To the west of the Black Wind Domain, within a mountain hollow overgrown with strange mushroom trees, chaotic noises rang out without cease.
A One-Eyed Giant Deer with an incomparably violent aura was gnawing on mushroom after mushroom.
"Crunch, crunch!"
From time to time, it snorted thunderously, making the densely packed mushrooms around it sway violently and scatter layer upon layer of spores.
Around this strange mushroom forest—or rather, throughout a hundred-mile radius—not a single living exotic beast could be seen.
Clearly, this One-Eyed Giant Deer was far too powerful. All the exotic beasts nearby had perished beneath its merciless iron hooves.
All of a sudden, an equally ferocious roar abruptly thundered from the eastern region!
"Roar!"
As the sound echoed back from afar, the One-Eyed Giant Deer slowly raised its head. Its sole eye was webbed with bloodshot veins, brimming with violent madness.
Answering that roar was an equally shrill cry:
"Hiss-roar!"
To the east, an equally enormous Striped Giant Tiger came galloping over. On its back rode a tall, upright young man and a pretty woman with cat ears.
"Found it."
Li Qing, who had finished meditating, slowly opened his eyes and gazed at the One-Eyed Giant Deer concealed within the black mushroom forest.
That was right—it was the One-Eyed Giant Deer that had chased him into an utterly miserable state back then. Li Qing recognized it at a glance.
"Master... how about we avoid fighting it? Do we really have to hunt this Third-order Exotic Beast?" Lin Jing's hands trembled slightly, and cold sweat even seeped from her furry palms.
It was only because the One-Eyed Giant Deer slowly emerging from the mushroom forest possessed such a terrifying presence. Every step it took made the earth tremble!
Boom! Boom!
Yet Li Qing's expression remained utterly calm. He