The Era of Gods-Chapter 620 - : 620

Chapter 620: 620

“Damn it!”

Lin Xiao clearly sensed that the number of souls trapped within the Scorpion Giant’s body had decreased after he used that move, apparently having been converted into strength to heal its wounds.

If that was the case, it would be difficult to fight, and if it kept healing like this, not only would it be hard to kill, but what use would it be without the most crucial souls afterward?

“Maybe it’s time to try a different method!”

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Lin Xiao decisively withdrew, letting the two-headed Scorpion Giant rage and roar in pursuit behind him without caring.

He ran dozens of kilometers in one breath before he managed to shake it off, then retraced his path to find a Border Town where wizards gathered.

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In the town’s trading area, he spent all the possessions he had on him to buy a large quantity of deadly poisons, biological toxins, alchemical poisons, neurotoxins, and so on, acquiring several jars of each, then led a horse away once more.

On the way, he packaged these toxins separately with special materials and then combined them into one big poison pack, ready for use. He returned to the spot where he had encountered the two-headed Scorpion Giant, deliberately releasing his own scent, but got no response after a long while.

Lin Xiao thought for a moment, then tried to release the vast Soul Power he was carrying with him. Soon, he heard a roar of anger and the rumbling sound of movement from afar.

As expected, the main reason the two-headed Scorpion Giant had chased him for so long previously was that it was attracted to the Soul Power on him.

He quickly anesthetized the horse, made a cut in its belly, and stuffed the mixed poison pack inside, then roughly sewed it up.

The two-headed Scorpion Giant, seeing him, chased after him with great delight. Lin Xiao used witchcraft to stimulate the horse’s vitality and rode it to escape. The horse, having been injured, did not run fast; in fact, it couldn’t outrun the fifteen-meter-tall behemoth even if it wasn’t injured. It was quickly caught, and at the moment it was scooped up by the giant pincers, Lin Xiao leaped out like a fish darting through water, escaping over ten meters away. The Scorpion Giant only managed to grab the horse, angrily stuffing it into its mouth and chewing.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao’s heart leaped with joy, and he just had to wait.

He led the two-headed Scorpion Giant around in circles, and after five minutes, its movements suddenly paused, both heads showing expressions of pain. Then, Soul Power burst forth from its body, the agony vanished from its face, and it moved even faster, chasing Lin Xiao so erratically that he had to run all over the place in panic.

But after half an hour, the Scorpion Giant’s movements paused again, the pain on its face intensifying, even changing color.

Lin Xiao knew then that the poison had fully taken effect. Its Soul Power could heal wounds but was ineffective against the poison.

The two-headed Scorpion Giant had some intelligence; knowing it was injured and poisoned, it began to return home, clutching its stomach and dragging its body. This time, Lin Xiao followed behind.

It wasn’t long before its movements slowed further, and it appeared increasingly weak until it lay motionless in the wilderness, unable to move.

Lin Xiao stood about forty or fifty meters away, quietly watching as the Scorpion Giant grew weaker and finally lay on the ground, still.

Only then did he stand up, jump onto a nearby crooked tree, and squat to watch.

He watched the motionless Scorpion Giant with some amusement. Its Soul Power was still so active, yet it pretended to be dead, which he found rather speechless.

However, it was indeed poisoned; its inability to dispel the poison was real. He wasn’t in a hurry, willing to wait it out and see who would lose their patience first.

As Lin Xiao had expected, the two-headed Scorpion Giant was just playing dead. He wasn’t fooled, and as the poison continued to torment it, the creature soon couldn’t bear it anymore and rose aggressively to attack him again.

It couldn’t catch up to him before, and it was the same now. Wanting to flee but unable to, it was merely being strung along.

Afterward, the Scorpion Giant tried playing dead several times, but each attempt was seen through by Lin Xiao, until the last time it lay on the ground motionless. Lin Xiao waited almost an hour before he tried approaching. He summoned several thick stone hands from a distance with a Binding Technique to tie it up before he dared to approach.

This time it truly was powerless, even as he approached its eyes, it could only weakly move its massive scorpion tail, unable to lift it.

Now he didn’t have to be polite; he directly thrust his sword into the forehead of one of the heads, reached his right hand into the wound, and a surge of Soul Power burst out, enveloping him. Countless unrestrained souls swirled around him, forming a domain of death in the area.

It took a great deal of effort to absorb the Soul Power from the Scorpion Giant’s body, gaining more than thirty thousand points of Soul Power, roughly as much as he had accumulated over the years.

Then, with even greater effort, he dismembered the two-headed Scorpion Giant; both heads, the massive scorpion tail, and its limbs were all chopped off. After processing, they could be made into Magic Weapons. The blood was drained to use as Magic Potion material, or for refining essence blood. Wizards especially favored these things, and even its organs had uses.

After all, with a creature that was on par with a Rank 3 monster, its entire body was a treasure.

Fortunately, he had a Storage Ring on him, otherwise, such a large corpse would have been impossible to handle.

He brought the parts back to Small Town Edge, and aside from the scorpion tail, he processed all the other parts, amassing over thirteen hundred pieces of Magic Stone.

This was without even selling the most valuable scorpion tail. He was interested in the power and toxicity of the tail’s launching spines, planning to create a powerful Magic Weapon.

