During the short break, Ye Xiang still didn't let go of his cultivation. He sat cross-legged on the ground and meditated on imprinting the immortal patterns.
As expected, after a battle, the speed of imprinting the immortal patterns really increased a lot.
Shen Youwei looked curiously at the little bits of immortal patterns revealed on Ye Xiang's body and realized that the change in Brother Ye should be due to the cultivation method.
She was a bit curious about what Brother Ye had comprehended after reading the Taoist books for three years.
Although Song Xinrui was also curious, she didn't look at it too much. Instead, she quickly closed her eyes and meditated to improve her spiritual power.
She had a high talent. Although she didn't have a hidden class, she belonged to a rare class. Just as several instructors had said, she was definitely able to get into a university that reached the first batch admission line. However, to get into a top university, she was still a little short.
But the stubborn Song Xinrui was determined to prove that she was no worse than her brother!
Two hours passed quickly. Ye Xiang opened his eyes on time. After regaining his energy, he stood up and said, "Let's go. It's time to set off. Let's try to clear the Swamp Forest before dark."
"Okay!" Shen Youwei nodded immediately.
She unconditionally supported whatever Ye Xiang did.
The three of them started on their journey. After half an hour of walking, Song Xinrui suddenly said, "Can I stop saving my spiritual power and summon a flying strange beast to give us a ride?"
Ye Xiang and Shen Youwei were stunned for a moment and looked at her with a bit of helplessness.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"Because I can only summon strange beasts twice a day. The higher the level, the shorter the time they can stay. If I summon one now for the journey, I'm afraid I won't be able to help during the battle." Song Xinrui explained.
Ye Xiang immediately understood. He glanced at the wild boar, thought for a moment, and then shook his head.
"Then it's not necessary. There are still more than ten kilometers left, and it won't take long."
The three of them continued to walk with their heads down. Another two hours passed. When the sun was obviously about to set, the three of them finally arrived at the Swamp Forest.
As soon as they entered the forest, the cool breath immediately made Ye Xiang and the other two more awake.
The soil felt soft under their feet. There was no doubt that they could fall into the swamp anywhere here, but it couldn't be seen from the surface.
Ye Xiang squinted his eyes slightly. He suddenly remembered that the decaying snakes lived in such a place, and their concealment was extremely terrifying. At the same level, they could only be detected when they were very close.
However, this problem wasn't too difficult. He directly took out a pile of talismans from his pocket.
The most basic purification talismans could be drawn by those with the Taoist priest class. They didn't have a great effect, but they could prevent the auras of some evil and strange beasts. Once such an aura appeared, the purification talismans would burn.
Over the past three years, he had drawn a lot of these talismans, and now they came in handy.
He took out a large stack of talismans and threw a few every few steps as the three of them walked forward step by step.
Just then, a talisman fell to the ground. The moment it silently burned, Ye Xiang was the first to react and suddenly stepped back.
Sure enough, the next moment, a two-headed decaying snake rushed out directly from the swamp mire in front of them and sprayed poisonous mist at the three of them.
Shen Youwei instinctively used the Moonlight to purify the poisonous mist. However, Ye Xiang directly rushed forward. His whole body was emitting golden light, and he wasn't afraid of the poisonous mist at all.
The Golden Light Divine Curse was inherently invulnerable to all evils, not to mention the poisonous mist, which couldn't even touch him.
He hugged one of the heads with both hands and started to hammer it crazily. First, he hit the eyes. After smashing them, he directly hit the seven-inch part.
In the blink of an eye, a 15-level two-headed decaying snake was brutally killed by Ye Xiang and fell to the ground.
He was just like a powerful warrior, showing no sign of being a Taoist priest at all.
The moment Ye Xiang chose the Human Immortal Body and the Golden Light Curse, he had actually anticipated this scene.
The three of them continued to move forward. Soon, they arrived at their destination, the snake den recorded on the map.
The three of them looked at each other and then their eyes fell on the tusked wild boar again.
Seeing everyone's gaze, the wild boar's scalp went numb and its eyes filled with tears.
It really wanted to run away, but it couldn't.
Under Song Xinrui's control, it went deeper into the danger zone again and let out a grunt.
Sure enough, in an instant, several ferocious decaying snakes rushed out together with their mouths wide open, scaring the wild boar so much that it turned around and ran away, howling.
These decaying snakes were much faster in their attacks than the rats. Even though the wild boar used the snake-like movement technique, it was almost bitten several times.
Just as it was about to run to the three of them, one of the decaying snakes suddenly bit the wild boar's butt and then forcefully dragged it backward.
The wild boar let out a pitiful scream like that of a pig being slaughtered. Ye Xiang immediately rushed out, and his golden-light-emitting fist smashed hard on the head of that decaying snake.
With a loud bang, the decaying snake leaned backward involuntarily, and the wild boar in its mouth was also thrown out.
Shen Youwei raised her hand and softly chanted. The next moment, something like a moonlight blade flew out from in front of her and instantly cut several decaying snakes, making their scales fly everywhere.
The faint moonlight shone on her, turning her hair white, and she was as if wearing a moonlight-colored dress.
Even Song Xinrui was a bit stunned. She was really extremely beautiful.
Ye Xiang didn't look back. He was fully activating the Human Immortal Body and the Golden Light Curse. He easily smashed the heads of the two heads of a decaying snake with one punch at the same time.
One by one, the two-headed decaying snakes fell to the ground, and the score increased again.
Just as Ye Xiang was about to heave a sigh of relief, he saw the dying wild boar in the distance. Then he remembered something. He directly used both hands to tear open the body of a decaying snake, pulled out a snake gallbladder as big as a bowl, and threw it to the wild boar.
Seeing this, the wild boar struggled to get up and ate the snake gallbladder.
It had been bitten by a decaying snake before, and under the erosion of the venom, only the snake gallbladder of a decaying snake could cure it.
The wild boar that had eaten the snake gallbladder quickly leveled up again, and its condition recovered at once. It ran over happily and started gnawing on the body of the decaying snake.
Ye Xiang wasn't in a hurry either and watched it eat slowly.
Once it was full, it could continue to work.
The score of a decaying snake was three times its own level, similar to that of the Rat King. Although the number wasn't large, the score completely exceeded the profit from the Bloodthirsty Rats.
Soon, the wild boar leveled up again and reached level 9.
As if remembering something, Ye Xiang raised his head and looked at Song Xinrui and asked, "Will the consumption of spiritual power increase when the wild boar levels up?"
Song Xinrui shook her head. "No. Summoning it requires the spiritual power consumption of level 4, and it will always maintain the spiritual power consumption of level 4, no matter how it levels up later."
Ye Xiang understood. Then it was quite good. "Then you can totally raise a relatively powerful strange beast close to you. Isn't it okay to start raising it from level 1?"
"I want to too, but the school doesn't allow it. After all, they are strange beasts. If the summoner falls asleep, the uncontrolled strange beast is likely to cause some trouble." Song Xinrui said helplessly.
"That's really a pity."
Ye Xiang could imagine that there was a big difference in the cooperation and tacit understanding between a summoned beast cultivated from a young age and a directly summoned strange beast. After all, a summoner still had to follow the path of cultivating their own summoned beast.
"Directly summon a level 1 decaying snake. There are still two days left, which is enough for it to level up." Ye Xiang said after thinking for a moment.
"Okay." Song Xinrui nodded.
She directly closed her eyes and began to meditate on the summoning formation and settings. Soon, the light of the hexagram array in front of her flashed, and a level 1 two-headed decaying snake about the length of an arm came into view.