Chapter Eleven: Bravery and Patience

  The Zheng family was a northern clan, and their influence in Qing Shi City wasn't great. However, the Blood Sand Marquis's notorious reputation still held some weight, and after scattering some more spirit stones, they quickly narrowed down to over a dozen suspects and obtained relevant identity jade card information from Qing Shi City.

  The next day, Zheng Zito was summoned from afar. After reading the information in the jade plaque, he pointed to the three words "Chen Taizhong" without hesitation and said, "It's this person."

  Then, a new task appeared in the Task Hall - "Where did Tai Zhong go".

  Chen Taizhong went on a mission again, and the fourth-level checkpoint was not that easy to rush through.

  After leaving the inn, he wanted to appraise the knife and sword in his hand first, to see what level of treasure they were - at least these two items were not ordinary iron, and cutting down a second-level wild beast was very easy.

  He went to the artifact shop, and as a result, Master Fu took one look at him and impatiently sent him away. "This is just an ordinary artifact, middle-grade lower-quality, two medium spirits. If you want to sell it to me, I'll only give you 120 spirit stones."

  Chen Taizhong still didn't believe it, and went to the market to set up a stall. When he saw an immortal maintaining order coming over, before the other could speak, he tossed over a spirit stone, "Here... take it."

  He set up a stall for an entire afternoon, but not a single sword was sold. People came to inquire about the prices and upon learning that he had priced these mediocre goods at 300 spirit stones, they all thought he had gone mad.

  Among them, a young man wanted to buy his long sword for 210 spiritual coins. As a result, he refused to let go, and the transaction was terminated. When the young man left, he also muttered, "If I wasn't in a hurry, this broken sword would be worth only 200 spiritual coins."

  In short, everyone is familiar with these prices, and only Chen Taizhong, this newcomer, has to personally set up a stall to determine the price.

  However, he didn't get discouraged and what he didn't know he could learn. After confirming that those things were indeed at that price point, he immediately packed up his stall and went to the Big Yard to find a task.

  Luckily, one of the staff members remembered him and said that the task of Lian Yang Guo is now very urgent, hoping he could go again.

  He flatly refused, saying I should find something more challenging. In fact, since he found out that Lieyang Guo was just a pet food, he decided not to do this task anymore - it's too damaging to his self-esteem.

  The staff member repeatedly begged, saying that for every ten Lixiang fruits, in addition to the three Ling for the task, I will personally give you one more Ling - Miss Nanshi was furious, we can't just take it and leave.

  Chen Taizhong finally accepted the task of hunting for the gallbladder of the Wind Snake, a third-level wild beast that was skilled at hiding and evading capture. It was extremely difficult to kill, especially since its spiritual intelligence was not low, and when it encountered a high-level wandering immortal, it would quietly slip away.

  One Wind Snake Gallstone costs sixty Spirit Stones, which isn't a low price. Chen chose this task to a large extent because last time at the Zhou family's place, that fat guy falsely accused him of stealing the monster, referring specifically to the Variant Wind Snake.

  However, the gathering place of the Wind Snake is not far from the Flame Turtle. The staff didn't even ask for a deposit and directly gave him a map, only asking him to "bring back at least thirty Luminous Fruits".

  Chen Taizhong had always been someone who yielded to softness but resisted hardness. Thinking that it was convenient anyway, he decided to lend a hand.

  Just as the task "Where did Tai Zhong go" was posted in the big yard, Chen Tai Zhong had already engaged in a fierce battle with those spiritual worm attacks.

  This time he had an extra knife in his hand, a mid-to-low grade knife, not just talking nonsense, it was really worth two hundred spirit stones. With one slash of the knife, the earthworm was cut into two segments, and only a very small number managed to escape by relying on the mucus on their bodies.

  However, there were too many of these earthworms... After Chen Taizhong had killed 70 or 80 of them, he found that hundreds more had surrounded him, and he was forced to flee again - not because he couldn't kill them, but because he couldn't keep up.

  Of course, with the middle-grade lower-tier magic tool in hand, he didn't need to run too desperately. When he ran into the forest, there were earthworm corpses everywhere behind him, and many more earthworms were rushing over from a distance at high speed.

  Killing earthworms is no problem, so killing wild boars shouldn't be a big deal either. Chen Taizhong had just entered the forest when he encountered another wild boar, this one as large as a donkey.

  Chen Taizhong didn't think twice and rushed forward, striking down with his knife. The wild boar didn't hold back either, charging straight at him.

  Head rolls! Knife falls!

  A wild boar was killed so easily by him, you know, this is a third-class desolate beast.

  Chen Taizhong slapped the storage bag and put the wild boar inside, but the space in this storage bag was limited, about three cubic meters. With this wild boar stuffed in, along with the previous Thunder Deer and others, it was too crowded.

  He couldn't help it, and he poured the corpses of the wild boar and the Thunder Deer into the Susano'o Ring, where there were at least a few thousand cubic meters, so it was no problem to hold these things.

  After that, there were no more wild boars coming forward to provoke them. Even when they encountered each other from a distance, the wild boar would let out a dry bark and turn around to run away without looking back.

  It's no wonder these wild beasts are called savage beasts; their ability to sense good and bad luck is truly innate.

