Cliff-Jumping Leads to Fortuitous Encounters

Although Mo Tang did not have a cheat like Xiao Yan's soul scan that he could carry around to avoid danger, with the Minimap, he could still steer clear of ordinary dangerous areas in advance.

Ever since he had been ganked by a pack of Werewolves in the mountains for the first time, he had developed the habit of constantly keeping an eye on his Minimap... He would not make the same mistake twice.

However, the Demonic Beast Mountain Range was not as dangerous as he had imagined. In the outer regions, because they were close to the town and many mercenaries operated there, there were basically very few signs of Demonic Beasts.

But after venturing a thousand meters into the forest, everything instantly changed!

In just half an hour, Mo Tang encountered three Demonic Beast attacks...

And these things were incredibly cunning. As long as one ambush failed, they immediately fled... never giving Mo Tang any chance to strike back!

If he had not refined the Wind Fox's essence blood, greatly increasing both his speed and agility, he might have fallen victim to them.

Especially since most of these Demonic Beasts were venomous, once he was hit, it was practically a hopeless situation. He could only wait to die...

It was clear that the Demonic Beast Mountain Range was truly not a place one person could roam alone!

Mo Tang dared to enter by himself, which looked no different from courting death in the eyes of others...

"Huh? Again?"

He had barely gone any farther when another red dot appeared on the Minimap, and it appeared to be heading straight for him.

Mo Tang was getting a little tired of this...

Why did this never end?!

But unlike the previous times, this Demonic Beast clearly was not planning an ambush. It charged straight out of the bushes...

Already prepared, Mo Tang immediately drew his blade and blocked its pouncing attack.

Yet in their head-on collision, Mo Tang's arm was numbed by the impact... and he nearly lost his grip on the Sharp Spirit Blade!

"A peak first-tier Serpent-tailed Leopard!"

This creature was an exceptionally powerful existence even among first-tier Demonic Beasts. Even a mercenary squad needed at least a Dou Shi leading them for a chance to take it down...

Yet after seeing the Serpent-tailed Leopard's true form, Mo Tang was not alarmed. Instead, he was somewhat delighted.

"This thing is worth a fortune!"

A complete Serpent-tailed Leopard corpse, including its hide, flesh, blood, and Magic Core, could sell for at least two thousand Gold Coins!

At that thought, a golden gleam began flashing in Mo Tang's eyes.

Without another word, he attacked!

"Triple Blade Qi!"

Mo Tang became a gust of wild wind. As blade light danced in his hand, three streams of Dou Qi blade aura shot forth.

The Serpent-tailed Leopard was clearly startled by him and immediately swung its forepaws to block the blade aura's slash...

But what it had not expected was that, although the three streams of blade aura looked intimidating, they shattered upon contact. The sharp blade that followed was Mo Tang's true killing move, cleaving directly into the Serpent-tailed Leopard's head.

They said that leopards had heads of bronze, tails of iron, and waists of tofu...

But under a strike from a Yellow-tier High-grade Dou Technique at Perfection, even a truly bronze head would be split apart. The latter had no chance of survival.

Mo Tang casually stored the Serpent-tailed Leopard's corpse in his Backpack, intending to sell it for money when he returned, then buy herbs to absorb energy from.

It could not be helped. Directly absorbing the Magic Cores of low-tier Demonic Beasts was far too wasteful, so Mo Tang had always chosen to sell them first in order to maximize his gains.

After quickly leaving the battlefield, Mo Tang did not continue venturing deeper recklessly. Instead, he found a relatively concealed place to rest.

Although the battle had not lasted long, it had consumed quite a bit of Dou Qi. Triple Blade Qi in particular was powerful, but its consumption was equally great... So he needed to keep himself in peak condition at all times in case anything unexpected happened.

Of course, if he truly ran short of Dou Qi during battle, he still had several Qi Replenishing Pills in his Backpack. He had painstakingly saved those medicines for emergencies.

After his Dou Qi recovered, Mo Tang continued onward. He moved nimbly through the forest, sometimes leaping over boulders and sometimes climbing tall trees, advancing all the way... until he heard a faint, frightening whimpering sound from the distance...

The Demonic Beast Mountain Range was thick with trees, and sunlight was almost entirely blocked by the towering canopy, making the forest seem somewhat gloomy.

Coupled with the constant "ghostly wailing" drifting from unseen places in the distance, anyone timid would probably be scared half to death!

Though Mo Tang had lived two lives, he still shuddered, and goosebumps instantly rose all over his body...

He should be close to Wind Ghost Ravine, right?

Sure enough, when Mo Tang finally emerged from the forest, a somewhat eerie gorge appeared before him...

Mo Tang was standing atop a continuous mountain range several hundred meters high. The mountains were densely forested, their peaks relatively flat, and right at their center was a gorge stretching several thousand meters...

Mo Tang was now standing at the very top of the mountain. Before him was one cliff edge of the gorge, separated from the cliff on the opposite side by at least several hundred meters.

Not only that, Mo Tang also discovered...

The farther outward the cliff walls on both sides of the gorge extended, the closer they came to each other.

Mo Tang tried running along the cliff toward its edge. The farther he went, the closer the opposite cliff wall became. After running four or five li, the cliffs on either side were only a dozen or so meters apart, close enough to cross in a single jump...

"It's like this on this side. Could the other side be the same?"

Mo Tang looked along the cliff toward the other end of the gorge. It seemed that the two cliff walls converged and connected again in the distance.

The entire gorge looked like a spindle...

No wonder the wind here sounded so strange!

Aside from the spindle-shaped mouth of the gorge, Mo Tang also discovered, upon carefully looking downward, that the gorge actually grew wider the farther down it went...

For example, the two cliff walls at the top were only several hundred meters apart, but farther below, the distance between them might reach several thousand meters...

If he really went down there, then unless he could fly, climbing back up would not be easy!

Seeing this, Mo Tang suddenly wanted to turn back...

It was only a treasure hunt with an uncertain outcome. There was no need to stake his life on it!

Who knew what dangers might be lurking below... What if a powerful Demonic Beast was hiding inside?

"Mm, I'd better gather more herbs somewhere relatively safe instead. That can also quickly increase my strength. There's no need to take this risk..."

After comforting himself a few times, Mo Tang turned around and prepared to leave.

But how did that song go again...

Treasure hunting isn't something you can do just because you want to!

You had already come all this way, and now you wanted to leave? Did you ask whether Zhi Yuanxing would allow it?

"Screech!"

With a piercing eagle cry, an Azure Giant Eagle with a wingspan of nearly five meters soared into the sky from the valley below...

Mo Tang only felt the sky above him darken, followed by a fierce gale crashing down from overhead!