Cai Feiyang was nailed to the tree trunk, opened his mouth and coughed out a large mouthful of blood, and then he couldn't help but scream in pain.
His feet couldn't touch the ground, and there was a heartbreaking pain in his chest. His arms, which had lost both hands, were shaking constantly. His whole body looked bloody and terrifying.
In just one breath, Zhou Yuan struck out with three swords, making him lose the ability to resist.
Seeing Zhou Yuan slowly walking over, Cai Feiyang's face was full of disbelief, "How... is this possible?"
The contempt he had for Zhou Yuan and the mysterious self-confidence he had previously felt completely disappeared at this moment, and what followed was full of fear.
Although his cultivation level is obviously weaker than his own, why is his combat power so strong?
Just now he claimed to be a strong man in front of Zhou Yuan and did not take Zhou Yuan seriously at all.
Sitting up in shock while dying of illness, Cai Feiyang realized at this moment that he was a clown.
With Zhou Yuan's fighting power, let alone defeating one Qiu Kong, even ten Cai Feiyang might not be able to defeat him.
"Why are you so strong?" Cai Feiyang asked.
Zhou Yuan smiled mysteriously, "Many people ask me this question before they die, but I am too lazy to answer it."
Zhou Yuan spent two years in seclusion in Linglong Realm, which was not in vain.
When he first taught Qiu Kong a lesson, he only used 20% of his combat power. Now facing Cai Feiyang, he only used 40% of his combat power.
"Now I can tell you that Qiu Kong was indeed injured by me, but the broken Dantian has nothing to do with me."
Zhou Yuan paused, and then said: "You probably didn't come alone, right? Where are the others?"
Cai Feiyang's body was trembling, and he was nailed to the tree like a sail, swaying slightly. His face was full of fear, and he said quickly: "If I tell you, will you let me go?"
"Tell me first, where are the others? Who are they?"
Regarding the pursuit, Zhou Yuan had already guessed that if he entered the Demon Hunting Forest, it would be impossible for Henry Zhang and Yun Zheng to just sit idly by and ignore them, and they would definitely send someone over.
This scene was all too familiar to him.
Xiao Batian and Jiang Haonan did this when they entered the Diling Mountains to look for their father.
Cai Feiyang was obviously not stupid. He just said: "One of them is Shen Guanyan and the other is Zhao Huan. They are both here to kill you. Put them down and I will tell you their specific locations."
"Are you still submitting documents to me?" Zhou Yuan couldn't help but laugh.
The other party was too confused about his position, and he was already on the verge of death, yet he still dared to play tricks on him.
There was Shen Guanyan and Zhao Huan. As for where they were, Zhou Yuan didn't care at all because he had no fear at all.
Snap!
Zhou Yuan snapped his fingers, and the snow shadow on his shoulder immediately pounced forward and bit Cai Feiyang's throat.
Blood flowed freely, and Cai Feiyang's eyes suddenly widened, and he died of fear.
Xue Ying was still biting the other person's throat, and a pure light blue substance flew out of Cai Feiyang's body and went straight into Xue Ying's mouth.
This is the spiritual essence from the warrior's body, which was sucked away by Xue Ying.
Another difference between human warriors and earth spirit beasts is that earth spirit beasts can absorb spiritual energy from human bodies to strengthen themselves.
After a while, Cai Feiyang's entire body softened and his skin turned gray-brown.
However, Xueying used the pure spiritual essence to improve her realm by a large margin, which was equivalent to swallowing the earth spirit core of a sixth-level foundation-building earth spirit beast.
At this moment, Xueying's realm has reached the mid-ninth level.
Zhou Yuan took away the Hong Tu Sword, took away the Na Ring from Cai Feiyang's hand, and then left with Xue Ying.
That night, Cai Feiyang did not return to the safe cave.
This surprised Shen Guanyan and Zhao Huan.
It was quiet for a while, but suddenly someone disappeared.
