Why is there only one?

Though there was a gain, Fang Yu was clearly not satisfied.

With a lick of his lips, he planned to continue waiting for the next wave of Snake Demons.

After an hour, a rustling, hissing sound came from behind.

Fang Yu was delighted at heart, judging by the sound, could there be a few?

He turned around to look.

[Single-headed White-scaled Little Snake Demon: 508/508.]

[Single-headed White-scaled Little Snake Demon: 597/597.]

[Silent Demon: 1075/1075.]

[Single-headed White-scaled Little Snake Demon: 562/562.]

Are you using these little demons as cannon fodder?

Wait! Silent Demon? Isn't this one of our own!

Before Fang Yu could react, one of the little snake demons suddenly died, and the other two scattered and fled, their health dropping over 100 at a time.

Is a fight breaking out?

Fang Yu discreetly left the team and quickly headed that way.

When he arrived, the Silent Demon had just crushed the last little snake demon.

"...Lord Blood Demon!"

Seeing Fang Yu appear as if out of nowhere, the Silent Demon was startled but immediately recomposed itself.

Fang Yu slightly frowned.

"What are you doing?"

From behind, the human team had once again stopped, and faint discussions about his departure from the team could be heard.

"My Lord, these snake demons dared to spy on you, so we planned to eliminate them..."

"Mind your own business!"

Fang Yu glanced back and noticed firelight approaching.

"Do not casually engage with wild demons, just follow the team secretly, do not get too close, and definitely do not get discovered. Follow my orders for everything, no acting on your own! Now, leave immediately!"

With that, Fang Yu grabbed the remains of the little snake demons from it, smeared his hands, and walked toward the firelight.

The Silent Demon understood and immediately retreated.

"Captain Diao?"

"Captain Diao acted on his own again!"

"Captain Diao, what's happening at the back? Are there snake demons trailing us again?"

The few who came searching with torches heaved a sigh of relief upon seeing Fang Yu appear.

Fang Yu then showed them the demon corpse remains on his hands.

"Don't mind me, I saw these little snake demons and just dealt with them casually, I'll return to the team soon."

Hearing this, the group had nothing more to say and returned to the team one by one.

The team set off once again.

Unknown to them, in the distance, a group of demons had already surrounded the snake demon group from afar, forming an encirclement.

However, as the news came, the demon group led by the Ghost Fire Demon, quietly retreated again.

Their combat strength, Lord Blood Demon seems to want to save for a critical moment, and it cannot be easily exposed now.

The Gui Yuan Giant Moth Demon was a little unwilling but did not want to work for Fang Yu either, so it silently followed orders and withdrew.

Initially, they were scattered at a relatively close distance to this human team, but upon hearing the command, they again distanced themselves.

Just by tracking the trail and locating Fang Yu's team would be enough, getting too close might cause trouble instead.

The three-headed snake demon, having narrowly escaped, clearly had no idea what had happened.

It sent out little snake demons again to probe, and this time, it found that the humans had started setting up camp to rest.

Hissing, it led the snake demons to quietly approach in that direction.

...

"This is called 'luring the snake out of its hole,'" Ling Huxiang said.

"So should we pretend to rest?" someone asked.

"Once we deal with the trailing snake demons, we can start to truly rest."

"What if the snake demons never come?"

"Then it means the snake demon leader is somewhat intelligent, we might need to exhaust them a few times or actively show some flaws. Anyway, tonight we'll camp and rest here."

Snake demons are not strong.

A 5000-blood snake demon can easily be handled by any deputy captain.

But with the wild's blessings, it still made the team feel tense.

"Aren't we too conspicuous camping right on the main road?" Fang Yu asked.

"Don't worry, in the wild, the main road is the safest place. Didn't you notice, on this entire journey, besides those few snake demons, there were no other demons appearing in front of us?"

It seemed so, on the way, Fang Yu kept his eyes busy, indeed only the blind snake demons were disturbing the team.

Moreover, the snake demons' strength wasn't formidable at all, to put it bluntly, they were just little snake demons, causing trouble by showing themselves to the team, only to be torn apart at any moment.

The team set up camp, and since Fang Yu didn't need rest or sleep, he simply went to Ling Huxiang's tent.

"What do you want?"

Ling Huxiang frowned at the unexpected intruder.

"I want to ask Captain Linghu for some guidance in Martial Arts."

This hit right on the masterful chord, still quite effective.

Fang Yu lowered his stance, and Ling Huxiang still agreed to offer one or two pointers.

Immediately, Fang Yu discreetly asked about the unsatisfactory results in his Qi Explosion Twirl technique.

It's impossible to reveal his trump card to others directly, after all.

Though somewhat vague, Ling Huxiang seemed to know where Fang Yu's problem lay.

"You are too eager for success. You have set only the path for [Qi], yet you lack [nodes] on that path."

Nodes?

Fang Yu quickly inquired further.

Soon, he understood.

If the path is likened to a highway, then nodes are like refueling stations.

Its function is somewhat similar to a dantian or a pseudo-dantian.

To provide secondary replenishment of [Qi] along the path, instead of merely accumulating energy along the path and exploding at the exit.

Half-understood, Fang Yu was just about to try...

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The snake demons are here!"

"Everyone, get up! The snake demons have arrived! Prepare to engage!"

What? An experience pack has arrived?

Without a word, Fang Yu rushed out of the tent.