Celestial being

at night.

A lonely moon hung high in the sky, revealing spots of light through the gaps between the branches of the trees in the mountain forest.

Yuan Ming sat cross-legged on a patch of moonlight, with the heels of his hands touching each other, one hand pointing to the sky and the other pointing to the ground.

His body was shrouded in a layer of hazy moonlight, which was different from other places. The light and shadow were hazy, as if there was mist, and it also seemed to be entangled with tulle, which lasted for a long time.

At this moment, his brows were frowning, and there were beads of sweat rolling down his forehead, as if he was trying hard.

But after a moment, he relaxed his brows and suddenly opened his eyes, with a hint of exhaustion in his eyes.

"Oh, it seems that I am really not that good. After working hard for so long, I can't even fully realize the awareness of the sea of ​​consciousness, let alone the whole body. According to this progress, it will take less than ten years to complete the first level of cultivation. It's hard for me to see it for eight years. It's more practical to practice Nine Yuan Jue honestly." Yuan Ming sighed and accepted the reality.

It would be great if all the martial arts in this world were as smooth as the Nine Yuan Jue.

He put away the magic formula, terminated this practice, and did not plan to continue practicing the "Ming Yue Jue" for the time being. Such night practice every day, although he had a slight improvement in the control of his spiritual consciousness, it made him physically and mentally exhausted. , the practice of Nine Yuan Jue during the day was affected.

Moreover, after this period of silence, he found that there was no news about the mandrill incident outside. It seemed that the accident in that trial did not cause too many waves, and he was thinking about when to resume hunting.

After all, it’s business to save up blood and food and find a way to become a registered disciple as soon as possible.

Although the named disciples he met before were not necessarily more powerful than him, each of them had spiritual beasts with them and carried magical weapons, which really made Yuan Ming, a poor furry beast slave, envious.

Of course, the more important thing is to be able to get rid of the identity of a furry beast slave with no status, no hope, and no freedom, and get closer to returning to the Central Plains and retrieving his own memories.

…

Time flies and it is already three months later.

It was evening, and in a dense jungle, a winding river flowed slowly.

On the water near the shore, a section of blue-gray rotten wood floats quietly on the water, and the surrounding water flows slowly past it, creating waves of ripples.

On the bank of the river, a sturdy black-haired wild boar was drinking water by the river with its head lowered. Its dark red eyes were swimming back and forth, carefully observing the movements around it.

The light in the mountain forest was dim and quite quiet, with only the occasional scream of birds in the forest.

Seeing that the surroundings were peaceful, the black-haired wild boar gradually relaxed, its short tail swung gently behind it, its mouth was completely immersed in the river water, and it began to drink water in large gulps, until it bubbled up.

At this moment, the piece of rotten wood floating quietly beside it suddenly tilted up, and then a huge black shadow surfaced on the water, revealing a huge bloody mouth, and bit into the black-haired wild boar.

The black-haired wild boar retreated in panic, barely avoiding the sudden blow, but the soil under its feet was extremely slippery, and it couldn't retreat far for a while.

The owner of the big mouth jumped out of the water. It was a giant gray-black crocodile with square scales all over its body. Its huge mouth was about the same size as the black-haired wild boar.

After it rushed out of the water, it immediately caught up with the black-haired wild boar and took another bite.

The huge and powerful upper and lower jaws closed and bit into the black boar's head and the smaller half of its body.

The black-haired wild boar struggled with its limbs, trying to escape.

But after the giant black-scaled crocodile bit it, it immediately pulled and pulled it backwards into the river.

Immediately afterwards, the waves in the river surged, and the body of the giant black-scaled crocodile rolled continuously in the middle, twisting with the body of the black-haired wild boar. A large amount of blood mixed with the sand at the bottom of the river surged up, making it turbid.

Although the black-haired wild boar was not weak in strength, it had no resistance at all in the water, and after a while it completely stopped moving.

The giant black-scaled crocodile dragged its body, quickly swam back to the shore, and began to swallow it bit by bit, sending the entire body of the black-haired wild boar into its throat.

The sound of "click" kept ringing.

The bones in the throat of the giant black-scaled crocodile were so powerful that they crushed the bones of the black-haired wild boar bit by bit, and soon swallowed half of the wild boar's body.

While the giant crocodile was enjoying its meal, a figure who had been lying quietly on the trunk of an old tree on the river bank grinned.

He was wearing white ape skin and had a bronze sword tied around his waist. He was none other than Yuan Ming.

In order to hunt this first-level ferocious beast, he had been lurking here for four days and three nights, and this time he finally got the chance.

"It's now!"

He secretly thought in his heart, turned around, jumped directly from the tree and attacked. At the same time, he activated the furry technique, and his body grew rapidly, turning into a white-haired old ape with gnarled muscles.

The black-scaled giant crocodile noticed something unusual and quickly retreated towards the river without caring about continuing to eat.

How could Yuan Ming give it a chance to escape? He held the herring sword tightly with both arms. While pouring his magic power, he stabbed it hard with his accumulating arms.

