Chapter 168: Cultivating killing intent! Sneak attack!

"Hmm?!"

Jiang Ye's Fire Eyes saw it clearly.

After Xiao Huo bit down, the fire poison raged very quickly on the bear demon's wound.

Moreover, there was a trace of strange black energy in that fire poison.

In just a moment, dark red toxic sores grew on the bear demon's neck, each one swollen like a tumor, pus and blood flowing, looking very creepy.

Some sores had already ruptured, flowing out fishy yellow water, glowing with a strange luster under the moonlight.

Wherever the black energy passed, flesh and blood rapidly necrotized and rotted, and even the bones were corroded into fine holes.

"This little guy's toxicity is stronger than before."

Jiang Ye nodded secretly, a flash of satisfaction in his eyes.

Since Xiao Huo's last slumber, its toxicity had clearly gone up a level.

The addition of the black energy made its fire poison even more overbearing and strange, and even this bear demon with tenacious vitality couldn't hold on.

In future battles, he had an extra hidden ultimate move.

"ROAR... ROAR..."

The bear demon, which had collapsed, let out a weak and shrill wail.

Its blood-red eyes stared fixedly at Jiang Ye in mid-air; besides violence, there was now a trace of human-like pleading.

"This demonic beast's intelligence is truly not low; it's dying and still knows how to beg for mercy."

A flash of surprise crossed Jiang Ye's eyes.

Confirming that the bear demon had no strength left to struggle, he stepped on the night wind and landed slowly.

At this time.

HISS!!!

Xiao Huo drilled out from the bear demon's wound.

On its head, it carried a black-red pill, about the size of a longan, round and smooth, its surface faintly glowing, emitting a faint scorching aura, like an iron ball just taken out of a fire.

It crawled excitedly toward Jiang Ye, its two pairs of mandibles opening and closing, emitting a faint hissing sound, looking like it was asking for credit.

"This is... the bear demon's demonic pill!"

Jiang Ye was slightly startled.

He had heard Zheng Feng say that demonic beasts would condense demonic pills in their bodies; they were the crystallization of their cultivation, containing pure demonic power, and were also good materials for alchemy.

This bear demon's strength was not weak, and the demonic pill was worth a lot; if put on the market, it could sell for at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

HISS~~~

Xiao Huo, carrying the demonic pill, crawled excitedly around Jiang Ye, its dark red body twisting and turning under the moonlight, like a ball of jumping flames.

Afterward, it raised its head and looked at Jiang Ye with its pitch-black compound eyes, looking just like a puppy waiting for its master's reward.

The two were connected in heart.

Jiang Ye instantly understood what the little guy meant; it wanted to eat it.

Jiang Ye smiled faintly: "If you want to eat it, then eat it."

This little guy came out at the end to give it a final blow, so it could be considered to have contributed a little.

Although the demonic pill was precious, if Xiao Huo could benefit from it, it would be an extra help in future battles, so it was worth it.

HISS!!!

Hearing Jiang Ye allow it to eat the demonic pill, Xiao Huo twisted its body excitedly, its body almost twisting into a twist.

It bit the black-red demonic pill, its two pairs of mandibles closed tightly, and then with a "swish," it darted back into Jiang Ye's sleeve.

Fine chewing sounds came from the sleeve, along with Xiao Huo's satisfied hissing.

And this dying bear demon, after the demonic pill was taken by Xiao Huo, was like having its heart taken away.

No matter how tenacious its vitality was, the life in its eyes began to dissipate.

"ROAR..."

It stared fixedly at Jiang Ye, emitting a whimpering low sound from its mouth.

Jiang Ye let his palm fall lightly, taking away its last bit of vitality.

Jiang Ye withdrew his palm and looked down at the cold bear corpse.

He began to follow the secret method recorded in the "Qisha Scripture," channeling his mind, using killing intent as a guide and killing thoughts as a furnace, to strip, absorb, and refine the killing intent remaining on the bear demon's body bit by bit.

A cold, yin aura slowly floated up from the bear demon's corpse, in wisps, surging into Jiang Ye's glabella.

Unlike True Qi, killing intent is cultivated in the ancestral aperture of the glabella.

At the same time.

On the other side.

Zheng Hui stumbled through the dense forest, following the bloody smell.

Finally, under a crooked-neck tree, she found Zheng Feng.

She saw the other person sitting on the ground, pale-faced.

Leaning against the rough tree trunk, eyes closed, brows locked, chest heaving slightly, he was channeling energy to heal his wounds.

"BROTHER!!!"

Zheng Hui's eyes turned red instantly, her voice tinged with a sob, and she ran over.

Zheng Feng opened his eyes instantly, a flash of shock on his handsome, delicate face.

He didn't expect his sister to run here, his voice slightly weak, but still tinged with urgency:

"Why did you come here? Where is Elder Jiang? Did he get the Heavenly Spirit Fruit!"

Zheng Hui shook her head, her eyes red, tears swirling in them.

She squatted beside Zheng Feng, wanting to reach out to support him, but afraid of touching his wound, she retracted her hand halfway.

Her voice trembled:

"I smelled your blood... I was worried you were too heavily injured, so I came to find you."

She paused and quickly added:

"Before I came over, Elder Jiang was still picking the spirit fruit..."

"Don't worry, with Elder Jiang's strength, he must have succeeded!"

"I left a signal on the ground for him to meet at the place where we tied the horses after he got the spirit fruit."

Hearing this, Zheng Feng felt a bit more at ease, his tense face relaxing a bit, and he said softly:

"Xiao Hui, brother is not heavily injured; after resting for a while, I will be able to get up."

Hearing this, the nervousness in Zheng Hui's heart instantly settled.

Only, thinking of the bear demon's strength, Zheng Feng's brows still had a lingering worry.

"I hope Elder Jiang succeeds..."

He thought to himself.

"Almost there."

Jiang Ye, who was sitting cross-legged beside the bear demon, instantly opened his eyes.

There was a cold light in his aged eyes that hadn't been there before.

If evaluated by the amount of True Qi, he had cultivated about ten wisps of killing intent from the bear demon's corpse.

Each wisp was as thin as a thread, yet condensed like a needle, slowly swimming in the ancestral aperture of the glabella, emitting a chilling coldness.

According to the records in the "Seven Killings Scripture," he had already stepped into the first realm, which could be considered the initial threshold of the Killing Dao.

Most people, even with the secret method in hand, would take at least several years to cultivate this amount of killing intent.

And he, in just half an incense stick's time, had absorbed several years of hard work from others from a dying demonic beast.

Having superb comprehension is like this.

Jiang Ye stood up and was about to find Zheng Hui when he suddenly frowned.

His enhanced five senses clearly captured an abnormality.

A surging, scorching fire aura was attacking him silently from behind.

The fire aura was as scorching as a furnace, condensed like a needle, far more condensed than True Qi, and wherever it passed, even the moisture in the air was instantly evaporated.

"Is it Divine Qi?!"

Jiang Ye, with his keen perception, was shocked, tapped his feet, and his figure instantly flashed away.

His speed was astonishing, leaving a residual image in place, and in an instant, he moved several meters away.

PFFT!

The fire aura brushed past his robes and hit a pine tree behind him.

The pine tree, as thick as a bowl, didn't even go through the process of burning, but turned directly into ash, not even having time to emit green smoke, and was completely swallowed by the scorching fire aura.

The ground was left with a scorched black gully, the edges still emitting wisps of green smoke, emitting a choking burnt smell.

Jiang Ye looked back; the person who had sneak-attacked him was actually that Divine Qi Realm martial artist from the Chiyan Sect.