After fighting for more than ten rounds, the lion-headed orc suddenly realized something, and looked at the beads with eyes full of hatred.
"I know, this is a magic weapon smelted from the bones of my people. You people are really vicious!"
"Even if you still have some eyes, haha, you and I are the enemies of life and death. Don't you think it's too naive to say whether you are evil or not?"
Lan He shouted loudly and continued to attack the lion-headed orc. With the prayer beads in his hand, he stabilized the opponent.
"Brother Blue River, let me help you!"
Seeing that the situation was very good, Guo Xuelian couldn't help but throw out a flying sword to help Lan He.
The lion-headed orc got rid of the constraints of the beads, smashed the flying sword with his bare hands, and smiled coldly.
"Just a few of you, do you want to keep me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he activated his escape method and fled towards the distance.
Lan He quickly jumped to chase him, but the lion-headed orc was well prepared and lost him after a short time of pursuit.
He couldn't help but look solemn, but he didn't expect that the lion-headed orc could escape by accident!
The flying sword was destroyed, Guo Xuelian's face turned slightly pale, she took out a pill and drank it, then looked at Lan He.
"Do you want to continue tracking?"
Lan He shook his head solemnly, "He has already prepared. There is no need to chase after him. He will wait for Tang Yue's injury to improve before rejoining the rest of the group."
Blue River was very familiar with the terrain in this area and quickly found a secluded hiding place.
After confirming that there were no traces of orcs around, he set up a formation to cover up the anger of several people.
"I have inspected this place. It is relatively safe. Let's rest here for half a day."
Tang Yue's face looked a little ugly, "It's too short to rest for only half a day. My injury is very serious. I'm afraid I need to rest for at least three days."
Lan He glanced at the injuries on his body with a pale expression.
"The military situation is urgent and I may receive new missions at any time. Being able to have half a day to rest and recuperate is the maximum I can achieve."
Tang Yue hesitated to speak. Seeing that Lan He had no intention of changing his mind, he had to swallow his words again and found a corner to start tending to his injuries.
"You two have also spent a lot of spiritual energy just now. Take the time to recover."
After saying that, Lan He walked aside to adjust his breathing.
The beads have a strong restraint effect on the orcs, but when activating the beads, not only does it require a large amount of spiritual energy, but it also has to withstand a lot of backlash, which is also a big burden for him.
Seeing that Lan He had already begun to meditate, Guo Xuelian had no choice but to temporarily withdraw her gaze and suppress the questions in her mind.
Anyway, it’s still a long time, so it’s not too late to ask again later.
The other three people were all doing their exercises, and Xu Chunniang also found a corner and sat down cross-legged.
Recalling the terrifying speed of spiritual energy absorption when she was running the Taixu Xiaoyao Heart Sutra, she subconsciously slowed down the speed of running the technique several times, and as expected, it did not attract the attention of the other three.
While absorbing the spiritual energy, Guo Xuelian secretly paid attention to Lan He's movements. When she saw that he had stopped meditating, she quickly ended her exercise and pretended to speak casually.
"By the way, Brother Blue River, I heard the lion-headed orc just mentioned that your string of prayer beads was made from the bones of other orcs.
Is the restraining effect of Buddhist beads on orcs related to this?"
Hearing this, Xu Chunniang opened her eyes and looked towards where the two of them were.
She was also a little curious about the string of Buddhist beads used by Lan He.
There is a very strange power in the Buddhist beads, which seems to be able to suppress the blood of orcs, greatly reducing their strength.
Lan He pondered for a moment, "It's okay to tell you. These things are not confidential. If you stay in the army for a few more days, you will naturally understand.
This string of beads is not a legal weapon but a bone weapon. It is made from the bones of orcs, refined and smelted by special means. It has great restraint against orcs."
Guo Xuelian felt happy and blurted out.
"Then if we refine more of these bone weapons, wouldn't we be sure of victory against the orcs?"
The bones of orcs are not a rare thing. They are more than hard, not flexible enough, and lack plasticity.
It would be great if it could be used to smelt magical weapons that suppressed orcs.
Lan He shook his head, "This bone weapon is extremely difficult to make. If everyone could get one, the human race wouldn't have been fighting the orcs for so many years without a winner."
With that said, he took out the Buddhist beads and handed them to Guo Xuelian.
"Count and see how many beads there are in total."
Guo Xuelian carefully took the beads and felt them carefully.
"There are twenty-one in total, and three of them seem to be extra heavy."
Lan He smiled slightly, "Then do you know where the bones are used to make these beads?"
Guo Xuelian thought for a while and asked tentatively.
"Orcs' leg bones are as hard as jade and are often used to refine weapons. Could it be that these beads are made from their leg bones?"
Lan He shook his head, "The skulls of orcs were used, and each skull can only smelt one Buddhist bead."
Guo Xuelian was slightly startled and couldn't help but look down at the Buddhist beads bracelet in her hand.
There are twenty-one beads in this string. If you want to smelt such a string of beads, don’t you need twenty-one skulls?
Hearing this, Xu Chunniang was equally surprised.
When she escaped from the mine a few years ago, she also killed several orcs, but she was too busy escaping at the time to collect their bones.
Half-orcs are tall and strong in physique. They are born with the strength of the foundation-building stage. Once they reach adulthood, they are comparable to the human race's god-transformation stage.
These half-orcs who were smelted into Buddhist beads probably had at least the level of cultivation during their lifetimes.
And just now Guo Xuelian said that there are three Buddhist beads that are particularly heavy. I am afraid that the cultivation level of these three half-beasts during their lifetime was not even at the stage of becoming gods.
Guo Xuelian obviously thought of this too. She returned the beads to Lan He and laughed at herself.
"I thought of this matter too simply. With my level of cultivation, if I want to kill so many orcs and collect their skulls, it will take me who knows how many years."
"Collecting skulls is the easiest, but how to smelt skulls into beads is the key.
I just have some free time now, so let me show you my skills. How much you can understand depends on your understanding."
Lan He put away the beads, took out an orc skull, and started smelting it directly.
He first wrapped the entire skull with spiritual power, and then continued to compress it from the outside to the inside.
Then one could see that a huge skull slowly collapsed under the influence of spiritual power, becoming smaller and smaller, becoming harder and more solid.
When the skull shrank to the size of a fist, there was only a "click" sound, and the entire skull exploded from the inside to the outside, breaking into seven or eight bone fragments of varying sizes.
"Failed."
Lan He looked natural. He had obviously experienced this situation countless times and had long been accustomed to it.