Mundane Saint

Chapter 96 – The black falcon king with a strong sense of crisis

The Cloud Spirit Forest is actually quite vast, three to four times larger than Cloud Spirit City. It's called the Cloud Spirit Forest simply because Cloud Spirit City is the only city nearby. In reality, the forest's boundaries stretch to the edge of Withered Cloud Province.

Deep within the forest, beasts roam everywhere. There are quite a few beasts that can rival cultivators at the Elemental Infant stage, and in the deepest parts, there are three or four beast kings.

Although Gu Heng had never seen the power of a beast king, he had heard that below the Tribulation Crossing stage, it would take six or seven Body Fusion stage cultivators working together to barely defeat one.

So now, Gu Heng found himself alone, venturing into this dangerous area.

The assassins, seeing him as a mere mortal, couldn't fathom why he would recklessly venture so deep, a place that even made them, with their Core Formation cultivation, feel on edge. They weren't skilled in direct combat, and encountering a beast would be unimaginable.

"Stop talking. Qing Er ordered us to follow," one of the assassins said.

Though they wanted to leave, they feared Qing Er's methods more than the beasts. Disobeying orders would lead to a fate worse than being devoured by beasts.

Thus, they continued to lie in ambush, silently watching Gu Heng.

They believed he wouldn't get far.

Strangely, as they ventured deeper, they hadn't encountered a single beast...

They were less than fifty miles from a beast king's territory. How could there be no beasts?

Could it be they were just lucky?

Just as a few assassins began to feel a sense of relief...

A chilling wind swept through, causing them to shiver, followed by a terrifying beastly aura that made their faces change dramatically!

The aura was so terrifying, it exceeded their expectations!

Amidst the rustling, a sharp screech descended!

The previously calm forest suddenly echoed with strange bird calls.

"There's a beast!"

"Run!"

The assassins panicked, but they had no chance to escape. A bird shadow swiftly swept by, and several clouds of blood mist exploded in mid-air.

The powerful beastly force crushed them instantly, leaving no time for screams. The assassins were obliterated without a trace.

Their blood essence was absorbed by the bird shadow, followed by another bird call, as if it was still unsatisfied.

"Hmm?"

Gu Heng turned his head to look behind him.

Why was there suddenly noise in the trees over there?

He also heard the bird's call and couldn't help but wonder.

He looked up at the treetops.

Atop the canopy, a purple-black falcon had perched at some point. Its wings seemed to be streaked with blood, emitting a pungent smell. It was clear this was no ordinary bird.

"Why is there still a mortal here?"

The Black Falcon King thought to itself, puzzled as to why there was a clueless mortal in this place.

It was one of the three beast kings in the Cloud Spirit Forest.

This wasn't even its territory, but it had sensed the presence of powerful humans recently. The beasts in the forest had all felt it, especially the three beast kings, who felt a significant sense of crisis.

Deep within the Cloud Spirit Forest, the territories occupied by these beast kings were places rich in spiritual energy.

Many treasures of heaven and earth grew there.

Originally, these treasures were for the beast kings to enjoy alone. Even if humans wanted to take them, they couldn't defeat the beast kings.

But now, things were different.

In just a few days, two powerful auras had shot up into the sky from two distant locations, giving the beast kings a small shock.

Beasts and humans were always in a cycle of mutual slaughter and devouring, with no reasoning involved. Even intelligent beast kings were no exception. Originally, there were no human powerhouses within thousands of miles outside the Cloud Spirit Forest that could threaten them.

But now, suddenly, there were two!

The Black Falcon King was the first to take action.

Deep within its lair, there was a six-thousand-year-old blood lotus grass. The falcon king had planned to nurture it for another three hundred years to enhance its medicinal potency. Then, it would consume it to evolve its body and increase its strength!

However, the Black Falcon King felt it might not have three hundred years left.

Perhaps in a few days or months, humans would come to seize their treasures of heaven and earth and slaughter them for medicine and pill refinement.

So, the Black Falcon King decided to use fresh blood and flesh to stimulate the blood lotus grass!

In recent days, it had left its territory, rampaging through the surrounding forest, slaughtering weaker beasts and human cultivators. It had killed over a thousand, mostly beasts, using their blood and flesh to nourish the blood lotus grass.

But today, the Black Falcon King faced a dilemma—there was nothing left to kill.

Sensing the beast king's rampage, the lower-level beasts' instincts were triggered, causing them to flee to the territories of other beast kings. The Black Falcon King couldn't chase too far, as venturing to the forest's outskirts would surely attract the attention of human powerhouses.

The Black Falcon King didn't want to attract any attention now.

However, today it had an unexpected gain. A few very weak human cultivators dared to venture so deep. The Black Falcon King admired their courage but killed them nonetheless. Though not many, it was still meat.

But then it discovered another human here... and not a cultivator.

A mortal.

But if it was a mortal, why come here?

The Cloud Spirit Forest was notoriously dangerous. Unless they were brainless, no mortal would dare enter!

Of course, beast kings had intelligence, but not much.

The Black Falcon King pondering "why a mortal would dare enter the forest depths" was already pushing its bird brain to the limit.

"What are you looking at!?"

Gu Heng saw the bird's strange appearance, with blood on it, and it kept staring at him, which was quite annoying. So, he shouted loudly.

He intended to scare the bird away.

But it didn't work.

"Oh, you're not scared off?"

Gu Heng was a bit surprised. Normally, birds should be frightened by loud noises.

Feeling intrigued, he walked up and gave the tree a hard kick!

The force was considerable, causing the green leaves on the canopy to rustle down, but the bird on the branch remained unmoved, staring at him with its beady eyes.

Gu Heng laughed, "You're quite composed."

He thought it might be fun to keep a bird in the Medicine Hall, something to tease when he had nothing else to do.

But the Black Falcon King was already enraged.

This mortal truly thought it was some easily frightened, fragile bird!?

Shouting and kicking the tree!

Did he want to see it scared and flying around in panic?

This human was too dismissive of it!

Mortal flesh was still flesh, and one more wouldn't be too many. Kill him!