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The plump gray fruit on the demon beast's hands looks like mango but gray in color. The demon beast is just holding the fruit without the idea of ever eating it.

As the huge demon beast sat there, s.h.i.+n Jiao carefully observes everything. With the use of his absolute sense, he is able to now see that the dark mist is slowly getting thicker in these parts.

"I can feel that something is going to happen." s.h.i.+n Jiao thought as he immediately retracted his absolute sense.

Using his sharp senses, s.h.i.+n Jiao carefully observes the surrounding in the area near the demon beast. Then suddenly from atop the branches, a brus.h.i.+ng sound can be heard.

"It seems like something or someone is coming." s.h.i.+n Jiao thought as he tried to hide his presence as quickly as he can.

Then he sends out his absolute sense and from the demon beast's position, s.h.i.+n Jiao saw a man in a hooded cloak.

That man seems to be not afraid of the Dragcule as he landed in front of it.

"What are you doing?" the man asked with annoyance in his tone.

"You are attracting more attention you stupid beast!"

The man shouted as he pointed his long slender yet shriveled looking finger at the Dragcule. Then s.h.i.+n Jiao saw something unbelievable.

A thin strand of black smoke directly flew straight towards the Dragcule who immediately s.h.i.+vers after seeing the man's finger.

It seems afraid.

When the dark smoke reached the slowly retreating body of the Dragcule, it immediately divided into many more strands and pierced the Dracule.

It wailed in pain as despair can be seen in its eyes. Suddenly it lifted one of its arms and presented the darkness fruit to the man.

The man after seeing the gray fruit on its huge palm showed a faint smile under his hood.

"Haha… I see... I see… So, one of the fruits has ripened." The man said as he immediately grabs the fruit.

"Well done! I'll take this for now… Oh, I seem to hear that someone has taken the mission to get this fruit. I want that person alive. Maybe we can get some information about this fruit and how it can increase our dark power." The man commanded.

He then flew up in the sky and disappears.

When the man disappears, s.h.i.+n Jiao immediately scanned the demon beast. He saw what happened and what the man did is something terrifying. You easily wound a strong demon beast means that the man's cultivation is at least a nascent realm middle or late stage. This is already impossible for s.h.i.+n Jiao to compete for now. Hence he decided to just play it safe first, especially when he saw the direction where the man flew. He's clearly going to the town of Crow.

But what excites s.h.i.+n Jiao is the state of the demon beast. Although the man's attack looks light, in truth it was heavy. The demon beast was actually wounded heavily that one of its arms is already paralyzed.

"The heavens are truly looking after me." s.h.i.+n Jiao muttered as he immediately ran towards the heavily wounded demon beast.

His goal is to end the fight as soon as possible.

And so, s.h.i.+n Jiao takes out his black katana and the semiautomatic rifle.

While rus.h.i.+ng he began firing at the unsuspecting demon beast that is leaning weakly on the boulder behind it.

The ground is already soaked in its dark purple blood, as its eyes turned towards the shadow das.h.i.+ng towards it.

When the Dragcule notice s.h.i.+n Jiao it wanted to move immediately but found that its body is not reacting as fast as it should be. Suddenly it felt multiple stabbing pains entering its body followed by a couple of blood fountain gus.h.i.+ng forth from multiple holes.

The demon beast immediately activated the Qi around its body making it st.u.r.dier. This is one of the innate abilities of some demon beast, the fortified skin.

When they activate this skill it would harden their skin and scales comparable to stones or metals. This way they are able to defend themselves without the use of Qi Field.

s.h.i.+n Jiao continue firing but noticed that the bullets are unable to penetrate the beast's skin anymore. But when he saw the damage the Dragcule receive from the hail of bullets a confident smile appears on his face.

With a wave of his hand, s.h.i.+n Jiao hid the submachine gun and grip the katana on his hand tightly with both hands.

The demon beast also turned its gaze towards the human who is now a few meters away from it. Then with a move, the demon beast suddenly faded through the mist.

This is one of the abilities of the Dragcule, the vanis.h.i.+ng smoke. This skill is not limited to demon beasts. Even some cultivators have learned these ancient skills especially those who grew up in an a.s.sa.s.sin clan.

As soon as the Dragcule vanished, it immediately moves through the mist and directly behind s.h.i.+n Jiao who is now standing still.

