Chapter Fourteen: The First Encounter with the Mysterious Beast

  Four days later, the bustling Yangzhou City was still crowded with people, and the Wu Zhe Men gathered together to fight and spar. The factions were also united in their efforts to reach an agreement with Liang Wang's army, as Xia Guo would soon become Liang Guo.

  However, no one noticed that the mysterious young master who appeared a few days ago had disappeared unknowingly.

  More than 100 miles outside Yangzhou City, a group of eight people, each riding a fine horse, two women and six men, hurried along in silence.

  Among them was a young man, about eighteen or nineteen years old. Although he had a clear brow and bright eyes, his immature face had an air of calmness that ordinary people could not match. The other few people were different, looking miscellaneous. Li Lao Dao, who invited Wang Chen, and another bald monk all had kind faces, looking like they were almost a hundred years old, but also with rosy complexions.

  The other two looked like they were around forty years old, middle-aged. One had a prominent temple and dark palms, clearly an expert in external skills; the other had thin hands like eagle claws, clearly skilled in claw techniques.

  The other two women looked much younger. One was a nun with light makeup and white clothes, holding a long feather duster; the other was a young woman in green clothes, with a hint of a smile that was full of temptation, holding a long sword with a green blade! The few people on the road chatted casually.

  However, a few people indeed showed great respect for Wang Chen and did not underestimate him because of his age.

  Although these people did not know Wang Chen, they could also see that he was a rare top-notch master in the secular world. At first, several people were suspicious of Wang Chen, but after Tie Wudi practiced iron sand palm with Wang Chen for two palms, no one spoke again!

  "Li Lao Dao, how much longer until we arrive?" The bald monk among the eight asked with a smile. This person's muscles were solid and it was clear that he had practiced deep external skills. Ordinary blades probably couldn't even scratch his skin. As he asked this question, everyone's eyes turned towards Li Lao Dao. Seeing this, Li Lao Dao also didn't dare to hide anything.

  "Come on, don't rush! The exotic beast is not that easy to find! Old Daoist has been chasing it for a long time before discovering its lair! We'll arrive tomorrow afternoon!" All eight of them were masters who had suffered a lot and could naturally endure the hardship. Wang Chen was no exception, so the eight of them rode their horses non-stop for half a day, only stopping to rest at midnight.

  The next morning, when the sun had not risen for a long time, Wang Chen and others came to the quiet pool.

  The water flows gently, with lush aquatic plants, and the fish swimming back and forth are clearly visible, like a paradise on earth.

  "Daozhang, what are you doing here? Weren't we supposed to go find the strange beast?" The woman with the long sword had a puzzled expression on her face, which was as gentle as water and slightly flirtatious. A few strands of hair floated beside her cheek, causing several middle-aged men to feel a sudden surge in their bodies. Wang Chen secretly warned himself, "A beauty can be a calamity, this is exactly the kind of woman that saying refers to!" He quickly collected his thoughts and waited for the Daoist's explanation.

  "The fairy is worrying too much, this place is indeed not where the monster hides!" The old Taoist smiled and replied, then changed his tone, "However, every day the monster will come here to drink water, how about we..." The old Taoist and several people discussed their plan.

  To be honest, the few people were not very familiar with each other, let alone making precise coordination in a short period of time. The few people just planned to ambush first and then launch a surprise attack together. After discussing, they hid separately.

  The quiet pool of water, the brook making a gurgling sound, around which except for a few birds chirping there was no other sound. Several people had been lying in ambush here for two hours already.

  Wang Chen hid in the grass a few feet away, motionless, listening to the birdsong around him and suddenly thought of a line of poetry, "The mountain is even more secluded with the sound of birds"!

  Wang Chen was thinking about poetry when "plop, plop" sounds woke him up. Immediately, a dozen or so birds flew out of the forest, as if startled by some animal, and then several loud rumbling sounds shook the ground!

  Wang Chen's face revealed a joyful expression. The demon beast had arrived, and he immediately carefully hid his figure. Before long, a demon beast that resembled both a cow and a wolf ran over.

  The monster's body was two meters long, with black sharp horns on its head, eyes glowing red like blood, and yellow fur all over its body. Its four hooves were as big as a cow's, and every step it took made the ground shake as if it had been struck by thunder. Wang Chen didn't doubt at all that the monster's hooves had the power of a thousand kilograms!

  The monster slowly walked to the side of the pool, lowered its head to drink water, and a short tail flapped back and forth. At the same time, two ears stood up vigilantly. Although the monster was the strongest king in the nearby area, it still retained the habit of being very vigilant when drinking water.

  Whoosh! Whoosh!

  Two flying knives shone with a cold light, shooting towards the monster like lightning. At the moment the two flying knives took off, a man suddenly rushed out of the grass thicket in the east, and this sturdy man pushed his palms together, carrying an astonishing airflow to slap the monster.

  Almost at the same time, seven others also made their moves without hesitation. Several of them were top-notch masters rarely seen in Xia Guo. The iron fists of the bald monk, the flying dust of the white-robed nun, the sword edge of the green-robed young woman, the eagle claws of the middle-aged man, and Wang Chen's iron sword all had the power to cut through gold and shatter stones!

