Chapter 98: Thunderbolt Warhorse (Sixth Update)

  The outer periphery of the Gods' Graveyard was a forest, where many humans were active. Li Xie and his group stepped into it, often seeing some mercenaries in action.

  "Lei Yao big brother, why not fly in?" According to Art Lei Yao, high-level demon beasts are deeper in the mainland of gods, walking into the activity area of high-level demon beasts, and running quickly would take four or five days, which made Li Xie somewhat puzzled.

  They had two tenth-tier Sword Saints among them, and Li Xie himself could fly. Even if Arte Yure didn't know how to fly, he could have Zeenath or Brad Pitt carry him, and flying was much faster than running.

  "Look at the sky, at this moment there are many experts in the Gods' Graveyard, but who dares to fly? After all, only a few people can fly, and flying is extremely exhausting for one's Qi. Moreover, it's easy to expose oneself. Once discovered by high-level flying magical beasts, it's easy to become a target of concentrated fire, and there won't even be time to escape. No one dares to fly above the Gods' Graveyard. Let's hurry up, this area is very safe, we must make the most of our time."

  A few people ran day and night, and in just one and a half days, they reached the dangerous area that Yat Reyao thought.

  This area is a mountain forest, with secluded valleys and winding paths, and streams flowing horizontally.

  Along the way, occasionally a few loud roars or howls could be heard, and some fifth- and sixth-grade magical beasts could be seen moving about. When they saw Li Xie and his companions, they immediately fled in panic.

  "Shh..."

  Yat Reyao took out a bottle of green liquid from the spatial ring and whispered, "This is wormwood juice. Apply some on your body to conceal our scent. Everyone, control your aura fluctuations and hide your breath as much as possible. We are already in an area where high-level magical beasts are active. Five or six-level magical beasts fear humans and will run away when they see us, but seven or eight-level magical beasts have deep hostility towards humans and may attack us on their own initiative. Especially the eighth-level magical beasts, humans are also one of their food sources. From now on, if you notice someone staring at you, or if you notice any unusual movement, you must inform me immediately. You must not be careless, if a dozen or so eighth-level magical beasts take us as prey, we may not even make it out of this mountain forest."

  Seeing Yat's serious expression, several people nodded heavily, no one wanted to joke with their own lives.

  Especially Li Xie, in his cognition, demons should be like wild animals, may be dangerous, but overall are afraid of humans. But he never thought that eighth-order demons would take humans as food, as prey. And in the deep mountains and old forests, the best hunters are never humans, but the animals that exist in such places.

  They applied the bitter wormwood juice and suppressed the fighting spirit fluctuations. Under Yate's lead, several people carefully continued to venture deeper. After walking for a while, Yate crouched down beside a one-meter-wide stream, touched the mud on top, and pointed at the footprints on the ground: "I remember that there is a group of seventh-order magical beasts, Thunder War Horses, nearby. Looking at these footprints, they should be around here. Everyone be careful, we'll follow the footprints and proceed with caution. The Thunder War Horses are known to be hot-tempered and will charge at people on sight."

  Li Xie also noticed the footprints on the ground, messy horseshoe prints, indicating that there were quite a few.

  Continue to advance stealthily, and several people came to a high slope, lying down to observe the lower side. Thirty meters below is a valley with a three-meter-wide stream running through it, where a group of horses can be seen drinking water on both sides of the stream.

  These horses are about two meters tall at the shoulder and look no different from ordinary horses, but if you mistakenly think they are ordinary horses, you might die without knowing how.

  If you look closely, you will find that the eyes of these horses are blood red, and their skin colors are different, but they all have purple fur. Moreover, there is a bunch of purple hair on each of the four hooves. If you look even closer, you can also see that their hair sometimes has blue electric sparks jumping around. When they move, the lightning becomes more obvious.

  In the Beast Notes of Skarmode, it is recorded that this is a seventh-order Thunder Warhorse. It can summon lightning to attack and has electric damage between its four hooves. Its neighs are not like those of ordinary horses, but rather a kind of explosive sound similar to thunder.

  Yi Tuo Lie said in a low voice, "There are 103 Thunder War Horses here. With our strength, if we want to capture them, I'm afraid someone will get seriously injured, which is not worth it. The Thunder War Horses have a clear hierarchy, and this group belongs to the strongest class. They have priority over everything, even drinking water. We'll wait here until they leave, maybe another group of around 30 will come to drink water, then we can take them down. If no other horse groups come within a day, then we can only look for other magical beasts."

  Li Xie narrowed his eyes and stared at the group of Thunderbolt Warhorses, thinking that if he could capture them all, he could immediately form a super soldier squad of 100 people. Moreover, the blood of the Thunderbolt Warhorses had 40,000 points, comparable to an eighth-tier magic beast. This made Li Xie really reluctant not to take action against them.

  However, Ya Te Rongyao is an old hand, he said that eating a hundred and three Thunder War Horses was not something to be taken lightly, so Li Xie didn't dare say much.

