Chapter 33 - Tong Mai Seventh Sky (1/2)

“Watch out!!”

Mu Feng’s expression changed and he darted towards Mu Kuang. At the same time, he threw his knife at the Night Panther with a flick of his wrist.

A fist-sized, black-colored light orb shot out from the Night Panther’s mouth towards them, brushing against Mu Feng’s back and crashing into the thigh-thick trunk of a tree behind them.

Bam…!

There was a muffled explosion and the tree was blasted into bits by orb. There was a bloody gash on Mu Feng’s back due to the Vitality Bomb.

Chakk!

However, the knife that Mu Feng threw out also struck heavily on the Night Panther’s skull, blinding one of its eyes.

Roar…!

The Night Panther roared in pain and anger. Its head was bleeding and it thrashed about wildly were it stood.

Mu Feng and Mu Kuang, who were on the ground, did a kip-up immediately. (EN: A kip-up is when you are lying on your back, you raise your feet up, and push against the ground with your hands to get back on your feet in one swift motion)

“Now!”

Mu Feng shouted loudly, pulled out a dagger that was tied to his calf, dashed towards the Night Panther, and ruthlessly struck the dagger into its other eye.

Chakk!

The dagger went into its eye and penetrated directly into its skull. The Night Panther clawed about wildly. Mu Feng was sent flying and he fell onto the ground.

“Attack!”

Mu Kuang also jumped up with the knife in his hand and struck it down on the back of the Night Panther.

Chakk!

Blinded in both eyes and seriously injured, the Night Panther’s backbone was split in half by the knife and it was pinned down on the ground.

Awoo…!

The Night Panther howled in pain and its limbs were in a state of convulsion. It vomited a huge amount of blood and eventually died.

Cough…

Mu Feng got up and coughed out two mouthfuls of blood and phlegm. Mu Kuang also slumped to the ground and gasped for breath.

There was a burning pain on his back along with another new wound caused by the Night Panther’s energy orb, but it was nothing too serious. He also felt a sharp pain from his chest. His bones must have been cracked due to the Night Panthers violent claw swipes when it was nearing death.

“Brother Feng, are you okay?”

Mu Kuang asked after gasping for two breaths.

“I’m all right, what about you? You weren’t hurt right?”

“I’m all right too. Damn it, that Xiong Beast was indeed powerful. If it weren’t for you, it would be quite hard for me to deal with it alone.”

Mu Kuang looked at the Night Panther with a lingering fear in his heart.

Meanwhile, wisps of black-colored Vitality started emitting from the Night Panther’s carcass. They consisted of the energy stored in its body that was released upon its death.

“Hehe, it was quite dangerous just now, but the gains are quite great. It should sell for hundreds of gold coins.”

Mu Feng laughed and walked over. He retrieved the dagger that was stuck in the Night Panther’s eye and opened up its skull.

Inside the skull, he found a black-colored spherical spar that was about the size of his thumb. (EN: Spar is a mining term used to refer to non-metallic, crystalline substances.)

“A Beast Crystal. Haha, I’m so lucky, this Zi Fu level Xiong beast actually had a Beast Crystal in its body.”

Mu Feng said with a laugh.

Beast Crystals were formed due to the concentration of energy in a Xiong Beast’s body, and they possess a large amount of Vitality. Cultivators could absorb the Vitality during cultivation. However, Beast Crystals contained many impurities, so the Vitality that was cultivated from these Beast Crystals was not pure and could not be used to cultivate in the long run. They can also be given to an alchemist to perform alchemy or a refiner for refinement purposes. In any case, Beast Crystals had a wide range of uses.