"Xiao Ruan, help me organize some information, then familiarize yourself with your body."
Bai Mu instructed.
"Woo—"
Zygarde slowly wriggled off to the side.
Soon, Zygarde sent over a familiar panel through Telepathy.
[Bai Mu (Level 35)] [Spirit Skills: Jungle Healing, Substitute, Roar of Time] [Move: Calm Mind (self-taught; focus the mind to increase Special Attack and Special Defense. Combined with cultivation, it can enhance Spiritual Power!)] [Spirit Bone: Time-Diamond Eye (Time Domain; can control the flow of time for things within the domain. Current influence rate: 1%. Can grow through Time Hunting.)] [Martial Soul: Zygarde (50% Form)] [New Abilities—Ecosystem Perception, Ecosystem Control] [New Move—Thousand Arrows] [New Special Move—Roar of Time]
"The move awakened by the Third Spirit Ring is Thousand Arrows? Not bad, not bad!"
Bai Mu's eyes immediately lit up.
Although Thousand Arrows was a Ground-type move, it could strike enemies in the air. No matter how high they flew, as long as its power was sufficient, they would be within its attack range!
"Someone who can't fly is practically crying with envy."
Bai Mu could not help laughing aloud.
Besides that, the things worth noting were Roar of Time and the Time-Diamond Eye, which could grow through Time Hunting.
"How could a sunny, cheerful young man like me learn from evil Spirit Masters and slaughter wantonly?"
"I have principles!"
Bai Mu looked utterly righteous.
He did not consider himself a saint, but he had no desire to become a villain who killed others without cause and stole their time.
But the next second, he reconsidered. "Wait! Spirit Beasts don't seem to count as people."
"Bad guys, evil people, and enemies probably don't count as people either!"
Then there was no problem!
Time to kill!
Just then, a three-thousand-year Wind Demon Eagle flew overhead.
Bai Mu glanced up and shouted, "Xiao Ruan, Thousand Arrows!"
"Woo!"
Green light immediately erupted around Zygarde. Then, earth energy transformed into thousands of arrow-like beams and shot forth.
They traced strange arcs through the air, sealing off every possible route the Wind Demon Eagle could use to evade!
"Caw!"
The Wind Demon Eagle did not even have time to react before it was struck directly by countless light arrows!
With a miserable cry, it fell from the sky.
Boom—!
The Wind Demon Eagle crashed viciously into the ground, making the earth tremble.
"Tell me, were your eagle eyes just for decoration?"
Bai Mu walked up to the dying Wind Demon Eagle and demanded, "The forest's so huge. You could've flown anywhere, but you just had to fly over my head. Were you deliberately picking a fight?"
"Caw?"
Confusion flickered in the Wind Demon Eagle's pained eyes.
Had it not simply been passing by? How had that become deliberate?
"You don't need to explain. I can't understand you! If you have anything to say, say it to my blade!"
With that, Bai Mu raised his blade and ended its life.
His black eyes became as brilliant as diamonds. Wisps of gray mist drifted from the Wind Demon Eagle's wounds and were completely absorbed by the Time-Diamond Eye.
The Wind Demon Eagle's corpse also decayed at a visible speed.
"That little?"
Bai Mu tried sensing it and discovered that a three-thousand-year Wind Demon Eagle had barely improved the Time Domain at all.
"So it really is a growth trap!"
"It's called the Time Domain, so why is it as bloodthirsty as Divine Slaughter's Domain?"
Bai Mu grumbled inwardly and led Zygarde deeper into the forest.
"Let's go. Find a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beast and test your Roar of Time."
"Woo~"
Stars shifted, and the years passed unnoticed.
Time flew by as Bai Mu hunted time throughout the Star Dou Great Forest.
He killed his way from the Heaven Dou side to the Star Luo side. Back and forth, the total age of the Spirit Beasts he had hunted for time had already surpassed several million years!
Nearly a hundred Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beasts alone had died at his hands!
He had even obtained several Spirit Bones.
Such intense hunting inevitably made the Spirit Beasts in the forest increasingly violent. They could vaguely sense an "invisible Grim Reaper" roaming about.
