Causing Trouble in the Magic Beast Mountain Range, Hunted by a Beast Emperor

After venturing deep into the Magic Beast Mountain Range, Xiao Ce only did two things.

First, he gathered medicinal herbs.

The environment of the Magic Beast Mountain Range was highly suitable for medicinal herbs to grow, especially in its depths. Since few humans ever set foot there, it contained countless wild high-grade herbs and heavenly treasures.

Of course, such high-grade herbs and heavenly treasures were not so easily obtained. They were often guarded by high-level magical beasts.

High-grade herbs and heavenly treasures contained immense energy. Many magical beasts guarded them, waiting to consume them when they were close to breaking through.

Second, he honed his practical combat experience.

Growing up, Xiao Ce had mastered all kinds of Dou Techniques and could use them with ease, but he had very little actual combat experience. No one had ever been able to give him a truly satisfying battle.

Although he had sparred with Xiao Yan, Xiao Ning, and the others, he had won easily every time. The gap in strength was too vast, and he had never considered them opponents.

Even with Xun'er, Xiao Ce had only exchanged Dou Techniques.

Xiao Ce was not obsessively determined to polish his combat experience to perfection. Given that time, he would rather dual cultivate a few more times.

Still, combat experience did not need to be perfect, but it had to be sufficient.

Some people lacked practical combat experience, causing them to bring out only sixty or seventy percent of their strength.

Others possessed exceptional combat experience, allowing them to unleash one hundred and ten or even one hundred and twenty percent of their strength.

Xiao Ce did not ask for much. He only wanted to fully unleash one hundred percent of his own strength.

Deep within the Magic Beast Mountain Range, the forests shook as a beastly roar rang through the heavens.

A blue figure was fleeing madly through the woods.

It was Xiao Ce.

Over the past few days, he had been causing havoc throughout the Magic Beast Mountain Range. Although he had not gone on a killing spree, he had looted all the herbs and heavenly treasures guarded by those magical beasts.

Of course, it was not because he was softhearted that he had not slaughtered them. Most Fourth-Rank Magical Beasts in the depths of the Magic Beast Mountain Range were vassals of higher-ranking magical beasts. If he started massacring them, he might attract the united hostility of several Beast Emperors in the mountain range. That would not be worth the loss.

Although only one Amethyst Winged Lion King had appeared in the original story, based on what Xiao Ce had learned over the past few days, Sixth-Rank Magical Beasts in the Magic Beast Mountain Range were not particularly numerous, but neither were they rare.

As for Seventh-Rank Magical Beasts, Xiao Ce did not dare guarantee that there were none.

For all these reasons, he had not gone too far.

Still, his gains over the past few days had been quite impressive. He had harvested the possessions of most Fourth-Rank Magical Beasts, and quite a few Fifth-Rank Magical Beasts had also fallen victim to him.

Xiao Ce simply loved these magical beasts. They loved hoarding treasures without using them, only to hand them over to him for free.

After several days of battle, Xiao Ce's practical combat experience had also increased at a visibly rapid pace.

Those Fifth-Rank Magical Beasts in particular made excellent whetstones for him.

What Xiao Ce had not expected was that Fifth-Rank Magical Beasts were already quite intelligent and even knew how to complain to their superiors.

After Xiao Ce successively looted four Fifth-Rank Magical Beasts, the magical beast overlord of this region personally came after him, resulting in the current scene.

Normally, with Xiao Ce's strength and all his trump cards, even if he could not defeat a Sixth-Rank Magical Beast, escaping would have been effortless.

But the problem was that the Sixth-Rank Magical Beast pursuing Xiao Ce, the Purple Lightning Thunder Wolf King, excelled in speed, preventing Xiao Ce from shaking it off.

Under the Purple Lightning Thunder Wolf King's pursuit, Xiao Ce nearly used every ounce of strength he had. His figure darted through the forest like lightning, every step landing on tree trunks or rocks to borrow force and propel himself forward, pushing his speed to its limit.

