Struck It Rich!

Blood gushed from the fat man's throat, and his skin turned bluish-gray at a rate visible to the naked eye.

His once bloated body rapidly withered away, becoming a skin-and-bones mummy in just a few breaths.

Whoosh!

Another streak of black light flashed before everyone's eyes, and another disciple died just like the fat man, beyond all hope of survival.

When Black Charcoal crawled onto An Lingxiu's face, Zhang Yunlong finally reacted and shouted toward the nearby grass.

"Who?"

"Who the hell is it? Get out here!"

At first, Zhang Yunlong had thought this extreme pain was some sort of mechanism within the nest.

After all, from beginning to end, they had never imagined that a dog like Mo Da could plot against them.

But when he saw Black Charcoal, he finally understood. This was no object from the nest—the black giant centipede was clearly a Gu!

That meant someone had been following them all along, secretly striking when the nest was opened.

Zhang Yunlong's roar received no response. By then, Black Charcoal had slowly crawled into An Lingxiu's mouth.

She looked pleadingly at her senior brother, hoping he could save her.

But Zhang Yunlong was already beginning to look crazed. He drew his longsword and endured the pain as he forced himself to his feet.

He had to find the one behind this. Only then would he have a chance to survive!

Hidden in the grass, Bai Yu watched everything with cold indifference. He carefully adjusted his breathing, concealing himself to the utmost.

After Black Charcoal sucked An Lingxiu dry into a mummy, Bai Yu unleashed all his mana and activated the Diamond Gu within Zhang Yunlong's body!

"AAAAARGH!"

The even more violent pain made Zhang Yunlong's legs give out, and he collapsed to the ground again as Black Charcoal slowly crawled toward him.

The next moment, two fleshy tubes shot out from Zhang Yunlong's body like two fierce darts, hurtling toward Black Charcoal!

"Get lost!"

"Get the hell away from me!"

Zhang Yunlong's eyes were bloodshot as he wildly swung the longsword in his hand without any semblance of technique.

His heart grew increasingly heavy. The agony coming from his intestines made saliva pour uncontrollably from his mouth, and his vision had begun to blur.

Zhang Yunlong could not understand who was plotting against them.

Why was there another powerful expert in Ashen Sorrow Mountain besides them?

Was this person not afraid of being hunted down by the Three Mountains and Five Peaks?

Watching Zhang Yunlong's increasingly frantic movements, Bai Yu did not relax in the slightest. He drove the Diamond Gu with all his strength, while Black Charcoal, like a calm hunter, waited for its opponent to reveal an opening!

Whoosh!

Just as Zhang Yunlong's struggling movements grew slower and slower, Black Charcoal instantly became a streak of light and shot straight for his throat!

The instant black blood gushed out, Zhang Yunlong's limbs thrashed ceaselessly. Soon, he went still.

But then something shocking happened. As Zhang Yunlong's body continued to shrivel, his skin slowly split apart, and his entire body turned into a bright-red ball of flesh.

"Eek, eek, eek!"

As the flesh ball slowly shrank, Black Charcoal eventually devoured Zhang Yunlong whole, leaving only a pile of shattered skin scraps on the ground!

From the moment the four were struck to the moment they were all dealt with, Bai Yu had never shown himself.

Mo Da and his two brothers stared at the scene in shock, too stunned to speak. Just as they were about to say something, a line of blood suddenly appeared across Mo Er and Mo San's necks.

Psh!

Warm blood sprayed all over Mo Da's face.

The next moment, a hand reaching from behind covered Mo Da's vision. The icy touch of a dagger against his neck made his body tremble.

"Come to think of it, you're innocent too."

"But in this world, the weak are meat for the strong. Since you came here, you should have been prepared. The only thing I can do is give you a quick death."

A calm voice sounded beside Mo Da's ear. His body shuddered, and his throat was slit clean through!

As Mo Da fell to the ground, Bai Yu slowly withdrew his hand.

If possible, he did not want to kill the three Mo brothers either. But no matter when, only dead men whose souls had scattered could keep a secret.

This snake corpse was implicated in far too much. Bai Yu simply did not dare take that gamble.

