Chapter 52: Ghost Servants

At this moment, Li Si was sitting under the tree by the cliff, beside the campfire. His face was pale, and his whole body could not stop trembling.

He did not know whether it was because he had suffered that tiger’s slap earlier, or because he had seen the tiger demon eat her cub.

Right now, Li Si only felt weak all over, and from time to time, he would cough up blood.

The current him was not suited to walking out of the mountains. The main reason was that he was too weak.

If he encountered some wild beasts then, he would definitely be dead.

However, even if he could leave this mountain now, Li Si was not planning to leave. Right now, he had to kill this cunning tiger demon.

Li Si stood up, ladled meat soup from the pot, and began drinking it. Just now, he had found the three herb gatherers’ medicine baskets nearby and discovered some quite good ingredients inside.

So he had used those ingredients to make a pot of soup.

The main ingredients were bones and rock tripe. It tasted extremely delicious, especially the rock tripe. The rock tripe coated in bone soup had a distinctive flavour when eaten.

After Li Si finished drinking the soup, he felt the surrounding environment change. All at once, he was sitting before the tiger demon.

“Didn’t expect that, did you?” The tiger demon giggled, stretching out her claw with half of it broken off as she slowly paced toward Li Si. Her posture was somewhat strange.

At this moment, Li Si could clearly see that the tiger demon’s severed limb was wrapped in a layer of tiger skin. This tiger demon had actually used her son’s skin to bandage her own wound.

Looking at the tiger demon slowly pacing toward him, Li Si chuckled softly and said, “So this is your final trick?”

Seeing Li Si like this, the tiger demon changed slightly, then said ferociously, “You didn’t expect that I could get you down here, did you? Prepare to die!”

As she spoke, her face became brutal, and low growls came from her from time to time.

“Your acting is truly clumsy.” Li Si rubbed his forehead and said speechlessly.

After he finished speaking, screams rang out one after another. The illusion before his eyes vanished. The scene before his eyes changed, and he returned to the cliff.

Li Si stood up and continued ladling soup. At this moment, streams of information entered his mind.

“Low-level ghost creature killed, Ghost Servant. Obtained 3 soul points.”

“Low-level ghost creature killed, Ghost Servant. Obtained 2 soul points.”

“Low-level ghost creature killed, Ghost Servant. Obtained 4 soul points.”

“Low-level ghost creature killed, Ghost Servant. Obtained 3 soul points.”

“............”

Li Si sat back in his original position and continued drinking soup. In his heart, he had long since guarded against this tiger demon’s move. He had already understood very clearly that this tiger demon was extremely cunning, so he had reconsidered whether there were any omissions.

In the end, he really had found one, and that was the ghost servants. This tiger had occupied this place for so long. It was impossible for there to be only the two ghost servants, Tu Feng and Miao Qing’an. There definitely had to be other ghost servants.

So as soon as the sky turned dark, Li Si had released Xiaoyu and Xiaoduan, waiting for this tiger demon to release the ghost servants.

Fortunately, he had waited until they came. It was also fortunate that Xiaoduan’s soul strength had reached 30 points. Even after suffering serious injuries, he was still not something these ghost servants, who could only play deceptive tricks, could defeat.

With this, he gained 49 soul points in one go.

He calculated slightly. Before he came here, he had 113 soul points. Afterward, the original owner contributed 78 points, and with the 2 points from killing Tu Feng and Miao Qing’an earlier, that made 193 points.

Now, adding these 49 points, he had broken through the 200 mark and reached 242 soul points.

Roar! At this moment, an exasperated tiger roar came from the bottom of the cliff.

When Li Si heard the tiger demon’s roar, a smile immediately appeared on his face.

However, his smile quickly disappeared. He walked to the edge of the cliff, picked up a stone, and threw it down, cursing, “You idiot, are you going to let anyone have peace at night or not?”

The tiger demon was struck because she was caught off guard. She immediately raised her head and stared at Li Si, low growls coming from her mouth.

Her eyes looked as if they were about to shoot fire, as if she would rush up the cliff and tear Li Si apart at any moment.

Only, her front claws had already been crippled. She had also lost a lot of blood and had been poisoned, so she had the will but not the strength.

At this moment, she had begun to panic somewhat. Was this person really determined to kill her?

Thinking of this, monstrous hatred rose again in her heart, scattering her panic. She walked up to the tiger and lowered her head to gnaw.

When Li Si saw at this moment that this tiger demon was still eating her son’s corpse, he immediately clenched his fists and cursed in a low voice, “A beast is still a beast.”

After saying this, Li Si sat down by the edge of the cliff and looked at the tiger demon below.

However, at this moment, his will focused on the mall in his mind, looking toward the refresh countdown below the mall.

Time until next product refresh: 22 hours, 58 minutes, 23 seconds.

There was still one more day. Roughly tomorrow afternoon, during the Xu hour, he would be able to see the products refreshed in the mall.

The reason he had been able to buy so many products last time was because there had been a special offer. However, there had only been one special offer, and there would not be another in the future.

So Li Si could only pray that this round’s products would be useful and cheaper. If there was another Protective Talisman like before, that would be even better.

Withdrawing his will from the mall, although Li Si now had 242 soul points, he was not planning to exchange them for that one year of lifespan.

Because he clearly knew how difficult it had been to obtain these 242 soul points. Using soul points to exchange for lifespan was far too much of a loss.

Li Si continued looking at the tiger demon on the platform beneath the cliff, as if he wanted to stare flowers out of it.

He felt that sitting there was rather uncomfortable, so he found a stone and sat down, changing angles as he continued staring at the tiger demon.

He was not planning to sleep for the next few days, because this tiger demon was below him and could stir up something at any moment.

Having lost the Protective Talisman, Li Si truly had not the slightest sense of security now.

However, after lying down for a while, he closed his eyes.

After about an hour or so, an old man dressed in a fitted martial outfit climbed up from beneath the cliff. His eyes were blood-red as he stared at Li Si. Then the corners of his mouth slowly split open, revealing a mouthful of sharp yellow teeth.

He then slowly picked up a stone the size of a human head and walked silently to Li Si’s side.

After reaching Li Si’s side, this old man smiled even more happily. The curve of his mouth split even wider, and saliva flowed out.

At this moment, a pair of small hands suddenly grabbed his left and right thighs.

The old man’s body stiffened, and he slowly lowered his head.

Rip. A sound like cloth being torn rang out. This old man was torn in half.

“Low-level ghost creature killed, Ghost Servant. Obtained 9 soul points.”

Roar! Another roar came from beneath the cliff.

At this moment, Li Si also opened his eyes, smiled, and began resting with his eyes closed again.

He had long since guessed that with this tiger demon’s cunning temperament, how could she possibly release all her ghost servants at once?

So he had placed Xiaoduan by his side to protect himself. Now, sure enough, there really were still ghost servants secretly climbing up.

Li Si even suspected that this tiger demon still had ghost servants she had not released.