Chapter 12: This is how you use a bow! Fourth update

  "Hmm." Tang Lin stretched out his hand to pull the bowstring and tested its elasticity.

  "This Thousand Scales White Tail Python's body method is so agile, let alone bows and arrows, even knives and swords are hard to chop, how can you use a bow and arrow to shoot its seven inches or eyes?"

  Tang Lin didn't want to say more, turned around and walked to a high rock beside him, watching the pitch-black Thousand Scales White Tail Python slowly swim from the center of the lake to the shallow beach at the edge.

  Hiss...

  A thousand scales of white tail python swallowed and spat out the snake core, raising its head from the water to gaze at the humans on the shore, with a cold and eerie glint in its eyes that flashed with a fierce light.

  "Hiss!" The white-tailed python let out a hiss.

  Many water snakes immediately floated up from the lake, all with thick arms, cultivated for over a hundred years, possessing spiritual intelligence. They opened their ferocious mouths and swam towards the shore.

  Long Jian's eyebrows furrowed as he watched, and he growled: "Shield Sword Formation!"

  A dozen or so martial artists immediately raised the shields in their hands, piecing them together to form a huge circular shield. From the small gaps between the shields, sword tips were arrayed in wait; as soon as those water snakes swam up onto the circular shield, they would instantly thrust out swords from these gaps.

  Tang Lin stood on the high rock, seeing a large patch of black snakes surging up to the shore, his scalp numb, he put the quiver on his back, grasped the bow and arrow tightly, ready to respond to any sudden situation at any time.

  A large group of snakes pounced on the round shield, baring their ferocious teeth at Longjian and others.

  Pffft! Pffft! Pffft!

  A sharp sword blade suddenly thrust out from the round shield, piercing through the belly of these water snakes and cutting open a bloody mouth.

  Don't stop!

  Gurgling sounds continued, one by one the water snakes' bodies convulsed and fell off the round shield, while even more water snakes began to dodge around the round shield, encircling it from both sides.

  "Ah!" A young man's hand grasping the shield was bitten by a thick water snake, its body instantly wrapped around it, constricting his arm into deformation, shattering bones into powder.

  The rest of the people did not dare to be careless, drew out their own weapons and immediately confronted the snakes.

  "They all sprinkled the yellow realgar powder." Long Jian shouted loudly.

  Everyone immediately took out the previously prepared realgar powder from their waist bags and sprinkled it on their bodies. These ferocious water snakes immediately retreated, and the strong smell of the realgar powder gathered together, almost paralyzing them.

  A thousand scales of white tail python in the water suddenly let out a loud hiss, and a thick and intense aura burst forth from its body. Its body instantly transformed into a whirlwind, sweeping towards the shore.

  "Die!" A pair of scarlet eyes glared out from within the eerie wind.

  Whoosh!

  A robust man was engulfed in the gray whirlwind, and his body immediately showed countless wounds. His skin and flesh were quickly torn apart, revealing white bones on the outside.

  Tang Lin gazed intently at the white-tailed python beside him, waiting for an opportunity. Seeing that it was devouring the flesh and blood of the robust man, he immediately raised his bow and arrow, nocked the arrow, took a deep breath, and aimed.

  Launch!

  Whoosh!

  The arrow shot out like a sharp ray of light, flying straight and fast, its speed was astonishing, nailed to the top of this gust of wind.

  The tempered iron arrowhead attached to Tang Lin's energy, directly hitting the thousand-scale white-tailed python. Tang Lin succeeded with one strike, his palm popping continuously, his hand speed was so fast that it made people's eyes unable to keep up, only seeing rows of arrows shooting out like raindrops.

  Boom boom boom...

  A burst of arrows shot out in all directions.

  This thousand-scale white-tailed python did not expect that there would be human warriors here, and it thought in its heart that even if there were human warriors, when it appeared, it could swim into the water to hide, but it didn't think that before it had time to react, its body was shot with dozens of arrow holes.

