Chapter Thirty-Two: Lightning Wing Silver Wolf

  A low growl of a monster came from the distant jungle.

  "Tap tap! Tap tap!"

  Heavy footsteps echoed in the quiet night, and judging from the lightness and heaviness of the footsteps, it seemed that someone was running.

  It's unclear whether the warriors are hunting down the demonic beasts or if the demonic beasts are preying on humans, but Shi Yan couldn't tell them apart. He didn't want to get involved and told Di Ya Lan, "Hide yourself well and don't meddle in other people's business. Remember the lesson of the Lang Ya Mercenary Group."

  Diya Lan nodded and whispered to Mu Yu Die in a low voice: "Don't make any noise, just stay inside the tree hole."

  "Go and hide behind a tree with dense foliage." Shi Yan pondered for a moment, then quickly moved and soon found an ancient tree with lush branches to crouch down behind.

  He crouched down and Diya Lan followed suit, hiding shoulder to shoulder among the leaves.

  Two people peeked through the gaps in the leaves, looking around cautiously, holding their breath and hiding their presence, afraid of being discovered.

  Before long, five flustered mercenaries came over from a distance, looking disheveled.

  Five people were more or less injured. The first one, who was the leader, had a cultivation base of Human King Realm, while the other four were all in the Pre-Heavenly Realm.

  The five of them fled in disarray, panicked and desperate, occasionally looking back as if there was a ferocious beast or a massive flood behind them.

  It really does!

  As soon as the five people appeared in Shi Yan's line of sight, he discovered a "Fire Cloud Python" and two "Ice Frost Lizards" rapidly darting between the trees. A group of silver-armored scorpions, each the size of a washbasin, also emerged from the left side of the five people, seemingly with the intention of encircling them.

  The five of them had a look of urgency on their faces and continued to rush forward recklessly into the forest ahead.

  Shi Yan's face changed color, and he thought to himself: "They're done for."

  Those five people couldn't see it, but Shi Yan saw it clearly. In front of the five people who were escaping for their lives, there was a four-meter-long, robust silver wolf!

  The Silver Wolf has two long silver wings that are five or six meters in length, with strange and mysterious patterns on the wings.

  Although this was the first time he had seen the Silver Wolf, Shi Yan had heard rumors about it before - "Lei Wing Silver Wolf", a seventh-level demon beast and the top of the food chain in the Dark Forest!

  As soon as he saw "Raiyuu Ginrou" appear, Sekigan realized that this time it wasn't a mercenary hunting a monster, but... a monster preying on humans!

  Bloody predation, the curtain opens instantly!

  When the five of them rushed into the forest and saw the "Lightning Wing Silver Wolf" that had been waiting there all along, they immediately let out a desperate scream.

  "Lei Wing Silver Wolf" indeed didn't give them a chance, Lei Wing spread out and around the five people came the huge sound of explosions, three of the five were blown to bloody pulp on the spot!

  "Lei Wing Silver Wolf" stood proudly there, motionless, without making another move.

  But those pursuing monsters rushed up and instantly wrapped up the remaining two people.

  Under the joint attack of "Huoyun Yao Mang" and "Bingfeng Xizhi", the two were tied up, one was poisoned to death by "Silver Armor Scorpion", and the other was bitten to death by "Bingfeng Xizhi".

  "Creak!" "Creak!"

  In the quiet woods, a chilling voice echoed out.

  Apart from "Lei Wing Silver Wolf", those demonic beasts moved forward and surrounded the corpses of the five mercenaries, gnawing on their bones.

  Diya Lan's face was shocked and she didn't dare look at that side again.

  She's not afraid of killing, but the ferocious man-eating monster still makes her feel somewhat apprehensive, which would make her feel nauseous.

  Shi Yan's eyes remained fixed, quietly gazing at the demon beast among the leaves, silently calculating in his heart.

  Five mercenaries died, their vital energy will gradually dissipate, and with the passage of time, it will eventually disperse between heaven and earth.

  If he can arrive at that area before the vital energy has thoroughly disappeared, he will be able to gain benefits from it!

