Chapter 496

You! You damn it!!

Yan Buji was soaked in blood all over; since entering the Abnormal Zone, he had spent thirty-two days total, thirty of them fighting, and the remaining two days he hadn't even walked a few hundred meters before clashing with Abnormal Beasts.

Besides that, there were actually idiots who, seeing his momentum waning and his multiple injuries, wanted to take advantage of his weakness!

"Hahaha, kid, you're dead today. Hand over your storage bag obediently, and I'll leave you a whole corpse!"

"Fourth Brother is right; our Black Wind Sea Pirate Gang does what we say, but if your whole corpse gets eaten by an Abnormal Beast, don't blame us. Hahaha!"

The two early Nascent Soul cultivators before him were also from the Black Wind Sea Pirate Gang, and the idiot Yan Buji had cursed were also them.

"I really didn't expect the Abnormal Zone to be this dangerous; you Black Wind Sea Pirate Gang aren't thinking of joining forces to explore together, but instead you're ambushing us midway!" Yan Buji gritted his teeth, pressed his chest wound, and staggered to his feet.

As he spoke, Yan Buji took out the Sea Kun Hammer; the frustration welling up in his chest turned into fury, and he activated Sudden Fury!

"Still putting up a desperate resistance? You're asking for death!"

"You damned ones!!!"

As he spoke, Yan Buji charged forward, and the two Nascent Soul cultivators hastily retreated.

But at that moment, Yan Buji suddenly pulled something else from his storage bag and threw it at them!

"Big Brother's True Phoenix Bow—how is it in your hands?!"

The two men widened their eyes, their bodies freezing for a moment!

But in the next instant, they reacted immediately, and vines appeared beneath their feet, wrapping around their legs.

"Laughable, a mere technique below Golden Core level, and you think it can trap us?!"

"Damn it, what happened to Big Brother, and how did his True Phoenix Bow end up in your hands?!"

The two broke through the entangling wood snake Yan Buji had set and fled left and right; at that moment, Yan Buji let out a sudden sigh of relief.

"You've fallen into my trap!"

"What?!"

"Dodge quickly, there's a trap on the True Phoenix Bow!" The left-side cultivator reacted, immediately shouting at his companion who wanted to take the True Phoenix Bow.

That person hadn't reacted yet and had already grabbed the True Phoenix Bow in his palm!

Crack!

Ahhh!!!

As a bolt of purple lightning surged from within the True Phoenix Bow, the Violet Firmament Divine Thunder Seed exploded, electrocuting him so violently he twitched on the spot.

"Damn, you...."

Sizzle!!

Boom!

Another bolt of purple electricity shot up from the ground; that person stared in disbelief at Yan Buji charging over: "When..... "

"I'd already calculated your escape routes—did you really think I'd fought you so hard just now and left no backup?"

Clang!

Bang!

Accompanied by Yan Buji's vengeful hammer strike, that person was smashed into meat paste on the spot!

Thereafter, Yan Buji again activated Instant Shadow Step, flashed beside that person, and smashed his skull with a hammer!

After dealing with the enemies, Yan Buji leaned on the Sea Kun Hammer, reaching out to collect the Nascent Souls, but saw that the two cultivators' Nascent Souls had already vanished.

Yan Buji relaxed, lowered his hand, and recovered: "Have they already died once? It's truly amazing that after seizing another body they could still cultivate to Nascent Soul stage."

After catching his breath, he had just picked up that person's storage bag and True Phoenix Bow from the ground when he suddenly turned his head.

Damn it!!

An Abnormal Beast the size of an elephant, resembling a crocodile, with human faces growing on its scale-covered body and horns on its forehead, was gnawing at the nearby corpse.

Roar!!

Run!

Another sixth-stage Abnormal Beast!

Yan Buji, without a word, hoisted the Sea Kun Hammer and fled.

Half a day passed.

Rumble!

Three people stood before the Abnormal Beast's corpse, letting out a sigh of relief.

"Why is this crocodile so hard to kill?"

"Thanks to Fellow Daoist Wu Qian's spirit cannon shattering the scales of this sixth-stage Abnormal Beast, otherwise it wouldn't have been so easy to deal with." Xiao Ran relaxed, eyes shining as he looked at Wu Qian's bull shield in his hand.

Wu Qian chuckled: "Fellow Daoist Xiao, you overpraise me; this Abnormal Beast is extraordinary, and it's only thanks to Fellow Daoist Xiao that we could solve it—here, take it."

"That's not great; let's first dissect it to see what materials we have."

Xiao Ran crouched, drew a small curved blade glinting with cold light, and began cutting the Abnormal Beast's corpse.

Ling Yan glanced around, suddenly frowned, a red flash flickered in her eyes as she looked nearby: "Eh, is this... a smashed head? What a bloody killing method."

Wu Qian walked over, examined closely: "Huh, this isn't someone killed by an Abnormal Beast, is it?"

Ling Yan nodded: "Although it's been corroded quite a bit by the Abnormal Zone's Mutant Force, the cause of death wasn't being killed by an Abnormal Beast. Xiao Ran, does the beast's belly still contain any uneaten corpses?"

"Yes! Pretty disgusting, hey, the storage bag is still there—lucky break." Xiao Ran laughed, set the storage bag aside, and pulled out a straight spine!

"Mutant Force Bone!" Xiao Ran's eyes lit up.

Wu Qian and Ling Yan walked over, smiling: "There's also good news—we might have found Fellow Daoist Xu Long's trail."

"Oh? Could it be that Xu Long previously fought someone here? Indeed, the beast's belly contains too much corpse tissue—likely from two people." Xiao Ran frowned.

To be frank, in this Abnormal Zone, there's only one reason for people to come to blows.

Killing for treasure.

Although a storage bag was found in the abnormal beast's belly, it's also possible that Xu Long, after killing someone, didn't have time to clean up the battlefield before encountering this abnormal beast, and ended up entirely inside its belly.

Wu Qian said silently: "Hmm, Xu Long wouldn't kill for no reason; since he acted, he must have his own difficulties."

Wu Qian's explanation feels a bit far-fetched; he also wants to believe Xu Long, but after all, they've only known each other for less than a year.

"Wait, this is... the symbol of the Black Wind Pirate Group?" Ling Yan looked at the storage bag beside her and suddenly said.

Xiao Ran stared: "Black Wind Pirate Group?"

Wu Qian's eyes lit up: "So that means the Black Wind Pirate Group wanted to kill Xu Long, and Xu Long was forced into fighting them."

"Is that so?" Xiao Ran found it strange, after all, he didn't know Xu Long, nor the Black Wind Pirate Group.

Ling Yan pondered: "Let's see what's inside this storage bag."

"Mm."

Xiao Ran wiped away the seal on the storage bag, opened it, and dumped out its contents.

There weren't many spiritual stones or pills, but there were plenty of spiritual materials, cultivation manuals, and classics; even several corpses of Nascent Soul cultivators.

"These aren't the few from our team..." Ling Yan's expression turned grim.

Xiao Ran let out a breath: "It seems Xu Long really was ambushed by those two Black Wind Pirate members."

"Yeah." Wu Qian smiled: "Xu Long is also a person who understands righteousness; it's impossible for him to think about killing and looting in such a situation."

Xiao Ran nodded, seeing the corpses in the Black Wind Pirate's storage bag; although he had never met Xu Long, Wu Qian's trust in him provides some assurance.

Although we cannot let our guard down.

"Alright, let's divide the spoils; it looks like Fellow Daoist Xu Long is just ahead." Xiao Ran said.

"Okay."