Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 347 The Deer's Cry [Please Subscribe]

In the raging forest, Zhou Chun hid under the embers of a fire, his eyes filled with astonishment and doubt.

Just now, when he was about to capture the Wood Spirit, he was surprised to find that the Wood Spirit's aura was constantly increasing, and it was now comparable to a third-tier demon beast.

Upon realizing this, he immediately stopped his actions and found this place to hide.

He was well aware that a third-tier wood spirit was far beyond his ability to capture.

Zhou Chun knew even better that Mu Mei could never have possessed the strength of a third-tier demon beast.

Otherwise, the Huang family, a mere family, would never dare to lay a finger on it.

It is important to know that in this forest, the strength of the wood spirit will be greatly enhanced, just like a dragon in the water, or even more exaggerated.

Even a low-grade third-tier demon beast like the Wood Spirit is beyond the reach of Huang's mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator.

Therefore, Wood Spirit's current state is very strange!

In light of this, Zhou Chun decisively stopped his operation and chose to hide on the spot.

He carefully recalled the situation of the wood spirit he had just seen, and he quickly grasped the faint green light in his mind.

"That must be the life essence of those plants that have been stripped of their vitality, so is it these things that temporarily boosted the wood spirit's cultivation level?"

A look of surprise and doubt flashed in Zhou Chun's eyes, and he couldn't help but recall the information about wood spirits in the ancient books.

However, perhaps due to the unique nature of the Wood Spirit, Zhou Chun recalled the information recorded in the ancient texts and found that the descriptions of the Wood Spirit's supernatural abilities in several texts were not entirely the same.

In some ancient texts, wood spirits are skilled in illusion, able to transform into birds and beasts to hide themselves, or even transform into humans to communicate with people.

In some ancient texts, wood spirits are described as extremely malevolent creatures that can devour the life essence of birds, beasts, and even cultivators, and even turn the souls of cultivators into ghostly servants.

In other ancient texts, the Wood Spirit is portrayed as a kind and loving monster with superb healing skills. It heals injured monsters and wild animals in the forest and is followed and protected by all the beasts.

In some ancient texts, senior cultivators have made speculations about the different versions of the rumors about wood spirits, believing that the reason why the supernatural abilities and temperaments of wood spirits vary so greatly is related to the ancient trees that nurtured them and their growth experiences.

The wood spirit, which enjoys consuming the essence of birds, beasts, and cultivators, may actually be a vampire vine or a blood-devouring tree.

It can transform a cultivator's soul into a ghostly creature that can be used by a tree. Its true form may be a ghostly locust tree or a yin spirit tree.

This speculation sounds plausible, but without supporting evidence, it remains just that—speculation.

However, if we follow this line of thought, the fact that the wood spirit Zhou Chun discovered can temporarily enhance its cultivation by absorbing the life essence of other plants and trees might also be related to its original form.

This made Zhou Chun even more curious about what kind of tree it was.

Just as Zhou Chun was surprised by the changes in the wood spirit, the Huang family cultivators who had seen the communication fireworks arrived one after another, including the Huang family cultivator with the mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivation.

However, when the Huang family's Supreme Elder arrived at the scene and saw the blue deer making firebreaks, his expression changed slightly, and he immediately saw through the change in the deer's aura and cultivation level.

"What happened? When did this wood spirit advance to a third-tier demon beast?"

Huang Boxiong stared at the wood spirit in shock, then immediately turned to question the Huang family cultivator who had first discovered it.

Upon hearing this, the Huang family cultivator hurriedly protested, "Elder, please understand! This junior knew nothing about this matter. I sent a signal after discovering it, and then all I saw was it running around trying to put out the fire!"

"Is that so?"

Huang Boxiong glanced at the wood spirit whose aura was still increasing, and seemed to understand the reason for the wood spirit's increased cultivation.

After pondering for a moment, he immediately ordered, "Go, set a few more fires in there. I want to see how it tries to save itself!"

"Yes."

Several Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Huang family immediately obeyed the order, dispersed, and set fires behind the isolation zone.

This despicable behavior quickly enraged the blue deer.

Yo—

The clear, ethereal cry of the deer echoed through the forest, and the children of the forest were thoroughly enraged!

A flash of blue light appeared, and the figure of the blue deer vanished from its spot in an instant.

Then, a blue light emerged above an ancient tree below a Huang family cultivator who was returning to Huang Boxiong's side, and the figure of a blue deer appeared.

not good!

Huang Boxiong's expression changed; he had already realized something the moment Qinglu's figure disappeared.

