronger and stronger, and the aura became more and more cold and powerful. Even the four broken wings were repairing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"This..." Qin Ziling was stunned.
He was undecided before, wondering whether it would be too reckless and risky to fight like this.
As a result, the battle turned out to be completely one-sided, and it was almost over just as it began.
If he had known this would happen, he would have given it some thought!
While Qin Ziling was staring in amazement, the Eight Desolate Green Python's breath became weaker and weaker, and its body became more and more shriveled, until in the end it looked like jerky python meat covered with only a layer of green leather armor.
"Stop!" Qin Ziling suddenly came to his senses and quickly gave the order.
The bodies of the three bronze corpses visibly stiffened for a moment, and their dark eyes faintly revealed a hint of struggle. Finally, the four heads retracted their four bird beaks, and the big ape and the second ape opened their bloody mouths.
After opening their mouths, the three bronze corpses slowly turned their heads to look at Qin Ziling. There was a hint of resentment in their dark eyes, which gave Qin Ziling goose bumps all over his body.
"Forget it, forget it, just suck if you want!" Qin Ziling looked at the three bronze corpses, then looked at the skin and bones of the Eight Desolate Green Python, which was only breathing its last breath, and waved his hands helplessly and said.
There was an obvious flash of fire in the dark eyes of the three bronze corpses, and then they all turned their heads and buried their heads in the Eight Desolate Green Python, sucking it hard, with blood flowing from the corners of their mouths. The scene looked as weird and terrifying as it could be.
However, in Qin Ziling's eyes, it was not weird or scary at all, only waves of heartache.
The Eight Desolate Green Python is a third-grade exotic beast, a beast that even great bone-refining martial artists would be jealous of!
The three bronze corpses devoured his essence, leaving him with only a piece of dry, hard python meat as hard as iron or stone.
Oh, yes, and it also has a set of leather armor.
This leather armor has been tanned, and should be soft and close-fitting when worn, yet difficult to be broken by swords or guns. It is a top-quality protective soft armor.
But no matter how heartbroken he was, Qin Ziling couldn't do anything about it.
The three bronze corpses are now his most powerful subordinates, and the fierce and neat scene of the three bronze corpses killing the Eight Desolate Green Python just now also made him finally see the powerful combat effectiveness and huge value of the three bronze corpses.
Therefore, they wanted to absorb the essence of the Eight Desolate Green Python, and he had no choice but to give it up with reluctance.
Anyway, at his current state, the essence of the Eight Desolate Green Python would put him at risk of being "too weak to be replenished", so it's better to take it step by step and take it easy.
Of course, the reason why the three bronze corpses were able to kill the Eight Desolate Green Python so easily this time was not only because the combat power of the three bronze corpses was indeed strong, but also had a lot to do with Qin Ziling's strategy. The Eight Desolate Green Python was already injured, and the bronze corpses had infinite strength, bodies as hard as copper and iron, were not afraid of life and death, and were good at close combat.
Otherwise, if the Eight Desolate Green Python was not injured, the three bronze corpses would have rushed forward to besiege it and would definitely not have been able to kill it so quickly.
Or if it was a human warrior with strength comparable to that of the Eight Desolate Green Python, the situation would be very different.
The martial artist has a high IQ, strong adaptability, and sharp eyesight. Once he sees that the three bronze corpses are powerful, he will definitely not confront them head-on, but will find a way to get rid of them and kill the master behind the scenes who controls them.
Therefore, in this battle, although the three bronze corpses killed the Eight Desolate Green Python very quickly and efficiently, and their combined combat power could be said to be comparable to that of a Bone Refining Master, Qin Ziling would never be so arrogant as to think that he could compete with the Bone Refining Master with the help of the three bronze corpses.
However, after this battle, Qin Ziling finally had peace of mind. He knew that as long as he didn't meet a great bone-refining martial artist, with the help of the three bronze corpses, a martial artist with transformed energy would definitely not be able to do anything to him.
Soon, the three bronze corpses had sucked enough and closed their mouths reluctantly, looking at Qin Ziling with their dark eyes.
Qin Ziling looked at the shriveled Eight Desolate Green Python, sighed secretly, and put it into the corpse-raising ring.
Although the essence was almost completely sucked out, the Eight Desolate Green Python was a third-grade exotic beast after all. The remaining hard dried meat could be mashed up and cooked in a pot. The nourishing effect was definitely not comparable to that of the Cloud Pattern White Tiger Meat, and it could not be bought with money.
Moreover, the Eight Desolate Green Python is very large, enough for him and Liu Xiaoqiang to eat for a while.
After comforting himself in this way, Qin Ziling looked towards the entrance of the cave on the cliff, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
Generally, animals will eat food as soon as they catch it.
The IQ of strange beasts is not much different from that of animals, and from a certain perspective, they are actually just animals with a trace of blood from ancient mythical beasts and birds. Logically speaking, their habits should be similar.
But just now, after the Eight Desolate Green Python found the dried meat, it did not swallow it directly, but wrapped it with its tail and prepared to take it back to the cave.
"Could it be that there are baby Eight Desolate Green Pythons in the cave that need to be fed?" Qin Ziling's heart skipped a beat and he thought of a possibility.
After thinking of this possibility, Qin Ziling did not enter the cave to explore immediately, but first found a hidden place nearby. He let the four heads guard his body, while he himself left his body and quietly flew into the cave.
The cave was very deep. Qin Ziling flew four or five hundred meters in the cave before he felt his eyes suddenly brighten and a large cave appeared. The other end of the cave was connected to another cave passage, pointing to the direction of deeper mountains.
Qin Ziling did not continue to fly into the cave passage opposite, but instead set his eyes on a large nest made of vines in the corner of the cave.
A young python with a completely green body was coiled in the big nest.
It is called a young python, but that is only relative to the adult Eight Desolate Green Python. In fact, it is as thick as a straw rope and about one meter long.
The blood energy in the young python is much weaker than that of an adult Eight Desolate Green Python. In Qin Ziling's spiritual eyes, it is like a small tinderbox burning with a faint flame, but the young python exudes a vitality that is much stronger than that of an adult Eight Desolate Green Python.
