The mountain peak was steep, shrouded in mist, its strange rocks jagged and craggy.
Deep within a cave, a Red Scale Beast was on all fours, its sharp claws frantically tearing at the hard stone as it tried to flee the home that belonged to it.
Yet a large hand clamped tightly around its throat, pinning it down until it could barely move!
A Red Scale Beast was a sixth-rank ferocious beast. It had the body of a leopard and the head of a tiger, swift and immensely powerful. Its crimson scale armor was impervious to blades and spears; even ordinary Houtian martial artists would not dare test their strength against one.
But this adult Red Scale Beast, the overlord of a hundred-mile radius, was now like a helpless weakling, letting out pained, despairing whimpers from its throat.
In its once bloodthirsty, vicious beast eyes shone a look of submission and pleading.
But that did not stir the hunter's sympathy. Instead, a clenched fist smashed heavily into its head.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
One punch, two punches, three punches. The Red Scale Beast took all three, and even its skull, as tough as gold and iron, cracked apart. It immediately passed out.
Wang Chen withdrew his hand, pulled the Reincarnation Pearl from his robes, and tossed it onto the Red Scale Beast.
"Old Yao, it's up to you!"
The Reincarnation Pearl descended without a sound, hovering three inches above the Red Scale Beast and casting out faint, gentle rays of light.
The rays condensed into long, slender tendrils that quietly slipped between the Red Scale Beast's scales, pierced through its flesh without resistance, and seeped into its marrow.
The next instant, threads of blood flowed upward in reverse, gathering into the Reincarnation Pearl.
The pearl, originally white and lustrous as jade,