  However, with so many ferocious beasts feeding on the corpses there, he did not dare to make any sudden movements, and could only hope that those beasts would leave soon.

  "Uggghhh..."

  In the far distance, a human scream was heard, that scream was extremely mournful and filled with despair.

  The "Lightning Wing Silver Wolf" standing there motionless suddenly let out a low growl and darted out.

  The few demonic beasts that were about to devour the five mercenaries' corpses clean, immediately stopped their eating movements under its low growl, and hastily followed it in a sprint, as if searching for other human prey.

  At the sight of the monster, they scattered in all directions. Shi Yan, who was hiding among the leaves, suddenly jumped down from the tree and strode towards the bloodied corpse with a ghostly air.

  Diya Lan was startled and softly exclaimed from the tree: "What are you doing?"

  "Go take a look and come back soon, don't leave." Shi Yan didn't even turn his head, rushing to that place at the fastest speed, standing among the scattered limbs with his eyes closed.

  It's okay, although it's late, but at least there is still a bit left, yes, the martial artist of the human boundary realm indeed has more spiritual energy on his body, and surprisingly, two-tenths of the spiritual energy hasn't dissipated yet.

  A thread of fine, almost invisible vital energy, as if drawn by a magnet, poured into his pores and converged into the meridians in his body...

  Feeling the power hidden in those vital energies, Shi Yan's mouth corner revealed a satisfied smile.

  In a short while, the remaining spiritual energy here has all been absorbed into Shi Yan's body.

  Looking at the scattered limbs and internal organs, Shi Yan furrowed his brow, enduring the pungent smell of blood, and rummaged through the backpacks stuck with flesh and blood clots on the five corpses.

  The food was stained with too much fresh blood, and there might even be venom from the "Silver Shell Scorpion", so it's definitely not edible. Crystal coins are of little use here, and carrying too many would only hinder their speed. Therefore, these mercenaries' backpacks didn't carry too many crystal coins either.

  After flipping through it for a while, he only found some materials on the body of the demon beast and some wound-healing medicine powder.

  Poor devil.

  Shi Yan muttered to himself, wiped his blood-stained hands clean with a cloth from someone's backpack, and then walked in the shade of a large tree towards the ancient tree where Di Ya Lan was hiding.

  "Woof!" "Woof!"

  In the dark forest, there came a howl of a monster, just as it was about to dawn. The monsters were moving everywhere, seemingly in an organized hunt for human warriors and mercenaries in the forest.

  Listening to the heart-pounding roar, Shi Yan was delighted instead of being shocked.

  The actions of the demon beasts will inevitably affect those who are chasing them. Those who dare to be active at night will surely disturb the demon beasts tonight, and the more people in a group, the clearer the target is. It's likely that the Dark Guild, Mo Family, and Kouga Clan will also suffer heavy losses tonight and become the main targets of the demon beasts.

  He guessed it...

  That night, Mo Chao Ge and others indeed received special care from the demon beast.

  Because they were in a hurry to catch Shi Yan and Mu Yu Die, the group didn't rest at night after Hu Long's death, continuing to search for Shi Yan's trail in the dark forest. This attracted the attention of the demonic beasts, and it wasn't until five people had died that the group came back to reality and hid on an ancient tree.

  "What did you go and do?" Diya Lan's eyebrows furrowed slightly, "The things on those people, are they worth taking that risk? What if a monster returns halfway or you're discovered by another monster, you won't be able to escape!"

  "Aren't I fine?"

  Shi Yan climbed up the ancient tree, his face calm as he said, "Tonight is strange, I don't know why, but those demonic beasts suddenly went mad and started killing the mercenaries and warriors in the forest. It's possible that someone did something to anger the high-level demonic beasts, otherwise it wouldn't be like this."

  "What's the point?" Diya Lan said helplessly, "Do we still need to hurry on our journey?"

  "Wait a bit, those monsters have been busy all night, they shouldn't appear during the day. Let's set off again at noon."

  "Whatever."

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