Chapter 241 - 238: I Want Its Talent
And they all possessed the same talents.
[Poison Resistance (Green), Poisonous Stinger (Blue)]
From just these two types of talent entries, Lin Yi plundered nearly twenty of them.
While Wei Shang wasn't looking, he immediately chose to upgrade them consecutively.
[Poison Resistance (Green) → Poison Evasion (Blue)]
[Poison Evasion (Blue) → Immune to All Poisons (Purple)]
[Poisonous Stinger (Blue) → Venom Tempering (Purple)]
After Lin Yi finished upgrading all the talent entries he had just obtained,
he ended up with two purple talent entries.
Lin Yi smiled and nodded.
Both of these talent entries were passive abilities.
In other words, from now on, when facing poisonous attacks,
Lin Yi would basically be immune.
As for that Venom Tempering...
[Venom Tempering (Purple): Temper the venom within your body onto any object, imbuing it with poison!]
After reading the talent's description,
'It's pretty useful. For example, I can temper the venom onto my weapon.'
'Then, when I fight demon beasts or other strange creatures,'
'as long as I wound them, the venom will quickly enter their bloodstream.'
'It will slowly poison them to death.'
This could be considered a hidden trump card.
Lin Yi was quite satisfied with his gains for the night.
"Are we going to keep heading forward?"
Just then, Wei Shang walked over.
He was carrying the corpses of two Poison Pattern Scorpions and tossed them in front of Lin Yi.
"You don't want them?"
Lin Yi stored away the Poison Pattern Scorpion corpses, asking with some confusion.
Throughout their continuous battles,
whether it was the earlier Worm-like Creature or these Poison Pattern Scorpions, Wei Shang hadn't taken a single one.
He had let Lin Yi take them all.
Wei Shang smiled and shook his head. "This stuff is useless to me, and it's not worth much money either."
"I'd have to waste time selling them. I can't be bothered to keep them."
Lin Yi chuckled. "Old Wei, what's the salary like at the Town Martial Department?"
"Hm?"
Wei Shang paused, glancing up at him.
He smiled and shook his head. "It's not that much. It mainly depends on your rank. For a Bronze Martial Guard or a Silver Martial Guard, the pay is lower, maybe twenty or thirty a month."
"But a Golden Martial Guard is much higher, reaching a monthly salary of a million. And above them are the Black Gold Martial Guards, Left Martial Guards, and Right Martial Guards, whose salaries are ridiculously high!"
Hearing Wei Shang say this, Lin Yi's eyes lit up.
'The salaries in the New District are terrifyingly high. No wonder they spend money so freely.'
"What about you? What's your rank?" Lin Yi asked curiously.
"Me? Feng Lei and I are both under the Left Martial Guard. My salary is around three hundred or so."
Hearing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but suck in a sharp breath.
'No wonder he looks down on these demon beast corpses. For someone like him, it's just a waste of time.'
'He earns that much in just a month.'
'Who would be willing to waste their time picking up these corpses?'
Lin Yi didn't say anything more, instead storing all the corpses in his storage space.
He whispered, "Let's go. We'll check what's up ahead."
Wei Shang smiled and nodded, and the two continued deeper into the desert.
This desert was vast, with no end in sight.
Every step was a struggle. They would often take a single step only to sink directly into a sand pit.
By the time they used their other leg to pull themselves out, half their body would be submerged.
And this wasn't the only such sand trap.
A pit seemed to appear almost every hundred meters or so.
"The most dangerous things here aren't the demon beasts and strange creatures."
"It's the geography and the climate!"
"The sand can kill. If you get trapped, it can bury you alive!"
"So you have to be careful."
Wei Shang walked ahead, relying on his experience.
From time to time, he would share some of that experience with Lin Yi.
Lin Yi nodded, following carefully behind Wei Shang.
Suddenly, into the sweltering, quiet night, a fierce wind began to blow, sweeping up vast clouds of yellow sand.
It was as if it intended to blot out the night sky.
Even Xiaoqi, soaring at a low altitude, was blown about, teetering on the verge of falling.
"This wind isn't right..."
Lin Yi said, his brows deeply furrowed.
Wei Shang, walking ahead, also nodded.
"Be careful. We might be about to run into another demon beast."
Just as the words left his mouth, several dark figures appeared up ahead, sprinting frantically toward them.
Behind them, a massive cloud of yellow sand billowed forward, as if it were chasing the dark figures.
In the blink of an eye, the two figures lagging behind were swallowed by the sand.
And at that moment, Lin Yi saw what looked like a giant, snake-like demon beast within the sandstorm.
It was the one stirring up the wind and sand.
"Watch out! It's a Soaring Sand Snake! Be careful!"
Wei Shang's expression changed, and even his tone grew tense.
As the dark figures drew closer to Lin Yi and Wei Shang,
Lin Yi saw that they were a few students from other universities.
And their realms were all at 1-star or 2-star.
The Soaring Sand Snake chasing them was, shockingly, a 3-star Demon Beast.
"Hurry, run! The demon beast is coming!"
"Hey, you guys, run! You'll be killed if you don't..."
When they got a little closer,
the student in the lead shouted frantically.
Seeing this, Lin Yi frowned slightly.
Wei Shang, however, said directly, "You wait here. I'll go take care of it."
With that, Wei Shang's expression hardened, and golden light began to emanate from his body.
He charged toward the Soaring Sand Snake.
Leaving a streak of golden light in his wake, he reached the Soaring Sand Snake in the blink of an eye.
The roiling yellow sand immediately engulfed Wei Shang.
By this time, the few fleeing students had reached Lin Yi.
"What's going on? Did that guy just run straight to his death?"
One of them stopped, terrified, and looked back at the swirling sandstorm.
The sand had gathered in one spot, forming a constantly spinning tornado.
Fierce winds howled around it, and even more sand was swept up into the whirlwind.
It formed an even larger storm, affecting the entire area.
Lin Yi glanced at them. "You all should go. There's nothing for you to do here."
Hearing this, the students looked at each other in dismay.
"No, dude, you're not actually thinking of fighting that demon beast, are you? I'm telling you, don't go. That thing's realm is high, and it can control the wind. You'll just be committing suicide. You need to run!"
"The Wind Manipulation Technique?"
Lin Yi smiled, glancing at them.
"Yeah, the Wind Manipulation Technique! See that tornado? It created that! It also uses sand and wind to make wind blades to kill people. Several of our classmates... they were all killed by it..."
'No wonder Wei Shang seemed a little tense when he saw the Soaring Sand Snake.'
'And this is just a 3-star Soaring Sand Snake.'
'If it were a 4-star or 5-star, wouldn't it be a walking disaster?'
However, what truly interested Lin Yi was the Soaring Sand Snake's talent.
'Its talent entries... I'll be taking those...'