Chapter 29

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Early in the bright morning, Li Changsheng yawned repeatedly despite having a comfy tiger blanket. For the sake of their safety, he barely got a wink of sleep last night. At most, he had his eyes shut but his brain was still running on adrenaline.

“Gopher, dig me a few big pits!” After feeding his demon pets, Li Changsheng did not leave the spot immediately. Instead, he ordered the Gopher to dig pits so he could prepare a few simple traps, and paved a way for himself to prevent accidents!

The Gopher was very easy to satisfy. As long as it had its tummy filled, it became energetic and obeyed all of Li Changsheng’s orders.

Under Li Changsheng’s orders, the Gopher started to work. Its limbs exerted powerful force and the hard soil was easily excavated. Soil flew everywhere, and the Gopher was fully underground within two or three seconds.

For the Gopher, digging a hole was as easy as eating.

If Li Changsheng had to make the traps himself, it would take a long time for him to dig the holes. Since he got the Gopher, the only thing he needed to do was conceal the traps.

To avoid accidentally injuring any friendly forces, the traps set up by Li Changsheng were simple. They were deep, of course, but there were no sharp objects at the bottom of the pit. Therefore, if anyone fell into the trap accidentally, it would not cost them their life.

About half an hour later, Li Changsheng vigorously patted down his hands covered with soil. After marking the traps, he set foot and moved deeper into the depths of Green Mountain.

The Green Mountain road was rugged. Due to the existence of numerous wild demons and the possible presence of the Wind Wolves, Li Changsheng advanced slowly to be on the safe side.

In the past two days, Li Changsheng had been exploring. The strangest thing was that despite exploring the two days, they had yet to see any signs of the Wind Wolves. Although they had not combed the entire forest, it was either their luck or something had happened. 

Another good thing that happened was that under the continuous combat training, Li Changsheng’s demon pets had naturally improved. Ai Xi increased its level by one order and was now a Lower 8th Order, and it learned the Wind Blade skill to boot. Meanwhile, Galen’s level was not as high as Ai Xi’s and had only reached the Lower 5th Order. Despite that, Galen learned the Burrowing Vine and Cotton Spore skill.

Wind Blade: Long-range skill, extremely fast attack speed, can easily tear the opponent’s body.

Burrowing Vine: Restraining skill, grows vine to entangle and trip up an opponent. The heavier the opponent, the greater the damage.

Cotton Spore: Support skill, forms soft cotton-like spores close to the body, improving physical defense greatly.

Undoubtedly, those were all practical skills. Among them, Wind Blade was the skill Ai Xi’s learned for increasing its order, which effectively compensated for its lack of long-range capabilities. In addition to restraining the target, Burrowing Vine could dish out a certain amount of damage. Galen technically now had offensive skills, even though it was a support-type. Needless to say, Cotton Spore could help Li Changsheng and his demon pets because it would be like punching cotton, offsetting some hostile damage depending on the opponent’s level.

Support-type demon pets might seem inferior to battle-type demon pets but they could make their allies stronger and play an irreplaceable role in group battles.

Unlike Ai Xi and Galen, the Gopher had already reached the bottleneck of its development. If it wanted to improve, it had to advance to the middle order level.

If one had the necessary resources, one could easily increase the success rate of leveling up their demon pets. However, many demons lived their entire lives unable to breakthrough due to the grade of the demon. The higher the grade of a demon, the easier it was to break through, and vice versa!

The Gopher had a medial grade and the Giant Rat bloodline. After a long time, even if Li Changsheng did not have many resources, the Gopher could easily be promoted to the middle order level or a high order level.

However, luck was not in Li Changsheng’s favor for the past two days. He encountered a high grade wild Pere David’s deer that was exceptionally good at running. Before he could take a shot at catching it, the astute wild Pere David’s deer bolted. Even if Ai Xi tried to give chase, the tiger would not be able to catch up.

