Chapter 35
Primordial Blood Throne: Book 1 Chapter 35 - Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat
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Su Chen waited on the mountain top for three straight days.
During those three days, none of the beasts that visited were Fiend Beasts, all of them were wild beasts.
There was a point of time when Su Chen suspected that the location he picked might be too secluded and should go further into the heart of the region.
However, the deeper he was to go, the riskier it would become. Although there might be more Fiend Beasts but the risk was also greater, one wrong move and he might attract a pack of Fiend Beasts, resulting in his death.
Victory will always favor the patient; therefore, he would wait, patiently.
This wait lasted anther four days.
On the night of the seventh day.
The night was dark and silent, the mountain wind was biting cold.
Su Chen was sound asleep on the mountain top.
A mountain cat landed nimbly onto a cliff.
Its posture was elegant as it walked towards the mountain top, approaching the person who was sound asleep one step at a time, it’s oily green eyes staring at its target was undesirably sly and sinister.
As it reaches behind its target, it lifts a front paw, three sharp claws s.h.i.+ned under the moonlight.
Just as the claws were to touch the back of the target's head, a barrier suddenly appeared behind Su Chen, blocking the claw attack. Su Chen quickly turned around at the same time, the sharp glint of a blade s.h.i.+ned.
The mountain cat screamed and jumped back, its body quickly increased in speed and left an afterimage of itself as it retreated. The blade grazed the mountain cat's body, releasing a splatter of fresh blood.
"Yowl!" the mountain cat released a painful cry, it did a flip in the air before it landed.
On its belly was an injury that wasn't too deep.
That surprise attack only managed to cut its skin.
"Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat?" seeing the target that tried to ambush him, Su Chen's heart sank unwillingly.
A Fiend Beast!
One finally appeared.
Although he had been looking forward to fighting a Fiend Beast, but when a real one appeared, Su Chen could not help but to start feeling nervous.
Although Illusion Shadow Mountain Cats do not have powerful frontal attack capabilities, but they had terrifying speed. They are an exceptionally troublesome type of Fiend Beast.
As the mountain cat had failed its ambush and even got hurt in the process, it was beginning to display some signs of anger.
It bared its teeth at Su Chen for a moment before it fiercely jumped, pouncing towards Su Chen from the air.
Su Chen had already expected this move. He s.h.i.+fted his body and evaded the cat's pouncing attack, and at the same time, he lifted the battle blade on his right hand and hacked down, but a claw slapped onto the steel blade, causing it to swing back.
The biggest difference between Fiend Beasts and Wild Beasts was their ability to enhance their body by manipulating Origin Energy.
Although the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat was considered to have one of the weakest bodies among Fiend Beasts, but it was still something that could not be belittled. A paw was enough to deflect a steel blade, its speed was hair-raisingly fast, making it obvious that it possess some sort of speed type Origin Skill. As it slid in the air, it could produce countless illusory shadows, making it hard for others to determine if they were genuine or fake. No wonder it was called Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat.
As this moment, the mountain cat borrowed the force from swatting the steel blade to move in the air, creating illusion of shadows one after the other, making it hard to locate its real position.
The next moment, the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat appeared behind Su Chen and struck at his back.
This strike was quick and powerful, Su Chen did not have the ability to even react, and just as the cat was to
However, nearly being injured had aroused the viciousness within the Fiend Beast, the mountain cat was clearly in rage now.
It loudly screamed and immediately jumped again after it landed, its speed this time was a few levels higher than before.
Upon seeing the situation, Su Chen immediately activated Vapor Snake Step to evade.
Vapor Snake Step was a representative skill of the Gu Family and Su Chen had also reached the highest proficiency that a Bloodless could reach, however, when this speed was compared against the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat, it was obviously not enough. Su Chen was unable to evade the attack fully as the paw landed on his left arm. The sharp claws rendered three deep wounds. Before Su Chen's counter attack could reach, it immediately evaded it and pounced at him again. This time, it was a frontal attack, its speed was so fast that all that could be seen was a blur.
