33: Halfway Kill (Please read and vote)

The Milky Way was dim and faint,

As spring arrived, deep and shallow.

Chen Yuan, following the Small Green Bird, traversed mountains and forests, covering a distance of three hundred li.

Only then did he arrive at the valley pinpointed by the bone slip!

At this time, it was approaching the fourth watch of the night.

In the mountains, the dew was heavy and cold, and a 靜謐 and eerie silence pervaded.

Chen Yuan's fingers exuded a pea-sized amount of True Qi, which he fed to the bird.

It pecked and swallowed, chirped once, and then flapped its wings and left.

Chen Yuan stood on a branch outside the valley, his Minds Eye wide open, looking into the valley.

Resentment soared to the sky!

He narrowed his eyes.

A cold glint flickered within them.

It seemed he had found a demonic lair.

Through his Minds Eye, he observed more than a dozen large and small clusters of Demonic Qi hidden within this mountain forest.

Among them, his gaze fixed on a mountain peak deep within the valley.

The Demonic Qi there was the strongest!

It made his brows twitch.

Compared to the eastern side of Langdang Mountain, where the lesser demons were extremely well-hidden, the beasts here made no attempt to conceal their aura.

It seemed that this place, being deep in the mountains, had a powerful demon that had gathered its demonic followers and formed a formidable force.

He recalled that the previous person seemed to have come to the west and suffered severe injuries, leading to his demise.

Chen Yuan did not act rashly, he kept his aura contained within his body, sat cross-legged on the tree, and closed his eyes.

He intended to observe the area first.

Thus, time passed unknowingly, and the sun rose in the east, revealing a sliver of fish-belly white on the eastern horizon.

After a while, Chen Yuan's ears twitched slightly, and he opened his eyes.

The next second, his figure vanished from the tree.

At this moment, in the forest several hundred meters away, birds were startled, and something was crashing through the undergrowth.

A black-furred wild boar, about ten feet long and with two ferocious tusks, was rampaging through the forest.

Snorting sounds came from its foul-smelling mouth.

And beside this wild boar, there was also a Wujin Mao Yuan (Dark-Gold Fur Ape) nearly two meters tall, walking upright.

It was covered in Demonic Qi, with yellow eyes and a red face, and a hideous appearance.

Where the two demons passed, birds were startled, and the forest trembled slightly.

At this moment, a tree was knocked down by the boar demon, and a bird's nest fell from it.

Inside the nest were newly hatched chicks, chirping incessantly, and the mother bird flew up, flapping her wings, chirping around her eggs, unwilling to leave.

The Wujin Mao Yuan (Dark-Gold Fur Ape) grabbed the mother bird with its ferocious, thick, long arm, then shoved it into its mouth.

"Crunch!"

Blood spurted out.

The ape demon chewed with its teeth, its teeth stained with crimson flesh, and it smiled hideously.

Then it stomped the bird's nest completely to pieces.

"Brother Ape... snort, snort, I'm hungry, the mountain, snort, the Mountain Lord is getting married, there's blood food, we... we'll have a full meal, snort, snort."

The boar demon, using its tusks to clear the way, spoke in human language, snorting and grunting as it ran.

The Wujin Mao Yuan (Dark-Gold Fur Ape) swallowed a mouthful of fur, and its cruel eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty light.

"We two brothers rushed here upon hearing the news, wasn't it for this very meal?"

"We're almost at the Mountain Lord's territory. You, stupid pig, rein it in a bit, don't anger the Mountain Lord."

The ape demon's human speech was much clearer.

The boar demon snorted, its rear tail swished, and a gray mist swirled, then enveloped its body.

When the gray mist dispersed, the boar demon had transformed into a standing human form, with a pig's head, exposed sharp tusks, and a body covered in dense black hair, like steel needles, extremely ugly.

At this moment, dozens of meters away from them.

Chen Yuan, hidden among the treetops, watched these two second-realm lesser demons, his eyes flickering.

"The Mountain Lord is getting married?"

Is there a Mountain Lord here?

He pondered for a moment, then pinched his fingers and murmured softly.

His body suddenly transformed.

He turned into a leopard.

Then, he leaped from the tree.

Just then, the boar demon and the ape demon heard a sound from behind and to their side.

"Fellow demons, please wait!"

The two demons were startled, and turned their heads to look.

