Send You on Your Way, Orange Cat!

As time passed, more and more Mutated Beasts arrived at the pool. Just then, a gigantic wolf, nearly ten feet tall, slowly emerged from the forest.

The Mutated Beasts fell silent as soon as they saw the giant wolf arrive.

When the striped tiger saw the giant wolf, it hurriedly said to Lin Chen, "That's the giant wolf who called this gathering."

"Are all the Mutated Beasts here?" Lin Chen asked.

Lin Chen didn't care who had called the Mutated Beasts together. What he cared about was whether they had all arrived. He didn't want any stragglers escaping, and he especially didn't want to lose any of his essence.

So he immediately asked whether all the Mutated Beasts had arrived.

"Other than Little Tiger, it looks like we're missing a wild boar." The striped tiger glanced toward the pool, then continued, "Yesterday at noon, the boar said it was going to get a drink. We haven't seen it since."

A wild boar?

Huang Qian looked at Lin Chen. Lin Chen had killed the boar long ago, so it naturally couldn't return to the pool.

"Are all the others here?" Lin Chen asked the striped tiger.

"Yes." The striped tiger nodded slightly, then asked cautiously, "Sir, now that the other Mutated Beasts have arrived, can Little Tiger go?"

"Of course!"

Lin Chen smiled faintly and looked at the striped tiger beside him. "You've worked hard on the way here. I'll send you on your way."

"Sir, there's no need. I can leave on my own." The striped tiger asked cautiously, thinking Lin Chen really meant to see him off.

Huang Qian, however, seemed to understand what Lin Chen meant. She sighed inwardly. Was it really right to trick the big cat like this?

"Hit the road!"

Lin Chen reached out and stroked the striped tiger's head. A terrifying force surged through him. The tiger's eyes bulged, and it toppled stiffly to the ground.

Lin Chen had never intended to spare the striped tiger. It wasn't just because he wanted its essence; more importantly, the tiger had eaten people!

In his previous life, Lin Chen had come across a video online. Animals that had tasted human flesh would never forget its flavor. When they looked at people, they saw food. Animals like that absolutely couldn't be allowed to live.

And the beast before him was a Mutated Beast, no less. It had eaten Brother Hui and the others, so it had already developed a taste for human flesh. How could Lin Chen let it go?

"Lin Chen..." Huang Qian looked at him.

"Those that have eaten people can't be spared," Lin Chen said flatly.

"No..." Huang Qian shook her head slightly, then looked at Lin Chen. "Be careful!"

Hm?

Lin Chen was taken aback. He'd thought Huang Qian was speaking up because she felt his killing of the tiger had been too brutal. He hadn't expected her simply to be telling him to watch out.

"Hide somewhere safe. This'll be over soon." Lin Chen smiled calmly. Mutated Beasts below Fourth Order posed no difficulty for him at all.

Whoosh~

Lin Chen pushed off with one foot and leaped straight down from the hill. With a loud thud, he landed in the clearing beside the pool.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

In an instant, every Mutated Beast turned its gaze toward Lin Chen. He'd leaped down from the hill without getting hurt—not an ordinary person, but a cultivator.

"A cultivator! Kill him!"

The giant wolf at the head of the group barked coldly. Several Mutated Beasts closest to Lin Chen immediately charged at him.

"Die!"

Facing the incoming Mutated Beasts, Lin Chen didn't hesitate. He summoned his Blood Qi True Flame and charged into the fray.

Thud! Thud!

His fists, strengthened by the Blood Qi True Flame, swung out. Each punch turned a Mutated Beast into a ball of fire, reducing it to ash. In the blink of an eye, every beast that had attacked Lin Chen was dead.

"What?"

"Damn it, his strength!"

The remaining Mutated Beasts paled. The ones who had attacked Lin Chen were mostly Second-Order Mutated Beasts, but he'd killed them with such ease that he had to be at least a Third-Order cultivator—perhaps even Fourth Order.

"Attack together! Kill him!" The giant wolf barked coldly, then darted forward like a streak of shadow and charged at Lin Chen.

As the one who had called this gathering, he couldn't stand by while Lin Chen slaughtered the Mutated Beasts. He had to step forward, so he immediately attacked Lin Chen.

Sure enough, the other Mutated Beasts charged at Lin Chen as soon as they saw this, as if they meant to kill him on the spot.

"Good!"

At this, Lin Chen laughed heartily. He summoned his Blood Qi True Flame and charged straight into the pack. Each punch took down a Mutated Beast. As for their attacks, he ignored them completely.

The Mutated Beasts' attacks couldn't even leave a white mark on his body. Seeing this, they finally understood that Lin Chen's physical defenses were terrifying—stronger even than their own.

"Damn it! Where did this powerhouse come from?" Seeing his companions die one after another, their bodies reduced to nothing, the giant wolf knew full well he was no match for Lin Chen.

"Retreat!"

Without a moment's hesitation, the giant wolf tried to flee. Unfortunately, Lin Chen had already set his sights on him. How could he possibly get away?

The giant wolf had only just started to run when a streak of Blood Qi True Flame shot toward him, forcing him to change direction. Meanwhile, the other Mutated Beasts kept dying at Lin Chen's hands.

In just a short while, more than twenty Mutated Beasts had been killed. Only the giant wolf remained alive.

"So powerful!"

On the hill, Huang Qian watched Lin Chen wreak havoc, her eyes filled with admiration. Lin Chen had said it would only take a moment, but she'd still worried about his safety.

After all, two fists couldn't beat four hands. There were more than twenty Mutated Beasts. Could Lin Chen really handle them?

Clearly, her worries had been unnecessary. Just as Lin Chen had said, in only a moment, all the Mutated Beasts were dead. Only the giant wolf at their head remained.

"What are you?"

The giant wolf looked at Lin Chen in terror. Even as a Fourth-Order Mutated Beast, he couldn't have slaughtered so many Mutated Beasts with ease. There had even been other Fourth-Order Mutated Beasts among the dead!

"You don't need to know who I am, dead wolf." Lin Chen glanced at the giant wolf, his voice calm. "Answer my question, and I'll make your death quick."

"You..." The giant wolf was furious, but he knew Lin Chen could kill him with a single move. If Lin Chen wanted to torture him, he'd have no way to fight back.

"What do you want to ask?" The giant wolf's face went ashen.

"I heard you were injured by another Mutated Beast in Qingzhou. What kind of beast was it?" Lin Chen looked at the giant wolf and asked outright.

The giant wolf's expression grew even uglier. He hadn't expected that even cultivators would know he'd been defeated by another Mutated Beast.

"Who spread the word? I'll kill him!"

The giant wolf seethed inwardly, wanting to kill whoever had let the secret out. But remembering his situation, he knew the blabbermouth was already dead—and he himself probably wouldn't escape death either.

"I'll drag that guy down with me!"

An image flashed through the giant wolf's mind. He looked at Lin Chen and said, "It was an orange cat. I'd never seen it before in Qingzhou. It seemed to appear out of nowhere. I was no match for it at all. If it hadn't been unwilling to kill me, I'd already be dead!"

An Orange Cat!

Lin Chen's eyes lit up. So it really was that guy. He'd known the Orange Cat was no ordinary beast. It was at least Fifth Order, perhaps even stronger!