Chapter 33: Snatching Xiao Jian (Four)

  In the dimly lit cave, the man in green hastily retreated over ten zhangs, noticing the scattered wild bees flying about inside. His heart filled with alarm, he saw Li Ran's knife standing stunned at the bottom of the cave, turning back to face him, with no path forward.

  The man in green had no more worries in his heart, a joyful expression appeared on his face, and he gritted his teeth to take a step forward towards Li Ran's knife. Just then, Li Ran's knife brought out the last three spiritual symbols, and with a vigilant expression, he confronted the man in green opposite him.

  "You think a few talismans can stop me, old man? You're the one who's walked into a dead end, and when you end up in the underworld, don't blame your grandfather for being ruthless."

  The man in green clothes pointed his long sword far ahead, standing still at a distance of several meters from Li Ran's knife, and his voice was also cold and stern.

  At this moment, the man in green suddenly saw a smile slowly appearing on Li Ran's knife-like face, and he nodded slightly at him, with a flash of blue light on the spiritual symbol in his palm.

  Qing Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he was about to fly backward in retreat. Just then, Li Ran's knife suddenly flashed upward toward the back of his hand, and the three talismans actually all flew down into the cave.

  "This..."

  The man in the green robe was stunned, and then a loud explosion sounded, causing the entire cave to shake violently, with countless small rocks rolling down.

  Suddenly a loud humming noise was heard, and behind Li Ran's knife, countless wild bees poured out like a golden cloud pressing down on the top.

  Li Ran swiftly crouched down and rolled to the side, his head rolling to the edge of a natural rock crevice, where he squeezed in with force, hugging his head and face, curling up into a ball and squatting there.

  "My goodness..."

  The man in green was immediately stunned by this formation.

  Each of these wild bees was as big as a fist, and this golden cloud contained tens of thousands of them. Li Ran's three spiritual symbols completely destroyed the more than ten beehives behind him, and the enraged bees flew out to find their target.

  The man in green's face turned pale, and he immediately flew up to prepare for a hasty retreat from the cave. However, as soon as his body took off, he felt an intense numbness all over, and his vital energy was completely drained, causing him to plummet straight down to the ground with a thud.

  I don't know how many wild bees stung him.

  At first, the sword light still struggled to be seen, with the wild bee corpses falling like rain, but later that green shadow let the wild bees wreak havoc, and fell to the ground without moving again.

  Such a large group of wild bees, how can the green-clad man's strength cope with it?

  Li Ruo Dao had applied a full-body bee repellent, but there were too many wild bees, which squeezed in from the cracks in the mountain rocks, most of them were driven away by the smell of the grass medicine, but still left big red blisters on Li Ruo Dao's body.

  Li Ran felt as if he was in a world that had not yet dawned, the air didn't dare to take a breath, his ears were filled with the roaring hum, this large-scale wild bee tide made him also frightened and his whole body turned cold.

  It's unknown how long it took, but the buzzing sound gradually dispersed. Most of the wild bees flew to their nests and circled around. Many others flew out of the cave and never came back.

  Li Ran's dagger finally dared to lift his head, and from the gap between the mountain rocks, he stretched out his head, more than 20 feet away from him. A figure in a green robe was swollen all over his body, like yeast fermentation, swelling up his entire green robe, bulging with air.

  Under such a large group of wild bees bombing, Li Ran's knife didn't know if anyone else could survive.

  Carefully squeezed out from the rocks, walked a few steps, got closer, suddenly with a flick of his wrist, the dagger flew out and stabbed into the back of the man in green clothes until it was hilt-deep, the man in green didn't react at all.

  Li Ran's knife was overjoyed, put down all his heart, quickly walked a few steps and squatted in front of the man in green clothes, turning his body over. At this time, the man in green clothes still had a bit of human appearance, his whole face was red and purple, swollen like a balloon about to explode, even uglier than a pig's head.

  Li Ruo pulled out a cloth bag from the waist of the man in green, and with a rustling sound, poured out all the items inside. Before he could look at anything else, his eyes were fixed on a small gray sword.

  Hahaha...

  Li Ran's eyes blazed with fury as he suppressed his laughter, grasping the small sword in his hand.

  The small sword was only the length of a palm, and it felt cool to the touch. Li Ran's knife slightly concentrated his mind, and from the small sword, he seemed to sense a mysterious meaning.

  "It's indeed an object of a superior immortal, with extraordinary and mysterious things inside."

  This small sword was finally obtained by Li Ruo Dao, who was overjoyed and carefully examined the sword in his hand. Although he couldn't see anything unusual about it, he thought to himself that this was only because he hadn't discovered its secrets yet. He would have to put in some effort to explore the divine abilities of the small sword.

  After a long while, Li Rouxue reluctantly inserted the small sword into the beast skin bag at his waist that the old hunter had given him, securing it tightly so that he could draw it out with just a flick of his hand.

  Li Ranno was satisfied with the knife in his heart, and he looked at other things on the ground with some surprise. Thirty or forty taels of silver were not a lot, Li Ranno casually put them into the money bag in his bosom.

  There was a bulging "cloth" that caught Li Ruo Dao's interest, he didn't know what it was. Li Ruo Dao stood up and casually shook open the "cloth", his eyebrows immediately furrowed.

  "The fabric" is made of unknown material, soft and yet tough, spread out, it looks like a pair of wings.

  "Could it be..."

  Li Ran's heart moved, and he held the "cloth" to quickly pour the essence of his energy into it. Suddenly, a whooshing sound was heard by his ear, and the fabric instantly became hard and unfolded with a "plop" in the cave.

  "This... This is Wind Wing!"

  Li Ran's eyes lit up suddenly, and he realized what this thing was all about.

  In my past life, I've heard people say that there's a clever little gadget that ties "cloth" to your back. In the critical moment of falling from high altitude, when you inject energy into it, it will rapidly unfold like wings.

  It doesn't have much effect and can't really make people fly, but it can ensure that no matter how high you fall, you won't die, and you can also use the momentum to glide extremely far in the air.

  "This is indeed a good thing."

  Li Ran's knife retracted its essence and energy, the "cloth" softened and shrank back into a ball, and Li Ran's knife was once again stored in his pouch.

  A large block of rhizome with mud was left on the ground.

  "Is this an elixir? Haha, it's effortless and completely free!"

  Li Ran's heart skipped a beat again, and he squatted down to pick up the tuber, carefully peeling off the skin to reveal the red pulp inside, unable to help laughing and crying at the same time.

  This is not a spiritual medicine, but an edible mountain yam. It's fragrant and delicious when roasted over fire, with a great taste, but that's all there is to it.

  Look at this man in green clothes, he is so careful and treasured it as if it were a rare spiritual medicine.

  Li Ran shook his head with a bitter smile: Ignorance can be deadly. But thinking about it, it's also understandable that ordinary cultivators wouldn't know much about spiritual medicine knowledge.