At the slightest disturbance, the Spirit Beasts would attack without thinking.
"Looks like I killed a little too fiercely."
Bai Mu reflected on himself, but he did not regret it.
The law of the forest was survival of the fittest.
In his eyes, hunting Spirit Beasts to strengthen the Time Domain was no different in essence from Spirit Beasts preying upon other creatures.
"The Time Domain has finally reached 10%."
Bai Mu's eyes brightened as he activated the Time Domain.
In an instant, the flow of time for everything within a radius of hundreds or thousands of meters came under his influence.
Even the sound of the wind slowed!
"It's time to leave the mountain!"
Bai Mu stretched his limbs and led Zygarde, who had devolved into its Dragon Dog form, toward the edge of the forest.
Unless necessary, the Z-Snake form could remain a hidden trump card.
Buzz~ Buzz~
Suddenly, dense ripples of time appeared before Bai Mu's eyes.
"Awoo~"
Then, a wolf howl rang across the sky.
Through Ecosystem Perception, he sensed a wolf pack chasing something in his direction.
"What is that?"
Bai Mu concealed his aura and quietly waited by the roadside.
Soon, a pack of Nether Wolves with green-glowing eyes entered his field of vision.
Ahead of them, a black-haired girl of around twelve or thirteen, dressed in black leather, fled while fighting back.
The girl had a voluptuous figure and astonishing curves. Under Martial Soul Possession, a pair of fluffy black ears had grown atop her head, a nimble cat tail extended behind her, and her hands had become claws. Her amber cat eyes gleamed with coldness.
A claw mark deep enough to expose bone ran across her left shoulder, and blood had dyed half her clothes red. Although her movements remained swift, her breathing had become uneven.
"A Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul? Could that be Zhu Zhuqing?"
Bai Mu thought about it. At this point in time, the only Little Kitten likely to appear within the Heaven Dou Empire seemed to be her.
But—
"In the original story, she reached Shrek Academy safely. Now she's being hunted by a wolf pack. Could this be the butterfly effect caused by my large-scale Spirit Beast hunting?"
At that moment, the battle took a sharp turn for the worse.
"Awoo!"
Zhu Zhuqing was fending off enemies when a Nether Wolf silently pounced from behind. Just as its claws were about to tear open the girl's back, Bai Mu's voice rang out.
"Extreme Speed!"
A streak of white light flashed past, moving later yet arriving first!
Thud!
Zygarde slammed its head into the Nether Wolf's side, and the terrifying impact passed straight through its body.
The Nether Wolf howled miserably as it flew sideways into a rock wall. Its bones and tendons shattered, and it was dead beyond any doubt!
"Awoo~"
Zygarde revealed itself. Simply standing there proudly was enough to make it seem dangerous.
Zhu Zhuqing looked at the wolf pack before her, then at the Dragon Dog behind her. Her cold, beautiful face showed unwillingness.
She silently extended her cat claws farther, lowered her body, and assumed the stance of someone ready to fight to the death.
"Awoo~"
Zygarde ignored the girl. Its icy gaze swept across the wolf pack as it released Dragon Might brimming with killing intent.
"Whine~ Whine~"
Facing the Dragon Might directly, the Nether Wolf pack seemed to see the countless departed souls that had fallen beneath Zygarde's hands.
Every wolf shuddered in unison, then prepared to flee with their tails tucked between their legs.
"Thousand Arrows!"
Bai Mu's voice suddenly rang out.
"Awoo~"
Light flared around Zygarde as it unleashed Thousand Arrows!
After one volley, every Nether Wolf fell to the ground.
"S-So strong!"
Watching this scene, Zhu Zhuqing instinctively swallowed.
"Did I say you could run? How rude."
Bai Mu slowly stepped out and scolded the wolf pack that had returned to their souls' homeland.
Then his gaze shifted, freely appraising the girl as though he could see through her clothes and strip her bare with his eyes alone.
The girl was exceptionally beautiful. Though blood loss had left her somewhat pale, her cool and unyielding temperament was especially captivating.
Her cat eyes were filled with vigilance, just like a wild kitten warily watching humans after being injured.
"Oh~! Look what I found? A wild Little Kitten."
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