In a certain red bamboo forest, a vast stretch of crimson spirit bamboo as thick as an adult's arm grew as far as the eye could see.
Wang Ruyan sat cross-legged on the ground, her slender jade fingers swiftly sweeping across the zither strings. Waves of deep zither music rang out, sending streaks of blue sound waves flying. Not far in front of her, a giant white silkworm sprayed a vast expanse of white cold air from its mouth, attacking a strange beast with a tiger head and an ape's body.
Beneath a crimson spirit bamboo grew a completely red ganoderma. Golden veins covered its surface, and it emitted a burst of alluring fragrance.
This was a thousand-year spiritual medicine, Crimson Gold Zhi, which could be used to refine a Fourth Order Fire Attribute medicinal pill.
The strange beast with a tiger head and an ape's body was a Third Order Mid Grade Demon Beast. It spat out a cyan hurricane that shattered the white cold air. After pounding its chest with both ape arms, gale-force winds erupted around its body as it lunged toward Wang Ruyan.
Streaks of blue sound waves struck the Ape-Tiger Beast. It felt as though it had slammed into a transparent wall of light and could not advance.
A cold glint flashed through Wang Ruyan's eyes. Her jade fingers rapidly plucked the zither strings, and the music swelled, giving one the sensation of being on a battlefield.
The Ape-Tiger Beast felt its blood and qi roil within its body, while its heart began to beat faster, as though it might burst out of its chest. Sensing that something was wrong, it conjured a mass of azure wind beneath its feet and tried to flee.
A sharp sound of something tearing through the air rang out.