Chapter 106: A Few Things About Naming Beast Hunter Li Qing
Fighting Swords Terrace.

When the Purple Mansions arrived, a pure and spiritual white deer had already been subdued by the disciples.

The white deer and white cranes were originally spiritual beasts raised in the Daoist temple for use as a means of transportation. They usually wandered around the sect, listening to sermons, practicing and observing magic. They were no different from the potted plants in the courtyard, except that their cultivation was more advanced, and each of them had built a foundation.

There were often disciples practicing swordsmanship at Doujianping. Bai Lusui was building his foundation, and the disciples of Dadaoguan were not pushovers either. They rushed up and subdued him. However, looking at the broken white pear trees and the bumpy ground, it seemed that the process was not so easy.

Master Taixu dismissed his disciples and captured the white deer.

The white deer no longer had the auspicious look it had. Its white fur was covered with black scales, its hooves were cracked and had three sharp claws growing on them, its body muscles were bulging and it was shaking as if there were small insects wandering around, emitting circles of calamity energy.

The white deer...the black deer roared like a tiger, its eyes were red, it had lost its mind, and its wide-open mouth was filled with densely packed fangs.

The changes continued. After a while, the black deer's spine became scoliotic, pushing its sternum high. The bones moved and pierced its internal organs, causing it to vomit several mouthfuls of blood. Then its ribs turned up and spread like wings, as if they were about to turn into bone wings.

Gu Qingyuan stepped forward to take a look and said, "It seems that the calamity energy can catalyze the transformation of monsters. The abnormality on the deer's body is more like it is triggering the power in its blood to make it evolve. However, this state is uncontrollable. Various abnormalities are erupting at the same time. The host can't bear it and has gone mad."

He looked into the red eyes of the deer, and then looked into the distance: "Moreover, this kind of abnormality may occur in selected animals, but I don't know what the selection criteria are."

It is naturally impossible for the Dadao Temple to raise only one spiritual beast. The strange behavior of the spiritual deer had long attracted the attention of the monsters. Not far away, there was a white deer of the same kind watching from afar. When it saw Gu Qingyuan coming, it was frightened and quickly lowered its head to gnaw a few mouthfuls of soil, pretending to be confused.

The Purple Mansions looked at the foundation-building demon deer in a daze, but it was Elder Taixu who spoke up: "When I captured it, I found that this deer had amazing strength. It is no match for ordinary foundation-building beasts. I think it is the influence of the calamity energy. You have seen the strange phenomenon just now. When the countless calamity energies fall, I wonder how many more demon beasts like this will be born."

"Uncle-master, if this is the case, I'm afraid the world will be in chaos. This monster is irrational. If it were in a busy city, I'm afraid it would eat people alive. We must arrange to deal with it as soon as possible." Xi Jing said.

Taixu thought for a while and said, "With the blessing of calamity energy, we can call it calamity beast to distinguish it. The combat power of calamity beast has soared, and ordinary cultivators are useless. The Purple Mansions in the sect are dispatched, and each uses magical powers to lead the foundation-building disciples to eliminate the calamity beasts in the territory first, so as to avoid mortals dying in the mouths of beasts. Fortunately, the demon cultivators have been cleared out before, so there shouldn't be many."

"Senior, I have a question. If this calamity energy can affect demon cultivators, then will ordinary wild beasts also be affected and transformed?" Gu Qingyuan asked fiercely.

Everyone was shocked. If they were demon cultivators, there would not be many left after the Yiqi Dao Alliance offered a bounty to kill them all. However, ordinary poultry and wild beasts in the forest would not be taken care of. Once something strange happened and the calamity aura came over them, no mortal could resist it.

"I can't wait any longer. You guys finish the things I arranged before, and the rest of you go and pass this news to every sect and city, and patrol the Eight Desolate Lands!"

At Master Taixu's command, divine lights, sword lights, and auspicious clouds rose up and flew in all directions.

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Erfengshan Forest.

A roar of an animal in the distance startled countless birds into flight.

Li Qing moved his ears and then turned in another direction.

"It's that skinny tiger. It should be hunting now. It's better not to provoke it."

