King of Creation
Chapter 126: Chapter 124: Plotting Against the Cloud Winged Tiger (Three updates, seeking subscriptions and monthly tickets)
Whoosh!
A Warning Talisman suddenly flew out from the Yin Mountain Range, exploding into a beautiful flower of light in the sky, lingering for a long time.
Almost as soon as the Warning Talisman rose, Chu Jun, who was searching in the sky, plunged straight down.
The scene before him made Chu Jun’s hands tremble uncontrollably, "What happened, didn’t I tell you all to be careful? How did the third team still get killed!"
This was a hollow in the forest, where six bodies lay in disarray, some torn in half, some missing a side of their body, and a few Demon Beast corpses as well.
It looked as if they had been suddenly ambushed by Demon Beasts and then all killed!
"Big Brother Chu, we saw their Rescue Talisman Light and it took us less than two hundred breaths to arrive. By the time we got here, it was already like this..."
Elder Zhou of the Lishui Sect’s Inner Sect wore an extremely awkward expression. Although he bore the title of elder, he held no status in front of Chu Jun, the Sect Leader’s son and a True Disciple.
"The third team now, in a day and a half, out of the six teams that pursued, three teams have been killed. How are you handling this? Encountering Demon Beasts, can’t you fight or even escape?" Chu Jun bellowed.
"Big Brother Chu, on one of our disciples’ bodies, we found a very shallow sword wound, identical to the one we found last time. Come and see!" Elder Zhou explained.
Upon inspection, Chu Jun’s teeth gnashed with a grating sound, "Ye Zhen, it’s Ye Zhen that bastard again! Attracting Demon Beasts and ambushing from behind!"
"Big Brother Chu, looking at it this way, the disciples from the first group who were wiped out by Demon Beasts were also tricked by Ye Zhen," Elder Zhou said respectfully.
"Ye Zhen, don’t let me catch you!" Chu Jun clenched his fists so tightly they crackled, his entire body’s spiritual power fluctuating.
"Just to be safe, divide all the remaining people into two groups for echoed search! I refuse to believe that Ye Zhen would dare to come over with a team of more than a dozen people."
"Search, immediately split up and search for me! Ye Zhen has been able to set us up, so he must not be far from us; he might even be nearby!"
"Elder Zhou, you keep a sharp watch for me. If another disciple dies or gets injured, I’ll hold you accountable!" Chu Jun roared frantically.
The loss of so many disciples was heartbreaking for Chu Jun.
Most of the disciples who could track down to this location were inner disciples of the Lishui Sect, the future of the sect. Yet in a day and a half, eighteen had met a gruesome death.
What pained Chu Jun even more were the three Peak of Spirit Summoning Realm disciples who were killed outside the Yin Mountain Blood Gorge. Those were all Quasi True Inheritors of the Lishui Sect.
Even if the breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm was extremely difficult, at least one of those three would have become a True Disciple within three years.
A future True Disciple of the Lishui Sect had met an early demise.
Chu Jun was in agony.
The loss of each disciple was like cutting a piece of flesh from his own heart!
In a way, Chu Jun had come to regard the foundation of the Lishui Sect as his own. With his cultivation, there was no problem for him to inherit his father’s position in the future.
The forces of the Lishui Sect were the foundation of his future team!
The next instant, Chu Jun soared up, his eyes, aglow with concentrated spiritual power, shone like two dazzling stars, pushing his eyesight to the limit.
So much so that when he was flying at low altitude, as long as there was no obstruction to his vision, everything was crystal clear—even the few blades of grass that had been trampled and broken, and even a few drops of human blood, could be discerned clearly.
In his field of view, demon beasts of various shapes and sizes flashed by under Chu Jun’s gaze, and his eye power was so acute that he could see the Illusion Serpent King swiftly twisting through the underbrush with absolute clarity.
However, after Chu Jun had searched the entire area within dozens of miles, he couldn’t find a single human figure.
"Where could this bastard be hiding? In the 15 minutes of effort, even a martial artist at the True Essence Realm Fifth Stage, if they went against the heavens, couldn’t escape the fifty-mile radius, but why can’t I find anyone?"
In the air, Chu Jun concentrated, pondering hard, somewhat incredulous as he once again meticulously searched within the fifty-mile radius.
This time, Chu Jun flew even lower and searched even more carefully.
