Chapter 35: Smashing Them with Money
First Order Qi Replenishing Pills are not very useful.
The tasks she issued were all to purchase Tier 2 Qi Replenishing Pills or higher.
Tier 2 ones cost ten Low-grade Spirit Stones.
The price is very expensive, but there is no other way.
Tier 3 starts at fifty, selling for fifty directly.
Because Qi Replenishing Pills are common medicines, the price below Tier 3 is acceptable.
However, the Players are still active, and she only has one Tier 2 Qi Replenishing Pill on her.
Who knows how much longer she can last!
Didn’t they say Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters were guarding nearby? Where are they? Someone come and save me!
Due to the fierce battle, Song Jiulai wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Seeing a low mountain ahead, she ran directly towards the mountain slope.
At the same time, she fired another Large Fireball and followed up with a Water Ball.
Water and fire combined to create steam. Even a Magic Horned Snake, no matter how tough its hide, couldn’t withstand it. After all, it was only a Tier 2 Demonic Beast.
Wounds quickly appeared on its flesh, emitting smoke.
Although it didn’t cause a fatal injury, it had a certain effect, and its speed slowed down for a moment.
This gave Song Jiulai the opportunity to run up the mountain.
The vertical black pupils grew smaller and smaller, and it kept hissing, shaking its massive snake head.
Song Jiulai quickly ascended the mountain and ran towards the back of it.
She took several First Order Qi Replenishing Pills and First Order Blood Replenishing Pills that she had brought.
The effect was not significant; it was mainly for psychological comfort.
At least she felt better mentally.
Her heart was still pounding.
But there were no signs of being on the brink of death.
Because she knew she still had the System as a backup, she didn’t feel the despair and suffocation of facing death.
She looked outside. This was one of the areas on the First Mountain. Looking out, the surroundings were dense forests. Amidst the green, only a few clearings could be seen, but there was no way out.
For a Mortal to enter, it would be almost impossible to get out again.
A Cultivator’s memory is different from a Mortal’s. She still remembered the way she came.
Suddenly, from a certain place, a trace of an aura was detected!
That aura carried a corrosive stench, like the smell of a Magic Horned Snake.
But Song Jiulai wasn’t sure if it was her illusion, yet that direction was likely where that man had escaped.
She calmed herself and immediately made a decision.
“Hiss—”
The sound grew closer, and Song Jiulai still reflexively felt her legs tremble.
Damn it!
This speed is truly fast.
Before she could see its shadow, she fired another Fireball.
“Roar—”
The Magic Horned Snake was hit by the Fireball again.
“Splash—”
Enraged, the Magic Horned Snake spat out more pus, and dozens of small snakes quickly crawled down the mountain to where Song Jiulai had been.
However, the Tier 2 Qi Replenishing Pill she had just taken only restored half her Spiritual Energy. Two more such instances and she wouldn’t be able to hold on.
Song Jiulai ran while having the System monitor the Sect’s account. Finally, after a few minutes, another Tier 2 Qi Replenishing Pill appeared.
There was also another piece of information.
【Fan Guozhou redeemed five hundred Points, paying fifty Low-grade Spirit Stones.】
【Fan Guozhou completed the ‘Tier 3 Qi Replenishing Pill’ task you issued.】
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Jin Shu was by a stream, looking at his face.
He had been corroded by the Magic Horned Snake’s pus. He had to take two Tier 2 Blood Replenishing Pills to slow down the corrosion.
The Qi Replenishing Pills were used up, and his Spiritual Energy was greatly depleted. He had no place to replenish his Pills now. This trip was still a loss.
If he hadn’t accidentally encountered that Earth Lingzhi.
It wasn’t because of the Earth Lingzhi’s price, but because a Pill recipe he was trying to refine happened to require Earth Lingzhi.
However, during the process of harvesting it, he inevitably alerted the Magic Horned Snake.
A peak Tier 2 Demonic Beast suddenly attacked. He was caught off guard by the pus spray to his face, causing his Spiritual Energy to be continuously corroded. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so disheveled.
