85: Chapter 85 Devouring Beast Patterns

Chen Moxuan walked toward the Steel-Armored Lizard.

He could feel Xiao Bo's consciousness growing stronger, urging him to get closer.

He slowly raised his hand, and the black god bracelet instantly transformed into a wriggling black liquid, quickly covering the Steel-Armored Lizard's dorsal armor.

Within a few breaths, that hard dorsal armor was completely corroded away.

Afterward, the black liquid flew back to Chen Moxuan's hand like a bird returning to its nest, changing back into the form of a bracelet.

"You want more?"

Chen Moxuan noticed that Xiao Bo didn't seem satisfied.

"Don't worry, there are plenty of Strange Beasts here."

"I'll take care of everything that blocks our path later."

Having said that, Chen Moxuan no longer suppressed his aura and charged forward fiercely.

Soon, another seven or eight Strange Beasts entered Chen Moxuan's field of vision.

These fellows clearly thought the human before them looked thin and weak, an easy target.

Their bodies were covered in grayish-green fur, and they had cyan Secret Patterns on their foreheads.

Their eyes flickered with a faint cyan light as they kept pace with Chen Moxuan's run, slowly closing in from all directions.

Chen Moxuan swept his gaze over them and understood immediately.

Azure Wind Wolves, Rank Three Elementary Strange Beasts.

In this Strange Beast Forest, Azure Wind Wolves were considered quite troublesome existences.

Their sharp claws were incredibly keen, capable of easily tearing through the protective True Qi of an Early Stage Tiangang Realm Martial Artist; in terms of speed, they far surpassed ordinary Early Stage Tiangang Realm Martial Artists.

Azure Wind Wolves had unique habits, always preferring to move in packs and cooperating with tacit understanding, like a well-trained army.

They bullied the weak and feared the strong; if they felt something wasn't a sure bet, they would never act lightly.

But once someone was unfortunate enough to be targeted as prey by a pack of Azure Wind Wolves, they would use their skilled cooperation to surround the target in layers and swarm them.

The prey would have almost no possibility of escape.

"Awoo!"

An Azure Wind Wolf running at the front, which looked significantly sturdier, let out a howl.

The wolf's howl was short, a signal for the hunt.

The Secret Patterns on the foreheads of the Azure Wind Wolves running beside Chen Moxuan flared with light.

They suddenly swung their claws, and streaks of cyan wind blades, carrying the sound of whistling wind, lunged fiercely toward Chen Moxuan.

At the same time, the other Azure Wind Wolves pushed off with their feet, their running speed suddenly accelerating.

Following closely behind the trajectory of the wind blades, they pounced straight at Chen Moxuan.

First using wind blades to restrict the opponent's evasion route, then having the other wolves pounce for the kill to deliver the fatal blow was their customary tactic.

This set of tactics cleverly integrated their speed advantage, often catching opponents off guard and defeating them in one move, achieving a startling "first-encounter kill" effect.

In this Strange Beast Forest, many Martial Artists had already fallen to this tactic of the Azure Wind Wolf packs and were miserably eliminated.

In their eyes, this weak human whose aura was clearly inferior to those others would be no exception.

As the wind blades passed through, several gashes were instantly torn into the human's figure.

Seeing this, the alpha wolf's eyes flashed with cyan light, excited to the extreme; it charged forward, its thick forelimbs raised high, and suddenly swung its sharp claws.

In this Strange Beast Forest, the reason the Strange Beasts were so aggressive was actually because the Secret Realm rules imposed unique constraints and incentives on them as well.

Once the Secret Realm ended, Strange Beasts that successfully eliminated humans would receive rewards from the Secret Realm rules, gaining an increase in strength and a re-division of territory.

The current lord of the Strange Beast Forest had eliminated over thirty humans last year, surpassing the old lord's strength in one fell swoop to become the new hegemon.

However, as its claws swept through the human's body, the sensation felt strange.

It didn't feel like cutting through solid flesh and blood, but rather like slicing into a cloud of water vapor.

Before the alpha wolf could think further, the attacks of several other Azure Wind Wolves followed in quick succession.

In an instant, the human body in their eyes was completely torn apart, turning into a cluster of drifting mist.

The alpha wolf was startled and suddenly looked back, only to find to its horror that the human had appeared like a ghost behind the two Azure Wind Wolves that had released the wind blades.

Cold light flickered in Chen Moxuan's eyes as his palms flipped.

