Astral Cockroach

“King Rat! King Rat…”

Banbu summoned his mental strength and called out.

After waiting for a moment, King Rat cautiously poked its head out from the entrance of the tunnel hidden under a clump of weeds. Sensing that the danger had passed, it ground its teeth, making a "squeak, squeak" sound to notify the other bamboo rat warriors. At the same time, it emerged from the tunnel and asked, "Banbu, are you not injured?"

"I'm not," Banbu said, "Big Bear is very weak. Cut some bridge crocodile meat and feed it to him, then take him up the mountain to rest."

"Okay," King Rat responded.

Banbu continued to instruct, "Notify the Ma bamboo and the others to disperse to their original positions and continue to maintain vigilance."

"Will there be other beast warriors attacking?" King Rat glanced at the miserable state of Iron Saber Mountain Master, then at the unconscious Big Bear, and said with a stiff face, "Banbu, if there are more beast warrior attacks, I can join the battle."

"Stop talking nonsense," Banbu asked, "How is the situation on the mountain?"

King Rat ground its teeth, making sounds to notify the other six bamboo rat warriors to be vigilant, while answering with mental power, "The bamboo fruits are ripening."

"Good." Banbu simply replied, flapped its wings, and landed next to the Bloodthorn Divine Seed.

"Banbu! Banbu! Banbu…"

Sensing Banbu approaching, the Bloodthorn Tree Spirit cheered.

Banbu conveyed its thoughts: "Bloodthorn, I need to pick a few thorns."

"Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!" The Bloodthorn Tree Spirit happily responded, then conveyed a questioning thought to Banbu.

Banbu carefully used its toe to pluck three thorns about 3 centimeters long from the main vine of the Bloodthorn Divine Seed, while explaining, "Those are thunder and lightning."

The Bloodthorn Tree Spirit excitedly asked: What is thunder? What is lightning?

Banbu explained in detail: The booming sound is thunder. The light is lightning. Thunder is the sound of lightning breaking through the air.

The Bloodthorn Tree Spirit conveyed a long string of questioning thoughts to Banbu.

"Bloodthorn, I have something to do, I'll leave first, I'll come to see you tomorrow." Banbu ignored the Bloodthorn Tree Spirit's questions and hurriedly left.

…

The bridge crocodile warrior who had previously entangled with Big Bear had only had its back tendons and leg muscles severed, losing its ability to move, but the injuries did not affect its life.

Banbu landed in front of it, pinched a thorn, waved it in front of its eyes, and said, "The Bloodthorn Divine Seed's poisonous thorns, you can try the taste."

After speaking, it gently scratched the bridge crocodile warrior's back armor with its toe, and little by little, inserted the thorn into the muscle.

The surface of the thorn was smooth and gleamed with a faint luster, which was a very fragile waterproof film. When the thorn pierced into the muscle, this film would shatter.

Banbu pinched the thorn and repeatedly rotated it in the muscle, allowing the thorn's venom to fully dissolve into the blood and seep into the muscle.

Then it pulled it out.

Fresh blood flowed outwards like a mountain spring, and was immediately washed away by the rain.

“Lulu lulu…”

Stimulated by the neurotoxin, the unbearable pain caused the bridge crocodile warrior's heart to beat violently, its whole body trembled, and its throat emitted a mournful cry.

Huabai Mountain Master asked, "Banbu, what are you doing? What did you just say? Bloodthorn Divine Seed?"

If it were any other time, Banbu would definitely be happy to show off to Huabai Mountain Master, but now it was different, its mood was extremely bad.

Banbu said, "I have a few questions to ask it."

Huabai Mountain Master asked, "What questions?"

Banbu raised a thorn, waved it in front of the bridge crocodile warrior's eyes, and then pointed to the ink python's corpse, and asked, "How did you get to know it? Did you know it long ago?"

The bridge crocodile warrior replied in fear, "We knew it long ago, we knew it long ago, we knew it when our home hadn't been destroyed…"

Banbu asked, "Have you attacked other roach warrior territories this year?"

