Chapter Sixteen: Blood Rain Grass

  Desert Viper's leader turned his head and struck Xiao Yu, who had just finished using Backstab. His body hadn't even had time to adjust yet, but he still relied on the good physical memory and reaction formed during his practice of reverse backstabbing, taking a wrong step, and then launching a reverse backstab.

  Due to his body's sideways lean, Xiao Yu Ming clearly felt that this time's execution of the Reverse Backhand Thrust skill was not satisfactory.

  System: Backhand Thrust skill completion 95%, dealing 198% of skill damage.

  Although it didn't go as planned, I still managed to accumulate two combo points and dealt 270 damage.

  His blood volume was still over twenty, if he was attacked by the Desert Viper's leader again, he would definitely die. After successfully using his Reverse Backstab skill, Xiao Yu didn't dare to stay near the Desert Viper's leader and turned around to run away.

  The leader of the Desert Viper suffered such a high amount of damage and suddenly became furious, turned around, found Xiao Yu escaping, and immediately chased after him.

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  One by one, the bleeding wounds emerged from the Desert Viper leader's head, and after chasing for five or six seconds, the Desert Viper leader thudded to the ground, with a crimson bloodstain spreading on the ground.

  The leader of the Desert Viper gang was so strong, yet he ended up getting himself killed. Xiao Yu sat on the ground, panting heavily, his heart filled with excitement and agitation.

  The system rang out with a ding-dong upgrade prompt. After killing the Desert Viper leader, Xiao Yu leveled up again to reach level 5.

  Saw a bright light on the ground below the corpse of the Desert Viper's leader, Xiao Yu's heart was overjoyed, and he equipped it.

  "I don't know what it will be, at least it should be green equipment, otherwise it would be too unfair to me." The fatigue from killing the Desert Snake leader just now was quickly thrown behind his mind, Xiao Yu hurriedly searched for the equipment that the Desert Snake leader had dropped.

  A total of three items and one silver coin were picked up.

  Snake Fang Dagger: Quality, Green. Attack 23-35, Agility +5, Slows target's speed by 1, Requires level 5.

  Snake Scale Armor: Green equipment, scale armor. Defense 58-59, Strength +5, Agility +2. Limited to Warriors.

  Minor Instant Health Potion Recipe: Used in Alchemy, creates a Minor Instant Health potion.

  The original low-level instant recovery potion formula was actually dropped by the Desert Viper Head, no wonder I didn't get it when I killed the Desert Vipers before! This thing is just what I need, the properties of the Snake Tooth Dagger are quite good, and it can be considered a low-level rogue's ultimate equipment, making Xiao Yu very excited. As for the Snake Scale War Armor, it's for warriors, with high defense and being a relatively rare scale armor, it should sell for some money.

  He picked up the Snake Tooth Dagger and then switched the dagger in his hand to his left hand, Xiang Yu's attack damage suddenly increased a lot, especially the attribute of reducing attack speed by 1, which was really useful. Next time if he encounters the Desert Cobra Head again, it won't be as difficult as before, but that also depends on whether he can encounter it or not, this kind of head monster is very rare.

  I took a look at my left hand, the dagger in my left hand looked ordinary, while the dagger in my right hand was emitting a bright green glow, and it was clear that it was a good piece of equipment.

  After obtaining the Snake Tooth Dagger, Xiao Yu's leveling speed became unstoppable. By noon, he had reached 59% of level 5. He took a look at the highest-level player and saw that they were already at level 7.

  "They're so fast." Xiao Yu muttered to himself, ultimately still unable to keep up with their leveling speed.

  In fact, those players who level up quickly are all mages, and they usually team up with their teammates to level up. Xiao Yu is already very good at leveling up alone so quickly.

  What made Xiao Yu somewhat depressed was that after killing the leader of the Desert Viper, he found it very difficult to perform 100% complete backstabs and bone peeling again.

  System: Backstab skill completion 90%, dealing 92% of skill damage, gaining a bit of combo points.

  "It's still difficult, indeed when people are in danger they can burst out with the strongest power." Xiao Yu smiled helplessly. Every time Xiao Yu could only complete about 90% of the Backstab and Bone-Picking skills, wanting to improve further became extremely difficult. However, during normal monster-killing times, being able to reach such a completion rate was already very good.

