Hiss hiss...
The Black Tiger Ape let out cries of pain.
All 5 flying darts were embedded in its body, leaving 5 bloody holes. However, instead of showing any signs of weakening from these injuries, its ferocity was completely ignited.
Its eyes widened, revealing a hint of blood, and it kept shrieking, charging towards Lin Sheng again.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh, three more flying darts shot out. This time, the Black Tiger Ape didn't even dodge, just raised its palm to shield its face and charged at Lin Sheng like a madman.
Puchi...
One flying dart landed on the Black Tiger Ape's waist and abdomen, deeply penetrating its flesh, while the other two flying darts were directly swatted away by the Black Tiger Ape.
Seeing the opponent had already charged close, Lin Sheng kicked up the iron spear on the ground, gripped it tightly with his hand, twisted his body, and thrust straight out.
His spear went straight for its face. This time, the Black Tiger Ape didn't dare to ignore it like it did with the flying darts.
It bared its mouth full of sharp white teeth, and actually raised its hand to directly grab the iron spear approaching its face.
However, the next moment, it felt the force on the iron spear loosen, and the opponent actually let go of the iron spear.
What followed was a strong gust of wind going straight for its chest. Before it could react, a black riding boot had already heavily imprinted itself on its chest.
"White Ape Hook Moon."
Bang!
With a muffled sound, the Black Tiger Ape's body flew out like a broken sack, flying several meters before hitting an old tree and stopping.
At this moment, the Black Tiger Ape's chest had a noticeable deep indentation.
It struggled to stand up from the ground, but this blow had clearly severely injured it. Coupled with the several bloody holes pierced by the flying darts, constantly bleeding bright red blood, it no longer had any power to resist.
Before it could stand up, an iron spear had already directly pierced its neck.
Pinning its body to the old tree.
This time, the Black Tiger Ape finally had no power to resist. In just a few breaths, its ferocious and ugly head slumped down weakly, no longer showing any signs of life.
Hoo...
After waiting for a while to confirm that the opponent was completely dead, Lin Sheng finally let out a breath, stepped over, pulled out the iron spear, and directly inserted his palm into its wound.
Soon, information about the Black Tiger Ape emerged from his consciousness.
【Beast Name: Black Tiger Ape (Mortal Grade)】
【Eight feet long, black fur and white face, agile and good at fast running, extremely sensitive and moves silently, likes to eat carrion, rarely has virulent poison in its body, belongs to the high-grade elite variant beasts of the Mortal Grade.】
【Assimilation Requirement: None】
【Assimilation Effect: Agility Increase 3, Poison Corrosion Buff 1, Constitution Increase 1】
【Assimilate Black Tiger Ape?】
"Assimilate immediately."
Without any hesitation, as his consciousness flickered, a powerful suction force emanated from his palm.
The Black Tiger Ape's blood was frantically absorbed dry.
In fact, he had already met the requirement for the amount of blood needed to assimilate the Black Tiger Ape, but because of the second imprint, he naturally wouldn't waste the blood of this high-grade mortal beast.
It was just a pity that in just two or three breaths, the Black Tiger Ape's blood was completely sucked dry.
At this moment, the Black Tiger Ape's originally full body had noticeably shrunk.
Lin Sheng didn't care about these things, because at this moment, he was concentrating on feeling the attribute increase brought about by assimilating the Black Tiger Ape.
"As expected of an elite-level high-grade mortal beast, the increase points are even one point more than the Tusker Mountain Pig."
Before long, Lin Sheng had adapted to the changes in his body.
At this moment, he felt his body was lighter than ever before. He slightly bent his body, jumped up, and his figure actually leaped a full ten feet high, and this was not even using his full strength.
His figure, which had leaped high, landed steadily on the branches of the old tree without making a sound, just like an agile civet cat.
The next moment, his figure flashed, and he appeared on the ground again. His speed was incomparable to before, and he was much more agile than after he had assimilated the White Ape.
"Moving silently, good at fast running, it really lives up to that description."
Lin Sheng couldn't help but sigh.
If he wanted to ambush Ma Long now, he wouldn't need to prepare as many methods as before. As long as it was under the cover of night, he was confident that if the other party wasn't prepared in advance, he could completely sneak up to him and kill him with one blow.
Just like how the Black Tiger Ape ambushed him before.
If it weren't for the 2 points of Perception Increase he had, he wouldn't have been able to avoid that fatal blow.
In addition, there was also a one-point Constitution bonus.
Having experienced the effect of the Tusker Mountain Pig's two points of Constitution Increase, this one point was not much to speak of.
