Faced with the monster suddenly appearing in the pool, the giant seven-gilled eel, over 20 meters long, Ling Tian was greatly alarmed. He quickly concealed his presence and watched the creature.
After its head emerged from the water, the seven-gilled eel’s large mouth, lined with rows of teeth, continuously opened and closed. The human-like face between its jaws scanned in all directions, trying to locate Ling Tian.
To this monster, Ling Tian was a very delicious meal.
However, after turning its head for a long time, the monster found no trace of Ling Tian, which greatly disappointed it.
Next, Ling Tian noticed that the enormous seven-gilled eel circled the pool once, and finally directed its head towards the giant rock in the center of the water.
Ling Tian could sense greed and extreme craving for food from the monster's gaze!
Suddenly, the seven-gilled eel attacked. Its massive head lunged fiercely towards the giant rock in the center of the pool, seemingly intending to devour whatever was on it in one bite.
However, the moment the monster's head touched the vicinity of the giant rock, a white light shield suddenly illuminated on the rock. Xisaimen's head collided squarely with the shield!
"Bang!"
Where the monster's head met the shield, there was a violent tremor, even generating an invisible shockwave!
"Aowuu!"
Newton said that force is reciprocal. The monster's head slammed hard against the shield and was then repelled over ten meters.
Ling Tian saw dozens of shattered teeth, accompanied by the monster's green blood, splash into the pool.
As soon as the dark green, viscous blood touched the pool water, it began to boil violently. Clearly, this blood was highly acidic and not ordinary blood at all!
The seven-gilled eel thrashed violently in the water, splashing the limited pool area. The icy pool water instantly froze upon contact with the cave walls.
After a while, the seven-gilled eel recovered from the intense pain. This was no ordinary pain; imagine hitting a wall with your face with all your might – it would be hellish if it didn't hurt. (Dangerous action, do not imitate)
After rolling around in the water for a while, the seven-gilled eel poked its head out again. Its gaze was filled with malice as it looked at the object on the rock. Clearly, the seven-gilled eel was not giving up.
Ling Tian noticed that the shattered teeth on the seven-gilled eel's head suddenly wriggled from its gums and began to grow back.
The wound, which had been bleeding green moments ago, was now rapidly healing, though the constantly churning granulation tissue around the wound looked disgusting.
Ling Tian then realized that this seven-gilled eel was no ordinary creature; it possessed a powerful regenerative ability. This meant that if it couldn't be killed instantly, it would recover quickly!
Following this, Ling Tian saw the seven-gilled eel begin to swim at high speed within the pool. Suddenly, the eel's body emerged from the water again, using its body as a pivot, and it swung its upper half fiercely towards the giant rock.
Imagine the terrifying power of swinging a massive whip, over 10 meters long and nearly two meters in diameter.
"Bang!"
The instant this colossal "whip" descended, the white light shield on the rock illuminated again!
The seven-gilled eel's enormous body was repelled once more, but the shield also vibrated. Ling Tian could vaguely sense that the shield's strength seemed to have weakened compared to before.
Although this attack failed again, the seven-gilled eel was not discouraged. The monster rolled around in the pool a few times, then raised its massive head again and rammed the giant rock once more.
"Bang!"
Although this attack failed again, it confirmed Ling Tian's suspicion: the light shield formed by the formation on the rock had weakened further.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
As the seven-gilled eel's heavy body continuously struck the rock, the light shield on the rock grew weaker and weaker. Eventually, the once white shield turned transparent, on the verge of collapse at any moment.
At this point, Ling Tian quickly used his Celestial Eye divine ability. His spiritual sense rapidly locked onto the giant rock.
Through the almost transparent light shield, Ling Tian saw a formation within it. This formation continuously emitted multicolored light. Under the shroud of this multicolored light, Ling Tian witnessed an astonishing sight!
Bathed in the multicolored radiance, there was a person lying within – to be precise, a woman.
The woman was naked, with fair skin and a cute, playful face. Ling Tian almost spurted a nosebleed. However, the woman seemed to be asleep.
But as the seven-gilled eel continued to collide with the shield, the woman seemed to be disturbed. Her pretty face furrowed, and after a while, she finally opened her eyes.
Ling Tian saw that they were a pair of clear blue eyes, as pure as the finest sapphires.
However, Ling Tian then noticed that this woman seemed different from ordinary people. Her hair was smooth and lustrous, but it was silvery-white, not the pale white of the elderly, but a very healthy, glossy white.
Even more bizarrely, the woman had no ears on the sides of her head. Her ears were located on top of her head, shaped like two triangles.
Looking further behind the woman, Ling Tian was astonished to discover that a fluffy black tail, over a meter long, grew from her tailbone!
"Holy crap, what the hell is this? A cat-eared girl?"
Ling Tian's worldview was shattered. He wasn't a degenerate otaku from the second dimension, nor did he usually indulge in such time-wasting hobbies. As the saying goes, even if you haven't eaten pork, you've seen pigs run.
Ling Tian stared at the cat-eared girl, frozen in place…
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In the late Tang Dynasty, amidst widespread warfare, a cultivator named Hong Fei Jushi arrived at Hantan Village.
At that time, the area for hundreds of kilometers around was still primeval forest, sparsely populated.
This Hong Fei Jushi was no ordinary person. He was born during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and by that time, he was already over 900 years old.
Although he had cultivated diligently throughout his life, due to the diminishing spiritual energy on Earth, he had been unable to break through and knew his time was nearing.
Having lived for nearly a millennium, this Daoist priest had seen the warmth and coldness of the human world and felt he had lived enough. He decided to spend the remaining years of his life in this deep mountain forest.
Accompanying Hong Fei Jushi through his final years was a small white female cat.
This kitten was entirely snow-white, without a single mixed-color hair, but it possessed a lustrous black tail. Such a cat was called "Xue Li Tuo Qiang" in ancient China.