Crackle, crackle, crackle...
The sound of bones being crunched echoed from the courtyard.
Black Bear was startled at first by this scene, but quickly reacted. Without the slightest hesitation, while the powerful Spirit Beast was devouring Ouyang Yuan's corpse, he flickered and escaped the courtyard.
His goal this time was to capture Ouyang Yuan to control Ouyang Shan. He didn't expect Ouyang Yuan to die just like that.
Although he didn't know what was going on.
But since the person was dead, there was naturally no need for him to stay. Otherwise, if the Crack-Sound Flying Locust reacted, it wouldn't be so easy for him to leave.
So, he moved extremely fast, his figure already darting out of the courtyard and running towards the outside of the town in a breath's time.
And just two or three breaths after he left, the Crack-Sound Flying Locust rushed out from the courtyard.
Its ferocious mouthparts were stained with shredded meat. Its dark compound eyes looked in the direction Black Bear had fled, and it was about to give chase, but then it noticed the fleeing pedestrians on the street.
Then its body shot out, rushing into the crowd and starting a massacre.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
"What's going on!?"
Lin Sheng, along with Big Yellow, moved through the streets, easily dealing with the Black Wind Bandits they encountered.
But suddenly, the situation seemed to change, becoming increasingly chaotic.
Roar...
Low growls kept echoing from the streets and houses, dog barks, cat meows, or even horse neighs – in short, various animals were constantly emitting strange low growls.
This was immediately followed by sounds of painful wails.
He clearly saw a large black dog tied to a tree in a house, frantically tearing at the rope around its neck, seemingly unaware that the rope had cut deep bloody marks into its neck.
Then it rushed out of the courtyard, knocked its owner to the ground, and started tearing at them madly.
The same scene quickly began to play out repeatedly on the streets.
Lin Sheng frowned, looking at the sudden change. It seemed as though the animals on the street had all completely gone mad – no, not just on this street, but throughout the entire Yangping Town.
He raised his hand and grabbed a civet cat that was pouncing on him.
He could clearly see that the civet cat's eyes had turned completely black.
"This is..."
Although it was controlled, this black cat still struggled madly, its claws constantly scratching at Lin Sheng's hand.
But it had no effect. Instead, the nails on its claws all shattered, and blood flowed out.
Yet, despite this, the black cat seemed oblivious, as if it felt no pain at all.
Crack.
Tightening his grip, Lin Sheng directly crushed the civet cat's neck and threw it to the ground.
Even with such a severe fatal injury, the civet cat didn't completely die. Its limbs were still crawling on the ground, slowly moving towards him.
Splat!
Lin Sheng frowned, lifted his foot, and directly crushed its body, finally ending it.
"Something's not right... This situation..."
A bad premonition rose in his heart. Something seemed to be developing in a direction that was difficult to reverse.
"Is this Zhenshan Tower's trump card??"
This thought flashed through his mind, but he quickly shook his head and dismissed it.
The state of these crazed livestock was extremely wrong, like mindless bloodthirsty Magic Beasts. Zhenshan Tower absolutely couldn't possess a method that could turn all the wild beasts and livestock in the entire Yangping Town like this.
Moreover, this method didn't distinguish between friend and foe, so it couldn't be considered a trump card at all.
"Woof woof woof..."
Just as he was thinking, Big Yellow beside him suddenly jumped up, letting out an extremely mournful howl. Its tail tucked, it leaped high and instantly burrowed against his leg, even trying to get inside his pants leg.
"Big Yellow!!"
Only then did Lin Sheng realize he had Big Yellow, this yellow-haired stray dog, by his side.
Would Big Yellow also...
This thought flashed through his mind. Looking at Big Yellow constantly trying to burrow into his pants leg, he raised his hand, grabbed its two hind legs, and pulled it out.
"Woof..."
Big Yellow let out a long, drawn-out mournful wail.
"Shut up, stop barking!"
Lin Sheng frowned and roared, which finally scared Big Yellow into stopping its long wail.
He grabbed Big Yellow's head and lifted it in front of him to examine it closely.
Seeing that Big Yellow's eyes were full of fear but were still yellowish-brown, not the pitch-black eyes of the civet cat that died in his hands, he felt a little relieved.
Although he didn't understand why the livestock in town were going mad, without exception, the eyes of the crazed livestock would turn pitch-black or purple. He had confirmed this from the few livestock he had seen.
