Two youths in splendid attire immediately changed their expressions. Another youth in splendid attire quickly said, "Miss Xiaoling, there are less than three months left until the grand assembly of our Ghost Martial Sect. It will be a lively event, and we must return to participate. How about we send someone to help you look for it after the assembly ends?"
"Hmph, do you want everyone to know that my things were stolen?" Lu Xiaoling glared at them, then said, "Since the sect assembly is going to be lively, I want to see it too. It won't be too late to look for that little robber then."
"Exactly, cousin, then let's take the flying demonic beast back to Ghost Martial Sect," the youth in splendid attire immediately said with a joyful expression, his face breaking into a smile.
"Now I'm doomed. Where am I supposed to find people? I'm dead for sure," Liu Yi said dejectedly as he walked on the street. Whenever he saw a youth in a green robe, he would immediately go up to inspect them, only to show a disappointed expression afterward.
Inside a cave in the Misty Mountains, where the scorching temperature evaporated even the air, Li Lin continuously cast mysterious seals with his hands, sending streaks of eerie light from his hand seals into a palm-sized orb of light on top of the Fire Dragon Cauldron.
As these mysterious seals' light entered, a similar aura began to emanate from the palm-sized orb of light on the Fire Dragon Cauldron.
Moments later, Li Lin crossed his hands, with his index fingers overlapping and his ten middle fingers interlocking, casting a mysterious seal. At the same time, a drop of blood from his index finger entered the orb of light.
"Go..."
As the blood entered, the orb of light became even more dazzling.
"Space beast pouch, collect." Li Lin finished casting his seal, and the spirit fire within the Fire Dragon Cauldron extinguished. The light from the orb converged, and a palm-sized blue pouch fell into Li Lin's hand, covered with dense patterns and emanating spiritual power fluctuations.
"Success." Li Lin smiled with satisfaction. After three days, he had finally managed to refine a space beast pouch. Although the pouch he refined was of the lowest level, it was enough to hold ten third-rank demonic beasts. For second-rank demonic beasts, fitting thirty was also no issue, which was sufficient for now.
After putting away the space beast pouch, Li Lin stuffed a medicinal pill into his mouth, having nearly exhausted himself over the three days of refining.
A moment later, Li Lin slowly entered a state of meditation, enveloped in a faint light, appearing very mystical.
The next morning, Li Lin exhaled a long breath of turbid air, his complexion having returned to a healthy glow, his eyes deep and starry.
"Little dragon, Xue Shi, let's continue on our journey." Li Lin walked out of the cave, and Little dragon affectionately climbed onto him.
As early winter approached, the weather grew colder, and most leaves had turned yellow. The thick layer of fallen leaves crunched underfoot.
The boundless Misty Mountains stretched to the ancient domain, connecting to the Ling Wu Continent. The mountains were home to centuries, if not millennia-old towering trees that covered the sky, along with various underbrush and thorns. With the onset of early winter, a thick layer of fallen leaves covered the ground.
Even with Tian Chi Xue Shi and Little dragon by his side, Li Lin remained cautious. The fallen leaves on the ground could very well conceal demonic beasts, posing a great danger if carelessly trodden upon.
Li Lin continued to use the spiritualist's methods, spreading his consciousness from himself outward in all directions, covering a hundred meters around him. Any anomaly would be immediately detected.
However, Li Lin could only probe up to a hundred meters around him. Beyond that distance was beyond his reach unless his strength increased once more.
This method of consciousness probing was generally stronger in spiritualists than in martial artists. The stronger the soul power, the larger the area that could be probed.
Martial artists could also achieve this, but spiritualists were significantly stronger at the same cultivation level. Among martial artists, those with wind attributes were somewhat stronger in this aspect.
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As they traveled through the mountains, Little dragon on Li Lin's shoulder also watched the surroundings attentively, his little eyes carefully scanning in every direction.
Li Lin knew this was still only the periphery of the Misty Mountains. He wanted to get closer to the central area, where third-rank demonic beasts were more common. If it were a lower third-rank demonic beast, he believed he could employ beast control techniques to subdue it.
"Sssss..."
Suddenly, Little dragon focused intently ahead, motionless, as if he had discovered something.
Li Lin flashed a light under his feet, leaped onto a tree, and through the gaps in the trunk, he saw a giant rat crawling on the ground ahead – a low-rank demonic beast, the Smelling Rat, which Li Lin had encountered before in the Rampaging Wolf Mercenary Group.
"Smelling Rat." Li Lin chuckled bitterly. Even Little dragon wouldn't eat this low-rank demonic beast.
"Sssss..."
Just then, from the dry leaves on the ground, a huge body burst out, and a potent, bloody aura suddenly spread.