However, he sent out three people to set fires, and he didn't know which one Qinglu would choose to attack.

When he spotted Qinglu and tried to rescue her, it was too late.

As the azure deer reappeared, it tilted its head back, opened its mouth, and spat out a green wooden spike that shot towards the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Huang family.

It appears to be a very basic "wooden spike technique".

However, the Huang family cultivator, who was at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, was completely powerless against this wooden spike.

The second-tier defensive magic shield he had summoned was easily pierced by the wooden spike, torn to pieces, and then his own body was also pierced, causing him to perish on the spot!

"Dehai!!"

Huang Boxiong called out the name of the fallen man with a grim expression, but unfortunately, the younger generation could not hear him.

"You beast, take this!"

He roared angrily, and with a flick of his wrist, a cyan-red flying sword shot out, heading straight for Qinglu.

However, Qinglu did not fight him head-on. Instead, it stomped its four hooves and instantly turned into a blue light, disappearing from the spot using the Wood Release technique.

Boom!

With a deafening roar, the tree where Qinglu had been standing was severed by the flying sword and collapsed with a crash.

However, Qinglu appeared on a tree beneath another Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Huang family and launched an attack using the same tactic.

However, this Huang family cultivator was prepared. When the green deer appeared, he suddenly accelerated and left the spot.

At the same time, Huang Boxiong quickly and proactively summoned a brownish-yellow wooden shield to protect his junior and block the attack from the green deer.

Then, turning to the younger generation, he said in a stern voice, "You all retreat now; you are no longer needed here!"

However, he knew in his heart that if these juniors stayed here, they would only become a burden to him, in the face of Qinglu, who already possessed the strength of the third rank.

The remaining three Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Huang family were naturally eager to obey his order, and upon hearing it, they gathered together and attempted to break out of the encirclement.

Huang Po-hsiung also joined the escort at this time, first escorting a few of the younger generation away.

Unexpectedly, Qinglu became relentless and launched a pursuit against them.

Seeing this, Huang Boxiong had an idea and suddenly led his younger generation to fly towards the places that had been reduced to scorched earth.

Sure enough, to his dismay or dismay, Qinglu stopped its pursuit as soon as they entered the scorched land.

Clearly, although she was already in a state of rage, Qinglu had not lost her reason and vigilance, and would not set foot on that scorched earth that rendered her Wood Release technique ineffective.

After escaping the pursuit of the blue deer by turning the forest into scorched earth, Huang Boxiong instructed several of his family's younger generations to take refuge on the scorched land while he himself turned back to confront the blue deer.

He also didn't believe that the Azure Deer had truly advanced to the third-tier demon beast level, but rather that it had temporarily raised its cultivation to the third tier through a special supernatural power.

As long as he persists in fighting that green deer, he can definitely hold out until its supernatural powers become ineffective.

Now that he had discovered Qinglu's dedication to protecting the forest, he was no longer worried that Qinglu would continue to avoid fighting him.

Soon, the burning forest became the battlefield between Qinglu and Huang Boxiong.

"Indeed, these natural spirits, though intelligent, still have their limitations!"

What makes us human is our ability to control certain instinctive desires and not become slaves to them!

"Although this wood spirit is intelligent, it is still driven by its instincts and cannot break free from them!"

In the shadows, Zhou Chun watched the ever-changing situation and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, lamenting the stubbornness of the Wood Spirit.

In fact, with the abilities of the Wood Spirit, it's entirely possible that Huang Boxiong wouldn't have been able to control it like this.

However, driven by instinct and nature, it made this choice, which was very detrimental to itself.

Perhaps this is the difference between humans and monsters!

As a result, Zhou Chun's plan to capture the Wood Spirit was undoubtedly doomed to failure.

This made him secretly anxious.

Time passed slowly, and soon the battlefield between Mu Mei and Huang Boxiong moved to the depths of the other side of the forest, a distance of seventy or eighty miles from Zhou Chun's location.

Being so far away, Zhou Chun could only hear the clear, ethereal cries of the deer and the booming sounds of battle; he had lost all knowledge of the specific situation on the battlefield.

This forced him to come out of his hiding place and think about his next move.

After standing on the ground, looking around and pondering for a long time, he suddenly seemed to have made up his mind and rushed towards the resting place of the Huang family's Foundation Establishment cultivators.

At this moment, several Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Huang family also lost control of the battlefield situation. They gathered on the scorched land, and everyone looked grim.

This time, the Huang family mobilized their entire force to hunt the wood spirits, even going so far as to set fire to the forest.

