"Young friend, you have quite some potential. To have climbed five hundred steps—you must have spent no small effort tempering your body, haven't you?"
The Nascent Soul stage male cultivator spoke.
Yunxi felt that she was about to reach her limit. She did not force herself and replied while standing on the steps, "This junior cultivates both the sword and the body. Reaching this point is already my limit. It seems this junior can go no farther."
As soon as she finished speaking, a ring of golden light encircled her. Under the Nascent Soul Cultivator's watchful gaze, she vanished from the steps.
Yunxi felt as though she had merely blinked, only to find herself in a dense primeval forest. The chirping of insects and singing of birds drifted from all around her, occasionally mingled with the roars of beasts.
Yunxi immediately heightened her vigilance. She raised her hand and summoned the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella from her hair bun into her grasp, then cautiously headed toward the direction from which the beastly roars were coming.
As she moved forward, Yunxi also released her divine sense. She discovered that her divine sense and spiritual power were no longer restricted.
Through her divine sense, she saw a group of primitive tribespeople five li away attacking an enormous Black Panther with all manner of stone weapons. The panther was three meters long and over a meter tall. Whenever it raised a forepaw to attack, a single swipe easily sent someone flying, and when its paw struck the muddy ground, it smashed out a deep pit.
Its whip-like tail swept across, flinging another four or five people away. The remaining four men, dressed in beast-hide shorts, clung desperately to the rope looped around the Black Panther's neck, trying to restrain it.
One brawny,