Dozens of miles away, once the Illusion Serpent King slithered into the dense forest, it rolled its body and instantly transformed into the likeness of Ye Zhen.
Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Ye Zhen dashed like lightning through the forest, listening intently to the sounds of the beast creatures in the mountains as he ran, searching for any information that might be advantageous to him.
Indeed, all three teams from the Lishui Sect that had been completely annihilated were by Ye Zhen’s doing.
However, mainly it was with the help of the demon beasts in the mountains.
Ye Zhen had earlier identified the demon beasts in the nearby region, carefully luring them with blood food to the Lishui Sect’s hunting teams’ inevitable path.
Then, while the Lishui Sect disciples were engaged in fierce battle with the demon beasts, he would quickly ambush and kill them in stealth.
The contact between each Lishui Sect hunting team was very tight, leaving Ye Zhen very little time.
Just now, after annihilating a hunting team from the Lishui Sect, Ye Zhen had only escaped five or six miles before the other teams’ warning talismans soared into the sky.
In his urgency, Ye Zhen transformed directly into the appearance of the Illusion Serpent King to escape from here. He had been scanned several times by Chu Jun’s eyesight, which had startled a cold sweat out of Ye Zhen.
Because Chu Jun had been searching from a high altitude the entire time, if Ye Zhen had a choice, he would always move through the dense forest. Open areas were too dangerous.
While traversing, Ye Zhen listened carefully, identifying every possible factor that might help him.
"Brother, don’t worry, this is the territory of the Cloud Winged Tiger. No other creature would dare to barge in and eat us; we’re safe!"
"Safe? What if the Cloud Winged Tiger sees us as food and starts hunting us?"
"Go on, with our size, we wouldn’t even be enough to get stuck in the Cloud Winged Tiger’s teeth, right? Even if you wanted to be the Cloud Winged Tiger’s food, they might not even fancy eating you!"
In the dense forest, two Golden Silk Spirit Monkeys were quietly conversing at the top of the trees.
"Cloud Winged Tiger?"
Ye Zhen’s complexion suddenly changed, and he turned, ready to leave in the opposite direction.
Once adult, the Cloud Winged Tiger was a Mid-grade Earth Level demon beast, with extremely formidable combat power. The Cloud Winged Tiger King, even more fearsome, was an Upper-grade Earth Level demon beast.
Most importantly, the Cloud Winged Tiger could form Cloud Wings for sky-soaring flight, incredibly fast, and its combat power often exceeded its grade.
A Mid-grade Earth Level Cloud Winged Tiger could often unleash the combat power of an Upper-grade Earth Level demon beast. If Ye Zhen encountered one, he might not even withstand a single blow before being finished off.
Therefore, upon learning that he had stepped into the Cloud Winged Tiger’s territory, Ye Zhen planned to run as far away as possible.
Suddenly, the continued chatter of the two Golden Silk Spirit Monkeys halted Ye Zhen’s steps once more.
"We might not be good enough to be food for a Cloud Winged Tiger, but what if we were caught and given to the tiger cubs as food?
I’ve heard that the Cloud Winged Tigers often start catching nimble little creatures for their young to pounce on and eat, to cultivate their combat power. In that case, we, with no ability to cause harm and agile at that, would be the perfect choice," said one of the Golden Silk Spirit Monkeys.
"Yeah, exactly! That Cloud Winged Tiger has just given birth to two cubs, if it catches us..."
The news of ’two tiger cubs’ immediately rooted Ye Zhen’s steps to the spot.
Especially since Ye Zhen had just acquired a tome of the Hundred Beast Spirit Communing Technique, if he could get a young tiger cub......
The temptation was too great!
After a long while, Ye Zhen applied the Breath Concealment Technique he had learned from the sect to its extreme, minimizing the fluctuations of his Blood Qi, and headed towards the lair of the Cloud Winged Tiger.
Of course, Ye Zhen wasn’t blinded by greed. He planned to take a look, and if there was a chance, he would act; if there wasn’t, he would leave immediately, without any hesitation.
The adult Cloud Winged Tiger was rather large, and its den was quite noticeable.
Sometime later, Ye Zhen saw the tiger’s den, located behind some rocks, from atop a tree a kilometer away.
In the den, a Cloud Winged Tiger with a body length of over five meters, sporting cloud-white patterned fur, was playing with two cubs only about the size of two palms.
You could see two very short fleshy wings on the sides of the Cloud Winged Tiger; these were the origins of the Cloud Wings.
