"Hidden Assassination!"
Jiang Yuan nearly broke his arm when he activated his spear skill. In his current state, he could no longer use powerful skills; he could only use them now because of sheer grit.
Just like you don't feel pain when your adrenaline surges, the backlash will only come after the battle is over.
The spear turned into a white light, trying to pierce the Holy Spirit Beast, but the Holy Spirit Beast was not so easy to deal with. Relying on its teeth, it directly bit the entire tip of the spear and then started swinging it wildly. Jiang Yuan, who wanted to swing the spear, was instead swung around by the spear.
Jiang Yuan smashed rocks and trees, causing them to shatter. The Holy Spirit Beast fought with a desperate, all-out effort to kill Jiang Yuan.
"A tiger fallen into the plains is bullied by dogs!" Jiang Yuan was extremely frustrated. If he were at full strength, he would definitely have beaten this holy beast to a pulp!
The assassination attempt was violently interrupted, and Jiang Yuan struggled to snatch the spear back. "What bad luck!"
With no other option, he could only look for another opportunity to use the Stealth Strike. However, the initial pain made him hesitant. Although he failed to use the Stealth Strike and his divine energy was not depleted, the injuries he sustained were real.
Leng Yue still didn't fire. Jiang Yuan didn't know if she was saving bullets or trying not to alert the enemy, but he was definitely feeling uneasy.
The key to defeating this Holy Spirit Beast now lies with Leng Yue. If he shoots well, a good beating will be unnecessary, and he won't need to overexert his power.
However, it's not that simple. The movements of the Holy Beast's long nose can reach supersonic speeds, while the enhanced bullets only have a muzzle velocity of five times the speed of sound, so hitting the target is not an easy task.
The Holy Spirit Beast didn't wait for Jiang Yuan. In its berserk state, it unleashed a series of deadly attacks. With its extremely fast long nose and powerful physical strength, Jiang Yuan was forced to defend.
"violent!"
Finally, Jiang Yuan found the Holy Spirit Beast's weakness. The moment its long nose missed its mark, he activated the Tenfold Hidden Strike and stabbed directly at the Holy Spirit Beast's copper bell-sized eyeball.
"Hidden Assassination!"
With both blessings applied, at that very moment, Leng Yue also drew her gun, her target being the other eye of the Holy Spirit Beast.
The elite-level Holy Spirit Beast was not as intelligent as one might imagine; faced with a double attack, it only wanted to kill Jiang Yuan in front of it.
With a low growl, the Holy Spirit Beast charged forward with one horn, attempting to trade blows with Jiang Yuan.
"Die!" Jiang Yuan was a ruthless man, not afraid to trade injuries for injuries.
The spear successfully pierced the Holy Spirit Beast's eye, while the Holy Spirit Beast's horn plunged into Jiang Yuan's stomach.
Thump! The bullet had already entered the Holy Spirit Beast's other eye, and only then did the gunshot slowly arrive.
The two blood flowers bloomed almost simultaneously. The Holy Spirit Beast suddenly lost its sight, which made it extremely frantic and want to fight Jiang Yuan to the death.
However, the Holy Spirit Beast had lost its ability to judge, and there was no longer any time to wait for Leng Yue's attack; the second and third shots came one after another.
"Big sister, take it easy!"
With his eyes wide open, Jiang Yuan watched as bullets whizzed past him. It would be a lie to say he wasn't panicked. This was a seventh-tier derivative kinetic rifle; a single hit from it was like being struck by a seventh-tier skill. His small frame couldn't withstand more than a few shots.
After five shots, Leng Yue finally stopped. The long ten seconds made Jiang Yuan question his life. During those ten seconds, he could only defend himself from the Holy Spirit Beast, preventing it from causing fatal damage to him. The responsibility of attacking the Holy Spirit Beast rested entirely on Leng Yue.
"Are you alright?" Leng Yue ran over carrying a heavy sniper rifle that was almost as tall as her.
