Yellow Dog Fierce Wolf

Yellow Dog Fierce Wolf

Beneath the blazing sun, Lin Le basked in the sunlight and sensed the yang energy arising within his body.

After a while, he shook his head and sighed. "There was an improvement, but not much."

Killing those two constables had been just enough to regenerate another section of lotus root, and Lin Le had naturally chosen to use it immediately.

Yet after digesting it, Lin Le did not feel that the rate at which yang energy was produced had increased by much, seemingly not even by a tenth.

He estimated that one section of lotus root would not be enough for his two-section spirit root to grow another section.

Lin Le was not too surprised by this change. After all, it had taken two sections of lotus root to grow the second section of his spirit root. No matter how he looked at it, the third section would need at least three sections of lotus root as a foundation.

It would be best if it were just three sections. An exponential increase would be truly headache-inducing. Thinking of this, Lin Le could not help muttering.

If it were exponential, then for the final section alone, he would need to kill 20,480 people to gather enough.

Even if they were second-limit Martial Masters like Li Xingzhi, each worth 3 points of killing karma, he would still need to kill more than 6,800 of them.

Glancing at the four lotus seeds within the lotus flower, Lin Le stopped dwelling on it and continued east.

Near dusk, when he reached a village, Lin Le looked at the settlement, where not a wisp of cooking smoke rose, and let out a sigh.

Floods were not truly frightening. In this world of gods and immortals, if great powers took action, they could bring them under control in merely three or four days.

What was frightening was a demon calamity.

When the earth veins clashed, the imperial aura protecting this land was thrown into disorder. The demons hidden deep in the mountains could hardly wait to emerge and feast upon the Great Medicine of human bodies.

The fewer people gathered in a place, the thinner the imperial aura there, the weaker its deterrence against demons, and the greater the chance of suffering a demon calamity.

And this place before him had most likely suffered one.

As Lin Le entered the village, he became increasingly certain that it had been struck by a demon calamity.

Crumbled walls, shattered doors and windows—it was a complete mess.

Seeing the blood splashed across the walls, Lin Le touched it. It had already dried; it appeared that at least two or three days had passed since the incident.

Lin Le picked out a house and decided to stay there for the night.

After finding some firewood and piling it in a corner, Lin Le lit a fire, set up a pot, and began cultivating the Thunderfire Soul Refining Diagram.

In a distant forest, several dozen wild wolves lived together as one large pack.

While the ordinary wolves eagerly gnawed on the two-legged sheep they had hunted several days ago and still had not finished eating, a wild wolf nearly seven chi long slowly rose from atop a boulder. Its gaze turned toward the cooking smoke rising in a certain direction, greed appearing in its eyes as it gave a low growl.

"Awoo!"

After that low growl, the wolves that had been feeding put down their food one after another and looked toward the Alpha Wolf.

The Alpha Wolf said nothing. It merely leapt down from the boulder and headed in a certain direction. The wolves quietly spread out as well, following behind the Alpha Wolf as they departed.

Just as Lin Le quietly practiced the Thunderfire Soul Refining Diagram, he suddenly stopped. Opening his eyes, he looked in one direction and said coldly, "Come out! Don't force me to make a move."

No one responded.

Lin Le rose to his feet. A few breaths later, he suddenly darted toward a certain spot.

The "person" hiding in the shadows was startled and immediately retreated in panic.

But Lin Le was far too fast for it. With an eagle claw grappling technique, he immediately caught it.

Lin Le looked over the Big Yellow Dog dangling from his hand. "A dog demon that had only just awakened its intelligence?"

The Big Yellow Dog before him looked much like an ordinary yellow dog, except patches of its fur had fallen out. It looked as though it had been injured and had only recently recovered.

Yet the liveliness in its eyes was not something an ordinary dog could possess, so Lin Le guessed that the Big Yellow Dog had only recently awakened its intelligence.

Such things were common in disaster-stricken regions. Under the suppression of imperial aura, livestock in human settlements had several times—perhaps more than ten times—the difficulty of awakening intelligence compared to animals in the wild.

