Chapter 215 Special Soul Beasts, Medusa.
After parting ways with the Heavenly Tiger, Xuan Mo and Ning Rongrong immediately left, continuing their journey deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.
After all, the sounds of fighting they had just heard could easily attract other powerful soul beasts, which would be disastrous.
"Mo, we've gone about twenty kilometers. According to the information given by Master and the others, we should have reached the end of our journey in this area," Ning Rongrong whispered to Xuan Mo, who was walking ahead, two hours later.
"Almost there…?"
The Star Dou Great Forest was vast, and only within the outer ten kilometers were most of the soul beasts with ten or a hundred years of cultivation. However, apart from the Heavenly Tiger from two hours ago, they hadn't encountered any attacks. This meant that soul beasts had already divided up this area, and these soul beasts were at least ten thousand years old.
Seeing that it was almost evening, Xuan Mo pondered for a moment, then turned to Ning Rongrong and said, "Let's go, let's stop here for today and find a safe place to rest."
Ning Rongrong naturally had no objection, after all, she wasn't like Xuan Mo; she had traveled all day and her strength was almost gone.
"Which direction should we go?"
Xuan Mo looked around and pointed to a small hill not far away, "The Star Dou Great Forest isn't safe to stay in. Let's go check out that hill over there. Although the road is a bit far, it's better to find a cave. Safety first."
"Okay." Ning Rongrong nodded.
After determining the direction, the two began to walk towards the small hill in the Star Dou Great Forest.
However, after walking for about fifteen minutes, Xuan Mo seemed to sense something and suddenly stopped.
"Mo, what's wrong?"
Ning Rongrong immediately leaned against Xuan Mo, because she knew that Xuan Mo's sudden stop must mean he had discovered something. And as a support-type Soul Master, her first instinct was to seek protection.
Xuan Mo narrowed his eyes and said, "Although I haven't sensed any movement, I have a feeling that something is watching me, like a hunter spotting its prey and preparing to hunt."
Just as Xuan Mo and Ning Rongrong were talking, a gust of wind suddenly blew by, carrying some familiar strange sounds.
Xuan Mo frowned upon seeing this.
"Wait, Rongrong, did you hear anything?"
But Ning Rongrong looked at him blankly, completely unaware of the surrounding commotion.
"No, there's murderous intent!"
Xuan Mo quickly turned around and looked in one direction. At the same time, he grabbed Ning Rongrong's hand and shielded her behind him.
"Hiss..."
At this moment, an unpleasant hissing sound grew louder and louder in Xuan Mo and Ning Rongrong's ears, and the surrounding vegetation rustled, as if something invisible was passing by.
The next moment, a powerful aura of pressure appeared instantly, filled with ruthlessness and bloodlust.
The immense pressure caused Xuan Mo's expression to change slightly, and the vigilance in his eyes suddenly intensified.
In the dim light of dusk, Xuan Mo's attention was focused to the extreme. Even with the faint moonlight, he could still make out the appearance of the soul beast.
Its dark green scales shimmered in the firelight, and its thick, long body slithered through the bushes, its unpleasant hissing sound crystal clear to Xuan Mo and the others.
Xuan Mo only glanced at it, and after getting a general idea of the soul beast's appearance, he immediately closed his eyes, and also told Ning Rongrong to close hers quickly.
The reason was that this soul beast was called a Medusa. Medusas possessed powerful petrification abilities. For example, Dugu Bo's head soul bone originated from one.
However, because the effect was so powerful, Xuan Mo dared not be careless. If he dared to try it and couldn't withstand the result, he would truly be doomed.
Xuan Mo muttered, "What kind of luck is this today? First, I ran into a Heavenly Tiger, and then I ran into Medusa."
At this moment, Medusa was lurking atop a large tree ten meters away from Xuan Mo. It had already noticed that this human had spotted it. But instead of running away, it remained motionless, as if waiting for something.
This Medusa was a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, possessing some rudimentary human intelligence, as well as formidable strength. It coldly stared at Xuan Mo with its huge, earth-yellow eyes, choosing not to move for the moment.
Because Medusa was wary of Xuan Mo's strength, judging from the aura emanating from him, it knew that this human was not to be trifled with.
Following this, neither Xuan Mo nor Ning Rongrong made any rash moves, and even Medusa remained the same.
Medusa stayed at a suitable distance of twenty meters from Xuan Mo and the others, undulating and silently flicking its tongue.
Medusa's hunting experience was extremely rich, so it had a good grasp of the rhythm that emerged during the struggle with its prey.
As time slowly passed, Xuanmo and Ning Rongrong remained motionless, as if they were encased in cement.
Gradually, Medusa, seeing the two humans remain like this, began to grow impatient.
Normally, its patience should have been sufficient, but during the hunt a few days prior, it had barely succeeded, and its stamina was nearly exhausted.
So, after stubbornly holding out with Xuanmo and the others for half an hour, it finally couldn't bear it any longer.
Medusa, its body, which had stretched and coiled for over ten meters on the towering trees, gradually shrank into a disc shape.
Then, with those chilling eyes, it stared intently at its prey, its front half slowly contracting, compressing itself like a spring gathering strength.
As its body shrank to its limit, Medusa suddenly paused for a second.
Then, the compressed muscles exploded, and its entire body, like a spring compressed to its limit and then suddenly released, transformed into a dark green line in mid-air, like a black lightning bolt, charging straight towards Xuan Mo! The twenty-meter distance was covered in an instant!
Medusa opened its blood-red maw, larger than Xuan Mo himself, its long, narrow fangs like two drawn swords, a foul stench wafting towards him with the whooshing sound of the wind.
From the moment Medusa exerted its force to the moment it stabbed at Xuan Mo's face, less than a second had passed. No matter how terrified Ning Rongrong was, or how much she reacted, Xuan Mo remained completely still, like a statue.
Only when the gleaming fangs were less than half a meter from his face, the snake's tongue almost touching his skin, did Xuan Mo finally prepare to attack Medusa!
But just then, "Awooo!"
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