Gu Panxi glared fiercely at Wen Wen as she was lifted onto the stretcher, as if ready to bite him at any moment.
But Wen Wen didn't mind at all; he even made a funny face at her.
After she was taken away by the demon hunters, Wen Wen began rubbing his hands together, preparing to head to another target.
This target was certainly not the desolate soul's location given by Cang Yan. Not to mention that Wen Wen couldn't defeat the desolate soul, even if he could, he wouldn't rashly go to a location reported by the enemy. What if there was a trap there? That would be terrible.
What he was going to was a coordinate reported by Bai Xiao Mi.
That little rabbit demon, under the guise of helping Wen Wen complete his mission, went to exact revenge on her former enemies. After a series of retaliations, she indeed found a peculiar location.
And the hundred monster birds controlled by the Ying Ying monster, while searching the entire Qi Ling Mountain, also seemed to have found a suspicious spot.
For long-distance flight, Wen Wen wouldn't use his spear for instantaneous movement; it would consume too much stamina. So, he used the power of the Faceless Demon to fly, quickly heading towards the location reported by Bai Xiao Mi.
Wen Wen's jade sword had been destroyed by Cang Yan and couldn't fly in the air, so he could only run.
As soon as he arrived near the target, Bai Xiao Mi ran over and chattered away to Wen Wen.
About a hundred meters ahead was a giant tree, and at the top of the tree was the territory of a disaster-level giant snake.
Beneath this giant tree were dense holes, like a beehive. These holes were the nests of a group of mole monsters.
These small monsters loved to rob passing monsters in swarms. If a robbed monster dared to use violence against those moles, it would incur the attack of the giant snake.
To get their things back, there was only one way: play whack-a-mole.
Yes, whack-a-mole.
These little moles would carry the stolen items and shuttle back and forth through these holes. Only by hitting the moles on their heads with the soft wooden hammers placed nearby would they return the items.
In the past, Bai Xiao Mi had her entire backpack of carrots stolen by these moles. And in the whack-a-mole game, she couldn't hit a single mole…
But things were different now. That giant snake had long been dismembered by the demon hunters, leaving only a carcass being gnawed by insects.
The caves where the moles lived were still intact, with no signs of destruction, and all the moles inside were alive.
But they just hid listlessly in their burrows, completely lacking their former agility.
This made Bai Xiao Mi suspicious, so she instigated and coerced a centipede monster to attack those moles. However, the centipede monster, which should have caused chaos among the moles, made no sound after entering.
It had clearly died inside, so she concluded that there was something wrong here and called Wen Wen.
Looking at the densely pocked ground from afar, Wen Wen scratched his chin, then took out a specially made incendiary bomb from his cloak, loaded it onto an RPG launcher, and fired it towards the holes.
How do you find hidden people?
Just destroy all the places they are hiding!
Soon, a tall woman in camouflage leaped out of the flames. Judging by her imposing stature alone, she even surpassed the original You Han.
This person was one of the rebellious hunters Wen Wen was looking for!
She hadn't expected to evade several waves of hunter patrols, only to fall prey to a rabbit.
The woman assessed Wen Wen's strength and said, "You can still leave now. I don't want to hurt you."
"Heh… but I want to hurt you!"
Wen Wen looked at the woman with a sinister smile, then charged at her with his sword in his right hand and a steak in his left.
After fighting with Cang Yan and Bai Cang, Wen Wen was already familiar with how to deal with these rebellious hunters and easily suppressed her.
The battle lasted less than an hour before the woman knelt before Wen Wen, eyes rolling and unable to move.
Wen Wen only drained the energy from this woman; he didn't take her to the containment facility.
Those taken to the containment facility were either monsters that had killed people or heinous criminals.
As far as Wen Wen was concerned, defecting from the Hunter Association wasn't a major crime, especially since he also wanted to escape…
"I feel like if I absorb a little more energy, I can unlock new functions in the containment facility… I hope the anomalous location found by the Ying Ying monster is where the rebellious hunters are located!"
…
unseen by Wen Wen, a figure in a black robe was gazing in Wen Wen's direction from afar.
To avoid being detected by Wen Wen, he maintained a sufficient distance. This way, while Wen Wen couldn't sense anyone watching him, the figure in the black robe also couldn't see the details clearly.
After discovering that the female hunter had been defeated by Wen Wen, the robed figure sighed heavily.
"As expected, humans have their limits. Relying on these humans to revive the power of the 'Beast God' is basically impossible."
"However, they have at least helped me weaken the energy defense of the Qi Ling Pearl, so it's time for me to take the next step."
At this moment, in a cave, Arame struggled to contain himself and spat out a mouthful of blood containing immense energy, which even pierced through a layer of rock.
He wasn't just spitting blood; blood impurities were also secreted from his pores. His appearance was now vastly different from before, and his entire body had swollen by a size.
As the hunters he had found were defeated one by one, the pressure he was enduring grew, gradually becoming so immense that even he could not bear it.
Up to this point, out of the twelve hunters, including himself, only four remained. The other eight had all been found and subdued by the Hunter Association.
The pressure they had borne was all fed back to Arame.
Feeling the increasingly powerful backlash, Arame sighed, "Can this really help me break through to the Calamity level…"
"If this continues, I will definitely die, so I should stop for now and try again later."
He then placed his hand on a phantom seven-colored pearl, severing his connection with it. The pearl instantly lost all its luster and was put into a wooden box by Arame.
The moment the pearl was enclosed in the box, Arame's swollen body began to return to its original state, with seven-colored radiance flowing over him. This was the energy of the Qi Ling Pearl he had absorbed during this period.
Arame sensed the energy in his body and snorted, muttering to himself, "Although I've become much stronger, I'm still within the True Sequence. The gap between me and the Calamity level is like an endless ocean."
"Moreover… my power is slowly retreating back into this pearl. Within a year at most, I will return to my original strength."
"If I can't break through the bottleneck with the Qi Ling Pearl, any amount of strength gained will be futile!"
Arame's face held a mocking expression. The hunters he had recruited thought that once they absorbed this energy, it would be theirs.
If it were that simple, why would this thing have been worshipped for so many years without anyone using it?