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Chapter 7: The Poisonous Sawed Tooth Tiger

Editor: Hitesh_

The twin brothers suddenly laughed brightly as they harvested the demonic beast, "This time we got really lucky! This demonic beast condensed a poisonous pearl core!"

"A poisonous pearl core?" The blue robed young man and black clothed man seemed surprised.

The twin brothers calmly nodded, "Yes, it is. It seems to have been formed only a couple of months ago judging that it is no larger than a walnut."

A Rank 2 demonic beast could sell for about a thousand silvers. After dividing it five ways, everyone would receive two hundred silvers. However, a pearl core from the demonic beast's body could sell for one thousand silvers by itself. And even though it was only formed months ago, a pearl the size of a walnut could sell for at least two thousand silvers. This was because the poisonous pearl core came from the Demonic Beast's dantian which could be used as a medicinal ingredients or used for training one's poison arts. What was a pearl core? It was simply the condensation of the demonic beast's life energy compressed over the ages along with the richness of Qi in its dantian. The result was a pearl that formed from layer upon layer of energy slowly wrapping the pearl core to become larger and larger.

The red clothed girl stared with big eyes as she reached out to touch that incredible rare black pearl core with her hand before the blue robed young man stopped her immediately, "Little Sister Tao, don't touch it! Poisonous pearl cores are condensed from the poison from the demonic beasts over many years. It is extremely toxic, it can even melt through iron not to mention what would happen if you touch it!"

"Hmph!" The young girl stuck her tongue out.

The blue robed teenager took out a jade box from his pocket and said: "A wooden box and an iron box would not be able to contain this pearl core, only a jade box could safely seal in the poison." The boy began to accumulate Qi in his left hand before gently pushing the Qi out to lift the poisonous pearl up in the air without actually touching it, carefully putting it into the jade box.

By the dead beast, the twin brothers had already began to cut away parts of the demonic beast's body parts before storing them into a golden silky leather bag.

After everything was done, the elder twin brother frowned: "Elder brother Liu, we spent so much effort to kill this one demonic beast. Back in the cave we Sawed at least three demonic beasts, one of which was extremely massive."

The red clothed girl suggested: "Perhaps we could go back and ask for help."

"What if other people get there first?" The elder twin frowned.

The teenager in black rolled his eyes, "How is that even possible? The Silent Hills are at least a thousand miles long, and with its complex layout, it's incredibly rare to find another group."

The blue robed young man shook his head, "Didn't you guys notice? The Poison Heart Plant is about to ripen."

"Hmm? What does that mean?" The red clothed girl could not understand.

The young man in black looked a little bit distracted and also a little bit embarrassed as he said: "Once the plant is ready, those poisonous demonic beasts would come out to eat it."

The blue robed young man made up his mind, as he said in a low voice: "We can handle normal Poisonous Sawed-Tooth beasts, but that extremely large one is definitely out of our league so let's give it up! Otherwise there is a huge chance that we would all die."

Everyone fell silent while reflecting on those words, it was definitely not worth to lose their life over this.

"How about I tag along?"A bright voice rang out in their direction.

"Who are you?!" The teenager in black spun around brandishing his Verdant Green Halberd, posed to attack.

Ye Chen walked to them very slowly "Calm down, calm down. I'm not here to steal anything. I was just walking past when I Sawed you guys."

The man in black sneered, "Just walking past? Lies! You heard our conversation!"

"Be calm." The blue robed young man gave him an annoyed look as he took a step forward, blocking the three men behind him. He asked: "Who are you, good sir? It seems like we haven't met."

Ye Chen shrugged, "Ye Chen. Outer Disciple of the Sky Cloud Martial School. I was out hunting when I heard your fight so I came to have a look. I mean no harm."

"I see." The blue robed young man did not doubt Ye Chen. The demonic beast was quite strong, so it was quite probable for others to hear them fighting. Plus, Ye Chen belonged to the Sky Cloud Martial School, a higher ranked school than the Hall of Golden Light, and it was not appropriate to offend him needlessly.

The young man in black observed Ye Chen carefully, he sarcastically replied, "Did you say you have only reached Mortal Realm Rank 6? How can a weakling help us with anything?"

