41: Chapter 41 Got you?

The wind stopped.

Lin Mo raised his head, eyeing the two giant beasts not far away.

The one on the left was slightly larger, with a body length of over five meters. A silver-white pattern extended from its spine to the tip of its tail—it was a male!

The one on the right was slightly smaller, with tiny electric arcs dancing across its fur. With every breath, sparks of lightning crackled and burst around its body—it was a female.

One male and one female; both were kings of this Shadow Leopard clan.

"Roar—"

A low, rumbling whimper rolled from the male Shadow Leopard's throat, like a funeral bell tolling from the depths of hell, causing the expressions of the three women behind him to change drastically.

The female Shadow Leopard stared cautiously at the formidable enemy before it, its pupils reflecting the blood-soaked human.

The next second!

The male Shadow Leopard vanished.

There were no afterimages, no trajectories, and no warning signs. It simply vanished into thin air within the night, as if it had never existed!

This was exactly another innate ability of the Shadow Leopard clan: to slip into the shadows and become void.

The next second, the air three feet in front of Lin Mo suddenly tore open!

Five silver-white claw marks appeared out of thin air, carrying a terrifying force capable of tearing a peak Tier 2 entity to shreds, aiming straight for Lin Mo's throat!

It was too fast.

So fast that it didn't even have time to leave an afterimage.

But Lin Mo heard it.

He shifted half a step to the left.

The five silver-white claw marks swept past the position where he had just been standing, tearing through the air and exploding with a massive sonic boom.

"Not bad speed," Lin Mo said.

A flash of human-like emotion suddenly flickered in the male Shadow Leopard's pupils—it was surprise!

It had never seen such a strange human before.

The scent emanating from his body clearly hadn't reached Tier 3, yet it gave it an extremely dangerous feeling.

"Swish—"

The male Shadow Leopard's figure flashed. Having failed the previous strike, it didn't linger and immediately slipped back into the shadows.

This was its hunting method that had never failed in years: pouncing from the shadows, tearing its prey apart, and then slipping back into the shadows. The entire process would not exceed 0.3 seconds.

But what it encountered tonight was not prey.

Lin Mo grinned. God Speed granted him a massive boost in dynamic vision and neural reaction speed, allowing him to clearly observe his surroundings even during high-speed assaults.

After observing the execution of the shadow slip once, this ultimate skill, which seemed to have absolutely no flaws, no longer seemed untraceable in Lin Mo's eyes!

"Caught you."

The moment his voice fell, his figure also vanished from the spot—not by slipping into the shadows, but by moving at an extreme speed that the naked eye couldn't capture!

The male Shadow Leopard had just slipped into the shadows and hadn't even had time to move when it felt a terrifying force strike from its side!

A hand pierced through the shadows and clamped onto its hind leg!

"Roar—"

The male Shadow Leopard let out a startled roar.

No one had ever been able to catch a Shadow Leopard that had slipped into the shadows!

That was their proudest talent, an instinct carved into their bloodline. In the shadows, they were untouchable!

But that hand had indeed clamped onto its hind leg.

Five fingers tightened like iron pincers, dragging its hind leg out of the shadows by force!

It let out a roar of shock and rage, kicking wildly with its other hind leg. The silver-white spiritual light on its claw blades surged, aiming straight for Lin Mo's face!

Lin Mo did not let go.

He didn't even look at the incoming claw.

He just tilted his head slightly.

By a hair's breadth, the claw, which was capable of tearing through steel, grazed past his cheek, taking a few strands of severed hair with it.

"You've slowed down!" Lin Mo said.

The male Shadow Leopard's pupils contracted sharply!

It wanted to retract its claw, but it was already too late.

Lin Mo's other hand had already clamped onto its front leg.

Then—

Retracting, exerting force, twisting.

"Snap!"

A crisp sound of bone cracking exploded!

Its front leg was twisted into a bizarre angle, and white bone fragments pierced through its fur, exposed to the air!

Silver-white blood gushed out like a fountain!

"Roar—!!!"

The male Shadow Leopard let out a heart-wrenching roar of pain. Its body twisted frantically, and its other front claw swiped wildly, the silver light on the blade flickering, just wanting to break free from this terrifying human!

But the strength of this human before it was unimaginably great; it couldn't break free at all for a moment.

At this moment—

A bolt of purple lightning suddenly descended from the sky!

It was the female Shadow Leopard that had been guarding from the side!

It had finally made a move!

It didn't choose to pounce on Lin Mo, even though the Shadow Leopard clan was also extremely skilled at melee combat.

Because it knew that the human before it was even better at melee combat than they were!

"Boom!"

The ground exploded, gravel flew, and dust soared into the sky!

That lightning bolt wasn't meant to attack Lin Mo, but to create chaos and provide an opportunity for the male Shadow Leopard to escape!

The male Shadow Leopard seized this moment, broke free from Lin Mo's restraint, and its figure once again merged into the shadows, vanishing from the spot!

Lin Mo did not pursue.

He stood on the spot, looking at the place where the lightning bolt had landed, a very faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Interesting."

"The verification is done, it's time to end this!"

While Starlight Moon Condensation increased Lin Mo's strength, it also increased his stamina consumption fivefold.

Just now, he was only verifying his own strength level.

Now that the verification was done, he had already obtained the answer he wanted.

Therefore, it was time to end it!

The next second, Lin Mo moved.

His figure turned into a stream of light, pouncing straight at the location of the male Shadow Leopard. Although there was nothing there, the visual deception couldn't fool Lin Mo's perception!

The female Shadow Leopard roared, lightning surging around its body. It opened its mouth and spat out three lightning spears, forming a triangular formation to seal off all of Lin Mo's advance routes!

Lin Mo did not slow down.

He just swung his blade.

zhan chao carved an arc in the air. Wherever the blade passed, the three lightning spears were all severed in two, turning into tiny electric arcs and dissipating!

After one strike, he was less than ten meters away from the male Shadow Leopard.

Seeing this, the female Shadow Leopard finally grew anxious; if it didn't make a move, its mate would be beaten to death.

It kicked off the ground with its four paws, leaped from the boulder, and pounced towards Lin Mo in mid-air!

Lin Mo did not dodge.

He didn't even look up.

He just took a step forward, and zhan chao swept up from bottom to top, the blade light colliding with the lightning!

"Boom!!!"

A deafening roar exploded! The female Shadow Leopard's body was knocked flying, tumbling three times in mid-air before landing on the ground five zhang away. It dug its four paws into the ground, plowing out four deep trenches!

It looked down at its front paws.

On the claw blades, there were fine cracks, and a drop of dark purple blood was slowly seeping out from the cracks.