"Boom, crack!"
A bloody path was blasted open in the circle formed by the giant serpent's body, thanks to Sen Lei's Thunder Talisman.
The serpent was directly split in two.
In agony, the giant serpent flicked its tongue, its eyes filled with disbelief.
It couldn't fathom how its prey, on the chopping block, could suddenly unleash such immense power!
The giant serpent tried to wriggle its severed upper half, but only a stream of blood gushed out from its lower end, and it stopped moving shortly after.
And thus, a peak Spirit Sea-level spirit beast died a humiliating death.
Sen Lei, carrying Feng Jing Sheng, gasped heavily for breath.
What a close call!
If not for the talisman his father had given him, he would have been done for today, becoming this giant serpent's meal.
Sen Lei thought about how if he had been eaten, in a few days he would have been nothing but the serpent's waste... Just the thought made Sen Lei shiver.
Luckily, using this Thunder Talisman had saved his life. Otherwise, he would have turned into something disgusting...
"Damn, the more I think about it, the more grossed out I get!" Sen Lei shuddered.
Feng Jing Sheng opened her eyes at that moment, looked at the scene before her, and asked, "What did you say?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing. I was just saying this snake got blasted to a gross, blackened mess..." Sen Lei coughed and replied seriously.
"Indeed..." Feng Jing Sheng nodded lightly.
Xiao Qi sniffed the snake's charred corpse and surprisingly rolled its eyes in a human-like manner.
Sen Lei turned around and said, "Hey, wait for me here for a moment."
Feng Jing Sheng was still lost in thoughts about the impulsive kiss she had given, and she was startled by Sen Lei's sudden words.
Blushing, she responded with an "mm".
Sen Lei placed Feng Jing Sheng under a towering tree and turned back to the serpent's corpse.
A peak Spirit Sea-level beast! Though it wasn't as strong as the Moon Wolf King, it was still the highest-level spirit beast he had encountered aside from the Wolf King recently.
"It's huge! I need to act fast! Otherwise, the smell of blood will attract more spirit beasts," Sen Lei flexed his wrists.
He planned to take the snake skin, beast core, and as much meat as he could carry.
It was all money!
...
Feng Jun returned to the palace with a grim expression.
A figure hurriedly rushed towards Feng Jun.
"Father, have you found Sheng'er?" Feng Wu asked, his face flushed with worry.
Feng Jun shook his head and quickly flew towards the palace.
Feng Wu sat on the ground, stunned as if struck by lightning.
Thinking of his sister's pure smile from the past, he cried, "Why does my sister, who has suffered from illness all her life, have to endure such hardships?"
"Sen Lei! During the competition, I'll make sure you die a miserable death!" Feng Wu roared to the sky.
Both father and son blamed everything on Sen Luo and his son, truly "an eye for an eye." The father for the father, and the son for the son...
Now, both the crown prince and the third prince of Feng Kingdom wanted Sen Lei dead.
If Sen Lei knew how many people wanted him dead, he would be at a loss for words. These misfortunes would give anyone a headache.
...
Sen Lei started by skinning the serpent from the blasted end.
Then, he turned the skinned snake hide inside out, making a makeshift snake-skin bag...
If this serpent knew that Sen Lei not only skinned it but also used its skin to carry its own meat and bones, one wonders what it would think...
Sen Lei looked at the blood and flesh on the ground, strangely, this snake's flesh didn't have the foul smell of the black panther's; instead, it felt like jelly, smooth and exuding a faint fragrance.
He transmitted a message to Emperor Blood Heaven: "Why does this snake meat smell so good?"
After a while, a cold mechanical voice replied, "That's because it was about to break through to the Dao Realm, purging impurities from its body. Naturally, it has no odor, just like your current innate spirit body."
Sen Lei nodded thoughtfully and said, "So does that mean I don't need to purge impurities when I break through to the Dao Realm?"
"Correct, and this flesh can be directly consumed for cultivation," Emperor Blood Heaven answered.
"Really? You can eat it raw?" Sen Lei looked at the slightly crystalline, blood-stained snake meat in his hand.
"Yes," Emperor Blood Heaven confirmed before falling silent again.
Upon hearing this, Sen Lei immediately consumed the snake meat.
As soon as it entered his mouth, it melted instantly. A refreshing sensation swept through Sen Lei's body, and waves of spiritual energy flowed into his abdomen like threads.
Sen Lei felt that not only had he absorbed a lot of spiritual energy, but his blood energy had also increased, likely because his spiritual energy and blood energy had merged and become indistinguishable.
"This is really good stuff! Take it all!"
Sen Lei packed every bit of the snake's flesh into the snake-skin bag.
Suddenly, he noticed a fist-sized orb in the serpent's head, radiating vast energy. Sen Lei knew this was the most precious part of the entire serpent's corpse.
"A beast core!"
Sen Lei didn't know what this serpent was called, but he knew it wasn't ordinary. The energy contained in its beast core was enough to help him break through several major realms!
He took the beast core and put it into his ring.
Turning around, he saw something wriggling in his snake-skin bag.
Upon opening it,
"Xiao Qi, damn it! Don't eat it all!" Sen Lei shouted.
He found that at some point, Xiao Qi had sneaked into the snake-skin bag.
Seeing it feasting happily, Sen Lei's heart bled.
Sen Lei grabbed Xiao Qi by the scruff of its neck.
Xiao Qi looked at Sen Lei pitifully.
"Awwo~ Awwo~"
Sen Lei shook his head and sighed, "Sigh, I'll give you some later, but for now, don't touch it! I need these to break through."
Sen Lei packed everything up.
The giant serpent had been reduced to a blood-red skeleton, looking very terrifying.
Many carrion-eating Tuling Birds, little spirit birds, circled in the sky.
Sen Lei felt the spiritual energy fluctuations around him.
"We need to leave quickly!"
Sen Lei quickly carried Feng Jing Sheng and walked out.
Now, Sen Lei was incredibly wealthy.
With the lone wolf's entire fortune and the peak Spirit Sea-level spirit beast's beast core,
Anyone would be envious. Although the imperial treasury of the Sen Luo Empire had many spirit beast cores, those had been stored for so long that their energy had long diminished. They were just for show now.
Of course, unless you had the containers from Lade Academy to store beast cores, after about a week, the spiritual energy inside would dissipate into the heavens and the earth.
Only some health-enhancing properties would remain, which might be useful for someone like Sen Lei, who cultivated blood energy. But for those who only focused on spiritual energy,
They were useless...