Chapter 48 (2/2)
Baiqi was looking forward to more fighting.
“Okay, we’ll go walk deeper in later,” Zhu Minglang assured him.
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The meal would be enough to last Heiya for days. The meat of a wild boar who would soon evolve into a demon spirit contained enormous amounts of energy. Even someone at Heiya’s size needed some time to digest all that. Unless it was meat with greater nutritional value, eating more was useless beyond filling his stomach.
As they continued deeper into the fir forest, old pine trees gradually took over the scenery. They were vigorous and upright, needing two people to hug a tree completely. It felt like the trees could turn into spirits. Otherwise, why did the branches look so terrifying, like they would jump and bite at people?!
Heiya didn’t know how to contain his aura, so most demons would avoid them. Moreover, the demon spirits that have lived for hundreds of years weren’t stupid wild beasts. They were very alert. No matter how big the pine trees were, or how many birds you had, finding their tracks was a difficult task.
Zhu Minglang learned from the prior experience of how difficult it was to find the wild boar.
Demon Spirits coveted the bodies of powerful creatures. Zhu Minglang purposefully had Heiya carry the Blood-Drinking Fur Beast’s corpse with them. They arrived at a spot where the aura of demons was thick, then used the Blood-Drinking Fur Beast’s corpse as bait to lure the powerful Demon Spirits out!
This method was very effective. They didn’t have to wait for long before a brown creature with bristles appeared deep in the pine forest. Its demon aura was very strong; the beast spirits nearby who wanted a share of the corpse were all scared away, lingering far away, maintaining a distance that gave them a sense of security.
“Is it a wild dragon?” Zhu Minglang asked in surprise.
The ferocious brown beast appeared similar to a boar, but its mane was full of spikes. It had three horns on its head, similar to a Triceratops of the Ancient Dragon species. Also, its whole body was covered in flesh armor. While it had short legs, the figure covered in natural armor appeared very domineering, giving off the feeling that some weaker Azure Dragons and Great Dragons would be crushed if they were charged at it!
“It shouldn’t be a real dragon, but a wild pseudodragon, with over five hundred years worth of beast spirit cultivation,” Zhu Minglang said to himself, somewhat surprised.
Five hundred years of cultivation didn’t mean that this creature had lived for five hundred years. There were many natural essences in the world that increased one’s cultivation. If wild beasts or demon spirits experienced such fortuitous encounters, their cultivation might increase dramatically by hundreds of years.
Not only that, they could also increase their cultivation rapidly by battling, killing, and devouring the corpses and souls of other demon spirits!
Few creatures in this world relied merely on cultivating for hundreds, if not a thousand years.
With the bloodline of Ancient Dragons, in addition to five hundred years worth of cultivation, the Bristlemane Hog Pseudodragon fished out by Zhu Minglang had probably run amuck in this pine forest for many years as the absolute overlord of this area!
“It should have strength at the Dragon Child rank.” Zhu Minglang was a little excited. Proper prey at last!
The forest was complex. All creatures, no matter how weak they were, had their own way of survival. Even the old demons in the deep mountains didn’t go around everywhere. The intelligent hunters had to learn the habits of their prey and lure them out!
“Ou!!!” The Black Mosasaurex grew excited, too.
That Blood-Drinking Fur Beast from before was too weak. Finally there was a worthy opponent for the Black Mosasaurex to display his full strength!
Peng, peng, peng!!
Charging heroically, the Black Mosasaurex was already in full combat mode…
However, a floating white figure was faster than him. A layer of frost formed on the surface of the surrounding old pine trees for some unknown reason, and all the sharp leaves grew snow-white velvet needles.
Spreading his wings, layered one on top of the other elegantly, the White Ice Morning Dragon struck before the Black Mosasaurex could!
He sprinkled countless layers of frost around, freezing this part of the forest. Then he raised a hurricane with silvery feather blades, turning those century-old pine trees into wooden splinters and scraping a layer off the surface of the earth!
At the start, the Bristlemane Hog Pseudodragon had no fear. However, when it saw the silvery feather hurricane whirling several dozen meters above the crown of the trees, it finally realized it definitely wasn’t facing off against some weak local demons.
It tried evading in a panic, but discovered its short limbs were stuck to the frost on the ground without it realizing. By the time it broke free from the ice on the ground after much difficulty, the silvery feather hurricane was already in front of it…
The pseudodragon was as heavy as a stone house, but was swept into the hurricane regardless. Those incredibly sharp icy silvery feathers stirred, slicing into it mercilessly. Its tough flesh armor was actually completely cut open!
Blood scattered in the silvery feather hurricane, causing it to bloom scarlet.
Boom!
The Bristlemane Hog Pseudodragon finally crashed to the ground after some time. When it fell, there was no longer much vitality left in it.
The Black Mosasaurex sprinted madly, and finally caught up to the Bristlemane Hog Pseudodragon, intending to have a satisfying fight with it. However, when he saw the Bristlemane Hog Pseudodragon had already died, his crocodile face immediately became confused.
Turning his head around, he looked deeply at the White Ice Morning Dragon, whose body had become much bigger while it was floating in the air. Heiya shifted his gaze to Zhu Minglang helplessly.
Even if it was on the verge of dying, he could act as a secondary attacker…