Two Beasts Fight, Lin Li Reaps the Benefits

Great Wedding Joy was not the most poisonous poison Blood Maiden Crimson could create, but it was the one with the most distinctive traits—at least to someone like her who understood this toxin.

As for everyone else, they could only watch helplessly as death drew closer, with no way to stop it.

After carefully taking away the Blood Maiden Crimson and searching the entire valley, she found no herbs more precious than these two spiritual grasses.

Still, even a mosquito was meat. Upholding the bandit mentality of plucking every last feather from a passing goose—and forcibly pulling some out if it had none—anything she pulled up became hers. She stripped the entire valley until only a pile of Blue Silver Grass remained.

However, Lin Li glanced at her ring. There were many excellent medicinal herbs in the valley and among the herbs she had gathered before, but her medicinal bath formula lacked three rather ordinary herbs that were not even particularly rare: Coiled Snake Root, Nine-Point Incense, and Hui Ming Smoke.

Lin Li planned to visit Heaven Dou City in the future. She had encountered many medicinal herbs along the way, but there were still some she intended to try her luck finding.

So she intended to make another trip there later, to Heaven Dou City, and gather information. As one of Tang San's greatest opportunities, she would not let the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well slip away.

Unfortunately, the plot would not develop for at least another five years. She did not know whether her strength would reach the Spirit King level by then. If she did, it would be time to interfere with the protagonist.

For example, she could set some trouble for the protagonist's group. Become gods? Unless something interfered, they could forget about becoming gods in this lifetime!

Lin Li curled her lips in satisfaction and turned to head back to Soul Town Village. Yet after walking less than a hundred meters—

Her pupils contracted. She hurriedly retreated, using the night as cover, then swiftly climbed a tree.

At that moment, a massive red battle tiger was fighting fiercely with a strange snake whose head was covered in countless small bumps.

That giant snake was Medusa, known as the "Empress of the Serpent Clan." Medusa's age was judged by her face—the older she was, the more human and beautiful her face became!

This "unremarkable," even ugly, snake clearly fell far short of being beautiful. That meant its cultivation was not high!

But the bumps covering her head were the sign that she had grown Snake Hair, which meant she was already a Thousand-Year Soul Beast!

This Soul Beast was clearly not something she could handle right now. Gritting her teeth, she summoned the Crown of Stars.

The Star Domain slowly spread out, only large enough to envelop herself and conceal her aura. Fortunately, neither beast noticed her presence.

The red battle tiger hunched its body, a low tiger's roar rumbling from its throat with a hint of threat.

But Medusa was no pushover either. Medusa's venom could be called one of the most disgusting toxins there was.

Petrification venom. Anything struck by her petrifying poison would turn to stone, while Medusa fed on the life force of Soul Beasts after they had been petrified.

Tiger-type Soul Beasts were the kings of beasts, naturally savage and domineering. It could neither tolerate nor possibly tolerate the provocation of a mere long worm. Its roar shook the heavens.

Its solid, powerful tiger claws, like the sharpest weapons, viciously struck at the insolent long worm.

But Medusa was a natural apex predator, one of the highest-ranking Soul Beasts among snake-type Soul Beasts. Her pride was not the slightest bit less than that of the big cat before her.

A vicious glint flashed through her eyes. Her bumpy head suddenly rose, as though an empress were lifting her skirts. An emerald green glow burst forth from her eyes.

It was her innate soul skill: Medusa's Gaze!

The claws tore through flesh, releasing waves of bloody stench, while the absolute venom crazily eroded the Blood-Colored Giant Tiger.

Lin Li's scalp went numb. Hundred-Year Soul Beasts and Thousand-Year Soul Beasts truly were different. Battles between Hundred-Year Soul Beasts usually involved all manner of skills flying everywhere.

But the bloody violence of the Thousand-Year Soul Beasts before her left her stunned. In that brief moment of distraction—

The victor had already been decided. The blood tiger's claws had torn open Medusa's vital spot.

Medusa's venom had viciously flooded the blood tiger's entire body, turning it into a stone statue!

Did either side win? Perhaps. It might have been the blood tiger, or it might have been that Medusa.