"Cai Feiyang didn't come back. Did he encounter a powerful earth spirit beast or Zhou Yuan?" Zhao Huan had a bad feeling in his heart.
Compared to these two possibilities, he preferred that Cai Feiyang was lost.
"Hmph, what are you afraid of? Let's go out and look for it together tomorrow and we'll find out, okay?" Shen Guanyan still had a arrogant look on her eyebrows.
There was no words to say all night, and Zhao Huan couldn't sleep at all.
The next day, the two walked out of the cave together and followed the route Cai Feiyang patrolled the previous day to explore.
Half a day later, they discovered Cai Feiyang's body half-sitting next to a big tree.
This is the place where Zhou Yuan has lived for the past month. The surrounding area has been sprinkled with medicinal powder. Generally, spirit beasts will not approach easily, so Cai Feiyang's body has not been eaten.
After inspecting the scene, Zhao Huan's face was full of confusion.
"It's strange that the earth spirit beast sucked the spiritual essence from his body, but it didn't eat his flesh and blood."
"He was killed by human warriors." Shen Guanyan said calmly.
She observed carefully and found signs of fighting around her. There were sword marks on the trees and Cai Feiyang's chest.
"Could it be Zhou Yuan?" Zhao Huan asked.
Shen Guanyan's red lips parted slightly, "This possibility cannot be ruled out."
Zhao Huan's heart suddenly pounded, and he quickly said: "This Zhou Yuan's strength is unfathomable. It is best for us to patrol together in the future, and we can no longer act alone."
Shen Guanyan suddenly sneered and glanced at Zhao Huan disdainfully.
"You are so cowardly. It would be a shame for me to act with you." Shen Guanyan stood up immediately and looked at the ground in the direction of his departure, "Let's go, he might be nearby, let's go look for him. "
Zhao Huan did not dare to refute Shen Guanyan's ridicule, but just followed him.
After a long time, the two found the body of an earth spirit beast. Judging from the wounds, it was obvious that the body had just died and the blood had not yet dried up.
Zhao Huan checked it again and said: "It only has traces of being bitten by other earth spirit beasts. It seems that it was not killed by a warrior."
"Although he was not killed by a warrior, someone has been here. Look at the footprints on the ground." Shen Guanyan reminded.
Zhao Huan then looked at the ground. In addition to his and Shen Guanyan's footprints, there were also the footprints of a third person. They were very clear and had just been stepped on.
Immediately, the two continued to follow the footprints.
The territory of the Demon Hunter Forest is complex, with wet areas and dry areas.
The footprints gradually disappeared when they reached dry areas.
But soon, the two found another earth spirit beast corpse. It seemed that it had just died. There were faint footprints on the ground, but there were only traces of being bitten by other earth spirit beasts on the body.
Zhao Huan was even more puzzled.
"What's going on? This Zhou Yuan doesn't go on a mission or find a place to hide and practice. Why is he wandering around? It seems that... he also likes to watch other earth spirit beasts fight, but this kind of battle between low-level earth spirit beasts ,What catches your eyes?"
Shen Guanyan glanced at Zhao Huan speechlessly.
"With your little brain, you can only think of this little thing." Shen Guanyan said in a contemptuous tone.
Zhao Huan was still puzzled and asked: "What is the reason?"
Shen Guanyan continued: "I suspect that he is taming his spiritual pet."
"What?" Zhao Huan was suddenly shocked.
"There is a profession in this world, and its name is beast control. They know some methods of taming spiritual pets, and they can let their spiritual pets fight for them. But I heard that this Zhou Yuan is obviously an alchemist..." Shen In fact, Guan Yan only knows a little bit about it.
But this is the only place that makes sense. Otherwise, what would Zhou Yuan be doing in the area of low-level earth spirit beasts?
"I hope the person we are tracking is indeed Zhou Yuan." Zhao Huan said.
I'm afraid of making mistakes in tracking the target. After all, there are other Seven Star Academy disciples who come to practice in this Demon Hunting Forest.
