The battlefield had only just quieted down. Putrid Hyena corpses lay everywhere, and the stench of blood hung thick in the air.
Chen Mochuan stood where he was, breathing lightly as he felt his blood and qi surging within him and the Spirit Power in his Spirit Meridian draining away. Aside from some damage to his examination uniform and a few inconsequential pale marks, he was astonishingly unscathed!
Compared with the minor flesh wounds he had sustained when fighting the Shadow Leopard alone, this time, thanks to his advance preparations and ambush—using the prepared against the unprepared—and his swift elimination of the most threatening Hyena Queen at the very start, he had paid almost no price to complete a brilliant annihilation battle against superior numbers.
With his current recovery speed, the blood and qi and Spirit Power he had expended would be replenished before long.
Yet Chen Mochuan did not lose himself in the joy of victory.
As he killed the last fleeing unranked hyena, his sharp ears caught the faint sounds coming from deep within the distant forest: heavy, dense footsteps unlike those of hyenas, along with trees being struck and dead branches crushed beneath trampling feet.
Judging by the commotion, whatever was coming was definitely large—and there was more than one of them!
Damn it. The disturbance was too great after all. It drew in the big ones! Chen Mochuan's heart tightened.
The experience he had accumulated over more than a month of struggling through the Wilderness Zone told him that, among Ferocious Beasts, size did not completely equate to strength, but it was often an important measure of their threat level.
Anything capable of making such a commotion in this dangerous region was certainly no easy opponent.
What was more, if any of the approaching Ferocious Beasts