That move just now was a Profound-grade Advanced movement technique from the Tianshu Mysterious Technique called Water Moon Phantom Body.

During his journey to the Strange Beast Forest, his Special Ability had not been idle.

He had analyzed at least one Profound-grade Advanced Martial Skill for every attribute of True Qi within the Tianshu Mysterious Technique to Perfection.

Next, what he executed was a Profound-grade Advanced palm technique, the Burning Raging Palm.

Fiery-red True Qi, like nimble flames, quickly wrapped around his palms, the scorching temperature instantly causing the surrounding air to distort.

Chen Moxuan's palms struck out left and right, heavily hitting the flanks of the two Azure Wind Wolves.

The overbearingly matchless fire-attribute True Qi surged in; the two Azure Wind Wolves didn't even have time to let out a wail before their internal organs were completely charred, their bodies crashed to the ground, and their life force was severed.

"Awoo—"

The alpha wolf let out a shrill howl toward the sky, the Secret Patterns on its forehead flaring with light like burning cyan flames.

It frantically moved its four limbs, leading the other Azure Wind Wolves to flee for their lives together.

As they sprinted, a piercing cyan pillar of light condensed in front of their foreheads, slicing through the air ahead with a sharp whistle.

As mentioned before, Azure Wind Wolves were very much inclined to bully the weak and fear the strong.

Seeing that Chen Moxuan was a tough nut to crack, their fighting spirit vanished instantly.

Running at full speed, even a Middle Stage Tiangang Realm Martial Artist would find it difficult to catch up to them.

However, speed happened to be the strongest of Chen Moxuan's many strengths.

With [Swift Thunder Body] activated, Chen Moxuan instantly caught up behind the wolf pack.

At the same time, the black god bracelet flashed with light, transforming into a pitch-black long spear.

He raised his hand and swung; the spear was like a dragon, immediately picking up an Azure Wind Wolf and throwing it forcefully behind him.

At this moment, this group of Azure Wind Wolves was already scared out of their wits; how could they dare to look back? They only cared about burying their heads and fleeing forward frantically.

In this manner, Chen Moxuan was like an eagle catching chicks from behind, picking up the Azure Wind Wolves one by one and tossing them behind him with total ease.

Until the cold light of the spear flashed, piercing through the alpha wolf from behind; the entire pack of Azure Wind Wolves had been completely wiped out by Chen Moxuan.

For a moment, notification messages about gaining points for killing Strange Beasts flickered continuously before his eyes like snowflakes.

But Chen Moxuan had long since lost all interest in these points and looked right past them.

He walked to the pile of wolf corpses he had skillfully controlled his strength to flip and stack together, and said to Xiao Bo in the black god bracelet:

"See if there's anything you want to devour."

Since devouring the Steel-Armored Lizard earlier, Xiao Bo seemed to have gained some enhancement.

While still a distance away from the wolf pack, it could already activate its devouring state.

It transformed into a pool of black liquid and shot through the air, pouncing straight toward the pile of Azure Wind Wolf corpses.

After devouring all of their sharp claws, it moved toward the Secret Patterns on the Azure Wind Wolves' heads.

"You can devour this too?" Chen Moxuan said in surprise.

Unique Secret Patterns would naturally form on the bodies of some Strange Beasts, allowing them to execute certain special abilities.

Chen Moxuan was well aware of the habits of the Mechanical Race; they could devour metals or minerals to strengthen themselves.

Whether it was devouring the Steel-Armored Lizard's rock-hard dorsal armor or the Azure Wind Wolves' incredibly sharp claws, Chen Moxuan could classify them under the category of metals and find it somewhat reasonable.

But these Strange Beast Secret Patterns surely counted as flesh and blood, didn't they?

Could the Mechanical Race even devour these?

Xiao Bo said nothing and immediately gave a response through action.

The black liquid instantly wrapped around the Secret Pattern on the alpha wolf's forehead; as it wriggled, it actually forcibly gouged out a piece of flesh where the Secret Pattern was located.

After devouring the alpha wolf's Secret Pattern, it didn't stop and did the same to the other Azure Wind Wolf corpses.

After devouring all the Secret Patterns on the Azure Wind Wolf corpses, that mass of black liquid slowly returned to Chen Moxuan's hand, turning back into a bracelet.

However, on the originally pitch-black bracelet, some silver patterns quietly emerged.