In terms of speed, the two were on par with each other but the Pere David’s deer had the advantage of being more familiar with the nearby terrain, which was the main reason why Ai Xi could not catch it.

Li Changsheng was afraid that Ai Xi would get lost so he did not dare to let Ai Xi pursue it for too far. In the end, he chose to give it up.

In the past two days, Li Changsheng did not forage much, either. It was mainly due to the sheer amount of wild demons in Green Mountain that was out of his expectations.

Perhaps the ecological balance of Green Mountain becoming unbalanced had something to do with the Wind Wolves. There was a possibility that some of the wild demons were now the Wind Wolves’ food, forcing them to migrate, leading to a sharp decline in the number of wild demons in Green Mountain.

That morning, the high alert Li Changsheng finally stepped into the depths of Green Mountain in search of a top-grade demon.

Compared to the sides of the forests, the wild demons there were stronger. Coupled with the possibility of meeting Wind Wolves, the place was extremely dangerous.

“Where we are now is probably tens of miles away from the soul crystal mine. Perhaps we can even make it there by evening!” Li Changsheng stood on a hill and looked into the distance. Tens of miles away, there was a barren area that was a stark difference compared to the surrounding lush mountains and forests. That was where the soul crystal mine was located.

“Ah!”

Suddenly, they heard a terrifying scream. Li Changsheng’s expression stiffened slightly as the voice sounded familiar. The person could be someone from the Li Clan and was in extreme danger.

Without any hesitation, Li Changsheng climbed on top of Ai Xi and rushed toward the direction of the sound.

Ai Xi moved at an extremely fast pace. Its limbs exerted force vigorously and the forest scenery flashed past them quickly. Soon, they reached their destination.

In less than two minutes, Ai Xi stopped at a scene of a bloody mess in front of them. Five cyan Wind Wolves formed a circle with their heads lowered, sinking their teeth into a corpse.

Wind Wolves: Wind-type, Middle-class Servant, community-type demon beasts, known for their speed, average fur protection.

Since Ai Xi did not conceal itself, the five Wind Wolves immediately raised their heads when they heard the sound behind them. Scarlet blood dripped from their mouths as they stared fiercely at Li Changsheng and Ai Xi.

Next to the five Wind Wolves laid a dismembered body of a teenager. His abdomen was almost hollow, his bloody limbs torn, with only his head left intact. His eyes still were wide open with the clear desire of clinging to life.

The scene sent massive shockwaves through Li Changsheng.

It was also at that time that the five Wind Wolves began to disperse, moving forward to surround Li Changsheng.

If he let himself get surrounded by the Wind Wolves, he was dead meat.

“Gopher, use Quicksand Hell!”

As the Wind Wolves crept forward, the Gopher fought against the panic in its heart and its limbs that were in contact with the ground shone a brilliant bright yellow, pouring the illumination into the earth continuously.

In an instant, the ground within a few meters in front of it suddenly changed and the soil quickly became sandy, slowly rotating.

The five Wind Wolves suddenly felt that something was amiss and tried to jump out of the quicksand. However, four of the Wind Wolves were already caught in the sludge.

In the spinning quicksand, the four Wind Wolves were trapped and there was no chance for them to break free instantly despite their struggling. The one Wind Wolf that managed to jump out of the quicksand area immediately charged toward Li Changsheng. However, before it got to Li Changsheng, Ai Xi appeared in front of it.

In mid-air, Ai Xi raised its right paw and white light gathered on its sharp claws. The Wind Wolf watched with horrified eyes as Ai Xi clawed fiercely at the top of its head.

Crack~

As the dull noise sounded, the Wind Wolf’s head burst open with a shower of brains and it fell limp to the ground. Its limbs twitched visibly and then there was no more sound.

After killing one of the Wind Wolves, Li Changsheng turned his attention toward the four other Wind Wolves that were about to break free from the quicksand.

However, a huge black shadow suddenly jumped out from the bushes not far away from him, and rushed toward Li Changsheng with lightning speed.