After his excitement subsided, Qin Feng closed his attribute panel.
Just then, a breeze blew past, carrying a rank, musky smell.
"Huh! This... is the scent of a Venomous Nine-Ringed Snake!"
Qin Feng sniffed the air deeply, and his eyes lit up.
Immediately, he crept toward the source of the smell...
Over the past three hours or so, everyone else had been struggling to kill ferocious beasts.
He had wandered around, getting a basic grasp of the situation on the Beginner Plains.
There were only five kinds of level 1 ferocious beasts on these vast plains: Bloodfang Rabbits, Gnawing Giant Rats, Grassland Gray Wolves, Berserk Wild Boars, and Venomous Nine-Ringed Snakes.
The first four were of little use to him. Only the Venomous Nine-Ringed Snake remained, and he could still extract from it twice.
But Venomous Nine-Ringed Snakes were so scarce that he had been unable to find one despite his eagerness.
Now that he had found signs of one, how could he let it slip away?
He immediately crept forward cautiously.
The breeze blew gently, carrying the scent.
The closer Qin Feng drew to its source, the stronger the rank, musky smell became. Mixed into it was an unusual fruity fragrance.
Strange!
Why was there a fruity fragrance?
Curious, Qin Feng quickened his stealthy approach.
Soon, he reached a small grove, where the smell grew even stronger.
He knew his target was close.
He immediately hunched over, using the low shrubs to conceal himself.
In this world full of danger, he had to stay cautious at all times.
After advancing several dozen meters, he finally spotted his target through a gap in the bushes...
Beneath a large tree ahead, a five-meter-long python lay coiled.
Nine red rings marked its body, making it particularly striking.
It was a Venomous Nine-Ringed Snake!
Qin Feng took a deep breath, a little excited.
Killing this snake would let him extract more energy attribute points.
The Venomous Nine-Ringed Snake was the strongest level 1 ferocious beast on the Beginner Plains.
It was also the only level 1 ferocious beast that could provide energy attribute points.
Over this period, Qin Feng had discovered that energy was the hardest attribute to obtain.
The harder something was to obtain, the more precious it was.
"Huh! This snake's belly..."
Suddenly, he noticed that the snake's belly was enormous, as though it had swallowed something.
As it lay coiled on the ground, this made it seem somewhat sluggish.
Besides that, he also noticed a small mound behind the giant snake.
Beside the mound grew a spiritual herb half a foot tall.
The herb had seven fan-shaped green leaves, with a red spirit fruit the size of a ping-pong ball growing at its tip.
The unusual fruity fragrance he had smelled earlier came from that red spirit fruit.
At that moment, the giant snake lay coiled in front of the spirit fruit, seemingly guarding it.
"This red spirit fruit should be some kind of treasure. Otherwise, this giant snake wouldn't be guarding it like this. Looks like I'm going to strike it rich this time!"
At the sight of the spirit fruit, Qin Feng's eyes shone with excitement.
He was tempted.
Immediately, he gripped a blade in each hand and crept toward the giant snake.
Soon, he had crept within just five meters of it.
But just then, the giant snake abruptly turned its head, its slit-pupiled eyes looking toward his position.
It had actually discovered Qin Feng!
Seeing that he had been exposed, Qin Feng stopped hiding and lunged straight at the giant snake.
Whoosh!
A rush of air sounded as he left an afterimage in his wake.
With the boost from his speed talent, he was even faster than a Grassland Gray Wolf, which excelled at speed.
Hiss!
Startled, the giant snake raised its head and lunged.
Qin Feng shifted his footing, easily dodging its snapping jaws.
The giant snake's original speed had already been inferior to Qin Feng's.
Now, with its enormous belly, it was even more sluggish.
Qin Feng closed in before it in an instant, raising his blade and bringing it down in a flash of cold light.
Crack! Crack!
Shhk!
A series of cracking scales rang out!
Mixed into it was the sound of flesh being sliced!
Qin Feng had actually shattered more than a dozen of those incredibly hard snake scales with one slash.
Hiss!
In searing pain, the giant snake instantly swung its head around, opening its jaws to bite.
A rank smell immediately washed over his face, the stench filling his nose.
With a quick sidestep, Qin Feng easily dodged and swiftly widened the distance between himself and the giant snake.
Hiss!
Enraged, the giant snake pursued him relentlessly.
But after it had chased him only a few meters, a line of blood appeared at its vital point, seven inches below its head.
Pfft! Spurt! Spurt!
Then the wound split open, and snake blood sprayed wildly!
The giant snake suddenly felt excruciating pain at its vital point. Its body weakened, and its pupils lost focus.
