Looking at the footprints in front of the small cave, Luo Chen suddenly frowned.
There are many horse hoof prints here, and they are very messy. There are also some footprints of other beasts. Luo Chen has difficulty in identifying the direction for a while.
Just when Luo Chen was about to squat down and carefully identify the footprints on the ground, the corner of his eye happened to glance at a small flower growing next to the small cave.
Luo Chen looked closely and saw that it was a trumpet-shaped white flower growing on an ivy.
An extremely ordinary white flower that no one would notice if they saw it.
If Luo Chen hadn't been familiar with alchemy books, he wouldn't have cared about it and would have just regarded it as a small wild flower on the roadside.
Luo Chen hurriedly walked over and carefully identified it. After confirming that he was not mistaken, he carefully dug up the soil on the ground along the ivy.
After a while, Luo Chen had a tree root with yellow skin and long slender whiskers on his hand.
Luo Chen scraped off a little of the skin and looked at the flesh inside the root. The outer skin was slightly yellow and the flesh was snow-white. It was indeed a snow ginseng! And looking at it this way, it was more than two hundred years old.
Luo Chen suddenly became excited:
"Haha! This time, it turned out to be snow ginseng. If combined with other auxiliary medicines, the snow ginseng pill recorded in the elixir book can be refined.
A single snow ginseng pill can increase the innate energy of a warrior below the innate level by five to twenty years. If a warrior who has entered the mainstream knew this, he would not be crazy."
Luo Chen put away the snow ginseng with satisfaction and prepared to stand up.
But at this moment, a leopard suddenly appeared in Luo Chen's perception and pounced towards Luo Chen.
Luo Chen had read books introducing the beasts of this world in the Sutra Library of Ziyun Villa, and knew that this was the Cloud-piercing Leopard, which was famous for its speed.
The cloud-piercing leopard was extremely fast, crossing Luo Chen's perception distance in the blink of an eye, and rushed in front of Luo Chen's eyes, biting Luo Chen's neck with its mouth open.
The incident happened suddenly, and the Clouded Leopard was both a sneak attack and extremely fast.
As soon as Luo Chen reacted, it had already bitten Luo Chen's neck.
Luo Chen didn't have time to make any move, and his body that was halfway up quickly rolled to the side. After rolling for a few steps, he hurriedly stood up.
After the Clouded Leopard missed a hit, it immediately ran into the grass and hid.
Luo Chen held the handle of the knife with his right hand, sensing everything around him with his senses.
He knew that according to the clouded leopard's habits, it would not give up its prey so easily.
It must still be hiding nearby, but it is beyond Luo Chen's perception range.
"This cloud-piercing leopard should have the strength of a peak warrior in the human body forging realm, otherwise the speed would not be so ridiculously fast."
While Luo Chen was secretly on guard, he thought in his mind.
Beasts are also graded according to their strength. The weakest ones are ordinary beasts. Beasts that swallow some medicinal materials or genius treasures will increase their strength and even become ferocious beasts.
The ferocious beasts have the strength equivalent to that of human warriors. Different types of ferocious beasts have different strengths.
The weak one has the strength of a third-rate early human warrior, while the strong one is equivalent to a top-level human warrior.
As for the beasts, there are also spiritual beasts, which are the same as human innate warriors. They have a certain level of intelligence and can even absorb the essence of the sun and moon to cultivate on their own.
A hundred miles away from Daheng Mountain is the range of wild beasts. There are even spiritual beasts appearing in the center of Daheng Mountain.
Therefore, the hunters and ordinary warriors near Daheng Mountain generally operate within a hundred miles away.
It is not easy to set foot within a hundred miles. Once you enter, you will probably never return.
Sure enough, before Luo Chen could wait too long, the clouded leopard sprang out from the grass again, jumped up when it was four or five meters away from Luo Chen, and bit Luo Chen's neck fiercely.
Luo Chen was already prepared this time.
Luo Chen let out a soft cry, and when the Cloud-Crossing Leopard rushed forward, he instantly drew his sword and cut into the wind with one move, slashing towards the Cloud-Crossing Leopard's head.
This clouded leopard was really impressive. The moment Luo Chen's knife hit it, its head turned to the side. As a result, Luo Chen's knife only cut off one of the clouded leopard's ears.
The clouded leopard fell to the ground with a painful cry, and then quickly fled deep into the Dayi Mountain.
For this guy who almost got himself into trouble, how could Luo Chen let him escape?
Therefore, Luo Chen channeled his true energy into his legs and quickly chased in the direction where the Clouded Leopard escaped.
The cloud-piercing leopard was not as strong as Luo Chen, but its speed was really impressive. It left Luo Chen's perception range in a short while and disappeared into the woods.
Luo Chen followed the bloodstains left by the Clouded Leopard, let go of his senses, walked and stopped along the way, and tracked it for nearly an hour, and finally found the Clouded Leopard under a tree deep in Dayi Mountain.
Then, Luo Chen took advantage of the Clouded Leopard's unpreparedness, and used his leopard's methods to treat the leopard's body. He used his true energy to attack it in a sneak attack, and killed it with a single blow.
Afterwards, Luo Chen peeled off the clouded leopard's skin.
Clouded leopards are also rare within a hundred miles of Daheng Mountain, and because of their fast speed, very few people can hunt them.
Therefore, the skin of the clouded leopard is very valuable and can be sold for four to five hundred taels of silver.
Regarding this, Luo Chen was reluctant to throw it away like the previous wolf corpse.
After disposing of the Clouded Leopard's body, it was already dark.
At this time, Luo Chen had gone more than a hundred miles deep into Daheng Mountain.
He originally went into the mountain to look for the strange beast, but in the end, except for the horse hoof prints along the way, he didn't even see the shadow of the strange beast. This made Luo Chen less interested in looking for the strange beast.
Luo Chen smiled bitterly and shook his head. Others had been searching for several days but could not find it. He had only been searching for a day. How could he find it so easily.
He decided not to look for it, but stayed here for one night and returned to Ziwu Villa at dawn.
"I've been out all day, and I won't go home at night. I don't know what kind of trouble there will be at home."
Luo Chen had a toothache when he thought of this. After all, he was still an eleven-year-old child now, and he ran into Daheng Mountain without saying a word and stayed here for the night. It was difficult for his family not to worry.
When Luo Chen thought of Wang Yuying looking at him with an angry face, his scalp felt numb.
"That's rash! If I had known better, I wouldn't have chased this clouded leopard. I would have gone back as early as possible while the day was still bright."
Luo Chen sat on a stone, took a bite of the roasted leopard meat in his hand, and murmured in a low voice.
Although Luo Chen could travel at night with his perception, he had already gone more than a hundred miles into Daheng Mountain and had been busy for another day. Luo Chen felt a little worried if he had to walk more than a hundred miles back.
Moreover, there are many unknown risks when walking in the Daheng Mountains at night.
After Luo Chen finished eating the barbecue, he found a big tree and planned to spend the night in the tree. After all, it was much safer in the tree than on the ground at night.
Although there is a risk of wind and rain in the trees, without finding a cave, we can only settle for the next best thing.