The Pastoral Life of a Cultivation Master

Chapter 3035 The Button for Summoning Beasts

With a loud "boom," Chen Mo's fist was sent staggering back several steps by the force of the beast's head.

The beast shook its head a few times and recovered in an instant.

The punch just now did not cause any harm to the beast. On the contrary, Chen Mo was pushed back a few steps by the force of the impact.

This was also his own fault. Because he wanted to test the strength of the alien beast, he controlled his own power within the range of a peak tenth level of the acquired martial arts realm, which is why he suffered a great loss.

However, Chen Mo was not injured. Instead, he sensed that the beast was about the same strength as him, probably at the peak of the first level of the Innate Realm.

Unexpectedly, this strange beast, which I had never seen before, was so powerful. It could be said to be the strongest strange beast I had encountered since entering the valley.

After recovering for a short time, the beast gave up attacking Ouyang Nan and instead turned to stare at Chen Mo. Its dark red eyes emitted a cold light. After howling, it raised its forelimbs and stomped down hard. Amidst the rising dust, it pushed off with its hind limbs, and its entire body soared into the air. It opened its huge mouth towards Chen Mo, wanting to swallow him whole.

This strange beast actually uses blurred vision to conceal its attack. The stomp it made with its front paws was to kick up dust, creating visual obstruction and facilitating its next move, giving its enemy less time to react.

Because of this, all visibility was already very poor. However, Chen Mo closed his eyes and, with his divine sense spanning three and a half meters, directly detected the beast's wide-open mouth, which was rushing straight at him.

Using the force of his sideways movement, he retracted his fist and then threw a powerful punch, unleashing power equivalent to the initial stage of the second level of the Innate Realm.

With a loud "boom!", the beast was attacked by Chen Mo and fell straight down from the sky. Not only did it fall flat on its face, but its forelimbs, which had just punched Chen Mo, were also affected and deformed, leaving it with no hope of attacking Chen Mo.

The beast quickly got up, swaying and fussing, but found that this time it was quite dizzy, feeling unsteady and unable to stand.

This state made the beast extremely hostile towards Chen Mo. Its head was hurting so much from being hit. Damn little guy, where did he come from?
"How are you, Amo? Are you alright?" Ouyang Nan quickly stepped forward to ask after seeing Chen Mo stop and stare at the beast without even turning his head. She was extremely grateful for Chen Mo's protection earlier; her niece's husband was truly remarkable, always there for her in times of trouble.

In that situation, few other martial artists would have been willing to lend a helping hand.

"Nothing's wrong, everything's fine. But this beast has its eye on me now. Aunt, you'd better retreat a bit, in case the beast and I start fighting, it won't be able to take care of you."

Seeing the beast's expression and the hatred in its eyes, Chen Mo quickly told Ouyang Nan to retreat.

Upon hearing this, Ouyang Nan retreated several dozen meters to see how the beast would react. Her recent battle with the beast, which nearly cost her her life, gave her a clear understanding of her own strength. She realized she needed to cultivate more, otherwise she wouldn't be able to defeat even the beast.

The beast suddenly spread its webbed forelimbs, revealing gleaming claws, and then charged at Chen Mo again at great speed. It seemed to want to use its sharp claws to tear Chen Mo apart.

Originally, the alien beast's body was incredibly large, and Chen Mo was really small compared to it, only about twice the size of the alien beast's teeth. So when the alien beast rushed over to tear Chen Mo apart, it was like a human rushing towards a sparrow; it could easily crush him to dust.

Unfortunately for Chen Mo, the beast attacked him. He dodged the long claws with a quick movement, then returned to the beast's head and delivered a powerful punch to its protruding nose.

This seemed to make the strange beasts sense the door to a new world.

He immediately turned around and retreated dozens of meters at high speed, clutching his nose and roaring helplessly, while constantly glaring fiercely at Chen Mo.

This tiny two-legged creature in front of me is utterly wicked; it's really going too far to bully animals!
After a while, the beast calmed down. Then it stood a few dozen meters away from Chen Mo, watching him and pacing back and forth, but it showed no intention of attacking him again.

Finally, seemingly considering that the two-legged beast in front of it was difficult to deal with, and that it itself was also a little injured, it roared at Chen Mo again, then turned around and quickly reached the edge of the lake. It then leaped up and plunged into the lake, disappearing with a splash.

With the disappearance of the strange beast, only the calm lake water remained, seemingly rippling incessantly, as if telling the story of the strange beast's appearance.

