With a light shake of his wrist, the slightly curved blade vibrated at high speed, and the fishy snake blood immediately disappeared without a trace.
Sheathing the blade, Li Yao was very satisfied with this blade.
In order to display the greatest power of the 《Sand Storm Saber Technique》 and adapt to the short and direct sneak attacks in the Wasteland, Li Yao optimized the design of the Windcutter Saber. He forged it again and lightened the weight. The blade was slightly curved like a cross between a straight saber and a scimitar.
What he was most satisfied with was the eight wind guide grooves on both sides of the blade. This was the result of countless aerodynamic experiments, precise calculations, and forging. It could guide the wind to the back of the blade, creating a compression and driving force behind it, further increasing the slashing speed of the saber.
Today's test was really good. While maintaining the lethality, the speed had increased by another level, vividly displaying the essence of the 《Sand Storm Saber Technique》.
The corner of Li Yao's mouth hooked up into a smile as he walked towards the corpse of the Triangular Spearhead Viper.
Squatting down, just as he was about to reach out and pick it up, his smile suddenly froze.
With his eyes wide open, he carefully examined the snake's head. He even used the scabbard to turn the snake's head over and over. Li Yao's smile became more and more stiff, and his complexion became more and more unsightly. In the end, he could not help but curse.
He was fooled!
This demon beast was not the Triangular Spearhead Viper, but its close relative, the Hump-Headed Viper.
The two were very similar, but the former had three very sharp horns on its forehead, while the latter had three pointed sarcomas on its forehead.
They were separated by a distance of ten to twenty meters, and the Wasteland was filled with flying sand and stones. Even with the keen vision of a cultivator, it was easy to confuse them.
Just now, Li Yao was afraid of alerting the snake, so he used his peripheral vision to scan the prey. He simply did not dare to stare at the prey. Only now did he realize that he had made a mistake.
Although the two were close relatives, the Hump-Headed Viper was only a low-level Demon Soldier, and its venom was also very common. It could be synthesized artificially.
Compared to the Triangular Spearhead Viper, the difference in value was like heaven and earth. It could not be exchanged for more than a few credits.
Thinking about how he had been lying on the scorching Gobi Desert for four hours, almost roasted into a jerky, only to be ambushed by such a thing, Li Yao could not help but feel angry. He cursed his bad luck.
The Zenith Cliffs was a paradise for wasteland creatures. Countless hunters and prey lurked and hid in the darkness.
This short ambush had already attracted a lot of attention, and the faint smell of blood from the Hump-Nosed Viper gradually filled the air, which was perceived by many powerful hunters.
Hualala!
Not far away, three lumps suddenly bulged out from the rubble, and three round heads poked out.
Three chubby and adorable little animals crawled out from the ground.
Like an overly fat groundhog, it carefully sniffed for the scent of blood. He wriggled clumsily and crawled toward Li Yao slowly, wriggling his fat buttocks.
"What is this?"
Although it didn't seem dangerous, he couldn't let his guard down in the Wasteland at any time.
Li Yao held the hilt of his saber with one hand, bent his back, and slowly retreated. At the same time, he quickly searched for information about this creature in his mind.
Three seconds later, a name suddenly popped up in his mind. Li Yao's face immediately paled.
"Barbed Rock Dolphin, a high level Demon Soldier. They're good at long-range attacks! "
"Little Black!"
Li Yao screamed.
Three high level Demon Soldiers that were good at long-range attacks were not something he could deal with.
At the moment he screamed, the three Barbed Rock Dolphin also tore apart their disguise. Like inflated balloons, they suddenly expanded ten times their size. Their charmingly naive faces became incomparably ferocious, and their soft hair stood up like steel needles. Under the illumination of the sun, they emitted a strange blue luster.
Swish Swish Swish Swish!
The Barbed Rock Dolphin expanded to the limit. It suddenly contracted, and dozens of poisonous stingers shot towards Li Yao like a dense barrage of bullets.
Li Yao let out a strange cry. His feet heavily stomped on the ground, splashing up countless rubble, forming a thin barrier in front of him. His whole body flew back more than ten meters, and he conveniently wiped his waist.
He held a shiny black pistol in his hand. Without even looking at it, he fired six shots. Six streaks of blood-red light blasted out from the muzzle at almost the same time. Accompanied by an ear-piercing screech, they went straight for the three Barbed Rock Pigs.
Blood bullets!
This was a special bullet that Li Yao had used the secret technique of the Hundred Smelting Clan to refine with his blood!
Not only was it powerful, it also had a mysterious connection with his soul. After it was fired, he could simply control it with his mind, and it would hit its target 100% of the time.
Puff Puff Puff Puff Puff!
The three Barbed Rock Dolphin once again shot out a large number of poisonous stingers, accurately hitting the six blood bullets.
Six bloody mists burst out in midair.
Li Yao didn't even look at them. After retreating more than fifty meters, he once again exerted strength in his legs, and his whole body shot up into the sky like a firecracker. A black aura shot from not far away, and he just happened to catch it, tightly hugging it in his arms.
How could the Barbed Rock Dolphin be willing to see a cooked duck fly away? After three roars, its body expanded to more than two meters, and its grayish-brown skin turned crimson. It shot out hundreds of poisonous stingers at a speed faster than bullets!
Whoosh!
The Black Wing Sword's speed soared to the limit. It was as if the hilt of the sword had eyes. It constantly rotated, changed directions, and dodged. Amidst the dense poisonous stingers, it put on a wonderful dodging performance.
Because the speed of both sides was almost the same, Li Yao simply "watched" as countless blue poisonous stingers "slowly" flew past him. There were a few poisonous stingers that were about to pierce his skin, but at the last moment, he narrowly dodged them by a hair's breadth.
