After the words fell, many high-spirited freshmen rushed towards Shengxi Mountain not to be outdone. Naturally, Dongfang Yue and Xiao Yuanfeng did the same. The two were so powerful that they immediately distanced themselves from ordinary freshmen. The latter took the lead, Zhou Xing glanced at their backs, and following the large army, he became more determined to catch up.
Enter the mountain forest, and a few hundred meters ahead you will see the extremely dense white fog. Under the fog, you can’t see the surrounding situation at all. Fortunately, although the terrain in this area is complex, there will be no ghosts. The beasts were out and about, and they just did a simple screening of the three hundred freshmen.
After leaving the fog area, it can be said that the competition has really begun, which is to hunt the spiritual beasts and obtain the beast cores in their bodies as the standard for performance evaluation.
Zhou Xing’s perception has been sharp since he was a child, far beyond ordinary people. Mr. Tang in the village once said that it was because of his stronger soul. Therefore, he was able to adapt well to the foggy area and move forward quickly. He overtook some freshmen who stumbled along the way and were overtaken by him.
When he rushed out of the thick fog, he only saw a silhouette of a person in front of him disappearing in front of him, and the surroundings were silent. For Shengxi Mountain, three hundred people were really a drop in the ocean. After walking out of the fog area, there might be no more people. Can't meet anyone else either.
After traveling for more than ten miles, Zhou Xing has discovered many traces of battles, as well as the corpses of first-order spirit beasts. Of course, the beast cores in their bodies have also been dug out.
Zhou Xing’s face was a bit ugly. This new student was too unfriendly to them, students in the Mortal Martial Realm. The students in the Lingwu Realm had already swept through the outermost areas, and it was difficult for the weak first-order spirit beasts to do so. Once you find it, if you go further in, there will be more powerful second-level spiritual beasts. If you encounter them in the mortal martial realm, except for running away, how can you hunt them? Therefore, there have always been many students with zero grades, and some students died in the mountains.
After gathering his mood, Zhou Xing changed the direction of his search. Finally, there was movement from behind the dense bushes in front of him. He stepped lightly and approached slowly, with a trace of doubt in his eyes: Why did it sound like a human being? Could the groaning sound be from an injured student? If so...then don't blame yourself for being ruthless!
In the competition, it is allowed to snatch each other. Zhou Xing is not a good old man, so of course he will not let it go.
He cautiously approached there and pushed aside the bushes. As soon as the light came to his eyes, it was immediately replaced by something dark - not good!
Zhou Xing exclaimed in his heart, his feet seemed to thunder, and he quickly retreated. However, the opponent was chasing after him. He had no choice but to immediately climb up a big tree where the three of them were hugging each other. Dodge.
When they reached the tree, Zhou Xing breathed a sigh of relief and took a closer look. Below was a spiritual beast with tiger-like stripes all over its body except its head. It looked like an ordinary cow, but was twice as big. more than.
"Shen Niu." Zhou Xing recognized it. This kind of spiritual beast lives by the water. It has a strange cry, like the groan of the human race, and is extremely powerful. The horns on its head are very sharp. If Being hit from the front, even those in the spiritual martial realm will be exposed. He is the best among first-level spiritual beasts. Fortunately, he has practiced body martial arts.Lei Xingbu, otherwise even if he just touched the edge, the consequences would be serious.
This cow was obviously not ready to let Zhou Xing go. White gas was coming out of its nostrils, its hooves kept digging at the ground, its strong hind legs exerted force, and its huge body It crashed straight into a big tree.
Bang!
With the sound of impact, the big tree shook violently. Zhou Xing suspected that within a few blows, the big tree under his feet would be broken.
Of course he would not sit still and wait for death. A short sword about one foot long appeared in his hand. The hilt was also inlaid with a thunder attribute beast core, which was a second-level spiritual weapon.
Spirit weapons, as the name suggests, are weapons made by weapon refiners using special methods and suitable for warriors. Most of them are embedded with beast cores, which can greatly enhance the warrior's combat capabilities.
Danniu's intelligence was not yet fully developed, and he did not realize that the man in the tree holding a spiritual sword was much more dangerous than before, so he still hit the tree trunk with all his strength.
The big tree swayed greatly again, and even the soil on which it was rooted showed signs of loosening. Zhou Xing saw the right opportunity and took advantage of the old strength of the cow to dissipate. He was about to retreat and jumped from the branch. He jumped down, held the hilt of the sword with both hands, and poured all his spiritual energy into the sword. Suddenly, the arc of electricity on the sword flashed with cold light, and he aimed at Gan Niu's neck and stabbed it hard.
The Niu felt threatened and instinctively wanted to avoid it, but how could it be avoided? The spirit sword pierced its neck solidly, and the electric arc on it paralyzed its whole body.
