The Silver Striped Blood Leopards had amazing speed as they whipped through the branches. Their strength was around the peak of the fifth rank.
If there was only one, the gray-clothed man could easily defeat it, but since there were two, it would be difficult.
Just as the man in gray was being beaten by the Silver Striped Blood Leopards:
"Hahaha…"
Zhao Feng, hidden between the gaps of a tree, laughed gloatingly. With his mysterious left eye, his survival rate was much higher than others.
"Hehe, do not blame me for helping," Zhao Feng laughed darkly as he took the Silver Bow off his back and attached three poison arrows to it…
Chapter 33 – Life in Death
Because he was hiding within the tree, Zhao Feng could see the gray-clothed man, but the gray-clothed man could not see him. Zhao Feng didn't fire immediately, instead of using his left eye to calculate the route of his arrows.
Once I shoot, my aura will be found by the two deadly beasts… Zhao Feng kept calm. He did not want to face off against the two Silver Striped Blood Leopards as soon as he killed the man in gray.
The man in gray was barely able to deal with the two deadly beasts, but he also used part of his energy to keep a lookout for Zhao Feng's tricks.
Zhao Feng couldn't help but sigh. This person was worthy of being an elite. In this situation, he was still able to keep his guard up.
Hong———–
Right at this moment, a slight tremble came from the ground, as if there was a massive beast coming through.
Si!
The two Silver Striped Blood Leopards, who had a cultivation at the peak of fifth rank, immediately shuddered and stopped attacking.
Roar!
A frightening howl sounded throughout a fifteen km radius. Uncountable wild beasts and even some deadly beasts trembled upon hearing it.
What is that!?, Zhao Feng felt his eardrums rattle. Just the roar made him uneasy.
Not good…, the gray-clothed man seemed to realize something, and his face instantly turned white. The man in gray knew more about Sky Cloud Forest than Zhao Feng.
That is… Using his left eye, Zhao Feng saw a purple-black colored Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger, seven to eight meters high and tens of meters long, it looked like a small hill. Such size made him tremble in awe.
Regarding length, the Green Headed Tiger King would be an infant compared to it. The most terrifying part was the pair of jet black wings on the tiger's back, allowing it to fly.
Hong—-
Trees would shatter to pieces wherever the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger gone.
"Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger…high tier deadly beast. Strength around the eighth rank of the Martial Path!" The gray-clothed man quavered in fear.
The aura of a high tier deadly beast would make one tremble in respect.
Zhao Feng's legs shook helplessly. He couldn't control his body under the frightening aura.
Roar!
A loud roar came from the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger which now pounced towards the Silver Striped Blood Leopards and the man in gray.
"Help me…" the gray-clothed man tried to resist.
Crack!
The Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger opened its mouth and swallowed a Silver Striped Blood Tiger whole. The scene made Zhao Feng's heart go cold. Zhao Feng even had the feeling that the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger knew of his existence.
After the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger ate a Silver Striped Blood Leopard, its blood-purple eyes casually looked towards where Zhao Feng was hiding.
What!? Zhao Feng felt his body turn cold.
When a deadly beast reached the high tier, it was not to be underestimated. Have you ever seen a tiger with wings that is the size of a hill?
Run! Run fast…if I don't run there won't be any chance left, Zhao Feng survival instincts kicked in. Under the frightening pressure, Zhao Feng poured all his energy into his left eye, and became calm again. It also released sizzles of heat that spread out evenly throughout his body.
Zhao Feng felt his terror decrease.
Run! His body turned into a blur as he ran towards a dead corner. However, Zhao Feng could still felt a deadly aura come crushing down on him.
Crack!
A scream came from behind him. The other Silver Striped Blood Leopard had also died. In an instant, the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger had killed two deadly beasts of the peak fifth rank. There was only the man in gray left.
Run! The gray-clothed man ran despairingly in the other direction.
The Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger was slowly chewing the food in its mouth before it slowly and leisurely chased after the man in gray. Although the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger was going slow, the distance between the two was quickly decreasing. The man in gray had a high ranked speed skill which he had trained to the high level, and in his desperation, his speed was half again faster than Zhao Feng.
On the other side, Zhao Feng's speed also exploded desperately. His Lightly Floating Ferry was now even smoother.
"My cultivation has reached the peak of the fourth rank…" Although Zhao Feng felt his cultivation increase, he didn't feel any happiness, because the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger's senses were extremely powerful. Even if one ran twenty km away, one would still be found.
"Heavenly Moon Cut!"
The gray-clothed man used his final attack knowing that he would die. That sword's strength had reached the peak level. Not only that, the man's cultivation had broken through to the sixth rank.
Shua!
That blade of despair, which could kill almost any cultivator of the sixth rank, hit the body of the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger.
Roar!
The Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger opened its mouth and swallowed the man in gray and his weapons whole. As for that devastating Heavenly Moon Cut, it left a one cm wound on the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger. For a creature of such size, this kind of attack was nothing more than a tickle.
As the gray-clothed man died, Zhao Feng felt himself become shrouded in death…the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger's next target was him!
