Humph!
17: This damand old man!
Humph!
Kai wiped off the saliva with a dark face and could only painfully pay the one-gold tuition fee to obtain the beginner talisman crafting technique.
The white-bearded NPC’s face looked a little better after receiving the money, and he smirked.
“You’re worth teaching.” “By the way, talisman crafting requires yellow paper, a spiritual pen, and spiritual demon blood.
I happen to have yellow paper and spiritual pens for sale.
Do you want to buy some?” “D*mn it!” Kai Cried out!
Why did he feel like he had been fooled into this NPC’s serial trap?
However, since he had already spent the expensive one-gold tuition fee, he had to admit defeat even though he knew it was a trap.
Thus, he was cheated out of another Gold Star coin and bought fifty pieces of ordinary yellow paper and a mahogany spiritual pen.
Suddenly, he only had one Gold Star coin left out of the five Gold Star coins he had on him.
He really felt like he had returned to hard times overnight.
“Not bad, not bad.
The more I look at you, the more pleasing you are to the eye.
Since you’re so smart, I’ll give you a piece of information for free.” “Once you leave the city, you’ll reach Fox Fairy Mountain a hundred miles east.
The fox demons there are the most spiritual, and the success rate of making talismans with their blood is very high.” “Thank you for reminding me; I got it.” Although he was angry with this black-hearted old man, he could not offend the game’s NPC.
Seeing how humane the NPC was, he was afraid that he would bear a grudge against him.
Not long after he left.
A woman with a figure of 8 points, a face of 9 points, and a pair of round and beautiful legs also came to the white-bearded NPC.
The ID above the woman’s head was Xia Youmuxi.
“Grandpa, I want to learn talisman crafting.” “Oh, such a beautiful girl also wants to learn talisman crafting?
You have a bright future.” “Come, give me a Full Star coin and I’ll teach you.” “One Full Star coin?
So cheap?
Thank you, grandpa.” Xia Youmuxi immediately paid the money and learned.
Then, she bought the same amount of talisman crafting materials at a price ten times less than Kai’s.
After receiving the white-bearded NPC’s reminder, she immediately rushed to Fox Fairy Mountain.
After Xia Youmuxi left… A handsome scholar with a white face and plain clothes suddenly appeared with a folding paper fan in his hand.
“Old Taoist, why did you treat them differently?
You must know that this is against the rules ‘above’.” The white-faced scholar pointed to his finger up toward the sky.
“City Lord, it’s not that I’m breaking the rules, but there’s something unusual about that young man.
I’m doing this to help him grow.” The pale-faced scholar smiled, “You’ve taken a fancy to this young man?” The white-bearded NPC looked at him and smiled.
“You said it.” — After travelling for an hour.
Kai finally arrived at the foot of Fox Immortal Mountain, which the abominable white-bearded NPC had mentioned.
Along the way, all the monsters they encountered were Level 10 and above.
In order to save time, Kai did not kill any monsters and just hurried along.
The Immortal Fox Mountain in front of him was ten thousand feet tall.
It was extremely majestic.
Green trees formed a barrier and white fog rose.
Occasionally, the shrill cries of wild foxes could be heard from within.
Kai tightened his grip on the Cold Iron Bow and strode into Fox Immortal Mountain.
Ding!
“(You have entered Fox Immortal Mountain.
It is very dangerous here.
Please be careful.)” He hadn’t taken a few steps when he suddenly heard the charming voice of a woman.
“Young Master, I’m injured and have been trapped here for a long time.
Can you help me?” “Damn it!
Just as he thought, something was off — it was a fox spirit!” Kai took a step back, raised the Cold Iron Bow, drew it to a full pull, and instantly unleashed [Level 1 – Lightning Chain Arrows].
—”Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!” Like a machine gun, the whistle of arrows cutting through wind rang out again and again — thirteen arrows in a row, streaking through the air like bursts of fire, raking across the fox spirit’s body.
Blood bloomed in every direction at once, mixed with the fox spirit’s agonized screams.
Damage: -551, -542, -541, critical hit -1108…..
Even without triggering [Soul Reaper], a single skill had stripped away over 7,000 HP from the fox spirit, killing it outright.
Ding!
“(You have successfully killed [Charming Fox Spirit].
You gained 150 experience points.)” But in reality, Kai only actually received 120 experience points.
30 points had been siphoned off by the [Mysterious Black Box].
The fact that a single skill could one-shot the [Charming Fox Spirit] wasn’t because it was weak — it was because Kai’s stats were high, and the [Mysterious Black Box] boosted all his skill levels by 1.
