C23

The young man was Luo Hao.

It had been a few days since he left the Lu family and entered the Crosscut Mountain Range. He had been searching for various types of soul beasts to fight with during the day, killing them, and resting on trees at night.

The one killed by him was a Whirlwind Rat. It didn't possess a powerful fighting prowess, and its speed was perfect for attacking from the back.

The reason why Luo Hao cut open the head of the Gale Mouse was to check if there were any Soul Crystal s on it.

But as he expected, it wasn't there yet again.

Not all soul beasts could form Soul Crystal, the probability was less than one in ten thousand. In the entire Chio Continent, the number of Soul Crystal that appeared every year was less than ten, which was extremely rare.

Soul Crystal s were unique to soul beasts, and were the essence of soul beasts. They contained a large amount of energy and could be directly absorbed by warriors to increase their strength. Thus, regardless of their grade, they were extremely precious.

A normal Soul Crystal could easily earn tens of millions of high grade crystals, which was not something that an ordinary person could afford.

For ordinary people, as long as one pill was sold, their value would skyrocket and they would become rich.

Such a tempter led countless people to the Crosscut Mountain Range in search of the chance to become a millionaire.

Soul beasts naturally wouldn't bow their heads and wait to be slaughtered. They would similarly kill humans and turn into delicacies in their stomachs.

As a result, scenes of people being killed and killed were playing out throughout the Hengduan Mountains.

Luo Hao released his Spiritual Sense and carefully made his way through.

He had already entered deeper in. As he went deeper, the level of the soul beasts became stronger. Right now, they were close to or beyond his strength. A single mistake could lead to injuries or even become a free lunch for the soul beasts.

There was a situation in front. Luo Hao stopped in his tracks and looked at the dense wild grass more than ten metres away, he could not see what was happening inside clearly.

If not for the Heaven Swallowing Martial Spirit, which allowed his soul perception to become many times stronger than ordinary people, at such a long distance, Luo Hao would not have been able to sense anything suspicious about it.

Just now, he had caught a barely discernible sound of breathing heavily. It was clear that there was a spirit beast hidden inside.

This immediately made Luo Hao become more serious.

Being able to quietly wait for their prey to fall into their trap was something that only intelligent soul beasts could have. Wouldn't that mean that the soul beast in the grass was already at the sixth stage or above, which was equivalent to the strength of a human's Peak of the eighth level of Soul Nurturing Stage? Furthermore, soul beasts were born with abnormal defenses, so humans with the same strength would rarely suffer losses.

With his current strength of the fifth layer middle stage, he was basically an opponent for them.

Retreat!

Thinking about that, Luo Hao turned and ran.

"Brat, where are you running to? Put down the things on your body. I'll spare your life."

The sound of human voices came from behind them. There was even a bright object that followed with a whistling sound through the air.

It turns out that the person hiding was not a spirit beast, but a human. Luo Hao thought for a while, then turned his body to the side, in an attempt to dodge the attack, he focused on the area behind him.

Two middle-aged human men were jumping up and down and chasing him. Their mouths were constantly saying threatening words, as if they were going to kill him if he didn't stop.

Early stage of Sixth level of Soul Nurturing Stage!

The corner of Luo Hao's mouth twitched, a ruthless look flashed past his eyes. If you want to take his life, that depends on whether or not you have the ability.

"Why aren't you running? Be obedient and let us search you."

Among them, a middle-aged man with a long scar on his face, casually walked towards Luo Hao with a vicious gaze.

The other bald headed man stopped ten meters away and did not come along. He crossed his arms and waited for his companion to search through all of Luo Hao's belongings, and kill him.

With their cultivation of the sixth level, they could easily kill a fifth level cultivator with ease.

Luo Hao stood there motionlessly, like a well-behaved fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered. This made the scarred man very satisfied, and he thought to himself that he would give him a more straightforward Kacha.

"Hands up."

Scar Face stood half an arm's length away from Luo Hao and pointed at Luo Hao viciously.

Luo Hao coordinated very well with him as he raised both his hands to his waist. When he did that, his body to the left, his right leg stepping forward, the Fire Dragon in his palm suddenly appeared and fiercely struck towards Scar face's chest.

The entire movement was completed in one go, as if it had been practiced for a while. There was no pause at all.

One was waiting to take action, while the other was on guard. Helpless, he looked down on his opponents too much, but all he did was increase the distance between them.

As expected, Luo Hao's palm strike with the Fire Dragon landed accurately on the left side of Scar face's chest.

"AHH!"

In the midst of the screams, Scar face's body flew backwards and fell right in front of his comrade, Baldy.

"Sizzle."

The sound of flesh being carbonized continuously could be heard as the smell of burnt flesh filled the air.

His chest was charred black and his bones were faintly discernible. Even if his injuries healed afterwards, his strength would be greatly reduced.

The baldy looked at the scarred face with an unsettled expression. The ominous glint in his eyes gradually grew brighter.

He turned his head to look at his companion from the ground, only to see the cruelty in the other party's eyes. He was shocked in his heart, how could he not know the character of the baldy, knowing that the other party had already wanted to kill him and take all the items they had seized.