Ye Chen glanced at him, then said to the blue robed teenager: "If my guess is right, that large demonic beast should be roughly equivalent to an Early Condensing Reality Realm martial artist which could be very hard to deal with. But I have a plan to seal its movements."

"Oh? What's that?" The red clothed girl seemed to be interested.

Ye Chen knew that he would not be able convince them if he did not prove at least some of his ability, so he unsheathed his great steel sword. Seeing him reaching for his sword, they all narrowed their eyes as they tightened their grips on their weapons in case he suddenly decided to attack them. Who could tell one's intentions when faced with a poisonous pearl worth at least two thousand silvers.

Ye Chen took a deep breath as he turned around to face a large tree, before suddenly stabbing his sword towards the tree.

Piu!

The tree's trunk had the width of two grown men, but it easily became a piece of soft tofu after being stabbed through without any restraint.

The blue robed young man looked surprised, he said quietly, "Sword Light Coagulation! He can condense the sword light into a single point, what skill!"

A very small percent of Mortal Realm martial artists were able to comprehend the mysteries of the sword and form sword light. To be in the Mortal Realm and comprehend Sword Light Coagulation was unheard of! The blue robed young man shook his head in defeat. As he witnessed Ye Chen achieve Coagulation, he couldn't help but admire him. Definitely a Sky Cloud Disciple, no doubt about it he thought.

Ye Chen turned around and said: "Poisonous Sawed Tooth Tigers are quite dangerous to kill due their extremely swift movements paired with their high defense. But if we could break through their armor and cripple one of its legs, then we can take it down."

The competitive young man in black sneered: "Hah, words are cheap. You think demonic beasts are trees? They won't wait for you there to slowly cut off their legs"

Ye Chen grinned, as he once again waved his sword a couple of times.

Shing!

The sword was back in its scabbard.

When the teenager in black was just about to sneer again, a couple of leaves drifting above Ye Chen's head suddenly split in half, then again into four pieces, each with smooth edges!

Everyone gasped, being able to do this without even looking was an extremely high level of skill. Even the masters in the Hall of Golden Light couldn't do it.

The blue robed young man took a deep breath, and smiled, "I am Liu Tao, an outer disciple in the Hall of Golden Light. This fellow in black here is Wang Haichuan. And these two twins are Yang Wen and Yang Wu. And this is junior sister Tao Qing." Liu Tao pointed at the four people as he introduced them, finally confident of Ye Chen's abilities.

Ye Chen replied submissively, "Nice to meet you guys."

Tao Qing chuckled: "Are all the outer disciples in the Sky Cloud Martial School this strong?"

Wang Haichuan replied quietly, "Preposterous..."

...

In the forest, a slope could be seen by itself, it was about ten meters high and more than a mile in length.

"Brother Ye, about a hundred steps further and you will see the cave. If nothing has changed, there should be two Poisonous Sawed-Tooth Tigers guarding outside, while the huge one would be inside."

Those five people had all trained their movement skills extensively and could walk without any sounds at all, like a group of ghosts.

Ye Chen nodded as he whispered: "Brother Liu, do you have a plan on how to draw one out?"

Liu Tao smiled, "Those Poisonous Saweded-Tooth Tigers love to eat poisonous plants. I have five harvested Poisonous Scorpion Plants, and although they are not as exquisite as the Poison Heart Plant, it should work. In fact that's how we lured the previous beast out before."

Shortly after, the group could see the dark cave and the two demonic beasts about ten meters away. They all sucked in their breath and held it for a moment at the sight.

With everyone nervously staring, Liu Tao took out a long jade box from his pocket and opened it. Inside was full of purple plants that had nine leaves each, and smelled somewhat fishy. They were the Poisonous Scorpion Plants!

Holding them in his hand, Liu Tao explained: "This Poisonous Scorpion Plant's smell spreads very quickly. Once a demonic beast catches a whiff of it, we will have to immediately depart, otherwise we risk being swarmed by other demonic beasts."

As Liu Tao was talking, the demonic beast near them suddenly raised its head, flaring its nostril.

"Its coming!" Tao Qing's eyes gleamed in excitement as her body tensed for action.

