Well, Well, an Old Wolf Acquaintance

Su Bo activated Wind-Treading Step. As if teleporting, he appeared in front of the fleeing monkey and clamped a hand over its terrified face.

"No, don't..." the monkey screamed.

Its blood and qi erupted, hammering against Su Bo's hand. It pounded him with both fists, sending ripples of bloody light across his body.

But none of it hurt him.

Feeling the ugly monkey's punches, Su Bo frowned. "Is a First-Class Sequence really this weak?"

"Even Liu Yue is stronger than you..."

"Don't kill me! I'm... Urk—" The ugly monkey tried to announce who it was.

Bang!

Su Bo squeezed with explosive force...

Flesh burst apart. Blood mist scattered through the air, and a headless body slumped to the ground. The ugly monkey was dead beyond doubt.

Su Bo waited a moment, looking puzzled. "Where's your life-saving trick?"

"Even Second-Class Sequence geniuses have those. A First-Class Sequence genius doesn't?"

"Or did it fail?"

He looked around. He stood in a valley teeming with life, beside a star gate slightly smaller than the one on Beast Planet.

There was no sign of Liu Yue or Yi You.

They had either come out through different star gates or been driven back.

A creature like that could hardly have beaten them. It was too weak and useless to stand a chance against either of them.

So much for his expectations of a First-Class Sequence.

Su Bo surveyed the valley. Aside from the humming star gate, there was nothing there, so he headed straight out.

He had already sensed several powerful presences approaching.

The corpse and the smell of blood had drawn in some big creatures.

Monkey: ...

"So you were just guarding the gate," Su Bo murmured as he left the valley.

At the valley entrance, Su Bo turned and patted the air. An invisible wall stopped his hand. Once out, he couldn't go back.

So what if he couldn't?

He hadn't planned to return anyway. Besides, finding a surprise as soon as he came out put him in a good mood.

Rustling rose from the dense forest, followed by the heavy thud of enormous paws on the ground.

Soon, wolves with glowing green eyes appeared at the valley entrance.

"Well, well. An old wolf acquaintance!" Su Bo laughed.

They had blue-green fur and massive bodies: giant wolves with one head, wolves with two, and the biggest, fiercest wolves with three.

Windsplit Wolves bounded out of the forest and surrounded Su Bo, glaring at him viciously.

The largest and fiercest Windsplit Wolf turned its three enormous heads toward him. All six eyes brimmed with malice.

A Windsplit Wolf... the wolf king, a Three-Headed Windsplit Wolf!

He had learned the pack's name from Yi You.

"Awooo..."

A long howl rang out. The wolves' gazes snapped onto Su Bo. They lowered their bodies, forepaws digging hard at the ground.

The next instant, dozens of giant wolves charged.

This pack was far stronger than the wolves Su Bo had encountered before. Even its weakest member rivaled a martial artist at the sixth stage of Body Tempering.

The wolves closed in, saliva dripping from their fangs as a foul-smelling wind rushed toward him.

The three-headed wolf king leading them was far more terrifying than the two he had met last time. Its demonic power swirled with razor-sharp wind.

It crouched low, opened its jaws wide, and lunged straight for Su Bo's head.

Then a blast of wind shot from its mouth, splitting into countless blades.

The other Windsplit Wolves did the same. Their lunges were feints; halfway in, they all spat wind blades, weaving an immense net.

The net of wind engulfed Su Bo completely.

"I thought you were actually going to pounce," Su Bo muttered.

"Sneaky..."

Boom!

Su Bo neither dodged nor retreated. He punched into the oncoming net with both fists as his blood and qi erupted. With the force of several hundred thousand pounds, he tore through the wind blades.

He stomped down, shattering the ground. Pushing Wind-Treading Step to its limit, he crossed dozens of meters in a single stride and appeared beside the wolf king.

His fist struck...

"Awooo!" A wretched howl rang out.

The wolf king's middle head exploded. Its massive body flew backward and slammed into the mountainside, half of it crushed beyond recognition.

It, too, was dead beyond doubt!

At the sight of their three-headed king's death, the remaining wolves howled in a frenzy.

Their green eyes turned bloodred. Snarling, they threw caution aside and lunged at Su Bo with jaws wide open.

Some spat wind blades, intent on fighting to the death.

Others slashed with claws that tore through the air, their gleaming strikes aimed at Su Bo's limbs, chest, and abdomen.

Su Bo charged straight into the pack. He wove among the wolves, driving down one brutal punch after another.

Even the wolf king, whose strength nearly rivaled someone who had refined their blood into astral energy, couldn't withstand one punch. These Windsplit Wolves were at most at the ninth stage of Body Tempering, and some only at the seventh or eighth.

His overwhelming blows killed any wolf they touched. Even a glancing hit shattered its body.

One giant wolf tried to ambush him from the side. It reached him and opened its mouth to spit a wind blade, but Su Bo cut it off the instant it formed.

He seized the Windsplit Wolf's jaws with both hands, twisted, and tore them away.

Then he twisted at the waist to evade two more wolves and brought his palm down on their heads, one after the other.

Bang, bang, bang! Four wolf heads burst into clouds of blood.

Blood and flesh splattered across the valley entrance as Windsplit Wolves fell one after another beneath Su Bo's fists and palms.

At last, many of the wolves grew afraid. They no longer dared attack, and when Su Bo rushed toward them,

they tucked their tails between their legs and fled, whimpering as they ran.

"You think you can come and go as you please?" Su Bo strode forward. Wind-Treading Step carried him on the wind, sweeping him dozens, then nearly a hundred meters ahead in a flash.

In a few strides, he caught the fleeing wolves. One fell to each palm strike, another to each punch...

Soon, the last fleeing Windsplit Wolf died beneath his palm, its huge head reduced to pulp.

The stench of blood drifted out from the valley entrance.

In the distance, the presences Su Bo had sensed earlier stopped several miles away. None dared come any closer.

They had driven the Windsplit Wolves here to test the valley.

That monkey-faced fellow must have advanced from another Trial Star. The disturbance at the star gate had drawn the attention of the demonic beasts outside.

Those beasts had trapped him inside the valley, unable to leave.

Su Bo had more or less worked out who the monkey-faced fellow was: a Second-Class Sequence genius from some Trial Star who had gained its opportunity and advanced to a First-Class Sequence Trial Star.

Before he could show off, a group of second-tier demonic beasts had blocked the valley entrance.

And then? He had tried and failed to ambush Su Bo. One word summed it up: sudden death!