Zhang Lin was greatly startled. Upon closer inspection, he discovered a tiny caterpillar at the very center of that green energy!
At that moment, it was growing bit by bit, until it was an inch long!
He had no idea what was happening, but it clearly was not a good thing.
He had undergone four Great Body Temperings. Logically speaking, his blood and vitality should have been vast and surging; even if there were parasites in his body, they should have long since been crushed to dust.
Yet this tiny caterpillar had evaded that fate. It was clearly no ordinary thing.
With a thought, the white tiger within his dantian opened its eyes and raised a forepaw. A bolt of lightning qi spread outward, enveloping the tiny caterpillar.
After pondering it repeatedly, he separated three more streams of blood qi and wrapped up the remaining three marks.
Once he was done, he let out a sigh of relief.
He still needed to lie low for two more days!
That afternoon, what people discussed most was the beheading of the rebels at the marketplace.
They also blamed the destruction at Mass Grave Hill outside the city last night on the Wild Boar Demon.
What people discussed next most was how Widow Wang had finally set up her stall that afternoon. They heard her business was booming beyond all measure.
Xiaolin City's tofu shortage was temporarily over. Otherwise, some restaurants would have needed to purchase it from nearby towns, which would have been quite troublesome.
Nothing happened that day either. After eight in the evening, Zhang Lin saw that no one was around and closed up early.
As usual, he secretly poured out the food delivered by Delicious Restaurant.
After buying several meat buns along the way, he left the city through the secret passage again and raced without stopping toward Mass Grave Hill.
At the same time, the people from the government office and the Demon Suppression Division set out in groups. Under the leadership of an Old Daoist, they began making arrangements throughout the city.
The forest outside the city was tranquil, with the occasional chirp of insects and birds.
Because evil entities frequently appeared, few people traveled outdoors at night, let alone through deep mountains and ancient forests.
This world also had a moon at night, and its moonlight was far brighter than that of his original world.
Zhang Lin ran all the way and reached Mass Grave Hill before long.
As far as the eye could see, dense swarms of lantern monsters had appeared once more.
Without a second thought, he charged straight in and began his great harvest.
His hands became claws. Every time he swung them, large batches of lantern monsters vanished.
At times, he opened his mouth and released several powerful sound waves. The lantern monsters in their path exploded on the spot, meeting their deaths immediately.
This was a slaughter!
Like a humanoid tiger beast, he rampaged through Mass Grave Hill, harvesting wave after wave.
There were slightly more lantern monsters tonight than last night. It was a bumper harvest of blue-white qi!
He was quite lucky, too. He encountered three mutated lantern monsters that night, allowing him to obtain blue-white qi with even better effects.
It was also those three mutated monsters that allowed him to undergo two Great Body Temperings in a single night.
By this count, he was already at the sixth stage of the First Realm!
Not long after midnight, every last lantern monster on Mass Grave Hill had been wiped out!
Just as Zhang Lin was about to sit down and rest, a massive figure suddenly sprang out of the forest again.
It was the Wild Boar Demon from last night!
The Wild Boar Demon's tusks had regrown by now, though they were not yet a meter long. Compared to its former tusks, which had been over two meters long, they were hardly worth mentioning.
The Wild Boar Demon's eyes were bloodshot, mist spewed from its nostrils, and its forehooves kept scraping the ground. Its gaze remained fixed fiercely on Zhang Lin, the killing intent around it utterly undisguised.
"You got away last night, yet tonight you delivered yourself right to my doorstep!"
Zhang Lin stared at the Wild Boar Demon and realized that it was much stronger than it had been last night.
That much was obvious from the demonic qi radiating off its body.
In truth, his guess was correct!
After the Wild Boar Demon fled last night, it ran around like a headless fly. It only wanted to get as far away as possible from that beast Zhang Lin.
But as it ran, it unexpectedly discovered a Blood Ganoderma nearly a thousand years old on a stone wall covered in thick weeds.
