Both were close to madness, and in the collision of their killer moves just now, both had suffered considerable injuries.
Lin Sheng's entire body had head-sized indentations, almost shrinking his originally swollen Physique by a circle. The strong impact force of the collision caused cracks to appear on his skin, from which streams of blood flowed down his rough skin onto the ground.
As for the Black Bear on the other side, although he looked a bit better, he wasn't much better off.
He had two deep wounds on his waist and abdomen, and a fist-sized bloody hole on his shoulder. If he hadn't dodged in time, it was likely an arm would have been torn off.
"I'd like to see how long you can last with your Physique..."
The Black Bear's face was twisted to the extreme. His legs slightly bent, his figure charged towards Lin Sheng like a phantom.
And Lin Sheng also stepped forward without hesitation, and the two collided again.
"Chaotic Demon Hundred..."
The Black Bear let out a low shout, already using his killer move again.
He couldn't last long using secret techniques continuously, so he had to finish the fight quickly. Thus, at this moment, he didn't care about the cost.
But as he spoke, he felt the qi and blood in his body stagnate, and a tingling sensation came from his shoulder, which actually caused his movements to slow down for an instant.
It was this instant that a large hand had already grabbed one of his arms.
Without giving him a chance to react, terrifying force had already erupted from the arm.
Rip!!
Amidst the teeth-gnashing sound of tearing muscle, one of the Black Bear's arms was forcibly ripped off.
At the same time, his chest and abdomen were solidly struck by a knee strike. Amidst the sound of fine bones shattering, the Black Bear's chest deeply caved in, and his entire body flew backward, tumbling like a broken sack. He flew a full dozen meters, continuously breaking several large trees before stopping.
"Didn't you think it was very interesting!? How about now...?"
Before the Black Bear could get up, Lin Sheng's tall and sturdy figure was already in front of him again, and his head-sized fist slammed down heavily.
One punch... two punches... three punches...
The fists were like continuous heavy artillery, each time landing precisely on the Black Bear's head.
In just a few breaths, he had thrown over a dozen punches.
And just then, Lin Sheng's massive figure began to rapidly shrink like a deflated ball, stopping only when he returned to the Physique he had after integrating with the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile.
A wave-like sense of exhaustion immediately swept over his entire body. He fell backward onto the ground, gasping for breath.
The intense exhaustion made him not even want to move; even if he wanted to, he couldn't move at all.
At this moment, his entire body was covered in dense, cracked wounds, from which trickles of blood seeped out.
If the Black Bear still had a reaction at this point and could get up again, then he would be fish on the chopping block, left to be slaughtered.
Fortunately, the Black Bear was clearly unable to do that at this moment. Although he didn't know the situation in the large pit nearby, if the Black Bear could still stand up after taking so many of his punches, then he could only consider himself unlucky.
Lin Sheng kept taking deep breaths, recovering his physical strength.
However, his condition was extremely poor at this time. This was the first time he had suffered such severe injuries since coming to this world.
Besides the damage he sustained during the fight with the Black Bear, the truly serious part is that after using the secret technique, he also used the Earth Affinity ability to frantically absorb the power of the earth.
The combination of the two allowed his strength to undergo a qualitative improvement in a short period, but it also caused unimaginable pressure on his body.
Such a powerful burst of strength completely exceeded his body's endurance limit.
It was precisely the high increase in Physique and endurance brought by integrating with the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to last until now and would have instantly died from his body collapsing.
Even though he timely shut down Earth Affinity and Ape Demon Transformation before his body was about to collapse, he was now severely injured, or rather, even more seriously injured than just severe.
If he hadn't been forced into a corner, he absolutely wouldn't have taken such a risk. After all, this was the first time he had unleashed his full power like this.
Fortunately, although his current condition was extremely bad, he was still alive.
After a full stick of incense had burned, he finally felt a bit of strength return to his body.
Enduring the intense pain coming from various parts of his body, he tried to sit up.
Hiss—
The intense pain made him gasp repeatedly, but in the end, he successfully sat up.
"This won't do either."
He felt a bit frustrated in his heart. In his current state, he had no combat power whatsoever.
If there were any mountain wolves or wild beasts around, he would be powerless to drive them away. If his luck was a bit worse, he might even lose his life to a wolf's mouth.
Of course, what worried him the most was the Phantom Demon Beast.
He turned his head and looked behind him.
