A Bumpy Journey

"I can't learn it!"

With a little more practice, it should be fine!

The swarm of snakes retreated, and the standoff between the Twilight Mansion team and the wild snakes ended.

This allowed everyone to make normal adjustments.

Zhang Xuezhou had no way to deal with Song Xianzong and the others who were in a coma. The Shangqing True Technique could only reduce the effects of hallucinations in the brain, but it could not wake up the comatose people.

If the goal is to awaken Song Xianzong and the others who are suffering from senile symptoms and restore them to normal, the primary focus remains on Song Xianzong and the others, while he can only serve as an assistant in the spellcasting.

Zhang Xuezhou has been flying back and forth for the past two days, and he has repeatedly failed in his attempts to treat Cai Guoli using the Shangqing Zhen technique, resulting in a high depletion of his Law Power.

Adding to the burden was the need to use the Supreme Purity True Technique to heal people and ferocious beasts. Even with the Law Power Realm Technique the Yin-Yang School, where Zhang Xuezhou belonged, he felt overwhelmed.

Zhang Xuezhou has finally discovered the limits of the Supreme Purity True Technique.

Once this technique reached a Divine Ability level, Zhang Xuezhou could heal any injury he touched with his finger, even Qimeng Haige, who was severely injured, achieved complete physical healing.

Zhang Xuezhou always believed that his Supreme Purity True Technique could heal all his injuries, until he encountered the wounds inflicted by a ferocious beast.

For example, the white elephant next to Ren Yisheng had a wound nearly 80 centimeters deep inflicted by Changkong Kong Yinghao. Such a wound would be enough to pierce through the chest and back of two or three adult men, but it only penetrated less than a quarter of the depth into the white elephant's body. It had to be slashed downwards, which resulted in a huge tearing wound.

This single wound was enough to slice Chimmon Hagrid's body open from his head all the way to his feet.

Such a massive wound also presents an extremely high challenge in healing.

Zhang Xuezhou unleashed a Supreme Purity True Technique, leaving bloodstains on the wound and indicating that there was still some bleeding.

However, the life of the ferocious beast that Ren Yisheng had been so obsessed with was temporarily spared.

After repeatedly treating the ferocious beasts and healing the wounded people, Zhang Xuezhou became exhausted and had no choice but to seek ways to restore his magical Law Power.

During his recuperation, he inevitably consulted Ren Yisheng about related matters.

After some study, his Law Power waned, and after repeated failures in his attempts to express himself spiritually, he became somewhat listless and dejected.

This brought Ren Yisheng a great deal of comfort.

"There's a difference between how I express myself and how I ask you to speak. I originally wanted to learn this skill and then talk to the Wild Serpent, but it seems that won't work now," Zhang Xuezhou, shaking his head.

"It has kept its distance and waited for us to leave. Is there anything else to talk about?" Ren Yisheng asked curiously.

"Judging by its large size and fast speed, it should be well-suited for transportation," Zhang Xuezhou said. "I want it to help transport these ferocious beasts out!"

"Um?"

While everyone else was racking their brains to avoid conflict with the Snake King, Zhang Xuezhou was already thinking about how to turn the Snake King into an employee.

Ren Yisheng felt that Zhang Xuezhou's thought process was completely out of sync with everyone else's.

He couldn't understand how Zhang Xuezhou could possibly accomplish such a thing.

Clearly, Ren Yisheng's spoken statement and Zhang Xuezhou's personal statement are two different things.

The fact that Zhang Xuezhou brought up the differences and impracticalities is something that Ren Yisheng cannot replace.

"It's alright, it'll be a little slower. These beasts are still alive. As long as we hook their vital parts and keep pulling, we can drag them away!"

The Qin-Meng region is mostly barren mountains and wilderness, lacking proper roads, and most of the time it relies on manpower.

Zhang Xuezhou was still thinking about convenience, while Ren Yisheng was already mentally prepared, indicating that this was how hunting had always been done, and that they often relied on a lot of manpower to carry the animals along.

