Sleeping for a second increases my blood energy. I become the strongest sky-swallowing snake

Splash!

Boom!

The wide river surface was stirred as if by an invisible giant hand, creating layers of huge waves.

Immediately afterward, a colossal monster burst out from the depths of the dark riverbed!

It brought with it a huge column of water and a vast amount of water vapor, heading straight for the medicinal pill on the mountaintop.

The air instantly filled with the unique salty and fishy smell of the sea.

Mixed with a strange, thick, bloody aura.

It was nauseating, yet also had a familiar scent to Xu Chengxian.

“It seems a bit like the sea beast meat I've been eating recently?” This thought flashed through his mind.

And the next moment, he knew that his feeling was absolutely right.

It was a sea monster that had come.

A sea monster from the Endless Sea!

Crack! Crack!

It was an enormous crab sea monster, a great demon!

It was completely exposed to the already bright daylight.

Its body was comparable to a small mountain, covered in hard, iron-like armor, shimmering with a scarlet, blue, and icy light.

It raised its terrifying crab pincers, opening and closing with a cracking sound.

The sound was very strange, making people feel uneasy!

The pill had reached the critical moment of collection.

He couldn't let all his previous efforts be wasted!

“It's a Cheliped Monster.” Lingxiao replied calmly.

She wasn't very surprised by the sudden appearance of the terrifying sea monster.

It should be said that she had expected it.

During this day and night of guarding Ling Yunzi's alchemy, she had carefully considered the enemies that might attack.

The Human Race?

Even if human cultivators entered the Northern Wilderness Mountains, they wouldn't come to seek death for a Spirit Replenishing Pill.

The Demon Race?

The surrounding demon race wouldn't blatantly violate the demon kingdom. Moreover, with General Yu here, the nearby demon generals wouldn't come.

The demon generals who can be stationed on the edge of the mountain range have the responsibility to guard against three foreign enemies. Therefore, most of them are specially selected by the higher-ups.

They believe more in the strong being respected, and they understand the situation.

It's unlikely that they would come to openly snatch it for a pill.

Even if they wanted to snatch, they would only snatch General Yu.

Instead of directly attacking Ling Yunzi, who was refining the pill.

On the contrary, they would be very polite to him.

It is very difficult for fools who only know how to drain the pond to catch all the fish to be promoted to the level of demon general.

Therefore, the most likely enemy to attack was the sea monster.

Luyang Mountain is close to the Endless Sea, with the closest point being no more than a thousand miles away.

Although sea monsters rarely leave the sea and venture deep into the Northern Wilderness Mountains, occasionally some sea monsters will stray or deliberately sneak in to hunt demon beasts.

The most frequently traveled route is the one they took with Dai Dai, which leads directly to the Endless Sea.

If there were sea monsters hiding in the river, it was very likely that they would be attracted by the sight of the pill being formed and launch an attack.

Therefore, Lingxiao's spiritual sense had been paying attention to the river surface.

So, even though the sea monster's move was to attack with great fanfare, shrouded in water mist, and as fast as lightning, she stopped its offensive with a flick of her whip.

Pa!

Boom!

The whip made of snake skin, infused with magic power, was like a spirit snake, striking the sea monster's chest and abdomen.

It made a muffled buzzing sound.

Although it stopped its body, it was clear that it failed to hurt it.

Let alone drive it away.

The Cheliped Monster's eyes were like two burning lanterns, flashing with greed and ferocity, looking at Lingxiao who was blocking it, and then staring straight at the few spirit pills in the air that were emitting a faint glow and had not yet been taken away.

It was as if these few spirit pills were rare treasures in the world.

This guy was bewitched.

However, although it didn't have much intelligence, it still had a sense of instinct.

The current Spirit Replenishing Pills not only contained extremely strong spiritual energy, but also showed a vigorous vitality due to the existence of the medicinal power and the effect of the spiritual patterns.