Although he had become an Official Wizard, Lin Xiao didn’t have much personal wealth at the moment, and he didn’t possess many impressive Magic Weapons.

The Magic Weapons he had harvested before were all low-grade, which he didn’t value.

For the next two months, he stayed in the small town, crafting the scorpion tail while also spending money to buy a large amount of higher quality toxins, preparing for the next hunt.

Three months later, a fully prepared Lin Xiao set out again, finding another Half-scorpion Tribe and using the same method to make them summon a new Scorpion Giant. He poisoned it in the same way and harvested another batch of souls.

However, this time the kill was of a single-headed Scorpion Giant, and the collected Soul was not as high as the previous two-headed Scorpion Giant, still over ten thousand short of the hundred thousand mark.

But he was not in a hurry at all, and even after accumulating over a hundred thousand Souls following the Continuous Chop of several Scorpion Giants, he did not use the secret method to contact the bizarre master to complete the transaction; instead, he continued to accumulate.

Though he would not devour these Soul Powers, by collecting a large amount, he could make use of the dissipating Soul Powers to enhance his strength and improve his spiritual power.

Soul Power itself is a manifestation of spiritual power, with a major part of the soul being composed of spiritual power.

He could absorb these dissipating Soul Powers and convert them into spiritual power, continuously enhancing his own spirit and then converting it into Mana.

Furthermore, he wouldn’t need to spend a fortune buying a Magic Potion for advancement next time; he could directly use these Soul Powers as a substitute, which would be more effective.

After all, he had ten years, and not even half of that time had passed yet; it would be a waste not to utilize the good stuff.

In the following days, Lin Xiao kept wandering in the wilderness, specifically looking for Half-scorpion Tribes, then luring them to summon Scorpion Giants, which he would then hunt.

With the tail of the first double-headed Scorpion Giant he killed successfully crafted into a Magic Weapon, his hunting efficiency increased even more. Some single-headed Scorpion Giants could now be slain without the need for poison; the weapon made from that stinger could easily penetrate their hard shells, killing them outright.

Later, he didn’t bother going back and spent long periods of time wandering the wilderness, only returning every half-year or so to clear out his spoils and earn a large amount of Magic Stones.

His spiritual power grew steadily with the accumulation of more and more Souls, unknowingly surpassing the gasification and liquefaction phases, naturally entering the Crystallization phase and leaving him only a step away from becoming a Rank 2 Wizard. He estimated that with some more accumulation, he could reach that level before the decade was up.

That day, after consecutively killing several Scorpion Giants, Lin Xiao routinely returned to the Border Town to sell various materials. As soon as he entered the town, his powerful spiritual power immediately detected someone covertly observing him.

After hesitating for less than two seconds, he decisively turned and walked away.

The secret observer hesitated a moment before taking action.

Lin Xiao went back to the town gate and saw several soldiers driving people away to close the gates. He immediately realized the gravity of the situation, that this was not about the town’s powers coveting his wealth but a more formidable force had set their sights on him.

“Could my identity have been exposed?”

After thinking it over, he figured that was the only possibility. After all, he frequently traded high-value materials here, so it was normal to be targeted, and it was normal to have his wanted identity discovered.

So…

“Boom!”

With brute force, he burst open the town gates, transforming into a shadowy figure and rushing out of the gates.

Having just exited, Lin Xiao suddenly sensed something, turned his head, and saw pedestrians in the street being knocked aside by an invisible force, a chorus of screams echoing, as a transparent figure charged straight toward the town gate.

“The Crystal King Snake!”

The familiar silhouette let him immediately recall past horrors, and without any hesitation, he turned and fled, understanding that Julian was in town.

The Crystal King Snake was still Rank 2, but unlike before when he couldn’t even make out its shape, he could now clearly see it with the naked eye, suggesting that his strength had far surpassed what it once was.

Of course, even now he wasn’t necessarily afraid of Julian; the main issue was that the enemy’s strength was unknown, who knew how many helpers he had brought along, and charging in blindly without any information was plain stupidity.

Leaving the town was like having the sky as the limit and the sea as the playing field; he dove into the wilderness and disappeared.

The Crystal King Snake chased for a short while before losing his trail and began to wander back and forth in the wilderness. It wasn’t long before Julian’s figure appeared near the Crystal King Snake.

Years had passed, and he had grown even more powerful, having broken through to become a Rank 2 Wizard.

Riding atop the Crystal King Snake, flying through the air, he flung his sleeves, sending countless black dots scattering in all directions.

Having done that, he sat on top of the Crystal King Snake’s head and coldly snorted,

“You think you can escape,” he said.

Taking out a mirror and then a transparent sphere containing a vague and indistinct shadow, he tossed the sphere onto the mirror. The glass mirror ripple like water, swallowing the sphere, and as he cast his spell, the mirror surface began to change, revealing a part of the wilderness obscured by weeds in its reflection.

“So you’re here!”

Patting the Crystal King Snake, the transparent serpent swiftly slithered in a certain direction, appearing to a distant observer as if a man were flying through the air.

But before he could get close, Lin Xiao had already detected the abnormality; a Black Beetle circled near the ground fissure several times, and with his profound impression of the insect, he recognized it instantly and knew he’d been discovered. He crawled out of the fissure and ran.

Soon a small swarm of Black Beetles converged, merging into a black mask, through which the voice of Julian came,

“You wanted to kill me, didn’t you? I am right here.”