Otherwise, hunting large, ferocious beasts wouldn't be so difficult.

Defeating the ferocious beast is one thing, but taking it away with you is another.

They were already incredibly lucky to have Zhang Xuezhou, who could heal their injuries and prevent the ferocious beasts from dying from their wounds.

"What a pity!"

Zhang Xuezhou made a comment.

On the one hand, he regretted not having the ability to communicate normally with the wild serpents; on the other hand, Zhang Xuezhou also regretted that his own beast-controlling skills were insufficient due to his infatuation, making it difficult for him to control these ferocious beasts.

Of course, Zhang Xuezhou's lack of skill wasn't limited to just one or two techniques.

Just as it is difficult to quickly learn Ren Yisheng's spiritual communication method, Zhang Xuezhou has many skills that he has not mastered.

This is a common situation among practitioners of Technique Method. It is extremely rare for someone like him to be able to produce several Technique Method. Most people know many techniques, but their level of mastery is limited.

After some self-consolation, Zhang Xuezhou finally accepted reality and joined the ranks of those doing hard labor.

"Changkong Luo, let me tell you, I've done a lot of work, so I need to share in the spoils with these ferocious beasts. Otherwise, I don't want to be the one protecting you from their attacks..."

And there was Chim Hagrid constantly nagging in the marching group.

Although they were supposed to be leaving this place, they didn't travel very far.

The constant pulling on the ferocious beast, whose injuries were not yet healed and whose physical strength was exhausted, made progress extremely difficult. Nearly three hours had passed and it had only covered less than 500 meters.

This speed meant that it would be impossible to reach the camp where the heavy trucks were located in a short time, and it would be inevitable to spend the night there, and even have to guard against possible surprise attacks from escaped beasts.

This is why Chimman Haig keeps talking.

Zhang Xuezhou couldn't stand this slow process, but it was the norm for normal hunting. It's just that Zhang Xuezhou's past style of quick and decisive action made him overlook too much.

The need to soothe the people who have fallen into the chaos of old age, to heal the ferocious beasts, to lead the beasts away, and to guard against sudden attacks by the beasts—all these factors constitute their current rather complicated predicament.

"Old Ren, are you sure that snake king won't mess with us?"

After harassing Changkong Luo and the others, Qimeng Haige, who was in charge of protection, rushed back and communicated with Ren Yisheng, who was pulling the white elephant beast at the back of the group.

"It can't do it! You need to lend me a hand, I really can't budge this white elephant!"

"This thing deserves a beating; a few more beatings and it'll become obedient!"

"Don't poke around with the needle!"

Ren Yisheng struggled to pull the ferocious white elephant along, barely managing to take a single step. When Chimmon Hagrid inserted a sewing needle into a sensitive spot on the elephant's body, the elephant charged forward several steps until it crashed into a rhinoceros in front of it and had to stop.

Even so, the white elephant beast was extremely agitated and restless, repeatedly trampling back and forth.

This is a very common situation for wild animals when they are in dire straits, and some wild animals even die in this state of agitation.

Seeing that Chimon Haig was making things worse by trying to help, Ren Yisheng gave up the idea of asking him for help. He could only use his mental calming power to soothe the white elephant beast as much as possible, hoping that it could survive until it reached the Western Capital City laboratory.

This was destined to be a bumpy journey.

From full sun to sunset, the group had only traveled a few miles, and were still near the snake's den.

As darkness fell, a low, muffled roar of a tiger echoed from afar, causing many to jump in surprise.

Changkong Luo and the others' expressions changed drastically, unsure whether they could withstand the nighttime attack by the hairless tiger that Zhang Xuezhou and the others had mentioned.

Among the many ferocious beasts that can transform into tiger forms, the one-horned rhinoceros, which excels at charging, is perhaps the weakest, while the strongest is a matter of debate.

If what Zhang Xuezhou and the others said is true, even if the hairless tiger is not the strongest ferocious beast, it is undoubtedly the most troublesome ferocious beast.

Especially when it comes to targeting the elderly in their twilight years, this ferocious beast is a killer.