Still not dead? !
Before Zhou Xing had time to be happy, he felt something was wrong. The other party's vitality was too strong. His reaction was also extremely fast. Taking advantage of Jin Niu's extremely brief paralysis, he used the hilt of the sword as a springboard to leap into the air, dancing with both palms. Dozens of palm prints were slapped on the wound on Jin Niu's neck at the same time, and finally a pair of palms wrapped with thunder and lightning. He slapped the end of the sword hilt, causing the spirit sword to sink deeply, almost piercing through Gan Niu's thick neck.
Zhen Niu was released from paralysis and let out a huge groan. He threw his body with all his strength and threw Zhou Xing dozens of meters away. He hit a huge rock hard and his back was bloody.
Zhou Xing reluctantly stood up, only to see Gan Niu's eyes were red, staring at him, and rushing towards him crazily.
"No way..." Just when Zhou Xing thought that he might be in danger this time, Gan Niu fell in the middle of the sprint, and then rushed in front of him with the help of inertia, completely dead.
“Huh~”
President Zhou breathed a sigh of relief. He was really shocked just now. He didn’t want to die.
Pull out the spirit sword, blood spurts out instantly, and the smell of blood quickly spreads. Zhou Xing cuts open Gan Niu’s head and digs out a piece of light blue that is one-third the size of a fist. The animal core was cleaned and put into the Qiankun bag, and then left the scene immediately.
Time passes unknowingly, and half a day passes in the blink of an eye. The freshman competition will end when the sun completely sets. Those who return late will be deemed to have failed and their scores will be zero.
After Ji Niu, Zhou Xing hunted againA first-level intermediate spiritual beast has two beast cores in its hand.
"This result is not a shame, right?" Zhou Xing said to himself. Just now he saw a spiritual beast that was at least the second-level intermediate level from a distance. The spiritual beast was stronger than a copper bell. The big eyes glanced in his direction, causing him to run away in a panic, and he still has lingering fears when he thinks about it.
"Go deeper...fifty miles!" Gritting his teeth, Zhou Xing still wanted to achieve better results.
Not long after returning, Zhou Xing suddenly noticed something strange. He looked around carefully and suddenly realized: he had been here before!
Zhou Xing was a little panicked. After leaving the mark, he continued to walk forward for a while. As expected, he returned to the same place. He had no choice but to sit still and wait for death, so he could only keep moving forward, but Even if he marked all the way, it still didn't work. Now he was really flustered and sweating profusely.
"Ah...Thunder Shadow Palm!" Zhou Xing roared, and used martial arts to attack all around. His palm prints fell, leaving a mess nearby. Finally, when his spiritual power was about to be exhausted, He only felt a blur before his eyes, and a brand new scene appeared in front of him.
There is no longer a dense forest ahead, but there are jagged and strange rocks everywhere, with gurgling streams flowing through them. Zhou Xing couldn't restrain his curiosity and walked forward step by step.
Less than half an hour later, the strong smell of blood entered Zhou Xing's mind. Not only did he not feel any discomfort, but he felt comfortable all over. The spiritual power in his body quickly filled up, and he felt better than ever before.
After a while, a tragic battlefield appeared in front of Zhou Xing. Rivers of blood flowed on the ground. Two mutilated warrior corpses were randomly placed on the ground. They were already dead. The corpses of the warriors were not far away. A yellow body as big as a hill also fell to the ground.
"Bird spirit beast." Zhou Xingzheng hesitated to step forward, and saw the spirit beast's chest rising and falling suddenly, and a pair of bright eyes opened, as if they could see through everything, but they immediately dimmed.
There is still one breath left... Zhou Xing swallowed and did not dare to act rashly. When the spirit beast looked at him, he felt that his whole person was not under his control. Life and death depended only on the other person's thoughts. , even if the other party is dying.
The spirit beast let out a weak but clear cry and looked behind it with difficulty. This time Zhou Xing noticed that there was a dark and deep cave behind it.
Zhou Xing realized that this spiritual beast was extremely intelligent and seemed to be explaining something to him. Unfortunately, the other party stopped making any movement the next moment and was really dead this time.
Zhou Xing walked towards the entrance of the cave. When he passed the body of the spirit beast, a huge burst of spiritual pressure hit his face, making him breathless. Fortunately, this spiritual pressure was not targeted.
Entering the cave, it was pitch dark, and he thought to himself: From now on, he will definitely bring lighting tools with him at all times.
Zhou Xing groped slowly, but there was nothing except the sound of footsteps, which made him dare not breathe hard.
Not long after, there was a bright light coming from the front. When he got closer, he discovered that there was a skylight in the deepest part and a giant tree growing there.From this, a skylight grew out of the top.
