In the wilderness, a nimble shadow weaved through the bushes.
Looking closely, this figure was a black wildcat, completely black.
Though called a wildcat, its body was more than twice the size of a normal domestic cat; if it were on Blue Star, it would be comparable to a large dog.
The wildcat's movements were extremely agile, and its speed was exceptionally fast, incomparable to an ordinary wildcat.
In just a few breaths, it had already darted hundreds of meters away.
Some predators active at night, startled by the commotion, were left far behind before they could react.
In the bushes, a large black python, slowly slithering, was devouring a plump Iron Yak.
It seemed to notice the movement rapidly approaching in the distance.
The black python immediately abandoned its devouring action, turned its head, its cold eyes looking back, its bright red tongue flickering.
As an elite existence among high-grade Common Beasts, the area within dozens of miles around was its territory.
Upon sensing something intruding at this moment, it immediately felt its authority challenged, and instantly shook its thick body, heading backward.
Soon, it saw the approaching figure.
However, upon seeing that it was just a black wildcat, a hint of confusion appeared in its cold eyes.
As a high-grade Common Beast, and an elite one at that, its intelligence had reached a considerable level; although not as clever as a human, it wasn't far off.
In its eyes, a wildcat like this should have been scared away upon smelling its scent, so why would it foolishly come looking for trouble?
Although confused, its innate bloodthirsty nature prevented it from thinking too much, and it couldn't help but slither towards the black cat.
As its thick body, as wide as a water bucket, slithered, not a single sound was made.
However, as the black wildcat watched the giant python continuously approaching, its originally brownish-yellow pupils flashed, turning pitch black, with no fluctuation in its ink-like eye sockets.
It was as if the approaching creature was not a powerful, fierce beast of considerable strength, but an ant without any threat.
And in an instant, the black python's forward movement also came to an abrupt halt, its head raised high, revealing a look of shock and uncertainty in its eyes.
Soon, this shock and uncertainty turned into intense fear, and without the slightest hesitation, the giant python turned around and fled back in a panic like a black lightning bolt.
But unfortunately, it was too late; before it could run a few meters, its body trembled.
The next moment, like a marionette, it slowly crawled towards the black wildcat.
Unbeknownst to when, the giant python's cold eyes were also stained with a hint of black.
At the same time, the black wildcat, which had been standing on the ground, seemed to lose consciousness and fell directly to the ground, its body decaying and turning into a shriveled corpse.
The black python, however, did not stop and darted forward.
But soon, it stopped again and turned to look to the side.
Following its gaze, on the official road more than ten miles away, a caravan was traveling through the night.
After only a moment's pause, the black python slithered towards the caravan on the official road.
Before long, shouts of anger mixed with surprise came from the caravan, quickly turning into terrified screams, and in just a few breaths, everything fell silent again.
………
Crack!
Dry firewood crackled and popped as it burned fiercely, particularly clear in the quiet night.
Beside the official road, under a dilapidated wooden shed for travelers to rest, unknown beast meat was roasting over a bonfire, oil dripping into the fire, occasionally making the flames leap for a moment.
The air was filled with the enticing aroma of roasted meat, and Huang Quan held a wooden fork, constantly turning the beast meat on it to roast, occasionally taking out a small porcelain bottle from his Pregnant and mysteriously pouring some onto the meat.
Making the already captivating aroma even more intense.
"Senior Huang, you are truly hidden. Besides your profound and unfathomable martial arts, your roasting skills are also absolutely top-notch, no, they are rare in the world. I, Little Wang, truly admire you with all my heart…"
Beside Huang Quan, Wang Dehai was staring at the roasted meat on the bonfire with shining eyes, his oily face filled with admiration, and his mouth constantly uttering words of flattery.
"Indeed, you are a discerning young man. When I saw you, I knew your future was very bright, and you are someone who can accomplish great things."
Seeming to enjoy Wang Dehai's flattery, Huang Quan also had a smile on his face and said with a chuckle.
As he spoke, he tore off a piece of meat strip from the roasted meat.
"Try it and see how the doneness is?"
"Thank you, Senior!!"
Wang Dehai immediately took it, but the moment he touched it, he was scalded and sat up with a jolt, almost throwing it away. Fortunately, he managed to hold it in his hand, pulled out a rag from his pocket, held the meat strip, and then eagerly began to enjoy the taste.
