When the police officers were talking, Zhang Lisheng had walked a long distance in the dense forest with the mule.
The forest was deep and dense, it was hard for the mule to pass through with its big body. However, Zhang Lisheng climbed onto the mule's back and chanted witchcraft incantation. He held the reins tightly with one hand and controlled the direction.
He hit the back of the young mule hard with one hand and forced it to walk forward while stumbling without caring about the scratches on its skin. Its speed was not slow at all.
However, the inconsiderate use of the animal's strength made the young mule become irritable and uncontrollable even though it was a domesticated animal.
Before the mount lost control, Zhang Lisheng pulled the reins tightly with all his might.
The mule's four hooves rubbed against a towering tree as he pulled the reins. Its nostrils were wide open and it was breathing heavily.
On the back of the mule, Zhang Lisheng panted and got off the mule. He had to look at the road and control the direction of the young mule that had lost its eyesight as he rode on the mule. He also had to be careful of the beasts' attacks. It was much more tiring than walking on his own.
If it wasn't for the witchcraft incantation that would naturally produce some kind of strange intuition to help him avoid danger, he might have been in trouble.
Zhang Lisheng, who was deep in the dense jungle, did not dare to waste any more time after he finally caught his breath. With the help of the dim moonlight in the jungle, he looked around and finally decided on a black tree that was as thick as a bowl. He tied the mule to the tree.
He then lifted his shirt and took out the boning knife that was hanging on his waist. He clenched his teeth and waved his hand hard, stabbing the steel knife into the mule's neck.
The knife hit the artery right in the middle. The young mule neighed in pain, it almost broke the bit on its mouth. It then began to run and jump around the black tree. Countless amounts of blood were spitting out.
Zhang Lisheng stepped back quickly and hid at the side quietly. He watched the young mule fall to the ground with blood all over its body after running for a while.
He then walked to the young mule slowly and untied the basket on his back. He took out the rough porcelain jar that was filled with medicinal powder from the bamboo basket.
Zhang Lisheng opened the porcelain jar and took out the medicinal powder that he carefully mixed. He then sprinkled it onto the young mule.
After the powder combined with the young mule's blood, the smell suddenly changed. It produced an inexplicable fishy sweet smell.
After scattering the powder, although the mule was not dead yet, it was already on the verge of death and could no longer move.
At that moment, Zhang Lisheng untied the bit on its mouth and took out ten fire chains from the porcelain jar. He rubbed them together and lit them up. He then threw them onto the mule.
There was no visible flame on the fire chain, but the hidden flame was not extinguished. It was burning the young mule's fur that was stained with blood and powder. It amplified the fishy and sweet smell by more than ten times.
At the same time, after the mule felt the pain, it gathered its last bit of strength and let out a low and intermittent neigh.
Under the temptation of the sweet fishy smell and the sound, the faint rustling sounds in the dense forest became louder and more frequent.
Hearing the change of the sound around him, Zhang Lisheng's heart that was hanging in his throat finally returned to his stomach. He carefully walked to a short dead tree in the forest and stared at the young mule that fell on the ground not far away without blinking.
Under the dim light, a strange snake with a yellow circle on its neck slid down from the black arbor tree. Its long body stretched out all of a sudden and bit the mule's neck, ending its painful life.
Just when the strange snake wanted to feast on the mule that it got effortlessly, a green lizard came out of the dense forest all of a sudden. It opened its big mouth that was full of sharp teeth and bit the strange snake's head all of a sudden.
Under the intense pain, the strange snake's body wrapped around the lizard tightly and strangled it with all of its strength. Meanwhile, the lizard shook its head hard, trying its best to tear off the snake's head in its mouth with its sharp teeth.
Just when the snake and the lizard were fighting fiercely, a thick centipede that was over 30 centimeters long crawled out from the shallow soil and climbed onto the young mule's dead body.
Sensing that a third party joined the fight for food, the strange snake and the green lizard stopped fighting at the same time without caring about their lives. They began to attack the giant centipede.
Just like that, the young mule was like a bait in a fish pond. It attracted more and more poisonous bugs in the dense forest and lured them to fight together.
Just like that, the young mule was like a bait in a fish pond. It attracted more and more poisonous bugs in the dense forest and lured them to fight together.
The poisonous bugs that won temporarily in the mule's dead body would devour the young mule's flesh to nourish its body and recover its vitality. A new round of killing would begin when the new bugs gathered.
By the time the mule's dead body was left with its heart that was soaked in black red blood, the only poisonous bug left after tens of rounds of killing and devouring was a tree lizard that was not big in size but was the size of an umbrella when the skin on its head exploded.
There was also a toad that had dark green skin all over its body. It was usually the size of an adult's fist but it could inflate its body to the size of a basketball like an inflatable ball when it blew up.
They looked at each other and did not move at all.
