The Human Race's Stance and Interests

In the forest, towering trees stood like giants.

Ancient trees a hundred meters tall could be seen everywhere.

It was already late autumn. Withered yellow leaves lay scattered across the ground without any pattern, like a thick carpet.

At noon, gentle sunlight streamed through the bare branches and fell into the forest.

It gave the fallen leaves on the ground a faint golden sheen.

It also made the chill of late autumn less biting.

Yi Chen carried his Thorn Fruit as he cautiously moved through the forest, searching for traces of the Green Leopard.

From Gu Li, he had gained a general understanding of the Green Leopard's strength.

It was massive and terrifyingly powerful. A single swipe of its paw could easily snap a tree over a meter thick.

Its jumping ability was equally astonishing. One leap could send it more than twenty meters into the air and over a hundred meters away.

Of course, Yi Chen was no weakling either.

After breaking through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, his Spiritual Power had undergone a qualitative transformation. The power of the Flying Knife Art had increased at least tenfold compared to when he had been at the sixth level of the Qi Condensation Realm.

That was his greatest advantage and weapon when facing the enormous Green Leopard.

Besides, great size had its advantages, but being small had its own as well.

By channeling Spiritual Power into his legs, Yi Chen could greatly increase his speed. And in this forest, towering ancient trees were everywhere.

If the Green Leopard attacked him, he could rely on his small size and speed to evade quickly, ensuring his safety.

Unfortunately, he did not have enough time.

Yi Chen had actually wanted to create a movement technique before coming to kill the Green Leopard.

With a movement technique, his speed could increase several times over, perhaps even tenfold.

With the cover of the towering trees as well, he would truly be invincible when facing the Green Leopard.

"That's it. It looks like he really came looking for the Green Leopard?"

"What is he trying to do? Eliminate a menace for the people and help the Flame Mountain Tribe get rid of this huge threat? That doesn't seem like his personality!"

"I have no idea what he's thinking. Can't he just stay quietly in the Tribe, cultivate properly, and research New Cultivation Methods?"

The viewers in the Live Stream Room were all groaning in dismay.

From their standpoint, regardless of the reason, they hoped Yi Chen would not take any risks.

Because Yi Chen's life and death were tied to their interests.

Yi Chen cultivating peacefully and creating cultivation methods was more in line with their interests.

The former could test where the upper limit of this cultivation method truly lay, as well as whether it had any unbearable aftereffects.

The latter could allow them to explore more ways of using Spiritual Power before those research institutions made progress and created better cultivation methods.

There was no doubt about it.

Most viewers in the Live Stream Room admired and respected Yi Chen, the founder of cultivation, when they were in a neutral position.

But once their own interests were involved, Yi Chen became a lab rat testing poison ahead of them, not some patriarchal founder.

Only a very small number, people like basketball star Jiang He whose fate had changed dramatically after secretly learning the Chaos Art, truly regarded Yi Chen as their patriarchal founder—or even worshipped him as a god.

And even that was because Yi Chen's Chaos Art had completely transformed their destinies and brought them unimaginable benefits.

Everything depended on the fact that no one could imagine or predict just how far Yi Chen would rise.

His terrifying talent would inevitably become an opportunity for the Human Race to rise above the Myriad Races.

Yet given the Human Race's initial attitude, along with his way of improving talent and his personality, he was also destined to become another great crisis the Human Race would face after the Myriad Races.

After circling around for more than two hours, Yi Chen finally found the Green Leopard.

Hearing someone describe it was naturally nothing compared to seeing it with his own eyes.

From Gu Li, he had only known that the Green Leopard stood over ten meters tall.

But only when he truly saw it did he understand how shocking a colossal creature over ten meters tall could be.

At that moment, the Green Leopard was patrolling the center of the forest.

Its body was as tall as a four-story building and over twenty meters long, making it resemble a moving green mountain.

Even from a hundred meters away, Yi Chen felt small and powerless.

The originally spacious forest seemed cramped and crowded in front of the Green Leopard.

With every step of its powerful limbs, a fierce gust of wind swept forth.

Its seven- or eight-meter-long tail swayed lightly like a steel whip.

Its amber eyes were as large as basketballs, and the cold gleam that flickered within them from time to time was enough to scare an ordinary person out of their wits.

Yi Chen first quickly surveyed the surrounding terrain, confirming the position of every towering ancient tree and the distances between them.

He took a deep breath, pulled out a stack of Thorn Fruit, and gripped one tightly in his right hand.

"Hey..."

Given the Green Leopard's size, the Thorn Fruit, only a few centimeters across, could clearly kill it only by striking vital points.

Yi Chen shouted loudly at the Green Leopard, intending to draw its attention and make it turn around.

The Green Leopard ignored him outright.

As early as when Yi Chen had been two or three hundred meters away, it had already caught his scent with its keen sense of smell.

Too small. No bite to it.

Yi Chen could not stir even the slightest appetite in it.

The billions of viewers in the Live Stream Room, on the other hand, were badly startled by Yi Chen's shout.

Their hearts, already hanging in their throats over Yi Chen's safety, rose even higher.

"This guy actually took the initiative to provoke the Green Leopard and get its attention. He's practically courting death!"

"Fine! We can only hope those research institutions quickly develop a cultivation method better than the Chaos Art."

"His talent is so high, and he gets stronger every month. Why does he have to come out and take this risk? Can't he just stay in the Tribe and keep a low profile while growing stronger?"

Seeing that the Green Leopard ignored his shout, Yi Chen did not care.

He casually flicked his hand.

The Thorn Fruit in his hand suddenly shot out.

Boom!

The tiny Thorn Fruit actually let out a deafening roar after leaving his hand.

The Green Leopard finally sensed that something was wrong.

Its Sixth Sense even gave it a sense of danger.

It could not help turning its head toward the source of the sound.

It saw nothing.

Because the Thorn Fruit had already pierced its body and burrowed into its abdomen.

Only two or three seconds later did agonizing pain surge from its belly.

The Green Leopard roared furiously.

Its basketball-sized eyes radiated a chilling, bloodthirsty aura as they fixed on Yi Chen.

Yi Chen remained utterly calm.

One Thorn Fruit after another shot from his hand toward the Green Leopard's eyes and the center of its brow.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

The piercing sounds of air being torn apart rose and fell in an unbroken stream.

They erupted without cease.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

The Green Leopard dodged left and right, yet it still found it difficult to completely evade the endless Thorn Fruit that flashed as fast as lightning.

Its eyes, brow, throat...

Thorn Fruit pierced every vital point.

Other than roaring in pain, it could only squeeze its eyes shut and pounce toward where it remembered Yi Chen had been.

Yi Chen suddenly accelerated. While dodging the Green Leopard's pounce, he continued attacking its vital points with Thorn Fruit.

In only two or three minutes, the Green Leopard, its vital points constantly under attack, suffered a clear decline in both speed and strength.

Another two or three minutes later, its powerful limbs, like stone pillars, could no longer even support it steadily on the ground.

Like a drunken man, it swayed on the verge of collapse.

The outcome had been decided.

Yi Chen had expected this result all along, and his expression remained calm.

But the viewers in the Live Stream Room stood with their mouths hanging open, their faces full of shock.

He had defeated a level-10 ferocious beast that required Gene Warriors to contend with in just a few minutes?

To train a single Gene Warrior, the Military had to spend hundreds of millions in funding and more than a decade of time.

And what the hell was that Thorn Fruit flight speed measured by the Scanner?

Its initial velocity had actually reached a terrifying 1,100 meters per second!