Upon arriving at the small town, Jiang Tang swiftly bought a batch of top-quality fertilizer, had just finished tilling the Spirit Field and sowing the seeds, when a strange noise erupted from outside.
Jiang Tang hurriedly withdrew his Divine Sense, retracting it back to his body and opened his eyes to look sharply.
He hadn't intended to look, but once he did, he was immediately drenched in cold sweat.
In front of him, a tiger with hanging eyes and a white forehead was salivating while staring at him. Seeing him open his eyes, it slowly and steadily began to advance step by step.
Jiang Tang: "..."
He was just meditating in the small forest, so how could he encounter a Demonic Beast here?
In this world, the Beast Clan is divided into Spirit Beasts and Demonic Beasts.
Spirit Beasts are those that have been domesticated by humans, while Demonic Beasts, on the contrary, eat people upon sight, showing no mercy.
Both Demonic Beasts and Spirit Beasts have the same ranks, divided into Nine Realms, and above the Nine Realms come the Ancient Beast Clan. However, such beasts are mostly in a state of nirvana or have succeeded in their cultivation and ascended to The Upper Realm.
This Spirit Beast in front of him had already reached the third rank.
Which is to say, he was comparable to a Spiritual Cultivator in the Core Formation Realm.
And Jiang Tang was only at the sixth level of Body Refinement; facing off against this huge tiger was simply like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
It was seeking death.
Jiang Tang slowly stood up, moving at an extremely slow pace, while retreating backwards. Meanwhile, he racked his brain to think of a way to escape.
Demonic Beasts are afraid of righteous objects, and such things are exceptional Magical Treasures to counter Demonic Beasts.
Righteous objects… Righteous objects…
Jiang Tang's eyes lit up.
Talismans!
He had Talismans!
With that thought in mind, Jiang Tang hurriedly reached into his Qiankun Bag to grab a handful of Talismans, glancing at them in his palm.
They were all first-grade Talismans, which if thrown at the Tiger Demon Spirit, might only serve to increase its hatred towards him.
Jiang Tang: "..."
He suddenly felt that he should not have been stingy with his silver.
Next time, he definitely would procure a batch of top-quality seeds and high-grade Talismans!
But for now…
He could only use the dead horse as a living horse doctor and make do with what he had.
Jiang Tang threw a handful of Talismans forward, activating them all at once.
The Five Elements suddenly manifested in the Void, like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each displaying their methods, hoping to trap the tiger with the hanging eyes and white forehead.
But the low-grade Talismans, striking the Tiger Demon Spirit, were exactly as Jiang Tang suspected—merely scratching an itch for it.
The Tiger Demon Spirit had indeed been provoked, and seeing Jiang Tang at a loss, it cast its reservations aside and charged at him with its gaping maw wide open.
Jiang Tang threw another handful of Talismans and, after activating them, quickly climbed up a tall tree behind him.
The Tiger Demon Spirit, having its vision obscured by the Talismans, shook them off and began to search for Jiang Tang's figure in all directions.
Jiang Tang did not miss the towering rage and murderous intent in the eyes of the Tiger Demon Spirit.
Eryao was in retreat, and Niu was not a fighter—If he were to be discovered this time, he would be utterly doomed.
Looking at his space, he saw that most of the usable items were of low quality, and he didn't even have a weapon that could stand up to the Tiger Demon Spirit in a fair fight.
Jiang Tang felt disheartened. He gathered up his Qi, crouched on the tree, held his breath, concentrated his spirit, and watched nervously from above.
The tiger lingered around the tree for a long time but eventually, not seeing Jiang Tang's figure, let out a long howl and ran off into the distance with a burst of speed.
Seeing this, Jiang Tang let out a long sigh of relief.
Suddenly, he felt a chilling sensation on his back.
A strand of unusual heat was coming from his shoulder.
A bad premonition rose faintly in his heart. Jiang Tang stiffly turned his neck, only to meet the gaze of six blood-red eyes.
Big spider?!
"Holy shit!" When the coarse hair on the spider demon's leg touched Jiang Tang's cheek, he got goosebumps all over and couldn't hold back any longer, leaping up and jumping onto another tree.
It was only after he landed that another spider demon, awakened by the noise, opened its six eyes and coldly stared at him.
Jiang Tang quickly jumped to the ground, looked up, and realized that the trees above were swarming with spider demons. The tree branches were densely covered in spider silk.
"..." How did he not notice when he came in?
Just thinking about having run into a spider den, Jiang Tang's goosebumps rose again.
Meanwhile, the spider demons, disturbed from their cultivation, ran down the tree trunks to the ground, ready to kill Jiang Tang and feast on him.
Jiang Tang grinned and placated with a flatterer's smile, "Big brothers, I meant no offense. Why not continue your cultivation?"
The spider demons seemed not to understand human speech and continued to close in on Jiang Tang.
Seeing this, Jiang Tang turned pale and figured he might as well go for broke. He pulled out a handful of talismans from his Qiankun Bag, activated them, and threw them forward.
Most of these spider demons were first-order demonic beasts.
This time, the talismans were useful.
The spider demons struck by the spiritual power released by the talismans all disintegrated into dust and scattered on the ground.
But no matter how many talismans there were, they could not match the number of spider demons.
Group after group of young spider demons crawled down the tree trunks and rushed towards Jiang Tang at an alarming rate.
His fear of clusters was kicking in.
Jiang Tang furrowed his brows, simultaneously pulling more talismans from his Qiankun Bag to throw, while considering whether to collect some spider demon corpses, dry them out, grind them into powder, and refine them into pills.
Indeed, among the alchemy prescriptions Tianlao had taught him, there were many pills that could be refined using the skin and flesh of demonic beasts—and the efficacy of the pills refined in this way was not inferior to those refined using only Spirit Grass.
In fact, they were sometimes even better.
As this thought came to him, Jiang Tang reached into his Qiankun Bag again and suddenly realized something.
All his talismans were used up?!
Jiang Tang felt around uncertainly once more.
It was completely empty inside.
"..." Unlucky.
After a batch of spider demons was wiped out, another batch came down, and their speed was increasing.
Jiang Tang pulled out a spade from his Qiankun Bag designated for storing weapons. After infusing it with spiritual power, he closed his eyes, activated the Immortal Sect Spell, and swept it before him.
Wherever his divine sense felt more spider demons, he flailed wildly in that direction.
The more spider demons died, the fewer seemed to come at him.
Realizing this, Jiang Tang fought even more fiercely.
It wasn't until the last spider demon was killed that he gasped for air and finally opened his eyes.
That was close, too close.
Jiang Tang put away his spear and started looking around for spider demon corpses that could be used.
Most were turned into ashes by the talismans, and the few that were left intact were also scarred.
After finding a few spider demon corpses that could be ground into powder for alchemy, Jiang Tang was about to leave when he suddenly sensed a different kind of qi spreading slowly from behind him.
This familiar feeling...
Jiang Tang turned his head and met the blood-red eyes of the tiger demon spirit with a white mark on its forehead and immediately his mouth twitched.
It turned out that while Jiang Tang was fighting with the spider demons, the tiger demon spirit had caught his scent, felt it had been toyed with, and in a fit of rage, hurried back.
It just so happened to see Jiang Tang collecting bodies.
So it snuck up, planning to catch him off guard, bite Jiang Tang to death, and swallow him whole.
The tiger demon spirit hadn't tasted human flesh for decades.
Just thinking about the savory taste of human flesh made it unconsciously salivate.