How can a mortal flesh-and-blood body withstand thunder and lightning?
It was merely a single bolt of thunder that directly pierced the wolf demon's sharp claws, foul-smelling blood bubbling and gushing out continuously, yet the wolf demon no longer had the mental capacity to care about its own injuries at this moment.
It sensed that the horror of the human before it was no longer something it could handle, and instinctively, the wolf demon kicked its hind legs hard!
Jumping up, it went straight for Zhong Bai, sweeping ten meters through the air. Seeing this, Zhong Bai furrowed his brow, terrifying vital energy rolling outward, and the force of five thousand catties gave Zhong Bai the absolute confidence to beat the wolf demon before him to death with his bare fists.
With a single punch, the gale whistled past, the wolf demon's pupils dilating. At the critical moment of life and death, it actually borrowed momentum from the void, brushing past the top of Zhong Bai's head as it tried to escape.
"Cunning beast!"
The thrown punch smoothly turned into sharp claws, and Zhong Bai grabbed from the wolf demon's chest, intending to capture it. But the wolf demon was no fool either, stubbornly enduring the excruciating pain of its chest and abdomen being sliced open by Zhong Bai's five fingers as it leaped over the top of Zhong Bai's head.
Landing, slamming heavily onto the ground, and unable to care about the state of its injuries, the wolf demon struggled and crawled up in agony before fleeing straight toward the outside of the cave.
In response, a cold smile appeared at the corners of Zhong Bai's mouth.
"Naive monster, blasting you to death with one punch would be letting you off too easy. Dying slowly in fear, this is the price you ought to pay..."
Zhong Bai was not angry. His inner true essence was abundant, and the peak of the fourth layer of Qi Refinement was enough to allow Zhong Bai to cast the Thunder Escape Technique for a long time to closely follow the wolf demon, preventing it from escaping with its life; therefore, Zhong Bai was not in a hurry.
Amidst the mountain forests, a black figure swiftly slashed past the trees and plants. Unable to care about the thorny thickets intercepting its flesh and blood, the wolf demon only wanted to flee far, further away.
Its right front paw had already been pierced by the thunder. Under the scorching heat, the fur was gone, and coupled with the escape all the way, the right front paw was already on the verge of losing sensation.
However...
Compared to the right front paw, the abdomen was its fatal wound!
After Zhong Bai's five fingers swept across, the skin and flesh were torn open, and even a section of its intestines was ruptured.
Had it not been for the wolf demon utilizing its shallow demonic power to forcefully resist, perhaps it would have been disemboweled on the spot by Zhong Bai.
Even having managed to escape the cave by a stroke of luck, now after fleeing for half an hour, the blood within the wolf demon's body was almost completely drained.
It knew that it had already reached its limit, its speed slowly dropping, yet it dared not stop.
Limping along on one side, while operating its demonic power to suppress its injuries...
Several thousand meters away behind, Zhong Bai followed unhurriedly. Seeing the Demon-Seeking Compass needle pointing clearly, Zhong Bai knew that the wolf demon had stopped fleeing in flight.
"Sprinting for an hour, truly worthy of being a wolf demon. Such injuries could endure for so long, but unfortunately it is all to no avail..."
Zhong Bai said, continuing to catch up.
Before he knew it, Zhong Bai had leaped across the boundary from the shady side of West Mountain to the territory of Bottle Mountain.
All around, the forests were deep and dense, blocking out the sunlight. Beneath the dark and damp ground, poisonous insects crawled out from time to time.
Yet how could the wolf demon still care about these things?
With a snap, accompanied by the wolf demon's hair suddenly standing on end, three figures were walking slowly toward it ahead.
"Senior Brother, is there really an ancient tomb hidden in this Bottle Mountain? Is there a Phoenix Gallbladder?"
The Phoenix Gallbladder, also known as the Muchen Pearl.
A natural jade pearl, the size of a chicken egg, completely red like fire, impervious to all poisons, replenishing yang and dispelling yin.
In legend, the Phoenix Gallbladder contained the essence of fiery flames, being a supreme item of extreme yang between heaven and earth.
The one asking was a youthful maiden, yet dressed in a dark cyan Daoist robe, she appeared rather nimble.
Hearing this, Partridge Whistle felt somewhat helpless; his junior sister had asked this many times all the way here.
How was he supposed to know this question?
They had merely heard rumors, and thus brought his junior brothers and junior sister to come and investigate for themselves.
"Junior Sister, this question is very difficult for Senior Brother to answer, but whether there is one or not, we will know once we enter the tomb to take a look."
