Around Liu Xing, tall and wide trees stood like ancient giants. Their lush leaves prevented sunlight from reaching the ground, making the forest dark and cold. Liu Xing felt like a snail walking among the feet of giants. This dark forest was nameless and located not far from the Purple Moon Sect. It was preserved to ensure that wild herbs and beasts with useful properties could live and be harvested.

In this forest, Liu Xing would explore his gun’s capabilities more in depth.

Liu Xing found an opening between the tree roots, creating a small and shallow cave. He put his pack there and then started to look around.

First, he needed to test his gun on large animals, like tigers or giant snakes. Then, he would move on to spirit beasts. Ideally, he would find a spirit beast at the same stage as him—a cultivator at the Lock Opening fifth stage to really test the gun.

"The earlier steps are the easiest," he thought.

On his way here, Liu Xing had seen some claw marks here and there. He suspected there might be something like a bear around and hoped that it was just a normal animal.

Cycling his qi around his body, Liu Xing felt his strength increasing. He then jumped as high as possible and landed on a branch several meters from the ground. The branch was wide, and all around him, other branches were also wide. This meant he could move from branch to branch without issue.

Liu Xing jumped from branch to branch. Every time he jumped, the wind hit his face, making his black hair flutter.

"This is cool!" he exclaimed. "How in the world didn't I try this in the last two years? I feel like a ninja!"

After a few minutes of doing flips and jumping with style, Liu Xing heard growling and hissing.

Suddenly alert, he moved from branch to branch, this time trying to be quiet, and soon spotted a clearing in front of him.

In the middle of the clearing, a giant snake, several meters long, was coiling around a giant brown bear. The bear was big, more than three meters tall, but the snake covered most of the bear's body. Only the bear's head was clearly visible, with bloodshot eyes and fangs sunk into the snake's belly, trying desperately to stay alive. The snake, on the other hand, looked smug. Its slitted yellow eyes were full of pride, as if it knew it would win this fight.

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Liu Xing summoned his gun and tried to calm himself. Although the snake and bear were big, he didn’t sense any qi from them, which meant they were normal animals. This situation was what he wanted—two targets to shoot!

Liu Xing held his gun, aimed, and tried to sense the surroundings. While he really wanted to kill these two animals, he didn’t forget his main objective. He had a feeling that something extraordinary would happen with this gun. He was sure. His gut feeling told him so.

Liu Xing aimed at the snake's head, finger on the trigger. He held for several seconds when something indeed happened.

His gun started to turn invisible, like a chameleon trying to hide. Once the black gun succeeded in reflecting the light around it, the invisibility spread to his hand, arm, shoulder, and then his whole body.

Liu Xing was now invisible!

He tried to calm his racing heart. "Okay, now, how do I undo this?"

Liu Xing relaxed his posture and willed himself to become visible again. Gradually, starting from the gun, he became visible again like a canvas being painted. Once he was fully visible, he willed himself to become invisible again and succeeded.

Below, the bear's head finally burst. Blood and brain fluid colored the green snake’s body red. The snake stopped coiling and opened its maw, swallowing the remaining bear in one gulp. Now, with a big bulge in its body, the snake started to slither away.

Knowing the snake would be gone soon, Liu Xing aimed again.

"Should I kill it?" Liu Xing muttered.

He knew now that he could turn transparent, even before pulling the trigger. But he wondered why. This snake was not the first animal he had aimed at. Was it because Liu Xing felt danger toward this snake? After all, he didn’t feel danger from the eagle he shot and ate.

Seeing the snake slither toward a bush, Liu Xing decided not to complicate things and chose to kill it. Who knows, maybe another ability would reveal itself after he killed a dangerous animal.

Liu Xing aimed at the snake’s head, and with a smooth motion, pulled the trigger. The almost transparent bullet flew through the air and landed squarely between the snake’s eyes. Instantly, the snake went limp, dead.

Liu Xing checked his gun and his body. He was still invisible. He suspected his presence had also become thinner. But there were no other changes after he killed the animal.

Disappointed, Liu Xing aimed at a higher branch and prepared to shoot another animal when two bear cubs emerged from a bush and ran toward the dead snake. They clawed and bit at it, growling like madmen, trying to kill a dead snake.

Seeing this, Liu Xing realized that these two cubs must be the offspring of the dead bear. Had these two bears hidden while their mother fought? Whatever the case, Liu Xing had avenged these little bears.

Jumping to a higher branch, Liu Xing then started to hunt. While he was confident he could become invisible again, he needed to understand the conditions and limitations of this ability.

With a smile on his face and anticipation in his heart, Liu Xing started to hunt for another prey.