The third prince has many followers, including these few.
From the moment Zhou Yuan chose to enter the Demon Hunting Forest, Yun Zheng and Xiao Yang had determined that he would definitely die.
It was just that they were somewhat worried and wanted to see Zhou Yuan's body with their own eyes, so they sent three people to collect the body.
Those three people were naturally loyal to Yun Zheng. After casually accepting a three-star mission, they entered the Demon Hunting Forest.
Most of the mission pavilions are outdoor experience missions, either hunting earth spirit beasts or collecting elixirs. However, most disciples generally only move around the outer areas and will not go deep into them easily.
When they arrived at the swamp that Zhou Yuan had visited before, the three of them failed to find Zhou Yuan and went to other places.
The leading woman was swaying as she walked in front. She had an outstanding temperament and a beautiful face. If she wore light makeup, she would definitely be stunning. However, if she likes heavy makeup, she looks extremely coquettish.
The other two people followed him cautiously, not daring to disobey him in the slightest.
One of them is Zhao Huan, who is ranked tenth on the core list, and the other is Cai Feiyang, who is ranked eleventh on the core list. The Zhao family and the Cai family where they belong are both the nine great families in the imperial capital.
Moreover, both of them are sons of the same family and have outstanding talents.
But in front of women, he pales in comparison.
Because the woman's name is Shen Guanyan, she is not only the seventh most influential person in the core list, but also the youngest head of the Shen family, one of the nine aristocratic families in the imperial capital.
Half an hour later, the three of them arrived at the foot of a mountain.
The mountain towers into the clouds, and at the foot of the mountain is a cave.
After many years of exploration by the disciples of Seven Star Academy, because there are no earthly spirit beasts living here, this place has been designated as a safe place. Whenever disciples come to practice, they will choose to rest here.
The three of them entered the cave. Shen Guanyan found a compartment, took out a clean bed from the Najie, and cleaned the compartment.
Outside the compartment, Zhao Huan and Cai Feiyang lit a fire.
"For the next three months, I will live in the cubicle. If any of you dare to step even an inch, don't blame me for being rude." Shen Guanyan stood in the corner, trimming her nails and said disdainfully.
Both of them nodded.
Shen Guanyan continued: "In the next three months, we will take this mountain as the center and patrol within a hundred miles every day. If we encounter Zhou Yuan, we will cut off his head and go back to report to the third prince. If we encounter Zhou Yuan, we will behead him."
If not, he will probably die."
After that, Shen Guanyan returned to the cubicle.
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The third day into the Demon Hunting Forest.
Zhou Yuan walked slowly in the dense forest, occasionally looking at the map.
The towering trees around him seemed like he could never get out. Zhou Yuan had become accustomed to the rotten smell in the air.
Behind him, Xue Ying followed closely, looking left and right from time to time, full of fear.
Roar!
Just then, a beast roar came.
Not far in front of Zhou Yuan, a lone scaled wolf appeared.
This was only a fifth-level scaled wolf. Zhou Yuan tried his best to suppress his aura so as not to scare the opponent away.
Sure enough, the scaly wolf did not fear Zhou Yuan. Instead, it raised its fangs and walked over with a fierce look, as if Zhou Yuan had become its prey.
Zhou Yuan did not leave. He lowered his head and looked at Xue Ying who was following him and said, "Let's go. It's just a fifth-level scale wolf. You are at least a seventh-level one now. Are you afraid of him?"
Although Xueying was reluctant, she still took two steps forward timidly.
I remember that in the past two days, whenever Xueying met other earth spirit beasts, he would quickly get into Zhou Yuan's sleeves and be as timid as a mouse, which made Zhou Yuan very helpless.
Fortunately, after training day by day, Xueying became more courageous, which made Zhou Yuan very satisfied.
Seeing that Xue Ying clearly had no confidence, the scaled wolf on the opposite side became even more ferocious in its gaze. It roared and rushed towards Xue Ying.
If it had been two days ago, Zhou Yuan would have definitely taken the lead to solve the crisis for Xueying.
But this time, Zhou Yuan did not take action, but remained a bystander.
