You Should Reflect on Your Own Problems Instead

In the deep forest late at night, scattered fire rained from the sky, igniting specks of flame across the ground.

But the fiercest blaze was the demonic fire enveloping Big Rhinoceros Deer. After knocking Ji Yang down once more, it immediately gave chase, intending to finish him off while he was down.

Seeing the wrench raised high above him, Ji Yang nearly jumped out of his skin. "Again?!"

Do you really have to kill me?

This was the most basic survival rule for monsters in the Wasteland Zone. It did not necessarily mean there was any deep-seated grudge, but once a battle began, the opponent had to be completely killed! Otherwise, letting a tiger return to the mountains could mean gaining a powerful enemy in the future!

At the brink of life and death, Ji Yang unleashed tremendous potential.

Just as the wrench was about to smash down onto his head, flames erupted around his body with a boom, scattering in every direction as a sky full of fiery meteors. Countless sparks flew out, and no one knew which one contained his true body.

Big Rhinoceros Deer stared at the exploding fire meteors and came to a halt, momentarily at a loss.

The reason it had been able to accurately determine where Ji Yang was hiding earlier was because Ji Yang needed to attack it, which meant releasing an invisible, intangible "aura." That aura locked onto it, allowing it to trace Ji Yang's location in return.

Cultivators with stronger Spiritual Sense could also sense auras, though they were not as sensitive to them as monsters of the same level.

Now, Ji Yang was fleeing for his life. His aura was no longer focused on Big Rhinoceros Deer, so it had no way to deal with the elusive Shadow Profound Supernatural Power.

It stood among the trees and looked around for a long while. Only after confirming that Ji Yang had fled far away did it turn and leave in anger.

What neither side knew was that Ji Yang's personal livestream had just experienced a surge in popularity.

There were already far fewer viewers watching livestreams late at night, and Ji Yang's personal stream had never been very popular to begin with. Just moments ago, there had only been a handful of viewers left.

But after he encountered Big Rhinoceros Deer and began fighting, he was sent flying by a single wrench strike from the demon beast. The main livestream happened to catch that scene. The viewers staying up late were instantly intrigued, but just as Ji Yang attempted to counterattack, the screen suddenly went black.

The comments immediately became lively!

The viewers began speculating about what had happened.

[...]

[During the day, he was saying he was bored because these demon beasts were too weak and couldn't compare to the real Wasteland Zone at all. And now this happens?]

[Oh my god, Hidden Dragon Pool is a famous Immortal Gate too. Don't tell me he got beaten to death by a kangaroo?]

[Probably not. It looked like his large-scale supernatural power accidentally burned the bee insects to death.]

[A kangaroo? That was a deer demon, wasn't it?]

[That's obviously a kangaroo!]

[It's a deer!]

[Several hundred comments arguing omitted here...]

[Hey, are you people serious? No one knows whether he's dead or alive, and you're arguing over whether it was a kangaroo or a deer? Is that really the point?]

[Then what do you think that monster was?]

[Um... could it possibly have been a Rhinoceros Deer?]

[Hahaha, what kind of joke is that?]

[Are you stupid? Where did this Rhinoceros Deer nonsense come from?]

[But seriously, with demon beasts this powerful, this Wasteland Zone is way too realistic.]

[Yeah, maybe those demon beasts were never weak. Maybe Ruthless Brother was just too strong.]

[He one-shot too many demon beasts with a single sword strike, giving us the illusion that all demon beasts were pushovers.]

[I kind of miss Ruthless Brother. Let's go see what he's doing.]

[I'm going to send him gifts!]

[...]

If Ji Yang knew that the wave of popularity he had risked his life to gain had ultimately brought a small boom to Yue Wen's personal livestream instead, who knew how he would feel.

At that moment, he was still shaken as he hid in a crack in the mountainside, arguing with the production crew through his earpiece. "That definitely wasn't a normal demon beast! It could see through my supernatural power and nearly beat me to death!"

"Calm down first. We didn't capture the entire battle footage, only the beginning. This batch of demon beasts is somewhat stronger, so it may be normal for you to find them difficult to handle." The director's reply was somewhat indifferent. "We've already dispatched a Gang Realm expert to search for it. But before we fully assess the level of danger, there's no need to disrupt the normal livestream."

Ji Yang shouted, "You definitely got something wrong somewhere! I had absolutely no ability to fight back against that kangaroo demon! The only reason I escaped was because my sect's supernatural power is powerful. If someone else runs into it, they might just die on the spot!"

"Ji Yang..." The director fell silent for a moment, then said each word distinctly, "That was a deer demon."

"Is that the point?!" Ji Yang roared. "Besides, it hit me twice with that wrench. How could I possibly mistake it?"

"It was a deer."

"It was a kangaroo!"

"Wait." The director suddenly said, "Another contestant has encountered the deer demon."

"Hm?"

Zhao Xing'er was resting against a tree branch in the darkness when she sensed demonic energy approaching. Her eyes snapped open, a faint red gleam flashing within them.

Several dozen meters away, a kangaroo-headed creature that looked dazed and dull-witted was passing by with a hammer in its hand.

Wearing an Ultraman mask, Zhao Xing'er's gaze sharpened like lightning as it swept toward it.

That hammer-wielding kangaroo-headed creature was naturally Second Rhinoceros Deer. He was searching for the two targets Yellow Big Tiger had given him and had originally had no intention of bothering with the female human wearing a strange mask up in the tree.