"Baldie, hurry up and kill that kid."

Scarface used an commanding tone as he spoke. In his heart, he was contemplating how he would cut down this bald youth if he were to pass this crisis. He didn't dare to have any killing intent towards him. He was truly courting death.

Damn it, you are still thinking of ordering your father to kill this brat first before calling you 'you know what I'm capable of'.

Every time he split up his organs, he would get an extra ten percent. From the expression on Baldy's mouth, he already harbored hatred in his heart, today's opportunity, how could he let it go, thinking that the Soul Crystal in Scarface's arms would belong to him alone, in exchange for money, he could go to the city and relax for a while, his heart was extremely satisfied.

Although Luo Hao had killed Scar face with one palm strike, the bald man only thought that Luo Hao had succeeded in ambushing him, and that Scar face was unlucky. In a sense, the baldy had to be thankful to Luo Hao, if not he would have had the chance to take all the items that the two robbed from him.

"It's too small. Kneel down obediently. I can make you suffer less, otherwise I will make you suffer a fate worse than death."

The baldy threatened as he forced himself to move towards Luo Hao. He could not be like the scarred face who was like a boat that capsized in a ditch.

"Is that so?"

Luo Hao revealed a mocking expression, the bald man obviously thought that Luo Hao injuring his comrade was just a sneak attack. This was also good, the other party looked down on him and would naturally not use his full strength on Luo Hao, that way Luo Hao would be able to use a bit less strength.

In this forest, it was possible to encounter danger at any time. The more power one possessed, the safer they would be.

Luo Hao's expression had undoubtedly angered the baldie. After hearing the baldie's furious roar, the force under his feet caused him to leap into the air and pounce towards Luo Hao.

Baldie's martial soul was the Savage Worldbear. It had a deep power and it also borrowed the power of its fall to increase its momentum. It had quite a bit of power.

Rushing Thunder Palm!

Luo Hao shouted as he used his fists as palms to strike at the bald man who was falling from the sky.

Lightning danced on his fist. It was as if there were real thunder on his fist. It was an extremely dazzling sight.

"Bang!"

Bang! With a loud sound, Luo Hao was forced to retreat continuously, he could not control himself and sat on the ground. His right hand was aching pain, and there were three to two fine wounds on his fist, with blood leaking out.

The baldie, on the other hand, was not so lucky. He landed heavily on the ground, opened his mouth and spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, his eyes revealing a look of astonishment. Luo Hao who he thought he had caught was actually pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger.

"Senior, expert, grandfather, this little one has eyes but did not recognize Mt. Tai. I have offended you. Please have mercy on me and spare my life."

Although the baldie was severely injured, he could still struggle to get up. He knelt on both knees and kowtowed continuously with his head lowered, hoping that Luo Hao would spare his life.

I will spare your life, if Luo Hao did not have sufficient strength, he would have already become a stiff corpse. Towards his enemy, he would never be merciful, the Fire Dragon in his hand glanced at him, and then the baldie screamed for a few times and lost his life force.

After Luo Hao exterminated Scar face the same way, he searched Scar face's body for a while, and then, a small leather bag that was wrapped with a string a few degrees appeared in his hand. After untying the string, dozens of crystals appeared in Luo Hao's line of sight.

One of them was obviously different from the others. There were a few red lines on it, and it was half the size of the others.

This is?

Luo Hao took out a crystal stone and placed it on his palm as he observed it carefully.

The Soul Crystal was actually a Soul Crystal.

What a pleasant surprise!

With this Soul Crystal, Luo Hao's strength would definitely rise to the next level.

Before the night fell, Luo Hao finally found an extremely secluded cave. He tightly sealed the cave entrance with rocks in order to prevent soul beasts and humans from intruding, so Luo Hao definitely wanted to absorb the Soul Crystal's energy inside the cave in order to not get scratched by others.

After settling everything, Luo Hao sat down cross legged, held the Soul Crystal in his hands and started to absorb the energy inside the Soul Crystal.

This Soul Crystal was formed from the body of a second stage mutated beast, which was equivalent to the strength of a human being at the middle fifth stage of the soul nourishing stage.

As the energy continuously flowed into his body, Luo Hao's strength rose at a speed visible to the naked eye.

5-stage intermediate stage!

Peak of fifth stage!

When his aura reached its peak, a buzzing sound could be heard from his spiritual sea. The obstruction was broken, and a brand-new energy surged within his body.

Sixth level of Soul Nurturing Stage!

This was not the end, Luo Hao's strength was still rising.

After the energy in Luo Hao's hand disappeared, the Soul Crystal's color gradually turned gray. When the last drop of energy entered Luo Hao's body, it let out a light shattering sound and turned into powder.

Luo Hao continued to circulate his Qi technique for a few more weeks. When he stabilized his cultivation level, he stopped and opened his eyes.

A Soul Crystal in the middle of the sixth stage raised his strength to the middle stage of the sixth stage, reaching the pinnacle.

It was indeed a good item, if there were more, it would be a joke, and he would directly reach the peak of soul nourishing stage.

Of course, Luo Hao only thought about it casually.

Not to mention him, even if the Lu family wanted such a crystal, the money they could find would be useless.