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Translator: Tamon
“Foundation Establishment demon?” Hua Yuntian paled.
Xu Hei’s heart seized, having never seen a Foundation Establishment demon before. He knew from the aura that this was no beastie either.
The air rumbled in the distance as a wild mammoth stampeded over, cracking the earth with its every stomp.
“Run!”
Hua Yuntian grabbed two cultivators and threw them at the incoming demon while he fled at his fastest.
The other cultivators scattered, every man for himself.
The thrown cultivators were vaporized by the sheer demonic aura, their blood scattering in the wind. The huge mammoth was relentless in its pursuit of Hua Yuntian.
“That’s at late Foundation Establishment, if not peak!”
Xiao Hei gauged through the eyes of a lizard.
He never thought it possible that this seemingly average mammoth herd would have such a powerful backer.
Just what kind of creatures was this neck of the woods hiding?
“Here’s a little something for you.”
Xu Hei had a surprise for Hua Yuntian, letting an Earth Spike jut out in front of him.
The human sensed it and sidestepped with a twitching face.
At that moment, a sharp rock spike hit his belly, bursting from the previous spike.
It caused no damage, just slowed him down.
“Earth Spike!”
Xu Hei learned from Ye Haichuan how to best use it, aiming for Hua Yuntian’s front.
Pa~!
Spikes of rock sliced the air, cutting off Hua Yuntian’s vision each time he changed directions.
All the while the mammoth approached.
“Rotten coward!”
Hua Yuntian was going mad with rage. The attacks wouldn’t kill him, just stall him. He even knew where the other was hiding and could just send a lightning bolt over, not that he would with a behemoth on his tail.
He’d never been so miserable in his short life, fueling his ever-increasing hatred for his enemy.
“Curse you, coward! I’ll get you for this and skin you alive!”
The huge mammoth grew in his vision, and Hua Yuntian was forced to break a golden jade pendant to cover himself in a golden shield.
He disregarded the incoming Earth Spikes and escaped Xu Hei’s range.
The wild mammoth chased.
“I’ve stalled what I could. The rest is up to you.” Xu Hei mused.
He sent his large lizards after the other stragglers.
Their original group was ten in number. Minus the first three and the two he picked off with diversions and the other two thrown away, it left three.
Xu Hei wasn’t just after Hua Yuntian but all of them.
He went after one while the lizards got the other two.
Xu Hei loved to add insult to injury, especially to humans, whenever he could.
He left Hua Yuntian’s fate to the mammoth, having done all he could.
Whoosh!
Xu Hei jumped out of the ground and spat a lightning bolt at the high-flying cultivator afraid of earth spikes, carbonizing him.
As for the large lizards, they were half successful, blowing one up while the other got away.
Xu Hei chased him down still, handling the last loose end in ten seconds.
“These beast puppets are lagging.” Xu Hei muttered to himself.
He used the large snake and frog wielding the power of a peak Qi Refining cultivator.
Mammoths were off the menu, but getting the humans’ storage bags should allow him to break even.
Xiao Hei traced back, returning to the battlefield and getting the small lizards to collect his victims’ storage bags.
The male mammoths were almost all dead, with just two barely clinging to life.
Xiao Hei paused in thought, then decided to help by having two lizards carry over a healing pill.
The sharp mammoths discerned the situation and swallowed the pills. They blew lightly with their trumpets, their way of saying thanks.
Xu Hei sighed, [I can’t show my face, so let them thank the puppets.]
“Seeing you so frail, I helped, so don’t go extinct on me. I’ll starve,” Xu Hei thought.
Booms sounded nearer and nearer as the wild mammoth returned.
Xu Hei fled on the spot.
“Friend in hiding, my wild mammoths owe you. We won’t forget your help.” A resonating voice pierced the earth and reached his ears.
The wild mammoth’s voice echoed everywhere, the power of a mighty demon, now capable of speech.
Xu Hei sighed. It was ironic how his hunting trip ended up helping the wounded.
