“Humph, this Young Master will let you all be afraid for a period of time first. Soon, I will return to the Sand Family Fortress, and at that time, I will definitely pay back this favor a hundred-fold!”
After snorting coldly, Ling Xiao’s figure flashed and glided into the distance.
The matter of the ancient martial artist’s cave-dwelling was a fortuitous encounter, but his purpose had not changed. He still had to cultivate hard.
The group of Fairy Linglong and the stern-faced martial artists was the last trial for him before returning to the sect.
He believed that those two people wouldn’t run away.
Fairy Linglong was a very proud woman. It was not her style to run away with her tail tucked between her legs.
After landing, Ling Xiao took out the Refine Array Stone from the Landscape World and placed it in his pocket.
Just now, it was a special situation, therefore, he had to temporarily put away the Refine Array Stone. But now, he had to continue to cultivate.
……
In the deep forest, Ling Xiao sat on top of a golden ox-type fierce beast that he had just killed.
While eating the freshly roasted beef, he was thinking about his next move.
This was already the third day since he began to travel alone in the depths of the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range.
During those three days, he wasn’t in a hurry to get to his destination. He leisurely traveled during the day while looking for an opportunity to fight against fierce beasts.
And at night, he would cultivate to improve his cultivation base.
In just three days, he had encountered no less than twenty fierce beasts. Among them, he was able to deal with just six fierce beasts.
The other fierce beasts were too terrifying, and he didn’t dare to fight against them. Therefore, he chose to either run away or hide.
Combat could increase his strength and combat skills.
And running away and hiding also increased his ability to survive.
It was impossible for a martial artist like him to be invincible. So, running away or hiding was normal. Moreover, grasping the ability to survive might be more helpful to him than increasing this combat power now.
“Huh?”
While he was eating the meat, several giant bears covered in black furs appeared near him.
There was no doubt that these giant bears were attracted by the smell of meat.
When these five giant bears with a height of no less than seven or eight meters walked, they made ‘dong dong’ sounds and the ground seemed to tremble.
Naturally, this was not enough to enter Ling Xiao’s eyes.
He had seen a beast that was bigger than these fierce beasts.
The issue was, among those five giant bears, four of them were just rank one fierce beasts, and the remaining one was a peak rank four fierce beast.
A fierce beast of this rank was stronger than a Rank Four Transcendent Realm martial artist.
“Although it’s a bit difficult to defeat this fellow under the effect of the Refine Array Stone, this is the first time I encountered a rank four fierce beast in these three days. It would be a pity to not kill it.”
Ling Xiao threw the meat in his hand and stood up with his guard up.
The inner core of a rank four fierce beast was also one of the main ingredients of the Hundred Years Nine Dragon Essence Temper Pill.
And now, as long as he got an inner core of a rank four fierce beast, he could refine this pill, then find a safe place to start absorbing the pill to improve his cultivation.
He didn’t know to what extent a Hundred Years Nine Dragon Essence Temper Pill would improve his cultivation, but he estimated that reaching Rank Four Transcendent Realm wouldn’t be a problem.
In the past few days, he continued to completely exhaust the true essence within his body, then eat low-grade True Essence Pills, and continuously cultivated <Twelve Golden Lotuses Formula>, as a result, his cultivation base had already broken through to the Late Rank Three Transcendent Realm.
If the Hundred Years Nine Dragon Essence Temper Pill couldn’t make him reach the Rank Four Transcendent Realm, then this pill would be too useless.
Basically, it wouldn’t be something worth mentioning by his Master Venerable Yuan.
“Come!”
Ling Xiao dragged his heavy body and approached the giant bears, step by step.
Then, a strange scene appeared.
The giant bear and Ling Xiao launched attacks practically at the same time.
Ling Xiao’s fists had three qi swords, which were only about three inches long. This was one of the achievements of these past three days.
His fist resembled a sharp claw.
As for the giant bear, it brandished its huge claw, which looked like several foot-long sharp blades.
Bang!
Puff!
The attacks of both sides collided.
Ling Xiao hadn’t dodged, because even if he wanted to dodge, he couldn’t do it. Because of the heavy Refine Array Stone on his body, evasion was definitely not a good choice.
Therefore, he chose to fight head-on!
The giant bear’s claw swept across his body, leaving a dazzling spark, but it failed to tear his body apart.
In terms of just physical toughness, Ling Xiao believed that no one could compare him under the Transcendent Realm.
His qi swords, however, cut through the giant bear’s skin, and suddenly became longer, stabbing the giant bear.
Roar~~
The giant bear let out a painful growl.
Unfortunately, it was already too late. The qi swords extended inside the giant bear’s body, instantly piercing through its heart.
Even a fierce beast of this level, once its heart was crushed, there was no possibility of surviving.
In terms of mind department, the giant bear was inferior to Ling Xiao.
Naturally, this battle was over so fast thanks to the qi sword’s versatility.
Although its attack power was temporarily inferior to <Snow Lotus Sword Art>, its versatility was very outstanding. As long as Ling Xiao had a good enough brain, he would be able to think of countless ways.
Ling Xiao pulled out his qi sword and retreated.
The other giant bears attacked him desperately, but he basically didn’t care about them.
Even the peak rank four giant bear was unable to tear his body apart, how could these rank one giant bears be able to cause him any damage?
The peak rank four giant bear wanted to retaliate before dying, but its injuries were too serious. After swaying a few times, it finally fell to the ground, only having the strength to twitch.
When the other four giant bears saw this, they roared and fled in succession.
Ling Xiao took out the Floating Snow Sword, cut open the giant bear’s corpse, and took out a grayish-white ball-like thing from it.
“Haha, an inner core of a rank four fierce beast, get!”
Looking at the inner core, Ling Xiao couldn’t help grinning.
After three days of hunting, he finally found an inner core. Those few fierce beasts he killed before didn’t have an inner core.
All fierce beasts didn’t have an inner core. Generally, the fierce beasts that could condense the inner core were about twice as stronger than those fierce beasts without an inner core.
Afterward, not caring about the giant bear’s corpse, Ling Xiao turned around and left quickly.
Killing a peak rank four fierce beast would attract trouble. He must leave this place quickly, or he might not be able to leave this place even if he wanted to leave later.
After running wildly for about fifteen minutes, he stopped under a cliff with a rich spiritual qi.
There was a cave halfway up the mountain. Merely, it was just an ordinary cave, not a cave-dwelling of an ancient martial artist.
And at this moment, he just happened to be looking for a place to refine a pill and meditate for a while. The terrain was steep and complex here, and it would be difficult to find this cave.
After Ling Xiao entered the cave, he transplanted the formation of the ancient martial artist’s cave at the entrance of the cave.
This formation was relatively simple, and he had all the required materials.
In addition, he had copied the formation method with the Refine Array Stone before, therefore, it was also very easy and very fast to set it up.