Jiang Yuan took a deep breath. The Holy Spirit Beast was on its last breath, but its horn was still stuck in his body.
"You're so good!" Jiang Yuan finished off the Holy Spirit Beast with his spear, while at the same time, blood was gushing out from the fist-sized wound on his body—yes, gushing out, the kind that couldn't be stopped.
Listening to the broken English, Leng Yue put the heavy sniper rifle aside and then used Rejuvenation to heal Jiang Yuan.
Jiang Yuan felt incredibly relieved while receiving treatment. Luckily, he had given the revival to Leng Yue; otherwise, his divine power wouldn't even be enough to fight, let alone heal himself. He would have been in a truly miserable situation if he had ended up in an awkward predicament.
"Don't stop, do it again!" Jiang Yuan cried out in anguish as he saw the recovery process about to stop.
Leng Yue paused for a moment, then used Resurrection again after ten seconds, explaining, "One Resurrection consumes five points of soul energy. Without pills and Holy Spirit Stones, I can only use Resurrection seven times! Because I am dual-elemental, my soul energy recovers relatively quickly. In cultivation mode, I can recover my soul energy in four hours."
"It's alright, I have plenty of pills, and don't worry about the Holy Spirit Stones either!" Jiang Yuan waved his hand arrogantly, saying that anything that could be solved with money was not a problem.
Leng Yue reached out and demanded something directly.
"Can't you be a little more subtle?" Jiang Yuan said with a wry smile.
“Since we signed a master-servant contract, everyone belongs to Ning Yanlan. Why be reserved?” Leng Yue retorted.
"I have no answer to that!" Jiang Yuan thought about it and realized it was true.
"Is the mark of the deceased being recorded?"
A reminder made Jiang Yuan gasp. He thought to himself, "No way, this monster also has the mark of the dead?"
He previously thought that only humans had the mark of the dead, but now it's clear that this isn't the case; even monsters have the mark of the dead.
"Wait, if I have the Mark of the Dead, can I use their talents?"
The moment this thought crossed his mind, he heard a prompt from his clairvoyant eye: "Should we use a medium to exchange the mark of the dead?"
This reminder immediately made Jiang Yuan realize that he still needed the blessing of death. "Damn it, there's no medium. Will a verbal blessing work?"
Tianyan didn't speak, but Jiang Yuan naturally knew what it meant; it was clearly unacceptable.
Having collected the marks of hundreds of the deceased, Jiang Yuan understood that this was a form of exchange. Verbal blessings were easily tainted by the karma of reincarnation, so the best way was to find a medium.
Just like the supernatural practices of feudal times, the medium of life and death was always associated with incense, candles, and paper figures.
"What are you looking for? This?" Leng Yue took advantage of the ten-second interval during the revival to take a core that was shining with silver light and threw it in front of Jiang Yuan.
"Mithril core?" Jiang Yuan was taken aback, then coughed twice: "Handsome men naturally attract divine help, this is exactly what I've been looking for!"
Jiang Yuan took the seventh-tier mithril core, then took out a storage ring. "These resources should be enough for you for a while!"
Leng Yue took the storage ring with no change in expression, only becoming even quieter.
"Oh right, don't I still have roses growing on my little plot of land?" Jiang Yuan suddenly remembered, and said to Leng Yue, "Wait for me a moment!"
Before Leng Yue could even respond, he entered that space, which contained a hundred distinct plots of land, each about an acre and a third of land. One of the most vibrant plots left Jiang Yuan speechless.
"Are you kidding me?" Jiang Yuan was utterly shocked.
"It's only been a few hours, and these roses have already grown several times?"
Yes, only six seeds were planted before, but now they've taken up almost half an acre of roses. How did that happen?
Jiang Yuan felt that his biology knowledge was not enough. This was not about planting flowers, it was about planting a stud (pronounced with a third tone, like the "plant" in "stud horse").
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