Chapter 157

Li Banfeng looked at the hunter calmly: "Speak up, are you Lin Li?"

The hunter had no way to answer.

On Blood-Yashan, lying is punished.

With so many rocks on the ground, if the hunter said he wasn't Lin Li, he would likely be severely injured by shattered rocks.

Even if he wasn't severely injured by shattered rocks, it would leave an opportunity for Li Banfeng to launch a sneak attack.

After a long silence, the hunter asked Li Banfeng: "How did you see through it?"

Li Banfeng didn't answer either; he didn't want to explain so much to the other party.

Lin Li Blood-Toothed Monster, a very tongue-twisting name.

How tongue-twisting?

If he said it twice, Li Banfeng's tongue would get tied.

Even Li Banfeng's tongue got tied, and the hunter's speech was already unclear; how difficult must it be to say?

Abbreviating Lin Li Blood-Toothed Monster to Blood-Toothed Monster is a very normal move.

Li Banfeng had always abbreviated it to Blood-Toothed Monster.

But the hunter didn't do that; although his speech was unclear and it was difficult to say, sometimes he said Blood-Toothed Monster, and sometimes he insisted on saying Lin Li Blood-Toothed Monster.

When talking about what monsters were on the mountain, he said there was only the Lin Li Blood-Toothed Monster.

When talking about the monster's range of activity, he said the Blood-Toothed Monster couldn't come down the mountain, but he never said Lin Li couldn't come down.

Everything he said was the truth, but he distinguished Lin Li from the Blood-Toothed Monster.

As a traveling cultivator venturing out, crossing a thousand mountains and ten thousand waters, one must be extremely careful with every step. Li Banfeng certainly wouldn't ignore such an abnormal phenomenon.

Seeing that Li Banfeng didn't answer, the Lin Li monster asked another question: "It's rare to meet, and it's inevitable that one of us will die, but before we make a move, can we tell the truth? You knew I was Lin Li, so why did you still let me be your guide?"

Li Banfeng still didn't answer.

At that time, he hadn't confirmed the other party's identity; he only suspected the other party had malicious intent.

The basis for his suspicion was that when the other party appeared beside Li Banfeng, Li Banfeng almost didn't notice.

Based on this, he inferred that this was a character very skilled at sneak attacks, likely an alien from the new territory.

If Li Banfeng's hypothesis was wrong and the other party had no malicious intent, then it was even more appropriate to spend money to hire him; having a guide ultimately had no downsides.

If the other party was a monster, rather than waiting to be sneak-attacked by the other party, it was better to keep him in sight.

Of course, if the hunter hadn't agreed at the time, Li Banfeng couldn't force it, but he believed the hunter couldn't resist the temptation of money, and the alien monster couldn't resist the temptation of food. Having stayed in the new territory for a long time, Li Banfeng was no stranger to these two types of creatures.

Lin Li asked another question: "You knew I wanted to kill you, so why did you still follow me?"

This time Li Banfeng answered: "If I didn't follow you, how could I avoid the Blood-Toothed Monster?"

Lin Li wanted to avoid the Blood-Toothed Monster; this was what Lin Li himself said, and it was the truth.

Along the way, he had indeed avoided the Blood-Toothed Monster.

Why Lin Li wanted to avoid the Blood-Toothed Monster, the specific reason was unknown, but Li Banfeng had a rough hypothesis.

As for whether the hypothesis was accurate, he would go verify it in a moment.

Lin Li laughed: "You thought that by avoiding the Blood-Toothed Monster, you could survive? Do you know why I brought you to this place?"

Li Banfeng nodded and said: "I know, because it's hard to escape from this place."

All around was wild grass, and underfoot was all mountain stone; this rare terrain was indeed hard to escape from.

Lin Li looked at Li Banfeng and said: "I know you are a traveling cultivator. Do you think your footwork is particularly powerful? Why don't you try running?"

Li Banfeng didn't rush to run; he looked at Lin Li and asked in return: "Why do you want to hide from the Blood-Toothed Monster?

Is it because he always snatches your food, and you can't beat him?

Under Blood-Yashan, you claimed to be a hunter; this wasn't a lie, you are indeed a hunter, and the prey is me.

But why did you advise me not to go up the mountain? Was it because you wanted to wait for me to leave Blood-Yashan before you made a move on me? Was it because you were afraid your prey would be snatched?

Are you that afraid of the Blood-Toothed Monster? He has fifth-layer cultivation; you definitely can't match him, at most you are fourth-layer, or maybe you don't even have fourth-layer?"

Lin Li's eyes flashed with cold light; this sentence hit his sore spot.

Li Banfeng guessed right; he originally didn't want to make a move on the mountain.

He was truly afraid of the Blood-Toothed Monster.