They saw a fellow with a leopard's head and a body full of tattooed flower arms appear.

"Coincidentally, are you two also here for the banquet?"

The Wujin Mao Yuan (Dark-Gold Fur Ape) looked at Chen Yuan suspiciously.

Its cruel eyes surveyed him a few times, then it asked in a muffled voice.

"Which mountain are you from? I haven't seen you before."

"From Little Green Mountain, east of Langdang Mountain. I heard the Mountain Lord is getting married, so I've specially come to offer my congratulations!"

However,

The boar demon began to grunt and snort. It just felt that the human words spoken by the fellow in front of it were incomprehensible.

"You, snort, what you... snort, said, I... snort, don't understand."

"Eat a few more humans, and you'll understand."

Chen Yuan revealed a mouthful of white teeth.

At this moment, the Wujin Mao Yuan (Dark-Gold Fur Ape) let out a strange cry from its throat.

"Ho ho haha!"

Chen Yuan was puzzled.

He didn't know what the ape demon meant.

But the next second, the ape demon bared its teeth, and its triangular eyes became fierce.

"I said the Mountain Lord is getting married tomorrow, don't you understand?"

"Who are you?"

Saying that, the Wujin Mao Yuan (Dark-Gold Fur Ape) pounded its chest, its aura surged, and its dark-gold fur emitted dark light.

Chen Yuan's face stopped smiling.

Are demons so cunning now?

Not easy to fool!

He was too lazy to pretend anymore.

He revealed his true form, opened his mouth and spat,

A sword light flashed, transforming into two cold streaks.

They directly struck the two lesser demons.

"You—"

The cruel ape demon, whose aura was originally ferocious, felt a trembling sensation in its Soul upon seeing the sword light, and became terrified.

But it hadn't even uttered half a sentence.

The sword light had already flashed across its head like lightning.

The other boar demon.

The same.

The pig's dying shriek was stuck in its throat.

"Thud!"

"Thud!"

Two demon corpses fell, making dull thuds.

Chen Yuan walked to the Wujin Mao Yuan (Dark-Gold Fur Ape)'s corpse and pointed his hand forward.

Immediately, the Wujin Mao Yuan (Dark-Gold Fur Ape)'s corpse seemed to be drained, rapidly shriveling.

Only a piece of dark-gold fur remained.

Chen Yuan mused that when he had just used the Animal Creation technique, it was probably because he hadn't borrowed the demon's outer skin, which allowed this ape demon, whose sentience was quite developed, to notice something.

He touched this demon skin, which was full of a foul, musky smell, his eyes flickering with a restless light.

The Mountain Lord getting married means that all the nearby demons will rush over?

For him, this was a good opportunity.

He desperately needed to improve now.

Then, he burned the boar demon's corpse with fire, destroying all traces.

His figure flashed.

And disappeared from the spot.

...

"Hiss!"

In a certain part of the forest, a dark green python, two to three zhang long and as thick as a tree trunk, was coiled around a red-faced, tusked giant ape.

The giant ape had dark-gold fur, a red face, and tusks, standing over a zhang tall.

At this moment, the thick body of the dark green python had trapped it.

The triangular, millstone-sized snake head opened its foul-smelling maw, about to bite the giant ape.

But the giant ape bared a mouthful of ferocious white teeth.

Its tail and spine made a crackling sound like firecrackers,

Then, it forcibly tore apart the snake's body, and then, a punch slammed onto the great python's head.

Immediately, the great snake's brains burst forth.

Its huge body fell backward.

Its breath was gone.

At this moment, the giant ape, splattered with foul blood, suddenly shot a cruel gaze towards a certain part of the forest.

A black leopard stood conspicuously on a tree!

It roared at the giant ape!

Then, it spoke in human language, its voice filled with shock and anger.

"How dare you! This is the Mountain Lord's territory, and the Mountain Lord is about to get married. How dare you hunt down the Mountain Lord's demonic followers everywhere?"

But the giant ape, with eyes turned upside down, looked at the black leopard, bared a mouthful of white teeth, and let out a laugh like muffled thunder.

"So what if he's the Mountain Lord? Tell the Mountain Lord that I will come to his wedding banquet tomorrow!"

Saying that, it let out a loud laugh.

It leaped, and the forest exploded.

Then it disappeared from sight.

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