But once the imperial aura weakened, livestock with sufficient spirituality could immediately awaken their intelligence.

Though he held a dog demon in his hand, Lin Le did not rush to kill it. Demons were like people; there were good ones and bad ones alike.

"From this village?" Lin Le asked.

The Big Yellow Dog could understand human speech. It immediately nodded.

"Have you eaten people?" Lin Le asked again.

The Big Yellow Dog immediately shook its head.

Lin Le set it down, because he had not sensed even the slightest malice in its gaze.

If there had been even a trace of malice, he would have snapped the Big Yellow Dog's neck at once.

"Whimper, whimper!" The Big Yellow Dog let out frightened whimpers.

It felt that if it gave one wrong answer, it would die.

"Where is your master?" Lin Le asked.

The Big Yellow Dog froze, assumed a pouncing posture, then shook its head.

"Dead, eaten by other demons?" Lin Le said.

The Big Yellow Dog nodded.

Lin Le pressed on. "What did those other demons look like?"

The Big Yellow Dog let out an awoo.

"Wolves?" Lin Le asked.

The Big Yellow Dog nodded, then gave several more awoos.

"A wolf pack. I understand." Divine light flickered in Lin Le's eyes. "Can the strongest one speak?"

The Big Yellow Dog nodded again.

"Does it display any supernatural abilities?" Lin Le asked again. "Like summoning wind or breathing fire?"

The Big Yellow Dog shook its head.

A wolf pack led by a wolf with Speech Awakening. That truly was a little troublesome.

Lin Le licked his lips.

But only a little troublesome.

At the stages of intelligence awakening and Speech Awakening, a demon's strength was tied to its original body. Only a strong original body could produce true strength.

Like that Speech Awakening wolf—unless it was an innate variant, if it fought alone against the intelligence-awakened tiger Lin Le had eaten, nine times out of ten, the Speech Awakening wolf would be the one to die.

Take the Big Yellow Dog before him, for example. Though it had awakened its intelligence and was equivalent to a first-limit Martial Master, an ordinary person with decent equipment could easily kill it.

Thus, this wolf pack was much like when he had faced Zhao Lang and his gang.

Wolves and wolves—he truly did have quite the affinity with them!

Lin Le chuckled softly, then lowered his head to look at the Big Yellow Dog. "Do you want to avenge your master?"

"Woof!" The Big Yellow Dog barked without hesitation.

"Then take me to find them tomorrow," Lin Le said.

The Big Yellow Dog suddenly began circling around Lin Le.

Lin Le looked thoughtful. "You mean they're still nearby."

The Big Yellow Dog nodded. It had originally come to warn Lin Le to stay alert, but it had not expected him to be so strong. His speed was not the least bit inferior to that Alpha Wolf's.

"I understand." Lin Le nodded. "Have you eaten?"

The Big Yellow Dog nodded. Though the wolf pack had eaten all the meat in the village, they had disdained to eat coarse grains such as sweet potatoes and corn.

It was a dog, so it could make do with them.

"Fine." After saying that, Lin Le returned indoors and began eating the cooked meal.

The Big Yellow Dog lay to one side and quietly watched, its eyes full of longing.

Though it was fine eating sweet potatoes and corn raw, how could they compare to food that had been cooked, fragrant and sweet?

Seeing its expression, Lin Le filled a bowl for it as well. "Eat. It's not like I'm short on this much."

The Big Yellow Dog barked a grateful thanks, then lowered its head and began eating.

After finishing his meal, Lin Le looked at the divine ability Inner Scenery. He discovered that the specks of starlight on the third lotus leaf had vanished, replaced by a colorless drop of liquid.

The Concentrated Divine Dew had formed.

Lin Le chose to use it.

The liquid fell, and Lin Le immediately felt his mind become crystal clear, as though he had eaten mint.

When he entered meditation and emerged from it again, a trace of delight appeared in Lin Le's eyes. He could now remain in Third Zen for three seconds longer. One had to know that the last time he entered Third Zen, he had only remained there for three seconds.