Whoosh!
With a plan in mind, Qin Shaofeng immediately drew the short sword at his waist, walked to one end of the tree, and cut off a branch.
He fiercely whittled at the branch with his short sword, and before long, he had made a sharp little wooden stake.
Circulating the Inner Qi within his body, Qin Shaofeng immediately spent 5 points of Inner Qi. The little wooden stake in his hand flashed faintly, taking on a trace of fluorescent light. Beneath that faint glow, the sharp stake suddenly gained a sliver of cutting edge.
Satisfied, Qin Shaofeng looked over his handiwork and nodded slightly.
Then his gaze shifted to the pack of demonic wolves still tearing great mouthfuls from the Black Scale Giant Snake's corpse below, and an inexplicable smug smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
Whoosh!
Qin Shaofeng snapped his right hand, and the sharp little wooden stake instantly flew from his grasp, shooting down toward the ground with a faint sound of space breaking.
Pfft!
A dull piercing sound rang out, as though it had stabbed into something.
Awoo!
Immediately afterward came a mournful wolf cry. One of the twenty or thirty demonic wolves below collapsed at the sound.
At the same time, Qin Shaofeng heard another System Prompt.
It worked!
Joy surged through Qin Shaofeng's heart, and his eyes gleamed with excitement.
So it really could be done like this!
At first, Qin Shaofeng had merely intended to give it a try. He had never expected it to succeed.
He could not help looking at the pack of demonic wolves below, his eyes glittering like gold.
These were all experience points!
At that moment, the place below packed with twenty or thirty demonic wolves was no longer a dangerous area in Qin Shaofeng's eyes. Instead, it had become a perfect holy ground for grinding monsters!
As for the pack of demonic wolves below, when one of their companions suddenly died beside them, they were startled as well. On guard, they quickly discovered Qin Shaofeng in the tree.
That made them instantly realize that their companion had undoubtedly died at the hands of the human in the tree.
For a time, every demonic wolf furiously howled at Qin Shaofeng in the tree.
But unfortunately, they were not cats. They had no way at all to deal with Qin Shaofeng up in the tree.
After howling for a while and seeing that Qin Shaofeng made no further moves, the pack ultimately stopped paying attention to him and focused on the feast before them again.
Low-level Demonic Beasts were low-level Demonic Beasts after all; their intelligence was extremely limited.
One of their companions had died right before their eyes, yet they still acted utterly indifferent.
However, seeing demonic wolves in the pack occasionally raise their heads to look at him, Qin Shaofeng understood that they had still become somewhat wary.
With a faint smile, Qin Shaofeng suddenly flashed away.
Qin Shaofeng had not truly left.
After several consecutive leaps, he arrived in another large tree. Then he waved his short sword and began making little wooden stakes like before.
Before long, Qin Shaofeng had made no fewer than fifty little wooden stakes.
And during that brief stretch of time, the Black Scale Giant Snake's corpse on the ground had already been devoured seven or eight tenths of the way by the wolf pack.
Even the demonic wolf Qin Shaofeng had killed earlier had had its corpse shared among its companions.
At that moment, the pack of demonic wolves was already showing signs of dispersing.
"Good thing I made it in time!"
Qin Shaofeng let out a soft breath. Looking at the pack below, a meaningful smile surfaced at the corner of his mouth.
It was time!
A sharp light flashed through his eyes. Qin Shaofeng grabbed the little wooden stakes one after another, spending Inner Qi to sharpen their edge as he hurled them with unerring accuracy at the heads of the demonic wolves below.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Soft sounds of space breaking rang out one after another. Along with them, the pack of demonic wolves below suddenly erupted in miserable howls and screams.
Demonic wolves kept toppling to the ground, while Qin Shaofeng continuously heard prompts from the system.
System Prompt: Congratulations, player. You have killed one ordinary Low-level Eighth Layer demonic wolf and gained 2 experience points! ...
Before long, the pack of twenty or thirty demonic wolves on the ground had all been killed by Qin Shaofeng.
Without looking any further, after confirming that all the demonic wolves below were dead and sensing no other demonic beasts nearby, Qin Shaofeng leaped down to the ground.
Qin Shaofeng had not jumped down to harvest the spoils from the demonic wolves. He had come down for the little wooden stakes embedded in them.
Qin Shaofeng moved extremely quickly. In only five or six breaths, he had recovered every little wooden stake.
After retrieving the little wooden stakes, Qin Shaofeng hurriedly sprang up and returned to the tree.
Just as Qin Shaofeng returned to the tree and concealed himself, the shrubs below suddenly rustled, and several more demonic wolves leaped out.
There were twenty or thirty ordinary demonic wolves dead on the ground. The smell of blood was already incredibly thick and had spread far into the distance.
Before long, another pack of demonic wolves gathered on the ground.
Once their numbers grew, Qin Shaofeng repeated the same method, using those little wooden stakes to shoot and kill another dozen or twenty ordinary demonic wolves.
After this process repeated several times, a Demonic Wolf King of the Houtian Realm finally appeared.
This place was likely the territory of a demonic wolf pack. That was why the creatures drawn by the scent of blood had only been some low-level Eighth and Ninth Layer demonic wolves, along with a small number of low-level Tenth Layer ones.
Gaining experience 2 points at a time had long since made Qin Shaofeng impatient.
If not for this method being relatively fast, he would have already considered leaving.
Now that a Demonic Wolf King had suddenly appeared, although killing it would still only yield 2 experience points, it at least gave Qin Shaofeng some challenge.
And indeed, that was the case.