"Senior, the doneness is just right, and the taste is truly amazing…"
Although wincing from the heat, Wang Dehai couldn't help but praise it.
"That's good." Seeing this, Huang Quan smiled, also tore off a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth to chew carefully, feeling it wasn't enough, he took out a gourd from his waist and took a gulp of wine, then smacked his lips and looked to the side.
There, Big Yellow's eyes were wide open, his tongue hanging out and his mouth open, staring intently at the spot, or to be precise, at the beast meat roasting on the bonfire.
Saliva was dripping down like raindrops from his mouth, and the ground below was already soaked over a large area.
"Woof!!"
Seeing Huang Quan's gaze fall on him, Big Yellow immediately let out a soft bark, his eyes narrowed, his tail wagging like a windmill, and his body constantly twisting.
"You greedy dead dog…"
Looking at Big Yellow's appearance, Huang Quan sneered.
Finally, he tore off a large piece of beast meat from the bonfire and began to feast on it, smacking his lips as he ate.
"Woof!!"
"Woof woof…"
Seeing this scene, Big Yellow's previously fawning appearance immediately changed, and he barked fiercely at Huang Quan.
Huang Quan, however, ignored him and leisurely gnawed on the beast meat in his hand, while also distributing the roasted meat to the others.
In the carriage nearby, Lin Sheng sat cross-legged, his eyes slightly closed, with several brightly colored flowers and plants placed in front of him.
His breathing was sometimes slow, sometimes rapid, and the skin on his cheeks changed color from time to time, sometimes bright red like blood, sometimes black like charcoal, and sometimes grayish-white.
Occasionally, all three colors would appear simultaneously, not just on his cheeks, but his bare upper body and both arms also changed color along with his face.
And the boundary between the changed and unchanged skin seemed very blurred, slowly spreading towards the normal skin like extremely viscous liquid,
Without opening his eyes, Lin Sheng picked up the bright flowers and plants in front of him, put them in his mouth, chewed vigorously, and then simply swallowed them.
Soon, his breathing became more rapid, and the blood in his body surged and churned. He seemed to still feel a little unsatisfied, but unfortunately, the bright flowers and plants in front of him had been eaten completely.
But he could only let the vast sea of blood in his body wrap around the continuously spreading poison, carrying it to his entire body.
However, this time, most of the poisonous blood did not surge towards his hands as before, but towards his legs.
If he took off his shoes and socks, he could see that the skin on his legs was slowly darkening at this moment.
And the color also began to change continuously.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Lin Sheng slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a turbid breath.
"Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm has Advanced further, but unfortunately, it's still a bit short of breaking through to Forging Tendons Late Stage."
He shook his head slightly, a look of regret on his face.
Practicing Ape Embryo Skill was somewhat inconvenient while traveling, but this Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm was not affected.
No matter when or where, as long as there were poisonous substances to cooperate, he could practice, and the cultivation speed was also extremely fast.
Now, during the cultivation process, he also had some insights; the increase in Physique also provided considerable help in cultivating this poisonous technique.
After entering the Blood Demon Centipede into his body, the cultivation speed of this technique was increased significantly on the original basis.
After all, a Physique increase of five points could greatly shorten the adaptation time and also recover energy faster.
It's just a pity that although this Blood Demon Centipede has the word 'centipede' in its name, it itself does not contain intense poison.
Otherwise, he could use the toxicity of the Blood Demon Centipede to stimulate the Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm, and the power would likely be much greater than it is now, after all, it is also a Pseudo-Spirit Beast level exotic beast.
Of course, in addition to this, another key reason for the faster cultivation speed of the Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm is the activation of the second imprint.
This allows him to simultaneously introduce two poisonous exotic beasts into his body, greatly improving efficiency. After feeling fatigued, he can switch to another poison and the Blood Demon Centipede to speed up recovery.
Therefore, in just two short days, he had pushed this technique to the verge of Breakthrough, with progress exceeding that of Ape Embryo Skill.
"Soon, at this rate, even at the slowest, it will take at most two or three days to successfully break through and enter Forging Tendons Late Stage."
He muttered to himself for a couple of sentences, then stopped cultivating. The high-intensity cultivation of the day had made him somewhat tired now.