His range of activity was larger than the Blood-Toothed Monster's, but he truly couldn't beat the Blood-Toothed Monster.

Li Banfeng continued to ask: "Blood-Yashan is the territory of the two of you; why does the Blood-Toothed Monster always bully you?"

Lin Li gritted his teeth; he was provoked by Li Banfeng: "You don't need to play this game of sowing discord; it's useless."

"Useless? I think it's quite useful. You and the Blood-Toothed Monster aren't that far apart; if you find a helper, you could kill the Blood-Toothed Monster."

Lin Li gritted his teeth and said: "Shut your mouth!"

Li Banfeng continued: "Don't you want to kill him? You definitely do! Do you think if you and I join forces, we can kill him?"

"Shut up!" Lin Li, extremely angry, prepared to kill Li Banfeng immediately.

No matter how much he hated the Blood-Toothed Monster, he wouldn't listen to the bewitchment of a stranger.

Although what the other party said was all the truth.

Li Banfeng continued: "Kill the Blood-Toothed Monster, and Blood-Yashan will be your territory alone!"

"Shut up!"

"Finding a helper isn't easy; you have to cherish the opportunity."

"Shut up!"

"There's a helper right in front of you; I also want to kill the Blood-Toothed Monster."

"I told you to shut up!"

"I am a good person; I can help you!"

"I told you..."

Bang!

Just as Lin Li rushed toward Li Banfeng, a mountain rock suddenly shattered, and the gravel cut several wounds on his body.

He indeed wouldn't fall for Li Banfeng's game of sowing discord.

He focused on waiting for an opportunity to strike.

But he didn't expect Li Banfeng not to use the game of sowing discord at all.

He didn't expect Li Banfeng to suddenly lie.

"I can help you." This was a lie.

This was the first step of the tactic: lying!

After saying a bunch of truths, Li Banfeng suddenly blurted out a lie, catching Lin Li completely off guard.

"I sincerely want to help you; I have never thought about killing you!" Li Banfeng blurted out another lie.

Bang, bang, bang!

This lie severely deviated from Li Banfeng's true thoughts; the mountain rocks exploded very violently, and both Lin Li and Li Banfeng were injured.

"I sincerely want to make friends with you; I have never had the intention of harming you!"

Boom—!

Dust flew, and rocks shattered continuously.

Lin Li held his head and curled up on the ground.

This person is truly crazy!

This is the mountain!

The mountain rock explosions are much more violent than at the foot of the mountain.

And he said such a shameless lie.

Lin Li didn't understand Li Banfeng's thoughts, thinking he wanted to perish together.

This lunatic is dreaming!

Blood-Yashan is Lin Li's territory; Lin Li knows how to avoid the shattering rocks, so he wasn't seriously injured.

But through the dust, he discovered that Li Banfeng wasn't seriously injured either.

At the foot of the mountain, Li Banfeng kept using lies to detonate rocks; Lin Li thought Li Banfeng was going crazy.

Li Banfeng wasn't crazy; he was testing the explosion positions of the rocks and the flight trajectories of the gravel.

His familiarity with Blood-Yashan certainly couldn't match Lin Li's, but relying on his traveling cultivator footwork, he didn't suffer too much of a loss.

Then why did he do this?

Just to trap Lin Li?

Now that Lin Li was trapped, why didn't Li Banfeng run?

Lin Li was furious and just about to get up when he suddenly noticed an intoxicating wine aroma.

Where did the wine aroma come from?

It seemed to come from himself.

This was the second step of the tactic: splashing wine.

While the rocks were exploding, splash wine on Lin Li.

It was just that this step of the tactic was very difficult to execute; Li Banfeng also had to dodge rocks and had no opportunity to splash wine.

But this didn't require him to do it personally; the wine gourd had high intelligence and knew what to do and when.

While Li Banfeng was dodging gravel, the wine had already been splashed.

The wine gourd reminded him: "Little brother, set it on fire!"

Li Banfeng struck a match on his pants, ignited it, and threw it onto Lin Li.

Flames erupted all over Lin Li's body, and he let out a miserable cry.

He rolled on the ground, wanting to extinguish the fire, but it was to no avail.

This was the Medicine King's medicinal wine; how could it be so easy to extinguish?

Before he could find an opportunity to extinguish the fire, the Tang Dao had already been unsheathed, and it stabbed into Lin Li's chest.

Lin Li endured the severe pain, took out the longbow from his back, quickly nocked an arrow, and prepared to shoot Li Banfeng.

The pendulum stepped forward, cut the bowstring, and then slashed at Lin Li's neck, struggling to suck blood.

The third step of the tactic: grab your weapons and go.

Grab all the weapons you can, and go!

