9 Chapter 9 – Night at the Snowcape Demon Mountain (1/2)

He realised it's not the time for him to relax. The battle made loud noise and the blood from the serpent will attract more demon beasts. He needs to leave now.

He looked at the serpent and sighed thinking ”If not for the serpent is poisonous, I can use it for cultivation.”

He slowly walked away from the place of battle, looking for a place to heal and recuperate. After searching for a while, he found a small entrance the height of him near a rock protruded area. He bent down to walk inside, activating his blazing flame first; ready to attack the moment if there was any demon best living here.

He relaxed after realising the cave was empty other than some demon beast bones. It was a dark cave, and it looked like the cave was empty for a long time.

He went out again to collect some branches to light the cave and to keep himself warm from the cold. He closed the entrance with some tree branches and leaves. He ignited the fire and then sat nearby to heal his wounds. Thankfully he still had the healing pills with him.

While he was healing, he started thinking about the battle. It will take him two days to heal himself and get back to full health. So he decided to analyse his battle and the technique in the mean time.

He realised he has been lacking in many aspects like movements, defending. He recalled how he stepped on the branch while trying to hide and how it made the serpent realise he was there and sneak an attack on him. He clearly had no sense of surroundings and he realised he needed to be more careful when travelling in the future.

Then he started to think about the blazing flame fist, which was supposed to be a simple close range fist technique, yet he was able to change it into a flaming ball and make it to a long range battle technique. He wondered whether he can change the fire Qi into any other shape other than fireball. He calmed himself down and thought that he first needs to understand his limits on how much fire Qi can he utilise in a battle. So he started to form the fireball and tried to increase the size of the fireball and make it more concentrated by injecting more Qi.

Time passed by and soon night came. He healed 30% of his injuries, if everything goes well, by tomorrow he should be able to heal to reach about 80% of his full health.

He looked at the fireball in the size of a football above his hand and he felt satisfied. Currently, this is his limit, forming fireballs the size of football on both his hands. He was about to try some other way to manipulate the fire Qi, when he heard a sound coming from the entrance of the cave.

He turned around to look at the entrance of the cave, and found it was open and there stood a Dark blue coloured Lynx with deep yellow eyes. It is the size of a male lion; it looked at him as if ready to pounce, showing its canines.Zhu Xuan thought ”What shitty luck, another ninth level demon beast .”

He threw the fireball in his hand at the lynx. It side stepped inside the cave to avoid the fireball.

Zhu Xuan took the chance and bolted outside, while throwing the other fireball behind him, knowing the lynx would attack him from behind. The lynx stopped and sidestepped again to avoid the fireball, which gave him enough time to go out, and run to a distance.

He didn't want the fight to happen near the cave since this is the only safe place he found and he need to stay there to recuperate.

He ran about 100 meters, when he felt a chill in his back. He sidestepped and rolled around and flinged a fireball to the place where has standing.

Lynx avoided the fireball, and moved fast to attack him again. It was too fast, and the darkness of the night favoured it. Zhu Xuan can only find it when it is close by, from the sound of its movement and the light from his fireball. He had to make quick movements in a moment's time to avoid its sharp fangs from ripping him apart.

He knew he is in a pinch. Darkness and the speed of the lynx made a deadly combination and it started to give him too much pressure. He is already injured while the lynx is attacking with everything it got.