Seeing this, the two factions that had just been fighting suddenly stopped. Chen Ming did not give them time to daze. He activated the Skywalking Art, instantly rushed in front of two of them, and struck down with both palms.
The two didn't even have time to block before taking the blow and falling to the ground. With a single stride, he arrived in front of another person, followed by another palm strike, and that one fell just as well. Seeing this, the remaining three turned and ran!
"Can you run? A mere Seventh Qi Refining Layer actually dares to target me."
With a flash, he arrived in front of the three and lashed out with both palms. Two of them were sent flying, leaving only one trembling here. Chen Ming grabbed the person by the neck with one hand, threw them backward onto the ground, and their breath instantly vanished.
After searching the useful items on their bodies and checking the system-still owing one hundred and nine thousand energy-he continued on his journey.
"Pursue!"
Not long after Chen Ming left, a group of five people, each carrying cloud-patterned darts, arrived at this place and looked at the corpses of the few people here. After inspecting them, the leader spoke.
"Coming again?"
Chen Ming had not walked far when he heard the sound of footsteps coming from behind. He couldn't help turning his head to look, only to see five people dressed in the same uniform rushing toward this side rapidly.
Not long after, the five arrived in front of Chen Ming and surrounded him in the middle.
Chen Ming didn't know why these people would rush to their deaths like this. Their cultivation levels were nothing more than a group at the ninth layer of Qi Refining-was this meant to deliver welfare?
"In the face of absolute strength, having more people is useless!"
As Chen Ming spoke, he quickly executed the Fireball Technique first. Five fireballs appeared in his hands and instantly flew out, heading toward the five people respectively. Following that, with a flash, he rushed behind one of them, chopped down with a palm, and the person fell instantly.
Not long after, seeing that they had all been killed, Chen Ming also wore an innocent expression as he searched the items on the crowd.
Having walked for nearly two hours or so, the sun in the sky gradually turned into a bright moon. The full moon hung high, bright as day.
Walking above the mountain forest, Chen Ming could still clearly see the road ahead. He found a relatively comfortable place to sit down, took out a Grain-Banishing Pill to swallow, and then sat cross-legged to practice and cultivate.
Having walked for two hours, the sun in the sky had long since turned into a crescent moon. With the help of the moonlight,
Chen Ming's vision was not affected too much. The sound of insects grew weaker and fainter, almost imperceptible, quiet in a somewhat strange way.
Suddenly, the insect chirping stopped, quiet to the point of being bewildering! In the silent forest, a sudden and exceptionally piercing sound arrived.
Chen Ming opened his eyes abruptly, immediately stood up, and looked in the direction from which the sound came.
Chen Ming slowly approached the place where the sound rang out, only to see a fierce tiger running in one direction.
However, behind it, a piercing sound came. This tiger looked somewhat terrified, and it seemed something behind was chasing after this fierce tiger.
He had no idea what there was in the forest that could make a tiger so terrified. As the sound continuously approached, he judged that the tiger was doomed; it was actually running faster than the tiger!
Could an animal that could make even a tiger run for its life like this be a legendary monster? Chen Ming watched with a bit of interest!
With a bound, he leaped onto a big tree.
Standing on the tree, with the help of the moonlight, the field of view was even wider. They were coming. Accompanied by the appearance of this huge beast, a whirlwind whipped up on the ground, and its mottled fur arrived fluttering like a phantom.
The tiger was about three meters long, and its tail was also one meter long. Judging by its weight of three hundred kilograms, one could tell it was a male adult tiger. Yet at this moment, it was running like crazy-not for hunting, but simply escaping to survive! This made him even more curious as to what kind of animal was chasing it.
It drew closer. Behind it was an even larger whirlwind, the vortex mixed with dust and leaves, making things unclear.
The interval of a single breath, and the tiger roared past the tree where Chen Ming was hiding. At this moment, he finally saw clearly what kind of animal was chasing it!
He saw a monster that looked neither like a python nor a snake, with two horns growing on its head and two wings on its back, appear in his view. This monster's dark purple eyeballs were as large as fists, about eight meters in total length, with a body as thick as a barrel, covered all over in thick scales. In its open mouth were several rows of cone-shaped teeth, and just looking at that hardness, one didn't doubt at all that it possessed immense lethality.
Though the monster was still dozens of feet away, the fishy stench from its mouth had already rushed over his nose. He hadn't expected the stench in its mouth to have such toxicity.
Naturally, it wouldn't know there was another prey on the big tree overhead, but the whirlwind formed during its movement, along with the withered branches and dirt swept up by the gale, had briefly blurred the vision.
At this time, a sorrowful tiger roar announced the end of this chase. Looking again in the direction of the sound, he found that the tiger had already fallen silently. Just looking at that unnaturally twisted tiger body, Lin Hao could be certain that a living tiger could definitely not contort itself like that.
And its small-mountain-like volume made him not have the slightest confidence in his own strength, not to mention that it also possessed deadly poison!
When he looked toward the monster again, he found that one-third of the tiger had already been devoured-the speed at which the monster devoured!
In the time it took to brew a cup of tea, the tiger had been gnawed clean, leaving behind only shattered tiger skin and bones all over the ground!
As if the monster wasn't full, its dark purple eyes flickered around, as if searching for its next prey.
Without any warning, a shrill bird cry suddenly rang in his ear. The monster's dark purple eyes flashed, and it began to run for its life back the way it came!
There was actually something that even it feared! Lin Hao suddenly froze! Following the source of the bird cry, he spotted a black dot in the upper-left corner.
At first glance, it was only taken for a small patch of black cloud. A moment later, the black cloud gradually approached, and the bird cry also grew increasingly urgent, appearing exceptionally piercing in the silent forest.
When he looked again, he found that the black cloud had expanded more than tenfold. It turned out to be a giant golden eagle, but the strange thing was that the giant eagle's eyes were dark red, drifting like two ghost fires in the night forest. But the strangest thing was that the golden eagle also had a horn growing on its head, and it had four pairs of claws.
Originally, with only a single monster, Chen Ming believed he should be able to slay it, though it wouldn't be too easy. Now, another monster had appeared. Under such circumstances, he could only watch!
Chen Ming stood on the tree and quietly flipped open the Monster Annotations. One was a Tier 2 monster, the Blackwater Python, and the other was also a Tier 2 monster, the Night-Rain Golden Eagle. The golden eagle happened to be the bane of the Blackwater Python.
Upon hearing this bird cry, the Blackwater Python flicked its tail, turned around, and fled toward the path it had come from.
Seeing this, the Night-Rain Golden Eagle, which was originally still in the air, swooped down from the sky with its double talons spread wide, directly grabbing toward the Blackwater Python. After catching the Blackwater Python, it flew straight away.
This speed was astonishingly fast. With Chen Ming's current speed, he simply couldn't catch up; unless he reached Foundation Establishment, he would barely be able to follow behind it!
Chen Ming looked in the direction where the golden eagle disappeared, and hurriedly jumped down from the tree, thinking to himself, I am still a bit arrogant; this kind of monster is simply not something I can deal with! He rapidly activated the Skywalking Art to avoid the golden eagle returning after it finished eating, supposing the Blackwater Python wasn't enough to eat!
Chen Ming still had self-awareness. Without looking back and taking advantage of the high-hanging bright moon, he hurried on his journey through the night. This mountain forest was still far too dangerous.