Volume I 39: Past Battles

Previously, Fang Nuo rode on the back of the bird, condescendingly witnessing the battle between the witch and the snake clan, and the family of the snake demon beast released a green poison that blocked his vision, so there were many details of the battle that he could not see.

Now, after entering this peculiar "memory space", all the scenes played out in it have become extraordinarily clear - he can adjust and change his perspective at will; When he feels that he has missed a move of the warring parties, he can even fiddle with the "progress bar" of the battle as he pleases, so that the scene that is projected in front of him jumps back to the "previous scene".

Of course, to jump back to a specific point in time, it takes a lot of trial and strict practice, and he doesn't have to.

The longer he used this strange ability to stay in this past event, the more spiritual power he expended-

No, after only doing a few ability-related experiments, he felt that his body was weak, and it seemed that a large void that was never satisfied had formed in his body, greedily absorbing and devouring every trace of spiritual power around him, including the inside of his body.

There would be more opportunities in the future, Fang Nuo comforted himself, and then began to focus on the performance of the warring parties.

For the first time, he saw how the witch used spirit wires—thin threads that didn't actually exist hung down in midair, and no one knew exactly where they were connected, except that they ended up in the ground beneath the witch's feet.

As the spiritual power line burrowed into the surface of the ground little by little, the ground suddenly glowed with dazzling bright light, instantly rendering Fang Nuo's vision into a snow-white field.

This does not indicate the color of the witch's spiritual power, only that the response given by the earth is very harsh.

The psionic lines she manipulates are colorless and transparent, and they can only be caught by the naked eye when she moves quickly.

In the next moment, the ground suddenly cracked, crawling with irregular cracks.

The witch raised her hand, and countless clods of earth rose from the ground under the action of spiritual power lines, looking at the past from a distance as if they were hovering in mid-air, without any support around them.

The bear roared in anger and flicked its claws back at the clods of dirt that kept flying towards him.

Then, he repeatedly blocked the enemy's attacks, seized the opportunity to stomp his feet on the ground, and the surrounding clods of earth were shaken into the air, polished into sharp earth arrows by an invisible force—their shapes were exactly the same as the blood arrows that had killed the "Flower Emperor Emissaries" earlier.

Xiong Zhen "returned" the arrows turned into clods of earth to the witch.

It's the mastery and use of the elements...... Fang Nuo had no idea what they were doing.

The elements of wind, fire, water, and earth are not just found in plants, they are everywhere.

If a point of elemental power is mixed in the process of manipulating spiritual power in battle, the attack power generated and the damage caused will be increased.

However, for a young demon beast of Fang Nuo's class, it was a question of whether he could master the use of spiritual power, let alone learn the knowledge related to "elements".

He witnessed Xiong Zhen not being able to get close several times, and gradually became angry - the spiritual power that a lifeform can use during the battle is limited, even if they are not worried about the supply of spiritual power, they can't fight life and death while turning the spiritual power of the earth into their own use.

Moreover, the transformation of spiritual power also requires physical strength.

The witch seemed to give up on the idea after being blocked at close range with her first swing of the sword, and she kept distancing herself from the bear, and behaved much more easily than the other party.

She seemed to be looking for a suitable place and timing, and in the process, no matter what kind of heavy information the bear thrown, she was unfazed.

Fang Nuo had gained a lot just by looking at this brief memory fragment, and the small depression that had accumulated in his heart after eavesdropping on the riddles and people's conversations outside the village chief's house was also dissolved.

He learned that the woman was from outside the mountains and could not stay in her country because she was charged with a crime, so he came to the Xuancai Mountains as a traveler to find a place to live for a long time.

Before coming to the mountain village, she was already a well-known "monster hunter" in the mountains, as if she was favored by the forest, and few monsters were her opponents.

As for Xiong Zhen, she said that she was "escaped from hell" and "feared by her kind...... Fang Nuo listened to the bear repeat these two statements several times during the battle, but he never explained the basis in depth, probably from his prey when he was wandering around in the mountains.

Even though the back-and-forth movements of one man and one beast took place in a short period of time, Fang Nuo still felt a slight headache about the stalemate between the two of them.