Helmeted Iguana and Spring Water Toad. Zhang Lisheng was a little surprised that the poisonous bugs that he spent so much effort to filter out would be born in these two very common species.
However, he felt a little relieved when he thought about how an Einstein's brain could compete with 10,000 ordinary people. No matter how common a species was, there might still be an extraordinarily powerful individual.
He secretly moved his stiff joints and rubbed his eyes hard. He forced himself to be ready for the final battle.
The moon was setting, and dawn was approaching. When the sun broke through the horizon of the faraway mountains and released its first ray of sunlight, the spring water toad took a deep breath with all its might and stretched its body to its limit. With a swoosh, it quickly stuck out its long tongue at the Helmeted Iguana.
The toad's tongue was elastic and it was covered with sticky mucus. There was a sharp hook at the end of the tongue. It pulled the lizard into the air as soon as it stuck on it.
The lizard did not resist while it was in the air. Instead, it retracted its skin that exploded and allowed the toad to swallow it into its stomach.
After swallowing the lizard like a giant snake swallowing an elephant, the toad squatted on the young mule's white bones. Its stomach looked like it was going to explode soon and it did not move at all.
Every time its body shrunk due to its lack of energy, it would have to inhale hard again to maintain its huge body. Otherwise, the lizard would break out of its stomach with its huge body without struggling at all.
At that moment, the Helmeted Iguana exploded the skin on its head in the spring water toad's stomach all of a sudden.
At that moment, the toad's body turned into a funny shape like an umbrella. If it was not for the two eyes on its head that were bulging out of its eye sockets and rolling around, one would not be able to tell its head from its tail at all.
However, even then, the spring water toad did not explode. After rolling down from the young mule's carcass, it was still inhaling with its mouth. It was trying to bulge its body and regain its balance.
Obviously, the Helmeted Iguana did not expect its opponent's skin to be so tough. After being burned by the spring water toad's stomach for a long time, it was in so much pain that it began to struggle with all its might.
As the lizard struggled with all its might, the toad would grow longer and shorter at times. A clear lizard's head would appear on its back for a while, and four claws would crawl on the ground from its stomach together with its skin.
However, even though it was tortured to the point that it could no longer stop the Helmeted Iguana from making a ruckus in its stomach, it did not explode and turn into a pile of rotten meat.
More than ten minutes later, the lizard that thought it was smart but was misled by its own intelligence slowly reaped the consequences. Its struggle became weaker and weaker until it disappeared slowly.
After the ruckus in its stomach disappeared, the spring water toad did not rest at all and began to pump air continuously to expand its body again.
When it finally returned to its biggest size, it crawled to the young mule's carcass in a hurry. It stuck its long tongue out and swallowed the dark red mule's heart in the skeleton.
Seeing that the opportunity had arrived, Zhang Lisheng walked to the toad in big steps and began chanting witchcraft incantation 'pst shh …'. He spat a mouthful of black blood and shouted the word 'absorb'.
The spring water toad was an ordinary species but it could stand out from thousands of poisonous bugs. Naturally, it was intelligent. Moreover, it was unlike the first wizard worm that Zhang Lisheng refined, Qing Hong, which was fed with its blood and flesh since it was young and had been tamed since long ago.
Therefore, seeing the black blood approaching, the toad that had a bad feeling struggled to break free from the witchcraft incantation. It curled its hind legs in an attempt to escape.
Unfortunately, the spring water toad's dream was dispelled when its stomach was full. It could only jump 40 to 50 centimeters away with all its might. Its body was still covered by the black blood.
Just like that, the black blood that Zhang Lisheng spat out covered the toad. Under the refinement of the blood, the spring water toad's body grew rapidly. In the end, it turned into a giant creature that was half the height of a human.
Zhang Lisheng was elated that he could successfully refine the poisonous bug that he obtained using the witchcraft incantation method into a wizard worm.
However, at the same time, the toad's last failed escape made him secretly alert. It turned out that a wild poisonous bug with intelligence could fight against witchcraft incantation.
Apart from that, the wizard power that almost disappeared from his flesh and blood after one refinement made him realize that the consumption of refining and maintaining the wizard worm was not fixed. It would change according to the change of the poisonous bug.
For example, Zhang Lisheng could refine four wizard worms consecutively according to the consumption of refining Qing Hong. He could also rely on the wizard power that came out of his body to maintain the wizard worm's consumption at the same time. He did not need to feed them more blood.
However, just by standing next to the spring water toad that had just been refined into a wizard worm, he could feel that all of the wizard power that came out of his body was being devoured by the toad quietly. There was nothing left at all.
In other words, if Zhang Lisheng were to maintain two wizard worms like the spring water toad, he would need to feed them with flesh and blood. It would undoubtedly slow down his speed of breaking through to Rank-2 Wizard. It might even stop his cultivation from progressing.
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