Reborn as the Strongest Immortal Cultivator in Modern Times

"Who exactly are you?" Boss Dong asked, his voice trembling.

The man in front of him was dressed in black sportswear, wearing a mask and hat, so he couldn't see his face or guess his age. But catching a bullet with his bare hands, at such close range, is something only characters in martial arts novels could do, right?

Ye Yu didn't answer him. She reached out and twisted the hand holding the gun in Dong Laoda's hand, then kicked him in the knee, making him kneel on the ground.

Boss Dong only groaned without crying out in pain, but the large beads of sweat on his face betrayed his suffering.

"What exactly do you want?" he asked slowly.

Ye Yu leaned back against the wall, saying nonchalantly, "I just want to know, what is your purpose in going through all this trouble?"

"What purpose could I have? I just want to bring people here to get the herbs, so that there won't be so many people watching me, and I can relax a bit."

Then, looking at Ye Yu with sincere eyes, he said, "If you are willing to let me go, I will give you all my property after I get out, as well as the seven medicinal herbs I had left, as long as you let me go."

"Still not going to tell the truth?" Ye Yu lost patience and pointed her index finger directly at Boss Dong's forehead, using the Soul Searching Technique.

A dozen minutes later, Ye Yu released Boss Dong, searched him and found three Dew-Gathering Grasses and a key on his person, and then used a fireball to reduce him to ashes.

She looked up at the stalactites behind the pool.

It turns out that Boss Dong wasn't the only one who escaped into the cave; another member of the gang was with him.

The two were in a panic and stumbled into the cave. After relaxing, they were exhausted, hungry, and thirsty, so they searched for food everywhere.

After venturing deeper into the cave, they discovered the Dew-Gathering Grass in the pool. In order to fill their stomachs, they disregarded everything else, grabbed the Dew-Gathering Grass, and stuffed it into their mouths, only to discover the Dew-Gathering Grass's magical properties.

The two were discussing the distribution of the Dew Grass when they heard something being dragged on the ground. They dared not be careless and grabbed a couple of handfuls of Dew Grass before finding places to hide.

After hiding, they saw a gigantic python. The python was furious that the herbs it was guarding had been stolen, and roared angrily.

However, it did not immediately search for the thief. Instead, it circled around a large stalactite behind the pool for a moment before searching the cave.

Knowing that his search would eventually expose him, Dong Laoda picked up a stone and threw it at his companion's location. The python heard the noise and rushed towards it. Seeing that he had been exposed, his companion could only run out of the cave.

It was during this opportunity that Boss Dong escaped.

After returning to his lodgings, he cut his arm with a knife and ate a leaf of the Dew-Gathering Grass. The wound he had cut was slowly healing.

Having confirmed the efficacy of the herb, he was overjoyed. So he devised a plan to poison the food of the leader and key members, and then ate it with them. When everyone was under the influence of the poison, he ate the Dew Grass while he still had a sliver of consciousness left.

Since then, he has rallied members of the gang and re-established a new gang.

Once he was settled, he would sometimes reflect on everything that had happened in the cave that day, especially the python's particular glance at the stalactites, as if it held something especially precious to it.

The more Dong thought about it, the more curious he became. If there really was something, it would definitely be a treasure even better than the Dew Grass.

He then led his men to search for the cave several times, but each time they suffered heavy losses. However, they still made some progress because they discovered the route that had led Ye Yu and the others.

So one last time, he gathered even more people than before, and they made their way through swamps and ant colonies.

I thought I would succeed this time. But I was discovered by a python while passing through the crown of thorns bushes and had to flee back in a sorry state.

After returning, Boss Dong thought about it for a long time. The python became very vigilant after the herbs were stolen and never left the cave again, which was the main reason for their failure.

So he came up with a plan: he revealed the story of the dew-gathering grass in a half-truthful way to attract people, and then used the noise of people fighting with ants to lure the snake out of its hole, so that he could take the opportunity to enter the cave.

Everything went as he expected, except for the location where the python appeared.

After understanding the whole story, Ye Yu didn't delay any longer. He pushed off the stone wall next to him with his left foot and jumped to the top of the stalactite in a few moments.

At the very top center was a pit the size of a bowl, filled with a shimmering, milky-white liquid.

"Heart-Tempering Milk! It really is a good thing!" Ye Yu beamed.

Each drop of the Heart-Refining Milk takes a hundred years to form. It has a solidifying effect and can even break through bottlenecks under special circumstances. This is far, far better than Ye Yu's herbal bath.

Ye Yu took out an empty bottle from her storage ring and carefully put the Heart-Tempering Milk inside and stored it away.

Ye Yu calculated the time and realized the python should be catching up soon. Without lingering, he jumped down and prepared to leave.

But she stopped after taking only two steps, took out the array she had previously crafted, and set it up around the stalactites to conceal it before hiding to one side.

After her fight with the girl with pigtails, she wanted a suitable weapon even more. Pythons are treasures from head to toe; their skin and blood can be used to make talismans, and their bones can be used to forge magical artifacts.

Ye Yu was happily distributing the python's carcass when her divine sense detected its movements.

Covered in wounds, it swam to the pool and saw that all the Dew Grass had been pulled out. Enraged, it lashed its tail wildly in the cave, causing stones to fly everywhere.

After venting its anger for a while, it seemed to remember something and quickly swam to the stalactites behind the pool to check them out. Then it roared again, this time accompanied by flames.

It swam down, intending to leave the cave and settle scores with those despicable humans, when suddenly a blue light flashed all around, and it was trapped in the middle.

The python rammed its body and head against the light barrier with all its might. The barrier trembled slightly, but it did not break.

Ye Yu then made her move. She didn't have many weapons, only steel balls and some silk threads she had picked up.

She fired fireballs formed from her spiritual energy and handfuls of steel balls at the python in rapid succession. The python, in pain, spewed flames from its mouth, but most of them were blocked by the barrier of light. Even so, Ye Yu's back was still burned.

Seeing that Ye Yu was injured, the python hurriedly rammed into a spot on the light barrier repeatedly, and it actually managed to break through.

Just then, Ye Yu threw another fireball at the python's head. The fireball exploded with a "boom" upon contact, leaving the python completely disoriented.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, she quickly wrapped the python several times with silk threads, unleashing all her spiritual power. The python was instantly torn to pieces and stopped moving.

Ye Yu collapsed to the ground and sighed, "Without any immortal artifacts or magic treasures to use, I'm in a very sorry state." She took out three Dew-Gathering Grasses, stuffed them haphazardly into her mouth, and sat down to meditate.

After the wound on her back had completely healed, she got up, put the python's corpse into her storage ring, took out a new piece of clothing to change out of her charred clothes, and then walked out of the cave.

After leaving the cave, Ye Yu checked the time and calculated that she would be almost at the meeting place with He Qiuzhi before starting to descend the mountain.