Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast!

"Ding! A new sign-in mission has been triggered: kill a Seventh-Level Spirit Beast to gain one sign-in opportunity!"

After leaving the silver-haired girl Luo Li behind for some time, Zhao Chen arrived in a deep mountain forest.

Here, he had already spotted quite a few Fifth-Level Spirit Beasts.

There were even traces of Sixth-Level Spirit Beasts roaming about.

"What a pity Wu Yingying isn't here. Otherwise, why would I still be unable to find a Seventh-Level Spirit Beast!"

Zhao Chen sighed. If Wu Yingying were here, he would have been able to catch those Sixth-Level Spirit Beasts immediately.

He would not have only killed two Sixth-Level Spirit Beasts.

"Two Seventh-Level Spirit Beast essences, plus the essences of several Sixth-Level Spirit Beasts, are needed before I have a chance of breaking through to a Seventh-Grade Spirit Body."

Within the Life and Death Trial Arena, he had absorbed the essence energy of Fifth-Level Spirit Beasts.

However, it had not been enough to improve him much.

After arriving on the Final Spiritual Road, the Sixth-Level Spirit Beasts that had previously been so scarce became far more numerous.

This made Zhao Chen eager to hunt stronger Spirit Beasts as soon as possible and raise his Spirit Body cultivation.

Of course, the most important thing was the sign-in opportunities he would gain from them.

He had to use this period to accumulate some foundations for himself as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if he was driven out of the Spiritual Road midway, his cultivation realm would fall behind others for quite some time.

For someone without a background like Zhao Chen, standing out too much would undoubtedly make him a target of public criticism.

He had never regarded those so-called geniuses on the Spiritual Road as threats.

Instead, he believed the forces behind them posed a greater threat.

All alone, Zhao Chen had to prepare enough resources for his rapid rise in a short time.

After all, being driven out of the Spiritual Road midway meant he would not receive Spiritual Energy Empowerment. Naturally, he would be unable to break through from the Sensing Realm into the Spiritual Movement Realm, then cross the entire Spiritual Movement Realm and reach the Spiritual Wheel Realm.

With the gap of an entire major realm, if he did not hurry to catch up, he would likely find it difficult to surpass those so-called predetermined geniuses of the Five Great Academies who had the support of major clans and powers.

At this thought, Zhao Chen's expression grew even more resolute.

"The Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast should have gone this way."

He carefully distinguished the traces left by the Seventh-Level Spirit Beast, searching for its exact location.

After searching for a while, he finally found the Seventh-Level Spirit Beast, the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast, beside a stream near a small waterfall.

Its entire body was pitch-black, covered in layers of black armor-like scales marked with all manner of patterns.

Most terrifying of all were the four pairs of eerie eyes glowing faintly from its savage head. Above them grew two curved, sharp black horns as thick as a palm.

The powerful aura it gave off, even unintentionally, was far stronger than that of a Sixth-Level Spirit Beast.

If Fifth-Level and Sixth-Level Spirit Beasts were still considered intermediate Spirit Beasts—

Then the Seventh-Level Spirit Beast before him, the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast, had already entered the ranks of advanced Spirit Beasts.

Moreover, this kind of Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast was even stronger than ordinary Seventh-Level Spirit Beasts.

The reason was that a trace of dragon bloodline existed within its body.

Although it was extremely thin, it was enough to make it stronger than Spirit Beasts of the same realm.

"I've found you. Now, I want your essence."

Zhao Chen was not greatly intimidated just because the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast was a Seventh-Level Spirit Beast. On the contrary, he was extremely excited and eager to give it a try.

The Asura Sword was already in his hand.

Against such a powerful Seventh-Level Spirit Beast, he could not use the Asura Bow, which lacked matching arrows, to deal sufficient damage.

If he wanted to kill it as quickly as possible, he needed to find the weak point of the Seventh-Level Spirit Beast, the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast.

With the strength of his Spirit Body and the sharpness of the Asura Sword, he could achieve a one-hit kill.

That was the most efficient approach.

Zhao Chen carefully observed the Seventh-Level Spirit Beast, the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast, continuously searching for its weakness.

According to the knowledge of Spirit Beasts taught by Northern Spiritual Academy, the weaknesses of a Spirit Beast like the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast could be found through the attacks or defenses it excelled at.

The Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast possessed several attack methods, such as launching spiritual attacks with the four pairs of faintly glowing magic eyes.

Any person or Spirit Beast enveloped by them would suffer a tremendous impact on their mental state.

Either they would collapse to the ground unconscious.

Or they would fall into the mental illusion created by the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast, give up resisting, and be swallowed alive.

As for the two huge, sharp dragon horns atop its head, their attacks were no weaker than those of spiritual artifacts.

Even a Fifth-Grade Spirit Body struck by those two dragon horns would be pierced through in an instant and torn apart.

The two dragon horns were definitely not its weakness.

Those four pairs of magic eyes, however, might have been a weakness.

Zhao Chen continued observing and discovered that after the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast finished drinking, it lay down atop a huge bluestone as though it had fallen asleep without any guard up.

Yet its thick, long neck had curled beneath that layer of armored scales.

"So that's it. Its true weakness is actually its neck?"

After realizing this, Zhao Chen prepared to make his move.

But faint footsteps sounded behind him.

Zhao Chen frowned and turned to look at the newcomer.

What entered his sight was the figure of a girl dressed in a black gown.

Her long silver hair cascaded down from her delicate, fair shoulders like a waterfall.

Under the sunlight filtering through the leaves, it gleamed with a faint silver luster.

That icy, delicate fair face and those bright, unruffled eyes were exceptionally familiar.

"Luo Li?"

Zhao Chen's brows furrowed slightly. He had left first some time ago, and his movements had been unpredictable.

How had she caught up to him?

"I remembered your aura!"

Luo Li stared coldly at Zhao Chen, who held the Asura Sword in his hand.

She had said she would come after Zhao Chen.

At that time, she had already memorized his aura.

Unless he took special measures, she could still find him.

"I see."

Zhao Chen had not concealed his aura, so it was not much of an issue for her to track him down.

He looked at Luo Li with a half-smile and asked, "So, you came to kill me?"

Just as he was preparing to attack the Seventh-Level Spirit Beast, the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast, she had come to kill him.

How interesting.

When she saw him kill the Seventh-Level Spirit Beast, the Magic Eye Dragon Horned Beast, would that icy face of hers show any surprise?

The silver-haired girl Luo Li tightened her grip on the Luo God Sword, its dark sword light flickering faintly.

She nodded slightly and said word by word:

"Yes. I will fight you fairly and kill you!"

Only then would it not affect her cultivation.

Luo Li, who bore a heavy responsibility, would never allow her cultivation to be disturbed by anyone else.

"Since you want to fight me fairly, why don't we make a bet?"

Zhao Chen smiled and clapped his hands.

"If I lose, I'll let you deal with me as you please. How about it?"