TBIP: Chapter 34 Part 4

The moment the head of the python collapsed on the ground, Wen Hanshan’s slightly ridiculing praise followed. “You made a lot of progress~”

How could Lou Xingyao not understand what the other person meant?

This was referring to the poor performance he had when facing a python for the first time.

Now, Lou Xingyao was obviously able to face his black history calmly. He raised his chin with a bit of pride. “That’s natural. You must know that I did gain something last time.”

“Huh?” Wen Hanshan raised an eyebrow, indicating that he was willing to hear the details.

“At the very least, I figured out how this thing attacked,” Lou Xingyao said while kicking the corpse of the python on the ground.

The last time Lou Xingyao encountered the first-grade blue rock python, the six hour fighting was indeed very ugly, and his performance was unsatisfactory.

This didn’t mean that he gained nothing in those six hours.

At the very least, he had a thorough understanding of the habits of the blue rock python, or he wouldn’t be able to predict its actions every time today.

“I see.” Wen Hanshan understood, and there was a bit more appreciation in his eyes when he looked at Lou Xingyao.

“Fortunately, it was also weaker than I imagined, and many magical powers weren’t used. Otherwise, I might really be helpless.” Today’s Lou Xingyao was no longer a rookie who exhausted himself to grind a first-grade demon beast to death, only to still feel complacent.

He might’ve won a victory against a fourth-grade demon beast much stronger than himself, but he could quickly analyze his performance in battle.

For example, after demon beasts broke through to third-grade, most of them comprehended some small magical powers which were related to their own attributes.

These small magical powers had very good attack power, and most of their lethality was above the attack spells used by cultivators.

After breaking through to fourth-grade, this small magical power would become more mature, and the power would also increase greatly.

This was also one of the important reasons why fourth-grade demon beasts were difficult to deal with.

However, when fighting this blue rock python, it never used any magical powers.

Originally, Lou Xingyao thought that this python was an anomaly among demon beasts and hadn’t comprehended any powers.

But the moment before it fell, Lou Xingyao clearly saw a layer of bright yellow spiritual power covering the python. This was a sign of the small magical power of this type of demon beast.

He thought of the snake skin just shed outside, as well as the mucus that hadn’t dried yet. There also seemed to be a light pink layer.

At the time, Lou Xingyao only thought he saw it incorrectly. Now that he thought about it, this was most likely diluted bloodstains.

The moment he speculated this, he already had an answer in his heart.

He thought that this blue rock python hadn’t reached the time of shedding, but for some reason, it had to shed its skin in advance.

Shedding the skin would result in a huge loss of vitality, let alone doing it at the wrong time.

It was precisely due to this that the blue rock python was weaker than usual. This meant it couldn’t even use the most basic magical power, allowing Lou Xingyao to gain an advantage.

“The analysis is good. It won’t be long before you complete your apprenticeship,” Wen Hanshan said with a smile.

“That’s natural!” Lou Xingyao directly accepted the compliment.

Of course, he didn’t forget his purpose of coming to this cave.

He re-explored the cave after dealing with the blue rock python.

He was relieved when he confirmed that there were no other demon beasts.

He raised his hand to put the corpse of the python into the space, and didn’t forget to search the area again.

Then it was very easy to find more than a dozen corpses in the deepest part of the cave where the blue rock python had been entrenched.

One of the oldest corpses had even turned into bones.

There was no need to think much to know that most of them were cultivators who strayed into this place and were killed by the python.

He wasn’t a stranger to such a scene, but the joy on Lou Xingyao’s face still diminished a lot.

In the end, he stepped forward silently, gathered the corpses together, dropped a flint the size of a thumb, and burned them all.

Of course, before that, Lou Xingyao didn’t forget to pull off the storage bags on the corpses.

“You are skilled now.” Wen Hanshan couldn’t help smiling when he saw this.

He still remembered the first time the other person found a corpse in a demon beast’s lair. Lou Xingyao couldn’t bear it and felt sympathy.

In the end, he even dug a pit and buried the bones along with the clothes and storage bag. It was completely different from this now indifferent person.

“Of course. People grow!” Lou Xingyao straightened his chest and said very proudly that he was now a mature cultivator.

Sympathy was sympathy, money was money. These two things shouldn’t be confused.

Then he didn’t forget to glance at Wen Hanshan. “Also, the older brother shouldn’t laugh at the second brother.”

