Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 104: Mistfur Wolf

In fact, the mountains they had just crossed felt like small pebbles in front of these four mountains.

The valley formed by these mountains was also immense. If he had to make a rough estimate, it would be at least 40 to 50 kilometers long and 5 to 6 kilometers wide. This was truly massive—it looked like a world in itself.

"Yup, there are spirit beasts in that valley," Huan Caiyi said.

Jiang Hao’s eyes were also sharp enough to see some small ant-like beasts flying in the valley. This proved that the valley was a territory, and there would definitely be a territory lord residing within it.

They were still quite a distance away from the valley. To reach it, they would have to descend the mountain they were currently on.

But did they really need to go down? After all, those four mountains would definitely be part of the territory.

"Let’s go to the mountains first. It will be a lot safer than going into that valley."

As expected, Huan Caiyi also wanted to act cautiously.

The large mountain was connected to their current mountain by a ridge, so they didn’t have to descend or fly to it. They maintained their pace and easily reached it.

It didn’t even take two minutes before they encountered their first beast—it was eating another beast.

Jiang Hao couldn’t help but wonder: since all these beasts within a territory were said to be loyal to the territory lord, as per the sayings in the cultivation world, then what did they eat? Did they kill each other? Or did they go outside their territory to hunt? But since all beasts below Grade 7 must have pledged their loyalties, then indirectly they definitely came out of their territories to hunt or were hunted by others.

Or perhaps this structure of territories, as known by human cultivators, was flawed. Maybe there existed other factors that were not known to anyone. He shook his head eventually. Even if he asked Senior Huan, she might not know about it.

"It’s a peak Grade 6 beast, and it’s a Mistfur Wolf. What a rare find. If it had come to a human settlement, people would have gone crazy to make it their contract beast."

Jiang Hao looked at the beast. It had greyish-white fur, and its eyes were also grey in color. Its fangs were dripping with the blood of the rodent it was eating.

The size of the beast was not as large as the bear Senior Zhi had killed, even though it was of a higher grade, but that was expected. Beasts with a good bloodline grew slowly in size.

"I will be able to handle it, but the problem is that it won’t be easy to kill. If we fight, the aftermath will be enough to alarm nearby beasts. If the commotion grows, then the situation will become bleak for us."

Jiang Hao nodded and waited to see what she would decide. He knew she would come up with something after weighing her options. He really couldn’t help much in battles at the Grade 6 level; he had come to teleport them if the necessity arose.

"I have a plan. If it’s executed perfectly, then we might be able to injure it, and that will be enough for me to end it. Because making friends with it after injuring it doesn’t seem possible, and we’re all against blood contracts of any kind other than equality, so I doubt catching it alive will make any sense for us."

Jiang Hao nodded. Even Sister Meiying was only with Huan Caiyi because she wanted to follow her of her own accord. That’s why they had entered a blood contract of equality.

Killing someone was different from stripping someone of their freedom, in his eyes.

He had seen many spirit beasts in the city working like mounts for people but he wouldn’t go against the world to remove these blood contracts, as what others did didn’t matter to him.

"So here’s the plan..."

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After listening to the plan, he nodded. It didn’t sound difficult, but executing it might require some luck. Let’s see if it would be successful or not. If not, they could just teleport away from here.

Jiang Hao stayed hidden behind the bushes while Huan Caiyi moved toward the direction of the beast. She even stopped using Nirvana’s Veil.

The beast wasn’t paying attention to its surroundings—or it might have already sensed Huan Caiyi—but it seemed quite lost in its meal.

Huan Caiyi made her way and came almost in front of it, and finally, the beast reacted and looked toward her.

At first, it became stunned upon seeing a human cultivator in this area. After that, it sensed her cultivation realm, and its eyes became chillingly frigid. How dare a puny human enter their territory? Not to mention, she was only at the late stage of Void Reversion, along with the mid stage of Grade 6.

Both Huan Caiyi and Zhi Hui were body cultivators as well. Resources hadn’t been a problem for them when they were in the Central Region, not to mention their title as geniuses wasn’t for show.

But after coming to the Eastern Region, they had stopped and decided to first increase their Qi cultivation, as there was an urgency to raise their cultivation realm.

The Mistfur Wolf stood up and menacingly bared its fangs. It was truly enraged—but it would be able to taste human flesh, a delicacy every spirit beast desired. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

It even grinned. To think its luck would be this good. Although it thought this human was dumb, it became a little cautious. Its mind focused on one thing: how the hell had she come this far and reached their territory?

Was she just lucky? It put strength into its hind legs and disappeared.

And when it appeared, it was already in front of Huan Caiyi, a little above the ground, its front claws swiping down at her.

Huan Caiyi drew her sword. In a battle of physical strength, she definitely couldn’t match the beast’s power, but by using her qi to reinforce herself, she would be able to handle some of its strikes.

She put her sword in the path of the claw and tried to block it directly instead of dodging. The beast smirked when it saw that. This woman was truly foolish. No wonder she came to their territory.

The moment its claws struck the sword, a dull sound echoed, along with the sound of Huan Caiyi sliding back. She slid too far, almost reaching the bush where Jiang Hao was hiding.

The beast smirked even more. She was too weak—it hadn’t even used that much strength.

Huan Caiyi used her inner qi to force the blood out of her mouth while coughing, giving the beast even more of a sense of ease.

As expected, the wolf didn’t feel any kind of threat and was truly at ease. Otherwise, it would have tried to follow up and attack more relentlessly to finish Huan Caiyi off quickly.

Jiang Hao waited patiently, watching everything with utter focus.

After giving her enough time to adjust herself, the beast moved again. It was as if it were toying with her. As expected, it again appeared just above Huan Caiyi and swiped at her with the same strength.

Huan Caiyi once more raised her sword, but this time used more qi. The beast didn’t care, and its claw struck her sword again.

The sound of creaking was heard, along with the dull sound of impact. The sword was only mid Grade 6 in quality. It had been able to withstand both attacks so far only because the wolf wasn’t using its full strength.

But it seemed to have cracked slightly in the last attack.

Huan Caiyi was forced back again and nearly reached the bush where Jiang Hao was. She was only a couple of steps away from him.

Jiang Hao sighed. Since the wolf still hadn’t figured out that someone else was hiding this close, it meant that it wasn’t using its spirit sense.

Well, Huan Caiyi wouldn’t have used this plan if it had been using its spirit sense anyway.

Huan coughed a little more blood and began showing imbalance in her stance. The beast became totally relaxed upon seeing this. It was time to end this. It didn’t want her to die just yet—eating fresh meat was far tastier, and what could be fresher than a live target?

It approached Huan Caiyi slowly, and when it appeared in front of her, it opened its mouth and swooped down. It didn’t even care about the puny sword she was holding—its stomach could digest even the bones of a peak Grade 6 beast, let alone this sword.

Just as it was about to swallow Huan Caiyi, while imagining the divine taste it was about to experience, Huan Caiyi’s stance changed instantly. Her weak and helpless posture disappeared. She let go of her sword and used both hands to grab the lower jaw from beneath the beast’s mouth.

Her strength increased immediately, and using the beast’s own momentum, she pushed its head toward the ground.

The beast was stunned to the core. The strength it felt from this seemingly weak human was far more than it had imagined. It was so shocked and caught off guard that it didn’t even notice a tiny black dot moving toward its left eye. It only saw that dot when it came in front of its grey pupil.