Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 57: Torn In Half

Huan Caiyi nodded in understanding and stayed while Zhi Hui disappeared from the back of Meiying.

When she appeared, she was already in front of the humongous bear-type spirit beast. It had black fur with some strange marks on its head. The way it was standing in the air, it seemed like a human’s form.

Well, spirit beasts of this level are termed half-demons; they can easily understand human language.

When Zhi Hui appeared in front of it, she looked quite small. Generally, beasts become quite big as they grow stronger, though only a few don’t show this type of growth due to different reasons.

Zhi Hui looked towards it and spoke.

"We didn’t know that this territory belonged to you, and we have no intention of staying here. We are just passing by, so it will be better for everyone if you let us go."

When the beast heard that, it snorted and looked at Zhi Hui menacingly.

Spirit beasts hate humans the most, and since it had already seen Zhi Hui’s cultivation, which was similar to its own, why would it let go of her?

"I see, so be it." Zhi Hui took out her sword and looked at it without blinking.

Eventually, winds began to converge around her. When the beast saw that, its eyes widened. It knew that she was dangerous, far more than it had originally thought.

It lunged at her with its claws raised. They gave off a metallic shine and were as big as she was.

When the claws were just about to touch Zhi Hui, who was already clad in wind, she disappeared. It wasn’t void movement, as that takes some time to activate.

It was pure movement, seemingly as fast as void movement.

When Zhi Hui appeared, she was behind the beast.

Instantly, dozens of wounds appeared on the bear’s body. Every single wound was deep enough to draw its blood.

The vitality of a Grade 6 beast was just too high, so this much blood loss wouldn’t even tickle it. As expected, it immediately turned and swiped its claws again. It was too fast and powerful. Even the air was sliced around the claws, leaving trailing marks in the sky.

Zhi Hui smiled and disappeared again. She was just too fast to be caught.

The same thing happened again. When she appeared this time, she was above it, and more wounds appeared on the bear’s skin.

It looked grim now. By now, it had already understood that she was a bad match for it.

It roared, and blood qi began to converge on its body—it was a bloodline ability.

Its body shone with a metallic sheen; it was like its fur had turned into metal.

Even Zhi Hui was surprised by it, but she still smiled.

"Interesting... You have quite a rare bloodline ability. Looks like this was the reason you were so confident. Very well then, let me show you something interesting too."

When she spoke, the wind around her increased exponentially before compressing to the point that it seemed so strong it might shred anything in its way.

Before, these winds were transparent, and only by sensing qi could they be seen. But now, these winds were visible to the naked eye.

She held her sword in both hands and raised it above her head. All the wind around her moved and converged around the sword.

When the beast saw that, it felt immense danger. It thought of running away immediately. Even Jiang Hao felt immense danger just looking at that sword.

When Zhi Hui saw that it wanted to run away, she said,

"It’s too late to regret now."

Before she finished speaking, she brought her sword down with almost instant speed. It was as if the slash didn’t even take a fraction of a second.

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There was only a swishing sound before a long ravine was formed on the ground. Jiang Hao was stunned when he saw it—it was just too powerful.

The beast was torn in half. Even its metallic fur made no difference.

The flesh around the cut was also shredded, as if it had been minced by something.

Ming Yue sighed.

"That was the Whirlwind Blade skill. She rarely uses it."

"She did it to push herself. The amount of qi she infused was enough to make it as strong as an Earth-tier skill. That’s why it was so devastating," Huan Caiyi clarified for them.

Zhi Hui stored the falling corpse of the beast into her storage bag and arrived on the back of Meiying.

"I think we should stop here for some time. It will take some time for them to arrive here anyway. This territory is already empty and is a perfect spot for us to stay for some time. I think I will be able to break through in five or six days."

"Then let’s do so. Let’s find its lair. There might be a lot of treasures there."

They moved around for a while and came across a small mountain. There was a huge clearing around it with no trees.

Halfway up the mountain was a giant cave. There was no doubt that this cave was the lair of the beast.

They entered inside. It was quite big, with different compartments built inside.

It didn’t take long for them to find its treasury.

"Damn... It really had some good stuff."

There were a lot of spirit herbs inside one of the compartments.

"There are at least 13 Void Reversion-level spirit herbs here. Looks like being a territory master really has its perks," Huan Caiyi couldn’t help but exclaim.

Jiang Hao was also very surprised at the number of herbs here. Spirit beasts consume the spirit herbs they find, but to think that this beast had stashed away such high-level spirit herbs...

There were some reasons why it might not have consumed all these herbs.

First, it was already full after eating, which was possible, as even spirit beasts can’t consume spirit herbs consecutively. They have to digest them for a long time.

Second, it might have been planning to go into hibernation to break through after eating them all together. This might also be true, as bear-type beasts do go into hibernation.

Well, whatever the case, they got quite the loot.

Jiang Hao looked around, but there was nothing else other than herbs.

Huan Caiyi eventually put all the herbs inside her storage bag.

Jiang Hao couldn’t help but think of one thing. Now that everything was inside her storage bag, how would they have a chance to steal anything from her? Did she even sleep? Even if she did, would they be able to remove her storage bag? He doubted that.

He still had a lot of fire spirit herbs left in his ring from last time. And now that he was in a place where he might get even more herbs, he wasn’t too worried.

He had wanted to come to the Dark Forest before going to the Mountain Sword Sect for resources, and since he was here, resources should be the least of his worries. How he would survive was the most important thing.

Although he had peerless perception to sense dangers, would it be of any help if he got attacked by a Grade 6 or above spirit beast? Sadly, the answer was no.

He had seen the power and speed of Grade 6 beasts.

Although Senior Zhi Hui was able to dodge calmly, he wasn’t even able to see a single attack from them. They were too fast for his eyes. He could only guess what the attack was.

He came out of the cave and looked towards the clearing in front of it. It was about 500 meters long and almost 200 meters wide without any trees.

After looking at it carefully, he had only one thought in his mind: this was done deliberately.

It looked more like a gathering place for spirit beasts, and this beast held this gathering from this entrance as a king.

It wouldn’t be far from the truth. In the wilderness, only the strong rule. Given this beast’s strength, it wouldn’t be surprising if it had subordinates.

No wonder it was able to get its hands on such a huge amount of spirit herbs.

Huan Caiyi came to the entrance after taking everything she wanted from the compartments and looked towards the clearing. She then called Ming Yue over.

"This looks like a good place for training. Starting today, I will allow you guys to break through once. Now that we are in quite a perilous situation, it will be better for you both to reach the Core Formation realm. So, we have to step up the training for your battle sense."

"Before, I thought we had time, so I was going easy on you two by only slowly beating you. However, there is another method that I think is far better, but I thought it might be too much for you guys to handle, so I didn’t mention it."

Ming Yue couldn’t help but start sweating when she heard that. She wanted to curse Huan Caiyi loudly, but she knew it wouldn’t affect her at all. So, she just endured and listened.

"It’s very simple. You both can heal very fast when not restricted. Jiang Hao can heal even in seconds. So, I will make you both reach the same condition as you were after one day of training in just one hour. After that, you will remove your restriction and heal for ten minutes."

"After ten minutes, we will continue the same process for the whole day and night, until Zhi Hui breaks through to the late stage. And we start right now. Let’s go."

Even Jiang Hao felt a little dread when he heard that.