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Chapter 567 - 506: Slaying the Mutant Beast

Chapter 567: Chapter 506: Slaying the Mutant Beast

Whoosh!

On a snowy mountain not far from the Tian Shan Sword Sect, Bodhi Wu Yin opened her eyes and swept her gaze towards the Golden Eagle, her face showing a trace of puzzlement.

Although she, like Chu Xuanji, preferred solitude, it did not mean she was ignorant of the Hua Xia Cultivation World. On the contrary, she had her own unique channels of information.

Otherwise, she would not have gone to Hanghu to find Su Liuli after their first chance meeting in Southern Tibet and secretly followed her until Su Liuli and Ye Fan’s emotional calamity unfolded, seizing the opportunity to take Su Liuli as her disciple.

There are few mutant beasts in the cultivation world with strength comparable to a cultivator in the Innate Realm; even fewer can be tamed, and the Golden Eagle is one of the most famous among them. Like the "Heavenly Sword Nine Forms" of the Tian Shan Sword Sect, it is a symbol of the sect.

She knew well that only a handful of people in the Tian Shan Sword Sect could utilize the Golden Eagle, and it was only deployed during significant events.

"Master, that Golden Eagle is huge, is it a demon beast?"

Su Liuli also saw the Golden Eagle in the sky and asked with some astonishment.

"It can only be considered a half-demon beast, with strength equivalent to a Half-step Gang Qi realm human cultivator," Bodhi Wu Yin explained, then said, "Liu Li, continue cultivating here. I’ll go see what’s going on."

"Okay."

Su Liuli nodded.

Bodhi Wu Yin wasted no more words, sprung up, and soared into the sky, manipulating Qi to fly towards the Golden Eagle.

Her speed was extremely fast, yet she did not directly catch up with the Golden Eagle. Instead, she maintained a distance.

Moreover, to avoid being noticed by Meng Bai and Xiao Selang on the Golden Eagle, Bodhi Wu Yin specifically created a white airflow around her body, which from a distance looked like a moving white cloud, making it impossible to detect her presence.

The Golden Eagle possesses strength akin to a Half-step Gang Qi realm cultivator largely because of its incredible speed.

Its fearsome speed makes each of its attacks particularly terrifying, and with demonic power formed inside its body from refining Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, it can easily break the defenses of any cultivator below the Gang Qi Realm.

However—

In order to find Ye Fan, when the Golden Eagle flew from that snowy mountain where Ye Fan had left, Meng Bai had it slow down and reduce altitude so that he could release his mind and carefully sense Ye Fan’s aura.

"Elder Meng, did you sense that guy’s aura?"

On the back of the Golden Eagle, Xiao Selang steadied himself, turned his head and asked Meng Bai.

"Strange, there’s no cultivator’s aura nearby," Meng Bai replied with some confusion.

"Could he know we’re after him to settle scores and chose to flee?" Xiao Selang asked somewhat reluctantly.

"Impossible."

Meng Bai shook his head and said, "Based on what you’ve said, his conflict with Little Seven and the others took place in the morning. He wouldn’t have been able to escape in just a few hours."

"So, he likely has a magic artifact that conceals aura, or knows some secret technique that can hide it?" Xiao Selang’s mind raced, and he immediately thought of something.

"That should be the case."

Meng Bai nodded, but his eyebrows quietly creased.

Originally, him riding the Golden Eagle and releasing his mind to search should have made finding Ye Fan not so difficult.

Now, since Ye Fan could conceal his aura, finding him would be as hard as ascending to heaven—Tian Shan is so vast, and without being able to use his mind to search, looking for Ye Fan would be like searching for a needle in a haystack!

Huh?

Just as Meng Bai was feeling somewhat troubled, not far from where the Golden Eagle was circling, on another snowy mountain, Ye Fan saw the Golden Eagle and was extremely surprised.

Although he was the private disciple of Chu Xuanji and had grown up in deep forests and mountains with him, he had only encountered a few mutant beasts, and had never encountered one as powerful as the Golden Eagle before.

"There are people on the Golden Eagle, could it be the Tian Shan Sword Sect coming to settle scores with me?"

Immediately, without waiting for Ye Fan to recover from his shock, as the Golden Eagle flew closer, Ye Fan sensed the auras of Meng Bai and Xiao Selang, his mind stirred, guessing a possibility.

Without an answer.

Ye Fan was not sure of this, but he also knew that the people on the Golden Eagle hadn’t discovered him because he had activated the Ghost Ring, concealing his own aura.

Soon, the Golden Eagle flew past the snowy mountain where Ye Fan was, and Ye Fan continued onward, planning to look for the Snow Lotus King on a few cliffs above.

Huh?

As he walked, Ye Fan sensed an aura, suddenly stopped in his tracks, and his gaze swept toward a forest ahead, where he starkly saw a black shadow.

At just a glimpse, Ye Fan saw that the shadow was a Mutated Wolf.

The wolf was much larger than Little Wolf, about one meter tall and five meters long, with shiny fur, powerful limbs, stark white teeth, and its wolf eyes emitted a greenish glow, filled with a ferocious aura.

"Aura equal to an Innate Great Perfection realm Mutated Wolf?"

Aware of the ferocious aura emanated by the Mutated Wolf, Ye Fan was initially stunned, then quickly realized that he hadn’t noticed the wolf probably because it had sensed the aura of the Golden Eagle and consciously concealed its own.

Once wild animals absorb and refine Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi and mutate, not only does their body become stronger, forming demonic power within, but their brain area is also altered, intelligence heightened, commonly known as Spiritual Wisdom.

Generally speaking, the stronger the mutant beast, the more developed its Spiritual Wisdom, the smarter it is.