You can't help it with anything you say this time, otherwise it will always be a coward and unable to grow. Let it solve this crisis by itself. As long as you take this step, it will be much better in the future.
Seeing the scale wolf approaching, Xue Ying's body shivered with fear.
Zhou Yuan frowned and felt a little soft-hearted. If these idiots just stayed where they were, wasn't this looking for death?
At the moment when the scale wolf pounced in front of Xue Ying and was about to open his mouth, Zhou Yuan also raised the long sword in his hand.
However, at this moment, a strong sense of crisis suddenly aroused the anger in Xue Ying's heart. Endless thunder escaped from the center of his eyebrows. Xue Ying opened his mouth and bit the scale wolf's throat.
The scaled wolf didn't react in time, and a bloody hole was suddenly opened in its throat, and the blood flowed non-stop.
The snow shadow instantly turned into an afterimage, leaped into the air, and the scaled wolf's huge body staggered back. The snow shadow jumped directly onto its back, opened its mouth and bit it again.
After a moment, the scale wolf screamed, and its entire head was bitten off by Xue Ying.
Zhou Yuan froze on the spot with his sword raised, watching this scene in shock.
I have to say that forcing is very effective, and Xueying finally took this step.
At this moment, Xue Ying's hair was soaked in blood, but with the spiritual energy in his body, all the blood stains were shaken down with a slight shock.
It was breathing heavily, as if its courage had been released, and there was no longer any timidity in its eyes.
Zhou Yuan stepped forward, took out the dagger, and lightly scratched the scale wolf's corpse. Suddenly, a crystal bead the size of a thumb rolled out.
This is the Earth Spirit Core, which is of no use to Zhou Yuan now, but it is very useful to Xue Ying.
Xueying directly swallowed the blood-stained earth spirit core in one gulp, licked his lips, and was directly refined by the spiritual power in his body.
Zhou Yuan also rarely set up a fire and took the best meat from the scale wolf to roast.
Now he is different from when he was in the Earth Spirit Mountain Range. In the past, every time he killed an Earth Spirit Beast, he would leave immediately because the bloody smell at the scene would attract other Earth Spirit Beasts.
Now that he is so powerful, he is not afraid even if he attracts other earth spirit beasts.
Just as Zhou Yuan and Xueying were eating the roasted wolf meat, several figures quietly approached.
Zhou Yuan has spiritual consciousness and has discovered them long ago.
"Xueying, it's up to you." Zhou Yuan leaned against the tree stump, eating barbecue comfortably.
Xue Ying was still a little reluctant, but after crossing the threshold of timidity, it no longer had the timidity it had before, and still followed Zhou Yuan's instructions and walked forward.
The figures approaching were blood foxes with long red fur all over their bodies. They were almost all in the fourth to sixth levels.
When Xue Ying walked out, the blood foxes roared and pounced on him.
Xueying also roared, his face full of anger, and he took the initiative to attack in a flash.
After a while, there were several more bodies on the ground.
Xueying was still biting at the corpses, clumsily taking out the earth spirit cores from their bodies, and swallowing them in one gulp.
Within three hours, the bloody smell of this place attracted many earthly beasts.
Zhou Yuan would hand over all earth spirit beasts below the seventh level to Xueying to deal with. If they were stronger, Zhou Yuan would deal with them himself. He couldn't bear to let Xueying get hurt.
That night, Zhou Yuan dug a tree hole and got in together with Xue Ying.
He took out the high-level earth spirit beasts he killed during the day and gave them to Xue Ying to swallow and refine.
During the day, Xueying swallowed a lot of earth spirit cores, and at night he swallowed a few high-level earth spirit cores, and his body quickly transformed.
In half an hour, Xueying's figure grew larger, its realm also increased from the seventh level to the eighth level, and even its aura became much thicker.
After the transformation, Xue Ying fell into a deep sleep, while Zhou Yuan entered into cultivation.
This is only Xueying's first breakthrough after entering the Demon Hunter Forest.
There will be greater challenges waiting for it in the future.