The sky had already completely darkened by this time. Borrowing the dim moonlight, he focused his gaze and could faintly see the black mist gathering in the distant sky, which seemed to still be spreading outwards.
"I must leave before the black mist spreads here."
He thought to himself, in his current state, he had no way to deal with the Phantom Demon Beast's hair.
Thinking of this, he tried to stand up, but failed twice in a row. Instead, the pain in his body intensified.
"Huff... No, I can't move yet... I need to recover for a while longer."
He simply lay back down on the ground and tried to mobilize his qi and blood to nourish his battered body.
With the three points of endurance increase, he could feel his strength recovering at a very slow rate. However, he didn't know how long it would take to regain his ability to move.
"Woof!!"
Just then, a low bark sounded from the bushes nearby.
Hearing the sound, Lin Sheng turned his head and saw Big Yellow carefully running slowly towards him from the bushes over a hundred meters away.
His ears were perked up high, and as he ran, he occasionally looked around, seemingly checking if there were any threats hidden nearby.
"Big Yellow!"
Lin Sheng opened his mouth and made a hoarse sound.
In his line of sight, Big Yellow immediately stopped, crawled down, and completely hid his body in the bushes.
"Come here..."
Lin Sheng called out weakly again.
This time, Big Yellow seemed to recognize the owner of the voice, stood up, and trotted over towards him.
It first ran to Lin Sheng's side, circled him twice, stuck out its bright red tongue, and licked the bloodstains on Lin Sheng's body.
Then, its nose twitched as if it smelled something, and it quickly rushed into the bushes on the other side.
Soon it returned, dragging back a seemingly heavy black cloth package in its mouth.
The moment he saw the black cloth package, Lin Sheng's eyes lit up.
"Big Yellow, bring the package over."
The package contained Spirit Beast jerky, which would undoubtedly be a great help to him in his current state.
Hearing Lin Sheng's words, Big Yellow paused a few meters away from Lin Sheng, looking at him with a pair of yellowish-orange eyes, seemingly hesitant.
However, in the end, it obediently walked over, threw the black cloth package beside Lin Sheng, then haphazardly bit open the package, dropping out a piece of jerky and placing it on Lin Sheng's body.
After doing this, it bit out two more pieces of jerky from the package and began eating them with crunching sounds.
Seeing Big Yellow's actions, Lin Sheng's eye twitched slightly, but he couldn't bother with that. He picked up the jerky on his body, put it in his mouth, and began to chew vigorously.
The jerky felt harder than ever in his mouth at this moment. It took a full quarter of an hour before he managed to bite off a small piece from it. He didn't even chew it, swallowing it directly.
A full stick of incense passed before he finally swallowed this piece of jerky whole.
At this time, the effect of the Spirit Beast meat gradually took effect. Lin Sheng only felt streams of warm current appear from his abdomen, heading towards various parts of his body.
However, every part of his body was like a greedy, insatiable evil spirit. The warm current produced by one piece of Spirit Beast meat was quickly devoured.
Lin Sheng also felt the fatigue on his body lessen, and his strength recovered a bit.
What followed was an intense feeling of hunger. He sat up, took another piece of jerky from the package beside him, and swallowed it in three or five bites. Then came the second piece, the third piece...
After eating a full seven pieces of jerky, about a dozen catties of Spirit Beast meat, the hunger coming from his body gradually subsided, and his condition also clearly improved compared to before.
Although various parts of his body still had bursts of intense pain, he was not as weak as before. He stood up and first glanced at the large pit not far away.
In the large pit, only a broken lower half remained, while the upper half had been deeply pressed into the soil, only revealing some fragments of flesh and blood.
"As expected, he couldn't be any deadlier."
Lin Sheng's heart settled. Although he told himself there was no possibility of the other party being alive, only seeing the opponent's corpse allowed him to completely relax.
After all, he was a genuine Blood Transportation Warrior, and Lin Sheng couldn't afford to be careless.
Looking at the broken corpse in the large pit, he hesitated slightly, but still gave up the idea of going into the pit to search the body.
After all, the Black Bear's body was severely damaged at this moment. Even if there was really something, it was probably already completely destroyed.
He was also too lazy to continue messing around and delaying.
"Let's go, Big Yellow."
Calling out to Big Yellow, who had just finished eating two pieces of jerky, Lin Sheng slung the black cloth package onto his back and began walking towards Tongzhi County.
