Reunion, Wolf Pack

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle...

Night cloaked the mountains beyond the pass. Yet the sky was filled with stars, and a crescent moon hung overhead, casting enough starlight and moonlight down that the world was not completely dark.

But among these mountains beyond the pass, peaks rose one after another, piling upon one another, creating countless valleys blocked from the light by their shadows. Most of these shadowed places were pitch-black, and many Demon Beasts hid there at night.

Kong Wenxuan raced through the mountains. Worried about his eldest uncle and the others, and confident in his own strength and the Five Elements Divine Swords, he took a more or less straight path, heading directly for Black Snake Valley.

Whenever he came to a peak, he scaled and crossed it in a few strides. Whenever he came to a valley, he leaped straight across on sword light. Though he was only at Qi Refinement and had no means of flying under his own power, he had no trouble making short leaps on sword light to cross the valleys.

But whenever he crossed a peak or leaped over a valley, he often startled the Demon Beasts hiding in those valleys and shadows, and many of them rushed out to attack him.

In response, Kong Wenxuan drove the White Metal Divine Sword at full force, turning it into a thread of golden sword light that roamed around him. Whether Demonic Birds or Demon Beasts, all those that pounced at him were cut in two by the golden thread of sword light as soon as they drew near, their blood and corpses scattering across the peaks and valleys.

Neither the layers of sturdy feathers on the Demonic Birds nor the thick, tough sinews and bones of the Demon Beasts could withstand a single slash from the thread of golden sword light formed by the White Metal Divine Sword.

Thus, Kong Wenxuan raced onward without pausing so much as half a step for the attacking Demonic Birds and Demon Beasts. Only a thread of golden sword light roamed before and behind him, to his left and right, giving off faint ripping sounds.

The White Metal Divine Sword's Refining the Sword into Threads was on par with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword's Sword Qi Thunderclap in killing power, each having its own strengths.

But there was one difference: Refining the Sword into Threads made very little noise when it killed an opponent, unlike Sword Qi Thunderclap, which sent thunder rumbling out with every strike.

With the Five Elements Divine Swords in hand, Kong Wenxuan was confident that no matter how many more first-tier Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds came to block his path and surround him, he could kill them all.

But there was no telling how long that would delay him. He was in a hurry to find his eldest uncle and the others; saving people was like fighting a fire, so naturally he had no wish to become entangled in battle with more and more Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds in these mountains.

Otherwise, no matter how many first-tier Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds he killed, it would all be for nothing if he could not save his eldest uncle and the others.

That was why, whenever he killed the Demonic Birds and Demon Beasts that attacked him along the way, he chose the White Metal Divine Sword's Refining the Sword into Threads, which was powerful enough to kill yet made the least noise.

He did not use a technique like the Crimson Fire Divine Sword's Sword Qi Thunderclap, which made too much noise.

And what happened along the way proved his choice was right.

Though some Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds hiding along his path continued to attack him, none caused much of a disturbance or alerted more Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds to come after him. That spared him considerable trouble, and he did not have to worry about being blocked and delayed halfway there.

As he continued through the southern mountains and encountered more and more attacks from Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds, however, Kong Wenxuan gradually noticed that they were almost all hiding in shadowed valleys or on the unlit sides of mountains.

Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds were rarely seen on peaks, mountaintops, or other places illuminated by starlight and moonlight, and he saw none at all breathing in starlight and moonlight to cultivate.

It was as if these Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds instinctively feared and shunned the starlight and moonlight.

Kong Wenxuan could not help looking up at the stars and crescent moon. Naturally, he knew that the stars, the moon, and the sun in the sky had all been formed from the bloodlines of the various True Spirit Lineages. One could say that the starlight and moonlight all had owners.

Even so, that should not have been enough to make these Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds instinctively fear and shun them.

After all, leaving aside the fact that the moon, formed from the bloodline of the Jade Rabbit Yu Household, was itself meant to bestow blessings upon all people, he had seen no harm come to the attacking Demon Beasts and Demonic Birds under the starlight and moonlight when he fought them!

It looked more like an aversion, avoidance, and resistance rooted in their bloodlines, genes, and instincts.

Before long, however, Kong Wenxuan lowered his head again and suppressed these thoughts. Whether this was normal or there was some deeper meaning behind it, it was not something he could dwell on or investigate thoroughly now.

After all, the Kong Household was not even a Ninth-Grade True Spirit Lineage yet. How much could they know about the secrets hidden deep behind the True Spirit Realm?

There was no use thinking further about it now. It would be more useful to concentrate on his journey and find his eldest uncle and the others as soon as possible.

He raced onward like this, the golden thread of sword light formed by the White Metal Divine Sword roaming around him and clearing the way. By the time Kong Wenxuan reached the vicinity of Black Snake Valley, more than half the night had passed.

But there were no sounds of his eldest uncle and the others fighting here, and no one was in Black Snake Valley. If he searched the surrounding area carefully for traces of them, there was no telling how long it would take.

So Kong Wenxuan decided on a faster method.

He recalled the White Metal Divine Sword, which had been roaming around him as a thread of golden sword light, then summoned the Crimson Fire Divine Sword from the Qi sea in his Dantian and sent it shooting straight into the night sky.

Boom! Boom! Rumble...

The next moment, a dazzling, brilliant streak of crimson sword light shot into the sky like a blazing fiery meteor. Its fierce radiance was bright enough for people for dozens of miles around to see.

Then thunder boomed, its sound spreading in all directions.

This was the method Kong Wenxuan had thought of. Since he could not find his eldest uncle and the others, he might as well reveal himself and make a commotion, letting them know he had come so they could find him!

And if he wanted to make a commotion, the Crimson Fire Divine Sword's Sword Qi Thunderclap could undoubtedly make the greatest disturbance and carry the farthest.

Screech! Screech!

Sure enough, shortly after Kong Wenxuan used the Crimson Fire Divine Sword to unleash Sword Qi Thunderclap and make a tremendous commotion,

he heard the clear cry of a Peacock. He spun around and saw the figure of a Blue Peacock appear in the distant sky, though it did not unleash the killing move Peacock Spreads Its Tail.

In an instant, he knew that his eldest uncle and the others had to be there.

They must also have been trapped and forced to set up a second-tier illusion array for defense and battle, producing the manifested image of the Blue Peacock.

Without hesitation, Kong Wenxuan immediately charged in the direction where the Blue Peacock had appeared.

Before he drew close, he heard the howls of wolves rising and falling all around.

When he approached, he saw nearly a hundred wolf-type Demon Beasts of various kinds surrounding a stretch of mountain forest, constantly attacking into the woods.