Chapter 311: Trunk-Faced Cow (1/2)

After hearing the name Lin Mu saw that it matched the beast's description quite accurately. Though the sounds it was making were nothing like a cow and were rather strange. He looked at the beast from behind the trees, and the beast also seemed to be trying to find him.

It sniffed the air, but to Lin Mu's advantage, the wind was blowing towards him, which prevented the beast from detecting him fast enough. Though seeing that the beast had not used its spirit sense till now and was only using its nose, relieved Lin Mu a bit.

This meant that the beast had only recently reached the Core condensation realm and had yet to refine its spirit sense. This gave a big advantage to Lin Mu as a being with or without spirit sense had completely different danger levels.

Lin Mu had been using his spirit sense as a big tool to help in his battles and knew that he would probably lose his advantage if his opponent knew how to use it too.

Seeing that the beast had still not reacted, Lin Mu circled around a bit in order to get closer to the beast. He wanted to ambush it like he did with most of the other beasts and needed to be in the range of about ten meters in order to use the second skill blink.

Just as Lin Mu got into a proper position, the direction of the wind started blowing towards the beast and it smelled him.

”Hrnnnggg” The beast grunted before turning towards Lin Mu's location.

Lin Mu did not panic and immediately used the second skill blink, appearing to the side of the beast with his short sword ready in his hands. He amplified it with his strength and slashed at the beast's neck. But to his surprise, the beast was quite agile despite its size.

It dodged the slash by a hair's breadth and grunted again. This time Lin Mu could feel the waves of spirit qi rolling off its body. It was doing something, and Lin Mu had an inkling of what it was. A yellow glow appeared on its head as it started charging towards Lin Mu.

”It's using a spirit qi skill, be careful of its attack. This skill should be a charge skill which allows it to form a tough layer of spirit qi around its head.” Xukong informed.

Lin Mu nodded and blinked away to another side. The beast easily missed its target and changed its direction towards Lin Mu again. Lin Mu did not blink this time and simply let his short sword attack the beast, while he himself pulled out a lance from his ring.

This lance was the longest weapon he had in his ring and was one of the weapons he had custom made from the Hei corps. He had not used it till now as there was no proper occasion, but now it seemed to be the perfect to attack a beast like this.

While the short sword slashed at the beast's back, Lin Mu charged at the beast as well, with the lance propped straight at the beast's head. Several small cuts were opened up on the beast's back as the short sword was unable to pierce any deeper due to the natural defenses of the beast.

If it were Lin Mu himself who was holding the short sword and attacking the beast, the short sword would have been able to cut through the beast's skin easily, but when using it with his spirit sense, the power of the sword was reduced.