“This…”
Tie Li looked at the scene before him, at a loss for what to do for a moment.
The originally lush woods were reduced to charred branches.
The ground still retained scorching high temperatures, and in the air, apart from the burnt smell, there was also a strange aroma of meat.
Tie Li observed the ground and saw several fragmented corpses.
Not a single person’s corpse was intact.
“Thump”
A massive body wanted to struggle to get up.
Its aura had become faint, more than half of the scales on its body were gone, and the exposed flesh was also charred black by the erosion of flames.
It wasn’t dead, it really wasn’t dead, it was down to its last breath.
Judging the cultivation of a Thunder Python mainly relies on the single horn on the top of its head.
For every hundred years its cultivation exceeds, the single horn will grow an extra inch, accompanied by a white stripe.
This Thunder Python’s single horn had a full four white stripes!
As long as he killed it and absorbed its spirit ring, his first spirit ring would be a nearly ultimate four-hundred-year spirit ring.
As a Spirit Master born from a commoner background, this was a rare opportunity.
Many commoner Spirit Masters’ second spirit rings might not even reach the four-hundred-year limit.
Now was the best time to kill it.
The massive explosion sound from just now would make surrounding spirit beasts not dare to act recklessly.
A top-grade spirit ring, a temporarily safe environment, what was he waiting for?
The forging hammer martial spirit appeared in his hand, and breathing heavily, Tie Li arrived at the head of the Thunder Python.
The Thunder Python’s eyes stared dead straight at Tie Li.
It had not completely died yet, but fatal injuries left it only able to helplessly watch the scene before it.
“Bang”
A powerful hammer strike fell, but the Thunder Python did not die.
“Bang, bang, bang”
Two hammer strikes, three hammer strikes, four hammer strikes…
until a yellow spirit ring floated up from the Thunder Python’s corpse.
He couldn’t delay time.
Tie Li immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and began to absorb this hundred-year spirit ring.
Subject to traction, the spirit ring moved closer towards Tie Li.
Scorching hot!
Piercing pain!
A fine layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead, and the forging hammer martial spirit appeared in front of him.
Along with the absorption of the spirit ring, the martial spirit was also slowly undergoing changes.
The smooth and bright hammer body grew a layer of scale-like ripples, and at the hammer handle, a sharp single horn grew out, looking seven parts similar to the single horn on top of the Thunder Python’s head.
From time to time, an arc of electricity would flash across the hammer body, carrying a bit of a heavy feeling.
When the yellow spirit ring floated beneath Tie Li, it meant that he had successfully absorbed the spirit ring and become a Spirit Master.
Opening his eyes, Tie Li’s first reaction was to summon his martial spirit.
Aside from the change in appearance, its size had increased by a circle, and its weight had even doubled.
Swinging the forging hammer once more, it smashed heavily onto the Thunder Python’s skull.
“Crack”
Hearing the sound of the skull shattering, Tie Li retracted his martial spirit, used his dagger to cut open the flesh and skin around the single horn, took this single horn away, and hurriedly left this place.
Becoming a one-ring Spirit Master made him sensitive to the surrounding auras.
Tie Li could feel several gazes fixated on the Thunder Python’s body.
A four-hundred-year cultivation Thunder Python, plus its high-tier bloodline, was a rare fortuitous encounter for lower-tier spirit beasts.
Sprinting wildly towards the east once again, Tie Li didn’t know if he would be able to encounter his teacher.
Although the several corpses he just saw had become charred black, making it impossible to clearly see their appearances and postures, Tie Li could be certain that Bai Qing was not among them.
With his spirit power breaking through to level eleven, and having absorbed a hundred-year spirit ring, at this moment Tie Li’s physical strength exceeded his self when he just entered the Spirit Hunting Forest by a large margin.
Running for tens of miles, his face wasn’t red and his heart wasn’t beating fast.
Perhaps the luck from absorbing the spirit ring had run out, as unknowingly, he fell into the encirclement of a wolf pack.