But just as such an idea was born, the time flow of the picture in front of him suddenly became faster, causing him to overcome the feeling of fatigue and spend some time studying this newly discovered "viewing mechanism".

And when he came back to his senses and refocused his attention on the content of the memory fragment, he suddenly realized that Xiong Zhen's close-quarters plan had initially succeeded.

The bear's telekinesis skills weren't as good as the witch's, but he could use the witch's power to move the dirt and rocks on the ground to where he wanted.

After several temptations, the scene of the battle turned out to be like a witch who had cut off her own way of retreat, and she would be forced to face the attack of her regional opponents.

In a few moments, Xiong Zhen had already pressed his claws against the witch's sword, as if it only took a little force to break the weapon on the spot.

At the same time, the other paw of the giant bear is also gaining momentum, and the current situation has become "he can open the witch at any time if he wants".

Seeing the conflict between this man and beast, Fang Nuo couldn't help but think of what kind of scene it would be if two demon beasts of equal strength and the same size competed, or two "capable people" fought each other's miracles.

Just when Xiong Zhen thought that the victory was certain and he didn't need to come up with a killer weapon, his face suddenly became solemn, and the smile that had not yet fully bloomed froze on his face.

The witch, with a sword in one hand, resisted the bear's muscular and powerful forearm, and one knee was slightly raised, pressing the bear's other arm against his torso - no one knows how she did it, maybe it's also a "miracle"?

But what really shocked the bear was not the witch's power, but the firearm she held in her other hand.

An excellent "capable person" can weave all things with spiritual power, and if she enters the mountains without any weapons, demon beasts with common sense should not despise her.

With a loud "boom", the giant bear was knocked out and crashed into a redwood tree not far away, and his abdomen and the trunk behind him were punched out of a huge hole by the firearm transformed by spiritual power.

"Times have changed......," Fang Nuo subconsciously sighed, "Human beings are no longer creatures to be slaughtered by the beast race. ”

The witch didn't let the giant bear get close, but did it for his good.

"Do you want to keep a whole corpse?" Fang Nuo secretly slandered himself.

It was only then that the face under the witch's hood put away a relaxed expression, and I saw her wave her hand to let the spiritual power firearm disperse, and instead took out the "Book of Seals" from her cloak, took a deep breath, and was about to open it.

Looking at her actions, Fang Nuo reasonably guessed: in the witch's mind, the demon beast sealed in the book was far more terrifying than the living Xiong Zhen.

However, the witch who was only focusing on the "Book of Seals" with her back to the giant bear that was blown away failed to notice that the body of the giant bear was drifting with blood-red spiritual power one after another, and they spread towards the other redwood trees around them at an extremely fast speed.

Fang Nuo adjusted his perspective in time, and then saw the spiritual treasure chest hidden by Xiong Zhen in the tree...... and the untold remains of prey hanging from the treetops.

Does this bear think that it is the rumored "butcher bird"?

The spiritual power from the relics of the beastmaster and the prey poured into Xiong Zhen's broken body, and the wound in his abdomen slowly healed, forming a thick layer of scabs, and under the rendering of red spiritual power, it gave the witnesses the illusion that he was wearing armor.

"Suffer death." Fang Nuo heard Xiong Zhen whisper to himself, "You arrogant human. ”

I see, Fang Nuo thought to himself, this is what Xiong Zhen said before "turning things around...... It's a pity that he overestimated his strength.

It seems that he really relied on the power of the Beastmaster's relics to achieve his current personality, and when he met a real strong man, all his shortcomings were exposed, and there was no chance to make up for it.

How difficult is it for an ordinary demon beast to be promoted to an immortal beast with the help of family skills? Xiong Zhen has walked on the road paved with blood all his life, and the ranks he has achieved are debatable and suspected of being false......

"Is there a possibility that the woman's strength is too strong?"

Before melancholy took over most of his thoughts, Fang Nuo stopped thinking about this in time.

At the same time, Xiong Zhen in the past also fought back, this time, he no longer expected a close attack, but used the spiritual power of heaven and earth to try to trap the enemy in the barrier surrounded by earth and rock.

And almost at the same moment, the witch opened the book in her hand.

Even when he was not at the scene, Fang Nuo had an auditory hallucination, and it was not easy to calm himself down, clarifying the fact that "that malice was not coming at him".