Chapter 72: Meow Meow Meow

Chapter 72: Meow Meow Meow

Zhanyue and Baizhi headed straight into the depths. During the day, the dangers in the secret realm were relatively fewer, and this time they had prepared a large number of pills to conceal human scent, ensuring safety even at night.

The two stopped in front of a ‘willow tree’. This tree had thousands of branches and leaves hanging down like a willow, swaying in the wind. On the main trunk was a hole, inside which hung a fruit that looked like a heart, pulsating periodically.

“Demon Willow Heart, worth 1,000 points!” Baizhi excitedly ran over. Zhanyue wore a mischievous smile but didn’t stop her.

The thousand willow branches suddenly came alive, tightly binding the approaching Baizhi, accentuating her graceful figure. Then, the willow leaves on the tree transformed into flying blades, about to cut Baizhi into pieces.

A huge pillar of fire erupted from the ground, directly enveloping the entire willow tree. The flying blades turned to ash in the fierce fire, and the branches entangling Baizhi were all burned off.

Under her veil, Baizhi’s face was crimson. She didn’t dare look at Zhanyue.

“You knew this thing was a demon willow, yet you still rushed over. Demon plants are also demons, with some intelligence,” Zhanyue criticized. This girl was too reckless, seeing points like a dog seeing a bone.

“It’s because you’re here that I let my guard down,” Baizhi defended herself.

“Now you’re blaming me? I’m not omnipotent. Besides, you’re at the ninth stage of Soul Control, almost entering Profound Realm. It’s not good to always rely on someone at the seventh stage of Spirit Communication,” Zhanyue said helplessly.

“The capable should do more work. Who told you to be so powerful?” Baizhi took the red fruit from the charred trunk. Zhanyue wasn’t interested in this thing; they needed to use some things to exchange for points. “You keep it.”

Baizhi didn’t stand on ceremony and accepted these 10,000 points. She had given Zhanyue the right to choose; she wouldn’t ask for anything he wanted, only taking what he didn’t. She was aware of being a burden.

Taking out the map, Zhanyue looked at the markings. Not far away was a ruin that should have been a small town. Where there was a town, there might be remnant information of civilization. The two headed there.

Anything of value in these ruins had long been emptied by others, not even sparing some building materials, leaving only broken walls. Zhanyue didn’t even find a single character here.

Suddenly, a black wildcat appeared on top of a broken stone pillar. It pointed towards the east with its paw, seeming to indicate for Zhanyue and Baizhi to go that way.

“Hm?” Zhanyue curiously looked at this cute wildcat, not expecting spirit beasts in this secret realm to be willing to communicate with humans, although it was daytime now and they weren’t affected by the blood moon.

The three spirit beasts were all fourth grade, a wolf, a tiger, and a leopard. Zhanyue didn’t look closely, nor did he need to. His ji halberd smashed the fourth-grade wolf’s head in one strike. Then, activating the Phantom Light Step, he dodged the tiger and leopard’s attacks and with another halberd strike cut the leopard in half. The tiger demon, seeing the situation was unfavorable, wanted to escape, but Zhanyue disappeared and suddenly burrowed out of the ground in front of it, kicking it down and then piercing its belly with the halberd. In just a few breaths, Zhanyue had slain three beasts. Whether it was the other spirit beasts, the cat demons, or Baizhi watching from afar, all fell silent, as if time had stopped.

“How is he so powerful?” Baizhi was left with only confusion.

“(>^ω^<) Meow!” The little black cat cried out joyfully. The reinforcements it had desperately found at random were actually willing to help, and more importantly, they were so strong.

“Meow?” The old cat demon looked at Zhanyue puzzledly, then at its cub, somewhat confused. Its child had run out and actually found strong support.

“Roar!” A fifth-grade two-headed tiger as tall as a person attacked, one head spitting fire, the other spitting smoke. Smoke concealed its form, fire burned the enemy.

“You dare play with fire in front of me?” Zhanyue sneered. A fire dragon formed behind him and then charged towards the two-headed tiger. The two-headed tiger was startled, only to realize this fire dragon was just for show, merely grand in appearance. It didn’t even dodge, as the ordinary fire couldn’t harm its body.

However, Solar Essence Fire was hidden within the fire dragon. This was Zhanyue’s favorite underhanded method, showing weakness to the enemy, hiding skills in clumsiness. The Solar Essence Fire fell on the two-headed tiger, burning it so badly it rolled on the ground.

“One head, two heads!” The ji halberd extinguished both heads, and the fifth-grade spirit beast died on the spot. The death of the two-headed tiger shook the other fifth-grade spirit beasts to their core. This armored man’s strength was too great. How could such a strong human appear in the secret realm? In the past, humans needed at least seven or eight people to kill a fifth-grade spirit beast. He killed the two-headed tiger with a single sweep of his halberd. How was this possible? Had something gone wrong with the secret realm?

“Meow!” Hope reignited in the old black cat’s despairing eyes. Working with this human, there might be a glimmer of hope for survival. It didn’t know what this person’s purpose was, but now wasn’t the time to worry about that. Surviving came first, especially protecting the two children.

It transformed into a residual shadow, and amidst the beasts’ shock, it sneak attacked and killed three fourth-grade spirit beasts. Zhanyue didn’t even see clearly how it attacked. This was its innate divine ability — ‘Charm Shadow’.

Of the twelve spirit beasts involved in the encirclement, one fifth-grade and six fourth-grade had died. Now only three fifth-grade and two fourth-grade remained. Those two fourth-grade spirit beast minions weren’t fools; this battlefield wasn’t something they could participate in. They turned tail and ran.

How could Zhanyue let their spirit cores escape? Two Fierce Explosion Pills shot accurately onto those two spirit beasts, instantly raising two small mushroom clouds in the distance. Both spirit beasts were severely injured, losing their ability to move.

“This thing is really useful. I should have Baizhi refine more,” Zhanyue marveled. This was a rare powerful long-range attack method.

Now the situation suddenly became Zhanyue and the old cat demon teaming up to hunt the remaining three fifth-grade spirit beasts.

The two little cat demons, one black and one white, both looked at Zhanyue with starry eyes.