"Roar~"

Just as Ye Fan had guessed, the Mutated Wolf had specifically concealed its aura earlier because it was afraid of being discovered by the Golden Eagle. Now seeing the Golden Eagle far away, it growled lowly at Ye Fan.

"Swoosh—"

After growling, the Mutated Wolf sprang up, turning into a black shadow, and rapidly pounced towards Ye Fan.

Seeing this, Ye Fan knew that the Mutated Wolf had not only sensed his aura but had also judged that his aura was weaker than its own, hence it initiated the attack.

"Hey, it actually takes me for food."

Ye Fan chuckled softly and did not control the Xuanye Flying Blade to kill the Mutated Wolf. Instead, he pulled out a Black Iron Fist set and wore it on his hand, preparing to use martial arts to battle the Mutated Wolf.

"Roar~"

Within a few breaths, the Mutated Wolf had pounced in front of Ye Fan. Seeing that Ye Fan neither dodged nor flinched and looked at it with contempt, it was immediately enraged and roared again, baring its ghastly white fangs as it opened its big, bloody mouth.

"Huff! Huff!"

As the Mutated Wolf closed in, the wind from its movement blasted Ye Fan like ice shards, causing a stinging pain in his eyes that forced him to close them.

Swish—

The next moment.

Just as the Mutated Wolf’s front claws were about to reach Ye Fan, he moved!

He slipped his feet, smooth as a greased eel, instantly flashing to the side and causing the Mutated Wolf to swipe at empty air.

"Huff!"

After dodging, Ye Fan sprang back like a spring behind the Mutated Wolf. Without waiting for it to land, he clenched his right fist, activated his power, and struck full force at the Mutated Wolf’s abdomen!

Qi Rushes to the Sky!

As he made his move, Ye Fan executed the killing move "Qi Rushes to the Sky" from "Xuansha Fist" at the Third Level, twenty-seven times the power!

The Black Iron Fist set, infused with power, flickered with black light, looking like a mass of dark energy, striking right at the abdomen of the Mutated Wolf.

"Bang!"

Power exploded, and with the enhancement from the Black Iron Fist set, the strength doubled and hit the abdomen of the Mutated Wolf like an exploding cannonball, instantly blasting a bloody cavity there.

The terrifying force sent the Mutated Wolf flying, blood spilled all over, scattering like a shower of blood blossoms.

"Ow!!"

The intense pain caused the Mutated Wolf to let out a heart-wrenching howl, the ferocity and violence in its eyes completely gone, replaced by fear!

Clearly... it had not anticipated that Ye Fan was so powerful!

Boom!

In an instant, the body of the Mutated Wolf crashed into the mountain side. The horrific force cracked the mountain, causing debris to scatter all around.

The Mutated Wolf howled in pain again, struggling to get back up.

"Not dead?"

On the other side, Ye Fan was also somewhat surprised.

Although his martial arts cultivation had not yet broken through to the Innate Great Perfection Realm, because of his cultivation of the Nine Heavens Profound Skill, his power quality was comparable to an Innate Great Perfection Cultivator.

Hence, his punch just now was equivalent to an Innate Great Perfection Cultivator’s fully powered strike without using martial techniques—fifty-four times the power!

Such an attack power was enough to instantly kill an Innate Great Perfection Cultivator. Even a Half-step Gang Qi realm Cultivator taking it directly would get injured.

"No wonder they say mutant beasts can sweep across cultivators of similar strength. Both their attack and defense are abnormally strong!"

After the surprise, Ye Fan realized that not only did mutant beasts have terrifying attack power, but their defense was also astonishing; their only weakness was that they could not cultivate martial arts and magic like humans, only relying on brute force to attack.

As Ye Fan pondered, the Mutated Wolf, enduring its injuries, managed to stand up but did not dare continue the attack and instead, fled in terror.

"Swoosh—"

Seeing this, Ye Fan’s consciousness moved, and the Xuanye Flying Blade shot out from his sleeve, turning into a white gleam and instantly entering the brain of the Mutated Wolf.

"Pfft—"

The flying blade pierced through, leaving a blood-red cavity in the brain of the Mutated Wolf as hot blood spurted out fiercely.

Thump—

The vast body of the Mutated Wolf crashed to the ground, convulsing violently like it was electrocuted, and soon, it was motionless.

"Although the Mutated Wolf of the Innate Great Perfection Realm does not have a Demon Core, it does have a Demon Core which Little Wolf can eat."

Having killed the Mutated Wolf with one strike, Ye Fan mobilized the Xuanye Flying Blade again, easily slicing open the abdomen of the Mutated Wolf.

Having done all this, Ye Fan leapt up and instantly swooped in front of the corpse of the Mutated Wolf, crouched down, and took out a bead from its abdomen.

The bead was barely different in size from the glass marbles used in checker games, entirely black, containing concentrated demonic power. It was the Mutated Wolf’s Demon Core.

The so-called Demon Core is where mutant beasts store their demonic power, similar to human cultivators’ Power Seed, only larger.

Hmm?

Moments later, just as Ye Fan was putting away the Demon Core of the Mutated Wolf, he suddenly sensed the three auras that had disappeared earlier rapidly approaching!

The three auras were from Meng Bai, Xiao Selang, and the Golden Eagle!

"Bad, the aura I released while killing the Mutated Wolf has been discovered by them!"

Ye Fan thought this, just about to hide. However, he suddenly heard the Golden Eagle cry out, its piercing screech echoing throughout the entire sky.

After the screech, the Golden Eagle, carrying Meng Bai and Xiao Selang, dove from high above and charged at Ye Fan at lightning speed!

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