The trees around him are rapidly retreating, the ninth level of the martial apprentice is different, the speed is obviously much faster than the fourth level of the martial apprentice, and now Ye Qing has also regained his previous strength. The confidence is also a lot, and it is really a great task for me to break through in the world. Of course, just thinking about it, Ye Qing knew that his strength was nothing in this place today.

Although we have reached the edge of the Hengduan Mountains, there is still a long way to go out of the Hengduan Mountains. On the way, there were also some blindless first-order demonic beasts that came up to provoke, but they were all easily killed by Ye Qing.

It is estimated that he is about to leave the Hengduan Mountain Range, and the demonic beasts are also much rarer, and Ye Qing gradually relaxed his vigilance.

Xiao Yi seemed to fall asleep on Ye Qing's shoulder, squinting his little eyes, with a happy face, and he didn't have any reluctance at all because of leaving the birthplace of the Hengduan Mountain Range. It seems that I have long wanted to go out and see the outside world.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and Xiao Yi's eyes in the sleep instantly opened round, and the little guy seemed to feel something.

"Babbling ......"

Ye Qing, who was moving forward quickly, heard Xiao Yi's eager voice, so he stopped and asked Xiao Yi on his shoulder, "What's wrong Xiao Yi?"

Xiao Yi jumped off Ye Qing's shoulder and walked slowly towards Ye Qing's left, as if he had found something. Soon it stopped again, and suddenly, it raised its head sharply and pointed at the sky with its front paws.

At this time, Ye Qing also felt that something was wrong, there was no sound around him at all, it was too quiet, the silence was terrifying. Looking in the direction Xiao Yi pointed, but found nothing, just in the midst of doubt, an extremely sharp cry came from the air, and then a huge black shadow swooped down at lightning speed, and the target was Xiao Yi.

Seeing that the black shadow was about to hit Xiao Yi, but Ye Qing was still some distance away from Xiao Yi, it was obviously too late to stop it. If Xiao Yi is attacked by that huge black shadow, I am afraid that there will be less luck. Xiao Yi is just a cute little pet, is he going to die before he leaves the Hengduan Mountains?

Just when Ye Qing thought that Xiao Yi was about to fall, an unexpected scene happened.

I saw a flash of white light, and a row of Xiao Yi appeared. Ye Qing took a closer look, it turned out to be just a series of afterimages, Xiao Yi was able to dodge in time at this critical moment. And the speed was so fast that it actually brought up a row of afterimages.

The black shadow was obviously in the air, Ye Qing took a look, and found that the black shadow that fell on the ground was actually a pitch-black leopard, and the black hair on its body could emit a hazy halo, making it not easy to be noticed, which was a semi-stealth state.

At this time, Ye Qing had already reacted and pulled out the short sword. Seeing the true face of the black shadow, Ye Qing couldn't help but be surprised, it was actually a hidden leopard, you must know that the adult hidden leopard was a second-order demonic beast, and it was particularly good at concealment and speed. He has a fierce personality and often delivers fatal blows in the dark. An ordinary second-order demonic beast could not dodge its fatal blow at all, and it was the top existence among the second-order demonic beasts.

The hidden leopard in front of him was obviously already an adult demonic beast, and its combat power was no weaker than that of a ninth-level martial artist among humans. In particular, its speed is extremely terrifying, even if a ninth-level martial artist encounters it, it will definitely not be able to avoid it, so it can only fight with it, or it will take the initiative to leave.

After Ye Qing saw the demonic beast in front of him clearly, he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, he couldn't imagine that he could encounter this kind of top-level second-order demonic beast on the periphery of the Hengduan Mountain Range. Although Ye Qing's strength has skyrocketed now, he still doesn't have much confidence in the kind of opponent in front of him, so he can only do his best with his combat experience.

The hidden leopard saw that he actually pounced, and he also smacked it. It had never missed a hand in dealing with a low-level demonic beast before, and today it actually missed for the first time on that snow-white little beast. Suddenly he roared angrily and was about to pounce again.

