Chapter Thirty-Five: The Azure Leopard

  Pfft!

  In the depths of the clouds and fog, two muffled sounds suddenly came from the precipice, only to see a lean figure like a spirit monkey, rapidly jumping back and forth on the protruding rocks.

  When there was no place to land, the two green horns in hand suddenly inserted into the hard rock wall and climbed along the cloud pear tree not far below.

  "Hey!"

  With a sudden loud whoop, Li Chen leapt into the air and landed on the sturdy branch of that gnarled fruit tree, causing the tender yellow fruit to quiver violently.

  Crack!

  He casually plucked a cloud pear, Li Chen took a bite, stuffed half of the fruit into his chest, looked up at the sky, and rubbed his belly: "Eating these cloud pears every day is really tasteless, and there's Lei Peng, this big foodie, who must eat meat!"

  After complaining in a low voice for a while, Li Chen reached out to pick the fruit clean and stuffed it into the straw-woven backpack behind him, gritted his teeth and slid downwards.

  The sparse holes on the rock wall can be seen that he has come down more than once.

  If there were other warriors here, they would surely be shocked to the point of dropping their jaws. This Yun Li fruit is a mid-grade spiritual medicine of the second tier, and it's a top-notch item for low-tier warriors to cultivate their bodies. Yet he looks so impatient, truly unaware of his good fortune.

  In the past six months, Li Chen practiced martial arts every day under the stormy weather and ate Yunli fruit. His body had become incredibly strong, if not for the lack of a tried-and-true physical training method, his strength would have been even more impressive.

  He estimated that his strength had increased by tens or even hundreds of times compared to before, let alone a six-layer warrior, even seven or eight layers couldn't do anything to him.

  If he hadn't fought against a 9th-level martial artist before, and could only compare with himself, Li Chen believed that ordinary internal energy 9th-level martial artists were not his match.

  The figures kept swaying back and forth for nearly an hour before Li Chen could barely see the situation below.

  Only a pool of emerald green water was seen, like a mirror surface, emitting a faintly sweet and eerie aura.

  A massive figure floated on the surface of the water, and although it was completely still, what shocked Lei Chen was that the aura emanating from its body was in no way weaker than that of the Lei Ying couple half a year ago.

  Around the deep pool, dozens or even more white bones were scattered, and the eerie atmosphere made Li Chen shiver.

  A small stone underfoot rolled down into the deep pool with a soft whoosh, turning into white foam and instantly dispersing.

  "What a pity! This is actually a 4th-grade demon beast Blood Spirit Vulture!"

  Li Chen carefully descended another dozen zhang, carefully examining the corpse. Through the clear pool water, he could see the skull underwater, extremely ferocious.

  Two massive wings were completely broken, and the vertebrae on its back had been pulled out more than half. It's not hard to see that it was done by the Thunder Eagle with its extremely sharp beak.

  Although I have seen this giant beast more than once, every time I see it, I feel terrified.

  From the open storage bag, a mainland strange book learned that the giant eagle he encountered was called Golden Winged Thunder Eagle, and the fierce beast at the bottom of the pond was called Blood Spirit Vulture, which was a highly toxic ferocious beast and a sworn enemy of the Thunder Eagle.

  According to his speculation, this Blood Spirit Vulture was the four-stage demon beast that had fought with Lei Ying and her husband on that day, ultimately ending in mutual destruction and indirectly saving his own life.

  Only such a poisonous creature can poison so many monsters to death, and only then can the Thunder Eagle couple join forces to fall together.

  He took a closer look at the ferocious creature's appearance, although he didn't recognize it, but Lei Chen deeply imprinted it in his heart.

  Although it was peculiar to itself and seemed fearless of the deadly poison, it did not dare to probe this obviously poisonous abyss, and took out the corpse of the Blood Spirit Vulture.

  Whoosh!

  Behind the skin, Lei Peng softly cried out a few times. After half a year of being together, Li Chen knew that this was its way of expressing anger and disgust, as if it had sensed the presence of a natural enemy.

  In this place where powerful demons run amok, Li Chen dare not let Lei Peng fly freely. With the slightest carelessness, both of them would be in danger of falling.

  Without hesitation, Li Chen held two green horns and walked along the rock wall around the deep pool.

  "Whoosh!"

  In the dense jungle, a figure flashed by, and Li Chen carefully lay down in the grass, her messy hair covering her bright eyes as she scanned the surroundings.

  At this time, Li Chen had a head full of disheveled hair, tied with a ribbon, two golden lights flashing, about a foot long feathers inserted on both sides, his whole body was full of fine grass woven ropes, looking exactly like a savage.

  In the ancient Cangshan mountain range where powerful demons roam, after running continuously for nearly half a year, I finally arrived at the outer periphery. If nothing goes wrong, that would be strange.

  When tired, eat a cloud pear fruit to replenish energy. With his mind extremely tense, he even had to keep his eyes open while sleeping. If not for taking the two crown feathers of the Lei Ying couple, relying on the powerful aura of the four-stage demon beasts above, he would have been devoured by the demon beasts long ago.

  Obviously, the Thunder Eagle couple was the king of that mountain forest. Even after death, the aura left on their crowns made these powerful demons fearful one by one.

  "According to the map, we're almost at the outermost edge. Once we get through here, we'll be in the activity range of a first-class demonic beast, it should be safe!"

  Li Chen carefully pulled out a tattered map from his bosom, observing it attentively. This map was obtained from that storage bag; otherwise, he really wouldn't know how to get here from the mountain range.

  A sudden thought flashed through his mind, and with a burst of speed, he darted out of the grass thicket and sprinted towards the distance.

  Whoosh!

  But at this moment, a strange chill surged up in his heart, and he rolled forward without hesitation.

  Whoosh!

  A strong gust of wind blew by, a cyan leopard the size of a calf suddenly pounced from above its head, and in an instant it pounced again.

  "Green-striped leopard, judging from its size, it should be a second-order initial demon beast. It's extremely fast and can spit out wind blades!"

  Li Chen's eyes swept across, and he secretly cursed his bad luck. Without hesitation, he plucked off two of his crown feathers and rushed forward.

  He wasn't unfamiliar with encountering second-order demonic beasts like this one. Every time, he had discovered and dodged them early on with Lei Peng's help. Unfortunately, this time he miscalculated and ran into the green-spotted leopard that excelled at hiding and speed.

  Before arriving here, I was also pursued and killed by second-order demon beasts several times.

  Second-order demonic beasts are different from third-order demonic beasts. Apart from the difference in strength, they do not have the keen senses of third-order demonic beasts and cannot detect the aura of the fourth-order demonic beast Lei Ying's crown feathers, but can distinguish Lí Chén's aura.

  As a result, Li Chen, who seemed to still be in a state of inner peace, naturally became their target.

  There were several times when I was even recreated, barely escaped with my life, and took a long time to recover before moving forward again.

  This time, facing the cheetah with a speed advantage, Li Chenyun's reliance on You Fengbu has already made some difference.

  Whoosh!

  The peregrine falcon on the treetop, sensing that Li Chen was in danger, dived down without hesitation, spreading its wings which had not changed much, and its grey-blue sharp claws swiped fiercely at the back of the green leopard.

  It's said that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. Obviously, Lei Peng didn't realize the gap between himself and this second-order green leopard.