  "Change, change, I'm changing!" The Qian Lin White Tail Python roared, its body transforming into various shapes, one moment a small fly, the next a mosquito, then a bee, and then a flying ant.

  Tang Lin's gaze was fixed tightly on the thousand-scale white-tailed python, watching as it transformed into a fly. His brow furrowed, he swiftly drew two arrows from his quiver. The first one was drawn to half its length, while the second had its string pulled taut. The two arrows shot out in quick succession, with the latter catching up to the former and striking the tail segment of the arrow, shattering it with its sharp head.

  Boom!

  The shattered fragments of the arrow shot forth and struck that slender white-tailed serpent.

  The way of the yokai's transformation has a weakness, the smaller it becomes, the less power it can exert. If it transforms into an ant, although it would be more powerful than a normal ant, it feels like it cannot lift a boulder that weighs several hundred kilograms.

  If it becomes extremely large, then action will become slow.

  At this moment, the trajectory of the arrow fragment was not heavy, but when it hit the fly, it bounced the entire fly.

  Next to Long Jian and Zhou Ji, their mouths were wide open in shock, their faces full of mistakes. From their eyes, they could only see that Tang Lin's hand was holding the bowstring, which had a residual shadow, always in a full string state, with arrow after arrow shooting out like raindrops, at an astonishing speed.

  "This... " Zhou Ji's throat rolled, "This hand speed is really too frightening, right?"

  Long Jian was stunned and stood still.

  Whoosh!

  That fly transformed into a thousand-scaled white-tailed python, its entire body covered in fresh blood, scales scattered and falling off, looking extremely pathetic. After transforming back to its original form, it immediately shot towards the lake water.

  Long Jian woke up with a start and hastily shouted: "Quickly, stop it!"

  Once this white-tailed python is released back into the lake, it will be like a fish in the sea, and it will be impossible to hunt again.

  Tang Lin's speed was extremely fast, he kicked off from the rock, raised his battle knife with his palm, and stepped on the water waves, chasing after that thousand-scale white-tailed python.

  "Die!" The war knife in his hand flew out suddenly and stabbed towards the tail of the white-tailed python.

  As it was offshore and shallow, the several-dozen-jin war knife, under Tang Lin's powerful throw, had a force of over a thousand jun, quickly sinking into the water, pinning the tail of this white-tailed python to the sandstone.

  Tang Lin's body fell, and he jumped into the lake, grabbing the tail of the white-tailed python with both hands. With a loud roar, he lifted its body and swung it towards the shore.

  Long Jian and others watched with their hearts trembling, never expecting Tang Lin to be so brave, especially his reaction speed and adaptability, which were completely unlike those of a young man.

  "Get it!" Zhang Qing shouted as soon as he saw the white-tailed python slither back onto the shore.

  A dozen people immediately surrounded him.

  Tang Lin raised his battle knife and killed the shore, looking at the thousand scales of white tail python struggling on the ground, cold hum, hand knife chopped down, directly cut off at the seventh inch, snake head fell to the ground, all things rest.

  All of this happened in just a few breaths, and everyone was shocked to the point of breaking out in cold sweat. The gazes directed at Tang Lin were filled with shock, whether it was the unimaginable super-fast archery or the enormous strength that had discarded the Thousand Scales White Tail Python, all of it seemed like the work of a war god, carrying an unstoppable aura.

  "Bow for you." Tang Lin threw the bow at Zhou Ji.

  Zhou Ji caught it blankly, looking at the cow horn bow in his hand, and it was really hard to imagine that such an ordinary large bow could actually force the Thousand Scales White Tail Python to be covered in wounds.

  Tang Lin looked at the Qian Lin Bai Wei snake's tail which had gradually stopped twitching, and said to Long Jian: "I'm starting to select materials."

  "Uh-huh." Long Jian hastily nodded.

