Splash~
A clear stream flowed through the mountains.
A plump fish swam through the stream, as though searching for shrimp or other food to eat.
Bang!
Suddenly!
A spray of water exploded!
A finger-thick branch had pierced into the stream.
Qin Zheng withdrew the branch and saw that its tip had skewered a fat, delicious fish still struggling violently.
He turned and returned to the bank, where a campfire had already been lit.
After simply cleaning the fish, he skewered it with the branch, set it beside the fire, and slowly waited for the flesh to roast through.
This was Qin Zheng's second day after leaving Black Goose City.
He followed a tributary of the Black Rock River, heading toward the central plains of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Qingzhou lay in the northwest of Great Jin, while Black Goose City stood at the very edge. A hundred li beyond the city stretched endless mountains.
This was a region under Great Jin's jurisdiction where its control was weak, so it was understandable that demons caused trouble here.
Once he gradually made his way into Great Jin's heartland, even if demons stirred up trouble there, they certainly would not be ordinary little demons capable of doing so.
After he went there, that Shapeshifting Great Demon of Moxu Mountain would most likely not dare pursue him.
As for that human Grandmaster—
To be honest, Qin Zheng's current combat strength had long surpassed the scope of the first martial realm and its four great barriers.
According to what Ji Changyin had said in the past, at the fourth great barrier, the Bone-Refining Realm, one punch could unleash three thousand jin of force.
But he had already raised the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill to the sixth level!
That meant that, when he erupted with all his