It was good that there was still a gap between them, and that the tiger was only slowly chasing him. The Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger also ate some wild and deadly beasts as it chased after him.
Zhao Feng originally thought that since the tiger was full, it would let him go. However, the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger seemed to be playing with him, slowly but surely pursuing him.
"This bastard!" Zhao Feng swore as he used his left eye to find a route for survival.
A small creek appeared on his left hand side. It lead into a canyon.
Zhao Feng saw that there was a deep cave ten km into the canyon. The Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger wouldn't be able to fit inside that cave. Zhao Feng quickly changed direction and ran towards the creek.
Teng! Teng! Teng…
Zhao Feng's feet lightly stepped on top of the water as he crossed the creek. He had already trained Lightly Floating Ferry to such a level that walking on water wasn't hard at all.
Hu! Hu!
The Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger suddenly flapped its wings as it pounced towards Zhao Feng.
Run! Zhao Feng sprinted straight towards the cave.
The tiger wasn't technically a flying beast, so its flying speed wasn't fast. Adding on the fact that it was full, it could not fly that fast. However, it still chased Zhao Feng.
The cave came closer and closer.
Ten km...nine km...eight km...
Just as there was two km left, Zhao Feng felt a cold and dark aura.
Hu!
The aura came from within the canyon!
Si~
The weird sound caused Zhao Feng's heart to tremble. The tiger behind him also hesitated. It was obvious that it was being wary as well.
Hu~Long~
Suddenly, a loud trembling came from within the canyon. A blood-red python, tens o
f meters long, came out from the cave. The aura of this python wasn't any weaker than that of the tiger.
"Ah…" Zhao Feng's body froze. There was a python in front and a tiger behind. This was even worse than before!
Luckily the python's attention was first attracted by the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger.
The two creatures faced off against one another. The Two-Winged Tiger roared in midair, as if showing its dominance. The blood-red python hissed back. This was its territory! As for Zhao Feng, this weakling was ignored.
After facing each other for a breath or three, the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger finally lost its patience and pounced towards the blood-red python.
Sou—-
The python lunged straight towards the tiger. Immediately, the two deadly beasts were fighting one another. Where they fought, the ground trembled.
Zhao Feng cautiously concealed his aura as he slowly moved towards the cave.
Si! Roar!
The two beasts began to bite each other. The bloody scene made Zhao Feng's heart jump.
Some time later, the movements of the two beasts grew smaller and smaller.
Half an hour later, there was dead silence within the canyon. Zhao Feng let out a long breath as he slowly moved towards the bodies of the two deadly beasts. He had also confirmed that the two beasts were dead with his left eye.
Zhao Feng sighed as he arrived in front of the hill-sized beasts. He couldn't take them back with him to Sun Feather City, they were far too big.
Suddenly a cold light caught his eye.
Yi!
Zhao Feng bent down and pulled out a curved blade from the tiger's corpse. This curved blade was the gray-man's weapon. It was extremely sharp.
Roar~
The deadly beasts and wild beasts nearby started to howl. Zhao Feng used his left eye to scan the area and was immediately shocked.
There were over thirty beasts at the sixth rank of the Martial Path closing in!
Not good. The corpses of these two high tier deadly beasts must have attracted other beasts. Zhao Feng immediately took the curved blade and ran towards the blood-red python's cave…
Chapter 34 – Leaps and Bounds
As Zhao Feng entered the cave, he immediately felt cold.
As he went deeper, the cave grew roomier. There were some deadly beasts and wild beasts inside the cave, but they were all weak. As he could see them from a distance, he used his silver bow to pick them off.
When they got close, he would use his new curved blade. The blade would easily slice through the deadly beasts.
Soon, a blood-red rock wall appeared and under the red rock wall, there was a blood-red pond. From time to time, there were bubbles popping on the surface of the pond. Zhao Feng didn't know what the red liquid was, but he felt that its aura was similar to that of the python.
"Blood plant, Blood Spirit Grass, Blood Bamboo rock…three hundred years old, five hundred years old, one thousand years old…," Zhao Feng laughed as his eyes rested upon the red rock.
Some treasured medicines grew on the rock wall and the oldest one had reached one thousand years. As Zhao Feng had once eaten two and three hundred year old resources, he obviously knew the worth of these medicines.
A normal five hundred year old blood plant was worth twenty-thousand silver or so. As for blood plants and blood spirit grasses over one thousand years of age, there weren't any in stock in Sun Feather City.
Zhao Feng roughly calculated that there were around twenty three hundred year plants, over ten five hundred year plants, and three one thousand year old plants.
Five hundred year old plants are great for normal Martial Artists. As for thousand year old plants, they are even rare for cultivators of the sixth rank and Martial Masters (7th rank and higher).
Zhao Feng couldn't restrain his happiness. When one didn't die there was definitely luck coming your way.
Zhao Feng had been in a life death situation, but he survived. And in desperation, he had come to this land of luck.
As Zhao Feng walked towards the red rock wall, he didn't pick the precious plants immediately. His eyesight focused on the red pond.
