Chapter 3: Spirit Beast

  After a whole hour, Gu Yun's body returned to normal. After another multiple hours of continuous use of Hui Chun True Qi to repair the meridians and adjust his breath, he swam ashore.

  He put on his clothes and walked towards the depths of the forest, his target was that white bear.

  Since a monster that could threaten the safety of the people in the town had appeared, he naturally wanted to take a look. Mainly because his Golden Body Technique had reached the point where it was about to break through to the second turn after so many years of cultivation.

  He wanted to use this demon beast to test his own strength and see how far he had come, as before this he had never even fought with anyone.

  He also came to see if he could break through by fighting this demon beast. Because from what his father said, fighting is also a way to seek breakthrough.

  According to Chen Dajie and his brother's description, Gu Yun found the forest where they encountered the white bear.

  There was a large area of wolf-like empty land, more than a dozen trees that an adult could hug were broken, and several were uprooted. The middle of the empty space was also uneven, of course, this was not caused by the battle between Chen Dage and the white bear.

  Because after the white bear ambushed and severed Ambassador Chen's arm, the two brothers didn't even have a chance to fight back. After Chen Er was also injured, he quickly picked up the severed arm and with their speed being faster than the white bear, they escaped.

  The current scene may be caused by the polar bear venting its frustration after seeing its prey run away.

  Following the footprints left by the white bear, it went deep into the forest, then turned east to a mountain valley, where there was a dark cave with an entrance over two meters high.

  That white bear was in this hole, after hearing the footsteps made by Gǔ Yún on purpose, it roared and rushed out of the hole, stood up on its hind legs when seeing Gǔ Yún, and directly launched an attack at him.

  Ancient Cloud saw this white bear standing over three meters tall and felt a little intimidated.

  Although he thought he was more capable than the Chen brothers, when he saw this giant over three meters tall, he also felt uncertain. Now it's too late to regret, his goal is just to fight with this white bear, besides even if he can't win, he can always run away.

  At this thought he too rushed towards the white bear.

  The bear slapped down at Gǔ Yún with a palm, and Gǔ Yún also countered with a punch. As a result, Gǔ Yún was slapped flying several meters away by the white bear, and the white bear's situation wasn't much better either.

  They somehow managed to exchange half a catty, but both of their bodies were very strong. After flying out for several meters, they got up again and rushed towards each other.

  One man and one bear started fighting like this, with you slapping and me punching, because he had not practiced any combat skills, Gu Yun could only fight the white bear with his physical strength.

  However, after struggling for a while, Gu Yun also gradually found his feeling. Now that white bear is also being beaten more and fighting back less.

  Once again, the white bear was shocked far away, and Gǔ Yún (Ancient Cloud) was waiting for it to charge over again. However, this time the white bear did not immediately charge over, but instead stood in place, staring at Gǔ Yún with its eyes fixed on him. Then, its eyes slowly turned red, followed by its fur also turning red, and its height grew from over three meters initially to over five meters gradually.

  Gu Yun was staring blankly at this transformation, just a moment ago when he was only three meters tall, he could already fight evenly with him, now that he has transformed like this, just by looking at his appearance, he knew he wasn't a match for this red bear.

  Just as he was thinking about whether to continue fighting, the red bear had already rushed over, its speed even faster than before. In just a moment of distraction, it had already reached Gu Yun's front, and a huge bear paw slapped down towards his head.

  The inevitable ancient cloud could only raise his hands to meet the bear's paw, which looked bigger than his entire body. With a loud crash, Ancient Cloud was slapped into the ground at waist level.

  He hadn't even managed to dodge yet, when another huge foot came crashing down towards him. If he was trampled by this one, even with his current physical strength, he would at least lose a layer of skin, if not die.

  Driven to this point, Gu Yun also went all out, using his full strength to blast the mud beneath him open, and at the critical moment, he rolled out from under that enormous foot, but even so, he still couldn't completely escape.

  All I heard was a loud roar, and Gu Yun's body was blown away by a massive shockwave, crashing into more than a dozen large trees before finally coming to a stop. The place where he had just been standing had turned into a crater over two meters wide and half a meter deep. Gu Yun's heart skipped a beat as he looked at it, thinking that if he were still in that spot just now, he might not be human anymore.

  He now understood that he was absolutely no match for this red bear. The previous blow had already caused his body to suffer a not-so-light injury, and now the bear clearly did not intend to let him go.

  He had just stood up when another huge bear paw came at him and he was slapped flying again.

  One drop to the ground and two mouthfuls of blood spurted out, the Rejuvenating True Qi inside his body immediately began to repair the damaged internal organs.

  With his current injuries, it would only take a few breaths to recover, and the Rejuvenating True Qi fully revealed its power at this moment.

  If it were someone else, with such injuries, they wouldn't be able to recover in just a day or two.

  He hadn't even caught his breath when he was slapped flying again, the Revival Spring True Qi once more repairing the damaged parts of his body, only to be slapped flying again, and then repaired again, and slapped flying again. Gu Yun had no ability to fight back at all.

  He was abused by the giant bear for a whole half hour before he managed to escape in disarray, taking advantage of the giant bear's forceful slap.

