Chapter 38: The Quasi-Demonic Beast

  "Hiss!" The quasi-demonic beast was indeed unlike ordinary wild beasts, its speed was astonishingly fast. Lin Feng saw the leopard pounce towards him and only managed to raise his steel sword horizontally, assuming a defensive posture. The leopard's two claws made contact with the steel sword, producing a grating sound like metal scraping against stone, which made Lin Feng feel very uncomfortable.

  Look again, the sharp steel sword has already been scratched by the leopard's claws, and the demon beast's claws are so sharp? But now is not the time to think about this, the leopard pounced over Lin Feng's head, and quickly turned around, not giving him a chance to breathe.

  However, Lin Feng was also a cultivator. Although a fourth-layer Qi Refining cultivator couldn't control swords to kill enemies, he could still infuse spiritual energy into the sword to increase its strength. In an instant, Lin Feng had already separated his spiritual energy and attached it to the fine steel sword, opening up the Dawn Sword Technique.

  At this time, the leopard pounced again. Lin Feng's hand held a fine steel sword that swung out, and the sword and leopard claws collided violently once more, producing a "zi" sound as sparks flew everywhere. It looked almost the same as their first hasty contact, but in reality, this contact was Lin Feng's deliberate attack after infusing his sword with spiritual energy, aiming to test just how strong the leopard really was.

  After another collision, Lin Feng glanced at the Jingang sword and saw a few grayish-white claw marks on it, but there was no crack in the mouth of the sword. He suddenly had a bottom line in his heart. Just now, he only used less than 50% of his spiritual energy, and this leopard couldn't damage the Jingang sword at all, which means that the strength of its claws is also at this level. As long as he increases his spiritual energy, it should not be difficult to cut off its claws.

  Although the leopard is a quasi-demonic beast, just like most ordinary leopards, the hardest and cruelest thing on its body is this pair of claws. As long as it cuts off its claws, it will be a dead end. Lin Feng was very confident about this, and when he faced the leopard again, he secretly added three points of spiritual energy, wanting to finish the battle in one sword.

  "Ah!" Lin Feng attached his spiritual energy to the sword, and the rebounding force on the sword became much stronger. The leopard also seemed to feel that the effect of its second pounce was not as good as the first one, let out a loud roar, and its claws scratched the ground several times, as if it was accumulating strength, before suddenly rushing over.

  "Be careful!" Just as Lin Feng was about to swing his sword with force at the leopard's paws, the injured monk standing beside him suddenly shouted loudly, making him extremely alert. As a result, he didn't dare to swing his sword with full force. All these movements happened in just an instant, and before he knew it, the leopard had already pounced onto Lin Feng's sword.

  As soon as he came into contact, Lin Feng immediately felt that the leopard's paw strength was much weaker this time. Just as he was wondering, the leopard had already passed over his head and was rapidly falling down. "Slap!" At the moment when the leopard's body had just passed over Lin Feng's head, the leopard's tail suddenly jerked violently, striking Lin Feng off guard.

  Fortunately, Lin Feng had not used his full strength earlier, and in his haste, he was still able to withdraw his sword to protect his face while quickly falling backwards, rolling with the momentum, barely avoiding the whip-like strike of the leopard's tail.

  When Lin Feng got up again, his eyes on the leopard were much more cautious. He didn't expect that a beast would actually understand the concept of virtual and real. It seemed that he had underestimated it at first. With a new stance, Lin Feng now regarded the leopard as an opponent with strength equivalent to his own.

  "Don't be too tense, this beast only has two tricks. If I hadn't been caught off guard at the beginning and got hurt, it wouldn't be my match. Brother Lin's cultivation is higher than mine, solving it won't be a problem." The injured cultivator standing beside him was clearly an old hand who often roamed these woods, and seeing Lin Feng's performance in his three exchanges with the quasi-demonic beast, he already understood that Lin Feng was still a novice at fighting against such creatures.

  He was quite clear about this, Lin Feng had been training in the Yang family, although he also often sparred with Zhao Chun and others, having some combat experience, but facing beasts head-on was still rare. Even in Cuishi Mountain, he had never encountered fierce beasts like tigers or leopards before, so he wasn't familiar with their attacking methods. Suddenly encountering a powerful beast that far surpassed the ones he had met before, and one that was somewhat intelligent to boot, left him at a loss.

  But with the reminder of the injured cultivator and three actual combat experiences, Lin Feng gradually put his mind at ease. As long as he was serious, this demon beast shouldn't be his match. Lin Feng nodded in response to the injured cultivator's reminder, but his hands didn't relax in the slightest. Just now, the leopard had forced him to roll on the ground, which was truly humiliating for a fourth-layer Qi Refining cultivator like himself. Therefore, Lin Feng decided that this time he must win beautifully.

  "Roar!" The leopard also felt Lin Feng's aura, but the anger of having its prey snatched away by Lin Feng made it furious. It let out a loud roar and charged again. Lin Feng secretly thought "good timing", and at the moment they came into contact, he didn't retreat but instead advanced forward. His body suddenly leaned back, using his inertia to charge forward, and in an instant, the two passed each other by.