Li Banfeng threw out the sickle, hooking it onto Lin Li's skull; he took out the shovel again and was just about to throw it out when he suddenly felt his wrist being entangled by something.

It was wild grass.

A stalk of wild grass as tall as a person extended its stem and tightly entangled Li Banfeng's wrist.

Li Banfeng switched the shovel to his left hand and severed the wild grass, but two more stalks of wild grass entangled Li Banfeng's legs.

A large amount of wild grass all around was growing crazily toward Li Banfeng.

Lin Li was counterattacking.

"Grass cultivator!" The wine gourd shouted and splashed some wine onto the wild grass on Li Banfeng's body.

"Set it on fire!" The wine gourd reminded him again.

Li Banfeng was truly worried about burning himself, but the wine gourd had a sense of proportion; the flames only burned the grass leaves on Li Banfeng's body clean and didn't harm Li Banfeng in the slightest.

At the same time, a large patch of green grass wrapped around Lin Li's body, and the fire on his body was finally extinguished.

A strip of green grass entangled the Tang Dao and struggled to pull it out.

Lin Li didn't want to counterattack anymore; he wanted to escape.

The sickle was pulled out, and the pendulum was also pulled out.

Although he had been sucked of a large amount of blood, had been stabbed in the chest, had a hole cut in his skull, and was covered in burns, the severely injured Lin Li could still use techniques.

A large amount of wild grass wrapped him up like a mummy, and he moved rapidly through the grass.

He wanted to find the Blood-Toothed Monster.

He was very afraid of the Blood-Toothed Monster, but he also hated the Blood-Toothed Monster.

But now the Blood-Toothed Monster was the only person who could save him.

Where was the Blood-Toothed Monster?

He should be at the summit, in his lair.

He will definitely save me, definitely...

Hiss, the grass leaves on Lin Li's body slowly loosened.

He couldn't continue to maintain his magic power.

He could barely withstand the burns and knife wounds, but the sickle was poisonous, and he couldn't withstand it anymore.

That was the highly toxic Blue-Leaf Poplar, and it had also been refined by the Copper Lotus; for Lin Li to be able to hold on until now was already truly not easy.

The Tang Dao rushed forward and delivered another blow to Lin Li's throat.

The pendulum took the opportunity to step forward and suck its fill of blood.

The wine gourd laughed and praised: "Good wine, good wine indeed!"

The magic treasure given by Yao Lao is truly good; the wine gourd made a great contribution in this battle!

Looking at the wine gourd, Li Banfeng was somewhat lost in thought.

As a local deity, Yao Lao could be considered the best of good people.

He knew I would encounter danger on the road; he told me the method to avoid danger and also gave me the means to avoid danger.

But there was one person who also knew I would experience many dangers; the situation at that time was much more dangerous than the current one, because at that time I didn't understand anything.

He told me to make a phone call.

He suddenly appeared in front of me.

He dragged me into a life-and-death game.

But he didn't tell me anything.

Before this, he hadn't even mentioned Puluo Province.

As for the things he gave me, I don't know if they were given by him, I don't know what his purpose was, and I don't know if I can keep these things.

Having been stared at by Li Banfeng for a long time, the wine gourd felt somewhat hot.

"Little brother, don't keep staring at your sister like that."

Li Banfeng smiled: "Sister is so beautiful, is it not allowed to look?"

"How old are you, and you dare to tease me?" The wine gourd sprayed a mist of wine onto Li Banfeng's face, seeming somewhat angry.

Li Banfeng touched the wine gourd: "Blood-Yashan bears witness, I sincerely admire you, sister."

The mountain rocks didn't move, proving that Li Banfeng was telling the truth.

The gourd laughed several times.

Blood-Yashan is truly an interesting place.

Li Banfeng brought Lin Li's corpse back to the Suishenju; this battle had caused quite a commotion, so taking advantage of the fact that the Blood-Toothed Monster hadn't caught up yet, Li Banfeng hurriedly went down the mountain.

Walking to the foot of the mountain, Li Banfeng whispered: "I didn't kill Lin Li."

Bang!

A mountain rock shattered immediately.

Even whispering it doesn't work?

Then I'll just say it loudly!

Li Banfeng shouted toward Blood-Yashan: "I am a good person!"

Blood-Yashan had no reaction.

Li Banfeng shouted again: "My wife is also a good person!"

Blood-Yashan still had no reaction.

Li Banfeng shouted again: "My whole family are good people."

No rocks shattered.

Then what about that person?

Is he a good person?

Li Banfeng shouted again: "I don't think he is a good person!"

A breeze blew by, and the mountain was silent.

Li Banfeng was very satisfied with this result.

He took off his top hat and brushed the gravel and dust off it.

He put the top hat back on and turned to walk into the night.

PS: Who exactly is that person? Why isn't he a good person?

(End of chapter)