Dangerous Big Guy

If he entered the Mysterious Small Island while severely injured and on the verge of death, with no skilled doctors on the island or any of those legendary miraculous medicines that could bring the dead back to life...

Entering the Mysterious Small Island in such a state would only delay his death by a little while.

Lin Li had actually imagined a scenario where he entered the Mysterious Small Island on the brink of death, only to die from his untreated injuries. If that really happened, he figured he would return to the real world, and then he'd become a hearty meal for the exotic beasts out on the wilderness.

The thought of becoming a delicious feast for beasts drawn by the scent of blood made Lin Li shudder.

"Damn... I can't let that happen. I need to stay on high alert and watch my surroundings."

Gripping the Spirit Artifact Longsword, Lin Li slowly retraced his steps through the wilderness, searching for exotic beasts hiding in the grass.

Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, twenty minutes...

"What's going on? I've been looking for so long, and I haven't even found a single Rabbit Exotic Beast?"

Lin Li had spent over twenty minutes searching the area where he'd been active earlier, but he hadn't found a single Rabbit Exotic Beast. He was utterly baffled.

In truth, Lin Li had caused quite a ruckus in this area earlier, killing several Rabbit Exotic Beasts and even taking down the strongest Boar Beast in the region. That had thoroughly spooked the Rabbit Exotic Beasts living here.

So, aside from the timid ones that fled during the day, the ones hiding at night also packed up and left, looking for a safer place to settle down.

In short, even if Lin Li dug three feet into the ground, he wouldn't find a single Rabbit Exotic Beast in this area now.

Half an hour. Lin Li had searched this area, once bustling with Rabbit Exotic Beast activity, for a full half hour and still found nothing.

"I was hoping to hunt five Rabbit Exotic Beasts before sunset this afternoon! But now, a whole half hour has passed, and I haven't even found a single rabbit hair."

Just as Lin Li's morale was taking a hit, a faint rustling came from the grass in the distance. Though the sound was very soft, Lin Li, who had been maintaining extreme vigilance, caught the unusual noise.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

A sudden gust of wind blew, rustling the grass, flowers, and trees around him.

Distracted, Lin Li lost track of the faint, unusual sound he'd detected earlier.

"Bad luck. That gust of wind couldn't have come at a worse time."

Unable to pinpoint the location of that strange sound, Lin Li made a snap decision to ensure his safety: he immediately moved away from the dense vegetation toward an open area with a clear view.

The unknown enemy lurking in the shadows seemed to grow impatient when it saw Lin Li heading for open ground.

Having gone hungry for days, it couldn't bear to let its prey slip away just as it was within reach. Yes, the hidden foe mistakenly thought Lin Li was trying to escape.

The sudden wind died down, and the surrounding plants stopped their noisy rustling, but the sound from the thick grass not far from Lin Li grew louder.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

A figure moved swiftly through the dense grass, the sound of its body brushing against the weeds unmistakable. Anyone who wasn't deaf could tell something massive was racing through the undergrowth.

Lin Li, still moving toward the open area, heard the loud noise behind him. He turned around, backing away while keeping his eyes fixed on the source of the sound.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

A terrifying figure crawled out of the thick grass.

Its long body was about eight meters in length, covered in smooth, diamond-shaped black scales.

Though this creature had no legs, it moved incredibly fast.

Once it caught its prey, it showed no mercy, latching onto the victim's neck with a death grip and coiling its body around it.

After killing its prey, it didn't chew or savor it but slowly swallowed it whole.

What was most astonishing was that it could devour prey several times its own size.

"Shit?!!"

When Lin Fei saw the creature rapidly emerging from the dense grass, his scalp tingled, and he couldn't help but curse.

A snake. A huge snake.

Judging by sight, this Black Snake Exotic Beast was about eight meters long and roughly thirty to forty centimeters in diameter—easily big enough to swallow Lin Li whole.

Snakes, as cold-blooded creatures, ranked alongside cockroaches and rats as one of the three most terrifying creatures that made most humans' scalps crawl on sight.

When the Black Snake Exotic Beast saw that its prey had stopped running, it also slowed its pursuit.

It slithered slowly to a spot about five meters from Lin Li, coiled its body, aimed its massive head at him, and occasionally flicked its crimson forked tongue.

Having never been this close to such a huge snake in his life, and with the creature clearly hostile, Lin Li's palms started sweating from nervousness again.

He'd thought that after killing the Rabbit Exotic Beasts and that intimidating Boar Beast, he wouldn't be as nervous facing another exotic beast as he was during his first fight.

But reality taught him a lesson. A rookie was still a rookie, with too little experience with exotic beasts. This Black Snake Exotic Beast charging at him made him feel the same tension he'd felt when he first encountered one.

"How do you tell a venomous snake from a non-venomous one? I remember that snakes with triangular heads are venomous... This Black Snake Exotic Beast has a round head, so it should be non-venomous."

Gripping the Spirit Artifact Longsword tightly, Lin Li stared at the snake's head and made a judgment in his mind.

But he quickly dismissed his own conclusion.

"No, I remember watching a popular science video by a snake specialist. He said that judging whether a snake is venomous by the shape of its head isn't one hundred percent accurate.

Besides, this black snake is an exotic beast! It's not an ordinary snake. Affected by Spiritual Energy, anything could change. Who knows if it's venomous?

God!

I really want to hunt exotic beasts to speed up the ripening of the Azure Fruit on the Miracle Small Tree, but did you have to send me something this dangerous?!"