Once he transforms into the foundation building state, Zhou Yuan can cast the totem technique.
The growth of earth spirit beasts is much faster than that of humans. In order to allow Xueying to transform faster, Zhou Yuan was even more harsh and strict with it.
The next day, Zhou Yuan took it to the jungle for training again. It would not go far, it was within a hundred miles.
For this reason, Zhou Yuan took advantage of his free time to build a hut in the forest.
The hut is suspended in the air, nearly a hundred feet above the ground, almost to the top of the treetops. This can effectively avoid being disturbed by other earthly beasts during practice.
At the same time, you can also enjoy the long-lost sunshine.
In this way, ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
In these ten days, Xueying swallowed a large number of earth spirit cores, but most of them were low-level earth spirit cores, because every time Xueying's opponents were low-level earth spirit beasts.
As Xueying's actual combat ability became stronger and stronger, Zhou Yuan began to try to improve the strength of its opponents.
Soon, another half month passed.
In the past half month, Xueying's courage has obviously become stronger, and it finally dares to compete with the earth spirit beasts of the same realm.
After all, it has turned on the thunder-attributed psychic ability since it was a child, and is one of the most favored among the earth spirit beasts. In addition, it has swallowed a large number of elixirs and earth spirit cores for a long time, and its strength has actually far surpassed the earth spirit beasts of the same realm.
But the only thing that imprisons it is courage.
If you are not brave enough, your momentum on the battlefield will be inferior to that of your opponents.
Fortunately, Zhou Yuan had never let Xueying lose before, nor was he injured, so deep down in his bones, he still had full confidence in fighting.
After many battles with earth spirit beasts of the same realm, despite being injured several times, he still managed to defeat his opponent without any danger.
That night, Zhou Yuan took cover between the huts and then entered the huts.
Xueying was slightly injured and was lying in the grass nest, looking very aggrieved.
Zhou Yuan was speechless for a while. It was just a slight skin injury, which made him feel as if he was about to die.
Squatting down, Zhou Yuan turned over his hands and took out some earth spirit cores, and then handed them to Xueying. When he smelled the faint fragrance, Xueying immediately became energetic.
Some of the low-level earth spirit cores harvested from the earth spirit beasts killed these days will be swallowed by Xueying at any time. However, Zhou Yuan temporarily collected some high-level earth spirit cores and waited for Xueying to break through.
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At this moment, looking at the earth spirit core in Zhou Yuan's hand, Xue Ying shouted excitedly, as if he had forgotten that he was still injured.
"Eat it." Zhou Yuan said with a smile.
Xueying was very obedient, so she opened her mouth and swallowed all the earth spirit cores.
In an hour, Xueying's body finally transformed successfully again, and her strength level was raised from the eighth level to the ninth level.
Sure enough, experience makes growth faster.
Zhou Yuan was satisfied in his heart. As long as Xue Ying broke through the ninth level, reached the foundation building realm and shed his mortal body, he could use the totem technique to make Xue Ying truly his spiritual pet.
Survival in the Demon Hunting Forest is thrilling and comfortable.
In the blink of an eye, another ten days have passed, and nearly a month has passed since Zhou Yuan entered the Demon Hunting Forest.
It is a big watershed for the earth spirit beast to enter the foundation building realm from the ninth level of the mortal body. After all, this is a process of losing the mortal body.
On this day, Zhou Yuan sat on the tree trunk and watched the snow shadows playing on the ground.
"Someone is coming." Although he was looking at the ground, Zhou Yuan often used his spiritual consciousness to explore his surroundings.
Within a radius, whenever there is an aura approaching, he will detect it immediately.
At this moment, he clearly felt the aura of a human warrior.
But he still sat on the tree trunk, as if nothing happened.
Spiritual consciousness exploration consumes a lot of mental energy. Zhou Yuan only releases it once in a while and will not explore for a long time.
Not long after, the breath approached quietly.
Phew! Phew!
The next moment, there was a sound of piercing the air in the distance, and two feather arrows shot out from the dense forest. One flew towards Zhou Yuan, and the other shot straight towards the snow shadow on the ground.