Coupled with the Magic Horned Snake’s relentless pursuit.
If he hadn’t encountered a Cultivator…
Jin Shu’s face was grim. A Cultivator in the Early Qi Stage couldn’t withstand a peak Tier 2 Magic Horned Snake. By the time that Female Cultivator was almost dead, the Magic Horned Snake should have left, and he could go back to check.
Doing such things on the First Mountain carried risks.
This place felt strange from the inside out.
Were low-level Cultivators being protected during their training?
Jin Shu, who had traveled with great difficulty from the Tianyang Sect to this place, never understood how the Myriad Immortal Sect could have such rules.
In his former place, Mortals were like ants. In the eyes of Cultivators, they were no different from beasts.
But here, Mortals could coexist with Cultivators.
It was simply absurd.
Mortals were lowly; they weren’t even worthy of looking a Cultivator in the eye.
Suddenly, Jin Shu still felt a disturbance.
A faint aura was coming from another direction.
He narrowed his eyes vigilantly, but the aura was weak enough that he ultimately decided to go and see.
After walking a few hundred meters, the shock on his face was undeniable.
Before him lay the fallen body of the Magic Horned Snake, still breathing weakly, but its forehead pustules had burst, a clear sign of its imminent demise.
And not far from it was Song Jiulai, with half of her arm corroded.
If she didn’t take medicine in time, she would eventually be corroded to death.
She knelt on the ground, propping herself up with her decaying hand, her lips pale, cold sweat pouring uncontrollably, and her whole body trembling.
Seeing this, Jin Shu, after his shock, let out an incredulous scoff: “You killed the Magic Horned Snake?”
Impossible.
Completely impossible.
She was just a Cultivator in the Early Qi Stage. How could she have done it?
How could she not have done it?
Since arriving, Song Jiulai had consumed at least five Tier 2 Qi Replenishing Pills, all bought by Players immediately after selling Materials.
At the same time, she had also taken several Tier 2 Blood Replenishing Pills.
Blood Replenishing Pills could keep her body from being overly affected by the loss of Spiritual Energy, giving her some time to react.
As long as there was money in the Pharmacy, Tier 2 Pills were not lacking.
Although Tier 2 Pills did not have cumulative effects, and their efficacy decreased with each use, the Magic Horned Snake couldn’t withstand someone throwing money at it like this. Furthermore, Song Jiulai’s Cultivation Method, which she cultivated with the System, was unusual, making her Fireballs equivalent to three of others. The Magic Horned Snake had created its own highlight.
It didn’t die from powerful martial arts—it was beaten to death with money.
When the pus erupted, Song Jiulai was also hit.
But had she paid so much just for a snake?
Seeing Song Jiulai’s disheveled state, her arm wound still corroding, Jin Shu, though he didn’t know how she did it, knew she was also nearing her end.
With a gentle squeeze, he could easily crush Song Jiulai.
He showed no sympathy and sneered, “Hand over your Mustard Seed Bag and remove the Mark. I can spare your life.”
Cultivators at this level couldn’t hide things in their Sea of Consciousness, so the Mustard Seed Bag on Song Jiulai was very conspicuous.
Song Jiulai’s lips trembled, and she coughed up a mouthful of blood as she spoke.
Jin Shu narrowed his eyes, a hint of pity for Song Jiulai showing in them.
He slowly walked over: “You can’t blame me. Blame your bad luck—”
The moment he got close, Song Jiulai’s finger suddenly moved.
Jin Shu realized something was wrong, but in the next instant, the ground beneath his feet was controlled by the Water Control Technique, turning into mud. Jin Shu sank into it.
Jin Shu immediately tried to use his movement technique to escape, but the mud was surprisingly tenacious. Before he could break free, he saw Song Jiulai pop a Pill into her mouth.
A Tier 3 Qi Replenishing Pill.
The next second, two Fireballs the size of basketballs shot directly towards Jin Shu.
Jin Shu’s pupils contracted violently.
