Spending the Night in the Monster Mountain Range

Moreover, they seemed to have suddenly become a delicacy meticulously designed specifically for the Green Snakes. Through the Medicine Emperor's pharmacopeia, Chu Yang had not only added the Appetite-Repelling Flower, which made nearly all magical beasts drool at a whiff, to the medicinal paste's formula, but had also added another kind of Snake Grass that held a deadly allure for snakes!

With such a "dish" before them, even though the Green Snakes had only just gained a little intelligence and knew Chu Yang was their enemy, still...

Moreover, even if they resisted the temptation of the delicacy with all their might, this medicinal paste was no ordinary medicinal paste. It came from an advanced formula of the Medicine Emperor and could actively release a special scent.

This scent did not care whether the Green Snakes wanted to eat this "delicious food." Even if they did not eat it, it would still knock them unconscious!

Chu Yang did not have to wait long in the air before the Green Snakes lay motionless in the grass one by one.

Then Chu Yang swiftly landed, summoned the Yellow Demonic Puppet from his Storage Ring, and had it help him gather the Pretty Lady Herb.

What Chu Yang used to bring down the Green Snakes was not some deadly poison, but he was confident that his formula could make these first-rank magical beast Green Snakes sleep unconscious for a while.

He had no idea how strong their resistance was, so he had to finish quickly.

Chu Yang had only learned the bare basics of the Medicine Emperor's Beginner Alchemy Technique manual. He might not yet be able to concoct a deadly poison capable of killing magical beasts. That could wait until later!

While gathering the Pretty Lady Herb, Chu Yang could have killed these first-rank Green Snakes one by one and harvested their magic cores. Nearly all magical beasts that had evolved to the first rank or above possessed magic cores.

Magic cores could be sold at the market for money, and many magic cores were also essential medicinal ingredients for refining certain pills!

If Chu Yang had still been as penniless as when he had first transmigrated here, he would probably have risked the Green Snakes waking at any moment to harvest their magic cores. But now, Chu Yang had accumulated some savings. Though first-rank magical beast cores could be sold for money, they were not worth much, and he no longer thought much of them.

After gathering the Pretty Lady Herb, he seemed to have neither the time nor the need to kill them. This was the Monster Mountain Range, after all. He would let them fend for themselves from here on out!

After putting the Yellow Demonic Puppet back into his Storage Ring, Chu Yang no longer lingered.

This valley grew Pretty Lady Herb, but once his strength increased, he might find medicinal ingredients even better than Pretty Lady Herb for refining Beauty Pills!

After leaving the valley, Chu Yang seemed to lose his way.

Although he had the Azure Cloud Wings and could fly through the skies, the Monster Mountain Range was vast. He could not always tell direction at a glance, and his knowledge of the Dou Qi Continent's geography was far from extensive.

At one point, it even seemed that he had flown in the wrong direction away from Wutan City.

Eventually, Chu Yang grew tired.

Night had fallen by then.

In the Monster Mountain Range at night, Chu Yang found it even harder to tell directions.

The Monster Mountain Range was far more dangerous at night than during the day, because more magical beasts came out to move about after dark.

For safety's sake, Chu Yang initially perched himself atop a tall tree like a bird. With the Azure Cloud Wings, he would not accidentally fall.

However, after staying like that for a while, he found it very uncomfortable. He gradually grew exhausted, because humans were not birds after all.

Moreover, the treetops were not necessarily safe! Some snakes, bird-type magical beasts, and even certain mammalian magical beasts could climb trees. They could climb up and treat Chu Yang as prey, merely waiting for him to fall asleep.

"Forget it. I should go down to the ground and build a campfire," Chu Yang later told himself.

He immediately made up his mind!

He recalled what he knew about hunters spending the night in forests and decided to imitate them. After all, he had only just transmigrated here and abruptly gone from an indoor shut-in with seemingly no wilderness survival skills to his present circumstances. For the moment, aside from following what he had previously known, he had no way to come up with a more practical method of his own.

Chu Yang knew that nearly all wild beasts feared fire.

Moreover, most places in the mountains were damp at night, wet and cold.

Even if it was not for defense against wild beasts and magical beasts, providing himself with a dry, warm environment was essential.

Chu Yang then found a hollow that looked fairly pleasing to him and summoned the Yellow Demonic Puppet from his Storage Ring to help with the work.

Without question, the Yellow Demonic Puppet worked very efficiently. More importantly, he did not need to worry about it fearing dirt or exhaustion, and when handling the thorny brushwood for the fire, its hands would not accidentally be pricked bloody like human flesh and blood hands.

In truth, Chu Yang was mostly giving directions while the Yellow Demonic Puppet did the work, and the latter never complained.

Before long, Chu Yang created a fire site according to his own understanding—

He piled fires in all four directions, east, west, south, and north. That would keep most wild beasts from daring to enter, while leaving plenty of space inside. Then he lit another bonfire in the middle.

Imitating a hunter, Chu Yang made his bedding on ground that had been baked dry by the fire. That way, he would not have to fear dampness. Even though he had not brought blankets, since he had not come to the Monster Mountain Range for camping, he would not be cold at night within such a fire site.

Once his sleeping place was ready, Chu Yang stopped to rest and only then realized that his stomach had long been growling with hunger. Since he had not come to the Monster Mountain Range for an outing, he had not even put any vitamin pills he could normally prepare into his Storage Ring.

There was no food prepared in the Storage Ring! Chu Yang thought to himself that he would have to store some delicious food in it in the future for emergencies. After all, this magical Storage Ring was even better than the modern refrigerators from before his transmigration. Food could be kept inside for however long without spoiling! Chu Yang now knew that as well.

But for now, he had to quickly solve his hunger problem. His dou qi cultivation was still too low; he was far from the point where he could go without eating for days without issue.

Chu Yang naturally went looking for food next. He had eaten wild fruit during the day, but he could not possibly remain vegetarian forever. He wanted to catch some game.

The Monster Mountain Range was originally a paradise for animals. Aside from magical beasts, it also had many ordinary birds and beasts of every kind.

Though Chu Yang had never been a hunter before, he was now at least a nine-star dou practitioner, only one step away from becoming a dou master. Wouldn't catching some tasty pheasants or wild rabbits be as easy as turning his hand?

All that remained was to find them.

"Looks like he's alone!"

Just as Chu Yang walked out of the fire site, he did not know that a pair of eyes hidden in the darkness had suddenly fixed upon him!