It was almost as if they were playing a game, when the demonic beast took ten steps forward, they took thirty steps back; then the demonic beast walked forward thirty steps, they backed out another hundred steps.

...

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Chapter 8: The Spider King Plant

Editor: Hitesh_

Looking at the two Poison Sawed Tooth Tiger's corpses on the ground, Liu Tao took a deep breath, "One last demonic beast to go, hopefully everything will go well."

Ye Chen relaxedly replied, "No worries, everything will be alright."

In the battles before, the red clothed girl Tao Qing did not contribute much because Ye Chen was just way too dominating with his sword. With an over eager face, she asked, "What kind of sword arts are you training in and how did you train your sword arts? Could you perhaps teach me?"

Liu Tao frowned because of his junior sister Tao's forthrightness, and said immediately: "Don't be ridiculous Sister Tao, how could sword arts be taught?" In the various kingdoms, manuals and skills were very strictly regulated, even teachers would not teach everything to the disciples, not to mention two strangers who just met.

However, they did not expect Ye Chen's answer. "Actually, there really isn't much to teach. If you practice the basic sword movements a hundred times a day, you will see the same improvements I had in a month."

"Really?" Tao Qing didn't believe him.

Ye Chen gave her a smile, and did not explain.

In the cave, the Poisonous Sawed Tooth Tiger was shockingly huge, even the size of its head was as big as a water tank. Its huge bright eyes locked onto the intruders with a bloody murderous intent.

"Begin!" The blue robed Liu Tao ran in, throwing four palm movements towards the monster. Palm lights as bright as the snow quickly followed. These beams of force light convulsed midair as they poured irresistibly out like ocean water, and landed on the beast's body. The monster grunted with pain from Liu Tao's attack. The beast snorted in anger at being forced to retreat, as it suddenly belched out of its mouth a large cloud of purple poisonous smoke sparking with flames.

Liu Tao's eyes widened as he was caught off guard, immediately accumulating all the Qi in his body into his hands. Slowly, a black screen of light condensed in front of his hands. The purple poisonous smoke roiled and exploded once it came into contact with the black light. Liu Tao grunted as he was pushed back by the concussive force of the explosion, his hands starting to get numb. Seeing this, the rest of the group stood stock still frightened, before turning to run out as quickly as they could.

At that moment, Ye Chen jumped out, his great steel sword already in mid swing towards the monster's still open mouth. The tip of his sword slowly cut open the monster's head as easy as cutting a piece of tofu.

The monster never expected such a sharp sword. As it suddenly realized the danger, it tried to retreat quickly but it was too late. Its head tilted, without any breath left.

"It died?" When Liu Tao saw that Ye Chen didn't follow the plan of stopping its movement by attacking its leg, he thought Ye Chen must have forgotten about it. But he truly did not expect that with just one sword movement, Ye Chen would have slain the monster. How ridiculous was Ye Chen!

After shaking the blood off the sword, Ye Chen slowly sheathed his sword and said: "Thank you. When the monster ejected that poisonous cloud, it delayed for a second, and in addition, it had a huge inherent flaw. In its mouth, there is a place the size of a cup lid which connects directly to the brain that could be easily pierced."

The rest of the group had already come back after seeing the death of the giant demonic beast. The twin brother Ye Wu was impressed, "That really is quite amazing that you could find the deadly flaw after killing just two Poisonous Sawed Tooth monsters."

Ye Chen replied, "A swordsman must be able to find the flaws in the enemy."

"Haha... well, it doesn't matter, we have killed all of the Poisonous Sawed Tooth Tigers now." Tao Qing chuckled.

After harvesting the demonic beast, they began to explore the cave. The cave itself was not that deep, only measuring about thirty meters. With a torch in his hand, Liu Tao gasped at what he saw, "It is not Poison Heart Plant, it is a Spider King Plant!"

"What? The Spider King plant? Brother Liu, are you sure about this?" Yang Wen turned in surprise.

Liu Tao confirmed: "The Poison Heart plant is supposed to be a deep purple color like an orchid. But the Spider King plant is black, the tip of each leaf like a leg of a poisonous spider. I am sure!"