However, what surprised Lin Sheng the most was that this time there was a new type of increase term.
"Poison Corrosion Buff."
He chewed on this word, and his heart seemed to have thought of something.
As he subconsciously activated it, his palm quickly turned grayish-black, as if he had put on a black, skin-tight glove.
"Let me see how effective this Poison Corrosion Buff is!"
Thinking this, he had already raised his hand and grabbed a handful of leaves.
In just a few breaths, the leaves in his palm were stained with a faint layer of black.
The originally lush green leaves also withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Is this the Poison Corrosion Buff!"
Seeing the change in the leaves on his face, Lin Sheng's eyes flickered, and his figure disappeared from the spot. When he reappeared, he had already grabbed a wild chicken the size of a domestic cat.
The wild chicken struggled in his hand, but as the hand gripping its wing turned grayish-black, the wild chicken quickly stopped struggling and remained motionless in his hand, clearly having been poisoned to death.
"About five breaths."
Lin Sheng estimated the time, then casually threw away the wild chicken.
The effect of this Poison Corrosion Buff was quite good.
The effect of this Poison Corrosion Buff was clearly the virulent poison inherent in the Black Tiger Ape.
With such a poison bonus, it was basically equivalent to having an extra poisonous technique, which could give him a considerable advantage during combat.
Overall, the increase effect brought by the Black Tiger Ape made him quite satisfied.
Of course, in addition to these, what he cared about most was the extra bonus it brought to cultivating the Ape Embryo Skill.
He glanced around. If it weren't for the fact that it wasn't the time to cultivate, he couldn't help but want to cultivate the Ape Embryo Skill to see what changes there would be.
"Forget it, there will be plenty of time after I go down the mountain. Successfully hunting the Black Tiger Ape this time is already a considerable gain, so there's no need to rush."
Lin Sheng shook his head, suppressing his somewhat excited mood. He then looked at the second imprint on his chest.
At this moment, the second circular imprint had grown a little more visibly than before.
A clear red bloodline could already be seen.
However, it was still far from being completely activated.
"It's a pity, a lot of the Black Tiger Ape's blood was wasted, otherwise this progress could have been even more."
Lin Sheng felt a bit regretful, after all, the Black Tiger Ape had bled a lot on the ground during their previous fight.
In that situation, he couldn't even bother with that.
Suddenly, Lin Sheng let out a self-deprecating laugh.
"I'm being too greedy. There are still a few days left, so I'll search the mountain again, and it would be best to look for high-grade mortal beasts again."
There was nothing valuable on the Black Tiger Ape; basically, everything except its blood was not worth much.
Now that he had assimilated the Black Tiger Ape, there was no need for him to stay in the Black Earth Forest any longer.
Thinking this, he turned back the way he came, planning to switch to a different area for hunting.
And just a few minutes after Lin Sheng left, a group of people arrived at this location.
Leading the group was a man with a sinister face, holding an iron fan, a scholar. It was none other than that Offering Yan, Yan Feng.
"Old Five, there was the sound of a Black Tiger Ape nearby just now, why is it gone now?"
Huang Lao Ba, the strong Bald Man in the group, was frowning at a short, sharp-chinned, monkey-faced man in the group.
"I couldn't have heard wrong. You all know my hearing is excellent. There was definitely a Black Tiger Ape here, and you should have heard some sounds before as well."
The short, sharp-chinned, monkey-faced man was also frowning at this moment, his rat-like eyes constantly scanning the surroundings.
He first scanned the surrounding old trees, and after finding nothing, he observed the surrounding bushes and vegetation and quickly made a discovery.
"There's something over there."
He called out and immediately led a few people towards a certain spot. After walking a short distance, everyone smelled a bloody odor.
"There's a smell of blood, and it's very fresh. There was clearly a fight here just now, it should be the Black Tiger Ape."
Old Five kept sniffing. The Black Tiger Ape had a strange stench. He had experience surrounding and killing a Black Tiger Ape before and had a deep impression of its stench, so he was sure that even if the Black Tiger Ape wasn't here, it had only left a short while ago.
Immediately, the group quickly searched the surroundings, and soon someone discovered something was wrong.
"There's something here, come quickly."
Several people gathered together, looking at the shriveled corpse lying on the ground, their brows furrowed.
"It's actually dead!"
Old Five stepped forward to check and quickly made a discovery.
"The one who killed this Black Tiger Ape was a person, not other fierce beasts."
"A person?"
