Chapter 177 Venturing Deep into the Mingdou Mountains: Trouble Comes Knocking.
Two days later!
As a beautiful sunset rose in the western sky, a blazing white light streaked across the heavens. From afar, the Mingdou Mountains appeared like a natural chasm, completely separating two lands.
Wu Xuan landed steadily on the ground. There was still some distance to the Mingdou Mountains, but the surrounding air had become fresher, making breathing much easier.
Although both were habitats of spirit beasts, the feeling Wu Xuan experienced here was completely different from that of the Star Dou Great Forest.
The Star Dou Great Forest was deep and boundless, but this place possessed a wild and fierce aura. Perhaps its spiritual depth was far less than that of the Star Dou Great Forest, but it was far more aggressive.
Putting away his flying spirit tool, Wu Xuan leaped and lay down on a protruding branch of a nearby tree to rest.
This time, he flew for nearly four hours straight using the maximum power of his flying soul tool. Even with a soul core possessing a spiritual attribute, Wu Xuan's soul power was reduced by nearly 30%. The Mingdou Mountains were teeming with mutated soul beasts, and he needed to recover to his optimal state before entering.
However, in less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, Wu Xuan's depleted soul power was fully restored. After casually eating some braised beef prepared in his soul tool, Wu Xuan stepped directly into the Mingdou Mountains.
Activating his aura perception, he instantly brought all living beings within a radius of nearly a thousand meters into his range. Wu Xuan almost laughed, because he sensed several weak soul beasts spying on him from less than a hundred meters ahead, seemingly afraid of his arrival and hesitant to approach.
Wu Xuan shook his head slightly; this was quite normal. The weaker the soul beast, the more sensitive it was to danger. It was practically a biological instinct.
As long as the soul beasts didn't attack him, he wouldn't kill them all just because they were spying on him.
However, not all spirit beasts were so sensible. Wu Xuan had only traveled less than five kilometers in the Mingdou Mountains when he encountered his first group of spirit beasts that dared to attack him.
That's right, not just one, but a whole group.
Amidst a series of "whoosh" sounds, figures surrounded him from all sides.
They were enormous, robust apes, exuding a foul stench. Their fur was grayish-black, but their eyes were a strange, blood-red color filled with a bloodthirsty intent.
"Armored Monkeys?"
Wu Xuan calmly observed the giant apes, and information about this type of spirit beast immediately surfaced in his mind.
Armored Monkeys were mutated spirit beasts unique to the Mingdou Mountains. They possessed great strength, but their attack power was average, yet their defense was extremely strong. Their innate spirit skill was called Heavy Armor Defense, classifying them as low-level ordinary spirit beasts.
There were more than twenty armored monkeys in the group before him, but only the leader was over four meters tall, reaching at least the level of a six-thousand-year-old spirit beast.
The leader, the armored monkey king, bared its teeth at Wu Xuan, revealing two ferocious fangs. It slammed its fists into its massive chest, and its iron-gray fur instantly shone with a gray light, transforming into a thick suit of armor.
At the same time, a sharp roar erupted from the leader's mouth.
"As expected, monkeys are a bunch of stupid things that need to be taught a lesson," Wu Xuan sneered. With a wave of his hand, a wind blade shot out. Before the armored monkey king could react, its massive head exploded, staining the surrounding trees and leaves with scarlet blood and white brain matter. Its enormous body crashed to the ground in horror, and the monkey troop behind it scattered in terror, disappearing in an instant.
Such was the nature of monkeys; once the leader was killed, the rest of the troop would quickly collapse.
Continue deeper! With Wu Xuan deliberately avoiding them, the journey was smooth, and no more spirit beasts dared to block the way.
The setting sun cast its golden rays across the sky, illuminating the Mingdou Mountains in a magnificent glow! Wu Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly, for about thirty kilometers north of the Mingdou Mountains, he sensed the auras of several powerful figures clashing.
"It seems someone is hunting high-level soul beasts?" Wu Xuan concluded after a moment's thought. Wu Xuan had no intention of joining in the fun. He had crossed the Mingdou Mountains simply to hunt some game and then take a stroll through the capital of the Sun Moon Empire; he didn't want any unnecessary trouble.
Activating his aura perception to its fullest extent, Wu Xuan passed through the dense forest and arrived at a relatively secluded hillside.
"This place is still within the outer area, so there aren't any powerful soul beasts. I can try some barbecue from the Mingdou Mountains tonight." Wu Xuan hummed a tune as he took out a tent from his soul tool and quickly secured it to the slope.
With a thud, a plump, strange wild boar appeared in Wu Xuan's view.
A Scaled Boar! Another unique mutated soul beast from the Mingdou Mountains. Due to its constant feeding on ores rich in gold elements, its body has undergone a beneficial mutation, growing scales resembling iron armor.
Wu Xuan removed a leg from the meat, storing the rest back into his soul tool.
The wind element solidified, and a jade-green blade materialized on Wu Xuan's index finger. He skillfully began to slice the boar leg, quickly cutting off evenly sized strips of meat and arranging them on a full plate.
After sprinkling on the barbecue marinade, Wu Xuan expertly set up the grill, laying nearly half of the hind leg meat flat on the plate.
Wu Xuan didn't gather firewood from the surrounding area, but instead took out fruitwood charcoal specifically for grilling. The black smoke from ordinary firewood could greatly affect the taste of the grilled meat.
Under the heat of the campfire, the hind leg meat on the grill immediately emitted an enticing aroma.
Looking at the grilled meat glistening with oil and exuding a rich, charred fragrance, Wu Xuan took out the sauce he had packed from the inner courtyard canteen and poured it directly into the grill.
"Almost done!" Wu Xuan nodded in satisfaction, looking at the grilled meat coated in sauce. He then directly removed the grill from the rack.
The grilled meat had a mild sauce flavor, but it was incredibly fragrant. After the sauce had reduced, the meat strips coated in sauce were extremely tender. After just a few chews, it melted into a rich, fragrant juice that flowed down his throat. The smooth and delicious taste was simply a rare delicacy.
The nearly four-pound grilled meat was completely devoured by Wu Xuan in no time.
After rinsing the grill, Wu Xuan dumped the remaining grilled meat back into it.
Looking at the sunset in the distance, Wu Xuan couldn't help but let out a long sigh. This was life!
Suddenly, Wu Xuan, who was savoring a glass of orange-yellow juice, froze.
Within the range of his wind elemental spirit aura, two figures were rapidly approaching him from four hundred meters away.
"These are hostile!" Wu Xuan narrowed his eyes and downed his juice in one gulp.
Then, he leisurely flipped the hind leg meat on the grill.
Three or four hundred meters was a short distance for a powerful spirit master.
Just as Wu Xuan flipped the meat, two figures clad in black robes appeared before him.
A quick glance revealed a man and a woman. The man was well-proportioned, with slightly dark skin, clearly not from the original Douluo Three Kingdoms.
The woman, however, was tall and slender, with striking features; her appearance was at least above average among the women Wu Xuan had ever seen.
The man stepped forward, glaring angrily at Wu Xuan: "What do we have here? Turns out it's just some ignorant brat barbecuing!"
Wu Xuan ignored him, as the burning sensation emanating from the Silver Scale Griffin's left leg bone surprised him.
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