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The fallen leaves were trampled into pieces by the horse's hooves. Li Yi handed his warhorse to his personal guards to lead, and then led the way into the dense forest.

As Li Yi ventured deeper into the dense forest, he discovered more and more traces.

Before my eyes, many fallen shrubs had been trampled into small paths.

After walking for a while, Li Yi squatted down and carefully examined the traces in front of him.

With Gumu Da, a Xiongnu archer, around, Li Yi was like having a Xiongnu encyclopedia, able to ask about the situation among the Xiongnu at any time.

"Look at these weeds, look at the trampled marks; the traces here are definitely no more than three days old!"

"Three days?" Upon hearing Li Yi's words, Gu Muda, Han Jia, and the others looked curiously at the weeds in front of them.

During this period, Li Yi demonstrated many skills in searching for clues, which greatly benefited them.

These will be useful skills when they lead troops into battle on their own someday!

Seeing that his key subordinates were eager to learn, Li Yi did not hold back and took the opportunity to use the many traces in the dense forest to teach everyone how to find useful clues and other tracking techniques.

"Based on the timeline, not long after we entered the Xiongnu grasslands, the Xiongnu tribes in the Yellow Sheep Plains received the news, which led to the unusual events in this dense forest."

"It seems that the Xiongnu tribes in the Huangyang Plain and the surrounding area have already left far behind."

As Li Yi pondered, he led the group deeper into the dense forest.

"Stay vigilant, each squad supervises each other, and make sure no one is missing. Report any unusual situation immediately!"

As Li Yi ventured deeper into the dense forest, he felt as if a gaze was watching him intently from the shadows.

But whenever he looked in the direction his gaze came from, he could not find any living creature.

This made Li Yi even more curious and also raised the level of vigilance among his subordinates.

Following the tracks, Li Yi and his group soon arrived deep in the dense forest.

"What does it taste like?"

A foul stench wafted from the woods. Li Yi frowned, used his Ink Frost Serpent Spear to push aside the bushes in front of him, and carefully walked over.

"What's going on?"

Beyond the bushes lay a clearing the size of a football field, littered with numerous Hun corpses.

Even more bizarrely, these Huns did not struggle before they died, as if they had willingly been killed, and they were all kneeling facing the center of the open space.

"Gumu Da, look at this!"

The crowd endured the stench and stared in astonishment at the corpses of the Huns.

Following Li Yi's orders, Gu Muda covered his nose and stepped forward to examine the object closely.

But soon, Gumu Da returned to Li Yi's side with a look of terror on his face.

"My lord, the clothing patterns on these Xiongnu people belong to the Muyang, Lieshan, and Baishui tribes!"

The three tribes of Muyang and Lieshan?

Li Yi was startled and stared intently at the corpses.

The corpses were all kneeling on the ground, their throats slit from behind, and the blood flowed down the trenches in the ground towards the center of the open space.

When Li Yi led his troops to invade the Xiongnu grasslands, he killed and captured most of the people of the Muyang tribe. However, for various reasons, more than a thousand survivors from these three tribes escaped Li Yi's blade.

But these Huns who had escaped death were now willing to be killed.

Everything seemed eerie!

Gu Muda, standing to the side, looked solemn, hesitant to speak, his face full of unease.

Seeing this, Li Yi looked at Gu Muda reassuringly, indicating that he should speak freely.

Gu Muda mustered his courage, looked in panic at the open space littered with corpses, and whispered to Li Yi:

"The shamans among the Xiongnu were most skilled at communicating with various natural spirits, and among them, there was a communication method called blood sacrifice that was the most bloody and brutal."

"If my guess is correct, these Xiongnu people must have volunteered as sacrifices, offering blood to the nature spirits worshipped by the shamans!"

Listening to what Gu Muda said, Li Yi thought of the Huangyang Spirit that was passed down in Huangyang Plain.

Could this be a blood sacrifice to the spirit of the yellow goat?

"So what's the purpose of this blood sacrifice?"

Li Yi asked curiously.

Gumu Da slowly said, "Among the Xiongnu shamans, this situation is likely a blood sacrifice to the nature spirit, hoping to make the nature spirit avenge them!"

To avenge them?

Li Yi stared at the wooden sheep and Lieshan patterns on the Xiongnu corpse and fell silent for a moment.

If this blood sacrifice is to avenge them, isn't that just taking revenge on oneself?

