In front of Xiushui Village is a long river called Xiuhe, and behind it is an unknown mountain peak.
Although Gaoshan is one of the endless peaks in the Wanling Mountains, locals say it has no name and is just an isolated peak that the hunters of Xiushui Village have relied on for survival.
After walking out of Xiushui Village, Su Xing walked towards the east and soon arrived at the foot of Gufeng.
At the entrance of the mountain, two stone lion statues, which are used by the people to ward off evil spirits, are placed on both sides of the mountain road.
It's just that on the stone lion that was supposed to look majestic, many small holes were made by someone with a shovel or other tools, as if to vent their dissatisfaction.
The stone lions used to ward off evil spirits did not play any role in protecting the villagers of Xiushui Village. Instead, many hunters left and never came back.
Thinking of this, Su Xing gradually understood the rough scars on the stone statue.
He bowed to the two stone lions and then walked towards the mountain.
The mountaineering path had been built with steps by successive generations of villagers, so Su could walk very smoothly.
In the early morning, the solitary peak was peaceful. From the woods on both sides of the mountain road, there was a faint fragrance of morning dew floating into Su Xing's nose.
But besides that, Su Xing also smelled a different smell.
Although he is not a person born with a sensitive sense of smell, as a martial artist who has practiced body-refining secrets and a warrior who has killed ferocious beasts, he is very familiar with this smell.
Blood.
Along with the delicate fragrance of the morning dew, the smell of blood that permeated it was so clear that Su Xing caught it.
He turned his head and looked in the direction where the fishy smell was coming from.
At this time, a breeze blew by, and along with the breeze, an increasingly strong fishy smell drifted into Su Xing's nose.
He did not hesitate, no longer continued to go up the stone steps, but opened the bushes on the side, followed a quiet path, and moved quickly in the direction from which the fishy smell came.
After following this smell for half a quarter of an hour, Su Xing's field of vision soon began to see things other than woods.
A few feet away from him, under some dense jungles, he saw a body collapsed in the black.
Su Xing approached quickly and saw a middle-aged man about the same age as Zhang Lusheng lying on the ground. Next to his loosened hand was a broken bow and arrow.
"It seems that this is the hunter who came up the mountain as the village chief said."
The Orion who fell in the coagulated blood was already dead. His eyes were white, his chapped lips were wide open, his body was facing down, and his limbs were twisted.
Apparently, he was being chased by ferocious beasts before his death.
Su Xing leaned over and closed Orion's eyes, sighed, and continued to move in this direction.
Now that he has found a victim on this road, he should be able to gain something further ahead.
As expected, Su Xing found four more corpses along the way.
Judging from the bows and arrows beside them before, these people were hunters from Xiushui Village.
Although their postures when they died were very different, through Su Xing's meticulous observation, he still discovered one thing these people had in common:
Eyeballs glowing with white light and wounds that cannot be found.
He observed that the black pupils were no longer visible in the eyeballs of the five dead bodies. On the contrary, the eyeballs were completely white, as if there was a white mist hidden inside.
In addition, although the bodies of the five people were covered with coagulated blood, there were no wounds on their bodies, and even the clothes they wore had no gaps.
A violent beast that kills people invisible.
"A water-attributed beast?"
Su Xing pondered for a moment, then raised his head and looked ahead.
Among the five beasts with attributes, only those with the water attribute have this ability to kill people.
This kind of ferocious beast often likes to use various mysterious methods to torture people for a while before killing people, and finally allows these people to enjoy themselves in the psychedelic state while taking away their lives.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this that Su Xing did not see a trace of fear on these people's faces.
"Woo——"
At the same time, a loud animal cry suddenly came from the peak of Gufeng.
Hearing the roar of the beast, Su Xing's pupils shrank suddenly, turned around, and raised his eyes to look at the mountain peak.
Through the leaves in the forest, there was a very dazzling light emanating from the distance.
"Whoosh."
Without any hesitation, he immediately ran towards the top of Lone Peak.
For a moment, in the deserted Gufeng Mountain, an invisible figure was seen flying through the forest. Although it left a trail of afterimages, it did not leave any traces on the fallen leaves on the ground.
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On the peak of Gufeng, there is a temple built by previous generations of Xiushui villagers.
This temple is not big, and its construction is very simple. At that time, people did not want to make it grand, but just wanted to give people who would climb mountains a resting place in the future.