"That's right, it's definitely a person. The wounds on this Black Tiger Ape are basically left by Sharp Weapons, and the fatal injuries are the wounds on its chest and neck."
Old Five said with certainty.
"It's just that the person who acted was quite ruthless, they even drained all the blood from this Black Tiger Ape's body."
The other few people also stepped forward to check, and their conclusions were the same as Old Five's.
"How could someone come here? Could it be someone from the Sun Family?"
Old Five couldn't help but speak again.
Upon hearing this, Yan Feng's expression changed.
Although their group was not weak in strength, the Sun Family in Lin'an County, while not a first-tier major force, was a very strong existence in the second tier, and there were many experts in their Family.
"Impossible, there were only a few people from the Sun Family who escaped, and I killed them all. And even if there were any fish that slipped through the net, the Sun Family couldn't have reacted so quickly."
Hearing Huang Lao Ba's analysis, everyone felt it was reasonable.
The situation was indeed like this. After all, the experts of the Sun Family were all in the County Town. Even if a fish that slipped through the net spread the news, it would be impossible to reach Yangping Mountain so quickly.
"And from the traces of the surrounding environment, it seems that only one person was involved."
Huang Lao Ba squatted down and carefully identified the traces of the fight around, saying in a deep voice.
"One person!?"
"Indeed, it was one person." Yan Feng also nodded, his iron fan slightly swaying, his expression becoming more and more gloomy.
"The person who killed this Black Tiger Ape should be an expert proficient in leg techniques, and also seems to have some research into hidden weapons. Their strength should be in the Forging Tendons Late Stage."
"Offering Yan, this person's ability to single-handedly kill the Black Tiger Ape should not be underestimated."
Huang Lao Ba said.
"Their strength is decent, but from the traces of the fight, that person was able to win by first successfully ambushing with hidden weapons, and then bursting out with a fatal blow. Although the Black Tiger Ape is cunning, it is still an animal, how can it compare to a human."
"In my opinion, the strength of the person who acted is not that strong, perhaps they have just stepped into the Forging Tendons Late Stage, and it's nothing to speak of."
With his iron fan swaying, Offering Yan said indifferently.
"What should we do next?" Huang Lao Ba looked at the other person, waiting for his reply. Among their group of people, the strongest was Yan Feng, who was an expert in the Forging Tendons Late Stage, and had been in the Forging Tendons Late Stage for many years, with very strong combat power.
As for the 7 of them, only he was in the Body Tempering Early Stage, while the other 6 were only in the Body Tempering stage.
Therefore, everything was naturally decided by Yan Feng.
And if it weren't for Yan Feng, even if he wanted to chase after them, the few of them might not gain any advantage.
"What else can we do? Of course, we'll chase after him and deal with him. That person killed the Black Tiger Ape, and might have already gotten the item. Better to kill the wrong person than let one go."
Yan Feng said coldly, his words carrying a hint of chill.
"Okay."
Huang Lao Ba's face showed a smile. He naturally also wanted to chase after him. After all, if that item was really taken by that person, their large-scale trip would have been in vain.
Immediately, Huang Lao Ba began to instruct his brothers to search for traces in the surroundings.
Although their 7 people were not particularly strong, they all had their own unique skills, and basically all had rich experience in mountain hunting, especially in tracking.
At this moment, several people searched together, and soon someone found a clue.
"There are traces here, that person should have left from here. It doesn't look like they left long ago, at most a stick of incense time."
"Very good, then chase!"
Yan Feng waved his iron fan, and the few people quickly followed the traces.
...
"After leaving the Black Earth Forest, I can go a little deeper into Yangping Mountain."
At this moment, Lin Sheng was walking through the mountain forest, looking at the map in his hand as he walked.
Originally, he had planned to go deep into Yangping Mountain, but because the situation in Yangping Mountain seemed a bit off recently, he abandoned this idea and limited his activity range to the central area.
Although the proportion of high-grade mortal beasts would greatly increase in the depths of Yangping Mountain, high-grade mortal beasts also appeared in the central area. As long as he was willing to spend time, he would always be able to find them, especially with the current situation in Yangping Mountain.
Perhaps some high-grade mortal beasts from the depths had already entered the central area.
With the Black Tiger Ape as a good start, he was in a very good mood.
He already had the idea of going down the mountain after killing another high-grade mortal beast.
After all, facing high-grade mortal beasts was still a bit dangerous for him now, and he couldn't carry too many things on him either.
He would have to go down the mountain eventually to deal with the things he had, and he could sell them for a good price in the future.
As for entering the mountain next time, he would come back after the Ape Embryo Skill had achieved something.