Of course, Wen Hanshan also knew what Lou Xingyao was talking about.

It was nothing more than the day the incident on the street happened. Wen Hanshan slaughtered Yang Jirong with a sword. As a result, he waved his sleeves and directly threw the corpse to the side of the road.

At that time, Lou Xingyao had no concept of searching a corpse and didn’t find anything wrong with it.

It wasn’t until later when he went out to clear out his goods and heard that someone took advantage of the chaos to grab Yang Jirong’s storage bag.

Not only was a book with a cultivation method found inside, but there were more than 200 spirit beads and almost 100,000 gold.

This made him anxious, so he directly went home to ask Wen Hanshan if it was true or false.

Wen Hanshan made an estimation. He knew that this rumor was a bit exaggerated, but it shouldn’t be much different from the truth.

After all, Yang Jirong was a long-established foundation building cultivator. He usually bullied many men and women, so it wasn’t difficult to save a lot of money.

It was good that Wen Hanshan didn’t admit it, but this admission made Lou Xingyao uncomfortable.

He knew that these things were supposed to belong to him!

He asked Wen Hanshan why he didn’t take the storage bag with him.

As a result, the young master replied directly, “I forgot.”

He spoke in a straightforward and upright manner.

What else could Lou Xingyao say?

He could only praise the other person for regarding money as dung.

Since then, Lou Xingyao seemed to have carved the matter of searching the corpse deep into his bones, and he searched the corpse every time.

Of course, Wen Hanshan knew that he had done the wrong thing with Yang Jirong. He coughed lightly but didn’t refute it.

Lou Xingyao just said it casually and didn’t intend to hold onto the matter.

Now he waved his hand, threw all the storage bags he just collected on the ground, and said loudly, “Come on, come on, it is time for us to happily open the blind box!”

Wen Hanshan naturally knew Lou Xingyao’s money-obsessed temperament. He was always in high spirits every time he searched the corpse and examined the loot.

Wen Hanshan didn’t disappoint him. He waved his sleeves, cleaned up all the dust on the ground, and sat directly opposite Lou Xingyao.

At this time, Lou Xingyao had already opened the third storage bag.

He had to say that most of those who could hang around in the Endless Forest were mostly qi condensation cultivators with no background.

It was already rare for such a person to meet their own cultivation needs, let alone have some money left.

Therefore, most of these storage bags contained the daily necessities of these cultivators or some demon beasts that were hunted during training.

But almost all of them had their energy dissipated due to age and had lost their value.

The harvest of two storage bags made Lou Xingyao fall more silent as he kept opening the blind boxes.

Still, as the saying went, quantitative changes always led to qualitative changes.

Finally, Lou Xingyao’s eyes lit up with the last few storage bags. “This isn’t bad!”

As he spoke, Lou Xingyao raised his hand and poured out all the items in the storage bag.

Wen Hanshan looked up and took a complete look at the items inside.

In addition to the tens of thousands of gold piled together, there were around ten or so spirit beads scattered around.

This was indeed considered a rich person for a casual cultivator.

The most rare thing was that there were two jade boxes containing spiritual plants in this bag. Lou Xingyao opened them and saw third-grade spiritual plants in them.

It happened to be the variety that Lou Xingyao lacked.

At this time, Lou Xingyao suddenly became interested and hurriedly picked up the two spiritual plants.

He was soon disappointed to find that perhaps due to the owner of the storage bag being killed for a long time, the aura in them had almost completely dissipated despite being properly stored in the jade boxes.

Fortunately, after careful investigation, Lou Xingyao found that these two spiritual plants were very complete, and there were a few seeds hidden in their leaves.

Lou Xingyao’s face showed a bit of joy, and he reached out to pick off all the seeds. “This isn’t bad. There isn’t much vitality left, but it isn’t completely gone. Take it back and soak it, and I can still grow it in the future.”

“Are you happy now?” Wen Hanshan asked with a smile. Lou Xingyao no longer looked like the person who was sulking due to opening a few bags containing tatters.

“Uhuh~” Lou Xingyao raised his chin, not shying away from his money-loving nature.

Then he continued to look at the remaining storage bags.

He didn’t know if the rich storage bag just now had exhausted his luck, but he didn’t see anything of value in the remaining bag.

Except—

“What is this?” Lou Xingyao frowned as he took out an object from the storage bag in his hand.