In the open space of the temple, there is also a stone statue of a long sword that was carefully carved by people in order to thank the Wanjian Sect for its protection over hundreds of years.
At this time, above the stone statue of the long sword, there was a gray figure lying lazily in the middle of the notch where the sword hilt and scabbard met.
It was a creature that looked like a fox, with standing ears, a sharp and thin mouth, and its gray-white fur was extremely shiny under the sunlight.
The most surprising thing is that there are four tails at the end of the fox's slender body.
Of the four long, slender, and hairy tails, three were hovering around the fox at this time, while the remaining one stood up abruptly, with the tip of its tail gently pointing towards the gate of the temple.
"Click."
Suddenly, there was a soft sound of a branch being trampled in front of the temple door.
The three tails hovering around the fox stood upright, and the fox immediately raised its head, its dark eyes full of alertness.
"Woo——"
It opened its pointed mouth and growled lowly at the figure that appeared in front of the door, as if to warn the other party that you had come to a territory that did not belong to you.
But Su Xing didn't give the fox any face and walked in openly.
The spirit fox on the stone statue and Su Xing at the gate looked at each other.
"Phantom fox? No...it's the shadow spirit fox."
Su Xing pondered for a moment and corrected what he said at the beginning.
He is very familiar with the appearance of the gray-white fox. Isn't this the same phantom fox he killed at the Demon-Slaying Festival?
However, the three-tailed phantom fox is just a sixth-level ferocious beast with outstanding strength, while the phantom fox with four tails... is not called a phantom fox.
The extra tail is called "shadow".
The phantom fox with four tails is called the Shadow Spirit Fox.
The seventh-level water-type ferocious beast Shadow Spirit Fox masters the art of illusion and has strength comparable to that of a warrior in the Immortal Realm.
Su Xing's heart sank. He had previously thought that the strange phenomenon in the world a week ago was caused by the breakthrough of a ferocious beast, but he never expected that it was a change caused by a sixth-level ferocious beast being promoted to seventh level.
He has killed many level six ferocious beasts, but he has never encountered any level seven ferocious beasts.
At this time, Shadow Spirit Fox's grinning face and hair standing on end did not look like he was going to let him go.
"Then...there is only one battle!"
Su Xing gave a low shout and quickly pulled out the sword from his waist.
Upon seeing this, Shadow Spirit Fox also knew the purpose of this visitor's visit, shook his body, and jumped down from the long sword stone statue.
The distance between the fox and the person was less than two feet. Su Xingfang had already estimated that he could place the long sword across the opponent's furry neck in an instant.
Chi.
Amidst the subtle friction between the human body and the air, Su Xing's body suddenly disappeared from the shadow spirit fox's eyes, and the next moment, a dazzling silver light appeared in front of its eyes.
A black-red sphere hangs above the thrusting sword edge.
In the first move, Su Xing used the most powerful meteor sword technique!
Facing a level seven ferocious beast, even if you underestimate the enemy for a moment, your life will be in danger!
The sword wind surged, and the tip of the long sword suddenly touched the neck of Shadow Spirit Fox.
Su Xing's eyes were filled with joy, thinking to himself that his surprise attack seemed to have a miraculous effect, so he used all his strength and thrust the long sword into the spirit fox's throat without any hesitation.
"Wow——"
There was a sound like running water, and the gray hair on Shadow Spirit Fox's neck was dyed red by the blood flowing from the wound.
And the light in the fox's dark eyes suddenly dimmed.
"Wow."
"Wow."
"Wow."
Just as Su Xing was immersed in joy, his expression suddenly changed.
The wound on Linghu's neck magnified infinitely in his field of vision, and finally became the size of a stone.
And the blood flowing out from the wound was no longer like a trickle, but a soft column of blood.
The flowing blood reflected in Su Xing's eyes turned into a long river and a sky-high waterfall, speeding down.
"This...this..."
Su Xing murmured in horror, looked around in despair, and suddenly his vision went dark.
After coming back to his senses, he blinked his eyes, and his expression suddenly froze on his face.
The sword is still in its scabbard,
People are still standing in front of the door,
And the fox,
Still lying on the stone statue with a lazy look, he glanced at Su Xing spiritually with his deep eyes, and his four tails were quietly entangled beside him.