The two of them continued to track while talking.
Along the way, they found many corpses of earth spirit beasts, some of which were even freshly dead and still had body heat. The cause of death was the same as before.
However, because of the landform, they could only trace the footprints, but the footprints came and went. They searched all the way, passing through dense forests, plateaus, rocks, water...
This caused the two of them to completely lose the clue after halfway through the search, and they had no idea where Zhou Yuan had gone.
This time, they tracked for at least a thousand miles, and when they were about to enter a deeper area of the Demon Hunting Forest, Shen Guanyan finally shouted to stop.
The deeper you go, the more dangerous it becomes.
Zhao Huan breathed a sigh of relief, and Shen Guanyan obviously didn't want to take risks, so they simply returned the same way.
"Zhou Yuan's current strength is not even as good as mine, and is on par with you. I believe he will not be in a hurry to carry out the seven-star mission, let alone set foot in deeper places. Two years is still a long time, and he will still For activities in this area, we can patrol as usual." Shen Guanyan said.
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the other side.
Next to a river valley.
Zhou Yuan stood on a stone and was looking at the map in his hand.
"My current location should be deep in the Demon Hunting Forest, where I may encounter earth spirit beasts above the Foundation Establishment level." Zhou Yuan then took back the map and whispered to himself.
Woof...
Xueying seemed to be able to understand Zhou Yuan's words, and immediately gave two timid screams, signaling Zhou Yuan to return the way he came.
Xueying is not brave enough now, so she dares to bully the weak. When she encounters someone stronger than herself, she is still scared to death by being destroyed.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yuan kicked it away.
"What are you afraid of? You can only follow me to enjoy the popular food and drink spicy food. How can I let you die?" Zhou Yuan glared at the snowy figure in the distance.
Xueying pulled her head out of the soil, pouting with a look of grievance.
"Let's go, now that we've arrived at this place, we happen to have two tasks to do," Zhou Yuan said.
Xueying's big round eyes immediately showed a human expression of astonishment, as if to say: "What? By the way, that is a difficult task, is it so easy?"
But it still followed him like crazy.
Zhou Yuan received three seven-star missions and four six-star missions in the mission pavilion.
There are two tasks, one is to collect plants and Blood Flame Spirit Flowers, and the other is to kill an earth spirit beast at about the seventh level of foundation building, the God of Fire Ox.
These two tasks are considered to be the two easiest among the seven tasks, and they are also the ones that Zhou Yuan is currently most confident of completing.
Follow the route all the way.
This is the deep area of the Demon Hunting Forest, and the earth spirit beasts are more active than in the outer areas.
Hearing the roars of terrifying beasts coming from all around, Xue Ying shivered in fear and jumped onto Zhou Yuan's shoulders.
At this time, night gradually fell, and the surroundings became dark.
However, Zhou Yuan used his spiritual consciousness to explore the surroundings and was not afraid of sudden dangers.
As it continued to approach the target, a mountain peak appeared in the distance.
On the top of that mountain peak, there is a very conspicuous light group.
This is a volcanic crater that is not erupting, but magma still overflows from it, causing the surrounding mountains and rivers to appear like a sea of fire.
Not long after, as Zhou Yuan arrived at the foot of the mountain, waves of hot air suddenly hit his face.
After looking at the top, Zhou Yuan continued to walk up step by step.
Soon, a huge figure came into view.
The figure had red hair flying all over its body, and its two curved horns stood soaring into the sky. Its huge head hung low, and its mouth arched back and forth in the magma. It used its long tongue to lick the magma from time to time, but it was not afraid of the scorching heat.
He was tall, as tall as four or five people, like a hill.
And the scene of it bathing in magma is very shocking.
Zhou Yuan's pupils shrank, and the huge thing walking in the magma in front of him was the earth spirit beast, the fire-bathing divine bull.