Although that Demonic Wolf King of the Houtian Realm was only at the Mid-level First Layer, the same realm as Qin Shaofeng, it differed from those ordinary demonic wolves. The moment it discovered Qin Shaofeng's whereabouts, it leaped and landed directly on the same tree as him.
Then it confronted Qin Shaofeng face-to-face.
Awoo—!
As though questioning why Qin Shaofeng had slaughtered its subjects, the Demonic Wolf King let out a wolf howl at him. Though it was a demonic beast, Qin Shaofeng could still hear the wolf king's rage in that cry.
But Qin Shaofeng remained unmoved. With a light smile, he said, "Tsk, tsk. A Mid-level Demonic Beast can actually get angry like a human?"
The Demonic Wolf King seemed to possess considerable intelligence and appeared to understand Qin Shaofeng's words, which only made it even more furious.
After baring its fangs and snarling, the Demonic Wolf King suddenly pounced at Qin Shaofeng.
Judging from the sheer momentum of that pounce alone, this Demonic Wolf King was likely much stronger than the Black Scale Giant Snake Qin Shaofeng had encountered before.
According to the division of realms, if the Black Scale Giant Snake had been at the middle stage of the Houtian First Layer, then this Demonic Wolf King was at the peak of the Houtian First Layer.
In a one-on-one fight, this Demonic Wolf King's chances of victory would certainly have been greater than the Black Scale Giant Snake's.
Unfortunately, even so, the Demonic Wolf King's attack was destined to fail!
In truth, from the moment Qin Shaofeng decided to grind monsters this way, its ending had already been set in stone.
Whoosh!
Qin Shaofeng's right hand trembled slightly, and his Inner Qi instantly dropped by 20 points. Then a Silver Light Saber Aura flew out.
Pfft—!
With a piercing sound, the Silver Light Saber Aura passed through the Demonic Wolf King's chest, pierced straight through its body, then passed through several more large trees before vanishing deep within the forest.
Thud!
The Demonic Wolf King's corpse, several sizes larger than an ordinary demonic wolf, crashed heavily onto the ground.
Along with that impact, two System Prompts echoed in Qin Shaofeng's mind.
System Prompt: Congratulations, player. You have killed one ordinary Mid-level First Layer Demonic Wolf King and gained 2 experience points! System Prompt: Congratulations, player. Your experience has reached the level-up requirement. Player Qin Shaofeng has advanced to the Houtian Second Layer! Level: Houtian Second Layer, 0/2000 Inner Qi: 750/750 (The Houtian Second Layer possesses 250 points of Inner Qi, tripled by the Yi Jin Jing) Talent Spiritual Root: Body of Thunder Skills: Fiery Golden Eyes, Yi Jin Jing, Little Li Flying Dagger War Beast: Hundred Spirits Demonic Fox Equipment: None Quests: None Points: 130 Title: Lord of Lanjiang City
"Ha ha, I finally leveled up!"
Hearing the system prompts, Qin Shaofeng laughed happily.
He was at the Houtian Second Layer now. The Houtian Fifth Level did not seem too far away anymore!
Leveling up to the Houtian Fifth Level in three days did not seem like much of a problem!
Bang!
As a black object fell from a large tree to the ground, another Mid-level First Layer demonic beast met its death at Qin Shaofeng's hands.
But a moment later, Qin Shaofeng shook his head in disappointment.
He had no idea which number Mid-level Demonic Beast this was that he had killed.
More than three hours had passed since Qin Shaofeng killed that Demonic Wolf King and advanced to the Houtian Second Layer.
Over those three hours, Qin Shaofeng had changed locations many times.
Three hours earlier, just after Qin Shaofeng killed the Demonic Wolf King, the scent of blood had apparently been far too heavy and actually attracted two giant pythons at the Houtian Fifth Level.
At the sight of that, how could Qin Shaofeng have dared remain?
He had not even had time to retrieve the little wooden stakes before hurriedly leaping away.
Afterward, Qin Shaofeng repeated the method and made another fifty little wooden stakes. Then he found a place with relatively many demonic beasts and began grinding monsters again.
But not long afterward, the thick scent of blood once again attracted some powerful demonic beasts.
Although what came the second time was only a Crimson Flame Eagle at the Houtian Fourth Level, it could fly and had brought several underlings with it, so Qin Shaofeng could only choose to flee the scene.
That was how it went, on and off—finding places to grind monsters, then encountering one or two bosses.
If he could defeat the boss, Qin Shaofeng naturally would not let it go. But if he could not, he could only change locations again.
After three hours, Qin Shaofeng had indeed killed quite a few demonic beasts, but the experience he gained was not much.
Although he had killed several Houtian Third Layer demonic beasts above his level, as well as solitary Houtian Fourth Layer demonic beasts, the experience gained was still not enough for him to level up.
"This won't do!"
Qin Shaofeng, who had hidden in a tree hollow to cultivate, let out a soft sigh.
Looking at his Attribute Interface, hesitation flashed through Qin Shaofeng's eyes.
He had already adapted to this place. It was time to find some Mid-level Third or Fourth Layer demonic beasts to kill.
After thinking for a while, Qin Shaofeng made his choice.
"Looks like it's time to begin the real leveling plan!"
Killing low-level Demonic Beasts, or Mid-level Demonic Beasts in the same realm as himself, had merely been Qin Shaofeng adapting to the Black Horn Mountain Range and to fighting demonic beasts.
Now that he had adapted, it was naturally time for Qin Shaofeng to begin his true leveling plan!
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