The bridge crocodile warrior replied, "We haven't, we… it, it told us itself that it had killed many roach warriors, we haven't…"

"Humph!" Banbu snorted coldly and said to Iron Saber Mountain Master, "In that case, Shan Rou was probably killed by the ink python's sneak attack."

After Banbu finished speaking, it jumped onto the bridge crocodile warrior's back again and scratched its outer skin with its toe.

The bridge crocodile warrior shouted in horror, "I'll tell you, I also know, the ink python warrior, it was it, it went to the other side of the river this year and killed roach warriors, and robbed many Origin Power foods…"

"What? What did you say?!" Huabai Mountain Master, who had been somewhat happy and proud of killing a Mountain Master-level ink python, suddenly flew into a rage upon hearing this, and shouted, "It was it!"

Just as Banbu had guessed, the ink python warrior was previously just a little short of being promoted to Mountain Master. It killed a high-level warrior in the Cliff Cypress Mountain Range and robbed the territory's Origin Power food, and then it successfully broke through.

Thinking of the dead clansmen, looking at the corpse of the culprit, Huabai Mountain Master's original good mood suddenly became turbulent.

Banbu continued to ask: "Where did that Gouju Mountain python warrior come from? Did you also know it long ago?"

"We don't know it, we don't know it…" The bridge crocodile warrior felt the thorn piercing into its muscles and cried out in agony, "We don't know it, the ink python warrior knows it, it knows it, we don't know it…"

Banbu asked, "Where does that Gouju Mountain python warrior live? Or in which direction? How far is it from here?"

The bridge crocodile warrior waved its tail vigorously, pointed in a direction, and shouted, "That way, it came from that way, but we don't know where it lives, the ink python warrior knows it, we don't know it."

Banbu asked, "Are there any other Gouju Mountain python warriors?"

The bridge crocodile warrior shouted in pain, "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, we only just met it…"

"Damn it, I ask and you know nothing." Banbu was annoyed, cut with its toe, cut off a large piece of muscle from its back, revealing the spine, and cut hard, severing the spine and cutting off the internal central nervous system.

Iron Saber Mountain Master asked, "Banbu, that Gouju Mountain python is not dead yet?"

Banbu said, "I deliberately left its life."

Iron Saber Mountain said, "You plan to…"

Banbu said, "I'm going to go take a look."

…

The Gouju Mountain python warrior was paralyzed but not dead.

Banbu used all kinds of cruel methods it could think of to torture it, but it just wouldn't reveal its residence.

This was also expected.

The reason was very simple. Gouju Mountain pythons were rampant in the Jinping Mountain Range, and more than one Gouju Mountain python warrior must have been born. The place where it lived not only had a wild Divine Seed, but also probably had other Gouju Mountain python warriors living there.

Banbu was very annoyed. A wild Divine Seed was a small matter, but failing to kill a snake would lead to endless troubles. In the future, its territory would still face the threat of this group of Gouju Mountain pythons hiding somewhere.

It was not until late at night that all the bamboo fruits had ripened and been picked, and no longer emitted that tempting aura. Under the rain, the previous aura also quickly dissipated.

Iron Saber Mountain Master and Huabai Mountain Master were busy packing up amidst the quarrel.

Huabai Mountain Master took the ink python's fangs and the jaw teeth of the eight bridge crocodile warriors.

Iron Saber Mountain Master took the tail.

These were all powerful credentials.

The borderlands were barren and survival was not easy, but the rule must not be easily abandoned, otherwise, the development of beast warriors in the barren land would form a scale, and the rich territory in the rear would be threatened.

The reason why Huabai Mountain Master was happy before was that it could take the things and go to Autumn Maple County to report the matter to Autumn Maple County Lord. The Black and White Flower Roach tribe was wealthy and would definitely spare no expense to issue a large amount of compensation to help Huabai Mountain Master molt and grow and heal its injuries.

Iron Saber Mountain Master was also the same, taking the things to report to Crimson Firm County Lord.

This beast warrior attack was of such a large scale and strength that it had not occurred in recent decades. The two Mountain Masters participated in the battle, but were still severely damaged. This was an extremely bad event. Crimson Firm County Lord should no longer be stingy about this, and would more or less take out a sum of compensation to help Iron Saber Mountain Master molt and grow.