While the eldest and third brothers were happily beating the second, none of them noticed what was behind them.
A white blur flashed past.
Slash-
Three heads flew up almost simultaneously, blood spraying and staining the snow on the ground red.
The white blur landed. It was a leopard-type magical beast, snow-white all over. It licked the blood from its claws, then turned its deep blue eyes toward the direction where Loa and Wangcai had disappeared. With a flicker, it vanished into the woods.
Only three headless corpses remained, steam rising from their severed necks. Snow fell onto them and melted into red water.
Ten li away.
Loa found a flat spot and stopped. He took some dried meat from his Space Ring and gave half to Wangcai. The man and dog sat eating without a word.
His ears twitched slightly.
"There's a magical beast nearby," Loa said through Soul Transmission.
Wangcai was chewing dried meat. At those words, he froze and widened his eyes. He had already just entered the ranks of Seventh-Level Magical Beasts. If an ordinary magical beast approached, he should have sensed it long ago. This time, however, he had noticed nothing.
Loa did not move and kept chewing his dried meat.
The wind was his eyes. Any movement nearby could hardly escape his perception.
"This magical beast has very light footsteps. It makes no sound," he said. "But when it moves, it blocks the flow of the wind."
Wangcai pricked up his ears and watched the surrounding trees.
Thirty meters away, a snow-white leopard lay motionless on the trunk of a large tree.
A Snowshadow Leopard.
Leopard-type magical beasts were among the fastest creatures that moved across the ground. The Snowshadow Leopard was one of the fastest Seventh-Level Magical Beasts. Even ordinary Level Eight