When the others saw the strange beast disappear into the lake, they all rushed over immediately.

"Amo, are you alright?" Ouyang Ruoxi ran up to Chen Mo and asked worriedly.

"It's alright, look, I'm fine." Chen Mo quickly showed off, turning around twice before continuing, "Besides, that beast wasn't that strong. Although it couldn't do anything to me, it couldn't do anything to me either, so it retreated back into the lake." "That's good. I was really worried just now, especially when that beast kicked up dust, obscuring the surroundings, making it impossible to see your battle with it. I was really worried about you." Ouyang Ruoxi's thoughts were entirely focused on Chen Mo at this moment. Her former aloofness and quietness had vanished.

Ouyang Nan and Ouyang Nana could only stand behind them, getting fed a mouthful of dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection), but what could they do but watch awkwardly from the sidelines?

"Captain, this beast seems very strong. What should we do?"

Qian Zhenghao really didn't want to witness their public display of affection, so he quickly interrupted Chen Mo and Ouyang Ruoxi's interaction and instead asked Ouyang Nan. He actually wanted to ask Chen Mo more about his experience fighting the alien beast, since Chen Mo had exchanged several blows with it and was naturally the most qualified to speak on the matter.

But seeing him and Ouyang Ruoxi being so affectionate, and afraid of getting beaten up if she interrupted, she could only ask Ouyang Nan for help.

Ouyang Nan hadn't even fought the alien beast before Chen Mo left her behind, so when she heard Qian Zhenghao's question, she thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to that building first and see if that stone button is still there. If it is, then the button is probably what summons that alien beast, and there might be some connection between the alien beast's teeth and this building."

"Perhaps, leaving the beast's teeth and inserting them into that deep hole will solve our problem of crossing the lake."

As Ouyang Nan spoke, she walked toward the building, and the others followed.

Sure enough, when they saw that the stone cylinder in the deep hole was still there, they knew that it was probably similar to what Ouyang Nan had said.

Even if this phenomenon has nothing to do with crossing the lake, you should still give it a try; you might discover something unexpected.

"Shall we press it again?" Qian Zhenghao couldn't help but ask Ouyang Nan again when he saw the cylindrical stone protruding.

Ouyang Nan shook his head, looked around at the surroundings, and then said, "Even if we lure out that beast, what then? We can't keep it here, nor can we get the fangs from its mouth."

"Captain, I still want to try. After all, pressing it only once doesn't prove that this thing is related to the beast. If the beast reappears after pressing it, then we can prove that our guess is correct. That way, we can give Elder Qian an explanation when we get back."

Qian Zhenghao's words did make some sense, but the other four looked at him with disdain. After all, they all understood that he was probably the only one they could report back to. Even if the four of them didn't bring back any news, Qian Ying couldn't say anything to them.

However, seeing Qian Zhenghao's eager expression, Ouyang Nan nodded and said, "You're right. But since it was your suggestion, you can press the button. The four of us will retreat one after another, and then run over after you press the button."

"Hmm, that's a good idea. We'll retreat to about 300 meters from the lake. It seems the beasts don't stray too far from the water. I noticed that when I fought with them before."

Chen Mo nodded in agreement with Ouyang Nan's suggestion and also shared his own conjecture.

As for drawing out the beasts again, once is enough. He's just the sixth member hidden in the group. Dealing with the beasts and completing the task of crossing the lake are tasks for Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing, and have little to do with him.

When Qian Zhenghao saw the four people retreat after they finished speaking, and even gave him a look that said "be careful," he immediately felt like complaining. These four people really deserved to die.

However, the suggestion he just made was his own, and Chen Mo and the others' idea was also good. He just wanted to get some credit in front of Elder Qian after returning, but he really only made a suggestion, not intended to press the button.

Actually, he would prefer Chen Mo to press the button, since he had just fought the alien beast and was more familiar with it than anyone else. Even if he didn't fight the alien beast, he could retreat quickly.

But now this has happened to me, which is really unlucky.

Seeing Ouyang Nan and the others getting further and further away, he didn't delay any longer and directly reached out and pressed the button.

"Ouch!"

Sure enough, as Qian Zhenghao pressed the button, the building roared loudly again, causing the entire lake to ripple. Layers of ripples spread outward from the building.

The scene was exactly the same as before: the same roars, the same tremors, the same ripples on the water, causing the entire valley to stir.

After pressing the button, Qian Zhenghao quickly ran after Ouyang Nan and the others.