Chapter 83: The Desperate Beast Should Be Pursued

"Ah?! How are you so strong?!"

Ren Li, who had been sweeping through the air, had originally intended to go with the flow and be knocked away—cough—to shift over here and join forces with Du En, so as to avoid letting the chance of victory and survival slip away; but as soon as he flew over and saw the scene of the Three-Tailed Iron Ox dying, he couldn't help but blurt it out.

"Now is not the time to talk about this."

Du En appeared from the smoke and dust, having already drawn his Black Steel Blade, his shattered Earth Armor covering him and recovering once more; one could vaguely see a bit of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

Relying only on his well-practiced Earth Armor and the strength of his own physical body, he still couldn't quite withstand a head-on collision from this Three-Tailed Iron Ox.

However, his attitude was calm and indifferent; as his mana surged and circulated, the minor internal injuries quickly mended and recovered.

Boom—

Just as Ren Li landed, he sprang up like a carp, his face glowing with health; he first spat out a mouthful of blood, then laughed as he spoke: "Right! Now is indeed not the time to talk about this; let's slaughter these beasts first!"

Ren Li's attitude did a complete one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn, because he had been extremely depressed, feeling that his future was dim and miserable, and then he had almost been five-on-one'd by this pack of demonic beasts and eaten alive, turning his future into his present right then and there.

He walked step by step, looking slow but actually being fast, arriving in front of this fierce tiger.

Ren Li couldn't help but secretly grumble to himself, because normally speaking, without prior knowledge, anyone facing the Evil Wind Tiger's move for the first time would fall for its trick.

The Evil Wind Tiger reacted in time, whipping up an evil wind to blow away the yellow sand, which looked unremarkable but was actually extremely insidious.

"I don't know, don't ask me!"

"It really is, after all, it is that Du En, Lord Du."

Unlike the others who were either anxious and uneasy or still harboring illusory fantasies, he was truly too calm—calmly getting straight to the point and asking about all the matters related to burying the corpses.

Its amber pupils shrank to a point, and the fierce tiger actually revealed a lifelike look of pity; in a trance, it seemed as if what stood in that spot was not a fierce tiger, but a weak and pitiful young girl, making one unable to help but feel sympathy.

What a truly good person!

"Hahaha, leave it to me; these two beasts—if I don't torture them severely, I won't be able to vent the hatred in my heart!"

"Don't fall for it, that is the person it killed and ate..."

The remaining tiger, wolf, and pangolin now subconsciously felt a sense of cowardice.

The smell of blood permeated from all directions, and the lingering traces of the demonic beasts' demonic power remained; Ning Caize and the others, who had already come to their senses, had a completely different mindset.

However, the reversal of the situation also meant the reversal of the initiative.

"Roar!"

However, their moods were not calm; on the contrary, they felt it was quite absurd.

When he had mentioned this to others in the corpse-handling business back then, they hadn't believed him!

Behind him, the two demonic beasts that had been stripped of their shells and skinned had already breathed their last.

A handful of yellow sand came rushing toward them, sprinkling directly in front of the White Wolf.

To achieve this with the cultivation of the late stage of Qi Refining, well, it wasn't actually that exaggerated; after all, he had been there holding them back just a moment ago!

The White Wolf still wanted to provide support, but a shield came spinning over, blocking the moon essence it had gathered head-on, and a large hammer came whistling through the air, chasing and biting directly at its waist.

Consequently, the few that were too large were collected by Ren Li, and the others loaded the remaining demonic beast corpses onto carts.

He chased after the demonic beast pack as they left this area.

Before they could choose to retreat, the two people here rose up simultaneously.

Ning Caize couldn't help but recall the time he first saw Du En.

"... Well, although it's quite abrupt, thinking about it carefully, it also seems quite normal."

Ren Li chased down a few more fish that had slipped through the net, and now, having the demonic beasts that could be used to pull the carts do so, he followed the trail of Du En's pursuit of the demonic beasts.

