Chapter 7 The First Battle in the Soul Beast Forest
Ten kilometers away from Maple Leaf City, there is a spirit beast forest.
If nothing else goes wrong, Su Luoheng will hunt for his first soul ring this time.
Ten thousand years ago, during the Spirit Hall period, in order to facilitate low-level soul masters to hunt soul beasts, they cooperated with the empire to plan many soul hunting jungles on the mainland, including some powerful soul beasts that were ten thousand years old.
This maple leaf forest is one of them.
After the Wuhun Palace was overthrown, the Soul Hunting Forest came under the direct control of the state.
However, the empire did not have that many soul masters responsible for maintenance, and soon the number of soul beasts in the neglected soul hunting forest dropped sharply.
Now it has been basically abandoned.
Nowadays, not to mention ten-thousand-year soul beasts, even thousand-year soul beasts are rare.
However, this has little impact on Su Luoheng, who only needs the first soul ring in a hundred years. At the same time, because the overall strength of this forest soul beast is not high, in addition to hunting for soul rings, this is also an assessment of his training over the past year. If nothing unexpected happens, after entering the forest, everything will depend on Su Luoheng himself.
Unless he encounters a soul beast that he cannot deal with, Su Junran will not help.
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Two days later, Maple Leaf Forest.
The jungle in front of us is lush and lush, with leafy trees and dense shade blocking out the sun. It is dense and dark, and the sunlight cannot penetrate, so the whole world looks dark and damp, giving people a depressing feeling.
A ray of breeze blew by, making a rustling sound in the forest.
"Luo Heng, have you remembered everything I told you on the way?"
"Hmm."
After the last two sentences, Su Junran disappeared in a flash.
Seeing this, a trace of envy flashed in Xiao Luoheng's eyes, wondering when he would be able to be like his father.
However, he quickly calmed down and his fingertips flashed with light. The next moment, a light red dagger-type melee soul guide with a blade about half a meter long was already in his hand.
Of course, you must have a handy weapon to deal with spirit beasts.
This experience in using weapons is also an inspection.
This second-level soul guide is often used during training, and like Su Luoheng, this is its first actual combat.
It's more than enough to deal with a century-old spirit beast.
"Huh..."
Su Luoheng held the dagger and slowly stepped into the dense jungle.
Although the dense soul beast forest looks peaceful on the outside, your keen senses can detect the dangerous atmosphere behind it. This forest is far from peaceful as imagined.
As we go deeper, the air becomes fresher and fresher.
After all, this was the first time he entered the Soul Beast Forest. After a brief period of nervousness, Su Luoheng's mood turned to excitement.
After a year of systematic training and waiting.
Now it's finally time to test the training results and hunt for the soul ring.
Thinking of this, Su Luoheng felt his blood boiling, and his eyes could not conceal the passion and anticipation.
In his excited state, he couldn't help but quicken his pace and hold the dagger in his hand, eager to hunt the first soul ring with the soul master and become a true soul master.
Soon Su Luoheng finally saw his first soul beast: the wind chime bird, which had been cultivated for about thirty years.
But before the eager little Luo Heng could take action, the alert wind chime bird had already flown away into the distance.
The first proactive attack therefore failed.
However, the most indispensable thing in the Soul Beast Forest is soul beasts.
Accumulating experience and lessons from the failure of Wind Chime Bird, he began to pay attention to restraining his aura.
Soon Su Luoheng also saw other soul beasts.
However, the cultivation of the peripheral soul beasts is too weak, and basically killing them with one sword will not have the effect of testing their strength.
As we go deeper into the forest, the forest becomes increasingly quiet.
It was so quiet that you could hardly hear any sound, not even the chirping of insects and birds.
Su Luoheng's expression became more solemn. Being quiet in the forest represented a crisis.
If there is any noise, it must be a powerful spirit beast.
Although Su Luoheng is looking for a suitable opponent, he still has to ensure his own safety before determining the soul beast.
Suddenly he stopped.
Narrowing your eyes, you saw the spirit beast a hundred meters ahead!
The leopard, which was well-proportioned and about one meter long, with a lavender halo all over its body, was looking for food. When Su Luoheng discovered him, it also discovered him, and a trace of bloodthirsty murderous intent flashed in its dark purple eyes.<
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"Shadow Leopard."
Su Luoheng was not an ignorant young man who had just awakened his martial spirit.
Over the past year, he has gained a lot of experience from his old father, the most important of which is about the identification of spirit beasts.
The Shadow Leopard is extremely fast and is a difficult type of spirit beast in the spirit beast forest.
Its cultivation level is calculated based on its body length and the depth of its shadow patterns. The shadow leopard in front of Su Luoheng is one meter long and has only a faint purple halo. Its cultivation level should be around sixty years.
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It's just right to be my opponent.
Su Luoheng clenched the dagger in his hand, his eyes extremely fiery.
He will definitely kill this leopard!
The Shadow Leopard regarded him as prey, so why didn't he regard it as a whetstone?
Su Luoheng did not rush forward to fight but stood still and waited.
Although the Shadow Leopard's attack is not high, its speed is very fast. If you want to kill it, you must find the right time. Blindly attacking will only waste your energy and fall into its rhythm.
"Ouch!"
After all, the Shadow Leopard is less than a century old and has not yet developed his intelligence.
Seeing that the humans on the opposite side have not stepped forward to attack for a long time, it is difficult to suppress the bloodthirsty beastliness.
The Shadow Leopard roared and grabbed the ground with all four legs. It turned into a purple light and shadow and rushed in front of Su Luoheng in the blink of an eye.
Su Luoheng reacted quickly.
The muscles all over his body tensed up, and he held the hilt of the sword with both hands in front of him to block the Shadow Leopard's claws. However, the powerful impact it carried made him take a few steps back to stabilize his body.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Shadow Leopard pounced forward again.
This time its speed suddenly accelerated, its soul power attached to the dark wolf claws, and bursts of cold light approached Su Luoheng's face.
Although he was aware of the Shadow Leopard's abilities, his actual speed still surprised him.
However, Su Luoheng's movements were faster.
The change of footsteps easily avoided the sharp claws of the Shadow Leopard. At the same time, he bent his knees and flicked his legs with a side kick that hit the Shadow Leopard's abdomen hard. The strong impact force caused it to hit the tree trunk with a 'bang'.
"Ouch——"
The pained Shadow Leopard roared crazily.
But before it could attack again, Su Luoheng on the side was already ready to attack.
As the soul power was injected into the dark red sword body, the light increased greatly, and the sword blade aimed at the target from top to bottom and swung a crescent-shaped light blade.
With a muffled bang, the roar stopped abruptly. The soul power attached to the light blade exploded, and the Shadow Leopard's body turned into a rain of blood mixed with flesh and blood and poured down.
A white soul ring rose above the minced meat.
The light on the dagger slowly converged, and Su Luoheng's first official battle came to a successful conclusion.
Although the Shadow Leopard is not strong, Su Luoheng benefited a lot from this battle and became deeply aware of the difference between training and actual combat, as well as how to exert his own strength.
A lot of soul power was wasted in the previous battle.
If he were allowed to do it again, the soul power consumed would be reduced by at least 10%.