After all, it was Li Yi who led the attack on their tribe and used their tribe's blood to forge the title of Li the God of Slaughter.

The heads of people like Shanluhan, the Great Khan of the Lieshan tribe, were displayed in the court as spoils of war!

But in a short while, Li Yi cleared away these distracting thoughts.

While alive, you can only be killed by yourself; what difference does death make?

A defeated opponent is still a defeated opponent!

After adjusting his mindset, Li Yi ordered his men to cut down trees, collect dry branches, and place them on top of the corpses.

He then led Gumu Da into the open space.

Following the direction in which the Xiongnu corpses knelt, Li Yi quickly arrived at the middle of the open space.

In the middle of the open space stood a roughly shaped human-shaped statue covered in animal skins, and next to it lay a sheep-shaped statue.

Upon closer inspection, it was indeed a gazelle!

"Was this some kind of martyr among the Xiongnu?"

Li Yi pointed to the human-shaped statue and asked Gu Muda a question.

Gu Muda frowned, and after a moment slowly shook his head.

"In the history of the Xiongnu, there were many heroes and powerful figures who wore animal skins, but none of them had such an image associated with the yellow sheep!"

A large amount of blood was seen flowing down the groove into the human-shaped statue and disappearing into the ground beneath it.

"Should we dig him up and take a look?"

Seeing Li Yi looking down at the human-shaped statue, Gu Muda asked a question.

But just then, several exclamations suddenly came from the dense forest outside the clearing.

"What happened?"

Li Yi quickly turned around and asked loudly.

A few breaths later, Han Jia shouted:

"Sir, a herd of enormous gazelles is attacking us!"

A large gazelle?

Li Yi suddenly thought of the unusual set of gazelle footprints he had found in the Huangyang Plain.

Now that this special gazelle has appeared, shouldn't the vanished Xiongnu people also make an appearance?

But just as Li Yi was full of calculations and preparing to rush back to provide support, a chill made him shiver and instinctively fall to the ground.

Looking back, he saw a black stone the size of a human head sweep past him, smashing several Xiongnu corpses into a bloody pulp.

That's some real force!

Li Yi gripped the Ink Cold Serpent Spear tightly and turned around cautiously to look in the direction the black stone had come from.

"Who is it? Dare to come out and fight me!"

Seeing no response, Li Yi added, "Do the people of the Eternal Heaven lack the courage to fight against the enemy?"

Before he finished speaking, another black stone flew out of the dense forest.

This time, Li Yi was prepared. He mobilized his qi and blood to strengthen himself, and with a single swing of his spear, he pushed aside the black stone, smashing a group of Huns beside him into a heap.

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The next moment, a tall figure emerged from the woods and stared at Li Yi.

The figure was covered in fur, with several pieces of animal hide draped over his body, forming a simple fur coat.

"What is this?" Gu Muda exclaimed, his voice filled with shock and fear.

Li Yi stared intently at the figure, his eyes also filled with astonishment and solemnity.

The figure had a bluish face and exposed canine teeth, clearly indicating it was a mandrill!

And the mandrill's attire was remarkably similar to the human-shaped statue in the open space!

Could this mountain demon be the natural spirit worshipped by the Xiongnu shamans of Huangyang Plain?

The target of this blood sacrifice is the mountain demon, which the people of Chen Kingdom call the mountain god.

Li Yi's gaze swept over the mandrill, and when he looked up, he met the mandrill's eyes.

The mandrill's eyes held a strange meaning, its gaze fixed on Li Yi with a thoughtful expression.

"That gaze seems somewhat familiar?"

A thought struck Li Yi: he remembered the hidden gaze that had been following him into the dense forest.

It seems that the mandrill was hiding in the shadows, observing me all along.

Li Yi had no idea that the natural spirit worshipped by the Xiongnu shaman was a mountain demon that behaved like a human.

Before Li Yi could say anything, the mandrill suddenly pushed off the ground and charged towards him.

In his hand, he was holding an enormous bone club!

"Well done!"

Seeing this, Li Yi did not back down. He charged forward with the Ink Cold Serpent Spear and engaged the strange mountain demon in battle.

Ever since Li Yi met Old Zhang, he had heard that there were some exceptionally talented or incredibly lucky beasts in the world that possessed the strength to fight against human martial artists.

These kinds of strange beasts are called strange beasts!