He put on his clothes, thought for a moment, and took a piece of Spirit Beast jerky from his bag, put it in his mouth, and got out of the carriage.
"Gongzi, you've finished cultivating! Come and try it, Senior Huang's cooking…"
Seeing Lin Sheng come out, Lao Zhou and Fatty Wang both stood up and greeted him.
"It is quite fragrant."
He had already smelled the captivating aroma filling the air in the carriage, which was much better than the spotted leopard from yesterday.
He really didn't expect that Huang Quan, an old man who loved to read colorful novels, had such good cooking skills.
Woof…
At this moment, Big Yellow ran over, wagging his tail, and rubbed his head against Lin Sheng's leg.
"Go, stay aside for a while."
He gently kicked Big Yellow, tore off a small piece of jerky from his hand, and threw it out.
Big Yellow's gaze followed the piece of jerky, and he immediately darted out with a whoosh.
Lin Sheng then ate the remaining jerky in two or three bites and sat down around the bonfire.
He took the piece of roasted meat handed to him by Huang Quan and ate with great appetite. Although the effect of this ordinary roasted meat was far from comparable to the Black Crocodile jerky, the taste was much better than the tasteless jerky.
Most of the time, he basically used the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile jerky as a pill to quickly recover energy and strengthen his blood.
He was also far from reaching the point of eating Spirit Beast meat as ordinary food.
Seeing that Lin Sheng had a good appetite, Huang Quan tore off a front leg and handed it over. His attitude towards Lin Sheng was indeed much warmer than before.
Before yesterday, he had never thought that someone of the other party's cultivation Realm could kill Guo Feng.
After all, as the Governor's son, the guards around him were definitely elites, at least there was more than one Forging Tendons Late Stage guard, not to mention his own good talent, making him a first-class expert in the Late Stage.
There were so many guards in the County Town, he really couldn't imagine how the other party killed Guo Feng with such a Realm.
Thinking about it, he could only think of one possibility.
"I see that the blood in your body is full, it seems you are about to break through to Forging Tendons Late Stage."
Huang Quan looked Lin Sheng up and down and said somewhat unexpectedly.
At this time, in his opinion, the blood in Lin Sheng's body was stronger than it was yesterday, and he was already close to the critical point of Breakthrough.
"It is indeed soon." Hearing this, Lin Sheng also looked at Huang Quan somewhat unexpectedly.
The other party's perception was surprisingly sharp, much stronger than he had imagined. He could actually see the changes in his blood at a glance.
Hearing Lin Sheng admit it, Huang Quan became even more certain of his guess.
He carefully examined Lin Sheng from all angles, but he did not see what he had imagined.
"What are you looking at?"
Noticing the other party's gaze, Lin Sheng couldn't help but ask.
"Cough cough… nothing…"
Realizing that he had been somewhat out of line, Huang Quan coughed, covering his embarrassment, smiled and shook his head, but muttered to himself.
"Why isn't it there? Could it be growing in a private area??"
Thinking this, he subconsciously cast his gaze towards Lin Sheng's vital area.
Lin Sheng's eyebrow couldn't help but twitch, and he hesitated whether to take action himself and twist the other party's head away.
"Cough cough cough…"
Fortunately, this gaze did not last long. Huang Quan looked at the strange eyes of the others around the bonfire looking at him, his old face flushed, and he coughed violently.
"Why are you looking at me? I'm just a little curious about Lin Sheng."
His explanation only made things worse, and everyone's movements paused.
Huang Quan suddenly felt a bad feeling in his heart and couldn't help but want to slap himself.
This is making things even worse.
He looked at the others with an awkward smile.
"Don't misunderstand my meaning. Although I, this handsome man, have been curious and read some books about the love between men, I still prefer… uh…Pooh… no…"
But before he could finish, Lao Zhou and Wang Dehai had already lowered their heads and focused on the roasted meat in their hands, and almost simultaneously stood up and silently moved back.
And Lin Hong frowned at him, seeming not to understand.
Xie Guilan, on the other hand, stared at him with angry eyes and an unfriendly expression.
He couldn't help but swallow, and then looked at Lin Sheng, whose eyebrows were almost twisted into a frown beside him.
Finally, he said awkwardly with a somewhat stiff smile.
"Lin Sheng, please don't misunderstand, I just wanted to see your Bloodline characteristics."