Suddenly, the Hidden Leopard felt a fluctuation in the air beside him, and his eyes flicked to see a short sword stabbing at a lightning speed, and at this point, the tip of the sword was only half a foot away from its neck.

It was Ye Qing who came to the side of the hidden leopard through a flash step, and quickly launched an attack, this was a sneak attack by a top killer, Ye Qing came to return the favor with the other. However, as an expert in sneak attacks, the hidden leopard is obviously not so easy to be sneak attacked. I saw the Hidden Leopard raise its right front paw, and a claw shadow flashed, slapping towards Ye Qing's short sword at an astonishing speed. Ye Qing couldn't see how it came out of its claws at all, but saw a vague claw shadow.

"Smack!"

The sword claws collided, Ye Qing's short sword broke in response, and at the same time, Ye Qing was shot out.

Second-order demonic beasts are not comparable to those ordinary beasts or first-order demonic beasts. Although it is only one order higher than the first-order demonic beast, there has been a qualitative change in both speed and strength. The hardness of the fur and claws alone is not comparable to ordinary iron. The most critical point is that after the Demon Beast reaches the second order, it can store the Beast Yuan Power in its body through communication with the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi. You can borrow the power of the beast element when attacking and defending, and the effect is increased several times.

If you reach the third order, you can release the beast yuan force attack, and it is the same reason that humans can release the yuan force attack after reaching the martial artist.

It was only a matter of a moment from Ye Qing's attack to being shot away, and the hidden leopard saw that Ye Qing was so easily repelled by himself, so he pounced towards Xiao Yi again, it seemed that Xiao Yi was what it was most interested in.

However, Xiao Yi would not stand and wait for the hidden leopard to catch him, only to see one after another afterimages appearing, and the hidden leopard didn't know where to pounce.

Although Ye Qing was shot away, he was not harmed. It's just that the short sword in his hand can no longer be used, so he remembered that there was still a spear given to him by the five-clawed golden dragon in the space ring, although the five-clawed golden dragon solemnly handed over the spear to Ye Qing, but Ye Qing hadn't had time to study what level of weapon the spear was.

Ye Qing's heart moved, and a simple spear was held in his hand.

Ye Qing looked up and saw that the hidden leopard was chasing Xiao Yi, but obviously Xiao Yi's speed was faster, and the hidden leopard couldn't touch it at all. Xiao Yi also looked back behind him from time to time, and then began to take the hidden leopard in circles again.

Xiao Yi is already his partner, and he is so cute. Although he had only just come into contact with it, Ye Qing already regarded it as his younger brother. Seeing his younger brother being chased and killed, he couldn't help but be furious, and he couldn't care about the difference in strength between himself and the hidden leopard, so he shouted loudly, jumped towards the hidden leopard, and stabbed straight forward with the spear, making a sound of breaking the air, and even the air trembled slightly.

The Hidden Leopard felt it the moment Ye Qing launched his attack, and it found that it was actually that human who had come to destroy his good deeds. I couldn't help but be impatient for a while, and finally decided to solve the human in front of me first. So, facing Ye Qing's spear, it seemed that this kind of broken copper and iron weapon could not hurt itself at all.

"Hiss......"

The Hidden Leopard's claws, which were far as hard as gold and iron, finally collided with Ye Qing's spear head. Because both sides were angry blows, they collided with sparks.

The previous scene was not repeated, and apparently, this gun was a little more advanced than the short sword. Ye Qing estimated that this gun was at least a martial artist-level weapon.

Seeing that the spear was not damaged, the hidden leopard emitted a fierce light in his eyes, obviously having a beastly nature, so he pounced towards Ye Qing again.

At this time, Xiao Yi was already standing behind Ye Qing, his eyes full of anxiety. I wanted to pounce on Ye Qing to help, but I didn't dare. Clutching the ground in annoyance, it seemed to hate why he was so weak.

