NOVEL WEB Chapter 143 - Chase
The plants on Emperor Star primarily feature shades of blue. Used to the green forests, Mai Dongzi felt somewhat uncomfortable looking at the blue forest.
However, this discomfort didn’t significantly affect her. She ignored the lower-level beasts that occasionally jumped out and simply navigated around them.
Although this was the training area for eighth-level beasts, many lower-level beasts were also released inside. This not only increased the difficulty of the training but also provided food for the higher-level beasts.
The reason Mai Dongzi didn’t engage with these lower-level beasts was that hunting in the Central Forest required payment.
Hunting beasts here not only means you won’t receive the corpses of the beasts, but you also have to pay for killing the beasts that are raised by others. Naturally, Mai Dongzi had no interest in doing something that required effort but yielded no profit and incurred expenses.
She didn’t want to waste time. Using her spiritual power to scan the area, she quickly located the eighth-level beast and dashed straight toward it.
The beast resembled a mutated gorilla from Water Blue Star. Due to Emperor Star’s slightly lower gravity, this eighth-level beast was twice the size of the mutated gorilla, making Mai Dongzi, who was 1.7 meters tall, barely reach its belly button.
The eighth-level beast sensed Mai Dongzi’s presence from a distance. Excited, it got down on all fours and charged toward her faster than she could react, extending its claws to grab her.
Mai Dongzi swiftly dodged to the side, and a silver long whip appeared in her hand, sweeping toward the eighth-level beast’s legs.
The eighth-level beast’s fur was incredibly tough; even a standard military knife couldn’t cut through it, let alone a whip.
Seeing this scene from the monitor, Song Zongsheng furrowed his brows and couldn’t help but say to Mu Bo, “Why did this girl choose a whip?”
There were many better weapons than a whip. No matter how high the quality, a whip couldn’t inflict damage on an eighth-level beast. If she missed hitting the eighth-level beast, it would be fine, but if she hit it, she would only provoke the beast.
As he spoke, Mai Dongzi’s long whip struck the eighth-level beast’s right leg solidly. Just as he had predicted, it didn’t leave a mark, but instead, it enraged the eighth-level beast, which began attacking her with all its limbs.
Mu Bo, who hadn’t had a chance to respond, felt a surge of tension. After all, from the video, it was evident that the young mistress was in a perilous situation. Each time she barely dodged an attack, one misstep could result in her being crushed or stomped to death.
Mai Dongzi also felt that the situation was dangerous. She realized that she had overestimated her abilities; the attack power of a seventh-level beast was not on the same level as that of an eighth-level beast.
After her initial hit on the eighth-level beast, she found herself unable to counterattack, only managing to dodge its attacks in a state of embarrassment.
This was only possible because she occasionally used her spiritual power to stimulate the eighth-level beast’s brain, which caused its movements to slow down slightly. Otherwise, she would have been hit several times by now.
The whip strike that had previously connected with the eighth-level beast was not just pure physical force; it also combined her spiritual power. The combined force of the two was enough to shatter the bones of a seventh-level beast.
She had put all her strength into that strike, initially thinking that even if it didn’t cause significant damage, it would at least affect the eighth-level beast’s speed.
But now it seemed that there was no effect at all. She could only struggle to use her spiritual power to influence the eighth-level beast, hoping to create some space for herself to dodge its attacks.
The eighth-level beast had tremendous strength, and Mai Dongzi’s continuous dodging, along with the occasional sharp pain in her head, only served to anger the beast further, increasing the intensity of its attacks.
Using the trees for cover, she avoided the strikes of the eighth-level beast, but if the beast hit a tree with its paw, it would either knock the tree off balance or break it completely.
Wherever the girl and the beast passed, many trees were indeed broken.
The two people in the monitoring room watching Mai Dongzi gradually synchronized their expressions.
Song Zongsheng didn’t have a strong connection with Mai Dongzi; he was just an old customer’s disciple, so he wasn’t particularly concerned about her life or death.
However, Mu Bo was different. Although he had known the young master for a short time, he recognized her as his young master.
At first, he was genuinely nervous watching the young master being chased by the eighth-level beast, fearing she might be turned into a meat patty.
The massive eighth-level beast was using all four limbs to chase after the “petite” young master, who couldn’t run as fast as the beast. She relied on the trees in the forest to block its path, managing to escape its attacks in thrilling, yet extremely precarious situations, making her look very disheveled.
Mu Bo was anxious, fearing that in the next attack, the beast’s massive paw would hit the young master…
However, as time went on, Song Zongsheng’s initially stern expression gradually became expressionless.
Meanwhile, Mu Bo, who was tense and anxious, gradually stiffened, eventually adopting an expressionless face as well.
Mai Dongzi’s situation indeed appeared very dangerous; she was rolling and crawling everywhere to escape, and soon she looked quite ragged.
The eighth-level beast closely pursued her, seemingly relentless in its intent to kill her.
But as time went on, it became apparent even to the sharp-eyed Song Zongsheng, and even to Mu Bo, that Mai Dongzi always managed to dodge at the last moment. The eighth-level beast had broken numerous trees in its frenzy but hadn’t touched her with a single finger.
Both experienced old cultivators in the monitoring room quickly began to notice the oddities in the eighth-level beast’s behavior.
During the pursuit, the eighth-level beast was occasionally distracted, which greatly affected its attack speed.
Otherwise, with Mai Dongzi only being a mid-level sixth-stage cultivator, she could at most rely on luck to dodge the attacks of the eighth-level beast once or twice.
Knowing that Mai Dongzi was a seventh-level psychic ability user, the two of them immediately realized that she was continuously using her psychic power to retaliate against the eighth-level beast while escaping, buying herself time to run.
After a while, when the eighth-level beast got tired or bored from the chase, she would turn around and whip it, provoking the beast to try even harder to tear her apart.
This cat-and-mouse chase lasted a full two hours.
Then, the two in the monitoring room saw Mai Dongzi finally shake off the eighth-level beast’s attacks and suddenly scramble up the trunk of a massive tree that the beast couldn’t break.
The eighth-level beast naturally refused to give up so easily. Seeing its prey climb the tree, it quickly followed suit, and its speed was much faster than Mai Dongzi’s; it caught up to her in just a few leaps.
Just as the eighth-level beast reached out its left hand to grab Mai Dongzi, its movement suddenly halted, as if it had lost control, and it slid down the trunk of the tree.
However, when it landed heavily on the ground, its body regained control.
Now, the eighth-level beast became extraordinarily furious, slamming its paws against the large tree as if trying to break it so that Mai Dongzi would fall down.