  "Ka...chu!" First, the steel sword and leopard claw had a close encounter, but under Lin Feng's 10% spiritual energy infusion, the hardness of the steel sword increased geometrically. When it met the leopard claw again, it directly cut off its paw. Then, the sword's momentum didn't stop, cutting into the leopard's chest like cutting tofu, and along the chest, slashing towards its soft belly, all the way to the back legs, bursting out from the abdomen.

  At this time, the two finally separated and came apart. Lin Feng sheathed his sword and turned around, while the leopard pounced onto the ground. However, unlike the previous times, it was unable to use its strong and powerful claws to prop up its massive body, but instead fell flat on the ground with a thud, clearly having died in mid-air.

  "Ah! What a pity!" Lin Feng thought that this sword was elegant and beautiful, and even if the injured monk didn't praise him, he should at least come to thank his lifesaver as a basic courtesy. But unexpectedly, the monk let out a loud cry and rushed to the dead leopard's side, pulled out a porcelain jar, and frantically collected the leopard's blood, muttering to himself: "This is the blood of an almost-demonic beast! It's worth several pieces of spirit stone, but it's all spilled everywhere... I only managed to collect this little bit, ah!"

  Lin Feng's face suddenly turned red, he knew that ordinary demon beasts were all treasures, their blood, bones and skin were good materials for refining elixirs, making instruments and talismans. Moreover, seventh-grade or higher demon beasts also had demon cores, which were even more precious. However, he didn't know that the blood of a precise demon beast was also useful to cultivators, so he let go of his hand earlier and wasted most of the leopard's blood.

  It's not Lin Feng's fault, actually. Firstly, he wasn't a Symbol Master to begin with, and his knowledge of symbol crafting was only superficial, barely scratching the surface; secondly, he had always been cultivating in seclusion within the Yang family, so how would he know what was valuable and what wasn't on the Cultivation Market?

  Actually, the quasi-demonic beast is due to the weakness of the demonic bloodline, although it can also be used to make talismans, but the effect is not very good. Therefore, most of the cultivators who use it to make talismans are some beginners. They don't really use it to make talismans, just to practice their hands, so it's normal for cultivators with a little money not to understand what the quasi-demonic beast's body has to offer. Those who truly value the materials of the quasi-demonic beast are mostly poor scattered cultivators. For them, even if it's a material worth one piece of spirit stone, they must try their best to obtain it, just like this injured cultivator in front of us.

  Lin Feng felt embarrassed because he thought that the cultivator had gone to such great lengths to deal with the leopard, probably in order to carefully kill it and obtain more materials, but he himself had ruined everything with one sword strike, leaving the other person empty-handed.

  Watching the monk carefully and hastily collecting the leopard's blood, Lin Feng felt even more ashamed. "This, sorry about that, I was also enraged by this beast and my hand slipped." Lin Feng saw that the injured monk had already collected all of the leopard's blood and was using his hand to scrape off the gradually coagulating blood from the sword wound, and finally couldn't help but apologize.

  The injured monk suddenly remembered Lin Feng's lifesaving kindness, so he stood up and bowed: "Thank you, senior brother, for saving my life. May I ask your surname and given name?"

  Lin Feng only then remembered that after all this time, they still didn't know each other's names. He replied: "No need to be polite, my name is Lin Feng. May I ask how I should address you, senior brother?"

  "Hehe, little brother Liu Kai, a loose cultivator with the name of Sanxiu, only has a cultivation base of three layers of Qi Refining, I don't dare to be called Shixiong (older brother)." Liu Kai was several years older than Lin Feng, but in the Cultivation Realm, strength is respected above all else. Since Lin Feng's displayed strength surpassed his, he addressed him as Shixiong.

  "Polite, polite, Brother Liu's cultivation is profound. I was also furious and acted impulsively just now, so... I'm really sorry." Lin Feng's own cultivation was only at the fourth level, barely a bit higher, and he didn't dare to take advantage of Liu Kai, so he also addressed him as "Brother".

  Liu Kai saw Lin Feng apologizing to himself, his face was very puzzled, and then he thought for a moment before suddenly understanding: "Brother Lin, you've got it wrong. This leopard just suddenly attacked me, if it wasn't for Brother, I would have been in trouble today. Just now, I was thinking that the blood of these leopards was flowing white and it's a pity, so I quickly collected them. In fact, I didn't want to take them for myself. The leopard was killed by you, and you also saved my life, how could I still have the nerve to take this leopard blood? Take it, these blood are worth several pieces of spirit stone. Also, this skin, although it can't be sold for spirit stone, it can also be exchanged for some silver coins. Brother, if you don't know how to peel it, I'll help you peel it off." As he spoke, he somehow produced a small knife and quickly peeled off the skin with his hands moving nimbly.

  Lin Feng was taken aback, it turned out that he had been collecting leopard blood for himself. Indeed, according to Yang Zeshi's knowledge of the Xiu Xian world, Lin Feng knew that this leopard was killed by him alone, and by rule, everything should belong to him. But at the beginning, he didn't know that the leopard's blood could be sold for spiritual stones, so he didn't consider this issue when he acted. Now even if he knew, he wouldn't have much interest in collecting it. One reason was that he wasn't a symbol cultivator, and having the blood wouldn't be of any use to him. Another reason was that something worth only a few spiritual stones would cause such a bloody mess, and with Lin Feng's current status, he really couldn't muster up the interest.

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