After digesting the Blood Ganoderma, it broke through its realm, becoming equivalent to the seventh level of the human Qi Refining Realm.
Its greatly increased strength instantly gave it confidence again.
Thus, under cover of night, it sneaked back and came near Mass Grave Hill, where it had fought Zhang You last night.
It hoped to find Zhang You, chop him into eight pieces, and then devour him to vent the hatred in its heart.
It had not expected the heavens to favor it. Its enemy was actually at Mass Grave Hill.
When enemies met, their eyes turned especially red. Driven by rage, it charged forward.
Seeing Zhang You's exhausted appearance, it felt that its chance for revenge had grown much greater!
But what the Wild Boar Demon had not expected was that its opponent attacked first again!
Was he not courting death?
The Wild Boar Demon flew into a rage, snorted twice, and charged forward as well.
Bang!
A powerful blast of air spread outward from the point where the two clashed.
A huge pit had appeared in the ground, and dust scattered in every direction!
Zhang You had not used his full strength just now, and the result was an evenly matched exchange!
"Interesting! Four Forms: White Tiger: Shatter Void!"
Zhang You increased his strength and rushed forward, immediately unleashing the Martial Skill he had just learned.
Having fought Zhang You to a standstill, the Wild Boar Demon's confidence soared through the roof.
When it saw its opponent rush at it, it let out a roar and stomped down with one hoof, refusing to show any weakness.
But it had miscalculated. It had not expected Zhang You to disregard martial ethics and use a Martial Skill!
One had to know that Martial Skills were far stronger than brute force.
The White Tiger's two forms Zhang You had comprehended were Martial Skills.
Crack!
Without question, as Zhang You deliberately held back, the Wild Boar Demon's forehoof was instantly broken.
Four Forms: White Tiger: Thunderclap!
Before the Wild Boar Demon could recover its senses, another silent sound wave struck. Its brain was instantly churned into a mess. Its eyes rolled back, foam spilled from its mouth, and its massive body toppled over. After twitching twice, it died on the spot without even making a sound.
The tyrant of Fanghu Forest, the Wild Boar Demon, was dead!
Fanghu Forest was the name of the forest where Mass Grave Hill was located.
The Wild Boar Demon had plagued the area for a long time. It was said that it had already eaten more than a dozen people from Xiaolin City and nearby villages.
The blue-white qi provided by the Wild Boar Demon was of higher quality.
He had originally still been some distance away from his next Great Body Tempering, but this wisp of blue-white qi immediately brought about his seventh Great Body Tempering.
With experience under his belt, this Great Body Tempering finally passed, though not without stumbles.
This Great Body Tempering was far more intense than the previous two, yet the pain was much less.
He sat on the ground to recover his strength, feeling troubled as he looked at the Wild Boar Demon's corpse before him.
The corpse was currently radiating dense demonic qi. Once ordinary people came into contact with it, their lives would very likely be in danger.
Besides, the Wild Boar Demon was so huge that he had no idea how to deal with it.
He often heard that every part of a demon was a treasure, but Zhang You did not know which parts were useful, much less their specific uses.
"What a headache!"
During his idle moments, Zhang You took out the unidentified Beast Hide from his clothes.
He had not examined it carefully before, but now it seemed that aside from being durable and flexible, it had no notable features at all.
"Could it require a blood-binding ritual?"
After thinking it over, he cut open his finger and let a drop of blood fall onto the Beast Hide.
"Huh! There's something to it!"
The Beast Hide suddenly flashed with red light, then fell silent again!
"That's it?"
He picked up the Beast Hide and examined it from left to right, then held it up to the moonlight, but still could not make heads or tails of it.
Just then, as if sensing something, the Beast Hide instantly slipped free of Zhang You's palm and flew toward the Wild Boar Demon.
"Hm?"
Very soon, the Beast Hide stopped above the Wild Boar Demon's corpse and cast down strands of red light!
Then an utterly unbelievable scene unfolded!
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