After waiting carefully for nearly two hours, Ye Zhen discarded the thought of stealing the young Cloud Winged Tiger.
The Cloud Winged Tiger hardly left its side, and even if Ye Zhen managed to steal one, he would not be able to escape the pursuit of the Cloud Winged Tiger. Mainly because Ye Zhen’s speed was too slow compared to the Cloud Winged Tiger’s.
As long as the Cloud Winged Tiger caught even a whiff of the scent, it would be the end of Ye Zhen’s life.
Suddenly, the sound of someone stepping on dry leaves came from behind the dense forest.
Ye Zhen climbed to the top of the tree and looked in the distance, seeing Chu Jun suddenly entering this dense forest, carefully searching for Ye Zhen’s traces.
"No good, I must leave immediately..."
Roar!
Just as Ye Zhen had the thought, the Cloud Winged Tiger roared. Its short, fleshy wings suddenly sprouted enormous milky-white Cloud Wings. With a flap of its wings, the tiger soared into the air and like a flash of lightning, pounced toward the distant forest.
Had the Cloud Winged Tiger gone to hunt?
In the blink of an eye, an extremely risky but possibly double-winning idea sprang into Ye Zhen’s mind.
With time pressing, almost without any further thought, Ye Zhen’s figure slid from the treetop like a large bird, executing the Chasing Star Step’s Direct Step at full speed, rushing towards the den a kilometer away.
Once the Chasing Star Step’s Direct Step was fully employed, one could leap nearly a hundred meters with a single step. In a dozen breaths, Ye Zhen had arrived in front of the tiger’s den.
"Roar, roar..."
The two young Cloud Winged Tigers growled lowly at Ye Zhen, but to his ears, the sounds meant something else.
"Mom is not home, don’t come near..."
"If you come closer, my mom will eat you..."
With a chuckle, Ye Zhen stretched out his ape-like arms and caught one of the Cloud Winged Tiger cubs in his embrace. As the other young Cloud Winged Tiger cried out in its infantile voice, Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense moved, and he swiftly transformed into a Silver Line Demon Eagle.
The next moment, with a spread of its wings, the Silver Line Demon Eagle soared into the sky, speeding past the dense forest from above, towards the direction Chu Jun was heading.
The flight speed of the transformed Silver Line Demon Eagle was very fast, and in less than a hundred breaths, it flew nearly ten li, approaching Chu Jun searching in the dense forest from above.
Screech!
The Silver Line Demon Eagle, transformed by Ye Zhen, let out the distinctive cry of a Silver Line Demon Eagle.
Below, Chu Jun, upon hearing the cry of the Silver Line Demon Eagle, trembled, and one of his eyes immediately reddened.
The Silver Line Demon Eagle was one of the chief culprits that had caused his loss of an eye and was also one of the demon beasts he hated the most.
In most cases, if he encountered a Silver Line Demon Eagle, as long it wasn’t the Silver Line Demon Eagle King, he would soar into the sky and slaughter it to vent his anger.
This cry immediately turned Chu Jun’s gaze skyward, and upon seeing just an ordinary Silver Line Demon Eagle, killing intent surged uncontrollably.
Whoosh!
Almost simultaneously, a white object fell from the embrace of the Silver Line Demon Eagle in the sky, plummeting towards Chu Jun at high speed.
Instinctively, Chu Jun drew his sword to strike.
Roar!
Suddenly, an infantile tiger’s roar made Chu Jun retract his sword light and catch the white object.
The moment he caught it, Chu Jun was stunned, then burst into ecstasy.
"A Cloud Winged Tiger, and it’s a cub at that?"
"To think I could find a mid-grade Earth Level Cloud Winged young tiger, my luck is just too good, isn’t it?" Chu Jun, aware of the value of the young Cloud Winged Tiger, couldn’t help but laugh heartily.
This was perhaps the happiest moment for him in the past few days.
"Roar... wuu wuu wuu..."
The young Cloud Winged Tiger in Chu Jun’s arms, panicking, couldn’t help but whine.
Almost at the same time, a soul-shaking, rage-filled tiger’s roar erupted ten-odd li away, resounding through the entire sky.
"Roar!"
The moment he heard the Cloud Winged Tiger’s roar, the young Cloud Winged Tiger in Chu Jun’s arms anxiously growled in response.(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)

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