  Wu Ren, who was standing beside him, looked pleased and said to Tang Lin: "Sir, the most valuable part of this thousand-scale white-tailed python is its snake gall. Since we relied on you this time, why don't you take it?"

  When he heard this, Zhou Ji's face looked a bit ugly, but because of the powerful strength that Tang Lin had just shown, he couldn't say much, and could only remain silent.

  Tang Lin smiled slightly and said, "No need, I'll just choose Snake Tail, Snake Scales, and Snake Head, three items."

  "Snake tail and snake head?" Everyone was stunned.

  If they said Tang Lin chose the snake scales, they could still understand that the white-tailed python's scales were sharp and fierce, making them top-notch materials for crafting armor. However, the snake tail and head were completely useless. In general, a python's skull contained nothing but venom apart from its bones.

  As for the snake tail, it's even less valuable. Although some medicinal materials use the snake tail as a guide, compared to the snake gall, it is negligible.

  "Sir, this..." Wu Ren grew somewhat anxious.

  Zhou Ji was secretly delighted and somewhat grateful to Tang Lin. He deeply understood human emotions and worldly affairs, knowing that at this moment, if Tang Lin asked for the snake's gallbladder, Long Jian would definitely agree.

  "Snake gall... " Tang Lin looked at some people's sympathetic expressions and secretly smiled to himself: "If they knew, I just didn't like snake gall, that's why I didn't want it, who knows what they would think?"

  In fact, when he knew the target of this hunt, he had asked Xiao Hui and learned that the most precious material on the body of Qian Lin Bai Wei Mang was the three things he wanted.

  Gallbladder?

  Compared with snake scales and snake head and tail, it's completely rubbish!

  "Since it's like that." Long Jian looked at Tang Lin and smiled: "Then I won't force the issue, Dragon Tiger Gang will remember your kindness."

  Tang Lin waved his hand, bent down to open his own package, put the cut snake head into it, and then cut off a section of white snake tail. He used his knife to peel off the snake scales and also put them into the package.

  After he finished selecting, Zhou Ji opened the snake's belly and took out the snake gall, which was a purple snake gall the size of a chicken egg. He seemed to be worried that it would break, so he swallowed it on the spot.

  Gulu~

  Tang Lin saw his Adam's apple rising high.

  "Huh?" Zhou Ji swallowed the snake gall, and his face suddenly changed. His two hands grasped his throat tightly, his face twisted in a terrifying scowl, as if he was about to strangle himself. On his face, a black gas surged out, followed by a stream of foul-smelling black blood gushing from his eye sockets and ears.

  "Not good!" Long Jian reacted extremely quickly, blocking the people around from approaching, saying: "He's been poisoned."

  "How is this possible?" Someone asked incredulously: "Is the snake's gall poisonous?"

  Long Jian lowered his head to look at the snake's body, furrowed his brow and said: "It should be that he was too hasty when he swallowed it just now and didn't clean up properly, or else, his throat burst the snake gall when swallowing."

  Everyone recalled the egg-sized snake gall, and their hearts were chilled. Who would have thought that this extremely precious snake gall would ultimately become a poison, killing Zhou Ji on the spot?

  In the blink of an eye, Zhou Ji's eyes bulged out, filled with ferocity and horror, despair and unwillingness, his mouth agape, his entire body losing its luster, black blood seeping out from his ears, nostrils, and pores all over his skin.

  In the blink of an eye, his body fell down and turned into a corpse filled with deadly poison.

  Tang Lin was somewhat shocked, not expecting the venom of this thousand-scale white-tailed python to be so potent. Fortunately, he hadn't swallowed the snake gall, or else it would have been him who fell down at this moment.

  ……

  Four updates are complete, sigh, took a deep breath, although it's already five o'clock, but finally finished, went to sleep. Just looked at the recommendation votes, heartbroken, four updates burst, and the recommendation votes didn't seem to increase much. Brothers, don't be discouraged, please support me~~~!!