Li Yao was so scared that his forehead was covered in cold sweat.
After hovering at the gates of hell for a full second, the Black Wing Sword carried Li Yao and rushed out of the rainstorm-like poisonous stingers!
The three Barbed Rock Dolphin let out mournful roars, but Li Yao turned a deaf ear to them. Lying on the Black Wing Sword, he stuck his butt close to the ground and rushed hundreds of miles in one breath.
Only when he was near a military base did he dare to slow down.
First, he spread his spirit threads to the limit to make sure that there were no powerful demon beasts in the surroundings.
Only then did he carefully jump off the Black Wing Sword. With his back against a big rock, he sat down and let out a long sigh of relief.
"Little Black, you saved me once again!"
Recalling the soul-stirring scene from a moment ago, Li Yao's chest was still heaving up and down.
In the Wasteland where danger lurked everywhere, the status of prey and hunter changed in an instant. No matter how powerful the hunter was, it was possible for him to become the prey in a second.
If not for Little Black, this secret weapon, Li Yao would not have dared to hunt alone.
"These demon beasts are really too cunning!"
Li Yao had wasted half a day and almost died under the poisonous stingers of the Barbed Rock Dolphin. With nowhere to vent his anger, he heavily punched the rock. The huge rock was smashed into pieces.
Demon beasts were extremely intelligent, especially the demon beasts of the Wasteland.
Survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest. Under the repeated purges of human experts and crystal battleships, all the demon beasts that were not smart enough had long been turned into ashes, dying without a burial site.
Demonic beasts that were able to survive under the nose of humans were all cunning old foxes.
And those that had just rushed out of the Blood Demon Sector. Demon beasts that could not wait to pounce on human cities were different. These demon beasts that had lived in the Wasteland for decades and centuries might not have tyrannical strength, but they had all kinds of strange life-saving methods.
Hunting such demon beasts was much more difficult than exterminating a large beast tide.
"I can't go on like this. The efficiency of hunting demon beasts is too low. There are only two months left. It is impossible to earn 40,000 credits."
"What can I do? Can I increase the efficiency of hunting? "
Li Yao rested his chin in his hands and pondered carefully.
He carefully recalled the hunting days of these days. Li Yao discovered that there were two main factors that led to his low efficiency of hunting.
First, playing the tiger to scare the pig.
Second, playing the pig to eat the tiger.
The so-called playing the tiger to scare the pig referred to many low-level demon beasts and low-level demon soldiers. In order to survive. In the long process of evolution, they gradually became more and more similar to some powerful demon beasts.
This was a special kind of mimicry.
For example, the Hump-Headed Viper just now was originally a low-level demon soldier, but it slowly evolved into an appearance that was extremely similar to the Triangular Spearhead Viper. It disguised itself as a mid-level demon soldier.
In the world of demon beasts where the strong preyed on the weak, many mid-level demon soldiers saw it from afar and did not dare to lay their hands on it.
In the natural world, this was a very common phenomenon.
Many butterflies had colorful wings that were extremely dazzling. They were imitating the stripes of fierce beasts, so that other carnivorous insects would not dare to approach them.
And the so-called playing the pig to eat the tiger was just like the Barbed Rock Dolphin just now. It was obviously a powerful high-level demon soldier, but it disguised itself as a low-level demon soldier or even a low-level demon beast. It relaxed the vigilance of the prey, so that it could be killed in one strike!
These two situations were often encountered by Li Yao during his hunting. It caused him great trouble.
In the final analysis, it was all because he was not familiar with the species of demon beasts. He was unable to identify the species, value, and characteristics of the demon beasts at a glance.
This problem was extremely difficult to solve.
After tens of thousands of years of evolution, the species of demon beasts were more than tens of millions. Just the most common demon beasts in the Tian Yuan Realm numbered in the millions. Each demon beast had a certain probability of mutation.
There were millions of demon beasts, and each of them had different characteristics. Their appearance might only have slight differences.
Even if a cultivator had a powerful computing ability, it was not possible to remember all of them.
And memory was a very wonderful thing. Even if one remembered it, they might not be able to recall it in time on the battlefield where danger lurked everywhere.
Take the Barbed Rock Dolphin for example. Li Yao had clearly seen the information of this demon beast in the database. It was imprinted in the depths of his brain along with tens of thousands of other information about demon beasts.
At first glance, it took him three seconds to retrieve the information of the Barbed Rock Pigs from his deep, sea-like memory bank.
In the war between cultivators and demon beasts, one-tenth of a second could determine life and death. Three seconds was really too long.
"What should I do? There is too much information about demon beasts. It is simply impossible to remember all of it in a short period of time. Even if I did, I might not be able to retrieve it in an instant at a critical moment. "
"The mini crystal processor can store a large amount of information about demon beasts. But in a life and death situation, lowering my head to look at the crystal processor is too stupid!"
"Furthermore, without knowing the name of the demon beast, even if I had a huge database, it would be very difficult to accurately find the specific information of the demon beast."
"If I were to use the 'Fuzzy Search' function, dozens of information about demon beasts would pop up all of a sudden. Which one would be the correct one?"
"Is there a magical equipment that can accurately display the information of demon beasts at a glance? Not only that, but it is also convenient to look it up without affecting the battle?"
Li Yao quietly pondered. If there really was such a magical equipment that could identify the species, value, and degree of danger of demon beasts at a glance, it would definitely greatly increase the efficiency and safety of hunting! (To be continued...)
Chapter 188: The Efficiency of Hunting:
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