BXBX NOVEL Chapter 179 - 115: Internal Warfare of Demon
Translator: 549690339
Upon confirming that combat held little to no purification effect on spirit power for cultivators at the seventh level of Qi Refinement, Luo Chen lost interest in such actions.
Subsequently, he spent most of his time in the Pill Hall.
Refining pills, cultivating, reading, and digging tunnels.
Yes, that’s right, digging tunnels!
After half a month of hard work, he successfully dug a tunnel that led directly to the Xiao Yue Mountain Range.
As a result, he had worn out a first order lower grade flying sword and even managed to level up his Mountain Breaking Palm technique to the grandmaster level.
Surprisingly, a grandmaster level Mountain Breaking Palm was pretty impressive.
With every palm strike, his spirit power was profound and concentrated.
Outside of the rather short range of only about 30 meters, it almost had no flaws.
The power of a strike was hardly inferior to that of an Ascendant Grade magic tool.
“No wonder Brother Wang’s book was imitated and resold in no time after its release.”
“It indeed has its merit!”
With a smirk, Luo Chen felt elated not only due to this.
During regular battles between cultivators, unless it’s something special like a Dao Debate Platform, both parties generally maintain a considerable distance from each other.
With a distance of just 30 meters, it’s hard to hit one’s opponent.
Whose magic tool can’t easily fly hundreds of meters for a kill!
What pleased him was that this set of palm techniques provided him with four achievement points and it would present one more upon reaching the finalization stage.
With a soft chuckle, Luo Chen released a slight amount of his spirit power and broke through the rock wall that stood before him.
A gust of refreshing mountain wind gushed in at night.
Stepping out of the tunnel, Luo Chen looked down.
The pale moonlight descended from the night sky, illuminating the silver-white forest snowfield as if it were daytime.
The place where he stood was halfway up a mountain range.
The Star Silver Mine of Crescent Valley had extended to the interiors of the Xiao Yue Mountain Range.
Though it might still be far from the core area, it was already a place where very few cultivators dared to tread.
Suddenly, Luo Chen retreated back into the cave.
The Concealing Breath Mantra was activated to its full potential!
“Oooo!”
There was a trace of sorrow and desolation in the sound that was particularly horrifying at this time of the night.
“Second Order Demon Wolves!”
Luo Chen stiffened like a dried-up tree, doing his utmost to curb the fluctuations of his blood and Qi power, even his spirit power was retracted to the extreme.
Thanks to his dedicated practice over several months, the Concealing Breath Mantra had finally reached the grandmaster level.
It was enough to cover up his power level from Gu Caiyi and other cultivators at the ninth level of Qi Refinement.
But as for whether it could fool a second-order demon beast, he wasn’t certain at all.
“I hope my way to survival won’t become my route to death.”
Luo Chen was on high alert, silently listening to the movement outside.
With the wolf howl echoing, other wolves from nearby mountains chimed in, rending the air with their collective sonic cry.
Upon hearing that, it felt like there were tens of thousands of them.
The Great River District was near the Eastern Wasteland Million Mountains, but most cultivators usually ventured into the Ancient Plains Mountain Range.
They dare not venture into the equally resource-rich Xiao Yue Mountain Range, a vast stretch of hundreds of mountains.
The primary reason was that there were hardly any types of demon beasts other than the Demon Wolf Clan dominating the mountain range.
Just while squatting here for a while, Luo Chen heard more than a dozen powerful and sturdy howling that sounded just like the initial wolf cry he had heard.
This meant that there were at least a dozen second-order demon wolves just around these nearby mountains.
Given the total span of the Xiao Yue Mountain Range, the number of second-order demon wolves would surely reach a terrifying extent.
After a while, the wolf howls didn’t subside, in fact, they grew more fierce.
A smell of blood suddenly reached Luo Chen.
“Something’s off!”
Luo Chen shifted silently, carefully stepping out of the tunnel.
His eyes squinted a bit.
The Spirit Vision Technique which had integrated into his eyes could stimulate on its own, without even triggering a spell.
In such a way, he did not have to release any spirit power which could break the effect of the Concealing Breath Mantra.
Under his watchful eyes, he was startled by a scene happening a kilometer away.
“Are they…are they fighting?”
A Grey Leaf Wolf was furiously fighting against a Frostwolf.
Even though they were merely first-order demonic beasts, because of their fierce and relentless fighting, the atmosphere seemed even more intense than those on the Dao Debate Platform.
The final outcome of the fight ended with the defeat of the Grey Leaf Wolf.
At this moment right before the end of winter, the Frostwolf clan held the geographical and temporal advantages, so even though the Grey Leaf Wolf was a formidable creature among first-order demonic beasts, it still couldn’t defeat a Frostwolf of the same rank.
Swallowing his saliva, Luo Chen scanned his surroundings.
In this mountain alone, there were at least a few hundred groups of wolves fighting.
The smaller groups, like the one he had just witnessed, consisted of only a few wolves fighting against each other.
The larger groups, there were even hundreds of demon wolves in a chaotic battle.
In the distance, the spirit power fluctuations from the second-order demon wolf were terrifyingly palpable.
Looking at the lifeless bodies of several demon wolves on the ground, Luo Chen suppressed his urge to loot the corpses.
He silently moved a large stone to block the tunnel entrance.
Then, he turned around to walk back.
This place is where he needed to tread with caution!
He continued moving back, blocking the tunnel with boulders all along the way, until he was back underneath Crescent Valley. Only then, did Luo Chen sigh in relief.
After the removal of the Concealing Breath Mantra, Luo Chen remembered that strange scene.
Why would the same kinds of demon wolves fight against each other?
Is it just because they belong to different tribes within the wolf clan? The Grey Leaf Wolves and the Frostwolves are sworn enemies?
No, it can’t be just that.
Inside the Xiao Yue Mountain Range, there are more than a dozen types of wolf clans.
If they were to fight each other all the time, they would have suffered massive losses by now, and this area wouldn’t have become a forbidden area for human cultivators.
Oddly enough, a scene popped up in Luo Chen’s mind.
Back when he was still living in the small courtyard in the Outer City, he had met a few cultivators who had escaped from the Xiao Yue Mountain Range.
One of them, named Hui Niang, kindly advised him that the vicinity of the Xiao Yue Mountain Range was unsafe and suggested him to move to a safer location..