  Xiao Yu took a look at his Backstab and Bone Carving skills, which were almost ready to be upgraded. However, thinking about the terrifying cost of upgrading them made Xiao Yu's face turn blue with rage. Was he going to have to borrow money from Thief Master Ode again? Xiao Yu didn't want to owe too much, what if he couldn't pay it back later?

  But there's no money to upgrade skills either!

  Xiao's gaze fell on the Snake Scale War Armor, this armor would definitely be able to sell for some money. But would the money from selling the armor be enough to cover the cost of upgrading his skills? It was probably about the same, but he didn't know if it could actually be sold.

  Xiao shook his package, inside were thirteen white equipment for each profession, the spoils of his labor for the day. They should be able to sell for some money, adding that to the money he got from killing monsters, he already had 36 silver coins and 3 gold coins in his backpack. Maybe it would be enough, who knows?

  Let's get the skill proficiency maxed out first, and then sell the Snake Scale War Armor at night, thought Xiao Yu, continuing his journey of killing monsters.

  There were seven desert cobras roaming ahead, too densely packed for him to hunt alone. Just as Xiao Yu was about to leave, his eyes lit up because he discovered a small, dark green grass growing in the damp area under a huge boulder near the seven desert cobras.

  It's the Hemlock that makes low-level instant recovery potions! Currently on the market, the price of Hemlock is at least three gold coins or more. If I can pick this little grass, it's equivalent to a day's harvest for Xiao Yu!

  Xiao Yu took a look at the surrounding terrain, and these seven desert pythons were wandering back and forth, blocking the road near the giant stone, making Xiao Yu somewhat worried about how to collect that Blood Lian grass.

  Xiao Yu was wandering outside, searching for a suitable path, but he was disappointed. No matter what method he used, it would alarm these seven desert man snakes. If he were to be surrounded by the seven fifth-grade desert man snakes at the same time, Xiao Yu had no chance of winning.

  "What to do? Give up?" This piece of meat was put in front of him, but he couldn't eat it, which made Xiao Yu's mood very unpleasant.

  Xiao Yu wandered around for a while, killing two stray desert manesnakes, and then returned here to find that the seven desert manesnakes were still there.

  These seven desert vipers won't be here just to increase the difficulty of collecting herbs, will they?

  "It's really frustrating." Xiao Yu was depressed and couldn't help but think, wasn't there any chance at all.

  Xiao Yu discovered that the positions of these desert pythons had changed slightly compared to earlier, and a gap had opened up between them.

  What an opportunity! A gleam of excitement flashed in Xiao Yu's eyes, the dagger in his right hand rotated a beautiful arc in his palm, and then fell steadily back into his palm.

  "I hope I'm not too unlucky." Xiao Yu Chao approached the seven desert sand snakes slowly, then entered stealth mode, wanting to pass through among these desert sand snakes.

  Doing so is undoubtedly adventurous, but if there's a chance, Xiao Yu doesn't want to let it go. Mediocrity often arises from fear of risk and giving up on opportunities; one thing that can be made clear is that Xiao Yu will absolutely not settle for mediocrity.

  Xiao Yu is already at level 5, these desert cobras and Xiao Yu are on the same level, plus Xiao Yu's stealth has reached level 2, so it's not easy for the desert cobras to detect Xiao Yu.

  Of course, if the desert viper is very close to Xiao Yu, there is still a certain possibility that he will be discovered.

  Is it worth risking so much for just a Blood Orchid?

  Xiao Yu carefully considered the issue, it was worth it. He couldn't give a price for Blood Orchid yet because there wasn't any on the market, at least not for three gold coins or more. Just considering the practicality of Blood Orchid, getting one could make a bottle of low-level instant recovery potion. In critical moments, that's a life! For example, just now when killing the Desert Snake King, if Xiao Yu had a bottle of low-level instant recovery potion, it wouldn't have been so thrilling. When his health was depleted, drinking a bottle of low-level instant recovery potion could directly restore his health to full value.

  Xiao Yu slowly crept past the gap left by the seven desert cobras, and couldn't help but break a cold sweat as he looked at the seven desert cobras roaming nearby.

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