Ten-year Netherwolves, a full seventeen of them.
“Fortunately, they are only spirit beasts with ten years of cultivation.” Tie Li breathed a sigh of relief.
“Awoo”
The Wolf King let out a roar, and the wolf pack began to shrink the encirclement.
Before they could form a pincer attack posture, Tie Li’s knees bent slightly, accumulating power and leaping violently.
He launched an attack in the direction of the Wolf King.
The forging hammer quietly appeared in his right hand.
The hundred-year spirit ring coiled around the forging hammer lit up.
First Spirit Skill, Thunder Hammer!
Blue-white lightning surged out, forming an outer shell on the hammer body.
Each attack would be accompanied by high lightning damage, with a certain probability of causing the opponent to fall into paralysis.
“Hiss, hiss”
Two Netherwolves changed direction, choosing to protect the Wolf King and meet the Thunder Hammer.
The damage of Tie Li swinging the hammer itself, plus the lightning damage, under the blessing of double damage, the two Netherwolves were blasted dozens of meters away.
The bones in their bodies fractured, and the lightning severed their life force.
Two white spirit rings floated up from their corpses.
The Wolf King seized the gap in Tie Li’s attack, leaped up, its sharp wolf claws aiming straight at Tie Li’s neck, attempting to end the life of the human before it.
Tie Li deflected his body as much as possible, the wolf claws landed on his chest, and the Wolf King’s ferocious pupils suddenly constricted.
Its wolf claws could not break through the inner armor, and Tie Li would certainly not let go of such a good counterattack opportunity.
The Thunder Hammer smashed fiercely towards its head.
Its skull was the hardest part of its body, but Tie Li intended to smash its skull exactly.
The high lightning damage accompanying the Thunder Hammer could likewise penetrate the skull’s defense and destroy its brain.
“Bang”
Being viciously smashed into the ground, red and white matter splattered out from under the hammer.
Seeing the tragically dead Wolf King, this pack of Netherwolves instantly fell into chaos, fleeing in disarray.
Tie Li crouched down, taking out his dagger to tinker with these three wolf corpses;
Wolf pelts and wolf fangs could both fetch a price, especially the Wolf King’s wolf pelt; when the time comes, he must ask for two more silver spirit coins.
Fortunately, he had prepared in advance, taking out a large piece of square cloth from his bundle, placing the wolf pelts and wolf fangs on it, and folding it made it into a bundle.
Running straight until dawn, Tie Li didn’t see the traces of Bai Qing and the other two students, and his heart couldn’t help but sink a bit.
He took out a piece of dry ration from his bundle and began gnawing on it.
Having run all night, his stomach was already hungry.
“Da Li?”
Hearing the familiar voice, Tie Li immediately looked in the direction of the source of the sound, and saw Lu Baichuan hiding in a tree.
Confirming the other’s identity, Lu Baichuan then climbed down from the tree.
Really couldn’t tell, he possessed the skill of climbing trees.
“The teacher told me to stay here, he went looking for you, and conveniently acquire a spirit ring for He Dadan.” Lu Baichuan opened his mouth to say.
He and He Dadan didn’t get separated; they ran straight towards the east until they collapsed on the ground completely exhausted.
Bai Qing found them not long after, only he had suffered quite serious injuries.
Therefore, he made Lu Baichuan climb into the tree to hide, and sprinkled special medicinal powder around to prevent some spirit beasts from stepping in here.
He first took He Dadan to search for Tie Li’s traces.
If they encountered a suitable spirit beast, it could exactly become He Dadan’s spirit ring.
“Since you are still here, if the teacher can’t find me for a while, he should come back first to settle you two down, so I’ll just wait here.”
It was almost the same as what Tie Li said.
After being unable to find Tie Li’s traces, Bai Qing brought He Dadan back first.
At this time, He Dadan was already a Spirit Master.
With Bai Qing’s help, he hunted a spirit beast suitable for himself, and successfully absorbed the spirit ring.