Chương 26: Watching Ren Xuan XXXXing A Paralyzed Snake LIVE!

After a night of sleep, Ren Qingquan and the others continued to hunt ferocious beasts. While Ren Qingquan's team is busy farming mobs, I mainly focused my attention on Ren Xuan and training my usage of [Scan]. After months, Ren Xuan has advanced to the sixth stage of the Martial Grandmaster realm. Just like Ren Qingquan and his party. Within the range of my [Scan], I can see Ren Xuan is currently inside a place filled with greenery.

Because I have only anchored Ren Xuan with two abilities, even though the range of [Scan] on Ren Qingquan can reach 100 meters radius, the range of my [Scan] when used through Ren Xuan can reach only 5 meters radius. That's also why I've been training to convert more information I've gained from [Scan]. At the beginning, I can only detect whatever is within the range of my [Scan]. Then, I thought of human eyes and ears.

With their eyes and ears, humans can receive light and sound from the outside world and turn them into comprehensible information. I've been trying to do something similar for the past few months, but it's been quite difficult. Thankfully, my months of training have borne fruit. It's slightly blurry, but I've learned to understand information from lights outside my [Scan] range. This enables me to perceive and hear beyond my [Scan]'s range.

There are also some limitations, unlike within the range of my [Scan], where I can achieve an x-ray vision effect and even observe energies like spirit qi and vital energy. Beyond that range, I can only see light and hear sounds. I cannot see through walls or sense energy inside living things. It's still extremely useful, though. That means I have a 360-degree view without any blind spots. Anyway, thanks to it, I can see that Ren Xuan has actually arrived in a forest.

Occasionally, he will pick unknown herbs, brush them clean, and then place them in a wooden, stone, or jade box. I guess he is separating them based on their value. Most of the time, I have seen him place herbs in wooden or stone boxes. After watching for close to a day, I have only seen him use the jade box once. This shows just how precious the plant inside that jade box is. Honestly, I am completely speechless at how much herbology knowledge Ren Xuan possesses.

When I watch him, it feels as if the entire forest is teeming with rare and valuable plants. While observing Ren Xuan picking an unknown grass, I saw him frown and touch a nearby antelope carcass. The antelope is about one and a half meters tall, with a massive bite mark on its carcass. Then, Ren Xuan's nose slightly twitched before he said,"This poison seems to have come from a Serrated Leech Serpent.

From the bite mark, it should be a mature snake around early Martial Saint realm or late Martial Grandmaster realm."

"From the state of the corpse, this antelope should've died within the last two or three hours. An unfinished bite mark suggests the snake is almost satiated. That also means the snake is still nearby and busy digesting its food. It came just in time, I need a snake gallbladder for one of my pills."

"I'll try to look for it before it finishes digesting it's food. If I fail to find it within the next two hours, I'll leave this place." When I heard what Ren Xuan muttered to himself, I became utterly speechless. Is Ren Xuan actually a dog? Isn't that sense of smell a little over the top? Also, where did he even learn all that knowledge about snake poisons? What leaves me speechless is his incredible autopsy and deductive skills.

After observing him, I can be sure that Ren Xuan is a regressor who has returned from the future! There's no other reason he could have that much experience and skills while also knowing about the future. After an hour-long search, Ren Xuan found the Serrated Leech Serpent he mentioned. When I saw it, I really wanted to know where Ren Xuan actually is. Not for anything, just to make sure Ren Qingquan is far, far away from wherever that place is.

Calling the Serrated Leech Serpent ugly is an insult to those who are ugly. The way to describe it should be 'a weird, monstrous, disgusting snake-like thing'. The Serrated Leech Serpent has a snake body measuring slightly under ten meters in length. Its entire body is covered in white scales from the tail to the neck, and is approximately as thick as the average male waist. That's where the normal part ends. Above the part I assumed was the neck, it lost its scale and instead had squirming flesh with white skin.

But the worst part is the face. Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. It has a massive mouth filled with several rows of teeth. The front row is the biggest with some flesh remaining. The deeper it is, the smaller and more numerous the teeth are. Due to its massive mouth, its eyes are placed on the left and right sides of its face, just like a fish. I felt I'd have a nightmare after seeing that monstrosity.

Honestly, this is the first time I feel grateful to be stuck in this dark space filled with nothingness. At least I won't meet that monstrosity face-to-face. While I am 'appreciating' the Serrated Teeth Serpent's appearance, Ren Xuan has been observing the snake. I saw his stare at the snake's bulging stomach before pulling his sword and making a move. He stealthily approached the snake and then suddenly launched a surprise attack to its head.

