The Mad Scientist of the Martial Arts World

After both of them broke through in cultivation, the two pressed on without stopping, heading south through White Crane Ridge.

Along the way, they cleaned up a few little demons they happened to run into, and Lu Yang's Experience Points increased to 33.

From those few little demons, however, they failed to dig out another Demon Treasure.

Several hours later, the two arrived beside a cold spring on the shaded side of the mountain.

It had only just entered autumn, yet frost and mist had already formed around the Cold Spring.

Standing beside the Cold Spring, Lu Yang felt the true qi within his body grow slightly.

Somewhat surprised, he said, "What is this place? There's actually a little Spiritual Qi being nurtured in the spring water!"

Niu Hanshan bent down, took the waterskin at his waist, filled it in the Cold Spring, then sprawled by the spring and gulped down several big mouthfuls before saying, "This place is called Butterfly Spring. The twenty li around the spring belong to those Butterfly Demons."

Lu Yang frowned. "But why isn't there a single Butterfly Demon nearby?"

"Look over there!" Niu Hanshan pointed to a nearby hillside covered in wildflowers.

Among the flowers, white cocoon chambers the size of human heads were everywhere. If one did not look carefully, they would never notice them.

"They're inside those cocoon chambers?" Lu Yang frowned. These Butterfly Demons' nests, for some reason, gave him an extremely discordant feeling.

Niu Hanshan nodded. "Those demons are different from ordinary butterflies. They like to hide by day and come out at night. During the day, they hide in the cocoon chambers to sleep, which is exactly our good chance to hunt them."

As he spoke, Niu Hanshan took down the iron bow from his back, drew the bow, and released the string. Three Iron Arrows shot out abruptly.

Whoosh, whoosh!

The heads of the Iron Arrows sank into the cocoon chambers, and a burst of shrill, ferocious screams came from within.

Before long, a rustling sound came from the hillside. One cocoon chamber after another opened in swaths, and Butterfly Demons the size of human heads fluttered their dazzling multicolored wings, swarming densely toward Lu Yang and Niu Hanshan.

Most of these Butterfly Demons only had the strength of the first or second level of Body Tempering.

The stronger ones were no more than the third or fourth level of Body Tempering. The trouble lay in their sheer numbers—there were several hundred of them.

They were not slow, and as their butterfly wings beat, some strange poisonous powder scattered into the air. One careless moment, and a person would be struck.

Even though both of them were at the Postnatal realm now, dealing with them without a scratch did not look so easy.

Lu Yang immediately drew his blade, preparing to fight while retreating.

At this moment, Niu Hanshan called out to him, "Brother Lu, you can take out those strong wines I had you bring."

Lu Yang's heart stirred, and he suddenly understood what he meant.

He immediately took a wineskin from his waist and threw it into the empty air ahead.

Niu Hanshan looked at him approvingly, then drew his iron bow to the full and fired two arrows in succession at the wineskin.

The first arrow pierced and burst the wineskin filled with liquor, and the wine inside instantly sprayed out.

Immediately after, the arrowhead of the second arrow caught up to the arrowhead of the first. The instant the two arrowheads scraped against each other, sparks flew in every direction.

The wine splashing through the air was ignited at once, forming a wall of fire before the two of them.

The poisonous powder drifting through the air was instantly burned clean.

Dozens of Butterfly Demons near the wineskin were caught off guard and set alight by the wine. For a time, they fled in all directions, falling into utter chaos, their screams endless.

Seeing this, Lu Yang took off the remaining wineskins on him and continuously tossed them into the air.

Niu Hanshan drew his bow and fired, detonating the wineskins in midair and setting even more Butterfly Demons aflame.

As if he had noticed something, Lu Yang sniffed his left hand.

"Heh, sure enough, sulfur and phosphorus powder were mixed into that wine."

Sulfur mixed with wine had a poison-killing effect. Combined with the wine spraying everywhere, not only was the poisonous powder on those Butterfly Demons burned clean, even they themselves were hard-pressed to protect their own lives.

As for phosphorus powder, once it started burning, it was even harder to extinguish.

After countless Butterfly Demons were ignited by the wine, in just a short while, the flames clung to them like maggots on bone and burned them clean away.

No wonder before we left, he deliberately added so many ice cubes into the wineskins. So it was for the sake of safety, Lu Yang thought.

These wineskins had the same marvelous effect achieved by different means as the White Phosphorus bombs from his previous life.

A small amount of White Phosphorus stored in wine would not actually ignite on its own if it did not come into contact with air. With those ice cubes added, there was another layer of insurance.

In this way, it could also ensure that these wineskins would not hurt their own people before they were used.

In midair, great swaths of Butterfly Demons began to scream.

In the span of a few minutes, dozens of Butterfly Demons were burned alive.

The remaining Butterfly Demons, in order to survive, plunged headfirst into the Cold Spring one after another.

Unfortunately, even so, it was already too late.

Lu Yang felt a pang of pain from the side. He seemed to see several hundred Experience Points drifting past him, slipping right through his fingers.

Someone like Niu Hanshan, placed in the current world, could absolutely be counted as a mad scientist.

If the previous Leopard Demons had not been too fast, and if the place where they fought had not been Niushi Town, where it was easy to affect their own people, then this simple version of a White Phosphorus bomb alone would have been enough to force them back.

"Brother Niu, it seems your ancestors left you quite a few good things!" Lu Yang said.

Niu Hanshan smiled. "Heh, if not for that, I, a martial artist who's only just entered the Acquired realm, wouldn't have the nerve to set my sights on that Old Master White Crane."

Seeing that the Butterfly Demons had suffered heavy casualties, and that even the lucky survivors were retreating and scattering in flight, Niu Hanshan called for Lu Yang to leave.

Lu Yang asked curiously, "With so many Butterfly Demon corpses, you're not digging out their Demon Treasures?"

Niu Hanshan shook his head. "Even if there were any, they've been burned to ash. Besides, I originally intended to kill that second-rank Butterfly Demon leader here.

"Now we've caused such a huge disturbance here, yet it hasn't appeared. That makes me rather uneasy instead. I'm afraid that if we don't leave now, we may not be able to leave in a while."

Lu Yang deeply agreed, so he no longer lingered and followed Niu Hanshan off in another direction.

Everything was just as Niu Hanshan had predicted.

No sooner had the Butterfly Demon leader descended from White Crane Ridge than she saw a raging blaze burning in the direction of Butterfly Spring. Her expression changed drastically, and she sped up, flying back to the spring with all her strength.

When she saw the tragic sight of her subordinates dead and wounded almost to the last, a piercing shriek spread through the entire mountain forest.

At the same time, the demons of White Crane Ridge had already scattered many of their underlings through the mountain forest, like casting open a great net, slowly and methodically drawing it inward.

Lu Yang and Niu Hanshan were completely unaware of this.

As they walked, a strange floral fragrance spread through the woods.

"This is... Sky Blue Flower." Lu Yang's heart stirred.

Sky Blue Flower was a supplementary ingredient for refining the first-rank pill Qi Gathering Pill. Its value ranged from one hundred to two hundred taels. To the current Lu Yang, taking it back and selling it would also be a considerable income.

At once, he was about to follow the source of the fragrance and search for the Sky Blue Flower's location.

"Brother Lu, wait." Niu Hanshan spoke.

"What does Brother Niu mean by this?" Lu Yang knew Niu Hanshan had a steady temperament and would not shoot an arrow without a target, so a trace of vigilance could not help rising in his heart.