Peerless Divine Eyes
Chapter 143 An Encounter with a Tiger Demon Stalking

Chapter 143: Chapter 143 An Encounter with a Tiger Demon Stalking

He had stayed in the valley for a while and had come out with him to search for the Healing Spirit Fruit. Even Xiao Hei had learned his name.

Chen Tanzhi!

This was a Martial Artist from the Zhou Kingdom, who was just one step away from becoming a Qi Cultivator and also much younger than Li Mingru, naturally not an ordinary individual.

After walking for a while, his expression suddenly changed, and he quietly leaned in to whisper behind the little snake’s ear, "It seems like something is following us!"

"What did you say!"

Xiao Hei’s pupils shrank, and without slowing down, he asked in a low voice, "Are you sure?"

"Certain!"

Chen Tanzhi kept his voice down and said, "I was born in the mountains, grew up with wild beasts! Even after growing up, I often trained in the mountains! The Zhou Kingdom is surrounded by mountains and teeming with mythical beasts, so I am extremely familiar with them! However, I cannot discern what kind of beast is behind us!"

Xiao Hei flicked his tongue, and after a moment of contemplation, said, "Even I can’t sense the other’s presence, which shows that this beast is no ordinary one! It might be... the Tiger Demon that the master mentioned!"

Chen Tanzhi recalled the scene he had seen when Lu Chen hung him on the spear, a corpse devoured as casually as they Martial Artists devoured meat, and he couldn’t help but shiver all over!

That Tiger Demon was an existence even Elder Lu was wary of!

Just the two of them, him and this black Jiao Snake, could they handle it...

"Don’t worry," the little snake was also exceptionally intelligent and had grown up with Lu Chen. He spoke in a low voice, "Since the other is following us, it seems it dares not to act rashly and might even... fear my venom!"

As he mentioned the word ’venom’, Xiao Hei couldn’t help but raise his tone slightly!

But in fact, its venom sac had long been gone.

It had transformed from a venomous snake into a non-venomous one.

The reason for speaking in such a manner was actually to intimidate the Tiger Demon behind them and test its reaction.

Indeed, upon hearing about the venom sac, the Tiger Demon hesitated slightly in its steps.

However, after a moment’s hesitation, it continued to follow them.

There can be no two tigers on one mountain.

Having come to this place, it naturally would not tolerate the existence of another mythical beast with intellect akin to humans!

After following for a while, the Tiger Demon, realizing that Xiao Hei was merely searching for Spiritual Medicine, sank into deep thought and then silently merged back into the darkness.

Mythical beasts also needed Spiritual Medicine, but it did not believe there would be any valuable medicines on the periphery that could significantly affect its strength.

Let them gather what they would. It was up to them.

Without any further incidents, Xiao Hei and Chen Tanzhi managed to collect the Healing Spirit Fruit at the boundary between the periphery and the deeper parts.

"Going further in, would that be the depths of the Sky Abyss?"

Xiao Hei looked up at the way ahead. Below the Sky Abyss lay a smooth path, but just at this point, there was a downward slope like an entrance from the outer world, its depth unknown.

"Yes, going down from here would mean entering the depths. And within the Sky Abyss, who knows how many such slopes there are? In our Zhou Kingdom, at most, people have ventured down two slopes to reach even deeper places!"

"There are restrictions in the Sky Abyss, but I haven’t felt any restrictions!"

Xiao Hei was also somewhat puzzled. It was said that the restrictions of the Sky Abyss would weaken; supposedly, as a mythical beast, its spiritual sense should be stronger than that of the Martial Artists, yet it hadn’t detected any restrictions.

"This, I do not know either."

Chen Tanzhi shook his head. As only a half-realm cultivator, he couldn’t feel any restrictions at all.

Unless they went down personally, they could not confirm.

But the time had not come; how could he dare to go down?

Moreover, from a distance, more figures appeared, these evidently Martial Artists from the Qin Kingdom.

They too were stationed above the slope and had not gone down.

Chen Tanzhi could not see them, but Xiao Hei thoughtfully mused to himself that they were lucky not to have been devoured by the Tiger Demon.

Heading back the same way, they did not encounter the Tiger Demon again, and finally, they returned to the valley with the Healing Spirit Fruit.

"Are you alright?"

The Elder of Spiritual Medicine and Mu Xiao had been waiting at the entrance of the One-Line Sky.

"We’re fine, let’s give this Spiritual Medicine to the master first!"

Xiao Hei shrunk his size and turned to Chen Tanzhi, who hurriedly took out the jade box containing the Healing Spirit Fruit from his bosom and handed it over.

The Elder of Spiritual Medicine took it without a word, and along with Mu Xiao, they hurried inside.

"Let’s also go, but we should still stay in that corner, so as not to scare some of the younger ones."

Xiao Hei led the way, and Chen Tanzhi fumbled his way into the valley!

Meanwhile, in the wooden hut, with Lin Rui’s help, Lu Chen ingested the Healing Spirit Fruit. Once the Spirit Fruit entered his stomach, it immediately turned into streams of healing power, acting upon Lu Chen’s Dantian!