Lin Li slowly emerged from the shadows. The Crown of Stars on her head appeared especially brilliant beneath the fading starlight, while two purple spirit rings slowly emerged from the bodies of the two Soul Beasts.

Lin Li summoned the Blood Fiend Demonic Phoenix. Its crimson phoenix eyes suddenly lit up, and a ferocious, violent aura erupted.

In an instant, her two spirit rings reappeared. The light purple of the First Spirit Ring slowly developed toward Deep Purple, while the Second Spirit Ring, though also Deep Purple, was more restrained in color.

As for her level, Lin Li did not dare raise it. She ruthlessly suppressed the energy within her martial soul, hoping to break through in one burst when she reached the threshold of level thirty in the future.

Then came her usual scavenging routine. She pulled out a longsword and rummaged through the two beast corpses.

Although Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were unlikely to produce soul bones, there was always room for hope. And as if answering her wishes—

She actually discovered a crystal-clear soul bone emitting a faint green glow inside Medusa's body!

The soul bone resembled a human arm, but it had no hand. From the arm, she seemed to hear faint, low snake hisses.

It possessed a strange kind of beauty. Unable to conceal the shock and surprise in her heart, she could not help saying, "A Thousand-Year Medusa arm soul bone!"

Lin Li carefully held the soul bone in her hand. It was not as cold as gold or silver as she had imagined. Instead, it had the warm smoothness of jade.

However, there was only appreciation in her eyes for this soul bone. She would not fuse with it. There was no particular reason—the soul bone's age was simply too low.

She said calmly, "System, what soul skill does this soul bone have?"

By now, the system had practically become her encyclopedia. The system slowly replied, "The soul bone in the Host's hand is a Right Arm Bone produced by a three-thousand-two-hundred-and-seventeen-year-old Medusa. The soul skill it grants is Medusa Petrifying Palm."

Upon hearing Medusa's petrification, Lin Li could not help revealing a look of surprise. But when she heard that the skill had to be released through the palm, the faint joy she had felt instantly vanished.

Medusa's petrification skill was indeed useful, but it depended on where it was located. If a skull bone possessed this skill, combined with a Soul Master's own Spiritual Power, it would be like having a ray that could track enemies.

And it would be a God Skill capable of instantly controlling an enemy. But placed in a Right Arm Bone, it did not even provide much physical enhancement.

Even with its petrification skill, it was practically useless. She thought that she could trade this soul bone away in the future.

After all, it was of no use to her. But no matter what, it was still a soul bone—a Blood River Treasure that could drive everyone mad!

She put away the soul bone. Medusa was dead, but despite that, the blood tiger's body was still covered in a hard stone shell. It was impossible for her to obtain the Soul Beast blood and tiger meat within.

She could not help kicking the Medusa beside her, whose vital spot had already been severed, and said angrily, "Even dead, you can't undo the tiger's poison and let me get more benefits!"

Yet looking at the tiger that had completely turned to stone, she had no solution no matter how many methods she possessed. She let out a faint sigh.

Tiger bones, tiger whip, and tiger blood were all excellent ingredients for refining medicine. But snake gall and snake blood were the same. She calmly put everything away.

By then, it was already midnight. In the Star Dou Great Forest at midnight, stars hung high overhead. Yet in the blink of an eye, a cloud seemed to roll in from the horizon and cover the stars, and the air suddenly grew damp.

With the aid of the Profound Nether Phoenix Wings, Lin Li swiftly left the outer region of the Star Dou Great Forest in just a few incense sticks' worth of time. Yet in her eyes, that outer region was merely the outermost edge of the outer region.

When her figure appeared in Soul Town Village, a bolt of thunder suddenly tore across the sky. Amid dancing lightning, it was especially glaring in the darkness.

Lin Li's home seemed to have been repaired by those people from before. She had not noticed when she returned, but only when raindrops as large as beans fell did she realize her own carelessness.

Lazily, she took out that token from her storage ring. Under the light of the lightning, her eyes were dark and unreadable as she involuntarily recalled the scene of Medusa and the blood tiger.