Dragon's Soul Chapter 12: Man vs Beast

"Okay!! But be careful and come back in one piece!", Yuying yelled back.

Zhang nodded and headed off into the forest with a smile plastered on his face. Although it was dangerous to go into the forest now, he felt that there was a huge harvest waiting for him.

From the Lightning Eater's mouth, a strange liquid was leaking out and whatever this liquid touched it would begin to corrode. This most likely was the snake's poison being a level 8 demonic beast, it's poison was extremely fearful.

"This might come in handy later.", he said as he crouched down, as he used the canteen made out of essence to fill it with as much poison as he could dripping out of the Lightning Eaters mouth.

But using the Underworld Heart, Zhang was able to condense pure essence into a canteen. This canteen being made of essence would naturally be very sturdy but Zhang would have to keep channeling a bit of essence into it or else it would disappear.

The Lightning Eater had some especially big scales that grew on its head. These large scales could be used as shields or breast plates, whereas the skin itself with the small scales could be used as chainmail.

Clang!

His sword bounced right off not even scratching the skin. Regular blades wouldn't even be able to scratch the Lightning Eater's skin and scales. Let alone Zhang's rusty sword that was as dull as a butter knife.

Zhang was in the middle of a dilemma, he did not know how he could get some of the snake's skin and there was no way he was going to leave such a treasure alone and leave without any part of it.

"How did this end up here?", he thought,

The skin and scale had most likely fell off during the fight with the ape.

The left side of the snake's 2nd head had a huge gash and the skin and scales were sticking out and ripped to shreds. This was perfect for Zhang, and he walked up and began plucking the scales and playing them in a huge sack he had made out of essence. The torn pieces of skin that was barely attached to the corpse was also plundered.

As the fires raged, a big part of the forest was set ablaze so he had no time to waste. Zhang quickly mapped out a path in his mind and navigated through the burning forest to the body of the Frost Emperor Ape.

A Voracious Eater was feasting on the Frost Apes remains. It was gorging itself with the Frost Ape.

Demonic beasts unlike humans kept all their essence stored up in a core within their bodies. These cores were extremely valuable and very beneficial for cultivation. They could be melted and then fused with herbs to make pills.

Upon pulling the core out of the ape's chest the voracious eater began gnawing on it.  A short while passed and the entire core was consumed.

Thanks to the core of the ape it had advanced into the next level.

Zhang turned back and began to walk away into the forest. As Zhang walked away something followed him.

Then out of nowhere a big shadow pounced at him from a bush. It was the now level 8 three eyed voracious eater.

"You damn glut; you just ate that huge frost ape and now you want a piece of me?"

A stream of corrosive poison flowed out of the canteen and splashed onto the charging beast.

Howling and scratching at its face, the lion was rolling about on the ground.

The lion sensed that Zhang was trying to get away fell into a raged frenzy, ignoring its pain, it rushed after Zhang.

As the two of them dashed through the burning forest, Zhang was barely able to stay in front of the lion, had it not been for the trees he would have been caught long ago.

Soon the corpse of the Lightning Eater was in sight and a smile appeared on Zhang's face.

The Voracious Eater was filled with rage because Zhang had blinded one of its eyes and badly damaged a part of its face with the Lightning Eaters poison.

In response to Zhang's taunt, an extremely loud roar echoed out of the Voracious Eater's mouth.

Zhang had a broad smile across his face as he watched it rush toward him.

Behind Zhang was a small pond that had formed beside the Lightning Eater's corpse. This pond was made entirely of corrosive poison.

Zhang watched as the beast slowly turned into nothing and laughed.

"This poison….. I NEED MORE!!! Hahaha" Zhang laughed as he formed another canteen and filled it with poison.

These things could not be easily found for sale anywhere and even if they were, it would cost a fortune to acquire them.

However, before he even made it half way back he heard a couple voices.

As he looked in the direction of the voice he saw Yuying and Ai.

Zhang ran up to the two of them and as they went back to where the raft was he narrated the events that had occurred.

After reaching the raft, the two girls hopped on while Zhang pushed it out into the water once more.

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Since they had a large amount of fur, and the raft was basically the size of a barge, the trio had made a hut out of fur to sleep in. However, the two girls would sleep together as Zhang slept in a corner of the hut alone.

It had been a smooth sailing so far however, black clouds could be seen in the distance.

"Then me and sis should go put everything that shouldn't get wet into the hut!!", Ai said cheerfully.

He could not refuse neither of the beauties when they made puppy eyes at him and begged him to do something. Well, who could?

Seeing a ship made Zhang excited, this was an opportunity to come in contact with civilization. The sailors on the ship must have set sail from a port and was currently headed towards one so they'd be able to give Zhang general directions back to the port.

However, the ship was far distance away from the raft. And there was no way to be sure that they'd be spotted on the raft by the people on the ship who were caught up in a storm.

An hour or so later, the raft entered the storm. The winds howled as the waves towered above one another. Lightning rained down from the sky and an endless amount of rain sprinkled down from above.

Occasionally, Zhang would peak out of the opening of the hut and see if he could spot the ship from before.

"Brother tell us about the kingdom you came from?" Yuying asked.

Telling stories and jokes was the main source of entertainment within the hut and it kept everyone occupied and not bored. It also helped them bond with each other.

"What the... That couldn't be", he murmured.

BANG!!! A blinding lightning bolt had snaked down from the sky and struck the surface of the water.

"It must have been a saint.", Zhang mumbled

"Nothing. So back to that story!"

The storm had raged on for three days and three nights before dispersing. The sun came out of its hiding and began to shine once more.

A school of dolphins could be seen frolicking in the distance and after a while, they began swimming alongside the raft.

It was the first time anyone in the trio had seen a dolphin so they were very excited and continued to watch the dolphins for hours.

Zhang grabbed the oars and began rowing. He became hell-bent on reaching that ship. It was his ticket back home and he couldn't afford to lose sight of it a second time. Because if not, Zhang wasn't sure if they'd ever make it back to civilization. None of the members of the trio knew how to navigate at sea so they had no way of knowing what direction they were even going.

Soon, he was able to see people on top of the bow of the ship.

Soon after, the two girls joined in and began swinging their arms side to side.

A mid-aged man with long black hair tied in a ponytail walked onto the raft from the dingy. As the man stepped onto the raft, the first thing he noticed was the two beauties aboard and the next thing he noticed was the many commodities on the raft.

"My name is Zhang and this is Yuying and that is Ai. We have been stranded at sea for months and was hoping that you could help us reach land.", Zhang said.

"Many thanks sir.", Yuying said.

After seeing the flare, his ship began moving towards the raft.

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