If they still haven't captured the Wood Spirit after all this, then the Huang family will suffer huge losses and troubles.

Therefore, everyone is now feeling very uneasy.

However, what they never expected was that a terrible hunter had already set his sights on them.

Several miles away, out of the sight of the Huang family cultivators, Zhou Chun used his "Insect Puppet Technique" to scout the area before decisively charging towards them.

He's going to pull off a big heist!

Yes, Zhou Chun had his eye on these Huang family cultivators, intending to wipe them out and force that Huang family Purple Mansion stage cultivator to return.

He had already checked. Of the three Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Huang family, only one was a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, while the other two were a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator and an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, respectively.

These three people could not possibly be his match.

"Hmm? Something's up!"

On the scorched earth, the three Huang family cultivators quickly spotted Zhou Chun rushing towards them and flew up from the ground together.

"It's him! It's that monk who came to warn us before!"

Soon, the Huang family cultivators who had met Zhou Chun before recognized him.

The late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Huang family quickly said, "This person's intentions are hostile; prepare to meet the enemy!"

After saying that, he shouted at Zhou Chun, "The Huang family cultivators of Huangshi Mountain are here on business. Stop right there!"

But Zhou Chun showed no intention of stopping and soon came within ten miles of them.

Seeing this, the Huang family cultivator immediately ordered in a deep voice, "Attack together! Take him down!"

After saying that, he patted his storage bag at his waist and summoned a magical artifact.

At the same time, Zhou Chun, who was flying rapidly towards them, patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist with both hands, releasing the three spirit pets and all the "Mysterious Armor Golden Feathers" and "Flying Fire Scorpions".

"Men, kill them!"

With a thought in mind, Zhou Chun immediately issued a kill order to all the spirit pets and demonic insects.

Upon seeing Zhou Chun suddenly release three second-tier demonic beasts and two swarms of demonic insects, the Huang family cultivator who was about to attack him immediately narrowed his eyes and shouted, "Not good! The villains are too powerful! We must retreat!"

After saying that, he turned and fled.

The other two Huang family cultivators were also terrified and quickly scattered to escape, none of them daring to stay and fight Zhou Chun.

But trying to escape at this point is undoubtedly too late.

The Golden-Winged Tiger and the Silver Lightning Python each let out a long roar and immediately sped off in pursuit of a Huang family cultivator.

Zhou Chun also used the "Flowing Golden Rainbow" secret technique to accelerate, and easily caught up with the late Foundation Establishment stage Huang family cultivator.

Seeing this, the Huang family cultivator had no choice but to stop. He activated his magical artifact to protect himself while shouting angrily, "I have never met you before, fellow Daoist, and have no grudge against you. Why do you want to kill me? You should know that my Huang family's Supreme Elder is not far away. Are you not afraid that he will avenge us?"

Just as he spoke, a loud boom came from the sky not far away. It was a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Huang family who activated a communication firework to call for help.

"Your Huang family has committed heinous acts, setting fire to the forest for your own selfish gain, causing immense suffering and death. I, Zhou, am merely acting on behalf of Heaven!"

While responding to the Huang family cultivator's words, Zhou Chun unleashed his magic weapon without holding back and launched a fierce attack, while the two demonic insects behind him were also rapidly approaching.

In fact, his choice to kill the Huang family members was certainly not for any purpose of upholding justice.

But what he said wasn't entirely nonsense.

The Huang family's burning of the forest not only caused suffering to birds and beasts, but also many independent cultivators who frequented the forest.

Many rogue cultivators were attacked and killed by frightened demonic beasts, while others were silenced by Huang family cultivators.

"What utter nonsense about upholding justice! I, Huang, will fight you to the death!"

The Huang family cultivator probably knew he was unlikely to survive, so he immediately reached out and pulled out several second-tier magic talismans, activating them all in a desperate attempt to fight to the death.

However, his actions only hastened his own demise.

Once the "Flying Fire Scorpion" arrived, a single volley of scorpion stingers helped Zhou Chun break through the Huang family cultivator's defenses and cut him down to the ground.

Without hesitation, Zhou Chun turned around and charged at the other two Huang family cultivators.

In just a short while, the three Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Huang family were all beheaded, and Zhou Chun put their bodies into his storage bag for later use.

Zhou Chun didn't even have time to clean up the battlefield. He only collected the magical artifacts left behind by the three people, put away all the spirit pets and demonic insects, and quickly left the scene as fast as possible.

Second update!

(End of this chapter)