Wizard: I crush legends with martial arts.

Chapter 169 Harvest

In extreme pain, the giant python hissed incessantly, its body convulsing violently as if the world were turning upside down. Its massive body writhed and twitched wildly, rolling and thrashing about, sending the surrounding demonic ape corpses flying everywhere.

The impact created numerous pits in the rocky ground, sending dust flying and scattering gravel everywhere.

Alphonse had already led Riske to the side.

The saying goes, "Even a centipede with a hundred legs does not fall down when it dies."

Even if a snake's head is chopped off, it can still struggle for a long time.

This is because the snake's nervous system is quite remarkable. Its neurons are distributed throughout the body, which means that even if the snake's head is cut off, many neurons are still located in other parts of the body. These neurons can continue to receive and send signals, allowing other parts to continue to function.

Those who have personally killed a snake should have a profound understanding.

After struggling for a while, the giant python finally collapsed on the ground, barely alive. Part of its body was turned upside down, and it looked like it was close to death, even if it wasn't dead yet.

Alphonse cautiously took a few steps forward, flicked his finger, and several sharp sword pellets struck the python.

The python merely trembled violently, without making any other movements.

Even when it's alive, it's not afraid of it, let alone when the python is nearing death.

But we should also be wary.

If I'm not mistaken, it will definitely launch a desperate attack.

Sure enough, just as they moved a little closer, a sudden change occurred. The giant python's head sprang up from the ground, opened its blood-red maw, and viciously lunged at Alphonse.

Alphonse was prepared. With a nimble movement, he circled around the giant python and then flicked his thumb, sending another powerful sword strike into the python's mouth.

The final attack failed, and instead, it was struck again. The half of the giant python's body that had been raised convulsed violently in mid-air before finally crashing heavily onto the rocky ground, creating another large crater before finally falling still.

Alphonse was relieved. Through his spiritual senses, he could tell that the python's aura was almost imperceptible and was still fading away. It could no longer resist the approach of death.

The snake blood spilled all over the ground, and it was all wasted.

However, it's not like there's nothing to be gained from it. Generally speaking, the gallbladder of such a large python is very beneficial for internal energy cultivation.

Alphonse drew his fingers together like a sword, and a sharp, righteous sword light immediately shot out from the tip of his fingers.

In my previous life, when I was wandering the world, I often disemboweled the wild beasts I killed.

Whether you're a chivalrous hero or a villain, you still need to eat.

Without a means of livelihood and without money, they can only kill wild animals to fill their stomachs or resort to robbery. The righteous can usually come up with a reason, euphemistically called "robbing the rich to help the poor." Truly kind-hearted chivalrous people will even help the poor. The more hypocritical ones will simply rob others of their wealth to help their own poverty.

Piercing the sword into the giant python's abdomen was still somewhat difficult, with many obstacles, but once the scales were broken, cutting through the flesh became much easier.

Alphonse didn't find the exposed python flesh and blood particularly disgusting, except that it smelled rather unpleasant, quite fishy and pungent.

After searching, we found the python's stomach.

This thing must not be broken. It's obvious that the demonic ape corpse it swallowed has already been partially digested. If all the contents of its stomach were to leak out, the smell would be nauseating.

He reached in again and rummaged around for a while, finally managing to remove the snake gallbladder, which was almost the size of a person's head.

Alphonse had never seen such a large snake gallbladder before.

Without clean water, there's no way to wash away the bloodstains on the snake gallbladder; you can only remove the white veins attached to it.

It feels quite cool to the touch, and the gallbladder is full, like a large water bag. Through the thin outer wall, you can see the yellowish bile inside, as if it is flowing.

The snake's gallbladder is too large to swallow whole; that's definitely impossible.

After thinking for a moment, Alphonse decided to make a small incision at the top of his gallbladder and swallow large gulps of bile.

The bitterness of snake gallbladders far exceeded Alphonse's expectations; it felt even worse than eating raw Coptis chinensis.

But he could only force himself to swallow it.

Bile is not only unbearably bitter, but also very cold, much like drinking ice water, except that it is thicker.

But once the bitterness subsides, you instantly feel your tongue moisten, and a cool, sweet taste spreads throughout your mouth.

It was expected that snake gall would have a sweet aftertaste.

My mouth finally didn't taste so bitter anymore.

Ordinary people really need to be careful when swallowing snake gallbladders raw. Wild snakes usually have sparganum parasites in their bodies, especially snake gallbladders, and many people have been infected by eating raw snake gallbladders.

Alphonse dared to swallow bile raw only because he possessed the extraordinary innate formless divine skill that prevented foreign objects from entering his body.

The reason the opening was made at the top of the gallbladder, instead of piercing it from below with a sword, was because Alphonse had an idea.

Although the gallbladder appears to have a thin outer skin, it is extremely elastic and quite tough. If it weren't for the exceptionally sharp light sword formed by the righteous sword, it would be difficult to pierce it.

A gallbladder that has been drained of bile can be used to make a water bag; if you can find clean water, you'll have something to hold it.

Rare medicinal materials like python gallbladders are most effective when they are made into pills by a pharmacist. Swallowing them like this is a waste of medicinal power. But being in this cave, we can't expect too much.

Suddenly, Alphonse felt a surge of hot heat rising in his stomach.

Alphonse understood that it was the python's bile that was working.

He immediately rushed into the nearest cave and ordered Riske to guard the entrance. Only then did Alphonse stand upside down and begin to circulate his energy.

At this moment, his abdomen became incredibly hot, as if a fire had been set off, and his whole body became burning hot.

Alphonse focused his mind and followed the key points of the fourth level of the Innate Formless Divine Skill, guiding the heat flow and true qi to merge and be sent out from the dantian along the meridians, circulating them in a continuous cycle.

I don't know how much time passed, but the medicinal effects of the bile were finally fully absorbed.

His damaged vital energy was fully replenished, and his internal strength even increased out of nowhere.

His spirits were also extremely high, and his senses and mind seemed to be much more agile than before.

Alphonse did not stop circulating his energy, and took the opportunity to refine the absorbed Yin energy as well.

Using a woman who practices the Heavenly Demon Sect's techniques as a furnace to absorb her primordial yin energy does not merely bring about a slight increase in power; it has its own unique effects, and each woman can only do this once.

After practicing for a long time, Alphonse slowly opened his eyes. His meridians had been strengthened many times over. Although his power did not increase immediately, his true energy increased, but it became much purer. As long as he continued to cultivate diligently, he would surely achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Now, after being cleansed by the power of primordial yin, the dantian and dantian have transformed from a puddle into a pool of water, and every acupoint and meridian has been reborn.

(End of this chapter)