It was enough to make any creature that craved spiritual energy salivate.

Crack! Crack!

The Cheliped Monster's attitude was obvious, it was determined to eat these spirit pills.

First kill this one blocking the way!

Then it raised its pincers, which were bigger than millstones, and charged towards Lingxiao.

“Hmph!” Lingxiao snorted coldly.

She shook the snake whip and fought with it.

Seeing that Lingxiao had blocked the big crab, Xu Chengxian breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that he didn't need to rush over.

Sea monsters don't have demon cores, their demon power is chaotic and disorderly, so they don't have any innate supernatural powers or combat skills.

But their physical bodies are very strong.

Just like the big crab in front of him, its two big pincers and the crab shell all over its body are extremely high-quality magical artifacts.

However, this guy's combat power is only equivalent to the early stage of a great demon.

It would take Lingxiao some effort to kill it, but it wouldn't be a problem to block it for a while.

When Ling Yunzi collects the pill, it will be much easier for the two of them to deal with this big guy together.

“Not bad, before eating the spirit pill, I can also eat a grilled big crab.” Xu Chengxian suddenly felt that the fishy smell was not unpleasant.

In fact, the taste of many meat dishes is not very good before they are served.

Accurately speaking, the smell that emanates when they are just put into the pot is even stranger.

But so what?

If it tastes good when cooked, I can forgive them.

What's more, after becoming a snake, the tolerance for raw flesh and blood has been significantly improved.

So, it's okay to eat it grilled or raw.

With a little wine.

“Is Little Sage's spirit wine brewed yet?” While he was thinking to himself, he turned his attention back to Ling Yunzi by the river.

He saw Ling Yunzi waving his sleeves and changing hand gestures.

He was collecting the pill.

The time it takes to collect this pill is a bit too long.

It couldn't help but remind Xu Chengxian of the neighbor who used to walk his dog.

Every time he wanted to bring the big dog home, it was so laborious.

Of course, there was no other way.

Now these Spirit Replenishing Pills are of excellent quality, and they have been branded with spiritual patterns by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so it is reasonable that they are unwilling to be collected.

All things have spirituality, this spirituality may not necessarily be intelligence, but refers to spirituality.

Ling Yunzi had said before that many alchemists are unwilling to let the heavens appraise the pills, because once the pills are born with spirituality, they will not be willing to be collected obediently, but will try to break free and fly away.

Especially some high-level pills, this is inevitable.

Some can even transform into the appearance of divine beasts and fight with alchemists.

When collecting the pills, you can't use offensive means to avoid hurting the pills themselves.

You can only use magic power to slowly summon and gather them.

However, the Spirit Replenishing Pill is only a Level 7 Blue Grade Spiritual Pattern, not even Yellow Grade.

It's just that Ling Yunzi's current cultivation level is a bit low, so it's a bit slow to collect them.

Therefore, Xu Chengxian was not worried that there would be any mistakes.

He just waited patiently.

Sure enough, after a few breaths, the spirit pill moved.

Ling Yunzi took out a jade bottle, guiding the spirit pill to fall towards the mouth of the bottle.

And at this moment, the tense atmosphere reached its peak.

Crack!

The big crab suddenly jumped up, and its huge body burst out a wave of water vapor, with an unstoppable power, heading straight for the spirit pill.

Its movements seemed to be accompanied by the violent surge of seawater, and the stench was greatly increased.

“Courting death!” Lingxiao snorted coldly with disdain.

Sea monsters have thick skin and no intelligence. The best way to kill them is actually to fight in close quarters and find the vital points to attack.

The reason why she blocked it was because her current cultivation level did not have the means to kill it with one blow. In order to prevent it from jumping over the wall in desperation and disturbing Ling Yunzi's collection of the pill, she could only drive it away a little.

However, she was careless.

“Hiss!”

Taking this opportunity, a sea snake monster cut through the sky and attacked with lightning speed!