The cave is under an isolated mountain. Zhou Xing recalled that he saw a lone tree on an isolated mountain outside. He didn’t think much about it at the time. Who knew that this tree was really outrageous? The trunk in front of him was just like that. It's tens of meters thick, and nearly a thousand meters high from here to the top, and it grows from even lower!
Zhou Xing looked up and suddenly saw something between the branches of the giant branches. It was a bird's nest!
He knew in his heart that the spirit beast that died outside was worried about his child. He immediately climbed up, and sure enough, in the huge bird's nest there was a light yellow egg the size of a human baby, with some crystal stones around the egg.
"I don't know what kind of spiritual beast this is. What if it can't be raised or even hatched?" Zhou Xing was worried, but it was not good to leave it here, so he could only Take it and those crystal stones away first.
He came down from the tree with the eggs in his arms and took a deep look below. It was bottomless, almost magical, as if it was telling him to get down.
Shaking his head, Zhou Xing walked out of the cave. He did not want to die.
As he walked out of the cave, the bird eggs in his arms suddenly became hot. Zhou Xing was shocked and confused, but he saw the head of the spirit beast corpse next to him split open automatically, and a yellow beast core as big as a human brain fell out. , he quickly caught it.
This animal core can be used as food for bird eggs! Zhou Xing guessed that he wanted to put the beast core into the Qiankun Bag, but he couldn't do it. He caught a glimpse of the corpses of the two warriors in the corner of his eye, and thought that maybe the Qiankun Bag was too low-level. A high-end space ring might be able to do it.
He walked to the corpse of the warrior and immediately saw that both of them were wearing space rings on their hands. He immediately took it off and put the beast core into one of the rings.
Space rings generally have owners. It involves the use of soul power. Although Zhou Xing does not know how to use it, the ring will naturally become ownerless after the death of the owner. Like the Qiankun Bag, it can be used with spiritual power. Just use it.
Hiding the space ring in his arms, Zhou Xing turned his attention to the blood on the ground. Before, just some smell factors allowed him to return to his full strength. This blood contained terrifying spirituality, not to mention The spirit beast's body was dead, but unfortunately I couldn't take it away.
After thinking for a moment, he walked to the blood that had gathered into a small pool next to the beast's corpse, inserted his hand into it, and felt an extremely hot and stinging sensation, making him gasp.
I can still bear it!
Zhou Xing took off all his clothes neatly and entered the blood pool, leaving only his head exposed. He silently operated the golden body technique, his physical quality improved rapidly, and the majestic pure spiritual power also rushed in. in vivo.
An hour later, the blood pool has become completely thin, and the spirituality in it has almost been lost. Looking at the blood in other areas, it has also become waste liquid. This is determined by its nature and is exposed to the air. It has been too long, and the spiritual substance in it has been lost too quickly. Zhou Xing was quite regretful that he was only a little short of breaking through to the ninth level of mortal martial arts.
If others see hisHis expression made him absolutely unable to help but beat him up. He had only reached the eighth level not long before the competition started, and even before he entered the academy, he was only at the sixth level of mortal martial arts. This realm was like sitting on a rocket, rising up, and he was still not satisfied. .
When Zhou Xing came out of the blood pool, there was no sticky blood left on his body, as if he had just taken a bath in clean water, which was quite magical. After getting dressed, he picked up the bird eggs and hurried back. There was not much time before sunset, and he was so deep that it would be funny to be late when he returned. Fortunately, there were no spiritual beasts to hinder him along the way.
When Zhou Xing rushed back panting, there was only a small corner of the sun left in the sky. Zhao Chen, who was on the high platform, was relieved. As his apprentice, he was still young and his cultivation was still shallow, so his results in the competition were not important.
Zhou Xing showed the two beast cores he had hunted at the registration office. The instructor in charge looked at the eggs in his arms in surprise before making a record.
The sun completely set, and a group of instructors immediately entered Shengxi Mountain to search for the students who had not returned. It can be expected that many students in the mountain were seriously injured and even turned into cold corpses, although the college will pay pensions , but they will never come back.
After the results were handed over to Zhao Chen, they were read out immediately. The first place was indeed Xiao Yuanfeng. This person had obtained three second-order beast cores. Not to mention the other first-order beast cores, the reward was There are some spiritual crystals, but compared to the rewards, the beast cores are much more valuable. They can be sold directly to the Academy's Treasure Pavilion, or they can be traded outside, and they may be sold at a high price.
Zhou Xing was about to leave when suddenly, a figure walked up to him. This man was over two meters tall, with a bulging belly and fat body. His eyes were squeezed by the fat on his face and looked like soybeans. Big and small, he said with a naive smile: "Brother Zhou, my name is Shen Dafu. If you are free tonight, I will treat you. How about we go to Shixian Tower for a big meal together?"