Chapter 53 Killing the Golden Horned Rhinoceros
Shi Lin and his two companions hid in the nearby woods, quietly waiting for the golden-horned rhinoceros to fall into a deep sleep. After all, this enormous creature could easily kill them all.
There's no need to act rashly and increase casualties; they should just wait patiently.
Shi Lin used the aroma of wine to mask the sleeping potion. Even the golden-horned rhinoceros, with its keen sense of smell, would be attracted by the aroma of wine and ignore the sleeping potion.
Ultimately, it would fall into a deep sleep after consuming a large amount of the sleeping incense, since the wine produced by the top-grade Gu worms was extremely attractive to soul beasts.
Half an hour later, the golden-horned rhinoceros showed no signs of waking up, so the three of them came out from their hiding places and came to the golden-horned rhinoceros's side.
"Young Master! You're amazing! You knocked out the thousand-year-old soul beast so easily!" Lin Yu said to Shi Lin with admiration.
A thousand-year-old soul beast corresponds to a Soul Elder, but Soul Elders are generally no match for thousand-year-old soul beasts of the same level.
Lin Yu never expected that Shi Lin would capture the thousand-year-old golden-horned rhinoceros so easily.
"Brother An, go and stuff this mixture of sleeping incense and swamp poison into its mouth." Shi Lin took out a palm-sized gray ball wrapped in leaves and handed it to Shi An. This gray ball weighed more than a pound.
When Shi Lin went to the Soul Hunting Forest this time, he brought four or five pounds of sleeping powder, which was more than the dry food he brought!
The reason why Shi An was sent was not because Shi Lin was cowardly, but because Shi Lin did not know whether the poison and sleeping potion would kill the golden rhinoceros directly.
Soul Masters can only absorb the Soul Beasts they hunt, so these things can only be done by Shi An himself.
Without much thought, Shi An took the gray dumpling from Shi Lin's hand and went straight to the Golden Horned Rhinoceros. He painstakingly pried open the Golden Horned Rhinoceros's mouth and threw the gray dumpling into it.
Both the sleeping potion and the swamp poison melt instantly in the mouth and will not affect the golden rhinoceros's absorption of these substances.
"Brother An, come back!" Shi Lin waved to Shi An and said.
The Golden Horned Rhinoceros's fate is currently unknown, and it's uncertain whether it still has the strength to resist. There's no need for Shi An to risk killing it. Instead, use the sleeping incense and swamp poison to completely restrict the Golden Horned Rhinoceros's mobility before proceeding to the next step.
Both the bewitching incense and the swamp poison are produced by Gu worms refined by century-old soul beasts, so their lethality against the Golden Horned Rhinoceros is limited.
Shi Lin didn't expect to kill the golden-horned rhinoceros with poison.
Upon hearing Shi Lin's voice, Shi An sheathed the dagger he had just drawn and turned to run towards Shi Lin without hesitation.
Next, the three of them hid again and waited quietly for the golden-horned rhinoceros to absorb the intoxicating fragrance and toxins.
Half an hour later, the golden-horned rhinoceros began to wheeze out.
"Young Master, Young Master, that rhinoceros is bleeding from the corner of its mouth, it's black blood!" Lin Yu exclaimed, pointing at the golden-horned rhinoceros and saying to Shi Lin.
"Let's go take a look!" Shi Lin stood up without hesitation and walked towards the golden-horned rhinoceros.
However, no one approached the golden-horned rhinoceros from the direction where its horn was located.
Soon, the three of them arrived at the Golden Horned Rhinoceros's side, and Shi Lin also saw the black blood flowing from the corner of the Golden Horned Rhinoceros's mouth.
"Brother An, let's kill it. It shouldn't be able to fight anymore." Shi Lin looked at the golden-horned rhinoceros, thought for a moment, and then said to Shi An.
Without any hesitation, Shi An pulled out a dagger from his waist, aimed it at the golden-horned rhinoceros's chest, and plunged it in with all his might.
"Clang!" With a metallic clang, Shi An's dagger failed to penetrate the skin of the golden-horned rhinoceros.
"This..." Shi An was also stunned, staring in shock at the dagger in his hand. He couldn't believe that his strength was unable to penetrate the skin of the golden-horned rhinoceros.
"Brother An, this is normal. After all, it's a thousand-year-old soul beast. Stuff the top-grade bamboo leaf Gu you contracted into its mouth, and use the group attack move after it gets into its stomach!" Shi Lin's eyes suddenly filled with murderous intent as he looked at the golden-horned rhinoceros.
"Yes, young master!" Shi An did not hesitate at all. He took out the top-grade bamboo leaf Gu from his sleeve, then pried open the mouth of the golden horned rhinoceros and let the bamboo leaf Gu enter the stomach of the golden horned rhinoceros.
Shi An closed his eyes, waiting for the bamboo leaf Gu to penetrate deep into the golden-horned rhinoceros's belly.
Only after the bamboo leaf Gu entered the stomach of the golden-horned rhinoceros did Shi An suddenly open his eyes and then command the bamboo leaf Gu to unleash its attack.
"puff!"
"puff!"
"puff!"
...
A series of dull thuds echoed inside the golden-horned rhinoceros's belly, and the rhinoceros let out a painful groan.
However, the golden-horned rhinoceros, already deeply poisoned, no longer had the strength to even open its eyes and could only lie on the ground, panting heavily.
A minute later, a large amount of blood flowed from the golden-horned rhinoceros's mouth, and the blood also contained some fragments of internal organs.
Not long after, the golden-horned rhinoceros tilted its head to the side and died completely.
Looking at the dead golden-horned rhinoceros, Shi Lin let out a long sigh of relief. It was fortunate that he hadn't taken the right path. If he had faced this golden-horned rhinoceros head-on, even if the three of them were tied together, they wouldn't have been enough for the rhinoceros to gore them to death with its horns.
Just then, a faint purple energy slowly emanated from the golden-horned rhinoceros's body, and more and more of this purple energy was released. These energies intertwined and eventually formed a purple halo!
"This is a thousand-year soul ring!" Shi Lin looked at the purple soul ring, his eyes filled with longing.
However, even with the blessing of the wine Gu, Shi Lin is still not able to absorb the thousand-year soul ring.
"Brother An, these are top-grade and high-grade wine Gu. Go and change the contracts immediately. After changing the contracts, come back to absorb the soul rings." Shi Lin took off the bamboo tubes from his waist and handed them to Shi An.
"Yes, young master!" Shi An took the Gu worm from Shi Lin's hand without hesitation, then sat down next to the golden-horned rhinoceros and began to change the contract.
"Lin Yu, let's protect Brother An!" Shi Lin turned to Lin Yu and said.
"Yes, young master!" Lin Yu replied, then walked in a certain direction and released all six Gu worms on her body to expand the warning range.
Shi Lin chose another direction and also released all the Gu worms in his hand.
In less than two minutes, Shi An replaced the Gu worms that were originally bound to his body with wine Gu.
Before setting off, Shi Lin and the other two each drew up some of the contract formations for changing Gu worms, so that they could easily form contracts and change Gu worms in the Soul Hunting Forest.
There was still some time before the spirit ring dissipated, so Shi An calmly sat cross-legged next to the golden-horned rhinoceros and adjusted his state.
Shi An had no worries about absorbing the second soul ring of the millennium; on the contrary, he was very excited.
A dozen minutes later, Shi An slowly opened his eyes. At this time, Shi An's condition had reached its peak.
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