Chapter 47: Greed

Seeing Li Si not accepting, Xu Da Yuan’s cheek twitched slightly, thinking, could this person have already noticed something?

But it shouldn’t be possible. It had first let Tu Feng and the others approach Li Si. Actually, it had ordered Tu Feng and his companions to kill Li Si, but unfortunately, those three were utterly useless and hadn’t made any moves.

So it had to take action personally. With those three making contact first, Li Si would likely have a preconceived notion and definitely wouldn’t suspect its identity.

But looking at Li Si’s current demeanor, he seemed to have some suspicions already. A cruel look slowly appeared in Xu Da Yuan’s eyes, but quickly dissipated. It remembered this person was willing to go with it to save people, so perhaps he hadn’t discovered its true nature.

However, why didn’t this person want its gold? Could he be one of those humans with high moral character?

Thinking of this, Xu Da Yuan inwardly sneered. Regardless of his moral character, it would still eat this person in the end.

These thoughts flashed through Xu Da Yuan’s mind in an instant. Seeing Li Si agree, it immediately took the lead, hurriedly guiding Li Si, its footsteps urgent, as if it truly had two brothers waiting to be saved.

At this moment, Li Si walked behind the tiger spirit, taking out the Eight Trigrams mirror in a concealed spot to look. Heh, what a great beast. It could no longer be called a wild animal, but rather a giant beast.

As he walked, looking at the tiger spirit in the mirror, he wanted to touch the tiger’s thigh.

Of course, he wasn’t being reckless. He simply wanted to obtain the tiger’s information.

But he feared the tiger would immediately sense it and turn on him.

His eyes shifted slightly, and he walked behind the tiger spirit. His arm swung, and suddenly, his arm brushed against the fur on the tiger spirit’s thigh.

Instantly, the tiger spirit leading the way paused. It turned its head, looking at Li Si somewhat stiffly.

Seeing this, Li Si frowned and asked, “Why have you stopped? Aren’t you going to save your brothers?”

The tiger spirit looked at him deeply, then immediately smiled and said, “I’m going now!”

Saying this, it quickened its pace, widening the distance from Li Si.

At this point, Li Si had already obtained the tiger spirit’s information.

Tiger Spirit (Poisoned)

Monster Level: Low-level monster creature

Abilities: Unable to contract

Monster Body Strength: 75

Poisoned: Ate something unclean, currently weakened.

Corpse Puppet: Can turn eaten people into corpse puppets under its control.

Monster Body: Innate skill of monster creatures, difficult to harm with mundane weapons.

Corpse Transformation: It can transform into the appearance of corpse puppets and possess their memories.

Seeing the tiger spirit’s poisoned state, Li Si felt somewhat puzzled. But after pondering for a moment, he suddenly understood. The bone soup from yesterday must have been poisoned. The herb gatherers might have taken some antidote, so they were fine.

But the tiger spirit hadn’t taken any antidote yet had eaten the bone soup, so it was understandable that it was poisoned.

At the same time, the “Unable to contract” text made Li Si ponder briefly. Could it be that he could only contract with ghost creatures?

Before he could think further, after a short while, the two arrived near a cliff. Standing on the cliff edge, Li Si indeed saw some gold scattered on the ground. He could also see a small platform below the cliff, piled with a lot of gold, with various venomous snakes slithering over it.

Looking at this gold, Li Si made a mental calculation. There seemed to be about 300 jin of gold here. In terms of purchasing power, this gold was roughly equivalent to over 15 million in his previous life.

At this moment, a groan came from under a tree at the edge of the cliff. Li Si looked over and saw two people leaning against the tree, groaning. These two were Miao Qing An and Tu Feng.

Seeing the two, Li Si didn’t move. He smiled at the tiger spirit.

“Young Hero Li… save us,” the two poisoned men, as if seeing a savior, reached out to Li Si for help when they saw him.

However, deep in their eyes, there was a look of resentment and malevolence.

“Young Hero Li, please hurry and save my two brothers,” the tiger spirit’s face showed an anxious expression, urging Li Si to quickly go and save the two by the cliff tree.

“I can save them, but I want the gold,” Li Si’s face revealed a greedy expression, his eyes constantly scanning the scattered gold on the cliff and the gold on the platform below.

“Alright, as long as you can save my two brothers, I’ll give you all this gold,” the tiger spirit’s eyes revealed a hint of understanding. This person who previously seemed unmoved by gold, turned out to be even greedier, wanting more!

“But I don’t want to take it myself. I need you to help me bring that gold up first,” Li Si licked his lips, looking like a petty person who had gotten his way.

“What about my two brothers?” The tiger spirit looked hesitantly at the two by the cliff tree.

Originally, it had thought that when Li Si reached the tree by the cliff edge, it would suddenly push him, making Li Si fall off the cliff to his death.

This way, even if it would be attacked by this person’s bizarre power, it could still kill him.

Li Si shook his head and said indifferently, “It’s fine. I’ll give them my realgar wine. It can suppress the poison for a while longer.” Saying this, he threw the wine gourd to the tiger spirit.

The tiger spirit caught it, opened its mouth, and was about to reluctantly take the wine gourd to Tu Feng and the others.

“Wait,” Li Si suddenly said coldly. “Who told you to give it to them?”

The tiger spirit was stunned. Didn’t you tell me to give it to them?

“First use the realgar wine to drive away the snakes below, bring up the gold, and then we’ll talk,” Li Si said indifferently.

“What about them?” The tiger spirit looked at Li Si in shock and asked.

“First drive away the snakes, then give them the remaining wine to drink.”

The tiger spirit suddenly felt a chill rise up its back. There wasn’t much wine left in the gourd at all. Li Si clearly wanted these two people to die.

Seeing the tiger spirit stunned, Li Si snorted coldly, slowly drawing out the Black Sword, making a posture as if wanting to kill someone.

“Alright, Young Hero Li!” The tiger spirit’s face changed slightly, and it hurriedly agreed.

Saying this, it walked to the edge of the cliff and sprinkled realgar wine onto the platform below. As soon as the realgar wine fell, the snake group below became agitated, and soon crawled out of sight. Evidently, the realgar wine prepared by Luo Ye was very effective in repelling snakes and insects.

Fortunately, not much wine was spilled, leaving some. The tiger spirit hurriedly gave the wine gourd to the two under the tree with concern.

The two under the tree gave Li Si a deep look with venomous eyes, then began to drink the wine.

Seeing them drinking the wine, Li Si inwardly sneered, then threw one end of the rope to the tiger spirit and said, “You go down. Bring the gold up for me.”