Once the realm of the earth spirit beast reaches the foundation-building realm, it will shed its mortal body and no longer feed on vegetation. Most of the time, it will turn into a carnivorous beast, or it will look for other heavenly materials and earthly treasures to feed on.
Where there are treasures of heaven and earth, there must be powerful monsters. This has basically become a consensus.
The fire-bathing sacred cow in front of us, arching back and forth in the magma, is actually looking for the earth-fire spiritual crystals in it to use as food.
Zhou Yuan once heard Huamei mention that this Earth Fire Spiritual Crystal is a necessity used by weapon refiners to refine weapons and can only be collected from volcanoes.
A weapon refiner is not like an alchemist.
Alchemists can condense elixir fire within their bodies, but weapon refiners do not have this ability, and elixir fire cannot refine weapons, so they can only collect earth fire crystals.
A palm-sized Earth Fire Spirit Crystal can spontaneously combust for at least ten years.
If you collect a piece and place it in the outside world, it will be absolutely worth a fortune.
Facing the fire-bathing sacred bull in front of him, Zhou Yuan showed no fear in his heart. As he walked, he turned over his hand and took out the Hong Tu Sword.
"If I want to kill this sacred bull that bathes in fire, I will need to exert nearly 80% of my strength." Zhou Yuan guessed in his mind.
As for Xue Ying, she was already so frightened that she got into his sleeve.
As Zhou Yuan approached, the sacred bull bathed in fire was also disturbed. It twisted its huge body and suddenly turned around.
Moo...
When he saw that the person who broke into his territory was actually a human child, he immediately roared angrily.
It was breathing fireworks from its mouth and nose, its eyes were red, and it kicked off its hind hooves and charged towards Zhou Yuan.
When Zhou Yuan saw this, he immediately dodged to avoid it.
Boom!
The next moment, a small hill that was originally located behind Zhou Yuan was directly embedded by its horns, and then with a sudden push, half of the hill was lifted off.
Those horns are so powerful, this bull is also extremely powerful, and coupled with his huge body, he can basically sweep away all incoming enemies.
Of course, its shortcomings are also obvious.
It is huge and not very flexible, and although its fur is thick, its defense is not very high.
Zhou Yuan is not a vegetarian. In the past, he would have taken a detour when he saw it, but it is different now. He is at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment, and his Taoist platform is crystal clear and flawless, which is comparable to ordinary eighth-level Foundation Establishment warriors.
Coupled with the nine-kill sword technique that can kill with one strike, the mysterious weapon Hongtu, and the accumulation of two years...
It can be said that Zhou Yuan was able to kill gods when he met them, and he was able to kill Buddhas when he met Buddhas.
After a brief fight, this fire-bathed sacred cow was already covered in wounds.
He roared, completely furious.
Zhou Yuan didn't give him a chance at all and continued to attack. Every attack from the Fire God Ox could almost destroy a mountain peak, but Zhou Yuan could easily dodge it.
Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
Countless sword lights shine in the night, like streams of light cutting through the sky, cutting through the sky.
At the same time, countless sword energies were cutting back and forth across the body of the Fire God Ox. Every time the sword went down, its fur would be broken open, and the hot blood would splash out and wet its hair.
It was covered in blood, but its hair was red, and it just looked bright.
Finally, Zhou Yuan fell from the sky, and the long sword in his hand also fell from the opponent's neck, and the sharp edge cut its throat.
Roar!
The next moment, the fire-bathing sacred cow roared shrilly, its huge body staggered to the ground, struggled for a moment, and then lost its life.
This earth spirit beast is full of treasures, whether it's horns or blood.
However, Zhou Yuan did not have such a large vessel to collect so much blood. After taking away the earth spirit core from its body, he put the entire cow into the Najie.
It was only at this moment that Xue Ying emerged from Zhou Yuan's sleeves and licked the blood of the Fire God Cow spilled on the ground.
Zhou Yuan, on the other hand, walked towards the crater step by step.
At the same time, he looked at the flame flower in the center of the crater.