Gu Master Era: My Toad Swallowed the School Beauty at the Beginning

On Wang Xiao's first day in the secret realm, he spent most of his time breaking through acupoints.

He opened ten acupoints in one go, exhausting the Giant-bellied Toad to the point of near death. It lay motionless on the ground. Wang Xiao cultivated in the cave for a night before the large toad recovered.

Early the next morning, Wang Xiao took the Giant-bellied Toad and began his treasure hunt in the secret realm.

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“Ding! 35 degrees to the right, 8.3 kilometers, a Golden Clover herb discovered!”

“Ding! 28 degrees to the left, 9.1 kilometers, a piece of Zitan wood discovered!”

“Ding! 53 degrees to the left, 9.7 kilometers, a twenty-year-old ginseng discovered!”

… …

The system continuously issued prompts, but Wang Xiao turned a deaf ear, having no intention of collecting them!

These were all ordinary herbs, not very useful to a Gu Master. Ginseng was useful, but this one was too young. If it were over fifty years old, he definitely wouldn't let it go.

He only had 99 days to stay in the secret realm, and he couldn't waste time on these low-value items.

“System, shield ordinary herbs, only report scan results that are useful to Gu Masters!”

“Ding, command received…”

Half an hour later!

“Ding! 72 degrees to the left front, 9.7 kilometers, a Level 1 magic beast, the Drywood Snake, discovered!”

“Oh! A magic beast!”

Wang Xiao was immediately interested!

Every part of a magic beast is a treasure; blood, flesh, bones, and skin all have their uses!

Especially snake-type magic beasts, their venom sacs and snake gallbladders are extremely valuable!

In addition, all magic beasts produce magic beast crystals, which are also quite valuable!

Moreover, both Wang Xiao and the Toad Gu were very hungry!

Wang Xiao had tasted the deliciousness of snake meat in his previous life and still missed it to this day.

Therefore, there was no reason to let this Drywood Snake go!

He patted the Giant-bellied Toad's head, pointed in the direction of the Drywood Snake, and the large toad immediately adjusted its direction and jumped forward.

Before long, Wang Xiao saw the Drywood Snake.

This snake must be a cunning old fox!

It was hiding near a beast path next to a bush, its color like dead wood. It lay there motionless, and if you weren't careful, you would mistake it for a dead, fallen sapling.

If an animal walked past it, its fate would be miserable!

This Drywood Snake was five or six meters long, its body thicker than a bowl, and it was venomous, making it a formidable fighter!

The system quickly provided data on the Drywood Snake:

Magic Beast: Drywood Snake

Race: Snake

Level: Level 1, 80%

Talent: Venomous Bite

[Evaluation: This is a very cunning magic beast, skilled in camouflage. It ambushes prey with a venomous bite, injecting venom, and waits for the prey to lose resistance before devouring it! Its weakness is… ]

Seeing this snake-type magic beast, Wang Xiao suddenly recalled an essay he had learned at school after becoming a Gu Master, called “Two Directions of Biological Evolution”!

The essay used snakes as an example to discuss the evolutionary directions of organisms.

One evolutionary direction for snakes is to evolve into Gu!

The birth of a Snake Gu is one of the most classic methods of Gu refinement. It involves placing countless venomous snakes in a confined space and using Gu refinement drugs to stimulate their ferocity and potential, causing them to kill and devour each other. The last one remaining will evolve into a Snake Gu!

Most of the combat-type spiritual Gu in the Gu world today are refined in this way.

However, nature is full of wonders. In some special environments in the wild, wild spiritual Gu are occasionally born.

For example, a venomous snake living in the wild might accidentally devour many other poisonous substances or some kind of heavenly treasure, and it might evolve into a wild Snake Gu.

If a Gu Master encounters this kind of wild spiritual Gu, they will never let it go and must capture it to make it their own spiritual Gu.

However, the capture process is also very dangerous, and there are many examples of Gu Masters being killed by wild spiritual Gu.

The chance of wild poisonous insects evolving into spiritual Gu is very small. Their greater chance is to embark on another path of evolution: becoming magic beasts!

Like the Drywood Snake in front of Wang Xiao, it was a magic beast!

After observing for a while, Wang Xiao circled the Drywood Snake from a distance and decided on a strategy.