He is the best hunter in the nearby village, no, in this forest. He has a pair of hands that can draw a strong bow, and a pair of feet that have walked every inch of land in Erfeng Mountain. He grew up in a nearby village since he was a child.

However, he moved away from his original village a few years ago and moved to the city with his family, working as a carpenter. If the world had not become difficult, he would not have returned to his old job.

Li Qing sniffed gently, came to a big tree, squatted down, picked up a handful of soil and twisted it. The soil was slightly moist, so he put it in his mouth and tasted it.

"The blind black bear should be nearby."

Li Qing tightened the bowstring of the small crossbow in his hand again. When he no longer found the target, the long sword and iron crossbow in his hands gave him a greater sense of security.

If he found prey, he would use another hunting method. What Li Qing was most proud of was his ability to shoot arrows that could penetrate the prey's eyes without hurting its fur. It was with this skill that he got a wife and had a little girl.

Li Qing does not have the idea of ​​favoring boys over girls. The little boy is naughty all day long and is always angry. He is not as caring as a little girl.

He felt warm in his heart as he thought about his wife and daughter who were still waiting for him to return home in the city.

"Xiuhe must have prepared the food and is sitting in the yard with Yunni waiting for me to come back. As the New Year is coming, I can just take the bear skin and bear paws and buy Xiuhe new clothes and a longevity lock for Yunni. Blacksmith Zhang is a good craftsman." Li Qing had already spotted a good piece of material in the tailor shop in the city when he went to buy New Year's goods.

He thought it was a little funny that his wife was unable to move when she saw the floral cloth, and then he sighed.

"Xiuhe has suffered a lot since she followed me. She has to take care of everything around the house. I should treat her better in the future."

Li Qing stood up, tightened the bow on his back and dispelled all distracting thoughts. Hunting was different from other skills. It was a real fight with wild beasts. He had seen too many good hunters die in the mouths of wild beasts due to negligence. As an experienced hunter, he would naturally not make such a mistake.

But he still couldn't help but look up at the sky. Dark clouds were rolling in the sky. Although the sun was shining through, it made people feel heavy in their hearts.

"The black cloud has been there for some time, why hasn't the immortal master come to deal with it? This is too scary, damn world."

He sniffed the air again, and without stepping on the piled up dead leaves, he climbed up the tree lightly and jumped between the branches. His nimble figure treated the twigs and branches as nothing, and moved silently.

"Crack, click, click."

The sound of chewing was heard, and Li Qing hid in the branches and looked at the sitting black bear.

"This bear seems to have grown a lot bigger. Is it going to become a spirit?"

Li Qing had broadened his horizons and learned that there were immortals and monsters in the world. He could beat ordinary wild beasts, but he could not beat monsters.

When he thought of this, his heart skipped a beat.

'No, we have to run. We can't take any risks.'

Li Qing wanted to retreat, so he stepped on the branches and slowly pushed back. He then looked at the black bear through the gaps between the leaves, but he was so scared that his palms began to sweat.

There was no black bear in the clearing in the forest. Only half a piece of meat was left there.

He didn't dare to look for it, but held the crossbow steadily in his hand, looking for a suitable fulcrum. When he looked up, he found a large black shadow under the tree.

The black bear had red pupils and came to the tree at some point. It stared at Li Qing, its breath moving slightly and saliva flowing from its mouth.

Roar--

A loud roar was accompanied by the sound of a mechanism.

The crossbow arrow flew straight out of the black bear's mouth, but was caught by the black bear's suddenly extended tongue, and it bit it hard, breaking it into pieces.

"Really...really a spirit!"

Li Qing knew that he had been discovered, so he no longer held his breath. The bow sounded like thunder, and five feather arrows shot out like flowing water.

Unfortunately, Li Qing's archery skills, which he was proud of, did not kill his prey as usual.

The black bear fanned left and right to block the feather arrow.

咕咚
Li Qing swallowed.

"No, I'm not afraid. I carefully selected this tree. It can't climb up."

Before he could finish his thought, the black bear went crazy, waving its claws to dig at the tree and ramming into it with its shoulder.

The big tree swayed in Li Qing's desperate eyes, and with a crackling sound, it fell with Li Qing.

(End of this chapter)