"Damn it!"
Lin Xiao could clearly feel that after using this technique, the soul of the two-headed scorpion had decreased a little. It was obvious that the soul had been converted into energy to heal its injuries.
If this was the case, it would be difficult to fight. If it continued to heal like this, not only would it be difficult to kill, but it would also lose its soul. What was the use of that?
"Maybe I should change the method!"
Lin Xiao decisively withdrew and left, leaving the two-headed scorpion to roar angrily behind him.
He ran for dozens of kilometers in a single breath before he managed to shake it off. He followed the original path and returned to a small border town where wizards gathered.
In the town's trading area, he used all of his wealth to buy a large amount of highly toxic poisons, biological poisons, alchemy poisons, nerve poisons, and so on. He bought several jars of all of them, then he took a horse and left.
Along the way, he used special materials to separately package these poisons, then he combined them into a large poison bag. He returned to the place where he had met the two-headed scorpion and deliberately released his aura, but there was no response for a long time.
Lin Xiao thought for a moment and tried to release the large amount of soul power he carried. Soon he heard a loud roar and rumbling running sound from afar.
Sure enough, the reason why the two-headed scorpion had chased him for so long was because it was attracted by his soul.
He quickly anesthetized the horse and made an opening in its abdomen. He stuffed the large poison bag into it and simply sewed it up.
When the two-headed scorpion saw him, it was overjoyed and chased after him. Lin Xiao used a spell to stimulate the life force of the warhorse and let it escape. The warhorse was injured and couldn't run fast, or it could be said that even if it wasn't injured, it still wouldn't be able to outrun the fifteen-meter-tall creature. It was quickly overtaken. The moment it was grabbed by the giant palm, it jumped like a fish and escaped ten meters away. The two-headed scorpion could only grab the warhorse and angrily stuffed it into its mouth.
When Lin Xiao saw this, he was overjoyed. Now he just had to wait.
He led the two-headed scorpion and kept running. After five minutes, the two-headed scorpion's movements stopped. Both of its heads showed a painful expression. At the same time, the soul power in its body gushed out and the pain on its face disappeared. Moreover, the speed of the soul power became faster.
After half an hour, the two-headed scorpion's movements stopped again. The pain on its face was even more intense. Even the color of its face changed.
Lin Xiao knew that the poison had completely flared up. His soul power could heal injuries, but it couldn't expel the poison.
This two-headed giant scorpion had some intelligence. It knew that it was injured and poisoned, so it held its stomach and dragged its body back. This time, it was Lin Xiao's turn to follow behind it.
Not long after, its movements became slower and slower, and it looked weaker and weaker. Soon, it lay powerlessly in the wilderness, unable to move.
Lin Xiao stood about forty to fifty meters away from the giant scorpion and watched it quietly. He looked on helplessly as the giant scorpion became weaker and weaker. In the end, it laid on the ground motionlessly.
At this moment, he stood up and jumped to a crooked tree not far away, squatting down to watch.
He looked at the motionless Twin-headed Giant Scorpion with amusement. This fellow's Soul Power was still so active, yet it was still pretending to be dead. He was speechless.
However, it was true that he was poisoned, and it was also true that he couldn't expel the poison. In any case, he wasn't in a hurry. He could slowly drag it out and see who couldn't endure it first.
The result was just as Lin Xiao had expected. This two-headed giant scorpion was pretending to be dead, but he wasn't fooled at all. The strong poison continued to torment him, and soon, he couldn't help but crawl back up and pounce on Lin Xiao.
He couldn't catch up with it before, and now, he couldn't. He couldn't run away even if he wanted to, so he was left hanging.
Lin Xiao saw through the two-headed giant scorpion's act of pretending to be dead several times, until the last time it laid motionless on the ground. Lin Xiao waited for almost an hour before he tried to approach it. He used the Binding Spell from afar to summon a few thick stone hands to tie it up.
This time, it was really powerless. Even when he was in front of it, he could only shake it weakly. He couldn't even lift its huge scorpion tail.
This time, he didn't have to be polite. He directly pierced one of its heads with his sword. He extended his right hand and inserted it into the wound. The surging Soul Power gushed out and wrapped around him. Countless souls that had lost their restraints surrounded him, forming a death zone around him.
He spent a lot of effort to absorb the Soul Power of this two-headed giant scorpion. In total, he obtained more than thirty thousand Soul Power. It was almost as much as he had accumulated in the past few years.
After that, he spent a lot of effort to dismember this two-headed giant scorpion. He chopped off its two heads, its huge scorpion tail, and its limbs. After processing, they could be made into magic tools. The blood of its whole body was drained and used as a material for magic potions. It could also be used to refine blood essence. Bloodline Wizards were very fond of these things.
After all, it was comparable to a third-grade monster, so it could be said that its whole body was a treasure.
Fortunately, he had a storage ring on him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to deal with such a big corpse.
He brought the things back to Border Town. Except for the scorpion tail, he dealt with all the other things. In total, he obtained more than one thousand three hundred magic stones.
And this was the most valuable part, the scorpion tail, which he hadn't sold yet. He had taken a fancy to the power and toxicity of the poisonous stinger shot by the scorpion tail. He was preparing to make it into a powerful magic tool.
Although he had become an official Wizard, Lin Xiao didn't have much wealth. He didn't have many decent magic tools on him.
