Chapter 66

After the young woman killed the leader of the Huabao Gang, she hastily searched his body, revealing a look of joy as she took something and then disappeared into the dense forest.

Not long after she left, a figure leaped down from the treetops—it was Ning Yue, who had returned. Ning Yue, having discovered the struggle, hurried back. Looking in the direction the young woman had gone, he couldn't help but feel a bit surprised.

He touched the body of the Huabao Gang leader, and immediately fourteen soul clusters flew out of the body. He casually gathered them into his sleeve, muttering to himself, "What bad luck did this Huabao Gang leader have? To be killed by this woman? This item must not be the Heavenly Wolf Bone. It must be that the Huabao Gang leader's strength soared with the Heavenly Wolf Bone, making it impossible for this woman to kill him."

Ning Yue was not at all concerned about the item the young woman had taken. After pondering for a long time, he still couldn't understand, so he put aside his doubts and thoroughly searched the Huabao Gang leader's body again.

The young woman had taken what she wanted and left. On the Huabao Gang leader's body, there were many other items scattered about. Apart from two steel short sticks, the only thing that attracted Ning Yue was a handwritten martial scripture.

This martial scripture was called Leopard Seven Kill, a method for cultivating the Spotted Leopard Battle Spirit.

Leopard Seven Kill was actually a fourth-rank martial art. Although it was of the same rank, it was superior to the Heavenly Wolf Gate's Moonlight Heavenly Wolf Sword and the Eight Extremes of the Heavenly Horse, with even more intricate and subtle variations.

Although Ning Yue had collected the fourteen soul clusters from the Huabao Gang leader, he had no intention of cultivating Leopard Seven Kill. He merely flipped through it briefly to verify his own martial arts, then tucked it into his chest.

The appearance of the young woman made Ning Yue more cautious. Although he hadn't encountered anyone else yet, he guessed that there were many other forces present in this dense forest.

This forest was even larger than Ning Yue had expected. He obtained a geographical map from Xu Fengzi and learned some geography from Old Huo. According to his understanding, this forest stretched across the northern part of the Great Qian Dynasty, extending nearly six thousand miles, separating the Great Qian Dynasty from three other rebel forces.

However, the four nearby forces did not want to conflict with each other, and the forest had no significant resources. As a result, the four forces did not intervene much, leaving this area of over ten thousand miles as a no-man's land.

Following his experience in the martial world, Ning Yue divided the forest into twenty-nine sections to search them one by one. This method was much better than aimlessly wandering, but it was also very time-consuming. Searching the entire forest would be even more difficult, so Ning Yue and Bai Luoluo split up, giving her the hundreds of Moonlight Demon Wolves under his command, and they searched separately.

If it weren't for Ning Yue's Ten Directions Illusionary Destruction Technique, which allowed him to sense the mental fluctuations of living beings within a few miles, he might not have found the valley even after searching for decades.

Despite Ning Yue's considerable skills, it still took him nearly a month and a half to gradually discover the traces of a large group of Moonlight Demon Wolves.

Ning Yue was quite pleased with his discovery.

Although the number of Moonlight Demon Wolves was considerable, those with innate soul clusters were rare, with perhaps only one in a hundred. Even among those with soul clusters, most had cultivated Moonlight, Swallow Moon, Wind Breath, or Wind Fang. Cold Light, Dark Spring, Black Essence, and Heavenly Meteor were particularly rare, and the ability to condense a Phantom Phase was one in ten thousand.

Therefore, although the number of Moonlight Demon Wolves was large, it had little impact on Ning Yue. He casually gathered several groups of Moonlight Demon Wolves, totaling over a thousand, more than what he had given to Bai Luoluo.

With this group of Moonlight Demon Wolves, Ning Yue's search became much easier. While searching for the Heavenly Wolf Bone, he occasionally encountered some old acquaintances.

The eldest disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Gate was trapping a group of Moonlight Demon Wolves, among which was a wolf king covered in black aura, clearly with a unique soul cluster. Only six of his junior disciples remained, two of whom were Battle Spirit martial artists, while the other Battle Spirit martial artist had fallen to someone unknown.

"I didn't expect the Heavenly Wolf Gate to suffer many losses under the four leaders of the Huabao Gang, but now that the four leaders of the Huabao Gang are dead, they still have a bit of spirit left."

The eldest disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Gate's martial arts were even higher than when Ning Yue last saw him fighting the Huabao Gang. Clearly, he had been diligently practicing and had taken many soul clusters from the Moonlight Demon Wolves, advancing his cultivation of the Moonlight Heavenly Wolf Sword even further.

A tall, muscular man in black slowly walked out of the forest.

This muscular man in black held a sword almost as wide as his waist, eight feet long, pitch black, but the overflowing cold aura made one's heart tremble, showing that it was an extraordinary weapon.

The eldest disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Gate's face changed slightly, and he shouted, "Li Hangu, what are you doing?"

The muscular man in black chuckled, "The soul cluster in this wolf king is quite good and worth some money. I want to take it to buy some wine."

The eldest disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Gate breathed a slight sigh of relief and called out, "What price will you let this wolf king go for?"

The muscular man in black, Li Hangu, laughed and said, "Five hundred bone coins!"

Without a word, the eldest disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Gate shouted, "Deal!"

His junior disciples each took out their wallets and indeed gave Li Hangu five hundred bone coins. He took the money and turned to leave, not taking the Heavenly Wolf Gate disciples seriously at all.

Ning Yue couldn't help but shake his head. Li Hangu's cultivation was not ordinary, seemingly even stronger than the young woman who killed the Huabao Gang leader. He could suppress the Heavenly Wolf Gate disciples so thoroughly, indicating that he had at least condensed a second-rank Phantom Phase, or even a third-rank Phantom Phase expert.

Ning Yue watched Li Hangu's back for a long time, feeling a bit puzzled. He had encountered many people searching for the Heavenly Wolf Bone but had not met anyone from the Bingsi Temple, which made Ning Yue feel uneasy.

After sending Li Hangu away, the eldest disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Gate became even more fierce and ruthless. In just half an hour, he killed all the wolf packs, including the wolf king, from which he extracted the soul cluster "Heavenly Damage."

After swallowing Heavenly Damage, the eldest disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Gate sat cross-legged and began to cultivate. In a short while, the Heavenly Wolf and Heavenly Horse Battle Spirits appeared outside his body, along with seven or eight soul clusters flying around him.

Ning Yue glanced at him, slightly shocked, and couldn't help but think, "So he is going to condense a second Heavenly Wolf Battle Spirit!"