After experiencing the benefits of hunting Magical Beasts, Xiao Yang found himself craving more.
Compared to cultivating slowly on his own, the improvement was far faster!
He headed straight toward an area where the trees grew more densely.
Magical Beasts generally lived in heavily forested areas, where they could conceal their tracks and barely shelter themselves from the wind and rain.
Moreover, the most common Ice Snakes in the outer regions of the Monster Beast Mountain Range basically lived in trees as well.
As time passed, Xiao Yang hunted several First-order Monster Beasts.
However, his proficiency did not increase.
That was because after the Nine Flame Fist reached Minor Accomplishment, the difficulty of its proficiency tasks had also increased.
[Task: Use the Nine Flame Fist to kill nine First-order Monster Beasts. Reward: Nine Flame Fist proficiency +1] [Task: Practice the Nine Flame Fist nine hundred times. Reward: Nine Flame Fist proficiency +1]
Looking at the comparison between the two tasks, Xiao Yang had absolutely no desire to do the latter one.
Xiao Yang spent an entire day searching for Magical Beasts in the Monster Beast Mountain Range before finally killing nine First-order Monster Beasts and completing the first task.
Just as he was preparing to return to the cave for a meal and claim his reward, he suddenly heard wolf howls coming from the distance.
And it was not just one or two howls.
Xiao Yang could sense that the howls were getting closer and closer.
There were not only wolf howls; he also heard several shouts and curses. They were probably Mercenaries.
Without the slightest hesitation, he turned and ran.
Wolves were pack animals.
The sky was beginning to darken, and he had no intention of fighting these hungry wolves.
However, he realized that it seemed to