Two figures slowly made their way through the dense forest. They were none other than Zeng Linghong and Ji Wuchang!
"Junior Brother, be careful. A lot of fierce beasts live here."
Zeng Linghong spoke with a smile, but his divine soul kept probing their surroundings. He was extremely cautious!
Ji Wuchang nodded. This second senior brother of his truly was a good man. Whether in his previous life or this one, he had always treated him well.
Moreover, Ji Wuchang knew very well that his second senior brother liked their third senior sister, Tai Yujie, but in his previous life, he had never said it aloud, even by the time he died!
Later, Tai Yujie had followed Xiao Fan and become his little fangirl. Her end had been even more miserable than their eldest senior sister's.
Once, when Xiao Fan faced a life-or-death crisis and needed someone to buy him time to use a secret art, Tai Yujie had been pushed out.
She had ended up being hacked into mincemeat, her soul utterly annihilated.
It was precisely this blow that had later driven his second senior brother to brave a secret realm to improve his strength, hoping to take revenge on Xiao Fan.
But in the end, he himself had died in the secret realm, and the dust had settled on everything!
Thinking of these things, Ji Wuchang could not help sighing. It had not been worth it for his second senior brother.
Throwing away your own life for a woman who did not love you-why put yourself through that misery?
So Ji Wuchang decided to give his second senior brother a hand and free him from this.
As for his eldest and third senior sisters, they could depart this world early, lest they stay around to harm others!
If the opportunity arose, Ji Wuchang would personally finish them both off!
The misery of his previous life had been inextricably linked to those two as well!
Just then, a rustling came from the distance, instantly putting Ji Wuchang and Zeng Linghong on alert.
"Second Senior Brother, it should be Hunting Foxes!"
Although Ji Wuchang had not seen them, based on his experience from his previous life, he was eighty percent certain they were Hunting Foxes!
The Hunting Fox was a fierce beast with two tails!
These fierce beasts were small and generally tier one. At most, they reached tier three, equivalent to Purple Mansion Realm cultivators!
Their fur was exceptionally soft and highly prized by cultivators!
Hunting Foxes loved to travel in packs, somewhat like wolves.
Moreover, they possessed incredibly sharp claws that could easily tear open a throat.
Coupled with their incredible speed, this made them extremely dangerous among low-tier fierce beasts!
Just as Ji Wuchang finished speaking, a small head did indeed appear several hundred meters away! It was a Hunting Fox!
Following that small head, others popped up one after another-several dozen in all!
Zeng Linghong's expression could not help turning serious. "Junior Brother, stay behind me when the fighting starts!"
Ji Wuchang smiled faintly, then said, "Don't worry, Second Senior Brother. I can still handle these little fellows!"
After speaking, Ji Wuchang waved his hand, and a longsword appeared in it.
Meng Caihong had given him this longsword when he became her disciple, saying she had used it in her youth. It was a low-grade magic artifact!
In the cultivation world of the Heavenly Chen Continent, weapons were divided into six ranks: treasure artifacts, magic artifacts, spirit artifacts, spirit armaments, saint armaments, and emperor armaments!
Ji Wuchang was only in the Qi Refining Realm. For Meng Caihong to give him a low-grade magic artifact already showed how highly she valued him.
One had to know that many people did not even possess treasure artifacts.
The weapons Zeng Linghong and the others used were also magic artifacts, only somewhat higher in grade than Ji Wuchang's: mid-grade magic artifacts!
Both men stood where they were without moving, longswords in hand.
The dozens of Hunting Foxes stared at them for a moment, then slowly spread out, closing in on them in a semicircle.
This was a customary tactic of Hunting Foxes: attacking en masse from every direction!
Ji Wuchang watched the Hunting Foxes with eyes like lightning. Each might weigh only around ten jin at most, but their speed and strength were far from negligible.
"Second Senior Brother, that fiery-red Hunting Fox in the middle is their leader. Focus on that one when we fight!"
With his wealth of experience, Ji Wuchang immediately identified the pack's leader.
As long as they killed the Hunting Foxes' leader, all the others would immediately scatter and flee!
Zeng Linghong was slightly taken aback. He had also been searching for the pack's leader just now, but had been unable to determine which it was, since several had very strong cultivation.
The one Ji Wuchang pointed out was not the strongest in cultivation, which left Zeng Linghong rather surprised.
But Zeng Linghong believed what Ji Wuchang said. This junior brother of his was not someone who spoke carelessly!
"Be careful in a moment, Junior Brother. I'll finish it off as quickly as possible!"
Zeng Linghong spoke to Ji Wuchang, then his expression turned solemn.
Just then, the Hunting Foxes moved. Dozens pounced on the two men from every direction, raising their sharp claws and leaping high to rake at them.
If those claws caught him, even with his cultivated Golden Skin, Ji Wuchang would probably be left a bloody mess. Their claws were far more formidable than ordinary blades and swords!
"Kill!"
Ji Wuchang and Zeng Linghong shouted simultaneously.
Zeng Linghong swept out his longsword and slashed down. Several sword shadows instantly sprang from the blade, striking several Hunting Foxes directly.
The Hunting Foxes screamed as Zeng Linghong's single strike cut them in two, and blood instantly spread through the air!
Ji Wuchang's expression remained calm as he used the Eight Trigrams Wandering Dragon Steps, constantly shifting and dodging.
As the longsword in his hand danced, azure sword light flickered, piercing the throats of the leaping Hunting Foxes.
Blood blossomed, and the Hunting Foxes fell with cries, spraying blood around them!
Without stopping his footwork, Ji Wuchang leaned backward, dodging two Hunting Foxes' throat-killing attacks!
He clenched his left fist and slammed it into a Hunting Fox's belly, sending it flying dozens of zhang away! Its life was snuffed out!
Ji Wuchang had almost forgotten that Hunting Fox fur was worth a great deal of money.
A cloak made from their fur would certainly be exceptionally warm.
At this thought, Ji Wuchang's eyes grew increasingly fervent. Sword light flickered in his left index finger before he thrust it into a Hunting Fox's eye.
Sword Qi passed through its eye and shredded its brain, leaving its pelt intact.
Just then, a fierce gust struck from behind Ji Wuchang. As though he had eyes in the back of his head, he instantly halted and thrust the longsword in his right hand backward, stabbing it straight into a Hunting Fox's mouth.
With a shake of his right hand, Ji Wuchang's longsword shredded the Hunting Fox's internal organs.
By now, Zeng Linghong had killed more than a dozen Hunting Foxes in succession and reached the fiery-red one Ji Wuchang had mentioned.
Just as Zeng Linghong was about to strike, the fiery-red Hunting Fox's presence surged higher and higher, instantly making his expression change drastically.
This was definitely no ordinary tier-two Hunting Fox, but a tier-three Hunting Fox.
At this thought, Zeng Linghong's scalp could not help prickling!
A tier-three Hunting Fox was an existence equivalent to the Purple Mansion Realm.
Their current location could only be considered the outskirts of the mountain behind the sect.
How could a tier-three Hunting Fox appear here?
Zeng Linghong simply could not understand it!