Thud!
A dull impact rang out!
It plunged headfirst to the ground. Its body twitched for a while, then stopped moving.
Qin Feng had slain the giant snake in a single exchange.
He let out a long breath, very satisfied with his performance.
Such an outstanding performance had relied not only on his powerful physical attributes, but also on his exceptional talent for combat.
This was also the first time he had discovered that his combat talent was considerable. His body had simply been too frail before for it to show.
Hum!
Just then, a streak of white light rose from the giant snake and flowed into his body...
[Successfully killed a level 1 Venomous Nine-Ringed Snake. Gained +40 energy points!]
Qin Feng immediately felt a comfortable warmth spread throughout his body, and a level progress bar appeared in his mind.
[Level]: 1 (70/100)
Killing a Venomous Nine-Ringed Snake had earned him 40 energy points. It really was better than a Gnawing Giant Rat.
Now, he only needed to kill one more level 1 ferocious beast to easily advance to level 2.
From the look of things, leveling up was not difficult at all!
At that thought, Qin Feng smiled in satisfaction.
But he did not know that if he voiced this thought, all ten billion people around the world would curse him to death.
In their current beginner state, humans were naturally frail. There really were very few who could fight a level 1 ferocious beast alone.
Then Qin Feng strode over to the snake's corpse and pressed a hand against it...
A flash of white light appeared!
[Endless Extraction successful! Obtained 2 energy attribute points!]
Awesome!
My energy went up again!
Right, why was this snake's belly so big?
Qin Feng's gaze returned to the giant snake's belly.
To be honest, a large part of the reason he had killed the giant snake so easily was that its oversized belly had slowed its movements.
Had it been a normal Venomous Nine-Ringed Snake, he would have needed a little more effort.
With that thought, he raised his steel blade and, enduring the giant snake's stench, sliced downward from the wound at its vital point.
Riiip!
Cold light flashed!
White snake flesh peeled back!
The snake's belly was slit open!
A human corpse coated in mucus rolled out of its belly.
Holy shit!
This snake had actually eaten someone!
Qin Feng was shocked!
But he soon calmed himself.
In this world of slaughter, someone could die at any moment.
This was an eternal refrain.
He was gradually becoming less affected by it!
He immediately crouched down, pressed a hand against the person's corpse, and tried Endless Extraction...
He did not know whether he could still extract anything under these circumstances.
Hum!
A moment later, white light shone!
[Endless Extraction successful! Obtained the F-rank talent-Vision Enhancement-for the second time!]
Qin Feng was delighted. He really could extract from it...
[The two instances of the talent have automatically stacked and strengthened! Your vision talent has advanced to the E-rank talent-Vision Super Enhancement!] [Vision Super Enhancement: enhances eyesight twentyfold and grants night vision.] [Talent evolution successful. Automatically awakened the talent skill-Eye of True Sight.] [Eye of True Sight: an active skill that allows you to peer into the true nature of things.]
"Haha! So this works too!"
Qin Feng was ecstatic.
He had never expected that casually extracting an F-rank talent would bring about such a huge change.
He already possessed the F-rank Vision Enhancement talent.
The corpse's talent was also F-rank Vision Enhancement.
After another successful extraction, his vision talent would stack and strengthen, evolving into E-rank Vision Super Enhancement.
Endless Extraction was truly incredible!
In fact, everyone's talents could level up and evolve, but the conditions were extremely demanding, the difficulty was immense, and there were level restrictions as well.
Qin Feng's talent evolution was clearly different.
He only needed to extract the same talent several times to have a certain chance of evolution.
This made evolving his talents much easier for him than for others.
Besides that, after a talent successfully evolved, there was a certain chance of awakening a talent skill.
That probability was very low.
Yet just now, after Qin Feng's vision talent evolved, he had actually awakened the talent skill-Eye of True Sight.
This was also the first skill Qin Feng had mastered.
He immediately suppressed his excitement and looked toward the red spirit fruit ahead...
Eye of True Sight activated instantly, and a screen of light appeared before his eyes.
[Name]: Red Python Fruit [Grade]: Tier 1 spirit fruit [Effects]: nonpoisonous. Consuming it can strengthen constitution and improve poison resistance.
Eye of True Sight really was good!
It had revealed the spirit fruit's details in an instant.
Qin Feng's face was filled with wild delight.
With this skill, he could identify many unknown things.
This was an advantage in competing for resources!
Coming back to it, this Red Python Fruit was a treasure too. It could actually strengthen his constitution.
His constitution was currently his weakest attribute, so this fruit was just what he needed.
With that thought, he walked toward the spirit fruit in delight.