Star Ring

  Lin Tian was furious, secretly blaming himself for misjudging the person. "Poisonous San Niangzi, even if you flee to the ends of the earth, I, Lin Tian, will still capture you!" The rolling sound waves echoed through the forest, startling countless birds into flight.

  "Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter! The savior actually saved his own precious divine steed!" Snake Three laughed loudly and said, "You're called Lin Tian? I think you won't be able to capture the Poisonous Third Maiden because you'll die right here today! Whoever provokes me, Snake Three, and still manages to live, doesn't exist in this world!" Snake Three's face turned ferocious!

  Lin Tian's snow boots were stolen, how could his mood be good? His gaze at Snake Three was also filled with murderous intent! "Snake Three, it seems you're not a good person either. Killing you would be doing the world a favor! After getting rid of you, I'll go find Poisonous Three to settle the score!" Lin Tian said coldly, swinging his curved knife towards Snake Three's neck!

  "Kid, Snake San will show you what knife skills are! You dare to come out and mix with the rivers and lakes with such a despicable move!" Snake San let out a loud laugh, raised his palm into a knife shape and charged towards Lin Tian's curved knife! With his bare palm against Lin Tian's steel knife, Snake San and Lin Tian were evenly matched. Snake San had the upper hand in experience, while Lin Tian excelled in his extraordinary agility and footwork!

  The two men fought for half an hour without a winner, and in that half hour, Lin Tian's combat experience soared. Snake Three's flesh palm was at a disadvantage against the steel knife, and he slowly fell into a disadvantageous position.

  "Hey, kid! Stop hiding and come out to fight!" Snake Three roared. "Let's exchange blows!" Lin Tian said with a single voice, switching his knife to his left hand and meeting Snake Three's incoming fist with his right fist. Just as the two fists were about to collide, Lin Tian suddenly raised his hand, allowing Snake Three's fist to pass by, and pressed his thumb onto Snake Three's pulse point at the Taiyuan Cave. A torrent of internal energy flowed from Snake Three's pulse point into Lin Tian's body. "What kind of sinister kung fu is this?!" Snake Three exclaimed in shock and anger, trying to struggle free, but his entire body was powerless and couldn't break free!

  "Unbelievable!" Lin Tian snorted, accelerating the absorption of internal energy with the North Ming Divine Art! "North Ming Divine Art, this is the North Ming Divine Art, who are you to Dali Duanyu?" Snake Three's face changed greatly. "You don't need to know anymore!" Lin Tian said, and after another half minute, Snake Three's entire internal energy was absorbed by Lin Tian.

  The sword swung, the head fell off, and Snake Three became the first person to die at Lin Tian's hands! He had killed someone, but Lin Tian didn't feel much of anything. Perhaps it was because he had killed too many zombies in the post-apocalyptic world, or perhaps his heart didn't consider the Tian Long Ba Bu world a real one.

  "Xiao Ling, you must have seen that Du San Niangzi had ill intentions, why didn't you tell me!" Lin Tian walked out of the forest and back onto the official road. "On one hand, Du San Niangzi is very formidable, even if it's you and Snake San joining forces, you may not be able to defeat her. She didn't kill you, perhaps because you're riding a Qianli horse, she's wary of the power behind you. On the other hand, Master, you need to make your own judgments, rather than relying on Xiao Ling for everything. Xiao Ling is just a clever brain, after all. This matter can be considered a lesson for the master. Besides, Tà Xuě has already acknowledged you as its master, Du San Niangzi only used some tricks to temporarily control it. Master, you have the opportunity to take back Tà Xuě!"

  Lin Tian nodded: "Xiao Ling, how much has my internal strength increased?"

  "Master, you have absorbed the snake's 37 years of internal energy cultivation, plus your own, you already have 15 years of internal energy cultivation, but the two strands of internal energy have not yet fully merged!"

