Chapter 236: Hunting Again (1/2)

As Lin Mu turned around, he could see the blurry silhouette of a small beast rushing into a bush. He was actually shocked by this, as the speed of the beast was still too high for Lin Mu to see it. He would have understood this in the past if he was at a lower cultivation stage. But he was relatively strong now and should not have had a problem.

Lin Mu could not even sense that strong of spirit qi waves from the beast and estimated for it to be at the early or mid stage of the qi refining realm.

”How is that beast so fast for its cultivation base?” Lin Mu spoke feeling confused.

He extended his spirit sense and did a scan of the area but couldn't find it anything nearby. Whatever the beast was, it had now run away.

”Senior, do you have any idea of what kind of a beast it could be?” Lin Mu questioned.

”Hmm, it is difficult to say. I do know of a few beasts that have great speed and agility, even at a low cultivation, but I doubt any of them could be found in a world like this. It's quite likely that it is a native beast of this world.” Xukong answered.

”I see…” Lin Mu muttered before checking the area that he suspected the beast had come from.

Lin Mu blinked to the top of a tree and tried to look around but could not spot anything.

'Seems like the beast is good at hiding too. But considering its size, it shouldn't be that dangerous.' Lin Mu thought to himself.

From the size of the blurry silhouette that Lin Mu had seen, he could estimate that the beast came up to his knees and was less than a meter long. The beast also had a tail from what Lin Mu spotted at the end of the silhouette.

”You can check the jade slip that you got from Jing Wei. Perhaps you will be able to narrow down the choices.” Xukong suggested.

”Ah yes. That would be good.” Lin Mu replied before getting down from the tree.

Now that the snow had mostly gone, the beasts had started coming out from the deeper parts of the forest. Lin Mu was able to spot plenty of them with his spirit sense but did not bother killing them as it would not be worth it for him to spend any effort on hunting normal beasts. Though Lin Mu would not mind if they were to come to attack him first.

Lin Mu's main aim was to get spirit beasts, but they had also retreated to the depths of the forest now. Before, when Lin Mu came to the northern forest during winter in an area this deep, he had already encountered around four to five spirit beasts. But now he had not even seen one.