Chapter 244 244: A Fateful Encounter



Coldly staring at her were the Three-Eyed Tiger's bright green eyes that looked at her like she was a bug that it was big that it was playing with. 

With her heart rapidly thumping in her chest, Yamgo's mind raced as she tried to come up with ways to escape this situation. Yet before she could think of anything, the Three-Eyed Tiger crouched down to get down on her level and used its giant third eye to look at her directly.

The moment the Three-Eyed Tiger's third eye locked onto her, Yamgo knew that she was in danger and took action. She immediately clapped her hands twice to unleash the power of ThunderClap twice.

"Boom! Boom!"

Without waiting to see the results of her attack, Yamgo muttered to herself softly as she drew her now and pointed it in the opposite direction of the Three-Eyed Tiger. Quickly drawing the bow to its fullest potential, she controlled her crystal energy to form a thin yellow arrow inside of her bow.

As soon as she completed the formation of her Tailed Thunder Arrow and shot the arrow into the distance, miles away, only less than a second had passed. With the power of her Tailed Thunder Arrow flying through the air, Yamgo hoped that she could be dragged into the air alongside it and escape.

"..."

Yet as soon as she felt her Tailed Thunder Arrow had reached far enough to begin pulling her, she suddenly found herself on the ground with the Three Eyes Tiger's green paw slammed against her body.

"Let me go!"

Yamgo gritted her teeth in pain as she felt her bones slowly being crushed into powder by the Three Eyes Tiger's immense strength and weight. Even with her body's disproportionate physical abilities, she couldn't overcome the power of the Three-Eyed Tiger that was smiling at her as she struggled to escape.

What made her the most furious was that the third eye staring at her was quickly shifting colors meaning that it was about to unleash one of its attacks. In less than a second, the Three-Eyed Tiger's emerald color eye turned into a blinding red that unleashed an incredibly high temperature.

Even without attacking, the mere heat from its third eye caused the air around it to undergo distortion and easily created similar effects of Heat Haze. With such intense heat, Yamgo felt lightheaded as she could barely breathe.

Knowing that she had to pull out all her tricks to escape from this monster, Yamgo softly muttered to herself and expended all of her crystal energy to unleash her most powerful escape spell, Lightning Vanish. As soon as she cast her spell, she felt her body tingle as it transformed her into lightning, electrocuting the Three-Eyed Tiger enough to lift its paw slightly enough for her to instantly escape and travel a few hundred miles away.

"Roar!" 

A soft sigh of relief escaped from Yamgo's mouth as she heard the Three-Eyed Tiger's roar, which was full of anger, pain, and injustice. Knowing that she still hadn't fully escaped the Three-Eyed Tiger's pursuit but merely increased the distance between them, she quickly entered a nearby cave to take temporary refuge.

Before she even entered the cave, Yamgo felt her heart clench as she could see that it was pitch black inside, with not a single ray of light illuminating the inside. Even without entering the cave, she could hear the sound of dripping water hitting the cold stone floor and used her information-processing abilities to estimate the depth of that falling water.

"50 feet away from me. So the cave should only be a few miles deep, and paired up with the small height of the cave, it should keep me safe from the Three-Eyed Tiger until I can absorb some crystals." 

After doing some mental calculations, Yamgo quickly concluded that it was better to take the risk of getting attacked inside the cave than try to find another place and potentially get caught by the Three-Eyed Tiger.

"Roar!" 

As if reconfirming her decision, the Three-Eyed Tiger's ferocious roar echoed throughout the forest a few miles closer than before and seemed to be heading straight for her location. After cursing under her breath, Yamgo slowly walked into the dark cave with caution in each of her steps.

As soon as she entered the cave and allowed her eyes to adjust, Yamgo knew instantly that she had made the wrong decision. Right in front of her was a 10 feet tall humanoid rabbit that was jacked out of its mind. 

The humanoid rabbit's body seemed to not have a single ounce of fat on its body as it just had muscles. With seemingly all its giant muscles showing the strength of its body, the light specks of blood covering its pure white fur showed its brutality.

This helped highlight the scene of how the humanoid rabbit was in the middle of eating the rogue immortal cultivators that she had recognized to be the first person to realize they were inside the Endless Forest.

Seeing how this elderly rogue immortal cultivator who had reached the peak of the Crystal Skull realm just like herself being eaten alive made Yamgo know that she wouldn't be able to leave this cave alive.

"P-please help me. Help me kill this demon rabbit." As if gaining the last bit of strength that he had just before his death, the old man reached out to Yamgo with his old wrinkly hands covered in his own blood.

Even though the old man looked pitiful, Yamgo wished that the humanoid rabbit had smashed his skull so that he couldn't ruin the minuscule chances of her surviving this encounter. Unfortunately, she knew that it was too late as the old man's call for help seemed to have alerted the humanoid rabbit that someone else had arrived.

"Hmmm," 

A deep hum came from the humanoid rabbit's muscular chest as it lifted its head out of the old man's chest cavity, which was missing a heart, lungs, and kidneys, with the rest of the organs left half-eaten. The moment the humanoid rabbit lifted its head to check out the intruder of its meal, Yamgo felt as if her body was being examined by a thousand eyes.

The humanoid rabbit's head was covered in sticky blood, showing its brutal and bestial style, creating a juxtaposition with the cold eyes that were filled with high intelligence. Unlike the Three-Eyed Tiger, which showed some semblance of intelligence but was still a monster at its core, Yamgo instantly knew that this humanoid rabbit was on a whole other level.

Even without it making a single move, she was able to tell that it viewed itself on the same level that humans viewed themselves. The same arrogance to view that their species is better compared to the rest simply due to certain metrics were present in the humanoid rabbit.

That was the level of arrogance that could only be obtained by highly intelligent species. Finding that same arrogance inside a humanoid rabbit made Yamgo aware that she had encountered a monster that was a much bigger threat compared to any of the ones she had met before.

"H-help m-" Before the old man could finish his call for help, the humanoid rabbit threw him a glance of disgust and slapped him with its paw.

"Splat!"

As if dealing with an insignificant bug, the humanoid rabbit popped the old man's head in a similar manner as a baseball bat hitting a watermelon.

After killing the old man, the humanoid rabbit dropped his body like leftover food that it had grown disgusted by after seeing another plate of freshly made food. The humanoid rabbit's pitch-black eyes looked at Yamgo up and down as if deciding what it should eat first.

Should it start with tearing her chest open and eating her heart and organs, or should it deal with the less delicious parts first, like her legs and throat? Struggling to make a decision, the humanoid rabbit placed its paw under its chin with its other arm supporting it up.

Knowing that she was being treated as a meal, Yamgo tried to think of ways that she could get out of this situation. She went through thousands of different scenarios, but most of the time, she predicted that she would perish as soon as she moved a finger.

Only a few scenarios extended her life by a few minutes, and that was simply because she decided to wait until the humanoid rabbit had decided what it wanted to eat first. As Yamgi was losing hope of surviving this to become immortal and finally realize her dream of bringing her family back to life, she suddenly noticed a half-eaten blue crystal on the cave floor.

"That's it!" Yamgo's mind exploded as she thought up a plan to keep herself alive and maybe even get a powerful partner that would help her achieve her dream.

After taking a deep breath to calm herself down, Yamgo stared at the half-eaten crystal on the ground with so much shock that it was barely believable.