The opponent's goal is very clear, and they will take action as soon as they come up.
Zhou Yuan ignored the feather arrow that was shot at him, and immediately jumped down from the tree trunk, reaching the ground in the blink of an eye.
Xueying's perception is obviously not as sharp as Zhou Yuan's, and he still doesn't know what happened.
Zhou Yuan arrived in front of him, picked it up directly, then quickly spun around and moved to another place.
Phew!
At the same time, two feathered arrows, one penetrated the tree trunk where Zhou Yuan was just now, and the other was inserted diagonally into the ground.
Cai Feiyang walked out with a bow and arrow in hand and an arrogant expression.
"The response was pretty quick, but it's a pity that you still have to die in my hands today." Cai Feiyang said proudly, as if Zhou Yuan had become his treasure.
Since this month, three people sent by Yun Zheng have been patrolling within a hundred miles every day to detect Zhou Yuan's traces.
Cai Feiyang came here by chance when he was on patrol, and then he discovered Zhou Yuan.
"Your name seems to be Cai Feiyang?" Zhou Yuan stared at Cai Feiyang and said softly.
He has been at Seven Star Academy for more than a day or two. Even if he has never met all the core disciples, he has seen their portraits and learned about them from Yun Chen.
This Cai Feiyang is a core disciple, with a sixth level of foundation building, ranked eleventh on the core list, and belongs to the third prince Yun Zheng.
"Based on seniority, you should call me senior brother." Cai Feiyang looked Zhou Yuan up and down, the disdain on his face became even stronger, and continued: "You are only at the third level of foundation building. I don't really believe that.
Qiu Kong was injured by you."
Zhou Yuan used the Qi Shen technique to hide part of his cultivation, which made Cai Feiyang despise him.
"With your level of cultivation, it will be difficult to defeat Qiu Kong. I have heard a secret that Qiu Kong's Dantian was destroyed in the hands of His Highness the Third Prince in order to put the blame on you."
"What's the point of saying this now?" Zhou Yuan couldn't deny it, because he probably guessed that Yun Zheng framed him.
But I have already arrived in the Demon Hunting Forest, and it is useless to know more.
"It doesn't make any sense. I just want you to know how you were killed before you die."
As he spoke, Cai Feiyang bent his bow and set an arrow, and immediately several feather arrows shot out.
"You are just afraid that you will be the one being played in the end." Zhou Yuan said coldly, and at some point he had the long sword in his hand, spinning it rapidly, and flicked all the arrows away.
"Hmph, only the weak will be reduced to tools, and I am obviously the strong one." Cai Feiyang's tone was full of confidence.
He was proficient in archery, and at the same time his movements were strange. His body flashed, sounds broke through the air, and dozens of feather arrows shot out from all directions, like a meteor shower piercing the sky and shooting towards Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan immediately blocked with his sword.
In terms of physical skills, he is even more weird than Cai Feiyang.
In a flash, all the arrows were blocked. At the same time, Zhou Yuan approached Cai Feiyang with a series of afterimages behind him.
Cai Feiyang was suddenly shocked.
Zhou Yuan's speed obviously exceeded his expectations.
Bows and arrows are only suitable for long-range combat, and are useless for close combat. Cai Feiyang threw away the bow and arrows and drew a pair of swords from his waist.
"Go to hell." Cai Feiyang's eyes were sharp and he came towards him.
But soon, Cai Feiyang showed unprecedented panic, as if he had encountered a terrible evil, because Zhou Yuan's aura exploded at this moment, not only ignoring his arrows, but also ignoring his attacks.
Zhou Yuan's offensive method, which he couldn't see the details of, made his scalp numb.
Only those who are stronger than themselves cannot guess the details of the opponent's attacks.
As he breathed, he felt his hands go cold. His hands holding the two swords flew directly in front of him, blood flying.
Before he could feel the pain, a nine-foot sword had already pierced his chest.
Bang!
Cai Feiyang fell back several feet and was directly nailed to the tree trunk by the long sword.
"Do you still think you are strong?" Zhou Yuan walked over slowly.