The Ink Frost Serpent Spear and Seven Kill Frost Bow in Li Yi's hands are made from the sinews and bones of exotic beasts!

Li Yi had always been very curious about strange beasts, and now that he had the opportunity to fight one, he was naturally extremely excited.

In the blink of an eye, Li Yi had exchanged dozens of blows with the mountain demon.

"As expected of a strange beast, its power is truly formidable!"

Li Yi looked at the mandrill confronting him, his eyes filled with solemnity.

The mountain demon before us is extremely powerful; it can even kill some weak True Qi Realm martial artists!

Even if he didn't know any martial arts, he could still fight me to a standstill by wielding a bone club with his brute strength.

If he were to wear heavy armor, his combat power would be even greater!

But the stronger the mandrill, the stronger Li Yi's fighting spirit became!

As Li Yi's strength has increased, very few people can now fight him.

Even a True Qi Realm martial artist like Shah Rukh Khan couldn't defeat him.

"I'll use you as my whetstone!"

In the next instant, Li Yi's aura surged, and he immediately activated the Bajiquan technique. With the enhancement of the skill characteristic Dragon Body and Tiger Soul, Li Yi's power multiplied several times.

The shot even forced the mandrill to take several steps back.

"Again!"

Li Yi grew increasingly excited as he fought, his Ink Cold Serpent Spear raining down on the mountain demon like a raging storm.

At this moment, Li Yi abandoned all combat skills and attributed everything to the most basic and unadorned primal instincts.

Chop! Smash! Poke!

The exquisite moves of the past have vanished; Li Yi's Ink Cold Serpent Spear only has these three moves.

However, with the added strength of Li Yi's physical body, every shot he fired collided with the bone club in the mandrill's hand, producing a violent collision sound.

"That felt so good!"

The mountain demon's immense power allowed Li Yi to freely unleash all the martial arts he had mastered. Under the mountain demon's pressure, some things he had previously been puzzled about suddenly became clear and understood.

In a short time, Li Yi's many skills improved continuously under the tutelage of the mandrill.

Perhaps sensing Li Yi's thoughts, the mandrill grew even angrier, a few streaks of crimson flashing across its indigo face, and the force of its bone club became increasingly heavy.

fighting!

Cool!

The mandrill's increased strength only made Li Yi more and more obsessed with the battle.

To this day, Li Yi has mastered a large number of martial arts techniques, but because he has learned too many and too varied techniques, even with the help of the skill panel, there are still some problems that are difficult to solve.

However, this battle with the mountain demon made it possible for Li Yi to achieve a comprehensive understanding of all his martial arts skills.

"Truly a genius! Not only is his talent in archery exceptional, but his martial arts talent is also extraordinary!"

Gu Muda, who was watching from the sidelines, looked at Li Yi, whose aura was becoming more and more powerful and who could use many moves with ease, and his face was full of surprise and delight.

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Gumu Da looked back and saw Han Jia dragging a strange beast, several times larger than an ordinary gazelle, out from behind the Xiongnu corpse.

Liu Ye, who was standing next to him, was also holding a Xiongnu man in his hand.

Seeing this, Gu Muda quickly waved his hand, signaling the two to shut up and not make a sound.

Liu Ye quickly tore off a piece of cloth and stuffed it into the mouth of the Xiongnu man in his hand.

The ambush in the dense forest had already been dealt with by Han Jia and his men.

At this moment, everyone gathered around the open space, watching the battle between Li Yi and the mountain demon.

The Hun, whose mouth was gagged, stared in disbelief at Li Yi, who was fighting the mountain demon.

As time went by, Li Yi reviewed his various martial arts techniques. If he were to use the "Spear Suppresses the World" technique again, it would be easier and more natural, and the power of this move would be even stronger.

Suddenly, Li Yi flicked his Ink Frost Serpent Spear, shattering the mountain demon.

Looking at the mandrill whose energy he had consumed most of, Li Yi slowly shook his head.

"What a pity."

Although the mandrill was powerful, after the fierce battle just now, it could no longer grant Li Yi the skills he needed for his various martial arts techniques.

"Since that's the case, then die!"

Li Yi looked coldly at the mountain demon, his blood and qi, along with a strong wind, constantly gathered at the tip of the Ink Cold Serpent Spear.

"This move was learned during our battle; I'll use it to send you on your way!"

Li Yi glanced at the skill panel.

