Deafening roars rang through the dense forest.
Beside a stream, an enormous, elephant-shaped Illusion Beast with a body the color of glazed glass was locked in a fierce battle with a figure.
Battle was hardly the word for it. The elephant-shaped Illusion Beast was taking a beating.
The figure darted about with astonishing speed, moving like a ghost that could not be pinned down.
Against his attacks, the elephant-shaped Illusion Beast could only lumber out of the way.
Before long, the tide of battle shifted, and wounds multiplied across the beast's body.
Glazed-glass-colored liquid flowed from the wounds, seemingly its blood.
Then the figure who had been fighting the beast changed his approach, surging forward like a flood dragon emerging from the sea.
His fist carried a Fist Force like towering waves in a raging storm as it slammed into the beast's head.
Too slow to dodge, the elephant-shaped Illusion Beast took the blow head-on.
Boom!
A tremendous crash rang out. The beast's massive body burst like a bubble and vanished without a trace.
Where it had stood, a glazed-glass-colored heart the size of a basketball lay quietly on the ground.
At the sight of the heart, a delighted smile rose to the figure's lips.
The figure was Ye Yun.
A murderous aura now radiated from Ye Yun, and his presence had undergone an earth-shaking change.
Nearly five months had passed since his last breakthrough.
It had been eight months since he entered the True Martial Secret Realm. The day of the final battle was not far off.
After discovering what the Bronze Token could do, Ye Yun had made his choice.
All this time, he had hunted through the middle reaches of the forest, killing Illusion Beasts and collecting True Martial Hearts.
By day, he hunted Illusion Beasts. By