Old Foreigner smiled radiantly, and Hua Ling had no choice but to drop the matter upon hearing this. Inadvertently raising her head to look ahead, her previously somewhat sullen mood rapidly changed.
"Senior Brother! Ahead!"
At the cry of senior brother, Partridge Whistle instinctively looked ahead. Gazing across the space, a hundred meters ahead, a giant wolf two to three meters at the shoulder was staring fixedly at them with an eerie gaze.
"Not good, Junior Brother, quickly take Junior Sister and retreat backward!"
A murderous aura made Partridge Whistle understand that the giant wolf blocking the path ahead was definitely no ordinary giant wolf, and it was very likely that it had already turned into a demon.
Hearing this, Old Foreigner wore a vigilant expression, protecting Hua Ling as he retreated backward.
As for Hua Ling, she was meticulous by nature, and soon discovered something amiss with the giant wolf ahead.
"Senior Brother, quickly look at this giant wolf's abdomen!"
Looking closely, Partridge Whistle's brow gradually relaxed. It turned out that this giant wolf was already heavily injured.
That ferocious wound, the drops of blood continuously falling, made it look like this fellow was at the end of its tether.
As the leader of the Mountain Removal faction, although Partridge Whistle had never cultivated profound techniques, he was nevertheless skilled in fists and kicks and possessed the strength of a thousand catties. Facing such a blood-stained giant wolf, he was not afraid in the slightest!
The wolf demon was on the verge of a breakdown at this moment. It could perceive that the human behind had been following all the way, and already single-mindedly fleeing, it still held hope, yet the path ahead was blocked by new humans.
If it were in its peak state, it could have completely torn the few people ahead into shreds, but now...
Apprehensive and yet frantic, the wolf demon let out an angry roar, and bursts of wolf howls resounded through the mountain forest. Seeing this, Partridge Whistle, who was blocking the front, opened the Vajra Umbrella in his hand, the Roaming Dragon Eight Trigrams rushing forward to close the distance.
Seeing the opponent advance instead of retreat, the wolf demon's last sliver of hope for survival was completely shattered. Fury flooded the wolf demon's mind, and even if it died, it would drag the human blocking its path to survival down with it to be buried together!
Abruptly, the wolf demon transformed into a black stream of light, its speed so fast that even Partridge Whistle, with his extraordinary experience, found it exceptionally tricky.
With no time to think, the sharp blades of the Vajra Umbrella in his hand swept across the void simultaneously. The instant they collided, a massive force surged over, and Partridge Whistle was sent flying dozens of steps back.
The vital energy within his body churned, a mouthful of stagnant blood was spewed out, and his gaze turned cautious and apprehensive.
As for the wolf demon, it had a few new wounds on its back carved by the sharp blades, but at this point the wolf demon was harboring a will to die and could no longer care about these. Without stopping, it leaped into the air once again, though this time the target was not Partridge Whistle.
Instead, it leaped past Partridge Whistle, heading straight for Old Foreigner and Hua Ling a hundred meters away.
The dark shadow swept across the void, and Partridge Whistle was not even in time to stop it, could only watch helplessly as the wolf demon flew past from above him.
As for Old Foreigner and Hua Ling, their complexions turned pale, almost as if resigning themselves to their fate...
Just as the wolf demon was about to approach the two of them, a bolt of purple thunder roared out from behind, and the wolf demon, which had been charging, had to stop in its tracks.
The thunder exploded three meters in front of it, shattering mountain rocks. This scene left the three of Partridge Whistle's martial siblings staring in a daze.
"Tsk tsk tsk, you beast certainly run fast. What a pity, it amounts to just this, after all it's merely a struggle on the brink of death..."
The ethereal Daoist chant drifted over gradually. Zhong Bai, like a flash of thunder, arrived before the wolf demon in an instant, his five fingers forming claws, clamping tightly onto the wolf demon's neck, and then lifting it up into the air.
The terrifying force made it extremely difficult for the wolf demon to breathe, its four limbs trembling and twitching endlessly.
Immediately following, a bolt of purple thunder once again materialized in the palm of Zhong Bai's hand. After a series of crackling explosions, the wolf demon's entire body of fur was scorched pitch-black.
Carrying deep resentment and unwillingness, the wolf demon could only gasp its last breath and return to the netherworld...
Slew a minor demon, obtained 50 Exorcism Points
The moment the wolf demon died, the Exorcism Panel before Zhong Bai began to manifest information. Hm, effortlessly, 50 points credited.
After everything was finished, Zhong Bai then looked toward Old Foreigner and Hua Ling behind him. As for the somewhat dazed Partridge Whistle ahead, Zhong Bai instinctively ignored him.
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