Chapter 49

Before the waterfall!

The next morning, Lan Ling got up with high spirits, finished washing up, had breakfast, and then entered a new day of cultivation.

Yesterday, he had completed the most critical mental projection technique. Today's goal was to lock onto a moving water droplet with his mental power.

Sitting forty meters away from the waterfall, he stared directly at the water droplets. At first, he couldn't see the droplets clearly, but when he infused his dragon power into his mental power and focused through his eyes, it was as if the waterfall forty meters away was suddenly brought right in front of him, and he could see every droplet clearly.

Then, Lan Ling used the mental projection technique, allowing the demon star dragon power to guide his mental power out of his body, following a particular water droplet as it moved.

Instantly, a miracle happened.

Lan Ling's mental power remained locked onto the rapidly moving water droplet, something he had been unable to do before.

However, due to the acceleration of gravity, the droplet's falling speed increased, and after just a few meters, Lan Ling's mental power couldn't keep up, and he immediately lost the lock on his target.

He tried again, but the result was the same.

He immediately withdrew his mental power and said to Ye Jingyu, "My mental power can now lock onto a water droplet forty meters away, but only for a few meters. After that, the droplet falls too fast, and I can't keep up."

Ye Jingyu replied, "That's very normal. However, with your mental talent, you will soon be able to lock onto a falling droplet for the entire forty meters. After all, the hardest part is already behind you."

The hardest part, of course, was the mental projection technique. It involved separating the mind from the body to chase and lock onto a moving target.

Lan Ling was greatly encouraged by Ye Jingyu's words and immediately entered a new round of practice.

Sure enough, the time he could lock onto the droplet increased with each attempt, and the distance he could track the droplet's movement also increased, from five meters to eight meters, to thirteen meters, to fifteen meters...

Finally, when he locked onto a droplet for fifteen meters, his mental power was completely exhausted. His goal was fifty-five meters, the height of the entire waterfall.

He was forced to stop his cultivation and return to normal vision.

Then, the scene before him completely stunned him, as there was a mermaid swimming in the water.

This mermaid, of course, was Ye Jingyu, completely naked, and she was doing the backstroke.

At this time, the sun was high in the sky, and the weather was at its hottest. While Lan Ling was practicing locking onto moving targets, he was completely focused. At this moment, he wouldn't have noticed someone swimming, let alone someone trying to kill him.

So, Ye Jingyu couldn't resist the temptation of the cool river and jumped in to swim.

But her luck wasn't good, as Lan Ling's mental power was exhausted at this moment.

Stunned, Lan Ling watched Ye Jingyu in the water, marveling at her figure, especially her long legs, which were incredibly impressive.

In the next second, Lan Ling realized that Ye Jingyu's icy, lightning-like gaze was directly aimed at him.

In the next second, she dove into the water, and Lan Ling immediately closed his eyes, waiting for Ye Jingyu to come out and explode in anger.

With his eyes closed, Lan Ling listened to Ye Jingyu climb out of the water and put on her clothes.

"This time, it was unintentional, so I forgive you. But if you continue to stare after discovering it, that's your fault," Ye Jingyu said coldly. "If it happens again, I will beat you up."

...

As Ye Jingyu said, the hardest part of locking onto a moving target was the mental projection technique. Once that was completed, the rest became much easier.

The next day, Lan Ling tracked and locked onto a water droplet for twenty-five meters, thirty meters on the third day, and thirty-nine meters on the fourth day.

On the fifth day, he broke through to fifty-five meters.

In other words, from the moment the droplet appeared until it disappeared, his mental power locked onto it the entire time.

Lan Ling jumped up in surprise and exclaimed, "I've done it, I've succeeded."

Ye Jingyu was astonished and said, "I already told you that once you break through the mental projection technique and lock onto a moving target at forty meters, it becomes much easier. But you only took five days, which is truly shocking. Rest well tonight, and tomorrow we will start a new shooting trial, facing even stronger beasts."

The stronger the beasts, the more concentrated and powerful the dragon bloodline, which meant more energy to absorb. The demon star inside Lan Ling immediately became restless.

...

The next morning, Ye Jingyu and Lan Ling left the waterfall and headed to the place where the Blood Cloud Leopard had appeared.

This place was much more dangerous than the Wild Buffalo Valley, with many more fierce beasts, such as Blood Lions, Blood Cloud Leopards, and Demon Lizards, countless in number.

"Look ahead, there's another Blood Cloud Leopard," Ye Jingyu said.

Lan Ling focused his gaze and saw a black one in the grass, with even more vivid red spots on its body.

"Black Blood Cloud Leopards are more alert and faster," Ye Jingyu said.

"What about the dragon bloodline in its body?" Lan Ling asked.

Ye Jingyu was taken aback and then said, "Of course, it's more concentrated, which is why it's stronger."