When he unleashed [Level 1 – Lightning Chain Arrows], it was actually functioning at the power of a Level 2 skill.
Kai walked briskly over to the corpse of the [Charming Fox Spirit], hoping to collect demon blood for talisman crafting, only to find he couldn’t collect anything at all.
He only managed to fish out two full star coins from beneath the body.
Dirt poor, seriously.
It seemed not every fox spirit corpse could yield demon blood.
Still, the fox spirit monsters here were strange indeed — they could even transform into beautiful women to lure players.
Kai pressed on.
He hadn’t gone ten meters before another figure appeared in the white mist ahead.
This time it wasn’t a delicate beauty, but a pitiful-looking old man.
“Young man, please, have mercy.
This old man wandered into the mountains by mistake and got hurt.
Can you help me?” Same trick again.
Kai said nothing.
This time he decisively raised his bow and fired, the arrow striking the old man square in the shoulder.
Damage: -560!
One arrow was enough to strip away the disguise, revealing a human body with a fox’s head — though its title had changed.
—[Cunning Fox Spirit] Level: 16 Realm: Qi Refinement HP: 4200 Magic Attack: 199-210 Physical Defense: 60 Magic Defense: 99 Skills: (Transformation), (Soul-Confusing Curse) So it was a level 16 monster.
Its magic defense was pretty high, but its physical defense was weak — perfect for Kai to kill.
“Damn human, I’ll dig out your heart to go with my drink.” Stripped of its disguise by the attack, the [Cunning Fox Spirit] exhaled a burst of demonic energy from a distance, sending it flying straight at Kai.
Damage: -178!
The [Cunning Fox Spirit] was a magic-attack monster, and getting hit by it genuinely hurt.
Kai raised his hand and struck back with two more basic attack arrows, followed by a [Level 1 – Cloud Piercing Arrow].
The [Cunning Fox Spirit] let out a mournful cry and collapsed.
It was killed outright.
And thanks to the 20% life-steal effect, Kai’s HP was immediately restored to full.
Kai’s eyes lit up — the blood pooling from the fallen [Cunning Fox Spirit] looked strikingly vivid, like it could actually be collected.
Excited, he jogged over right away but just as he bent down to start collecting the blood….
With a howl, the sound of wind breaking was heard.
Accompanied by a pungent stench, it rushed out from behind Kai.
It turned out to be three tall red-haired wild foxes, which looked like vicious wolves were attacking him together.
However, he reacted quickly.
Giving up on collecting demon blood, he raised his hand, stretched his bow, and shot a normal attack from the bow, hitting the red-haired wild fox in the middle.
The potential of [Soul Reaper] was triggered, and it directly killed the red-haired wild fox.
However, the other two red foxes successfully pounced on him and scratched his chest with their sharp claws.
Hiss!
The corners of his mouth twitched in pain.
The lowest pain simulation of Ancient Realm had reached 40%.
Moreover, two damage values popped up on his life bar in a row.
-13, -14!
“Huh?The damage is so low?” Were these red-haired wild foxes monsters that could cause physical damage?
Although he was a brittle Mystic Wing, his physical defense was as high as 186 points, so he was very tanky.
There was nothing to be afraid of, so he did not need to do any fancy moves.
He stood still and quickly pulled the bowstring, killing the two red-haired wild foxes with brute force.
Soon, they were all killed.
He only obtained a little experience and a few coins.
These three monsters were a little stingy.
After killing the red-haired wild foxes, he went to the Cunning Fox Demon’s side and began collecting demon blood.
Ding!
“(Congratulations on collecting 3 portions of spiritual Qi Refinement realm fox demon blood.)” With the fox blood, he took out yellow paper and a spiritual pen on the spot and prepared to refine the Demon Hunting Talisman.
The Demon Hunting Talisman was a level 1 rune.
Because he had just learned how to make talismans, the system prompted him that the success rate of refining it was only 45%.
It was indeed a little low.
Kai did not care anymore and started refining.
The first batch was a failure!
The second batch was also a failure!
He wasted 2 pieces of yellow paper and portions of demon blood.
“F*ck, am I that unlucky?!
Cursing secretly, he took a deep breath and began to make the third batch.
Ding!
“(Congratulations on successfully refining the Level 1 Demon Hunting Talisman.
You’ve obtained 5 finished Level 1 Demon Hunting Talismans.)” “(As you are the first player in Star River City to successfully craft a talisman, you have received + 1 luck.)” “Not bad, I can also get luck points for this too.” In this way, Kai had 9 luck points.
Of course, three of the points came from equipment and titles.