Seeing that another life-threatening strike was coming at him, Su Chen's leg suddenly released a glow.
At that instant, Su Chen's speed increased. He became a streak of light that moved away, resulting in him evading the attack.
Su Chen released a sigh of relief. Thee glow just now was the Origin Skill within the Cloud Stepping Boots. When combined with Vapor Snake Step, it allowed him to barely evade that claw attack.
The next moment, the mountain cat attacked again, Su Chen also activated the two skills, Vapor Snake Step and Air Walking and started a compet.i.tion of speed with the mountain cat.
One man, one cat, coming to and fro. A few dozen rounds were exchanged in an instant, neither side could do anything to the other.
Su Chen had also finally understood the power of a Fiend Beast. If not for the Origin Armaments, his Forged Body cultivation could never be able to contend nor be qualified to fight a Fiend Beast.
However, the more apparent the situation was, the more he wanted to train himself.
Facing a powerful enemy,and increasing his capabilities, was exactly the reason why he came here.
Thinking about this, Su Chen's steps became quicker and agile, the blade in his hand danced with such speed that it could repel water.
However, the speed of the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat was astonis.h.i.+ng quick, shadow illusions kept appearing in the air, making it hard to locate the real body.
Must he really use the Ink Pattern Blade or Hunter's Firearm?
No, one must know that this mountain cat was only a low-level Fiend Beast, an equivalent existence to Lin Xie.
To use all his trump cards for just one low-level Fiend Beast, what else could he rely on after this?
On top of that, being too reliant on Origin Armaments would also make the purpose of coming here to train lose its meaning.
Currently, his speed could match the mountain cat, and his strength was also at a similar level, only by fighting in conditions like these would he be able to improve and train himself to the utmost degree.
When he thought of this, Su Chen grit his teeth and continued fighting, trying his best to capture any traces of the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat.
The mountain cat was still constantly flying here and there, leaving one illusion after the other, his eyes had no way of locating the body of the mountain cat.
At this moment, Su Chen's eyes suddenly released an odd glow.
And as Su Chen could see, time seemed to have slowed down – the surrounding scene also slowed down.
The body of the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat was no longer difficult to capture, it was clearly revealed in his eyes.
Su Chen could clearly see the movement trajectory of the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat, even to the point of being able to see how it twisted its tail in the air to control its direction, able to see the whiskers at the corner of its mouth, seeing its sharp claws slas.h.i.+ng through the air, ripping the air, able to see its sinister expression……
Swas.h.!.+
A blade slash flashed, chopping onto the tail of the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat.
"Hiss!" the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat immediately released a painful cry.
This strike was much heavier than the previous attack.
"Still a bit too slow." Su Chen was, however, unsatisfied.
Although his eyes had captured the tracks of the mountain cat but his reaction speed did not increase due to it, causing his slash, that was supposed to be targeting the head, to land on its tail instead.
But it does not matter, the next blade will be more accurate.
Su Chen hacked down again.
The mountain cat jumped away to evade and was once again producing illusion shadows in the air.
However, Su Chen was able to accurately locate its position and attack in advance, hacking towards the path that the mountain cat was taking. The Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat's speed was too fast and was unable to reduce its speed, coupled with the damage that its tail received even made the task even harder, therefore, it headed straight towards Su Chen's falling blade.
"Yowl!" the Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat released a terrifying cry, its head wa.s.s heavily damaged.
Without waiting for it to regain its composure, Su Chen sent a Blazing Tiger Fist at the soft belly of the mountain cat, causing the mountain cat to lose conscious, his blade was already hacking down again, the series of vicious attacks had caused the mountain cat to be in a daze. Even with its tough skin and thick flesh, it could no longer continue after receiving such a series of damage. It fell into its own pool of blood, never to stand again.
"Go on, keep jumping," Su Chen pointed his battle blade at the mountain cat and said coldly.
The Illusion Shadow Mountain Cat grimaced.
The blade hacked down.