Cultivation Begins From The Desert
Chapter 220 - 218: Is This a Female Leopard? (Requesting Subscription)

Chapter 220: Chapter 218: Is This a Female Leopard? (Requesting Subscription)

"A miscalculation! Who would have thought that this Three-tailed Demon Fox could actually master the [Clone] divine technique!"

On the Nameless Oasis, Zhouyang looked at the fox tail on the ground that had been severed into two by his sword, and sighed with a face full of regret and amazement.

Cultivators also have secret techniques for refining "clones," but very few understand this secret technique, and to practice it, one must at least have a Nascent Soul Stage cultivation, and also require some extremely precious spiritual objects to serve as vessels.

Of course, the "clones" refined by Nascent Soul Stage great divine power cultivators are certainly not like the clone split off by the Three-tailed Demon Fox just now, which only possesses Tier Three Lower Grade cultivation and has very little combat power.

It’s said that some powerful Nascent Soul Stage great divine power cultivators, if they can find sufficiently precious spiritual objects to refine into a "clone," the power of the clone can rival their own, or even surpass their main body’s combat power.

"Indeed! Who could have thought that a simple Tier Three High-Grade demon beast could master the clone divine technique that only a Nascent Soul Stage Zhenren can control?"

"The Heavenly Dao is impartial; while demon beasts can’t use magical artifacts or cultivate techniques before Tier Six, they often possess some extremely powerful talent divine techniques!"

"No matter how thorough our plan or how well prepared we are, facing this kind of situation, we can only sigh helplessly! This is just the will of the heavens!"

Zhou Minghan also sighed and shook his head repeatedly, feeling great regret and worry about the escape of the Three-tailed Demon Fox.

Demon beasts are very vengeful, and now that the Three-tailed Demon Fox has escaped, it will definitely come back for revenge when it finds an opportunity in the future.

By then, with the abilities of the Three-tailed Demon Fox, apart from the two of them, who else in the Zhou family could be a match for it?

If the Three-tailed Demon Fox were to be even smarter, specifically targeting the Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators of the Zhou family, then the clan members practicing in this oasis might not even dare to leave the Spirit Mountain!

Thinking of these dire consequences, both of them felt extremely troubled and fell silent for a while.

After a silence that lasted for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Zhouyang finally spoke first to break the silence: "Forget it, what’s done is done, regretting is useless. From this grandson’s point of view, although the Three-tailed Demon Fox escaped, we cut off one of its tails, which counts as severely wounding it."

"It’s a demon beast, having suffered such a severe injury and losing the oasis spiritual vein, it won’t recover soon. By the time it does, perhaps our Zhou family will have Purple Mansion cultivators, and if it dares to come for revenge by then, it’s courting its own death!"

Zhou Minghan, upon hearing his words, also relaxed his expression, nodding slightly in agreement: "That’s indeed true. As long as our Zhou family is strong enough, a mere demon beast, even if it can cause some trouble for us, can’t change the big picture!"

They temporarily put this matter aside and turned to help Huang Yi deal with the Wind Shadow Leopard.

The Wind Shadow Leopard was a wind element demonic beast, particularly skilled in guerrilla warfare, and could use the power of the wind for invisibility attacks, making it a formidable and dangerous enemy for Huang Yi, who had only recently reached the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Therefore, he didn’t expect to kill the Wind Shadow Leopard on his own; instead, he used his earth element cultivator advantage, putting all his effort into defense, leaving the attacking to the Tier Three Puppet Beast "Vajra Battle Tiger."

Although the Wind Shadow Leopard could become invisible using the power of the wind, as a Tier Three Lower Grade demon beast, it obviously couldn’t fly, so when choosing a target to attack, its first choice had to be Huang Yi on the ground.

Facing its attacks, Huang Yi could only passively take the hits, always defending after it revealed itself to attack.

By the time he wanted to command the Tier Three Puppet Beast to attack the Wind Shadow Leopard, its figure would have already vanished quickly, avoiding direct confrontation.

So despite being two against one, Huang Yi was continuously pressed by the Wind Shadow Leopard, and thanks to the formidable power of the Earth Guarding Golden Body Technique he cultivated, he was quite resilient and avoided being killed by the Wind Shadow Leopard’s erratic attacks.

However, always having to be on high alert against the Wind Shadow Leopard’s ambush, his psychological pressure wasn’t trivial, and it wasn’t long before sweat appeared on his forehead, which was quite unusual for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

It was not until Zhouyang and Zhou Minghan drove away the Three-tailed Demon Fox and came to support him that he was rescued from this tense state approaching exhaustion.

The invisibility ability of the Wind Shadow Leopard was indeed formidable, but which of Zhouyang and Zhou Minghan’s cultivation wasn’t stronger?

Under their powerful divine sense, the Wind Shadow Leopard that Huang Yi couldn’t detect at all could easily be seen through by them.

"Wait, this seems to be a female leopard?"

Zhouyang, sweeping his divine sense over the Wind Shadow Leopard that thought it was well-hidden, suddenly had a change of expression, stopping the old Clan Leader Zhou Minghan’s intention to eliminate the demon.

"What’s up with a female leopard? Xiao Jiu, what are you thinking again?"

Zhou Minghan looked at Zhouyang with a puzzled expression, confused by his seemingly nonsensical words.

