Chapter 37: The Monster Toad (2/2)

Said Junior Leopard angrily, while looking at the pig. In one swift motion, he cut down some vines and then used them to bind the pig's four limbs.

The wild pig began to stir and awoke from its slumber. It snorted a little but Junior Leopard ignored it. The sky was already beginning to get dark, and he did not have the courage to stay in the forest for much longer. After tying up the wild pig, he traced back the route he had come in by, dragging the pig all the way until he was out of the forest, standing by a crystal clear stream. He put his dagger back in its sheath and used the water of the stream to wash his body clean of blood stains. After resting for a few moments, he looked at the sky, and saw it was already completely dark, and then looked again at the snorting pig lying by his side. He suddenly felt irritated.

”Curses, this is only the first, there are still nine more to go!” He did not dare to rest for much longer, for he feared being delayed. After this very short rest, he pulled the two Kunai down from the tree, and grasping them in his hand followed the boundary of the forest, searching.

This time, he did not dare to risk trying any new techniques with the Kunai, and instead earnestly set out to use the Kunai according to the techniques that he had already practiced. Everything was going smoothly and before two hours passed, he had caught four deer, two river deer, a mountain goat, and two beasts that he did not know the name of. He tied them all up and put them on the pig.

By the time everything was ready, it was already midnight. Junior Leopard didn't dare to delay and dragged these live animals one by one to the entrance of the steep valley. Just as he was about to enter, the sound of cursing reached his ears.

Junior Leopard was shocked, and listened carefully... that was Xue Wuya's voice! He wondered to himself if the legendary White Blademaster Lu Shaoyou had caught up to him. He quickly dropped the animals he was carrying and crept quietly into the valley. He peered ahead and was startled by what he saw.

Beneath the moonlight, Xue Wuya appeared like a crimson ribbon, whizzing around the caves of this valley locked in battle with a huge and grotesque toad-like creature.

This grotesque toad was wrapped in a layer of bronze scales and had six feet. Each foot had sharp claws, and each claw was barbed. A faint blue light flashed, and with a glance, you could see that this toad was highly toxic. The terrifying thing was countless warts protruding from its back that every now and then would shoot out a turbid and highly corrosive milky white liquid. Junior Leopard watched as this white liquid sprayed onto a pile of rocks and burned a bowl-sized hole into them.

But the most terrible object was its tongue which was lightning, fast and very sharp. Each time it sprung out, Xue Wuya was forced to step backward. It seemed that he was terrified of the toad's tongue.

”Oh, what on earth is this monster?!”

Seeing the man and the monster embroiled in battle, Junior Leopard felt cautious. Suddenly, he heard a hissing sound and saw the figure of Xue Wuya leaping up, seemingly as if he wanted to escape. But the toad showed no sign of giving up, and with its two sturdy back legs, it also leaped upwards while warts on its back fired out that turbid white liquid like a vast net heading towards Xue Wuyu.

”Vile spawn!”

Xue Wuya's voice bellowed out, and his body's blood level suddenly surged and as it surged. It absorbed the toxic liquid fired by the toad. Then, a clear ray of blood blasted its way downwards at the toad, crashing into its tongue.

Although the toad's tongue was as formidable and tight as King Kong, it was made up only of flesh and blood. What Xue Wuya had cast down at it was a sharp weapon, and as soon as it made contact, dark black blood immediately started spraying out from the toad's mouth. The toad let out a pitiful groan as its body tumbled down from mid-air, falling within the caves of the valley, never to re-emerge.

Xue Wuya hit the ground and staggered a little, and peered into the cave. With a single motion of his hand, he beckoned towards his strange shaped sword and it flew back into his sleeve.

”What are you doing hiding over there? Come out at once!”