Its claws of around five inches long slowly came out of its paws. Then it slowly approached s.h.i.+n Jiao from behind. With a swift attack, the Dragcule slashed s.h.i.+n Jiao's back without hesitation. It has been doing this kind of attack ever since it learned how to hunt inside the Dark Forest. And using this kind of stealth attacks, it became the most feared and dreaded creature in the Dark Forest.

Whoos.h.!.+

The sound of gale-like wind broke through the air, and it was followed by four air blades flying forward. This kind of attack would first deal long gash from its clash then followed by those wind blades which would either cut its prey in four pieces of wounding them heavily.

Seeing the chopped figure of s.h.i.+n Jiao the Dragcule heaves a sigh, yet suddenly realized something. With its b.e.s.t.i.a.l instinct, it suddenly dodges to the right but still received a long gash on its left arm. The cut was so deep that its bone is already showing followed by the gus.h.i.+ng out or its think purplish blood.

Grooowwlll!!!

The Dracule howled in pain as it turns its gaze towards the figure who suddenly appears on the side not too far from it.

"Hmmm… I guess you have a weak physique. Judging from your ability to vanish and becomes untraceable even with the use of spiritual sense, you can kill even a nascent realm cultivator… your claws are special ain't they?" s.h.i.+n Jiao said with a mocking smile on his face.

Although the beast is powerful, yet it is not wise enough when it comes to a head-on fight. As an animal, it has only the basic instinct in fights and would always obey its master.

"Luckily this beast was wounded heavily, or else I won't be able to even scratch it." s.h.i.+n Jiao thought.

The two clashed with another as they began to destroy many parts of the forest. s.h.i.+n Jiao uses a lot of his a.r.s.enal in this fight which made a loud of booming sounds. But with the demon beast's agile body and a higher level of cultivation, it is able to withstand the grenades and bombs that s.h.i.+n Jiao used against it.

Their clash made many demon beasts ran away from the area in fear of being dragged into the fight.

Although s.h.i.+n Jiao was able to fight against the demon beast evenly, he still received many wounds as the beast is truly strong and powerful.

"It has been more than an hour since we fought… I need to end this… my energy is almost depleted." s.h.i.+n Jiao muttered as he can feel that inside his artificial dantian the energy core with the power of a gold core realm cultivator is already at only 10% of its power.

Before the fight, he has already changed his energy core from a core-forming realm to a gold core realm. Still, it is not enough to defeat the Dragcule.

While fighting, s.h.i.+n Jiao is unable to change and replenish his core as it would make him powerless against the demon beast. So his only option is to now end it as soon as he can.

Although the Dragcule can still fight, it is now at its last straw. However, what confuses s.h.i.+n Jiao is the driving force why it can still fight.

Gripping his sword tightly and wound flowing down his arms, s.h.i.+n Jiao gritted his teeth and decided to deal with the beast a fatal blow, his target is the beast's heart.

He expended 5% of his dantian energy as he infused the katana blade with his Qi.

Suddenly, s.h.i.+n Jiao was startled when he felt his mind goes blank.

He didn't know what happened as he now finds himself inside a dark s.p.a.ce. With confusion in his eyes, s.h.i.+n Jiao roams his eyes around and saw that on the far horizon many spheres can be seen revolving around a single large sphere. These spheres seem to be made of energy which looks really familiar to s.h.i.+n Jiao.

"This s.p.a.ce… this is my mind dantian, right?" s.h.i.+n Jiao muses.

"Then how did I…" s.h.i.+n Jiao didn't finish his words when he found himself bombarded with much information about the status of his mind dantian.

"So, that's how it works."

"All I need to do to be able to use my mind dantian is a reverse pattern of my artificial dantian. So the revolution should be reverse then." s.h.i.+n Jiao muttered as he immediately closed his eyes.

Due to the danger in his body, s.h.i.+n Jiao's mind dantian luckily opened up for him. So this time, the flow and the control of his mind dantian are now under him, which made s.h.i.+n Jiao feel happy. He didn't know what triggered this event, yet he would not shy away from using his own power once again.

After a while, s.h.i.+n Jiao opens his eyes and found himself facing the huge demon beast. He didn't know how long he had stayed in the s.p.a.ce, because right now, he suddenly found that the beast is already not moving.

But before he can react, s.h.i.+n Jiao discovers something about his surroundings. There is a large amount of natural energy which is coming from the dead Dragcule and is being absorbed by his mind dantian.

"What the h.e.l.l is this?!" s.h.i.+n Jiao said in a panic.