The Dou Qi within his body also circulated madly. His usual fire-attributed Dou Qi, used to conceal his true strength, transformed once again into black-and-white interwoven Yin-Yang Dou Qi that surged into his legs.

The wind shrieked past his ears, the scenery on both sides rapidly receded, and branches lashed against his body, yet he did not care in the slightest.

Who could blame him when such a huge monster was chasing him from behind?

"Roar—"

A deafening beastly roar came from behind Xiao Ce. It contained terrifying Dou Qi fluctuations that not only made the surrounding leaves tremble, but also stirred up a fierce gale that sent Xiao Ce's robes snapping violently.

A deep, powerful voice followed.

"Human, you cannot escape!"

A Sixth-Rank Magical Beast could already speak human language.

As soon as the Purple Lightning Thunder Wolf King finished speaking, purple lightning began gathering in its mouth.

The next moment, a purple ball of lightning shot explosively from the Purple Lightning Thunder Wolf King's mouth. Everything in its path was instantly annihilated.

Xiao Ce sensed the danger almost instinctively. Just as the lightning ball closed in, an explosive sound rang out beneath his feet.

Nine Turns of the Wandering Dragon, First Turn!

Nine Turns of the Wandering Dragon was originally an explosive movement-type Dou Technique designed for instantaneous movement within a confined space.

Although Xiao Ce only used the First Turn, the speed he burst forth with in that instant was no weaker than that of a low-level Earth Class movement Dou Technique.

In an instant, Xiao Ce's body seemed to teleport as he abruptly flashed to the side. At the exact moment he dodged, the lightning ball passed through the place where he had stood a second earlier and exploded with a thunderous boom several hundred zhang away.

Waves of lightning rolled outward. Destructive bolts raged through the air, while the surrounding ancient trees and rocks were all reduced to dust by the explosion.

The strike of a Sixth-Rank Magical Beast was terrifying indeed!

Even Xiao Ce could not help taking a slight breath of cold air.

Damn it, if that hit me, even if it didn't kill me, it'd strip off a layer of skin!

The Xuantian Yin-Yang Dao cultivated both Dou Qi and the body. Thus, although Xiao Ce was only a Nine-Star Dou Ling, his physical body was comparable to that of an ordinary Fifth-Rank Magical Beast.

But even a body comparable to a Fifth-Rank Magical Beast was still utterly vulnerable before the attack of a Sixth-Rank Magical Beast.

Time slowly passed.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of explosions rang through the forest. Lightning and flames soared into the sky, leaving the woods in complete ruin.

Clearly, the Purple Lightning Thunder Wolf King could no longer bear the humiliation of being unable to take down a mere human ant at the Dou Ling level.

He was one of the overlords of the Magic Beast Mountain Range. If he could not even capture a human Dou Ling, what would happen to his dignity if the other Beast Emperors found out?

Thus, he went completely mad and continuously fired lightning balls at Xiao Ce.

Yet without exception, the instant he launched a lightning ball, Xiao Ce sensed it immediately and used Nine Turns of the Wandering Dragon to evade.

The reason Xiao Ce's perception was so sharp was naturally tied to his innately powerful soul strength.

Although he had not yet learned alchemy, Xiao Ce had lived two lives, and his soul talent had always been formidable. Over the years, as his age and strength increased, his soul strength had naturally grown as well, making his perception exceptionally terrifying.

While fleeing, Xiao Ce's mind spun madly.

This can't go on. I have to shake off this troublesome bastard as soon as possible.

No matter how abundant Xiao Ce's Dou Qi was, it could not compare to that of the Sixth-Rank Purple Lightning Thunder Wolf King. If he kept running like this and his Dou Qi ran dry, he would be finished.

Most importantly, he truly did not have any pills on him!

If he had some pills that could restore Dou Qi, he could run with the Purple Lightning Thunder Wolf King for ten days or half a month without stopping.

Only now did Xiao Ce begin to realize the advantages of being an alchemist.

Alchemists were great!

He had to learn alchemy!