Ye Qing saw that the hidden leopard launched another attack, he didn't dare to slack off, he flashed under his feet, and instantly came to the side of the hidden leopard, at this time the hidden leopard was still in the air, and there was nowhere to borrow strength. Years of combat experience have given Ye Qing a keen fighting instinct.

This time, Ye Qing had an idea, and thought that one of the three nameless swordsmanship was similar to the action of a forward stab, so he immediately used it on the gun.

With an indomitable momentum, the spear stabbed fiercely at the hidden leopard in the air. Although the Hidden Leopard spotted the attack from its side, it was unable to borrow its strength in the air, so it could barely use one of its front paws to block the tip of the spear that pierced its throat. In the previous collision, it found that the spear in the hand of this human was obviously not an ordinary weapon, so it naturally did not dare to let Ye Qing stab it in the throat.

"Poof......

A tearing sound came, and Ye Qing's spear stabbed one of the front paws of the hidden leopard. Suddenly, two fingers on that front paw fell, and blood flowed. The Hidden Leopard suffered a heavy blow to one of its front paws, and its speed slowed down significantly.

Through these few encounters, Ye Qing was full of confidence in the spear in his hand. I thought that the five-clawed golden dragon was really a good weapon for me, and it could easily stab a second-order demonic beast, so I would study it when I went back this time.

Another dozen rounds, and both sides have already consumed a lot of stamina. And the hidden leopard has lost a lot of blood, and it has reached the end of the strong crossbow.

The hidden leopard was more than ten meters away from Ye Qing, and this distance was a momentary distance for both sides. Ye Qing raised the spear in his hand again and pointed at the hidden leopard in front of him, his eyes full of solemnity. Although the hidden leopard has been injured, it is a second-order demonic beast after all, Ye Qing does not dare to take it lightly, the lion fighting the rabbit still needs to go all out, let alone facing an existence stronger than himself.

Although the hidden leopard was injured, it could judge that the strength of the human in front of it was inferior to its own, otherwise it would have slipped away a long time ago, and it was now ready to attack.

The two sides had a tacit understanding, and they even launched their own attacks on each other at the same time.

As a demonic beast, the hidden leopard does not have too many tricks when attacking, and the demonic beasts rely on speed and strength to win. The Hidden Leopard leaps high and looms in the air, making it difficult to grasp its trajectory.

Ye Qing also jumped high, as if he was going to fight hard with the hidden leopard. The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and when the hidden leopard saw that Ye Qing actually dared to fight with him, a look of victory flashed in his eyes. It is absolutely confident in its own strength, and the human in front of it is too slippery, and it is difficult to hurt him every time he does not touch him. As long as you can attack the other party, you can definitely tear him to pieces.

When Ye Qing's spear tip was less than a foot away from the hidden leopard, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and his figure suddenly disappeared. This was Ye Qing launching a flash step in the air, which Ye Qing had never used before. Because the Hidden Leopard is a very intelligent demonic beast, unlike ordinary second-order demonic beasts, its IQ is not lower than that of ordinary humans, so Ye Qing has been calculating. Finally, he waited for his chance.

When the Hidden Leopard realizes that something is wrong, it is too late to react. The sharp tip of the spear stabbed from under the body at a speed several times faster than before.

"Woo......"

It was the last time the leopard made a sound, and the spear went straight down its throat. Immediately, it slowly closed its eyes.

The corpse of the hidden leopard was smashed to the ground by Ye Qing, and a thumb-sized crystal rolled out of its mouth.

Ye Qing was about to step forward and pick it up, when suddenly, a white light flashed. The crystal was gone, and Ye Qing looked up and saw that it was Xiao Yi who snatched it. This crystal should be the crystal nucleus of the hidden leopard, and it is relatively rare to imagine that the second-order demonic beast can drop a crystal nucleus.

Looking at Xiao Yi's pitiful appearance, Ye Qing knew that the strength of the demonic beasts could be improved by devouring the crystal nucleus, so he nodded.

Xiao Yi narrowed his eyes happily when he saw this, and then swallowed the crystal nucleus in one gulp.