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Chapter 15 The Foolish Beast
Chapter 15 The Foolish Beast
Faced with the cries for help, Chen Beiwu hesitated for a moment and did not choose to go forward immediately. Instead, he carefully circled around and carefully observed the details of the footprints around him.
He crouched down, brushed away the withered grass that covered the footprints, reached out his right hand to grab the remaining brownish-red mud from the edge of the footprints, crushed it, and sniffed it.
"It's dried demonic beast blood, and the smell is different." Chen Beiwu's eyes flickered slightly as he looked towards the direction from which the voice came.
The setting sun was like blood, and a young girl huddled under an ancient tree, emitting weak sobs and cries for help.
Perhaps due to extreme poverty, her coarse linen dress could only cover her vital parts, revealing her somewhat dark limbs.
Her right leg was caught in a rusty animal trap, its iron teeth firmly embedded, rendering her unable to move.
Dark red blood dripped continuously from the wound, staining the soil under the tree a brownish-red color.
The medicine basket that the girl was carrying had also fallen to the side, and more than a dozen stalks of *Hemiberlesia lataniae* were scattered haphazardly on the ground.
At this moment, the girl seemed to sense something, slowly raised her head, revealing her hair that was stuck together with cold sweat, and her gaze met Chen Beiwu's.
"Help...help me!" The girl seemed to have no strength left to struggle, and her cries for help gradually became barely audible.
Chen Beiwu remained indifferent, silently watching the girl sob.
Seeing this, the girl's eyes gradually turned to despair.
After hesitating for a moment, she gritted her teeth, slowly twisted her body, and reached out her rough palm to scoop out a medicinal herb from the bottom of the medicine basket. The herb had opposite leaves, was wrinkled, had small serrations on both sides of the edges, and had sparse red hairs on both sides of the serrations.
That was a second-tier spiritual herb that was at least a hundred years old: Blood-Faced Vine.
"Please, sir, save me! I have a treasure to offer you."
"Don't be afraid, young lady, I'm here to help you."
Chen Beiwu revealed a greedy look and strode towards the Blood-Faced Vine.
"Whoosh!"
Just as Chen Beiwu was about to touch the Blood-Faced Vine, a yellowish-brown beast tail suddenly emerged from behind the girl, carrying a foul-smelling demonic aura that attacked his chest.
"Why did you stop pretending?"
Chen Beiwu retreated three zhang, dodging the beast's tail. At the same time, he flicked his fingertips, and a crystal needle, empowered by the pure magic power within his body, rapidly broke through the demonic energy, leaving a green needle hole on the girl's body.
"How did you find out?"
The girl gave a sinister smile, her pale face melting like snow to reveal an ugly weasel head. The animal trap on her right leg transformed into a poisonous vine trap covered in barbs.
"But it doesn't matter. With your Qi Refining Level 7 cultivation, there's no way you can escape my grasp." The Illusionary Rat Wolf grinned, its immense spiritual power instantly sweeping towards Chen Beiwu.
It cultivated diligently for three hundred years, consuming vast amounts of blood and food to accumulate its cultivation to forty-nine years.
If it could devour the human cultivator with a pure and agile physique before it, it might be able to break through the shackles of its bloodline and advance to the second-tier spirit beast level. The cultivation it had accumulated over the years that could not be improved would also see a breakthrough.
[Species]: Phantom Weasel (commonly known as Phantom Wolf)
[Attributes]: Water, Poison
[Bloodline]: Tier 1, High Grade (Exotic Beast)
[Cultivation Level]: Less than fifty years
[Talent]: Illusionary Arts of the Eyes (The illusions created by the Illusionary Weasel can blind the five senses)
Seeing that the other party had torn off their disguise, Chen Beiwu showed no surprise.
Beasts are beasts. Even if they absorb the essence of the sun and moon and breathe in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to gain intelligence, they can't outsmart humans who are good at scheming.
"Sizzle!"
Just then, the phantom weasel's sneer stopped abruptly, and a look of terror appeared on its face.