At this moment, Big Yellow, who had just calmed down a bit, suddenly started struggling again, letting out an even more piercing cry, desperately trying to pull its body back.
Lin Sheng didn't let go of Big Yellow but followed its gaze upwards.
Upon looking, he quickly discovered something was wrong. Unbeknownst to him, thin but solid strands of black mist had appeared in the sky.
Each strand of black mist was only the size of a finger and not obvious in the gray sky. Even if an ordinary person looked closely, they might not be able to see anything.
And now, a strand of black mist was slowly descending towards them, several meters above his head.
"What the hell is this thing!?"
Lin Sheng frowned, looking at the black mist that appeared out of nowhere. His bad premonition grew stronger.
As the strand of black mist approached, Big Yellow's struggles became more intense.
"You're afraid of this."
He quickly realized that what Big Yellow was so afraid of was this inconspicuous black mist.
And the target of the black mist also seemed to be Big Yellow.
At this time, the black mist was less than a meter away from them. Its originally slow descending speed also accelerated significantly, like a nimble little black snake coming towards Big Yellow.
Big Yellow's mournful cries were almost at their peak. Lin Sheng naturally wouldn't just watch this terrifying thing descend.
He flicked his hand and shot out a dart.
The dart shot directly through the black mist, but it had no effect at all. Not even the wind brought by the dart caused the black mist to fluctuate in the slightest.
Seeing this scene, Lin Sheng's frown deepened. He raised his hand and shot out two more darts, but the result was the same as before.
Instead, the black mist's descent speed became faster. This time, he didn't use darts again. Instead, he raised his palm and struck out with a Bull Rushing Horn.
However, the result was still ineffective.
Lin Sheng narrowed his eyes. He didn't withdraw his palm. In the next moment, his palm directly turned black-brown.
This time, the black mist finally showed a slight change. Its descending movement paused, noticeably slowing down. Upon closer inspection, there was even a hint of fading, albeit imperceptible. But it still made Lin Sheng's eyes light up.
"It's effective!!"
He didn't hesitate and directly used the Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm. All three poisons gathered on his palm, and a hint of fishy smell could even be sniffed in the air.
This time, the black mist's downward trend was completely blocked. As if it had its own consciousness, it sensed the threat and actually wanted to float back into the air.
Lin Sheng naturally wouldn't just watch it escape. He tightened his grip and directly clenched the black mist in his hand.
With a sizzling sound like oil being cooked, after a few breaths, a wisp of white smoke floated out from Lin Sheng's palm.
Opening his hand, the black mist in his palm had completely disappeared, replaced by a black hair that appeared in his hand.
The hair was even thinner than a human hair, only finger-length. Lin Sheng picked up the hair and examined it closely.
He felt that the hair was extremely hard, like a steel needle.
This was clearly not human hair.
As if sensing the confusion in Lin Sheng's heart, a string of information suddenly appeared in Lin Sheng's consciousness.
【Beast Name: Phantom Demon Beast (Magic Beast)】
【A powerful and mysterious strong Magic Beast. It has no fixed form and possesses extremely strong control capabilities over Strange Beast below its own rank. No matter where it appears, given time, it will cause large-scale beast disasters.】
【Ingestion Requirement: Mingxin Realm】
【Ingestion Effect: Perception +10, Constitution +9, Strength +8, Agility +5】
【Talent: Phantom Demon Seed Heart】
Seeing the information that appeared in his consciousness, Lin Sheng's pupils instantly contracted slightly.
"Phantom Demon Beast, Magic Beast!?"
He had never heard of this kind of unusual beast, nor had he ever heard of something called a Magic Beast.
Even being in the Hunting Beast Hall, all he knew were ordinary mundane beasts and powerful Spirit Beasts.
But from the introduction of this Magic Beast on the panel before him, it was clearly an existence even more powerful than a Spirit Beast.
"32 points of attribute increase..."
Lin Sheng's breathing became a little rapid.
Even though he prided himself on his composure, facing this unimaginable attribute increase, he couldn't suppress the shock in his heart.
The ingestion attributes of the young Silver-patterned Black Crocodile had already made him feel a leap in strength compared to before.
And the ingestion attribute increase of the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile was only 10 points. The attribute increase brought by this Magic Beast named Phantom Demon Beast was actually more than three times that of the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile.
Even if it was just a young Silver-patterned Black Crocodile, it was still a real Spirit Beast. Even a fully grown Silver-patterned Black Crocodile's attributes would probably only be three or four tenths higher at most.