  Looking at the tattered clothes on his body, Gu Yun was extremely depressed. He couldn't understand how the white bear that he had just beaten and made flee in all directions suddenly turned into a red bear and beat him to the point where he had no ability to fight back. If it weren't for the Revival True Qi, he would have ended up here today.

  And he didn't know that the white bear was even more depressed than him, it had used a lot of effort to escape from a group of cultivators who were chasing after it wanting to capture it as a mount, and came to this place where it couldn't sense any powerful experts. It was just thinking of grabbing the two people who ran in front of it to replenish its energy, but unexpectedly these two people, although their cultivation level wasn't high, their speed was actually faster than the bear's. Moreover, the bear was tired at that time, and was actually outrun by those two people, which made it very unhappy.

  After venting its anger at those trees, it caught two ordinary wild beasts to supplement its strength.

  Moreover, this place didn't even have any spiritual fruits or medicines to replenish its spiritual energy. Just when it had barely recovered a bit of spiritual energy in a cave it had just discovered, another person came, and at first, their strength was about the same as its own, but later on, it could only take a beating.

  It transformed again in a fit of rage, the last time was when it was forced by that group of cultivators to have no way out, and suddenly transformed, finally repelling those pursuing cultivators and escaping.

  This time, after transforming, although it still beat the person to the point of being unable to fight back, the person somehow couldn't be killed. Clearly seeing him spit blood every time he was injured, but a while later, he was fine as if nothing had happened.

  After a half-day chase, it finally let him get away. Its own transformation time was also about to end, which made it think that even if it wanted to pursue, it would be powerless, because after the transformation ended, it would become very tired and soon fall into a deep sleep.

  After taking out a few more big trees, it finished transforming and turned back into that white bear and went back to sleep in the cave.

  Gǔ Yún returned home in a sorry state, his clothes all tattered. His mother was startled and quickly asked him what had happened. After Gǔ Yún told her everything that had occurred today.

  Ice Dance and Gu Feng, who had just come out of the house, exchanged a glance, both seeing delight in each other's eyes. Gu Feng laughed loudly for a while before patting Gu Yun on the shoulder, saying: "Kid, you're quite lucky, aren't you? You even get to encounter such good things."

  Gu Yun felt even more depressed after hearing his father say that, and almost got killed by the bear. When he returned home, not only did he not get any comfort, but was also told that he had good luck, what kind of thing is this?

  Seeing Gu Yun's appearance, Bing Wu smiled and said to Gu Yun: "Little Cloud, do you know what that bear was that you ran into today?"

  "Of course it's a polar bear, and what's more, it's a white polar bear in its prime." Upon hearing his mother's words, Gu Yun replied

  "Hehe, what you encountered today isn't a spiritual beast in its prime." Hearing Gu Yun's response, Bing Wu couldn't help but laugh.

  "Could it be that I'm actually on par with a demonic beast of the Demon Dan period? I didn't think I'd be able to exchange blows with one," Gu Yun said, admiring his own fist with some self-admiration, but Gu Feng's next words immediately deflated him.

  "Hmph, a demonic beast in the Demonic Dan period would be more than you can handle with your current abilities. To be honest, that white bear you encountered today is actually a spiritual beast."

  "What's a Ling Beast? Is it different from a Yao Beast?" Gu Yun looked at Gu Feng with some confusion.

  "Spirit beast, it's a very rare kind of demon beast. What sets it apart from other demon beasts is that it possesses inherited bloodline."

  Every demon beast actually has a heritage bloodline, but before reaching the Tongling period, this bloodline is dormant in the body of the demon beast. Only when it reaches the Tongling period will these bloodlines awaken, and once past the Tongling period, they will never awaken again.

  Of course, it's not that every demon beast's bloodline will awaken. On the contrary, the number of demon beasts that can awaken is extremely small, less than one in a million.

  But once the demon beast's bloodline awakens, it is no longer a demon beast but a spiritual beast. The awakened spiritual beast with inherited bloodline will obtain its ancestors' cultivation methods and various divine powers, and its cultivation speed is several times or even dozens of times faster than that of an unawakened demon beast.

  So, spirit beasts are the most desirable mounts and pets for cultivators.

  "Now you should know how good your luck is, if people knew there was a newly awakened spiritual beast here, I think all the cultivators would rush to come here."

  Gu Yun was thoroughly stunned, never expecting that the white bear that had almost beaten itself to death would have such a big background. For a moment, he couldn't think of how Gu Feng knew so much about the spiritual beasts.

  "What should I do now?", Gu Yun turned his head to look at his father after regaining his senses. A spiritual beast, if he could tame it himself, just thinking about it was exciting.

  "To subdue a spiritual beast, you must at least have the power to surpass it, and also have something that makes it willing to follow you. Otherwise, even if you forcibly sign a contract with it, it will self-destruct, as spiritual beasts are extremely proud."

  Gu Feng looked at Gu Yun's excited face and said.

  "Ah, it's so troublesome. I'm no match for it now, and there's nothing that can make it willingly follow me, so how am I supposed to tame it?"

  "That's up to you then, I can't help you." Gu Feng said after finishing this sentence and turned around with Bing Wu to go back into the house, leaving Gu Yun alone in the courtyard thinking about how to tame that spiritual beast.