Chapter 21 - Qi-Refining Level 4 (2/2)

“Thirteenth, you should not cultivate too hard. No need to try to advance too quickly when practicing Wind Chasing Spear Technique. You can have a cup of tea and relax at my place some time,” Gong Xuan who saw sweat all over Ye Shang’s head, reminded him since he didn’t want to give him too much pressure, after all, he was still a child.

“Thank you, Martial Uncle.” Ye Shang nodded.

“Well, then I’m leaving to see what those two bastards are upto. Unlike you, they are adding lines on my forehead,” said Gong Xuan as he waved at Ye Shang while leaving for Tang Tian’s and Chu Ning’s place.

Arriving at Tang Tian and Chu Ning’s places, Gong Xuan’s pleasant mood ran downhill, as he saw Tang Tian wasn’t practicing at all, he directly chided him.

Tang Tian, however, was just quite unfortunate since, he just stopped to take a breath and was caught by Gong Xuan in that very moment. However, as he was being compared to Ye Shang, he couldn’t help but keep mum to his master’s rebukings..

Chu Ning, who was boiling water to brew tea, was in an even worse condition. Gong Xuan warned him that he would be sent to the beast forest if he didn’t advance in his cultivation base within 3 months.

In the next few days, Ye Shang as usual focused hard on cultivation. When he came out from the bamboo house to take a shower, surprisingly he saw a white bird with a height of a person falling down in the front of the bamboo house and it’s wings were stained with blood.

“What bird is this? Still quite young,”Ye Shang uttered in a stunned manner as he assessed the peculiar bird.

Looking at the feathers and beak of the white bird, Ye Shang judged that this was a wounded, young demon beast, with a lot of room for growth. Moreover, as he saw its sharp beak and claws, Ye Shang concluded that this bird might turn into quite the demon as it grows up.

If he could tame it, it would probably be a top notch flying mount.

Hitting upon the very same idea, Ye Shang slowly approached the white bird.

When he was about seven feet away from the white bird, the white bird became more vigilant and guarded, which in turn dispelled every doubt in Ye Shang’s mind. This bird was probably a unique kind. When he used to hunt, there were very few monster beasts with such a keen senses.

Seeing Ye Shang approach, the white bird began to retreat and forcing Ye Shang to chase since he didn’t want to let go of such a beast.

Ye Shang ran very fast, but the white bird wasn’t slow either. Although it couldn’t fuly because it’s wings were injured, it was still much faster than the average monster beast as it was way faster than the black lion he encountered before.

Since Ye Shang had reached Qi-Refining Level 4, he was able to keep up with it, thus he wasn’t afraid of losing the bird. Moreover, even if we took endurance into consideration, Ye Shang could run through the wilderness for many hours without even breaking a sweat, and he didn’t believe that this white bird could still run for several hours in its current wounded condition.

As they were getting farther and farther away from bamboo peak, they had already run more than a 100 miles in an hour.

The white bird didn’t stop bleeding, but it didn’t stop running either. Ye Shang would feel much if it stopped and confronted him!

Just when Ye Shang was a little annoyed, the white bird stopped and started screaming.

“Why don’t you run?” Ye Shang muttered as he caught up with the white bird.

After catching up, Ye Shang was shocked as he came to know why the white bird didn’t run, but made such a scream.

The white bird’s claws were entangled by two red tentacles the width of a human arm, and it was being pulled towards the front.

Ye Shang stepped forward and waved the black iron spear in his hand to cleave toward the red tentacles.

Boom!

With a muffled sound, Ye Shang was knocked back.

He failed to cut off the red tentacles, and the thud from the recoil was so strong that he couldn’t even stand steadily.