"It seems there are still many things in this world that I don't understand."

Looking at the scraps of skin on the ground, Bai Yu frowned. Zhang Yunlong had behaved far too strangely—he had even affected Black Charcoal!

After Black Charcoal devoured him, a faint Sha Qi had appeared on its body.

Bai Yu knew this was a sign that it was preparing to mutate. This mutation was beyond his control. All he could do now was deepen his control over Black Charcoal so that it would not turn on him.

"Drain these three dry as well. Their bloodlines should be of help to you."

Bai Yu beckoned to Black Charcoal, then cut open his brow and fed it a drop of brow blood before having Black Charcoal clean up the scene.

After making a simple sweep of the spoils and burning the mummies, Bai Yu directed Black Charcoal to patrol the surroundings before cautiously approaching the snake corpse.

[Dragon Qi +20]

[Dragon Qi +100]

[Dragon Qi +50]

[Evil Dragon Resentment +100]

...

Looking at the messages constantly popping up on the panel, Bai Yu was startled. Just by approaching it, his Dragon Qi had begun to rise continuously!

And the Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu had even gained another material!

[Technique: Qi Drawing Art (Mastery) 4500/4500]

[Skill: Cutting (Mastery)]

[Progress: (2860/3500]

[Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu (Life-Bound Gu) (Unformed)]

[Dragon Qi Progress: 1423/500]

[Yin-Yang Qi: 320/500]

[Evil Dragon Resentment: 1500/1500]

[Diamond Gu (Stone Gu Mutation): 800/800]

[Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes (Beginner) (Earth-Entering Eye Mutation): 1122/]

In that brief moment, Bai Yu felt dizzy. When he opened the panel again, he had somehow gained a full 1,000 points of Dragon Qi. More importantly, the Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu only lacked a little Yin-Yang Qi before it could be born!

"This isn't a snake corpse at all. It's clearly already a true dragon!"

He reached out and touched the snake bones, and that icy sensation made Bai Yu tremble with excitement from head to toe.

The Dragon Qi leaking from it alone was comparable to nearly a year of his bitter cultivation. If he had encountered this thing earlier, why would he have had to live such a hard life?

With that in mind, Bai Yu prepared to take the snake corpse away. This thing would become a tremendous source of aid in the future!

Thanks to Zhang Yunlong, Bai Yu had quite a few storage pouches on hand. Even more surprisingly, the necklace around An Lingxiu's neck was actually a storage artifact, and the space inside was a hundred times larger than an ordinary storage pouch!

"This woman's identity is anything but ordinary, huh?"

He took out the contents of the four storage pouches, sorted the medicine, talismans, and spirit stones into categories, then stuffed the storage pouches directly into the ring.

After destroying all four of their personal belongings, Bai Yu picked up the ring and activated his mana toward the snake corpse!

Rumble, rumble, rumble!

In an instant, a deafening roar rang out as the dragon turned into a streak of light and entered the ring.

Only then did Bai Yu see the snake corpse in its entirety. It was over two hundred meters long, its body nearly filling the necklace completely.

Aside from the dragon horn that emitted black light, a massive golden pearl hung from the middle of the snake corpse's spine, surrounded by dense Dragon Qi!

"This must be the Dragon Pearl they were talking about..."

Bai Yu said excitedly. The feeling of becoming rich overnight made him sigh over the bitter days he had lived before.

Sure enough, mountain hunting was the foundation of a cultivator's advancement.

"Hm?"

Just as Bai Yu was marveling, he noticed that the bronze broken sword was still firmly embedded in the ground and had not been taken into the ring.

He stepped forward and picked up the broken sword, only to feel his arm sink. This seemingly rust-covered bronze broken sword actually weighed over a hundred jin!

Looking at the patterns on it, Bai Yu could not tell what it was, but it was definitely a rare treasure. After all, the snake corpse had died at the hands of this broken sword's owner.

"No matter what grade of treasure you are, from now on, follow me."

Bai Yu muttered to himself. Then he took off his outer robe, tore off a piece of cloth from its back, wrapped it around the blade, and slung it across his back.