【Zhenqiang Mountain-Breaking Spear (Minor Completion): 120/1600】

[Effect: Subduing the spear with a calming intent! Mastering the power to shatter mountains!]

During the battle with the mountain demon, among Li Yi's many skills, the one that received the greatest improvement was the [Suppressing Qiang Mountain-Breaking Spear]!

Not only did he advance to the minor completion stage, but he also comprehended its unique mountain-breaking force!

Perhaps sensing Li Yi's unusual behavior, the mandrill in front of him became solemn, its aura continuously increasing, and the bone club in its hand slowly swirled, a unique power beginning to swirl around it.

[Wind-Breathing Breathing Technique]! Bloodlust!

In an instant, the intent to break through the wind emerged, transforming the gust of wind on the Ink Cold Serpent Spear into a brand new power!

Wind-breaking force!

This was a more aggressive force than the Gale Force; the mere gathering of the wind-breaking force at the tip of the spear was enough to send chills down everyone's spines.

But Li Yi's actions did not stop there.

Li Yi used his spear as a shield, and the Mountain-Breaking Force he had just comprehended emerged from the tip of the spear, merging with the Wind-Breaking Force to form a completely new energy!

"The wind can destroy mountains!"

With the enhancement of Bloodlust and the [Dragon Body and Tiger Soul], Li Yi's power is among the best even among True Qi Realm martial artists.

Supported by this immense force, Li Yi's Ink Frost Serpent Spear, seemingly slow but actually fast, thrust out in one strike.

Sensing the danger of death, the mandrill suddenly swung its bone club, trying to block Li Yi's attack.

However, this [Wind Destroys Mountains] is a brand new move that Li Yi has come up with, and its power is no less than [Spear Suppresses the World]!

The moment the Mohan Serpent Spear made contact with the bone club, the energy from the Serpent Spear suddenly erupted, sending the bone club flying.

The next instant, the Ink-Cold Serpent Spear pierced the mountain demon's chest with overwhelming force.

This mandrill not only possesses the power of the True Qi Realm, but its physical defense is also comparable to that of a martial artist in the True Qi Realm.

However, the power of [Wind Destroys Mountains] erupted instantly, and in just a few breaths, the mandrill's body was sent flying, smashing the humanoid statue placed in the open space to the ground.

Oh oh oh!

Seeing this, the Xiongnu man in Liu Ye's hands was furious and struggled incessantly.

Ignoring his surroundings, Li Yi slowly stepped forward, carrying the Ink Cold Serpent Spear.

All he saw was a mandrill leaning against a humanoid statue, staring intently at him, with a bloody hole the size of a bowl in his chest.

【Wind Destroys Mountains】The powerful force pierced through the mandrill's chest, and the energy surged into its body, shattering its internal organs into pieces.

"I wonder if Master Tang can use the bones and muscles of this mandrill to forge a few weapons."

Thinking this, Li Yi bent down, gripped the mandrill's ankle tightly, and dragged it to the open space.

The Hun who had been struggling watched this scene, and his anger turned into hatred. He stared at Li Yi, as if he wanted to kill Li Yi with his gaze.

Following Li Yi's signal, Liu Ye took out the cloth that had been used to gag the Xiongnu man.

"You're finished! You've killed a descendant of the shaman! The shaman will tear you to pieces!"

As soon as the cloth was removed, the Hun began to curse and swear at Li Yi.

However, Li Yi was stunned for a moment when he heard what the Xiongnu man said.

A descendant of the shaman?

Is this mandrill a descendant of the shaman?

Could it be that the shamans of the Xiongnu tribe in Huangyang Plain were not Xiongnu people but the ancestors of these mountain goblins?

These thousands of Xiongnu people whose throats were cut were not offering blood sacrifices to natural spirits, but rather to shamans who were actually mountain demons.

Many questions arose in Li Yi's mind, and he quickly asked the Xiongnu man for answers.

Upon hearing Li Yi's words, the Xiongnu seemed to go mad, revealing a maniacal smile.

"The Shaman could tear a True Qi Realm martial artist apart with one hand. You not only killed his descendant but also shattered his statue. Sooner or later, the Shaman will take you away!"

The humanoid statue in the open space is the ancestor of this mandrill. It seems that this so-called shaman is actually an even more powerful mandrill beast!

Li Yi had a slight understanding of what was going on and was about to ask further when he saw the Xiongnu man bite off his tongue and commit suicide.