  Although he temporarily lost the chance to trample the snow, he gained seven years of internal power cultivation, which wasn't a bad deal. Lin Tian's face revealed a hint of a smile: "Xiao Ling, after I merge with Snake Three's internal power, can I defeat Poisonous Three?" "It can be said that you can defeat her, but it can also be said that you can't. If the master is lucky and absorbs Poisonous Three's internal power, then he can easily defeat her. On the other hand, if the master is willing to use his boundary power, he can also defeat Poisonous Three. From her name, one can tell that Poisonous Three's most powerful move is poison. If the master doesn't mind using his boundary power, Xiao Ling can help the master eliminate the toxins. Without this most powerful move, Poisonous Three cannot defeat the master. However, eliminating the toxins will likely require over 100 units of boundary power!"

  "A hundred dimensions or more of boundary power?" Lin Tian shook his head, "Too many! If you don't rely on Little Spirit to clear the toxins, how can you defeat Poisonous Three Madam?"

  "Firstly, if you're lucky like your third brother and can swallow the most toxic substance in the world without dying, then naturally you won't be afraid of Poisonous Three Madam and a hundred poisons won't be able to invade you. Secondly, your internal energy far surpasses that of Poisonous Three Madam, so the toxins can't enter your body, and you can easily defeat her!"

  "Du San Niangzi's internal strength has been tempered for many years, how about it?" Lin Tian asked. "Du San Niangzi is the same as you, with 15 years of internal power cultivation. Only when your internal power cultivation exceeds 30 years can you be immune to Du San Niangzi's poison!" Xiao Ling said. Lin Tian muttered: "Thirty years, not many, just absorb another person with 15 years of internal power cultivation and it will be reached. Snake San seems to have two more brothers, who knows where they are, their cultivation should be higher than Snake San's, Snake San is like this, I'm afraid Snake One and Snake Two are not good birds either!"

  For fifteen years of internal strength, he hurried along the road with a speed that was still quite fast, although it couldn't be compared to Treading Snow, but compared to ordinary horses, it wasn't much different either. After traveling for about thirty or forty miles, Lin Tian encountered a teahouse, and outside the teahouse were parked several horse-drawn carriages, which turned out to be an escort team. Having traveled such a long distance, Lin Tian's mouth was dry, so he also found a table to sit down at.

  "Waiter, bring some tea!" Lin Tian said. "Alright, sir, just a moment!"

  Very soon, a large bowl of tea was poured onto the table in front of Lin Tian. "Brother, that woman who just passed by is really something! The horse under her should be a thousand-mile steed, running like the wind!" one of the escorts exclaimed loudly. "Hurry up and drink your tea, after finishing we can hit the road. The master who can ride a thousand-mile steed isn't someone we can afford to provoke! After this trip is over, you little guy should go back and marry a wife to leave an heir behind, it's the right thing to do. People in our line of work, their heads are on their belts, if they're not careful, they'll get beheaded, if the family line is cut off, even in death there's no face to see the ancestors!"

  Lin Tian quickly finished his tea, threw down a few pieces of silver and hastily left the teahouse. However, those silvers were not given by Duan Yu, but rather found on Snake Two's body. The black pouch that Duan Yu gave him contained twenty gold leaves and some loose change, totaling around ten taels or so!

  Continuing on his way, Lin Tian knew that Du San Niangzi was also walking this road and put down some of his mind. This way, the chances of running into each other in the future would be greater. Half an hour later, Shuanglin City was already in sight, Lin Tian slowed down a bit, approaching the city gate. Without having to pay any entrance fees as he had imagined, Lin Tian easily entered Shuanglin City.

  "I heard that Snake Second Master has forcibly taken Liu's second daughter as his concubine!" A middle-aged woman whispered to her companion as she walked by Lin Tian. "Oh dear, don't gossip about it, if Snake Second Master finds out, we'll all be in trouble!"

  "I'm just telling you, Snake Second Master already has ten concubines, yet he still forcibly took Liu's second sister. In this Lin City, every family with a daughter at home is in danger!""Who says it's not true? Luckily our family doesn't have any daughters, otherwise we'd all have to leave Lin City!"

  The two aunts walked far away, but Lin Tian fell into deep thought. "It seems that Snake Three's brothers are indeed in this Lin City. I didn't expect to have such good luck and run into them so easily. However, for Snake Big and Snake Second to be able to reign supreme in this Lin City, they must have some impressive abilities, probably far surpassing Snake Three's. If we're going to take action, we'll need to plan carefully!"