"Female leopards are great! Female leopards are wonderful! A female leopard can be brought to mate with the Eagle Lion Beast!"

Zhouyang clapped his hands with joy and excitement, then stared intently at the Wind Shadow Leopard and said, "A female leopard with invisibility, and it’s a Tier Three Demon Beast, this is indeed a rare species!"

"If the Eagle Lion Beast manages to impregnate this female leopard, the offspring will make excellent war beast mounts as long as they inherit any of the parents’ divine abilities!"

Zhou Minghan had never seen the Demon Beast Atlas that Zhouyang brought back, so hearing this for the first time, he was quite surprised.

"You mean to let the Eagle Lion Beast mate with this Wind Shadow Leopard? Is that really possible?"

He looked at Zhouyang in astonishment, disbelief etched across his face.

Not to mention the species issue between the Eagle Lion Beast and the Wind Shadow Leopard, the size difference between them is nearly double!

Could this really work?

Zhouyang recalled the information he had gathered in Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal City. After pondering for a moment, he ultimately nodded affirmatively and said, "Well, although the fertility rate between leopard-type demon beasts and eagle lion beasts is indeed not as high as between lion and tiger demon beasts, the Demon Beast Atlas does record occurrences of their offspring, so in principle, it should be fine!"

He added, "Hmm, at most, the Eagle Lion Beast might endure some hard work, needing several years of mating!"

This isn’t about the Eagle Lion Beast’s hard work! It’s more about the Wind Shadow Leopard having to endure years of the Eagle Lion Beast’s torment!

Zhou Minghan looked at the Wind Shadow Leopard, which seemingly realized the impending trouble and started fleeing, and he couldn’t help but feel some pity for this demon beast.

Running away was not going to let the Wind Shadow Leopard escape. Lion, tiger, and leopard-type demon beasts are rare in the Boundless Desert Sea Cultivation Realm, and finding one like the Wind Shadow Leopard with a bloodline matching the Eagle Lion Beast’s is even harder.

Zhouyang finally found a mate matching the Eagle Lion Beast, so how could he allow this prospective breeding leopard to get away?

He exchanged words with Zhou Minghan and then controlled his sword, chasing after the Wind Shadow Leopard. He didn’t attempt to kill it but kept attacking its limbs with the Flying Sword to slow it down and capture it alive.

However, the Wind Shadow Leopard was a Tier Three Demon Beast, and even with its tendons cut by Zhouyang’s Flying Sword, rendering it immobile, capturing it alive wasn’t easy.

Whenever he got close, the Wind Shadow Leopard would howl at him excitedly, spitting Wind Blades to desperately block his approach.

Fearing he might overstimulate and scare the Wind Shadow Leopard, potentially frightening it to death, Zhouyang could only pause and observe from a distance, planning to wait for the Eagle Lion Beast to return to see how to handle the Wind Shadow Leopard.

"It seems after getting back, I need to discuss with my great-grandfather about refining a demon-capturing spiritual artifact for binding demon beasts. Thus, next time we come across a demon beast worth raising, we can capture it alive and bring it back to the clan!"

On the verdant grassland, separated by hundreds of feet from the paralyzed Wind Shadow Leopard, Zhouyang considered new artifact refining ideas in his mind.

So far, both he and the old clan leader had preferred refining common magical artifacts when refining them.

This was not only due to the higher success rate of refining these common artifacts but also because of their strong sales. Basically, everyone needed them, so selling them wasn’t an issue.

However, as an Artifact Refiner, in the Low Tier stages, it’s not a big deal, but once reaching a certain rank, if one only knows how to refine common artifacts without any specialty, the refining path ahead might be difficult.

Zhouyang was now a Tier Three Middle-grade Refiner, and he had to start thinking about these matters. Otherwise, if he waited until advancing to Tier Four Refiner to prepare, it would be a bit too late.

Thus, after staring into the distance at the Wind Shadow Leopard for a minute or two, Zhouyang saw its wounds stop bleeding. Finally, the Eagle Lion Beast arrived leisurely, carrying the corpse of the Flying Fire Bat King.

"Put the corpse down first. Do you see that Wind Shadow Leopard? That’s the mate I found for you. Do you have any way to handle it?"

Zhouyang looked at the half-eaten Flying Fire Bat King corpse held in Eagle Lion Beast’s beak and resisted the urge to beat the beast. Pointing at the now extremely tense Wind Shadow Leopard, he spoke his intentions solemnly.

With the "Demonic Soul Contract" in effect, he wasn’t worried about the Eagle Lion Beast misinterpreting him.

In reality, the creature was quite intelligent, and over the years, in the Zhou Family, many Zhou Family disciples, eager for novelty, chose to save their clan-distributed demon beast meat to give this beast as snacks instead of eating it themselves.

However, the Eagle Lion Beast seemed unhappy about Zhouyang trying to find it a spouse. It cast an disdainful glance at the Wind Shadow Leopard that was nervously watching it, and in its heart, it protested against Zhouyang.

Eagle Lion Beast: "Can I not? This female is too ugly and too short, unworthy of being my mate!"

Zhouyang: "Pah, what do you know? Small is good! Small is cute, small is compact! Trust me, you won’t regret it!"