Although his injuries were still severe, this was not a place to recover. It was better to leave Yangping Town as soon as possible and reach Tongzhi County to feel at ease.
Not long after, the man and the dog disappeared into the night, leaving behind only a messy battlefield at the original site.
After a stick of incense had passed.
In the night sky, a wisp of black mist drifted towards this direction. The black mist, like a twisted, nimble little snake, circled in mid-air for a while and soon seemed to discover something, descending directly towards the ground.
It first came to the Black Bear's broken corpse in the large pit and directly drilled in, but soon emerged again, seeming dissatisfied with the result, and drifted outside the pit.
It landed on the ground where Lin Sheng had previously lain.
A lot of blood and soil were mixed together on the ground. The black mist continuously circled above it, then dispersed, revealing the thin black hair within.
The hair seemed to possess its own consciousness. It landed on the ground and directly drilled into the blood Lin Sheng had spilled.
After a good while, it emerged from it. Then, the black mist reappeared around it, carrying a little bloody mud, and shot towards the direction of Yangping Town.
And at this time, Yangping Town was already a bloody Hell.
The people in the town were running towards the outside, crying and shouting.
Although Yangping Town was just a small town, it had a large number of Martial Artists.
Although they lost quite a few high-level combatants in the fight with the Black Wind Bandits, there were still many left.
So, after the initial panic, they had basically killed many of the rampaging strange beasts in the town. Of course, the outcome for the ordinary people in the town without cultivation was quite tragic, with basically less than one in ten surviving.
As for the Black Wind Bandits in the town, they were almost completely wiped out at this time, buried in the mouths of the Crack-Sound Flying Locusts. A few lucky survivors escaped Yangping Town and ran outwards.
Crunch...
The Crack-Sound Flying Locust was gnawing on a leader of the Black Wind Bandits, making sounds of bones breaking.
Some survivors took advantage of the gap while this terrifying Spirit Beast was eating and frantically rushed out of the town.
In the end, some people did escape.
"Quick, go back to Lin'an County, and tell the old Hall Master about what happened here!!"
A surviving old hunter from the Hunting Beast Hall, his face full of fear, ran towards the direction of Lin'an County.
But before they had gone far, they heard bursts of ferocious beast roars coming from the bushes.
The roars stunned the survivors where they stood. They turned their heads to look and saw massive strange beasts appearing in their sight amidst the night.
"This... this..."
The old hunter looked at the terrifying Spirit Beasts he had only ever seen in the hundred beast compendium and swallowed with difficulty.
Behind the Spirit Beasts were countless ordinary beasts of various kinds. He had only one thought in his mind.
"Lin'an County is finished..."
...
Meanwhile, dozens of miles away from Lin'an County, several flying riders were rapidly approaching.
These were five giant steeds, more than twice the size of ordinary horses.
Especially the one leading, it was even more massive, noticeably larger by a circle than the other four.
Its whole body was covered in black scales, and its feet were not hooves, but rather beast claws resembling tiger claws. Its eyes carried a hint of scarlet, and its large mouth occasionally opened and closed, revealing two rows of fine, sharp teeth.
The five riders moved like the wind, yet made no sound. In just a few breaths, they had galloped hundreds of meters.
On the backs of the horses were several people wearing black armor.
The one in the lead was an armored old man with a grizzled beard.
He looked up at Yangping Mountain dozens of miles away. Even from such a distance, he seemed to be able to see the scene on it.
"It really is a Phantom Demon Beast. I didn't expect such a thing to appear in Linjiang Prefecture!!"
His tone was a bit low, and his words carried a hint of solemnity.
"Commander, that direction is Yangping Mountain in Lin'an County. This Phantom Demon Beast is actually hiding in Yangping Mountain. It's likely it has been plotting for a long time. Yangping Mountain has many strange beasts and quite a few Spirit Beasts, including some with powerful strength. This time, the situation is likely to be troublesome."
An armored big man behind him also saw something, his face showing a hint of worry.
"Even if the Spirit Beasts in Yangping Mountain are controlled by it, it cannot be allowed to threaten the Fu City."
The armored old man spoke in a deep voice, his words carrying an unquestionable meaning.
"Long San, you immediately return to the County Town and bring seven blood demon fangs."
"Yes."
The last rider among the five respectfully responded and immediately turned his horse back.