Chapter 194: The Steel-Armored Lion
The Valley of the Demon Beasts, as the name suggests, is a canyon.
But the valley was so big, more than three hundred miles wide, and no one knows how long it was.
Because from the beginning when people entered the Jifeng Heavenly Cave to the present, the depth of people entering the Demon Beast Valley was only more than two hundred miles.
The direction that Su Qing chose to enter the Demon Beast Valley was similar to the place where the ancient ruins were marked by the map Chai Lin took out.
Of course, Su Qing would not go to the place of ancient ruins now, after all, this is the place that people know about first, and then tell themselves that if they want to go, they can't go in advance, and they will not go until Chai Lin and the others arrive.
This direction was also chosen to make it faster to get to the ancient secret places marked on the map.
The Valley of Demon Beasts really deserves the name it has given. There are indeed enough monsters here.
Before entering the Demon Beast Valley, Su Qing encountered no less than forty or fifty demon beasts.
Monsters all have their own territory.
Especially the powerful demon beast, the sense of protection of their own territory is even stronger, and if it is not allowed, no matter what creature is, as long as it enters his territory, it will be killed and eaten without hesitation.
But the powerful demon beasts are generally in the depths of the Demon Beast Valley, and the ones that wander around the edge are basically first- and second-level demon beasts, and when third-level demon beasts appear, they are extremely rare.
The first- and second-level demon beasts, for Su Qing, were not much different from ants. Its value is even more invisible. In addition to taking the initiative to provoke him, Su Qing didn't bother to deal with it.
But there are still a lot of demon beasts that don't have long eyes, and when they see a villain like Su Qing, they think it will be a good meal for themselves, but as a result, they all become ghosts under Su Qing's knife.
In this way, when Su Qing traveled more than 100 miles, there were already more than 30 demon beasts that died under Su Qing's knife.
Within more than two hundred miles of the edge of the Demon Beast Valley, since the demon beasts were relatively weak, they did not pose much threat to the ninth-level cultivators of Qi cultivation, so there were still many monks who entered this range in the past.
Even now, along the way, Su Qing encountered a team composed of more than a dozen groups of monks.
These teams have a small number of six or seven people, and a large number of people, a dozen people.
Since these marginal ranges have been swept by the monks countless times, there are naturally not many medicinal herbs left here. Most of the monks Su Qing met were hurrying forward, trying to go deeper into the region and then carefully search for good medicinal materials.
Su Qing also had no intention of taking care of these monks, and his cultivation was also higher than that of these monks, and his speed of travel was naturally faster.
When those monks saw that Su Qing, a little guy who only had the seventh level of qi refining, dared to walk into the depths of the Demon Beast Valley alone, while showing a puzzled gaze, and even wanted to come over to talk, Su Qing had already strengthened his legs and ran away.
The journey of more than two hundred miles was nothing at all for a cultivator like Su Qing, and in less than two hours, Su Qing was already about to reach the limit where other monks had entered the Demon Beast Valley.
This kind of area is no longer a region that a ninth-level Qi cultivator can set foot in alone, or even a small team of only four or five people.
Here, although there are more first- and second-level demon beasts, third-level demon beasts can basically be seen everywhere.
It's a fourth-level demon beast, and if you're unlucky, you can also encounter it.
The third-level demon beast is close to the middle and middle stage monks of the foundation building, although the demon beast is limited by its own IQ, and it cannot use the power of foreign objects such as magic weapons, its combat power is certainly not as good as that of a monk who is close to its cultivation. But after all, the cultivation is there, and the demon beast itself has hard skin, if the ninth-level Qi cultivator wants to kill the third-level demon beast, without a team of three or five people, he will not be able to compete with the third-level demon beast at all.
Of course, if you are unlucky and encounter a fourth-level demon beast, it is a team of more than a dozen people, and there is also a danger of extinction.
When he arrived in this kind of area, Su Qing didn't dare to go too fast. I can only keep releasing my divine sense to observe, and from time to time I climb high and look far away.
With Su Qing's strength, with three or five third-level demon beasts, Su Qing would not take it too seriously. But if you encounter a group of more than a dozen third-level demon beasts, you can only run away.
Maybe if you are careless, your life will be in danger.
Therefore, Su Qing also had to constantly observe the movements of the third-level demon beasts around him at this time, and if he saw a group of third-level demon beasts with more people on his head, it would be better to bypass them.
"Whew!"
A third-level demon beast was stopped and slashed by Su Qing with a high-grade magic weapon, and it only slashed into a hole less than an inch deep. This wound is not harmful to the demon beast at all, but it makes the demon beast suffer a lot, roars in pain, rolls on the ground, jumps up violently, and stares at Su Qing with fierce eyes, it seems that although there is some taboo against Su Qing, it also arouses the ferocity of the demon beast, and he plans to have an endless fight with Su Qing.
Damn! Sure enough, the legend is true, this guy is only a third-level demon beast, and the hardness of his fur is more than twice as strong as that of other demon beasts. If it is an ordinary third-level demon beast, at least he can cleave to the bones. Unexpectedly, against this guy, he just broke the defense.