After hearing Liu Tao, even Ye Chen who was usually quite calm couldn't help his heartbeat quicken. Although the Poison Heart plant was very valuable and was quite helpful for some poison artists with their trainings as a rare medicinal ingredient, it could only be sold for about two to three thousand silvers. In comparison, the Spider King plant was much more rare, mere Mortal Realm practitioners like them would not usually be able to see such a plant. Not only was it a crucial ingredient to many miracle medicines or extremely beneficial to poison art training. But most importantly, there was a poison art movement called "Thousand Spiders Palm" which required the Spider King plant in order to master it. If any poison artists knew they had it, they wouldn't hesitate to hand over at least ten thousand silvers, and of course, they were more likely to kill for it.

Tao Qing said: "Brother Liu, it is too dark here, I cannot see anything."

"Right, let's go outside."

Liu Tao carefully dug out the Spider King plant and walked out of the cave.

In the brighter environment, the group finally saw the Spider King plant for the first time.

The plant was about seven inches tall, with seven leaves in total, its stalk was ink black and faintly reflected the light. On the tip of the plant, there was something which looked like a black spider sitting in wait there. If you just took a glance at it, you would not be able to tell if it was alive or not.

"This is the Spider King Plant? It's so creepy!" The twin brothers commented.

Liu Tao seemed to remember something, "When I joined the Hall of Golden Light, I was lucky to witness the eldest master receive a Spider King Plant just like this one. I never expected that I would hold one myself one day."

Wang Haichuan stared at the plant and licked his lips, said: "One Spider King plant could sell for at least ten thousand silvers, split between the six of us is one thousand six hundred and sixty-six silvers each which is more than half of my yearly income."

The statement shook Liu Tao out of his reverie as he turned and said to Ye Chen: "Brother Ye, we are in different martial schools, and it may be quite difficult to contact you, not to mention it would take a while to sell the materials from the poisonous saw tooth tiger and the plant. How about I just give you your share of the money now?"

Ye Chen was actually not interested in the Spider King plant and readily agreed with Liu Tao's idea.

"Great, those two normal Poisonous Sawed Tooth Tigers are valued about two thousand silvers, that huge one would value one thousand and five hundred silvers, plus another ten thousand silvers for the Spider King Plant, all equaling thirteen thousand five hundred silvers. After splitting between the six of us, it would be two thousand two hundred and fifty silvers which is two hundred and twenty five gold. Here is a one hundred gold note and a ten gold note for you. Brother Wang, Brother Yang and Sister Yao, you guys get the rest of the money for Brother Ye now."

The rest of the group spent a lot of effort, but they were still short of fifty gold, hence had to use some of the body parts from the monsters instead.

Putting away all the money and the materials, Ye Chen suddenly heard something, and whispered: "We have company."

Putting away the jade box which contained the Spider King plant, Liu Tao yelled: "I am Liu Tao, disciple of the Hall of Golden Light. Reveal yourselves please."

"Haha, the Hall of Golden Light, that small infamous institution?" There were noises coming from the bushes, as a bunch of muscular men came out of the forest. The leader looked very ugly with a small half of his scalp missing, resulting in an extremely horrifying sight.

"Bullshit!" Wang Haichuan was mad.

The ugly man suddenly looked even more scary, full of murderous vibe.

Liu Tao knew they didn't come in peace, they were probably a group of wanted criminals, and his face didn't look so good at this moment, "How could we help you?"

"Haha, we are a bit tight with money lately, it would be nice if you guys would show us some respect, if you know what I mean."

Liu Tao frowned, "we don't have much money on us, but we could give you the demonic beast body, which should be worth a few thousand silvers!" He couldn't be sure about their cultivation levels, but if he was right, they would be at least Mortal Realm Rank 10. If they were to fight, besides him, no one would survive, not even Ye Chen.

The ugly man was furious, "Are you deaf or blind? Do we look like beggars? A few thousand silvers!? Leave the Spider King plant and get out of here now before I change my mind! Oh right, and that little girl too, I need something to relieve my anger."

The men started to laugh.

Tao Qing turned pale, her teeth biting the lower lips.

Liu Tao tried to retrain his anger: "Good sir, you must be joking, right?"

"Good Sir? Do I look like I am joking? I am counting to ten, if you don't do what I ask, then don't blame me for what happens next." The ugly man grabbed the sword on his back.


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