If I Let You Get Away, I'll Eat...

After tidying the place up, he went outside to bring in some dirt, trees, and a water channel. It barely looked like a home now.

Once everything was settled, Yun Shu plunged into the bathroom for a shower, then lay down on the soft bed.

He finally had the time to carefully study this house-type Omni-Pill today. To his surprise, one of the house's power sources was solar energy. In other words, Yun Shu no longer had to worry about electricity.

If the power ran out in the future, all he needed to do was take the house outside and let it bask in the sun to recharge. With that, water, electricity, food, and the like were basically no longer a problem.

Returning to Green Mountain Town once again, it wasn't quite a case of things remaining while people had changed, but Yun Shu's strength had long since surpassed what it had been the last time he came here.

After obtaining the Blood Lotus Essence from Ten Thousand Medicines Hall, the kind that could be refined into a Blood Lotus Pill, Yun Shu headed straight for the Monster Mountain Range.

As for Little Fairy Doctor, they would meet again if fate allowed.

Yun Shu had no plans to find a Mercenary Group to enter with. After all, this was his own trial.

"Hah!!" Yun Shu smashed a First-Order Magical Beast to death with a single swing of his ruler, wiped the blood from it, and continued deeper into the Monster Mountain Range.

With the strength of a Dou Master, dealing with First-Order Magical Beasts was simply too easy for Yun Shu. Since entering yesterday at noon, he had already killed nearly twenty of them.

He had also acquired five first-order Magic Cores. Unfortunately, such low-grade Magic Cores were not worth much, so Yun Shu planned to wait until he had accumulated more Magic Cores or other valuable items before using the Lottery.

After getting used to lotteries worth a million, draws worth several thousand or tens of thousands no longer caught Yun Shu's eye. Mainly because they couldn't yield anything that would improve his strength, while some of the more interesting items were inconvenient to take out and use.

Medicinal Herbs worth hundreds of thousands had only drawn him a Xuan-rank Dou Technique. If he drew with just tens of thousands, he would probably get a Huang-rank Dou Technique or cultivation method. Useless...

Even if his luck exploded and he drew the Flame Devouring Art, it would still be useless.

Better to save up and go big again once the value reached around a million...

"Phew, seriously, does this ever end?" Yun Shu said helplessly as he looked at the wolf-type Magical Beasts before him. He had accidentally stirred up a hornet's nest just now, killing several pack-dwelling first-order wolf-type Magical Beasts but inadvertently letting one escape.

Less than half an hour later, a huge group of First-Order Magical Beasts had caught up to him.

Yun Shu had no choice but to use the Afterimage Fist he had just learned to evade them. Yet more than a dozen Magical Beasts had happened to chase in his direction...

Yun Shu was not afraid of First-Order Magical Beasts, but he could not handle them if there were too many. Swarm tactics were the best method of attack for low-level Magical Beasts against someone of Yun Shu's strength.

"Absorption Palm!!" Seeing that he could not escape, Yun Shu prepared to fight these creatures head-on.

As for using a Flying Dou Technique or Kamui to escape? Yun Shu had never considered it. If he ran, what kind of trial would this be? Only life-and-death combat like this could improve his strength most effectively.

Bang!!

He smashed a magic wolf into a U-shape with one blow of his ruler, but the next moment, a Snake-Tail Leopard's snake-like tail lashed across Yun Shu's back with a sharp crack.

"Damn it!!" Yun Shu gritted his teeth against the pain and struck back with another Absorption Palm, dragging the Snake-Tail Leopard before him.

"Heavenly Thunder Break!!" Circulating the Dou Qi within him at full force, Yun Shu drove a furious punch straight into the Snake-Tail Leopard's forehead.

Boom!! Brain matter splattered everywhere. Even with his strength suppressed by the Mystic Heavy Ruler, Yun Shu's full-powered punch blew the Snake-Tail Leopard's head apart.

The remaining Magical Beasts were instantly too frightened to approach after seeing that. However, they did not leave. Instead, they formed a circle around Yun Shu, seemingly planning to call for reinforcements and keep him pinned down.

"About half my Dou Qi remains..." Yun Shu narrowed his eyes as he looked at these little scrubs. If he put away the Mystic Heavy Ruler, he could definitely deal with this group quickly, but that would no longer serve any purpose as training.

Yun Shu took out a healing pill from his Ring of Holding and tossed it into his mouth. The lash across his back still burned painfully. He did not know whether the Snake-Tail Leopard was venomous, so he needed to finish this quickly and deal with the wound on his back.

An injured body would not last long in this damn place.

"Damn it! A little waste is still better than dying!" Yun Shu raised a hand and formed a tiny flame. Since these creatures did not dare charge him for the moment, this was the perfect chance to use a move that required charging.

"Forty percent... thirty percent... now!!" Feeling the Dou Qi within him rapidly drain away, Yun Shu's eyes flashed crimson once only thirty percent remained as a warning reserve.

Crimson Flame Storm!!

"Hah!!" Yun Shu hurled the tiny crimson flame gathered in his hand.

Boom!!!!

The instant the flame left his hand, it expanded rapidly and erupted in a violent explosion. A scorching heat wave followed, and Yun Shu hurriedly planted the Mystic Heavy Ruler in front of himself.

"Holy shit!" Seeing flames ignite the corner of his clothes, Yun Shu's eyes widened as he hurriedly slapped them out.

"Roar!!"

Before Yun Shu could even get back up, a beastly roar sounded behind him. He immediately pulled out the Mystic Heavy Ruler and swung backward.

Bang!!

Another magic wolf was sent flying by Yun Shu's blow.

Yun Shu hurriedly slung the Mystic Heavy Ruler over his back and leaped onto a nearby tree, looking down at the situation below.

That Crimson Flame Storm had just killed roughly half the Magical Beasts. Another had been sent flying by Yun Shu, leaving only three or four now.

The strongest First-Order Magical Beasts possessed the strength of an advanced Dou Zhe. Thus, even in a one-on-one fight, Yun Shu, burdened by the Mystic Heavy Ruler, could not instantly kill one. After all, he lacked an immensely powerful close-range Dou Technique like Eight Extremes Collapse. Heavenly Thunder Break was powerful because of its effects—it could slow or even immobilize enemies.

"About thirty percent of my Dou Qi remains... That should be enough to deal with these little grunts!" Yun Shu narrowed his eyes, then pulled out the Mystic Heavy Ruler and leaped toward one of the Magical Beasts.

"Absorption Palm!! Hah!" Seeing Yun Shu practically deliver himself to it, the magic wolf adjusted its position and charged toward him, intending to bite him to death first...

But before it could even leap, Yun Shu's Absorption Palm pulled it straight up.

Bang!!!

Another one down. The Mystic Heavy Ruler smashed its head apart.

Seeing how troublesome Yun Shu was, the remaining two Magical Beasts actually turned and ran in the opposite direction.

"Trying to run? If I let you two get away, I'll eat—"

Awoo!! Awoo awoo!!

Before Yun Shu could finish speaking, he heard waves of wolf howls and ghostly cries coming from not far ahead.

"Ahem, ahem! Time for a Qi Recovery Pill. I'm outta here, outta here, outta here!" Yun Shu took a Qi Recovery Pill from his Ring of Holding and tossed it into his mouth. Then he slid the Mystic Heavy Ruler back into its sheath and ran in the opposite direction.