  Chen Taizhong arrived effortlessly at the location of Lieyan Turtle. The last time he came, it was during the Youxian stage, and he had sneaked in to pick some Lieyang fruit without even having a chance to observe his surroundings - which seemed ordinary anyway.

  He was about to sneak away to pick some Lethal Sun Fruit when suddenly the ground shook violently. A small hill not far away, covered in grass and trees, slowly rose up, revealing a crack in the middle. A gigantic turtle poked its head out, as big as a train locomotive.

  It turned out that this small hill the size of a football field was actually the true body of Lava Turtle, but it didn't know how many years it had been resting. The trees on its back were as thick as a person could hug.

  It poked its head out, but its eyes were still closed, and it only slightly tilted its head in the direction of Chen Taizhong, letting out a mouthful of air.

  It felt that in this direction, a small crawling creature appeared, its breath making it feel somewhat uncomfortable.

  Chen Taizhong did not expect that his humble third-level Youxian would actually startle the Lihuo Turtle, and facing the surging airflow, he subconsciously wanted to dodge and resist.

  However, the next moment, he still chose to rely on luck and let the airflow blow himself far away - Lianhuo's eyes didn't even bother to open, why should he show off and attract attention from the other party?

  However, the nine-level wild beast's breath was not pleasant either. Chen Taizhong was blown by this mouthful of air and flew out for over 300 meters, damaging many flowers and grasses, and even snapping two large trees with a diameter of over one foot.

  There were also those door-sized stones that were blown rolling around, and those face-basin-sized stones were directly blown flying up.

  Fortunately, Chen Taizhong was a practitioner of Qigong and had internal energy to protect his body. He withstood the blow and... surprisingly didn't suffer too much - only his left shoulder blade hurt a bit.

  That was him smashing directly into a stone as big as a car tire, the stone shattered, but nothing much happened to the person.

  At the moment of landing, he suppressed his discomfort and directly activated stealth and breath-holding techniques in an attempt to slip through unnoticed.

  Linghu Chong took a deep breath, his eyes still closed, and remained motionless for about half an hour before slowly withdrawing his head, but not closing the turtle shell.

  In fact, it has just entered a relatively deep state of cultivation. Generally, third or fourth level roaming immortals can't disturb it at all, and even fifth level ones may not be able to disturb it much.

  However, Chen Taizhong was not an ordinary Youxian. The amount of spiritual energy in his body far exceeded that of others at the same level, which is why Lieyan Turtle was awakened. Nevertheless, its countermeasure was only to spit out a mouthful of air.

  It thought this reaction was enough, and as expected, it let out a mouthful of air, and the surroundings became quiet.

  Chen Taizhong did not know what the nine-level wild beast was thinking, he hid in the grass nest, not even daring to breathe out, continuously casting stealth and breath-holding techniques.

  Half an hour later, Lie Yan Gui withdrew his head and continued to hide with Intimidation and Breath Holding. By the next day near noon, all the turtle shells were closed, but he still continued to hide, not lacking in patience.

  It wasn't until the third day that he began to stealthily pick the Lieren fruit. After almost two hours, he had picked 71 of them. The old turtle's single breath had blown away more than 20 Lieren fruits, which was a bit of a pity.

  However, Chen Taizhong also saw how terrifying the 9th-level Wild Beast was - after all, the Flame Turtles were not good at attacking, they were famous for their defense.

  And when it clears the field, not even a fierce flame spits out, just a simple puff of air.

  After collecting the ripe Lianyang fruit, he tiptoed away and walked a long distance before turning back to carefully count them again, also marking those that were about to ripen.

  He will come again sooner or later, even if it's not for the Lieyang fruit, but to teach this old turtle a lesson. He will come again, Ninth-level Wild Beast, is that really impressive?

  Next, Chen Taizhong went to hunt for the Wind Snake. The Wind Snake was in a nearby valley called Snake Valley, where not only were there wind snakes, but also various poisonous snakes, flying winged snakes, and even illusory sea serpents.

  However, the snakes in Snake Valley also have a roughly divided sphere of influence. For example, the Wind Snake is more concentrated, and the Winged Snake, a fourth-level wild beast, is also a group dweller. The two species generally do not intersect casually.

  Chen Taizhong relied on his stealth and concealment skills to easily find the habitat of the Wind Snake - from this, it can be seen that the intelligence provided by that staff member for free was still quite valuable.

  In fact, the art of invisibility and breath-holding are not omnipotent, which has a lot to do with the user's boundary. Generally speaking, techniques similar to hiding one's aura cannot deceive opponents with high boundaries.

  But Chen Taizhong happened to pass through the Wing Snake Territory without being detected.

  He stayed in the habitat of the Wind Snakes for five days, killing eight wind snakes. Although the wind snakes were good at hiding and their bodies were elusive, Chen Taizhong was also a stubborn person with a hidden method, so it was a test of who could hold out longer.

  The wind snake is no match for him, suffering consecutive losses.

  Finally, his hunting actions alarmed the snake king and queen of the Wind Snake group. These two snakes were fourth-level wild beasts, bringing a bunch of younger snakes to search for him bit by bit.

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