He chose the terrain and had the Giant-bellied Toad conceal its aura and lie in ambush.

Then, Wang Xiao deliberately made some noise and walked towards the Drywood Snake.

The Drywood Snake remained motionless, waiting for its prey to come to its door.

Just as Wang Xiao was still some distance away from the Drywood Snake, he suddenly stopped, pretended to have discovered danger, and turned to run!

After an ambush fails, the Drywood Snake will judge whether to pursue based on the danger posed by the prey.

At this time, the Drywood Snake had not discovered the hidden Giant-bellied Toad, and it judged that Wang Xiao posed little threat. Unwilling to let go of this prey, it immediately chased after him.

Although snakes have no legs, they are actually very fast!

In just a few seconds, it closed the distance between itself and Wang Xiao, and in another ten seconds or so, it would catch up.

The Drywood Snake's eyes flashed with cruel light. It felt that this two-legged animal would soon fall into its belly.

Suddenly, Wang Xiao increased his speed, took a running start, and jumped over a deep ditch!

The Drywood Snake arrived in the blink of an eye, but it saw a large toad lying in the ditch, its belly bulging, as if a huge crisis was about to descend!

Before the Drywood Snake could react, the Giant-bellied Toad opened its mouth and spat out a ball of white light, instantly hitting the Drywood Snake's body.

“Boom!”

It was like a thunderclap on flat ground!

A huge explosion sounded!

The Drywood Snake's body was instantly blasted more than ten meters away, and when it landed, it was already a bloody mess.

This was the effect of the Giant-bellied Toad's skill “Airburst Bomb”!

This skill was very powerful, but it had a serious flaw: its activation speed was too slow.

The Giant-bellied Toad had to inhale a large amount of air into its belly in advance, compress it into an airburst bomb, and then launch it. If the enemy was prepared, it would be difficult to hit the target!

Therefore, Wang Xiao had it lie in ambush in the deep ditch to prepare, and he personally took the risk to lure the Drywood Snake!

The plan went smoothly, the Drywood Snake took the bait, and the Giant-bellied Toad hit it with one blow!

The power of the Airburst Bomb was verified on the Drywood Snake!

The Drywood Snake was in a bit of a sorry state at this time. Its body was almost blown into two pieces from the middle!

This large snake valued its life very much. After suffering a heavy blow, it immediately dragged its heavily injured body and tried to escape.

But the Giant-bellied Toad, which had chased after it, spat out its long tongue like lightning, and whipped it fiercely at the Drywood Snake's wound from a distance of more than ten meters!

This was its second skill: Tongue Whip!

“Hiss—!”

The Drywood Snake let out a painful hiss. The power of the Tongue Whip was great, and it broke the Drywood Snake's entire body in half from the injured location!

Magic beasts have very strong vitality!

The Drywood Snake, cut in two, still had a strong desire to survive.

Its lower body kept twisting on the ground, and its upper body struggled to burrow into the bushes, still wanting to escape!

But as soon as it entered the bushes, it was wrapped by the Giant-bellied Toad's tongue and pulled back.

The Drywood Snake turned its head to bite, but the Giant-bellied Toad instantly retracted its tongue.

In this way, as long as the Drywood Snake wanted to escape, the Giant-bellied Toad would pull it back, and when the Drywood Snake turned to bite, the Giant-bellied Toad would retract its tongue.

After a stalemate for more than ten minutes, the Drywood Snake finally couldn't hold on and went limp on the ground, motionless.

Wang Xiao waited for a while, until the system prompted that the Drywood Snake had no signs of life, and then he took out a dagger and approached to deal with the corpse.

He skinned it, collected the snake gallbladder and venom sac, and threw the snake head and part of the snake meat to the Giant-bellied Toad to eat.

He also dug out a white magic beast crystal stone, leaving only a pile of white snake meat on the scene.

Wang Xiao went around and collected a pile of dry firewood, immediately set up a fire, and roasted the snake meat. Before long, the tempting aroma of meat filled the vicinity.

Unfortunately, he had come in a hurry and didn't bring an iron pot, otherwise, it would have been perfect to cook a pot of snake soup!

Before long, the entire snake entered the bellies of Wang Xiao and the Giant-bellied Toad.

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