It was still far from being comparable to this Phantom Demon Beast.
Not to mention the talent it brought. Although he didn't know what the so-called Phantom Demon Seed Heart talent was, he had already felt the power of talent from the Earth Affinity talent.
Seeing a small detail to know the whole picture, it was not hard to imagine how powerful a talent originating from a Magic Beast would be.
However, he quickly calmed down. He understood that this level of terrifying existence was absolutely not something he could covet at present.
In front of this terrifying existence, he was not much stronger than an ant.
As the shock in his heart subsided, he quickly guessed why Yangping Town had become like this.
The livestock and wild beasts in town going mad were clearly caused by the black mist in the sky, and the owner of this black mist was naturally that Magic Beast, the Phantom Demon Beast.
Although he wasn't sure why such a powerful existence would appear in a small Yangping Town, he knew very well that what he needed to do was to run, to quickly leave this troublesome place.
Thinking of this, he had no further doubts. He didn't even care that his palm was stained with some urine that Big Yellow had leaked out of fear. He grabbed Big Yellow under his arm and ran towards the outside of town at full speed.
At this time, Yangping Town had fallen into complete chaos. Large numbers of maddened livestock were attacking the people in town.
The Black Wind Bandits who had originally rushed into the town were wantonly releasing the evil in their hearts, but now they were all crying and screaming.
They were being pounced on and gnawed by the livestock and wild beasts in town, one by one.
Especially those ferocious unusual beasts sold on Small Collection Street, even if they were just ordinary mundane beasts, they had now turned into death warrants.
Lin Sheng moved through them. Facing the ferocious beasts that rushed towards him, he basically just raised his hand and slapped them away, regardless of whether they lived or died, only focusing on hurrying on his way.
However, a white shadow quickly pounced on him. Its speed was extremely fast. Lin Sheng didn't even think and punched out, sending the white shadow flying. In the next moment, the white shadow rushed up again.
At this moment, Lin Sheng finally saw clearly that the white shadow attacking him was actually a White Ape.
A White Ape with a wound on its head and a distorted face.
He paused his steps and recognized at a glance that this White Ape seemed to be the same White Ape he had ingested when cultivating the White Ape Leg Technique.
He didn't expect to meet it here. As for the old stall owner, from the blood stained on this White Ape and the shredded meat remaining on its mouth, its end was clearly not very good.
Hiss...
The White Ape's pitch-black eyes looked at Lin Sheng without any emotion and pounced again.
Even though it now had a deep indentation on its chest, it still didn't affect its speed.
Instead, it was even faster than a normal White Ape, almost catching up to a Black Tiger Ape.
This time, Lin Sheng's expression turned serious. Facing the charging White Ape, he opened his palm. When the White Ape got close to him, he pressed it to the ground with one palm. As his large hand tightened, the White Ape's ferocious head instantly exploded.
Shaking off the residual bloodstains on his palm, Lin Sheng didn't even look at the headless corpse and quickly strode away.
Because he clearly saw a terrifying unusual beast resembling a giant locust flash by on the other side of the street.
The moment he saw that giant locust unusual beast, a name popped into his mind.
This also made his speed two points faster.
"Crack-Sound Flying Locust, there's actually this kind of Spirit Beast in Yangping Town."
Even such a powerful Spirit Beast was far from being comparable to that Phantom Demon Beast. It was probably also controlled by the Phantom Demon Beast and had fallen into madness.
This also made him realize that the danger level in Yangping Town was much higher than he had imagined.
Not long after, he had already run out of this street area. He leaped onto a rooftop and saw a dense crowd of unusual beasts at the city gate, tearing at the black-clothed bandits.
After a brief thought, he still headed towards the city gate. After all, he wasn't far from the city gate now, and the original Black Wind Bandits were in complete disarray, so he didn't have to worry about anyone blocking him.
However, at this time, he noticed a figure carrying a large club quickly passing through the street below. Any wild beast that got close on the street was smashed into meat paste by one swing of the club. The methods were extremely ruthless.
"This is a Blood Transportation Warrior!?"
Lin Sheng looked at the figure with some surprise. The figure holding the club seemed to sense something, paused, twitched its nose, and actually turned to look over, its gaze falling on Lin Sheng, its eyes flashing.
Roar...
The sound of the Crack-Sound Flying Locust came from the end of the street. The figure holding the club frowned and no longer lingered, quickly leaving.