There was some dead skin of a python lying next to the pond. As for the liquid, it flowed from the rock wall.
"For the red rock wall to grow such precious materials, it can be seen that the liquid is definitely not normal," Zhao Feng stared in excitement. He cautiously bent down and touched the red liquid. Suddenly, there was a pulse from his left eye. The blood red liquid effect was even better than the Body Strengthening Powder.
"Great!" The blood-red pond was the source in which the rock wall was able to grow such rare resources.
Plop! Zhao Feng immediately jumped in the pond.
Gulugulu! Zhao Feng felt a hot and spicy energy entering his pores.
Wu~
Zhao Feng couldn't restrain himself from moaning in pleasure.
The energy from this pond is much more stronger than the Body Strengthening Powder I bought.
Zhao Feng circulated Air Crossing Breathing Technique and Metal Wall Technique at the same time.
The blood-red liquid was very mysterious. It could not only help strengthen one's body, it could also increase one's Inner Strength.
Time flowed by...
Under the help of the liquid, Zhao Feng felt the level of his Air Crossing Breathing Technique and Metal Wall Technique increase dramatically. Over seventy percent of the energy had been absorbed by his bones, blood, and skin.
Around half a day later...
Zhao Feng felt his Metal Wall Technique finally progress from the peak of the second level to the third level. He felt that his skin was as strong as bronze and that his bones were even harder.
"Metal Wall Technique has reached the third level. My defense has doubled and my strength has increased by two hundred kg." Zhao Feng was very satisfied. If the Metal Wall Technique was fully consolidated at the third level, his body could face swords and blades straight on.
After reaching the third level Zhao Feng rested for a few hours more in the red liquid. At this moment, his cultivation had reached the peak of the fourth rank and his Inner Strength was approaching the fifth rank.
In the life and death situation in the Sky Cloud Forest before, his cultivation had reached the peak of the fourth rank. Even the man in gray had reached the sixth rank before he died.
"It looks like that one's potential can be drawn out best when they are in life and death situations," he mused to himself.
After Metal Wall Technique was fully consolidated, he jumped out of the pond and walked to the entrance of the cave.
Roar…Kong…Raaaar…
Deadly beasts and stronger wild beasts were killing each other over the corpses of the two high tier deadly beasts.
Zhao Feng couldn't help but sigh as he thought about the worth of high tier deadly beasts. They were worth more than twenty times than the price of a low tier deadly beast.
But these deadly beasts and wild beasts could eat the corpses of the two high tier deadly beasts to increase their own strength. Zhao Feng was scared to face so many beasts, so he retreated back to the pond.
"I'll just train a bit more here, then," he said to himself. He laid down in the blood pond and started to cultivate again. The use of the blood-red pond was very helpful. Once he left, he wouldn't have the chance to come back.
Another half day later...
Zhao Feng's cultivation and Inner Strength were both extremely close to the fifth rank of the Martial Path. Inside his left eye, the green glow had reached 1.55 meters.
"I can try to break through to the fifth rank soon!" Zhao Feng said as he jumped out of the pond and started to perform Angry Dragon Fists. Angry Dragon Fists had already been trained to the Max level. Now, the power of some moves had exceeded the original limit. From a different point of view, it could be said that this was a new martial art now.
Zhao Feng felt like he was bu
rning.
Teng!
Zhao Feng picked a five hundred year old blood plant off the red rock wall.
When a normal Martial Artist reached the peak of a rank, they couldn't break through to the next rank immediately. This was because there was a problem called a bottleneck.
Zhao Feng's purpose of using the blood plant was to open this bottleneck. The five hundred year blood plant had much more energy than a three hundred year old blood plant. As Zhao Feng ate it, he immediately felt the energy run wildly through his body.
He immediately circulated Air Crossing Breathing Technique to absorb the energy.
One day and one night later...
Zhao Feng felt his blood mix with his Inner Strength. He felt more and more threads of Inner Strength being formed.
The amount of Inner Strength I have has almost doubled since I've broken through to the fifth rank. My body's attributes have obviously been increased as well.
Zhao Feng could see the changes throughout his body with his left eye.
Soon. He consolidated his realm and absorbed the remnants of the medicine. Adding Inner Strength onto his Air Crossing Breathing Technique, his raw speed had reached a whole new level. Zhao Feng's overall strength had undergone dramatic changes due to the breakthrough.
If he met the gray-clothed man now, he was certain that he could fight and win.
Cultivation was the base strength. As the base strength increases, chi, speed, and skills will have much more power.
After another day of consolidation, Zhao Feng had once again returned to the cave entrance.
Wu~ Roar—–
A piercing scream came from within the canyon. Zhao Feng couldn't stop himself from trembling.
That was…
His expression changed.
Inside the canyon, an eight meter long Azure Eyed Hyena stood. The hyena released its deadly aura and it made all the wild and deadly beasts within a fifteen km radius cower in fear.
It was obvious that the Azure Eyed Hyena was also a high tier deadly beast. Its strength wasn't any weaker than the Blood-red Python or the Two-Winged Sword Teeth Tiger.
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