Daily Hunt, Stone Village in Trouble

"This feeling is truly wonderful!" Bai Yixin was deeply intoxicated by the sensation of growing stronger bit by bit.

Within every inch of Bai Yixin's flesh and blood, there was a point of light, like a deity; these were the manifestations of divine runes, continuously extracting the essence of heaven and earth and channeling it into his body.

Furthermore, within his meridians, a stream of energy was slowly thickening, circulating along a specific path and nourishing the flesh, bones, and sinews it passed through.

"Roar—!"

Beast roars echoed from the nearby forest, and dense footsteps surrounded Bai Yixin's position. Although the footsteps were light and well-concealed by the rustling leaves, the wind carried a warning to Bai Yixin.

"The stench of wolves..." On the eleventh day of his daily grind, having just spent the morning hunting, Bai Yixin was preparing to take a break, eat some lunch, and then continue hunting to grind experience and proficiency. He hadn't expected that some blind creatures wouldn't even grant him that much time.

"Greed only leads to a dead end!" Bai Yixin glanced at the pile of prey stacked like a small hill beside him and sneered. The light flickering in his eyes, however, was eager, as if he were delighted that such a good thing as prey delivering itself to his doorstep had occurred.

The mountainous terrain was overgrown with shrubs, and ancient trees towered into the sky.

"Woo..." Low howls sounded, one after another, suddenly surrounding the area where Bai Yixin had set up camp.

Behind the surrounding trees, pair after pair of emerald eyes appeared; Bai Yixin was surrounded.

A pack of giant wolves with black backs and white bellies emerged. Each one was as large as a house, their blood-red maws agape, with fangs over half a foot long, snow-white and ghastly. Paired with their scarlet tongues, they looked incredibly ferocious.

This wasn't just one or two, but a full thirty or forty of them—a pack of vicious giant beasts closing in.

Wolves of this size, each comparable to a giant elephant on Earth, were a rare sight even in daily hunting. To have thirty or forty appear at once was simply... a feast!

Those pairs of emerald eyes were all as large as small bowls, gloomy and icy, filled with such intense malice that one could only wonder how many fierce beasts they had slaughtered.

"Awoo..."

The wolf pack let out a long howl, causing the leaves in the mountains to wither and fall in great numbers, the aura of ferocity surging.

With a wolf roar like a thunderclap, miserable and shrill, a massive figure reeking of musk lunged at Bai Yixin, whipping up a gust of wind.

"Just in time!" Bai Yixin licked his lips and leaped up, soaring thirty meters in a single bound. He brushed past the lunging giant wolf and, without a moment's pause, charged toward the other wolves, his right arm shaped into a hand-blade as he slashed a sword qi toward the pack.

The sword qi Bai Yixin unleashed was a silvery-white lunar radiance, a bright half-moon. The essence of heaven and earth surged as it rose like a tide from a vast sea, carrying a majestic divine power as it slashed toward the wolf pack.

The giant wolf he had brushed past did not escape unscathed. Just as it landed and intended to turn back to continue its assault, a bloodstain appeared across the fur of its neck.

As the giant wolf took a step, its massive head tumbled from its neck, and the scent of blood instantly permeated the air.

The Half-Moon Sword Qi swept through the air with two soft puffs, slicing two particularly strong giant wolves clean in half, from head to hindquarters, as blood gushed out.

After cutting through the two wolves, the sword qi still retained its momentum, causing the trees and rocks in its path to crack and shatter one after another.

The remaining giant wolves grew cautious, not daring to attack rashly; they hadn't expected to encounter such a tough opponent.

Seeing the miserable state of their companions, the giant wolves did not retreat. Their eyes remained filled with greed as they stared at the mountain of meat behind Bai Yixin, their emerald eyes looking truly ghastly.

All around were pairs of emerald eyes, the giant wolves circling, each exhaling white mist from their nostrils, their fangs bared in their massive, blood-red maws, the aura of ferocity making one's entire body feel icy cold.

"If it were before, I might have had to spend more effort, but now, heh, come at me together!"

Bai Yixin looked around at the wolves eyeing him covetously. His body gave a slight tremor, and suddenly, runes flared brilliantly, emanating from his body. Divine Radiance reflected off his skin, making him look translucent and exceptionally fair.

With a soft chime, a silver moon appeared before Bai Yixin. As his gaze shifted, the silver moon's divine light flared, and a fierce bird surged forth from within. Its figure instantly expanded, resembling a cloud, looming in the sky above with a terrifying aura of ferocity.

With a boom, that massive demonic bird—whether it was the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow or the Azure Sky Roc—swooped down. Its pair of large claws, shrouded in hazy mist, grabbed two giant wolves and, with a puff, pressed down on their skulls, piercing them through completely.

At the same time, Bai Yixin moved like lightning and thunder, charging into the pack of giant wolves. In an instant, he reached one, his right leg lashing out like lightning toward the wolf's skull, swift and fierce!

A loud boom echoed, sending sand and stones flying and dust billowing into the sky.

The giant wolf was knocked off its feet, sent flying over ten meters into the air by Bai Yixin's kick, and landed on the ground with a heavy thud.

One after another, Bai Yixin had no fixed style. Aside from that sword technique, he had no other set killing moves. Most of his fighting style was the instinct he had learned while battling beasts—like a predator, every strike and blow was the simplest and most direct method of primitive slaughter.

On one side, the demonic bird manifested from the Silver Moon Precious Technique was slaughtering, and on the other, Bai Yixin was cracking bones and shattering skulls with every punch and kick. Soon, this pack of giant wolves that had sought their own deaths was wiped out.

Looking at the mountain of meat that had grown even higher, Bai Yixin smiled with satisfaction.

"Phew~~, it looks like today's harvest might just double!"

"However, I must head back first. The scent of blood is too strong and might attract fierce beasts I cannot yet defeat." Bai Yixin summoned a small black cloud to wash his body, then stored the mountain of prey into the backpack provided by the Game Panel and began his return to the village.

It is worth mentioning that while it was called a backpack, it was more like a small, void world. There was nothing inside—no sun, no spiritual energy, only an unknown light source and a void, seemingly without boundaries, so its capacity was impossible to determine.

"Boom!"

A blaze of intense lightning appeared in the direction of Stone Village; they were bolts of black lightning.

Almost at the same time the lightning appeared, a wolf howl echoed through the heavens, like a divine wolf howling at the moon. Golden light appeared in the direction of Stone Village, brilliant and dazzling, staining the sky gold.

It seemed that wasn't all; a hazy purple mist appeared, covering the sky and turning into thick clouds. The mist transformed into a purple giant, towering into the sky, raising its foot as if preparing to stomp something out of existence.

"Hiss--!"

Bai Yixin's expression changed, and he increased his speed.

If he wasn't mistaken, those people who had suffered a setback at Stone Village not long ago had come for revenge.

Bai Yixin wasn't worried about anything happening to Stone Village, after all, they had the Willow Deity, that big shot, protecting them. But he had never seen a scene where the Willow Deity took action; it was an opportunity not to be missed!