C9 (1/2)

There was no bird left in the forest, only trees and leaves and wolves.

Chang Lou felt that the wolves had as many leaves as these countless trees had, because they were all his.

He was at the highest point of the thickest and tallest tree in the forest. Holding onto the top of the tree which was already as thick as a bowl, he swayed along with the wind.

When he looked down, countless green lanterns were staring at him, and Chang Lou had once boasted that his eyes could stare at the sun for an hour and the moon for a lifetime. However, he didn't dare to look. Below him, there were eyes that were gentler than the sun, but more bloodthirsty and filled with greed.

The fear brought by such intense eyes far surpassed the fear brought by the ugly ”robbing” man he had met during his travels in the Great Desert of the Qing Yang Empire. The man could only use a mouth and a face full of purple pockmarks as a weapon. These old and young, hot and cold fellows had sharp teeth for chewing bones and claws for flapping bark. Even more frightening was that they still had the wisdom to cooperate, and the worst of all was that they were very, very patient.

Chang Lou felt as if he had been lying on the tree for half his life, but these guys were still trying their best to deal with him.

”Sigh!” ”They've already waited for so long, it's not easy anyway. I'm so hungry that I'm about to lose my strength. I can just fall down and let them eat. We can fight the martial arts world for 18 years!” Chang Lou's hands, which were holding onto the tree trunk, began to shake. He really didn't have any strength left, he could barely hold on. His will was worn down by time and began to let his thoughts run wild.

”Awoooo …” A strange howl of a wolf could be heard. The wolves below him had changed.

With his good eyesight, Chang Lou could clearly see that the peripheral wolves had retreated to the sides, and a gap that was two meters wide and ten meters long appeared in the middle of the gap.

A large, snow-white wolf used its strong four limbs to stamp on the ground, raising its head like a ready arrow.

In front of it, a large black wolf took advantage of the ten-meter buffer zone to leap up and onto the back of the wolf in front of it. A few coyotes jumped onto the back of the wolf near the tree and then leaped up like cannonballs.

What truly stunned Chang Lou was that when the big black wolf jumped onto the back of the first wolf, the white wolf started to run wildly. When the big black wolf jumped to the highest point and was about to hit the tree trunk, the white wolf stepped on the big black wolf's back.

”It's not bad to be eaten by a wolf with such intelligence!” Chang Lou held onto the trunk with one hand and grabbed Quicksand's ugly scabbard with the other. He slapped it hard on the wolf's head, knocking it down.

At the last moment of his trance, a powerful force flowed from Chang Lou's blood. The will of life made him resist, not submit.

”Come down!” Just as Chang Lou closed her eyes to wait for a second, or two hours later, when she fell down and was torn into pieces by the wolves, there was someone talking under the tree.

Chang Lou blinked and saw clearly that there was indeed a person standing below and not a Demonic Wolf that had appeared among the pack of wolves. She slowly slipped down. After sitting on a branch that was closer to him, he took deep breaths and calmed his thumping heart. He said in a weak voice, ”Great deity, can you retract your dog? ”It's really scary!”

”How do you know this is my puppy?” The voice of the woman below was crisp and pleasant to the ears, even more so than the chirping of the skylark.

As for his knowledge, Chang Lou had never been modest. ”I'm more knowledgeable than anyone else. I know the legend of the werewolf by the Life and Death Lake!”