  Art Ray continued: "You see, that purple Thunder War Horse, it's the king of horses, the leader of the horse group. To distinguish the king of horses, you have to look at their foreheads. All Thunder War Horses' kings will have a white lightning pattern on their foreheads. The king leads the horse group, and once it discovers danger, it will give orders. So if we want to eat a horse group that we can handle, we must first subdue the king of horses in the shortest time possible. Otherwise, letting it summon the horse group to attack collectively is a very dangerous thing. Remember, the weakness of Thunder War Horses lies in their shoulder and neck area. A heavy blow will not harm them fatally, but can make them unable to move for a short period of time."

  As expected, you're a seasoned pro, even knowing your weaknesses!

  Yate's words made Li Xie have even more confidence in him.

  This time, perhaps those 100 million gold coins won't be wasted.

  Three people and two beasts continued to squat, this squat lasted for half a day, from noon until dusk. That group of Thunderbolt Warhorses seemed to have no intention of leaving, they treated the flat ground in this mountain valley as their resting place, judging by the situation, it's likely that they will be staying overnight.

  Especially that purple horse with a lightning-shaped white stripe on its forehead, it actually started fooling around with the mares in front of Li Xie and others! It was making loud neighs, sounding like thunder on a stormy day.

  Yat Reyao furrowed his brow and said, "We have to move out of here. These Thunder War Horses won't be able to move for at least ten days. It's their mating season. During this time, the Thunder War Horses are extremely aggressive and will fight to the death if they encounter us."

  "Are we just going to leave like this?" There are over a hundred 7th-tier demonic beasts in front of us, and we're just going to walk away? Li Xie, who had been crouching for half the day, really didn't want to leave without accomplishing anything.

  Art Ryder said in a low voice, "No way, now they are mating, this will last for at least ten days, within ten days they won't leave this valley, and during the Thunder Horse breeding period, the Thunder Horses are all one mind, when encountering danger, they would rather die together. During this period, the Thunder Horses are very dangerous, unless we can completely overpower them, otherwise, the Thunder Horses during this period will not be our target. Let's go, move carefully and don't let them discover us."

  "Wait!" Li Xie said with great reluctance, "I have a way to make them all sleep, let's try it before leaving."

  Don't forget, Li Xie has Sleeping Dream Fragrance on his hand.

  He has already made two copies using the materials given by Radi Ga'ga, each of which can knock out a hundred people. He also found someone to test it on, and Kano, a 7th-level Sword Saint, fell asleep after one drink, but Sleep Dream Fragrance had no effect on Zerenard or Vandi Sel, while for Jack, a 9th-level Sword Saint, it took half an hour to knock him out.

  I don't know how effective the Dream Incense is on a Seventh-Order Thunderhoof Warhorse, but Li Xie decided to give it a try anyway. After all, having 100 Seventh-Order demonic beasts in front of him made it worthwhile to use one Dream Incense as an experiment.

  Li Xie took out a packet of sleeping draught and said, "This is a medicine concocted by my friend. Dissolved in water, it may be able to make those Thunderbolt Horses fall asleep for a while. I wonder if there's any way to secretly put it into the stream?"

  Can Sleeping Fragrance knock out the Seventh Rank Thunderbolt Warhorse? It's still to be tested, but for now, the question is how to get Sleeping Fragrance dissolved into the stream without being detected.

  Going upstream is obviously unscientific, after all, whether the sleeping fragrance can take effect or not is still a question mark. Walking upstream, by the time the creek water flows to this side, the medicinal properties are gone. It must be dissolved into the creek water nearby.

  "What kind of drug can knock out a 7th-tier demonic beast?" The demonic beast's body had an extremely strong resistance, and ordinary poisons were ineffective against it. Drugs that could knock out low-tier demonic beasts were already rare, let alone one that could knock out a 7th-tier demonic beast. Arte Rayo looked at the paper package in Li Ye's hand with some curiosity, and smiled: "Even getting the Spring Water is simple!"

  "How to do?"

  Li Xie asked a question, and saw the golden necklace on Arte's neck shaking slightly, breaking at some point, but extending a triangular head, with millet-sized red eyes staring at Li Xie, startling him: "Nine-tiered Demon Beast Golden Thread Viper!"

  The Golden Thread Wyrm is an extremely rare magical creature, its body as thin as a noodle, but can grow up to tens of meters in length, with a color indistinguishable from gold. The Golden Thread Wyrm's body is incredibly resilient, and it is said that no weapon has ever been able to pierce it, and it usually moves underground, making it extremely difficult to detect, let alone capture. In Scamode's notes, he only mentions seeing one once, but does not know who owns such a magical creature.

  It now appears that the golden viper Scarmouche saw was probably purchased by Artur Rayel or is even his magical pet.

  "Evil brother, you have good eyesight. Ordinary people see my little gold and don't even know what kind of demon it is!" Arte Rayo took Li Xie's sleeping incense into his hands, let Jin Xianxiao hold it in his mouth, and said: "Go put this thing in the creek water, be careful not to be discovered, you can't drink the creek water either."

  The golden thread-like creature nodded its head, slid down from Arte's neck, and fell to the ground with a body about ten meters long. Its head burrowed into the soil, and it was no longer visible.

  Soon, in a certain place in the stream where the horses were drinking water, several bubbles about the size of fingers suddenly emerged. No one would pay attention to such bubbles, let alone think that they might hide some danger.