The Unsolved Mystery

Lin Li was in a panic as the exotic beast he was about to kill escaped.

After searching for over half an hour with no success, he finally encountered an exotic beast that came to him. He had expended some psionic energy and stamina, and was on the verge of killing it. If it got away now, he would be depressed for quite some time.

I absolutely cannot let it escape... Lin Li roared in his mind, then chased after the fleeing Black Snake Exotic Beast.

Because Lin Li had inflicted several wounds on the Black Snake Exotic Beast, blood continuously seeped from the injuries. As it fled, it left behind bright red traces wherever it crawled.

These conspicuous marks allowed Lin Li, who was pursuing the Black Snake Exotic Beast, to precisely identify its escape direction.

The sun hanging in the sky was obscured by distant approaching clouds, giving the sun-baked earth a moment of respite.

"Chirp chirp..."

A well-fed little sparrow flapped its wings, flew up from the grass, and headed towards its home.

"Hiss..."

A sharp, piercing roar suddenly echoed across the quiet wilderness, startling the plump little sparrow, which was preparing to go home. It almost plummeted from the sky.

"Chirp chirp...?"

The startled little sparrow quickly flapped its wings, rapidly increasing its altitude. It then circled in the sky a few times, searching for the source of the startling, piercing roar.

Soon, the little sparrow found the culprit behind the sound.

In its eyes, it saw a human standing on a massive Black Snake Exotic Beast. The human held a weapon emitting a faint golden spiritual light.

At that moment, the weapon emitting the faint golden spiritual light had already deeply pierced the Black Snake Exotic Beast's head.

"Chirp chirp... gotta fly, humans are too scary."

The little sparrow remembered its parents' teachings: stay away from humans immediately, especially those who are hunting. If you see them, run as far as possible. Never let curiosity draw you closer to observe.

Hearing a crisp bird song from behind, Lin Li instinctively turned his head to look in the direction of the sound. He saw a chubby little sparrow flying away from him.

He withdrew his gaze and focused his attention on the Black Snake Exotic Beast at his feet.

Despite its desperate attempt to escape, the Black Snake Exotic Beast's strength was gradually depleted as blood continuously flowed from its wounds.

Ultimately, the fierce Black Snake Exotic Beast could not escape death. Lin Li caught up and pierced its head with his sword.

Although the Black Snake Exotic Beast was dead, its body was still twitching restlessly. This was likely a conditioned reflex. It would take a while longer for its body to become still.

After waiting for over a minute, the Black Snake Exotic Beast's corpse finally settled down.

"Squelch."

Lin Li exerted force with his right hand, pulling his Spirit Artifact Longsword, which had pierced the Black Snake Exotic Beast's head, forcefully backward.

As the Spirit Artifact Longsword was pulled out, red and white matter instantly gushed out from the wound, splattering everywhere.

"After all this effort, I've finally hunted an exotic beast," Lin Li muttered. He then crouched down and placed his hand on the Black Snake Exotic Beast's body.

With a thought, the corpse of this Black Snake Exotic Beast, which possessed First-Order High Stage strength, instantly disappeared.

On the Mysterious Small Island, a bloody exotic beast corpse appeared out of thin air in front of the Small Tree in the center of the island.

Unlike before, the magical Small Tree seemed extremely hungry. The moment the Black Snake Exotic Beast's corpse appeared before it, white mist began to emanate from the corpse.

Within a few breaths, the massive Black Snake Exotic Beast corpse vanished without a trace, not even a speck of residue left behind.

The white mist that had gathered in mid-air condensed into a white, circular mist mass.

Compared to the mist mass formed from the Rabbit Exotic Beast's corpse previously, the white mist mass formed from the Black Snake Exotic Beast's corpse was twice as large.

Then, just like before, this white mist mass flew towards the magical Small Tree with small green fruits, and was instantly absorbed by it.

After absorbing the white mist mass, the small green fruit on the magical Small Tree, which was no larger than a grain of rice, seemed to have grown slightly.

Today's goal was to hunt five exotic beasts.

Having spent forty to fifty minutes hunting one exotic beast, Lin Li, in order to complete his daily goal, immediately began searching for the next exotic beast after storing the hunted Black Snake Exotic Beast's corpse on the Mysterious Small Island.

To find exotic beasts faster, Lin Li expanded his activity range, his footsteps moving towards the depths of the wilderness.

As it turned out, the deeper he ventured into the wilderness, the higher the probability of encountering exotic beasts.

Indeed, after Lin Li had traveled for about ten minutes towards the depths of the wilderness, covering about five hundred meters, he encountered his second prey of the day.

It was a Rooster Feather Exotic Beast with a large, bright red comb, standing one meter two meters tall.

While it might not be the case in other cities, such Rooster Feather Exotic Beasts were quite common in the wilderness outside Rong City.

It is said that sixty to seventy years ago, a Rooster Feather farm owner in the suburbs experienced an incident, and a large number of Rooster Feathers escaped from the farm, scattering into the wilderness.

As time passed, these Rooster Feathers that escaped to the wild and became feral gradually became wild. Later, their offspring awakened their spirituality in large numbers, becoming exotic beasts.

Strangely enough, despite the Rooster Feathers in the farm breeding for so many generations over the years, none had awakened their spirituality to become exotic beasts.

However, the offspring of those Rooster Feathers that escaped to the wild and became feral had awakened their spirituality so easily and become exotic beasts.

The reason why Rooster Feathers so easily transformed into exotic beasts has become an unsolved mystery.

"Cluck cluck cluck..."

The Rooster Feather Exotic Beast, standing at 1.2 meters tall, let out a crisp crow upon seeing Lin Li.

Although the Rooster Feather Exotic Beast was not a carnivorous exotic beast, it possessed strong aggression.

It was said that some cockfighting enthusiasts from abroad would fly internationally to Rong City every year.

They would pay local exotic beast hunters to capture some Rooster Feather Exotic Beasts alive in the wilderness, then take the captured Rooster Feather Exotic Beasts back to their home countries to participate in cockfighting competitions.

As for the competition results, they were reportedly quite good; Rooster Feather Exotic Beasts from Rong City had won the championship in several cockfighting competitions.