The two of them headed into the woods. The little Daoist looked around nervously, searching for traces of the snake demon, and quietly reminded him.
"Big Brother, we should each watch one side and be careful. Don't let that snake demon sneak up on us."
"A snake demon with a two-thousand-tael bounty on its head, one that still craved human flesh—you don't need to think so highly of it."
Tang Yu spoke casually.
It was normal for ferocious beasts to eat people.
But once they gained intelligence and began cultivating, the higher their realm, the less interest they had in eating people.
Unless they ate cultivators, especially cultivators at the Golden Core stage or above.
To them, swallowing a Golden Core was the most nourishing thing in the world.
"Hearing you say that puts me much more at ease, Big Brother."
The little Daoist immediately became less nervous.
Big Brother often said strange things, but he was still reliable.
The two chatted as they moved through the forest. After searching for about an hour, they finally found traces of a giant snake slithering across the ground.
Following the trail, they found a cave.
It was an earthen cave leading underground, wide enough for an adult to pass through while bent over.
Just as the little Daoist was about to speak, Tang Yu grabbed a fist-sized stone and hurled it inside.
With the strength of a peak Celestial Realm martial artist, that stone would have blown apart even a bear's head on the spot.
After a moment, the little Daoist's ears twitched. He grabbed Tang Yu and tried to pull him back.
But Tang Yu had already drawn a boning knife he had accidentally picked up from the pig butcher and stood at the entrance of the cave, waiting.
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