The Owl saw the little mouse on the ground slow down, flapped its wings, swooped down, and extended its sharp talons towards Wu Yuan.
Wu Yuan sensed the ill wind behind him, leaped, and dodged the sharp talons, but his hind leg was still scratched, and blood splattered onto the ground.
He sensed the stinging in his hind leg, but his heart still hadn't given up: “Even if I die, I want to die running, never surrendering!”
A strong will to live supported Wu Yuan as he dodged another attack from the Owl, at the cost of several more wounds on his body.
As Wu Yuan exercised vigorously, he suddenly felt warm currents gush from his belly, flowing through his entire body, alleviating his fatigue and pain.
“There’s still a chance!” Wu Yuan’s heart trembled.
Wu Yuan felt a strange power emerge within him, a power formed by the warm currents in his body, which began to flow into his limbs.
After flowing through his limbs, he immediately felt full of power, leaping three zhang far, like a phantom streaking across the ground in the dark night.
A hint of human-like shock appeared in the Owl’s round eyes; this truly exceeded its bird’s life experience.
In a moment of Stunned, it lost the chance to catch Wu Yuan.
It could only fly in the sky, staring blankly as the mouse on the ground disappeared into the dense bushes after a few leaps.
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Wu Yuan sensed that his pursuers behind him had been completely shaken off, and he ran for another half an incense stick’s time before finally slowing down.
But he was still twice as fast as when he started out during the day.
At this time, he felt the warm currents in his body gradually fading, and he used this remaining power to run back to his cave in one breath.
As soon as he returned to the cave, Wu Yuan immediately became excited.
He paced back and forth in the cave, constantly striking the cave walls with his hands to vent his emotions, raising dust all around and scaring the surrounding insects into silence.
“I survived! I succeeded!”
With the joy in his heart, he sensed a wisp of gray Demon Power continuously flowing through his body: “With Demon Power, I wonder if I count as a demon now.”
Wu Yuan finally had time to carefully perceive the changes in his body: “After gaining Demon Power, my body’s endurance has greatly improved; I ran two hundred zhang without stopping just now and still have energy left.”
“My body is solid, my explosive power has significantly increased, I can evade the Owl’s pursuit, and my recovery ability has also improved; the wounds on my body have already healed.”
“Furthermore, my claws and teeth have become very sharp.” Wu Yuan looked at the distinct claw marks on the cave wall.
Wu Yuan poked his head out of the cave; even in the dark night, he could clearly see various colors in the distance.
“My vision has significantly improved; I am no longer red-green colorblind or farsighted, and combined with my keen sense of smell, it’s much stronger than when I was human!”
“I can now easily kill my former self.
Even if the Black Brocade Snake comes, its scales won’t block me; perhaps I can bite it to death directly!”
Wu Yuan was very happy in his heart: “But no matter what, I have finally taken the first step towards becoming a demon, and after this, I finally have hope of transforming into human form and achieving immortality.”
“I still need to continue working hard!”
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One day later.
Wu Yuan looked at the empty surroundings of the cave, feeling a bit melancholic.
He had already swept clean all edible wild fruits, grass seeds, leaves, and other food within thirty zhang of the burrow, almost fifteen times his usual intake.
“The bad news is that the food is completely insufficient; I have to spend most of my day foraging.”
“The good news is that continuous eating can restore Demon Power, and expending Demon Power can increase Physique.”
Yesterday, after Wu Yuan relaxed, he felt a surge of hunger from his belly, so hungry that his two mouse eyes glowed green, and since there was no food left in his cave, he could only find food nearby.
“Even rabbits don’t eat the grass near their burrows; now the cave’s concealment has greatly decreased, so I must prepare food when I expend Demon Power in the future!”
“And vegetarian food alone is not enough; I need meat.”
“Otherwise, if I eat something I shouldn’t one day because I’m hungry, it wouldn’t be good to lose my life.”
Wu Yuan looked at a bird egg in his hand, its surface had some cracks, and it was half the size of his body; he had taken it from a bird that was laying eggs.
If his strength hadn’t greatly increased, he wouldn’t have risked it.
Just like that, he endured the sharp bird beak, feeling no pain, only losing some mouse fur, and successfully snatched the bird egg.
“In my previous life, I also ate raw chicken eggs; this time, I finally found a meat dish, so I’ll just eat it directly.”
Wu Yuan bit open the top of the bird eggshell, revealing the egg white inside, and extended his long snout to suck the egg liquid.
“Delicious!”
His eyes brightened; he had expected it to be very fishy, but after overcoming the inner resistance as a human, he tasted it carefully and found a mellow fragrance and a silky smoothness.
He didn't know if the bird egg itself was delicious, or if his mouse taste had influenced him.
Wu Yuan gulped down the egg liquid, and as the bird egg entered his stomach, a sense of satisfaction filled his heart.
“Finally, my stomach is full!”
Wu Yuan returned to his cave, lay on his small bed, and looked up at the sky; although his posture was the same as yesterday.
But his mood had undergone a huge change; even the misty forest felt much brighter, and the leaves before his eyes were much greener.
“Green!”
Wu Yuan jolted, sitting upright.
Another piece of information about a color he hadn’t seen before!
The blue information had already allowed him to gain Demon Power and undergo a complete transformation; what changes could this green information bring him?
Wu Yuan gasped and clicked on the information:
【Green: At midnight tomorrow, on the green stone at the mountaintop, a fox demon will worship the moon and absorb moonlight.】
His pupils contracted!
Fox demon!
This was the first time the causality pearl explicitly mentioned the term 'demon', proving that there really was a way to become a demon!
Wu Yuan squeaked excitedly, rolling back and forth on the bed, and it took him a while to suppress his excitement, calm down, and think about this information.
“Do fox demons eat mice?”
He was a bit unsure in his heart and began to worry about his safety.
The previous desperate struggle to snatch the Moon Spirit Grass was madness born out of a hopeless life.
After all, transforming from a human into a mouse, enduring a dark and damp cave, living a precarious existence, and watching his lifespan dwindle day by day—if Wu Yuan hadn’t been optimistic, he would have ended his own life long ago.
Now that there was a glimmer of hope before him, he started to think more, unlike before when he would just charge in headfirst.
But he quickly firmed his resolve: “I absolutely cannot give up on the green information; otherwise, I don’t know when I’ll encounter it again, and if I give up every time, how will I ever cultivate into human form!”
“But I still need to prepare in advance.”
Wu Yuan immediately set off for the mountaintop; although there was still a day’s time, this mountaintop was too far, an area he had never ventured into, and he needed to scout the path in advance.
This time, Wu Yuan didn’t proceed cautiously, stopping at every step, as he had before.
Instead, he kept running, charging straight for the mountaintop; with his current speed, only a few birds and beasts could keep up with him.
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