Chapter 170 - 169: Ultimate Temptation: Come On! Hurry and Eat Me
The next morning.
Lin Li walked out of a shop that sold Spirit Stones. Just a few minutes earlier, he had sold ten Spirit Stones inside for 495,000 yuan.
The current market price for a Spirit Stone was fifty thousand yuan. If you wanted to sell one for cash, these shops would also buy them back, but they charged a five-hundred-yuan fee for each stone they repurchased.
With a large sum of cash from selling the Spirit Stones, Lin Li stuck to his plan. He drove to the "Jinhe" weapon shop to stock up on Spiritual Artifact Arrows, ensuring he had plenty of ammunition for his upcoming hunts.
Last night, after returning from Su Yue’s house, Lin Li had entered the Mysterious Small Island to check on his progress. Thanks to his hunting over the past few days, it had already reached forty-one point five percent.
The little red fruit, which had started out the size of a rice grain, was now as large as half an egg.
’For the next while, as long as I have a steady supply of Spiritual Artifact Arrows, my efficiency at hunting Mutant Beasts should remain quite high.
My progress should increase by at least eight to nine percent each day! At this rate, it’ll take about a week to reach one hundred percent.’
The thought that in just one more week he could eat the ripe little red fruit and break through to the Second Order Middle Stage instantly filled Lin Li with motivation.
He then walked to his parking spot, got into the driver’s seat, started the van, and drove toward the "Jinhe" weapon shop.
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「Several days passed.」
In the desolate wilderness, a tusked Wild Boar Beast was running for its life. A closer look revealed several arrows sticking out of its back.
If not for the Wild Boar Beast’s tough hide, any other Mutant Beast would have long since collapsed from the wounds inflicted by the Spiritual Artifact Arrows.
’I was too hasty. I should’ve gotten closer before firing the Spiritual Crossbow.’
Lin Li chastised himself for his impulsive mistake as he retrieved a Spiritual Artifact Arrow from the Mysterious Small Island and loaded it onto the compact Spiritual Crossbow in his hand.
WHOOSH...
He pulled the trigger. A streak of pale golden light shot from the Spiritual Crossbow, letting out a piercing whistle as it flew through the air and sank into the rump of the frantically fleeing Wild Boar Beast.
SQUEAL...
A piercing squeal erupted. After letting out a pained cry, the Wild Boar Beast ran even faster.
’Why isn’t the paralyzing effect of the black-tipped arrow working on this Wild Boar Beast?’
Lin Li was certain that the Spiritual Artifact Arrow he had just fired had a black tip. Arrows with these black tips were coated in a special paralytic agent during their creation.
Normally, a target should feel its limbs go numb and collapse to the ground shortly after being hit.
Yet this Wild Boar Beast had already been struck by several black-tipped arrows and showed no signs of paralysis whatsoever.
Wild Boar Beasts are omnivores, and this particular one being hunted by Lin Li had eaten a large amount of medicinal herbs not long before.
As it happened, these herbs counteracted the paralytic agent, which was why the special effect of Lin Li’s Spiritual Artifact Arrows was having no impact.
’Don’t tell me this batch of Spiritual Artifact Arrows I bought has some fakes mixed in!’
Seeing the Wild Boar Beast show no signs of paralysis, Lin Li, who was unaware of the truth, couldn’t help but wonder if he’d been sold a batch of counterfeit Spiritual Artifact Arrows.
Since the special arrows couldn’t paralyze the frantically fleeing Wild Boar Beast, he would just have to switch to the other two types.
WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH...
One streak of pale golden light after another shot from the Spiritual Crossbow in Lin Li’s hand.
SQUEAL, SQUEAL, SQUEAL...
Every time an arrow from Lin Li found its mark, the Wild Boar Beast would let out a shrill squeal.
A moment later, the Wild Boar Beast, a creature at the Tier One Peak, was riddled with over twenty Spiritual Artifact Arrows.
THUD.
Even with its tough hide, the Wild Boar Beast couldn’t withstand such a frenzied assault from Lin Li!
Finally, it couldn’t hold on any longer. It staggered, pitched forward, and crashed heavily to the ground, rolling over twice.
’Damn, this Mutant Beast wasted so much of my money...’
When Lin Li saw the Wild Boar Beast he had been relentlessly pursuing finally fall, he quickened his pace. He rushed to its side and, brandishing his Spiritual Longsword which glowed with a pale golden Spiritual Light, thrust it toward the Pig’s brain.
SQUELCH.
SQUEAL...
A shrill squeal suddenly erupted, carrying for six or seven hundred meters before it dissipated.
Lin Li watched as the Wild Boar Beast, its Pig brain pierced, let out a piercing squeal before its eyes quickly dimmed and it fell completely silent.
Pulling the Spiritual Longsword from the Wild Boar Beast’s head, Lin Li let out a long breath.
Chasing after the frantically fleeing Wild Boar Beast, he had unknowingly ventured deep into the wasteland.
He was now about three to four kilometers from his usual hunting grounds, and sixteen to seventeen kilometers from the safe zone.
In this location, it was easy to encounter Second Rank Initial Stage Mutant Beasts. If he were to run into two of them at once, given his current cultivation, Lin Li’s only option would be to hide inside the Mysterious Small Island.
’Over the past week, I’ve nearly used up the five hundred thousand yuan worth of Spiritual Artifact Arrows I bought, but the progress is finally complete...’
Lin Li muttered to himself. He then crouched down, stored the slain Wild Boar Beast in the Mysterious Small Island, and entered right after it.
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On the Mysterious Small Island, shrouded in a vast white mist, stood the two-meter-tall Magical Little Tree at the island’s center. Sensing the delicious flesh and blood of the Mutant Beast, its canopy immediately began to radiate a pale golden Spiritual Light.
The Mutant Beast’s flesh and blood dissolved into wisps of white mist, and within moments, the Magical Little Tree had absorbed it all.
At that moment, the Magical Little Fruit at the end of a branch, which was as red as a flickering flame, became fully ripe.
_Current progress: 100%..._ A message materialized in Lin Li’s mind.
After so many days of hard work, it was finally time for the harvest. An excited expression appeared on Lin Li’s face, his skin slightly reddened by the scorching summer sun.
He took a deep breath to calm his excitement, then bent over and washed his hands in a nearby bucket of water.
PLUCK.
After cleaning his hands, Lin Li raised his right hand and plucked the little red fruit from the end of the branch.
As expected, an alluring fragrance emanated from the little red fruit, a scent that seemed to be speaking to the one who had picked it.
"Come on! Hurry and eat me!"
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