Then again, getting the wild mammoth to owe him made it all the more worthwhile. If the storage bags had demon meat as well, then it would be perfect.
A thought struck Xu Hei.
[The wild mammoth came back too fast. What about Hua Yuntian?]
He couldn’t have gotten far so quickly. Maybe he could earn a little extra.
Xiao Hei shook his head at the reckless idea. Hua Yuntian was somebody, maybe even a Golden Core cultivator’s disciple. He might be bumping into him as he robbed corpses.
He wasn’t confident the Invisible Talisman would fool a Golden Core cultivator.
“I should know when to quit and be happy with what I have.” Xu Hei reflected.
Xu Hei took his time on his way home.
He stopped by a cave to check on his haul, neatly arranging the stuff from the storage bags.
The ones he killed didn’t have anything incredible, just the usual.
Xu Hei sorted the items.
Mid and low treasures were junk to him, but not to Xu Bai.
The high ones, he kept for himself, the more the better.
As for unknown treasures, he’d have Hei Huang assess them or test them out himself.
What got him perky, however, was the demon meat, a total of five late Awareness demons, or four tons—the size of a small mammoth.
Though it wouldn’t last long.
He got a few Minor Boost Pills that he put all in a vial.
The many talismans came at the perfect moment to replenish the ones he used in the fight.
Xu Hei ate a late Awareness leopard carcass on the spot, along with two Minor Boost Pills on the side.
Demon meat and pills. [This is the life.]
Xu Hei felt the hunger with which his body sucked all the Spiritual Energy. He was growing stronger every moment, more obvious after a fight.
The Demon God Cauldron’s Spiritual Energy water ball expanded to the size of a fist, its Spiritual Energy currents more defined and wider.
The cultivation session lasted three days. He was out of Minor Boost Pill and only had a bit of demon meat left.
The Spiritual Energy water ball reached its size limit, the peak of the 7th layer of the Awareness Stage.
Xiao Hei eased a breath. Nine people’s storage bags netted him half a vial of Minor Boost Pill.
They were precious to cultivators as well, getting them for their personal use. The fact he got any was already fortunate.
Xu Hei could’ve used spirit stones to buy more or joined a sect to exchange contributions for resources. If he belonged to the human world, that is.
But he was a demon, limiting his chances of getting pills.
The black jade had two thousand spirit stones, a fortune, but trading wasn’t easy. On their last trip to a human town, Hei Huang ended up killing Sky Effigy Sect disciples.
“I wonder how Xu Bai is doing with alchemy.” Xu Hei was eager to find out.
…
Deep in a forest, a body lay in the mud, its storage bag untouched by his side.
Hua Yuntian blinked out of nowhere and was overtaken by a coughing fit.
His trampled body came to life and his flesh knitted.
“You’re up.” A flat voice came from the middle-aged man’s hazy image above.
“Master, did the coward show himself?” Hua Yuntian asked his most pressing question, only to cough blood from the sudden impulsiveness.
“In the three days you faked your death, no one appeared,” the Daoist replied.
The wounded Hua Yuntian shuddered from rage, blanking out.
The scholar frowned.
…
A few mountains over, Xu Hei was back to his cave.
He first checked the perimeter for any signs of demons and humans, only going in when his markings were untouched.
“Three days; that should be enough to make two batches of Minor Boost Pill.” Xu Hei mused.
A boom came from far ahead, his cave.
The entire valley shook from its force, with a minor landslide happening here and there.
“Enemy attack?”
Xu Hei’s heart seized, and he rushed over as he spread his Divine Sense with vigilance.
Thick black smoke billowed out of the cave, with a black dog running out coughing from all the dust on it.
Xu Hei relaxed.
Looking at the ruins, at the collapsed cave, Xu Hei’s heart raced again, asking with urgency, “What happened?”
Hei Huang gnashed his teeth, sporting a bleak look. “Just who put her up to refining pills?”
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