There was a "clang" sound.

The herring sword stabbed the scales on the back of the giant black-scaled crocodile. The sword edge slipped and failed to pierce.

The black-scaled giant crocodile was in pain and swung its long tail violently, but it couldn't hit Yuan Ming.

Seeing that he could not break through the armor, Yuan Ming was a little surprised for a moment. When he saw that the giant black-scaled crocodile was still shaking its body and moving towards the river, he immediately changed his plan.

He turned around, fell from it, used the Shadowless Step, avoided the long tail sweep of the giant crocodile, and slashed out with a sword, slashing one of the legs of the black-scaled giant crocodile.

The scales on its body are indestructible, but its legs are not as well protected.

After the sword strike, blood burst out, and the wound was already visible to the bone.

The giant black-scaled crocodile was in pain and wanted to roar, but there was still a black-haired wild boar stuck in its mouth. It wanted to spit it out, but it couldn't swallow it. It was extremely uncomfortable.

It was precisely because of this that Yuan Ming chose to take action at this time.

He nimbly dodged the giant crocodile's long tail, and took advantage of the situation to slash out at its wound.

With just a "click" sound, one of the giant crocodile's legs was cut off by him.

The black-scaled giant crocodile was in great pain, its dark yellow eyes flashed, and it shed crystal tears.

It struggled to recover from its injuries and accelerated towards the river. Yuan Ming followed suit and cut off one of its other legs.

The giant black-scaled crocodile with two broken legs could not move faster even if it wanted to.

Yuan Ming was like a butcher, avoiding the tail-sweeping attacks in a hurry and dismembering the giant black-scaled crocodile bit by bit, but the latter was completely unable to do anything to him.

About half an hour later, the giant black-scaled crocodile with all its limbs had half of its body retreated into the river, but there was a long bronze sword stuck in one of its eyes.

The herring sword penetrated from its eyes to its brain, completely cutting off its vitality.

Yuan Ming sat aside, his chest heaving and breathing heavily.

With his current strength, it is still quite difficult and even risky to hunt a ferocious beast that has just reached an upper level alone. This time, he was fully prepared and succeeded through some tricks.

After resting for a moment, he began to dismember the giant crocodile's abdomen and peeled off the entire crocodile skin.

This thing is a high-quality material for refining soft armor, and it is very popular among the registered disciples of Biluo Cave.

After shaving off some crocodile meat, he found the biggest harvest from its body, a "blood pill" the size of a longan.

After packing up, Yuan Ming took his loot and returned to the nearby temporary nest.

At night, he lit a bonfire under the tree house, threaded the crocodile meat into skewers, and grilled it on the fire. As the oil seeped out, an alluring aroma filled the air.

After these days of hard work, Yuan Ming is no longer the weak little beast slave. Not to mention that his cultivation at the fifth level of Qi Refining is already superior among the many furry beast slaves. In terms of his experience in responding to enemies and hunting, He is already the best among them.

He had already laid out various traps around him, so he was not worried that the light of fire and the smell of meat would attract other ferocious beasts. On the contrary, if he really fell into a trap, he would be happy to collect some more blood food.

After this period of crazy accumulation, he has almost saved up his share of blood food. Counting today's harvest, he is only less than 400 shares away from the goal of 1,000 shares.

Yuan Ming felt very happy at the thought of being able to break away from his identity as a furry beast slave and enter the Biluo Cave Sect.

You know, although he used the mysterious incense burner hidden in his arm to suppress the backlash caused by the furry technique, the effect became weaker and weaker, and he even almost suffered a mental breakdown.

There isn't much time left for him.

Yuan Ming took a piece of crocodile meat from the fire and was about to take a bite when a crashing sound suddenly came from the distance.

"There really is a ferocious beast chasing..."

Yuan Ming took a bite of the meat and chewed it, then inserted the rest back into the ground, stood up, raised his sword and rushed towards the direction of the source of the sound.

Under the dim moonlight, Yuan Ming saw that the trap he had set had become a complete mess.

On the dug pit, four sharpened logs were piled staggered, and underneath was a net woven from animal sinew, covering the entire pit.

Yuan Ming stepped forward and saw that the two logs had been broken, and the extremely tough fishing net had also been torn open.

There was a shadow in the pit below, rushing left and right violently, making a dull sound.

The dim light made it difficult for him to see clearly what was going on underneath, so Yuan Ming turned around and walked back holding a piece of burning firewood.

By the light of the firewood, he saw a tall green wolf standing under the pit.

"Huh……"

Yuan Ming took a closer look, and a trace of doubt suddenly flashed in his eyes.

The green wolf at the bottom of the pit looked a little strange. It was not lying on the ground on all fours, but standing on only its hind legs, while its two claws were constantly digging at the pit walls on both sides.

"Roar...hiss..."

While the green wolf was waving its claws, it would occasionally let out bursts of suppressed growls, seeming to be in great pain.