"That's good," Lan Ling was pleased, took a deep breath, and drew his bow, pulling it taut.

Then, he used the mental lock technique to lock onto the black Blood Cloud Leopard, which was about forty meters away.

One second, two seconds, three seconds!

The mental lock was complete. Since the Blood Cloud Leopard didn't need to be shot in the eye, aiming was actually easier at the beginning.

"Whoosh..."

The bowstring twanged, and the arrow flew out like a meteor.

However, the arrow had barely flown halfway when the Blood Cloud Leopard, hearing the sound of the bowstring, immediately darted away like lightning.

Lan Ling was truly startled. The black Blood Cloud Leopard's speed was incredibly fast, and he estimated it to be over twenty meters per second.

In just a moment, it had run several dozen meters away, which was terrifying.

Without a doubt, Lan Ling's first arrow missed, falling short by twenty meters.

But he didn't give up. Although the Blood Cloud Leopard's speed of twenty meters per second was fast, it wasn't as fast as the acceleration of a water droplet in the last few seconds.

Lan Ling used his mental power to lock onto it firmly.

Instantly, his vision was filled with nothing but the rapidly moving shadow of the leopard. Everything else around him ceased to exist. The leopard, despite its frantic run, remained firmly locked in his mental grip. However, the leopard soon ran out of the forty to fifty-meter range of Lan Ling's mental lock.

Without a word, Ye Jingyu picked up Lan Ling and charged toward the Blood Cloud Leopard. As a high-level warrior, although not in the agility class, Ye Jingyu's speed was no less than that of the Blood Cloud Leopard.

On Ye Jingyu's back, Lan Ling locked onto the Blood Cloud Leopard again, his mental power following it like a shadow.

Taking a deep breath, he drew his bow and nocked an arrow.

His mind quickly calculated the leopard's trajectory and the lead time.

"Whoosh..." He shot the arrow.

The second arrow also missed, falling short by five meters.

Immediately, Lan Ling drew the third arrow and shot it with all his might.

This time, it was only two meters short of the target.

The fourth arrow was shot.

"Whoosh..."

The arrowhead, coated in black gold, pierced the Blood Cloud Leopard's belly, even passing through its body.

Clearly, the Blood Cloud Leopard's agility was its strength, so its skin and flesh were not very resistant.

Finally, he hit it. Lan Ling was overjoyed. He had managed to hit the Blood Cloud Leopard, which was running at twenty meters per second.

On Earth, this would have been almost impossible. The mental lock technique was truly incredible.

Lan Ling immediately got off Ye Jingyu's back. The Blood Cloud Leopard roared and, despite its injury, ran another two to three hundred meters before collapsing in the grass, dead.

Actually, a single arrow might not have killed it, but the fatal blow was the tearing of its internal wounds as it continued to run.

Lan Ling rushed to the Blood Cloud Leopard, pulled out the black gold arrow from its belly, and the demon star inside him began to spin rapidly, devouring the energy.

Previously, it had taken less than a minute to devour the energy from the Fire Red Buffalo, but this Blood Cloud Leopard took nearly a minute.

Lan Ling felt the dragon bloodline of the Blood Cloud Leopard transform into countless threads of energy, entering his body.

"How is the dragon bloodline of this Blood Cloud Leopard?" Lan Ling asked.

"It's twice that of the Fire Red Buffalo. With three of these, you can increase your strength by ten pounds," the demon star said.

Lan Ling was immediately excited.

Then, they continued to search for new prey in the wilderness.

This wilderness was vast, stretching for hundreds of miles, and the grass was very dense, making it difficult to spot beasts.

Lan Ling and Ye Jingyu searched for two to three hours without any success.

Ye Jingyu, who couldn't stand not bathing for a day, instinctively searched for a nearby river when she started feeling uncomfortable.

Hearing the sound of flowing water, they quickly rushed over.

As they ran, she began to unbutton her tight leather clothes and said, "Solen, you know what I mean, right?"

"I know, if I peek, may my eyes go blind," Lan Ling said.

Upon reaching the river, Lan Ling turned his back and sat down.

Ye Jingyu quickly stripped off her clothes and dove into the river, letting out a sound of immense relief and comfort.

"I'm also hot, and I want to bathe," Lan Ling thought, resisting the urge to turn and peek.

At that moment, a loud splash came from behind, as if something had burst out of the water.

"Lan Ling, run..." Then, he heard Ye Jingyu's alarmed cry, a sound he had never heard from her before.

Lan Ling turned around and almost jumped up.

At that moment, a giant snake, several dozen meters long, had tightly coiled around the naked Ye Jingyu, opening its massive mouth to swallow her.

The snake was about forty to fifty meters long, one meter thick, with horns on its head, and its red color was as if it were dripping with blood.

What kind of monster was this? So large, so terrifying? It was at least several times stronger than any beast they had hunted before.

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