  Although the crowd's attack was impressive, the monster's reaction was even more sensitive. Just as the flying knives and fists were about to hit, the monster instantly dodged and evaded most of the attacks!

  Two loud noises, the flying knife cut through the first layer of Ling Shou's skin, and fresh blood seeped out. As if enraged by the pain, the demon beast stomped its hind legs on the ground and suddenly charged towards everyone!

  Everyone was overjoyed at this sight. "Haha, the beast is enraged, that's great, now we don't have to worry about chasing after it." However, Wang Chen felt a sense of unease upon seeing this.

  Bald monk was standing at the position where the monster was about to strike, and seeing this he became overjoyed. He raised his fists and charged towards the monster. Wang Chen wanted to remind him but it was too late.

  Crack

  The sound of bones shattering came, and the monk spat out fresh blood and flew backwards. The crowd's excited hearts were suddenly doused with a basin of cold water.

  "Don't rush, this beast has enormous strength, don't confront it head-on, surround and entangle it from all sides, wait for the beast to exhaust itself before killing it!"

  Lao Dao said that he was the organizer of this hunting event, seeing everyone's low mood, he hastily called out. Everyone heard that Ju Lin and the demon beast were fighting in one place.

  The monster seemed to be very excited, constantly rushing forward, and the few people had to dodge in all directions, with the idea of exhausting the monster's energy. The crowd didn't attack much either, and Wang Chen didn't show off his own strength. After all, relying on his own strength to kill this spirit beast should be about right!

  However, the demon beast's endurance was apparently beyond everyone's imagination. Half a time period had passed, and the demon beast didn't feel tired at all, as if everyone was just playing with it.

  Wang Chen saw this and couldn't help but feel anxious, taking advantage of the spiritual beast's attack on others, he swung out with one sword.

  "Wah wah wah"

  Wang Chen's giant sword inserted into the Ling Beast's anus, and suddenly blood splattered everywhere. Although it was a bit embarrassing, seeing the strange beast receive heavy damage, everyone's thoughts became even more fervent, and they all tried their best to attack.

  But Wang Chen's attack carried the momentum of heaven and earth, although only five percent of his strength was used, it hit the spiritual beast's vital spot, causing huge damage. The attacks from several people basically didn't cause any harm to the spiritual beast's skin.

  After a while, seeing the strange beast becoming more and more frantic, everyone became even more cautious.

  "Attack the butt of the strange beast!" Wang Chen shouted as he saw several people fail to attack the spiritual beast's eyes multiple times.

  Everyone nodded secretly after hearing this, and then the spirit beast's buttocks were taken care of by everyone many times!

  "Wah, wah"

  The green sword flashed across Wang Chen's anus, which had just been blocked and healed, and the wound suddenly expanded again. The spiritual beast's blood gushed out with a "hula" sound, and the spiritual beast let out a loud roar, as if it had gone mad.

  As this loud cry echoed, the body of the demon beast actually began to grow larger, and the previous wounds even stopped bleeding!

  "Pffft, pffft!" The monster's nose shot out two streams of air, its eyes wide open and round, with a hint of bloodlust mixed in its gaze.

  "Not good", Wang Chen's heart suddenly felt a sense of foreboding, after fighting for so long without seeing the monster show any abilities, this strange phenomenon proved that its previous ordinariness was not ordinary at all.

  Monsters, regardless of their level and cultivation, are born with innate spells. Unlike the spells of cultivators that require incantations, monsters' native spells are instantaneous and grow stronger as their power increases!

  This bison-like demon has actually used a rare bloodthirsty technique!

  Bloodlust is also extremely rare among the demon beasts. After being imbued with Bloodlust, a demon beast's recovery power, strength and speed are all increased to some extent, and it has an insatiable thirst for fresh blood, killing without regard for its own safety.

  Indeed, the buffalo-shaped demon beast that emerged after the Bloodlust Technique emitted a breathtaking aura of slaughter and bloodlust. This was something that humans simply did not possess; although the others had also killed many people, under this aura of slaughter they were unable to bring out their full strength.

  Wang Chen was also stunned by the astonishing killing aura at first, but after a moment, he stabilized his mind and opened up the boundary of the sword intent realm to confront the killing aura, and in an instant, he eliminated the influence of the killing aura.

  "Ah! Ah!"

  Under the pressure of the beast, a nun's chest was trampled by one foot, and another charge, the horns standing upright on its head pierced through the middle-aged man's palms, and immediately the middle-aged man was trampled into a meat pie.

  The situation on the battlefield changed instantly, and two of the eight people who came were already dead. The monk who was injured earlier took advantage of the situation to escape hastily. After killing the monster, it let out a loud roar again, and everyone else didn't care about anything else and fled in all directions.

  The monster roared and happily chased after them, the injured monk was caught up by the spirit beast first, a miserable cry later there was no more movement, followed by the middle-aged man who practiced iron sand palm.

  Tie Sha Zhang's palm technique was fierce, but his body method was far inferior. He was knocked down by the monster with just one push and lost all his breath. The remaining few people took advantage of the opportunity to quickly escape!

  The previously prepared hunt for the demonic beast had unexpectedly turned into a hunt by the demonic beast!