Chapter 317 is never-ending!
Amidst countless roars, a deep, thunderous roar from the deepest part of the jungle rang out clearly.
With that low growl, all the surrounding roars instantly subsided, as if responding to a king's call.
Zhou Jue's expression changed instantly.
She gripped the boundary-breaking shovel in her hand and looked in the direction from which the sound came.
That aura...
It was more powerful than any of the strange beasts she had encountered.
The roars from all directions were no longer chaotic provocations, but transformed into a unified, almost worshipful response.
Zhou Jue's heart sank.
"Walk!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Zhou Jue turned around and plunged into the deeper darkness in the opposite direction of the roar.
She must find a place to hide before the more powerful and alerted beasts surround her.
The jungle at night is ten times more dangerous than during the day.
Countless creatures that had been lying dormant during the day now bared their fangs.
"Rustle, rustle..."
A slight rustling sound came from the tree canopy on the right.
Without even raising his head, Zhou Jue gripped the Boundary-Breaking Shovel in reverse with his left hand and swung it fiercely toward the source of the noise!
A blade of spiritual energy shot out from his hand and slashed into the darkness.
"squeak--!"
A sharp scream rang out, and a dark figure fell from the tree, crashing heavily to the ground. It twitched a few times and then lay still.
It was a monkey, its eyes still filled with greed, yet it was killed by Zhou Jue with a single blow.
She didn't stop walking, nor did she even look back.
Killing this one will only attract more bloodshed.
Sure enough, she had only run less than a hundred meters.
Three dark figures, like ghosts, silently pounced out from the shadows in front of her.
They were three nocturnal creatures, shaped like wolves but covered in bone armor.
They made no sound, moved with lightning speed, and coordinated perfectly, blocking all of Zhou Jue's paths of advance.
"This is never going to end!"
A sense of unease rose within Zhou Jue.
The spiritual energy within her body had already been greatly depleted in the previous series of battles, and had only just begun to recover. It simply could not withstand such further depletion.
Instead of retreating, she advanced, facing the bone wolf in the very center, channeling her remaining spiritual power into the Boundary-Breaking Shovel, and slammed it down!
"clang!"
Sparks flew everywhere.
The skeletal wolf was knocked back, and a shallow crack appeared on the bony armor on its head.
However, attacks from both sides were already close.
Zhou Jue had no time to dodge, so he could only twist his waist sharply to avoid the sharp teeth of the bone wolf on the right that were biting his neck, while the one on the left bit his thigh!
"Pfft!"
A sharp pain shot through him, and Zhou Jue staggered.
She groaned, a fierce glint flashing in her eyes.
Ignoring the injury on her leg, she used the force of being dragged to twist her body sharply, and with a whoosh of wind, the Boundary-Breaking Shovel in her hand slashed fiercely across the neck of the bone wolf that was biting her!
"Crack!"
A crisp sound of bone cracking rang out.
The head of the skeletal wolf flew off at an odd angle.
Warm blood splattered all over Zhou Jue's face.
She kicked away the wolf carcass that was still biting her leg and looked at the other two.
The two bone wolves were stunned by the sight of their companion's death, and their attack slowed for a moment.
Just this one moment.
Zhou Jue took out two crystal cores he had collected earlier from his pocket and crushed them without thinking!
A surge of violent energy exploded within her body in an instant.
Ignoring the pain, she forcefully circulated her internal energy, guiding it towards her dantian.
The depleted spiritual energy was replenished.
"You all, die!"
Zhou Jue roared and, dragging his injured leg, launched an attack.
...
Half an hour later.
Zhou Jue leaned against a big tree, panting heavily.
Around her lay the corpses of more than a dozen strange beasts, lying haphazardly.
The wound on my leg was so deep that the bone was visible. The bleeding had stopped, but every movement caused excruciating pain.
Her combat uniform was no longer recognizable as its original color, having been stained dark red by her own blood and the blood of the alien beast.
The spiritual energy within his body was once again depleted.
Physical exhaustion surged like waves, relentlessly assaulting her taut nerves.
She felt as if her eyelids weighed a ton and might close at any moment.
no.
I can't sleep.
Once you fall asleep, you really won't wake up.
She forced herself to stand up, pulled her shovel from a corpse, and limped forward.
She didn't know where she was going.
All she knew was that she had to get moving.
To stop is to die.
"rustle……"
There was another noise ahead.
Zhou Jue's body was already somewhat numb.
She raised her head and looked ahead.
This time, it's no longer in small groups.
In the dark forest, pairs of eyes, radiating various colors of light, lit up one after another.
Green, red, blue, yellow...
There were at least thirty pairs, densely packed together.
They did not attack immediately, but quietly surrounded Zhou Jue, as if admiring the prey that was about to be captured.
A feeling of despair welled up uncontrollably from the bottom of Zhou Jue's heart once again.
There are too many.
She can't beat him.
Am I really going to die here?
“Sun Jiuchou…”
"You little brat... I'll haunt you even in death..."
She muttered to herself, her hand gripping the boundary-breaking shovel tightening even more.
Even if I die, I'll take a few people down with me!
"roar!"
The closest beast, resembling a black panther, lost patience and launched the first attack.
It transformed into a black afterimage, hurtling straight for Zhou Jue's throat.
Once there's a first one, there's bound to be a second.
At the same time, all the strange beasts launched a deadly attack from all directions!
She was targeted by countless attacks, with no way to avoid them.
Just as one of the beasts' claws was about to tear open her chest...
Zhou Jue's mind went blank with a buzz.
The world seemed to be slowed down.
The black panther's movements appeared incredibly slow to her.
She could clearly see every twitch of its muscles, and the faint air currents created when its claws sliced through the air.
The strange beasts that pounced around her, their attack trajectories, angles, and even the way they exerted force afterward, were all imprinted in her mind like clear lines.
The spiritual energy that was originally invisible and intangible now flowed slowly before her eyes like colorful streams.
She could see how these spiritual energies were drawn in by the strange beasts and how they coalesced into their attacks.
An unprecedented realization welled up in my mind.
So that's how it is...
Zhou Jue moved.
Instead of backing away, she took a small step forward.
With that one small step, she seemed to merge into the wind.
The black panther's sharp claws grazed the hem of her clothes and landed in empty space.
Zhou Jue's body appeared at an incredible angle beside the black panther.
The shovel in his hand wasn't infused with much spiritual power; he simply flicked it upwards.
"puff."
A soft sound.
The sharp edge of the shovel precisely sliced across the black panther's soft neck, right to its vital spot.
The black panther's charge came to an abrupt halt, and its massive head rolled to the ground.
One fatal blow!
Zhou Jue did not pause.
Her body, amidst the beasts, was like a fallen leaf.
Each dodge perfectly avoided several fatal attacks.
Every move is aimed directly at the enemy's most vulnerable point.
She even began trying to draw in the unclaimed spiritual energy around her.
With a gentle wave of his left hand, a miniature array of wind blades appeared out of thin air, blocking the attack of a fierce tiger.
With a flick of his right hand forward, a vine on the ground seemed to come alive, transforming into a serpent that coiled around the four hooves of a wild boar.
She was no longer a cultivator who relied solely on brute force to fight.
She transformed into a formation and magic cultivator who incorporated the entire battlefield into her calculations!
The battle turned into a one-sided massacre.
Those beasts that seemed incredibly deadly before now appeared to Zhou Jue as full of flaws.
I don't know how much time has passed.
When the last beast was pierced through the skull by her shovel and pinned to the ground.
The surroundings returned to silence.
Moonlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, illuminating this chaotic scene.
Zhou Jue stood alone amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
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