Chapter 361 (1/2)

In the freezing wind and thick snow, Chu Yunsheng could no longer detect directions by his vision anymore. The only thing that prevented him from losing his sense of direction in the wild was the connection between the forth map and the ancient book.

He had acute burning pain in his throat, and his ear ca.n.a.l. He felt as if he opened his mouth, he could spit out thick smoke.

On the way towards the location of the fourth map, Chu Yunsheng did not know how many s...o...b..a.l.l.s he had swallowed, but it just couldn’t reduce the heat in his body.

He did not know the cause of the heat, but he was sure that it was not caused by the fire elemental energy, because he didn’t feel any signs of energy fluctuation. However, he didn’t know if it would get worse not.

After the Monster Seal Talisman was reversed and when he returned to his body, he almost couldn’t adapt to the feelings of hunger and sleepiness that had been taken away from him for a very long time.

After the body was fully recovered, it didn’t break through the barrier of Yuan Tian Stage Two as he had expected it would have. Instead, it reached the peak of Yuan Tian stage two.

The senior pract.i.tioner was right. There were no shortcuts in the journey of cultivation. Even after he used such a dangerous method to try to increase his own power, he still couldn’t improve much.

In fact, he didn’t really care about which level he was at, at the moment, just like he didn’t really care that he didn’t have any food with him. He began to feel emotionally numb.

He used to store many things in this storage talisman, but in the end, he lost them all.

This was what he learned from the woman who asked him to help her to move a dead body.

Don’t try to fight fate. Because you will never win.

You want to decide your own destiny? That is just a joke. Since ancient times, even the mother Earth could not decide its own destiny, who do you think you are?

Just follow the route that has been planned for you, and do not resist. It may sound pessimistic, but it is also a way of living.

Chu Yunsheng felt like he still had a lot to learn. At least, he needed to learn to be like that woman who was able to smile next to her brother’s dead body. He felt like, if he was able to become like her one day, he would not feel pain anymore, he would not feel sad anymore, he would…

He curled up his body and slowly fell asleep in a cave while thinking how to completely feel numb…

Darkness once again covered Earth like a big thick curtain. A strange wolf-like beast slowly crawled out of its nest and began to look for its prey.

Looking closely, its head was slightly flat, its eyes were glowing the bloodthirsty red l.u.s.ter. A pair of sharp sabertooths were extended all the way down to its bottom jaw outside its mouth. It was sniffing the ground while moving cautiously towards a cave in the mountain nearby.

Over there, it detected the smells of a human being. It seemed like it had already forgotten about the past that it was raised by a human boy. It just wanted to feed its stomach and its two kids, and human beings were the easiest targets that it knew of.

The air was filled with dangerous smells. However, it had no other choices. It hadn’t had any food in the past few days. It urgently needed food energy to produce heat in its body. Otherwise, it didn’t know if both it and its kids would survive this snow or not.

Despite feeling hungry, it was cautiously and slowly sneaking in the dark. It had learned that patience was very important during a hunt since the beginning of the apocalypse.

In the darkness, it used its nose and ears to discern the movements around it. If it was powerful enough, it could even see faint shadows on the ground.

It had been searching the smell for some time already, and finally, it located the place where the prey was.

But it didn’t attack immediately. Instead, it moved around the place while using its nose to detect if there were any other monsters nearby.

Only after it was sure that the place was safe, did it begin to run and charge into the cave.

The prey was in the cave and it was very close to it. This time, it would definitely be able to get the food to feed its babies.

Everything seemed to be so perfect, its mouth began to open and drip saliva, it felt like it could even taste the meat at that moment.

However, it was at that moment, a bright light dot appeared in the sky and it was coming toward it fast. The light was surrounded by the violent energy that was several times more powerful than the monster’s energy.

“Woos.h.!.+”

The bright object flew past it, and then stopped above the cave. It instantly lit up the entire area.

It was startled. But it didn’t run away immediately. Instead, it lowered its front body and growled while slowly moving backward.

The bright light didn’t attack it. It seemed like it didn’t come here for the monster. It was just quiet spinning above the cave.

After the monster retreated far away did it finally begin to turn around and run away.

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Chu Yunsheng woke up feeling acute burning pain in his throat again. When he noticed the bright light outside the cave, he didn’t panic.

He wrapped himself up tightly with the cotton coat that had several holes in it and swallowed very hard. He slowly sat up and casually picked up a pile of snow, then stuffed it into his mouth as if it could reduce the burning pain in his throat.

“Cough! Cough!”