Some of the magic tools that he had obtained before were low-level goods, so he didn't take a fancy to them.
For the next two months, he stayed in Border Town to refine the scorpion tail. At the same time, he spent money to buy a large amount of high quality poison for his next hunt.
Three months later, Lin Xiao, who had finished his preparations, set out again. He found another tribe of half-scorpion people and used the same method to summon a new giant scorpion. He used the same method to kill it and once again collected a batch of souls.
But this time, he killed a one-headed giant scorpion. The number of souls he collected wasn't as high as the previous two-headed giant scorpion. He still needed more than ten thousand souls to reach a hundred thousand.
But he wasn't in a hurry. He slowly accumulated souls. Even after killing several more giant scorpion's, he had accumulated more than a hundred thousand souls. He didn't use the secret method to communicate with the strange lord to complete the transaction. Instead, he continued to accumulate souls.
Although he didn't devour these souls, he could collect a large amount of soul power. He could use the dissipated soul power to strengthen his strength and enhance his mental strength.
Soul power itself was the embodiment of mental strength. A large part of the soul was mental strength.
He could absorb the dissipated soul power and transform it into mental strength. He could continuously enhance his mental strength and then transform it into magic power.
With this, he wouldn't need to spend a large amount of money to purchase magic potions to advance in the future. He could directly use the soul power to replace the magic potions, and the effects would be better.
Anyway, he had ten years. Now that half of the time had passed, it would be a waste if he didn't use this good stuff.
In the following days, Lin Xiao wandered in the wilderness, specifically looking for tribes of half-scorpion people. He then lured them to summon giant scorpion so that he could hunt them down.
After he had successfully refined the tail of the Two-headed Giant Scorpion he had killed for the first time into a Magic Weapon, his hunting efficiency had become even higher. He no longer needed to use poison to kill some of the One-headed Giant Scorpion. The Magic Weapon made from the tail needle could easily pierce through its hard carapace and kill it.
Later on, he didn't even need to go back. He spent a long time wandering in the wilderness. He only needed to go back every half a year to collect the spoils of war and earn a large amount of magic crystals.
His mental strength also continued to grow as he accumulated more and more souls. Unknowingly, it had crossed the Vapour and Liquid Phase and naturally entered the Crystal Phase. He was only a step away from advancing to a rank 2 Magus. He estimated that after accumulating for a period of time, he would be able to cross that level before the ten years were up.
On this day, Lin Xiao went back to the small city to sell various materials after killing a few giant scorpion people. The moment he entered the city, his powerful mental strength immediately noticed that someone was secretly observing him.
He hesitated for less than two seconds before he decisively turned around and left.
The secret observer was stunned for a moment before he immediately took action.
Lin Xiao returned to the city gate and saw a few soldiers driving the people who entered the city to close the gate. He immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. This wasn't the city's forces coveting his wealth as he had imagined. Instead, an even stronger force had their eyes on him.
"Maybe my identity has been exposed?"
After thinking about it, this was the only possibility. After all, he often traded high-value materials here. It was normal for him to be targeted. It was also normal for his wanted status to be discovered.
Then …
* Boom! *
He forcefully slammed the city gate open and turned into a black shadow as he rushed out of the city gate.
Just as he left the city gate, Lin Xiao suddenly sensed something. He turned around and saw the pedestrians on the street being pushed away by an invisible force. Screams filled the air as a transparent silhouette rushed towards the city gate.
"Crystal King Serpent!"
The familiar appearance immediately reminded him of the tragic situation back then. He immediately understood that Julian was in the city. He turned around and ran without hesitation.
This Crystal King Serpent was still a rank 2 Magus. Compared to before, he couldn't even see the Crystal King Serpent's appearance clearly. Now, he could see its body clearly with his naked eye. This meant that its strength was far stronger than before.
Of course, he wasn't necessarily afraid of the current Julian. The main thing was that he didn't know if it was a friend or foe. Who knew how many helpers it had brought? Wouldn't it be foolish to charge head-on without knowing anything?
Leaving the city was like a bird flying in the sky and a fish swimming in the sea. He dived into the wasteland and disappeared without a trace.
The Crystal King Serpent chased him for a short while before it lost track of him. It wandered back and forth in the wasteland. Not long after, Julian's figure appeared near the Crystal King Serpent.
They hadn't seen each other for a few years. He had become stronger and had broken through to become a rank 2 Magus.
He stepped on the Crystal King Serpent and flew in the air. With a wave of his sleeve, a sky full of black dots flew in all directions.
After that, he sat on the Crystal King Serpent's head and snorted.
"Do you think you can escape?"
He took out a mirror and a transparent bead. There was an illusory shadow in the bead. He threw the transparent bead at the mirror. The bead was submerged in the mirror like water and rippled. As he cast a spell, the surface of the mirror changed. A crack in the wasteland that was covered by weeds appeared on the surface of the mirror.
"So it's here!"
He patted the Crystal King Serpent. The giant snake slid quickly in a certain direction. From afar, it looked like a person flying in the air.
However, before he could get close, Lin Xiao noticed something strange. A black beetle flew back and forth near the crack. He had a deep impression of this beetle and immediately recognized it. He knew that he had been discovered. He crawled out of the crack and ran.
Soon, a small group of black beetles swarmed over and gathered to form a black mask. Julian's voice came from it.
"Didn't you want to kill me? I'm right here."
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