He probably also employed a martial arts technique, as I saw the air around his sword distort due to its speed. The sleeping snake immediately woke up upon hearing the howling sound from the sword. It raised its head and opened its mouth to meet Ren Xuan's sudden attack. Although most of its teeth were shattered and part of its mouth was injured, it successfully escaped from being beheaded in a single move. Having failed his attack, Ren Xuan retreated while throwing several pills into the snake's mouth.

While retreating, he also checked his sword, which had been contaminated with the snake's poison. Since Ren Xuan got close to the snake during the fight, I had a chance and scanned part of its body. That's when I discovered that the snake is actually a ferocious beast at the Martial Saint level! While checking the condition of his sword, Ren Xuan continued to retreat. When he came near a tall tree, I saw him climb and observed the snakes from a distance.

After getting injured, the snake frantically searched for Ren Xuan's location to no avail. When three minutes passed, Ren Xuan climbed down the tree and returned to the snake's location. When he arrived, the snake had stopped moving. Even when Ren Xuan moved within its line of sight, the snake still didn't move. Although it didn't move, I am sure it didn't die, because I can still see it breathing. Such a weird response makes me recall Ren Xuan's pill that he threw to the snake.

Did he actually throw a sleeping pill at a random, innocent, ugly, but happy snake? Ren Xuan saw the snake's silence and grew bolder. He moved closer and swung his sword. This time, there isn't any resistance from the snake. With a splash, the snake's leech-like head got separated from its body. After killing the snake, I saw Ren Xuan let out a breath while muttering to himself.

"Luckily I still have a high tier muscle relaxation pill in stock. As expected, the pill is effective toward the snake and successfully paralyzed it." When I heard it, I gasped in surprise. He actually killed the snake while it was still sleeping and couldn't resist! Whether it's Ren Qingquan's weird brain-piercing insect attack or Ren Xuan's drug abuse technique, none of them are normal. Is this a genetic problem with the Ren family's bloodline, or are they a special case?

Although I have many things to say, the first thing I do is to use [Devour] to collect the snake's souls. I still didn't forget that I've added [Devour] to Ren Xuan as a part of my experiment before. With [Devour] active, I can feel my points slowly increasing. But the amount of points gathered is extremely pitiful. Even though I don't need to share half the points I gained, just like when I am with Ren Qingquan. The amount of points I gained from this Martial Saint Level snake is still too small.

After I entirely devoured the soul, my point merely increased by 1! Even when sharing half the point with Ren Qingquan, coupled with giving priority to his Soul Swallowing Technique. I can still gain 5 points from a Martial Saint level ferocious beast's soul. At last, I concluded that just like [Scan], whose distance has been nerfed when used on Ren Xuan because he only has 2 of my abilities. [Devour] has also been seriously weakened.

I can feel that it took longer to [Devour] a soul through Ren Xuan than it does through Ren Qingquan. There's also the serious energy loss, which is the main problem. Next time, I'll try to experiment with Ren Xuan. But it'll need to wait until after I collect 1. 100 points and unlock my new ability. After I finished thinking about my cheat abilities, I began an in-depth study of the pill Ren Xuan just used. Those pills actually work wonders on a Martial Saint level beast.

This opened my eyes and made me stop underestimating the pills in Ren Xuan's arsenal. I thought he was only making medicinal pills. Turns out, he also has a knack for concocting poisons. Now that I know about the power of his pills, I used [Scan] to search every single pill in Ren Xuan's possession. While I am searching every corner of his body and collecting the data of every pill Ren Xuan hid on himself. Ren Xuan is also busy dissecting the snake.

With skilled movement, he separated the scales, teeth, bones, flesh, poison sack, liver, and other organs. Those not in the know might think he is not a martial artist but a professional butcher. Seeing such a hardworking regressor, I took a look at Ren Qingquan for a moment and could only sigh. Both of them are special people. One is a regressor while the other is a transmigrator. But while Ren Xuan is having an exciting one-on-one battle, Ren Qingquan uses his money to gang up on innocent beasts.

Not to say I disliked Ren Qingquan's method, though. After all, his methods are much more efficient at collecting points. I just feel there's something wrong with this scene. Ren Qingquan's method makes him feel like a common second generation young master who exists for the sake of advancing the plot of a xianxia story. Now that I think about it, Ren Qingquan's family situation is also suitable for the usual trope in which the older one comes out after the younger one has been beaten.

After all, Ren Qingquan's father, Ren Shiluo, truly loved Ren Qingquan. If something happened to Ren Qingquan, he'd definitely cause a ruckus. Soon, Ren Xuan finished dissecting the snake while I was still busy studying the pill in his possession. Because I knew it would take a long time to do an in-depth study, I am doing so while watching the events around Ren Qingquan and Ren Xuan. Just like that, a month has passed.