Ye Liuyun used his Divine Sense to lock on the black python and motioned Liang Xue to retreat. Seeing that they had retreated, the black python paid no attention to them anymore. After all, they could not pose a threat to the black python.
They took a detour to the back of the group of people and shot an arrow at the lakelet. After that, they immediately ran toward the medicinal materials.
The black python was looking at the group of people in the lake. Suddenly, an arrow came from that direction. It thought that the group of people had begun to attack him.
Therefore, it whipped away the arrow with its tail, jumped out of the water, and rushed toward the group.
There were quite a few of them, so they did not flee. Instead, they fought with the black python.
Ye Liuyun, on the other hand, was secretly approaching the medicinal herbs with Liang Xue.
The two groups fought fiercely. One of them was swallowed by the black python once they started fighting.
The black python was also beaten a few times. However, its thick and rough skin protected it against the attacks and prevented it from being defeated immediately.
"Aren't we going to take this opportunity to steal the ingredients?" Liang Xue asked in a low voice.
"It's not the right time yet. Let's wait." As he said this, he and Liang Xue continued to lurk and watched them fight from afar.
Soon, the black python was surrounded by the group, and its injuries were fatal. Even though it had a high cultivation realm, it could not resist being beaten by a group.
But the group also paid a heavy price. One of them was slapped to death, and the other was swallowed by the black python.
They were in a fierce battle.
When they were almost done with the fight, Ye Liuyun said to Liang Xue, "Hide here and don't move. I'll steal some medicinal materials."
After that, he used the Soaring Technique and flew over. First, he kept the blood vein herb before plucking the other herbs. He then picked a few golden fruits from the tree.
After picking the herbs, he and Liang Xue immediately left. But they did not go too far. Instead, they changed their location and continued to watch the battle on the other side.
At this time, the black python saw that the herbs were gone. It suddenly uttered a sad cry and fought with those people desperately. It was a bloody battle. It slapped a person to death and swallowed another person.
Seeing that the black python was suicidal, the remaining three people did not dare to fight it any longer and immediately retreated.
At this moment, the black python was slowly crawling back with blood dripping from its mouth.
"Good chance!" Ye Liuyun lunged at the black python like an arrow when he saw its condition.
He had already found a way to communicate and control the feral beasts in the Great Diffraction Soul Technique. At this time, the black python had been seriously injured, which was a good chance to tame it. If the black python was not injured, he really did not dare to try directly.
Ye Liuyun directly used a wisp of Divine Sense to rush into the black python's Ocean of Consciousness to communicate with it.
"Surrender to me. I'll give you the herbs you need for your treatment."
The black python felt the message from its Divine Sense, and its eyes could not help but shine. It was obviously curious about how this human could communicate with it.
Following this, Ye Liuyun took out another golden fruit to entice the black python.
"You let me leave a mark on your Divine Soul, and this fruit is for you. Your injury will soon heal!"
The black python recognized that the fruit belonged to it. At this moment, it was actually taken by a human to threaten it. These people were obviously together. They had stolen its things and still wanted to enslave it!
Its eyes immediately turned red, and it also roared. But it was seriously injured at the moment, and even the threat seemed so weak.
"I'm not in cahoots with them! I swear!" Ye Liuyun continued conversing with the black python with his Divine Sense.
Liang Xue followed behind Ye Liuyun and saw him standing dumbly in front of the black python without saying a word. She was very puzzled, and it was clear that the mood of the black python was constantly changing.
"Is he negotiating with the black python?" At the thought of this, even she could not believe it herself. Was he also a beast trainer?
What surprised her even more was that the black python lowered its head in front of Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun placed his hand on the black python's head. After a while, he removed his hand and fed the black python the golden fruit. He then picked up the black python and returned it to the pool.
"You can even train the beasts?" Liang Xue could not suppress the surprise in her heart and ask.
"I know a little. Let's rest here and leave after the black python recovers. Now you can take a bath in the water. The black python won't attack you."
After that, Ye Liuyun did not say much. He took out his pill furnace and the Fire Control Array Plate and began to refine healing pills for the black python.
He had the power of the Indestructible Body Method and the power of his bloodline. Even if he was injured, he would recover quickly, so he did not prepare any healing medicine.
After planting a mark on the black python's soul, their Divine Souls were interconnected. The black python told him that the golden fruit could probably restore its strength to the Second Level of the Genuine Condensation Phase, but it could not completely recover.
Fortunately, he had plenty of medicinal herbs, enough for him to refine the healing pills.
This time, Liang Xue had the chance to watch him refine pills personally. However, she did not expect Ye Liuyun to be so skilled in refining pills.
Warming the fire, selecting and adding the ingredients, refining and forming the pills in one go. Producing ten pills in one furnace. Among them were one at the lowest-grade of the Green Level, six of the highest-grade Yellow Level, and three upper-grade of the Yellow Level.
"Excuse my poor skills! It was my first time refining healing pills and it isn't very effective!" Ye Liuyun said awkwardly.
Liang Xue did not know what to say. How could this guy be embarrassed when he refined a Green Level pill for the first time!
Ye Liuyun did not notice Liang Xue's expression. Instead, he summoned the black python and threw the 10 pills to it. After all, the black python was huge in size. There was no need to worry that he could not digest them.
Ye Liuyun also gave it a Soul Concentration Pill to help it increase the power of its Divine Soul.
After taking the pill, the black python sank into the water again.
After settling down the black python, Ye Liuyun took out a golden fruit and gave it to Liang Xue.
"After eating the fruit, sink into the water to train. Not only would you be able to bathe, but you would also be able to avoid being tracked by the guards."
After that, he took out a golden fruit and ate it himself, and then sank into the water to practice.
People who practiced Martial Arts Dao could hold their breath and breathe through the circulation of True Qi. Although the effect of cultivating underwater was not as good as on the ground, it was a way that they could avoid being pursued and killed.
"Oh great! I really have to take a bath with him!" Liang Xue thought in her heart sarcastically. Then she also ate the fruit and sank into the bottom of the water.
There was plenty of energy in the golden fruit. Ye Liuyun immediately converted the energy into True Qi, guiding it to the acupoints of the third meridian.
Two hours later, all the True Qi seeds in his acupoints were completely formed. Ye Liuyun began to rebuild his meridians. After he reconstructed his meridians, he was in no hurry to break through the realm. He was trying to double his Sea of Qi with the excess True Qi.
It was only when his Sea of Qi could no longer hold the True Qi anymore that he made a breakthrough to the Seventh Level of the physical refining phase.
He was now much stronger than an ordinary seventh-level physical refiner. Not only did he have twice as much True Qi in his Sea of Qi, but the number of True Qi seeds was also a hundred times greater than that of ordinary people.
If the opponent really treated him like a normal seventh-level physical refiner, then he was destined to die.
After Ye Liuyun's breakthrough, he probed Liang Xue with his Divine Sense and found that she was still digesting the golden fruit.
When they were cultivating, the Governor's black-clothed guards had come here to search for them. But as they were cultivating underwater, the guards did not discover them.
Meanwhile, the black python had also fallen into a deep sleep, healing itself in its sleep. The black python had said that it would likely take about eight days of sleep before it could fully recover.
However, before going to sleep, the black python passed Ye Liuyun a map of the nearby area through his Divine Sense, telling him where the treasures and beasts were.
With the map in his Divine Sense, it was as if Ye Liuyun knew the exact location himself and would not have to worry about getting lost.
He planned to go to a few places to gain experience when the black python was recovering.