Behind the Smelling Rat, a blood-red demonic beast appeared instantaneously. This beast had a peculiar appearance, with a triangular head, large and bright compound eyes, and long, slender antennae. Its long neck could turn freely.
On its chest, there were two pairs of folded wings, with the front chest being slender and possessing six long legs. The forelegs were thick and scythe-like, with hook-shaped spurs on the leg joints and tibia, and its body was enveloped in a faint green glow.
"Bloodthirsty demon mantis." Li Lin was instantly somewhat surprised in his heart. The bloodthirsty demon mantis is a rare type of demonic beast. Its bloodline is not very high, but not low either. This type of demonic beast is extremely brutal, feeding on the fresh blood of other demonic beasts for sustenance, with a very strong attack power. Its entire body is a weapon, definitely not an easy foe to deal with.
The bloodthirsty demon mantis below, as Li Lin observed, was at least ten meters tall, but its body was not large, appearing somewhat lean. From its aura, it was at the early stage of the third rank. Even a fourth-level martial artist would probably have a hard time dealing with this bloodthirsty demon mantis.
"Squeak squeak..." Suddenly, a bloodthirsty demon mantis appeared behind, and the smelling rat ran forward at the first opportunity.
"Shhh..."
In that instant, the speed of the bloodthirsty demon mantis was like a streak of light, its long leg piercing through the air flow in a flash, stabbing fiercely into the back of the smelling rat.
Immediately, the smelling rat squealed miserably, and then one of the bloodthirsty demon mantis's long legs, like a scythe, pierced through its body. It was vaguely visible that fresh blood was flowing inside that leg, which seemed to have a mouth of its own, devouring the blood from the smelling rat.
In the span of three breaths, the smelling rat turned into a dried corpse, its blood completely devoured by the bloodthirsty demon mantis.
"Little dragon, Xue Shi, don't let the bloodthirsty demon mantis escape." At this time, Li Lin, like a dragon emerging from its cave, suddenly leaped down from the tree. When the bloodthirsty demon mantis turned its head alertly, Li Lin descended from the sky like a meteor, bringing a violent gale in front of the bloodthirsty demon mantis.
"Squeak squeak..."
The bloodthirsty demon mantis immediately made a strange squeaking noise, its two thick and long horns directly stabbing towards Li Lin, with a violent bloody scent rising to the sky.
Li Lin didn't expect the speed of the bloodthirsty demon mantis to be even faster than he had imagined. Mid-air, with no way to evade, he instantly executed a Splitting Mountain Palm downwards, a force of energy rebounding upwards, his body flashing backward to avoid.
"Shhh..."
The two antennae of the bloodthirsty demon mantis passed by Li Lin's back, and he could feel a violent force brushing past.
"Hiss hiss..."
"Roar roar..."
In that instant, two roars were emitted, one yellow and one white, two streaks of light flashed like lightning. The Sky Winged Snow Lion and Little dragon, having regained its massive size, had tightly surrounded the bloodthirsty demon mantis in the middle. Two powerful invisible pressures enveloped it, coming from their bloodlines, making the bloodthirsty demon mantis instantly feel intimidated.
"Squeak squeak..."
The bloodthirsty demon mantis's protruding belly eyes tightly watched Little dragon and the Sky Winged Snow Lion, a sense of intimidation filling its heart, causing it to no longer care about Li Lin and slowly retreat backward.
"Whoosh whoosh."
Little dragon's massive body suddenly charged towards the bloodthirsty demon mantis like lightning, with scorching golden flames. The air flowed around its body only to be instantly shaken away, its speed terrifying.
The bloodthirsty demon mantis seemed not to dare to confront Little dragon. Its four wings on the abdomen instantly spread, sweeping up a sky full of fallen leaves, then soaring into the sky.
"Roar..."
The Sky Winged Snow Lion roared, its powerful aura causing the body of the bloodthirsty demon mantis to tremble. Following that, the Sky Winged Snow Lion flapped its wings and shot into the sky, its massive body breaking a swath of branches from the towering trees and crashing down from the sky.
"Bang bang..."
A huge sonic boom echoed in mid-air, the massive body of the Sky Winged Snow Lion fiercely colliding with the bloodthirsty demon mantis, directly forcing it to retreat.
"Shhh shhh..."
Little dragon's massive body stood upright, instantly soaring into the sky, its eighty-meter body rising off the ground as if into mid-air. From its huge mouth, a jet of golden flame directly sprayed onto the bloodthirsty demon mantis.
"Squeak squeak..."
The bloodthirsty demon mantis screamed, its body falling from low altitude directly to the ground.
Li Lin's body instantly charged up, but his complexion changed in an instant, and he rapidly retreated.
"Huff huff..." After the bloodthirsty demon mantis fell to the ground, a red mist sprayed out of its mouth, covering hundreds of meters around in an instant, a bloody scent spreading.