Chapter 71

Chapter 71

Wood Elemental Demons

“Senior Brother, what do you have in mind? We can’t escape.” Si Anming, a disciple of Celestial Pole Sect, constantly looked over his shoulder.

“Don’t panic. We need to hang in there until help arrives,” answered Zhao Yunyang, trying to fulfil his duty as Si Anming’s senior despite being unnerved.

The two wounded cultivators were breathing erratically as they fled from the hunters after them. Si Anming thought he was on vacation and confident they could defeat elemental demons as a team even if demons did jump them. Sadly, it didn’t pan out the way he imagined. The people in their team were missing and busy trying to stay alive themselves.

“Die. Human.”

The dark enemy tailing the duo possessed four limbs, sharp claws and a pair of black feather wings plus spikes. It had a tiger’s head and fangs that could easily pierce flesh. It wasn’t an elemental demon. It was a winged fang tiger, a fiend.

“Watch out!” cried Si Anming.

Zhao Yunyang looked behind to see the winged fang tiger’s fierce gaze and felt cold claws thrust through his chest. His body temperature plummeted fast as he bled out. It didn’t take long before took his last breath and hung his head despite his eyes still being wide open.

“Senior Brother!”

The winged fang tiger tore Zhao Yunyang’s heart out slowly and dropped his prey’s corpse down onto a random tree.

“Delicious,” remarked the winged fang tiger, chomping Zhao Yunyang’s heart and making a bloody mess on his fur.

Once the winged fang tiger leapt at Si Anming, the latter quit running and shut his eyes, aware he was doomed whether he fled or fought back. However, the nightmarish sensation never came. He let out a breath of relief, thanking death for being so simple and painless.

Mu Yu was basically part of the tree when he entered them. As such, he could swiftly hop from tree to tree if the leaves and branches were connected. He had a clear visual on everything around. By the same token, wood demons were able to stay out of sight.

The wood demon couldn’t shake Mu Yu off after running for two hours, so it gave up and exited the tree. Mu Yu emerged from the tree, too, and the two confronted each other on a tree top.

“You’re not an elemental demon. You’re human,” stated the green wood demon.

The wood demon’s voice was energetic and gave the listener hope unlike its appearance. Mu Yu looked around. He couldn’t discern where he was when it all looked the same. Based on the time he spent running around, he theorised he was far from the others.

“You’re not human. You’re an elemental demon,” stated the wood demon, contradicted itself. “What are you?”

“That’s none of your business. Are you the one controlling the beasts?”

The green mist shifting around in the wood demon’s eyes was distracting. “Humans shouldn’t be here.”

“Elemental demons shouldn’t be here.”

“This is our territory. Why can’t we be here?”

Unwilling to let humans and elemental demons continue with their war, Mu Yu declared, “Dismantle the formation, and we shall leave.”

The wood demon grinned. “None of you will be leaving this place.”

The wood demon commanded the tree next to Mu Yu to rapidly grow with hand gestures and tried to restrain Mu Yu.