"Stop laughing, why don't you keep laughing?" Chen Beiwu said coldly.
If it were a real fight, he would have a hard time killing a beast whose aura was comparable to that of a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and he might even need to use talismans to retreat safely.
Unfortunately, the other party made a foolish mistake, being overconfident in his own talent, and actually tried to trap and kill him without taking any damage. As a result, he gave the other party an opportunity to turn the tables on him.
Damn it!
Feeling the demonic energy within his body being corroded by the toxins, the Phantom Rat Wolf trembled. Without thinking, it immediately stuck out its rear end and exhaled a large cloud of foul odor to cover its tracks.
Although it possesses high cultivation, it is not adept at close combat due to its racial characteristics.
Having lost its usual illusion magic, coupled with the adverse effects of poisoning, it is very likely to be defeated by a Qi Refining cultivator.
If we don't escape now, when will we?
Picking up the fallen Blood-Faced Vine, Chen Beiwu did not give chase, but kept a distance that was neither too close nor too far from the Phantom Rat Wolf.
He neither gave the opponent a chance to fight to the death, nor gave them time to find herbs to detoxify.
An hour later, the phantom weasel suddenly stopped fleeing and, using the blind spot of the bushes, turned around to launch a sneak attack. But before it could even exhale its foul odor, Chen Beiwu retreated another three zhang, completely widening the distance between them.
As time went by, the phantom rat's eyes gradually became dull and lifeless.
Perhaps knowing there was no way to escape, the phantom weasel began to change direction and speed away.
That's the territory of the Blue Rock Lion!
Chen Beiwu's expression changed, and he reluctantly took out a first-grade high-quality water blade talisman.
The strategy of killing the Phantom Rat Wolf without taking damage is safe, but if we continue to slip away like this, this piece of meat may very well end up in the mouth of the Blue Rock Lion.
"call out!"
"call out!"
"call out!"
As Chen Beiwu infused his magic power, ripples appeared on the surface of the talisman, which then shattered in the air, turning into hundreds of thin, hair-like water lines.
These water lines intertwined into a net, and in the blink of an eye, they condensed into three water blades as thin as cicada wings, catching up with the fleeing phantom ratwolf.
In an instant, the head flew off.
Perhaps it died too quickly, for the phantom weasel's eyes still held an unbelievable terror.
Chen Beiwu couldn't wait to step forward and walk to the vicinity of the phantom rat wolf's corpse. He picked up the bone blade, first taking out its essence blood, and then skinning it to collect its tail hair.
The fur of the phantom weasel can be processed into fine talisman paper, while its tail hair can be used to make wolf hair; both can fetch a high price.
Adding in the Blood-Faced Vine used as bait by the Phantom Ratwolf, Chen Beiwu made a huge profit.
"This is the meat of a great spirit; it would be a shame to throw it away." Chen Beiwu hesitated for a moment before carefully separating and storing the phantom rat meat.
Human cultivators cannot eat the meat of the Illusionary Ratwolf, but that doesn't mean Tie Dan can't.
Beasts can devour each other to accumulate cultivation, but few cultivators would use the method of feeding their fellow beasts blood to improve their cultivation.
Feeding it a little blood is fine, but feeding it too much will not only make the beast more ferocious, but also make it more difficult to remove the wildness hidden deep in its bloodline, and it may even devour its master.
Iron Egg is a fire-attribute beast with awakened intelligence. It can ignore the toxins remaining in the flesh of the Illusionary Rat Wolf. Eating a small amount of blood food to improve its cultivation should not be a big deal and it will not cause it to lose its mind.
However, to ensure that Tie Dan would not go out of control, Chen Beiwu decided to roast the Phantom Rat meat before feeding it to him.
However, doing so will result in one-tenth of the demonic power in the Illusionary Rat Wolf meat being lost, greatly reducing its effect on enhancing cultivation.
Back in the training room.
Chen Beiwu weighed the heavy package in his hand, his eyes revealing undisguised excitement.
"If inanimate objects can be touched and carried around, what about living things?" He looked expectantly at another bottle.
(End of this chapter)