"What the hell is this?" Xie Chuncan was shocked. "Aren't you Taotie born alive? I can easily sacrifice one and get dozens in return. You're all just copying, right?"
"What's the point of asking me this? I've been working with Taotie for less than five years, and I'm not even that proficient in the business yet." Feng Xue gritted her teeth and replied, "Your place doesn't even have basic biological laws like reproductive isolation, and you actually want me to explain to you why Taotie are viviparous and oviparous? That's too much to ask of a liberal arts student!"
"...I don't know why, but the moment you open your mouth, I want to beat you up." Seeing a Taotie charging like a cannonball towards the snow cave, where Xiao Ren was meditating with his eyes closed, Xie Chuncan didn't dare retreat a single step. He focused his attention, drew his bow, and without turning back, he said to Feng Xue, who was rushing towards him from a distance to save him. "Maybe it's because you always say things like that that make people feel sarcastic."
Before he finished speaking, the bowstring was released, and five feather arrows shot out like meteors, piercing the left and right eyes of the bloody glutton one after another.
Feng Xue ran back quickly, holding her chest. She had just been knocked away by Hua Biliu and her heart meridian was injured. Now, if she ran a little faster, her meridians would feel a dull pain, but she just endured it and ignored it.
"Don't worry, when the need arises, I will scold you in person." Feng Xue said with difficulty and even breathing.
Meanwhile, Luo Jiujiang retreated while striking his sword. He had deliberately distanced Hua Biliu from the snow cave, so he was now not very close to the cave. If he wanted to go back in a straight line, he would have to kill at least three Taotie.
He hit the first Taotie a little later than Xie Chuncan, but the blade and the feather arrow pierced into the Taotie's vitals at the same time, almost at the same time, and the two Taotie disappeared at the hands of Luo Jiujiang and Xie Chuncan at the same time.
"Illusion?" Under the sky that was so crimson that it seemed to drip blood, the two people said in unison.
As his perception improved, Luo Jiujiang's acumen increased significantly. The moment the dozen or so Taotie appeared, he noticed a subtle difference between their auras and Hua Biliu's. It turned out to be because they were all illusions.
Secretly making note of this illusory feeling in his mind, Luo Jiujiang rushed towards the second Taotie in one go before he even landed. However, this time he half-retracted his blade and lowered his hands, almost sending himself into the attack range of the Taotie as a delivery boy.
Xie Chuncan couldn't help but scream when he saw him putting himself in danger. Luo Jiujiang closed his eyes and smiled, letting the Taotie whale suck him into its huge mouth. At the moment before he was about to sink into the bloody mouth, he raised his hand, without even looking, and accurately pushed towards the Taotie's fangs.
There was a loud "click" and a bone-aching muffled sound came from the Taotie's jaws. Luo Jiujiang's hands were covered in blood. He used the slippery force of the liquid to change from resistance to grip, and stepped on the soft and thick tongue with his toes. He curled up his abdomen and flipped over the Taotie's heavy head.
"These Taotie aren't all illusions. They can devour large amounts of food and have sharp teeth..." Luo Jiujiang raised his scabbard and lashed out at the back of the Taotie's neck. He then lightly dropped from its back, dodging a powerful stomp. He looked at his sleeve, which was half-cut. "They also have sharp claws. They can maintain their physical form before inflicting fatal damage to it. Their footsteps are powerful, and their strength is probably at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment. Hmm, the level of Hua Biliu before his death. They're even more agile after being stained with blood, so be careful not to get bitten by them."
After roughly judging the ability of this phantom Taotie, Luo Jiujiang stopped playing hide-and-seek with the giant creature by sticking to its fur. He hung down diagonally from the inside, stabbed its gut deeply with a knife, and took advantage of the force of its forward rush to end the Taotie's life.
"He looks a bit clumsy, though. He can only walk in a straight line without turning. Oh, it seems Hua Biliu isn't that stupid. I misjudged him before... Brother Xie? Are you listening, Brother Xie? You and Sister Xue can handle two or three at the same time, no problem!"
"I hear you!" Xie Chuncan replied, his bow already drawn like a full moon, three arrows simultaneously aimed at the three Taotie. Having previously faced the pursuit together with Luo Jiujiang, they had developed a strong rapport. Now, after Luo Jiujiang's exploration, he immediately understood the meaning of the bowstrings. "You go find the weak spot in the boundary membrane. Xiaoren, we'll watch over here!"
Feng Xue was now directly in line with Xie Chuncan, having blocked almost all the Taotie before her. Therefore, she still had time to observe the situation. Seeing Luo Jiujiang turning to leave, she added, "Delay will lead to trouble. Jiujiang, hurry up."
Luo Jiujiang curved his eyes and smiled, "No problem." His clear voice was still ringing in the original place, but he had already jumped out without touching the ground. His energy was long and he could cross a distance of a hundred feet in a breath. After a few rises and falls, his back had turned into a small black dot in the eyes of the two people.
Only when Luo Jiujiang had almost disappeared did Feng Xue raise her hand and place it on Xie Chuncan's shoulder: "Wait a minute."
Xie Chuncan was startled by her sudden move, and the arrow flew out of his hand and flew in a completely unrelated direction: "You, you have something to say."
Feng Xue said incredulously, "Now that it has come to this, forget about the difference between men and women. I mean, are you really going to do this?"
Xie Chuncan said honestly, "I was afraid you were hungry."
"..." Feng Xue hadn't originally wanted to eat him, but now she really did. She took a deep breath and turned her face away from Xie Chuncan: "Your talk about 'viviparous and oviparous' just now made me a little uneasy. You and I should both kill slowly."
"What?" Xie Chuncan failed to understand the meaning of her words.
"I shouldn't have distracted Jiujiang just now, so I didn't say anything. But seriously, I'm a little confused now." Feng Xue said bluntly, "I'm afraid this thing grows by mitosis... Oh, you don't understand again? You should work harder and try to understand the spirit beyond the ridicule."
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