This is a demon beast that looks like a lion, but its body is much larger, one and a half feet long, and half a foot high. There is a single horn more than a foot long on the top of the head, and the top is pointed and thin, which looks very sharp.
This monster beast is called the Steel Lion.
Just by looking at its name, you know that this steel-armored lion is famous for its hard skin and hard defense.
The steel armored lion is definitely a top-notch existence among the third-level demon beasts, and it also has the power to fight with the ordinary fourth-level demon beasts.
Fortunately, the steel lion is a monster beast that likes to live alone, and most of the time, the probability of two steel lion appearing at the same time is extremely low.
The steel-armored lion not only has hard skin, but also has an extraordinary speed, not to mention the huge physique, but the action is very flexible, Su Qing touched this steel-armored lion and fought with it for more than a quarter of an hour before finding the opportunity to slash a sword on this steel-armored lion, but the effect was extremely small.
Su Qing secretly rejoiced, thanks to this steel-armored lion likes to live alone, if he comes to two heads at once, he will be in big trouble today.
Long Xuan's sword didn't hurt the steel armored lion much, and Su Qing didn't dare to hold it up, so he took out the Zhenshan cone again.
The earthquake cone was flying "whining" above his head, but Su Qing didn't dare to take the initiative to attack, and took out the sharkskin shield to block it in front of him. The single horn of the head of this steel-armored lion looks cold and shining, and its sharpness is only stronger than that of high-grade magic weapons.
The IQ of this guy seems to be not low, when Su Qing sacrificed the Zhenshan cone, it seemed that the steel-armored lion also saw the extraordinaryness of the Zhenshan cone, and he was still eager to attack, but now he stopped, raised his head and stared at the Zhenshan cone flying in the air, and began to walk around Su Qing incessantly, hissing in a low voice with a "woo" in his mouth, as if looking for an opportunity to hit him.
At the beginning, Su Qing fought with this steel-armored lion for more than a quarter of an hour, because the steel-armored lion was a little light, he was eager to kill Su Qing under his palm, and as soon as he came up, he attacked more and defended less.
And Su Qing relied on his flexible body skills, and after avoiding the attack of the steel armored lion many times, he saw the opportunity to slash the steel armored lion with a sword.
But now the steel armored lion has adopted the means of focusing on defense, supplemented by offense, and effectively attacking, which made Su Qing passive all of a sudden.
If he used the Zhenshan Cone to attack now, with the power of the Zhenshan Cone, Su Qing believed that it would not be a big problem to penetrate the body of the steel-armored lion at once.
But just now, when the steel armored lion attacked more and defended less, it took him more than a quarter of an hour to find a chance to hit the target.
Now the Steel-Armored Lion focuses on defense, and the chance of hitting the Steel-Armored Lion with the Earthquake Cone is less than 1 in 10.
Once the Earthquake Mountain Cone starts to attack, with the current distance between the Steel Lion and himself, if the Steel Lion is dodging the Earthquake Mountain Cone and continues to attack his side, with the speed of the Steel Lion, this time will definitely not take a second.
If the cone loses the first attack and starts the second attack, one second is simply not enough.
Moreover, the steel lion had been fighting with him for more than a quarter of an hour, and he already had an understanding of his dodge methods. Once you start attacking yourself, you must also be calculating the direction you want to dodge.
In this way, no matter what direction you dodge left or right, the chances of dodging and being attacked are all in five or five.
Five or five, the probability of failure is a bit big, and Su Qing doesn't dare to take this risk.
The steel lion kept circling around Su Qing's body, and Su Qing had no choice but to constantly adjust the direction of the person and keep the figure of the steel lion in his sight at all times.
The two sides were deadlocked for four or five minutes, and the steel-armored lion was a beast after all, and his patience was not as long as Su Qing's.
Seeing that the steel armored lion suddenly stopped, the light in his eyes flickered, and he seemed to have given up the attack on Su Qing, and as if he despised Su Qing, he turned his head without care, and licked the wound cut by Su Qing a few times.
Such a cunning demon beast actually deliberately sold a flaw to attract himself.
Su Qing sighed secretly in his heart, and couldn't help but praise this demon beast a lot.
Although the light in the eyes of the steel armored lion converged a lot, and he didn't care about turning his head to lick the wounds on his body, but at the moment when the steel armored lion turned around, Su Qing obviously saw a glint flash in the steel armored lion's eyes.
In fact, at this time, the vigilance of the steel armored lion was higher than ever, and once Su Qing rashly attacked at this time, maybe Su Qing would have fallen under the claws of the steel armored lion at this time.
After Su Qing saw the glint in the eyes of the steel lion, he had completely given up the opportunity to attack that the steel lion had deliberately left for him, but his body suddenly jumped back, turned around and began to run away.
Damn! This coward actually chose to run away.
At this time, if the steel lion could express it in words, he would definitely say it.
But what kind of role is the steel armored lion? In the third-level demon beast, it is definitely the existence of the top, and now in its eyes, this little human who is inferior to the ant has cut a big hole in his body, and wants to escape, which is tolerable, which is unbearable.
As soon as he saw that Su Qing was about to escape, the steel armored lion was suddenly furious, and with a roar of "whoa", his body suddenly rose up, and chased after Su Qing regardless of it.