After all, that human could not possibly be one of his targets—the targets had faces.

Who would have thought Zhao Xing'er's spiritual senses would be so sharp?

Zhao Xing'er tilted her head. "There are kangaroo spirits here too? Why does this one look so dumb?"

"Who are you calling a... roo?" Second Rhinoceros Deer's eyes instantly turned scarlet. "And you called me dumb... wah-yah-yah..."

Demonic flames five meters high erupted around the enraged Rhinoceros Demon, surging skyward in a blaze that held up the heavens!

He changed his mind. He was going to smash this female human's head to pieces!

"What are you getting angry for?" Zhao Xing'er narrowed her eyes as she watched the kangaroo-headed creature across from her erupt in blazing demonic flames, clearly looking for trouble. "You woke me up, and I haven't even gotten mad yet. Why are you getting angry first?"

She had spent the entire afternoon working herself to the bone, opening several treasure chests only to find they were all fake. Finally, after nightfall, she had found a quiet place to catch a nap—only to be stealthily awakened by this kangaroo-headed creature that looked both stupid and vicious.

The red glow in Zhao Xing'er's eyes grew ever brighter.

The battle began in an instant!

The Rhinoceros Demon across from her was not one for excessive threats. With a single leap, he shot forward like a gray bolt of lightning.

Zhao Xing'er also sprang into the air with a whoosh. With a flip of her hand, she summoned a Green Dragon Crescent Blade, then seemingly decided it was not satisfying enough and put it away. Instead, she summoned a massive golden melon hammer, clasping it in both hands and swinging it as though she were wielding a small mountain.

Drum Beating Golden Hammer!

"Hah!" Zhao Xing'er roared. "Making noise in the middle of the night and waking people up is incredibly rude, you bastard!"

Her body bent backward beneath the moonlight as she swung the massive hammer in a full arc, bringing it crashing down in a crimson curve! The surging red radiance faintly spread through the air, forming the phantom of a valiant armored Martial General.

Martial Dao True Body!

Second Rhinoceros Deer leaped into the air with his hammer raised. Seeing the enormous hammer bearing down upon him like the sky itself, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

If this hammer in his hand had known, on the day it was forged, that it would one day face off against the Drum Beating Golden Hammer, it probably would have been very proud.

Boom—

The red light exploded, sending ripples through the air.

The Rhinoceros Deer brothers possessed no martial Cultivation Methods. To survive in the Wasteland Zone, they relied on the most basic attributes—strength, speed, defense, and spiritual senses—and each of those base stats was extremely high.

But today, he had encountered Zhao Xing'er.

Zhao Xing'er, whose Martial Spirit Red Light had emerged because she had been woken up.

Boom!

Second Rhinoceros Deer, who had charged over like lightning, returned to the ground in the blink of an eye. He had come quickly and gone quickly.

The immense force of that hammer slammed Second Rhinoceros Deer into the earth, embedding half his body in the ground and splitting the land apart. Within a hundred-meter radius, the ground shattered like a spiderweb, jagged black fissures stretching all the way to the horizon.

Only then did the red glow fade from Zhao Xing'er's eyes. She put away her hammer and looked down at the crater in the ground.

After the dust settled, there was a minute of silence. Only then did a hand covered in cracks slap out from the deep pit underground.

"You're not dead yet?" Zhao Xing'er raised an eyebrow.

"Ah..." Second Rhinoceros Deer, covered in cracks, crawled out of the pit. After taking several deep, ragged breaths, he stared blankly at Zhao Xing'er, then suddenly bowed. "I'm sorry for disturbing your rest."

"Wouldn't it have been better if you'd been this polite from the start?" Zhao Xing'er said irritably.

"I'm just a little Rhinoceros Deer who hasn't seen much of the world. I hope you won't hold it against me." Not only had Second Rhinoceros Deer's tone become polite, even his speech had grown much more fluent.

"So you're not a kangaroo..." Zhao Xing'er said in surprise. "You're a legendary dumb Rhinoceros Deer?"

Second Rhinoceros Deer nodded. "That's right. I am."

"But you're an evil creature, so I still can't let you go," Zhao Xing'er said.

"Look behind you," Second Rhinoceros Deer suddenly said.

"Who?" Zhao Xing'er turned around and found nothing there.

When she turned back, Second Rhinoceros Deer had already spun around and fled far into the distance, leaving two billowing trails of dust behind him.

"A dumb Rhinoceros Deer knows military tactics too?!" Zhao Xing'er cried. "Where do you think you're running?!"

She took off after him at full speed. Though she could ride the wind, for someone with such a powerful physique as hers, the most primitive method of running was still the fastest.

He fled, and she pursued!

Even with wings, he could not escape!

After witnessing this scene in the main livestream, leaving aside how the viewers marveled at and praised the Starry Heroine's strength, the director immediately reconnected to Ji Yang's earpiece.

"How about it?" Ji Yang spoke with the air of someone saying, You should have believed me earlier. "They must have run into life-threatening danger too, right?"

"First, that wasn't a kangaroo. It was a Rhinoceros Deer," the director said. "Second, while that Rhinoceros Demon wasn't the same one you encountered, it looked about the same in both appearance and cultivation... The Starry Heroine cracked it apart with one blow. It was no different from any other demonic beast."

"Ji Yang, you should reflect on your own problems."