Once it went in, there was no sound; one couldn't tell if it was dead or alive, but in any case, Du En did not go after it.

The others also nodded in unison.

Du En watched those demonic beasts that were turning around to flee and charged out directly; his speed was incredibly fast, flashing behind a gray wolf, swinging his blade—squelch—the beast died.

Scaring them so much that they were even more terrified, they ran even faster.

The spell that had just been able to trap even a brute-force demonic beast like the Three-Tailed Iron Ox for a moment was used on the Evil Wind Tiger, and it, having failed to dodge, was instantly bound.

The road was filled with corpses, all beheaded with a single blade.

"Ah? Can we go back?"

Ren Li walked back, covered in blood.

After all, they had come to have a meal to replenish their consumption; there was no need to keep bumping into such a tough nut to crack!

The fierce tiger roared in a sorry state, and an evil wind exploded, intending to blow Du En away.

Their expressions were already shocked to the point of numbness, and they just mechanically moved the corpses and loaded the carts.

Scattering sand!

This person who only knew how to laugh loudly was not scary; the person who was like an old stone on a mountain peak was the scary one. Now that they were facing him, it actually gave them the feeling of looking up at a Second-Tier Great King.

"What innate corpse-burying spirit body? I see it's clearly an innate decapitation spirit body; does he just like going for the head that much?"

Wood Spirit Entanglement!

"I pride myself on not bragging, but these five demonic beasts—even if it were one against four, I could actually still run away; one against three, I could win a pyrrhic victory; one against two, I could win quickly—but I feel I couldn't do it as smoothly as he does."

But it hadn't had time to be happy yet.

A genius in combat, he was not in the same category as him.

Since Ren Li had said so, the others naturally nodded repeatedly.

This made it completely unable to provide support.

"And, why can someone at the late stage of Qi Refining hack and slash through those First-Tier Perfection demonic beasts like vegetables?"

They wanted to leave.

As for the other pangolin, it was still fighting with that precious sword.

The situation has reversed!

Ah? This, you really are, a bit bloodless and tearless...

Ren Li had not finished speaking when he saw Du En strike directly with his blade, piercing the tiger's brain; with a burst of mana, white fluid flowed from its seven orifices, and its aura vanished completely.

"My mana is running a bit low; from here on, I'll have to rely on you, while I do my best to kill more of the weak demonic beasts."

Thus, Du En was able to arrive before the Fierce Wind Tiger.

"Alright, don't just stand there like fools; hurry up, move the carcass and load it onto the cart, it's time for us to head back."

"Applying emergency regulations, it is not a violation."

Then, in just one short day, all aspects of adaptation and adjustment were completed.

Ren Li was still grinding away at two First-Order Perfection demonic beasts.

"This, when did the Lord reach the late stage of Qi Refining?"

"I did think he would be able to accomplish something, but I never expected him to rise so quickly!"

Some even panicked and fled, charging into the wasteland over there.

However, this wind that could make the mountain forest bow could not shake his stride.

"Don't say you didn't expect it; I didn't expect it either!"

"Roar!"

Just as he finished muttering, he saw Du En pull out his Black Steel Blade and turn around.

Ren Li watched and bared his teeth, unable to help but rub his neck.

It had wanted to burrow into the ground to escape just now, but now that Ren Li had spare energy, the moment it revealed a flaw, three pieces of its armor were pried off; if it had truly ignored everything to burrow, it likely would have left behind most of its shell, and once it surfaced, it would be even less capable of fighting.

Now that the opportunity had been seized, the emotions that couldn't be vented just moments ago could naturally be released fiercely!

One against two, watch me beat you to death!

One against many is not a problem either.

Ren Li thought for a moment and nodded, saying: "His strength should be in combat, or rather, in the production and processing of carcasses!"

As for those demonic beasts pulling the cart, they were nearly scared to the point of wetting themselves, only trembling as they shrank their heads and buried them to pull the cart with all their might.

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