Chapter 448 - 280: Consummation

Chapter 448: Chapter 280: Consummation

After a desperate escape, Yu Fei finally made it out of the Eternal Night Forest.

He thought he was safe, but the great tiger pursued him relentlessly. He fled with what little strength he had left. Perhaps the beast had reservations about the world outside the forest, for it eventually gave up the chase.

Yu Fei barely made it back to his safe house. His right leg was riddled with several thumb-sized holes, and his femur had been snapped in two. If he hadn’t been quick enough to dodge, he surely would’ve left a limb behind.

His recovery took even longer this time; it was a full four days before he was completely healed.

Feeling how the sword shadow within him had integrated and devoured so much under the threat of death, Yu Fei’s reckless heart began to stir once more.

The threat from this tiger was the greatest he had ever faced. It felt as if he could die in its jaws at any moment. Under such intense pressure, his spiritual intent became more active than ever. He focused solely on survival, unconsciously integrating his powers to block lethal attacks. This, in turn, spurred the purification of his Returning Ruins Realm Sword.

As a result, the purification of his spiritual intent progressed by leaps and bounds.

After a moment of careful deliberation, Yu Fei gritted his teeth and used his waypoint ability to teleport deep into the Eternal Night Forest.

He was going to find the great tiger!

After searching for half a day, Yu Fei followed the aura he had previously locked onto and found his "lovely" sparring partner.

Thanks to his Five Senses Secret Skill, as long as he could lock onto a target’s aura, he could track them within a certain radius—a distance roughly ten times that of his normal perception.

When Yu Fei found the great tiger, the beast was in the middle of a meal.

It had hunted down a Tier 7 Desolate Beast with a single horn and floral stripes—a species Yu Fei didn’t recognize.

The great tiger was noisily slurping down its meal, and it spotted Yu Fei despite him being in his Silent Shadow Body state.

’This thing is too well-rounded,’ Yu Fei thought. ’It can fight, it has stealth, it even has crowd control abilities, and its senses are far superior to those of other desolate beasts.’

In all his time training here, this was the first time Yu Fei had seen a Tier 7 Desolate Beast prey on another of the same tier.

Seeing that he’d been spotted, Yu Fei offered a "friendly" greeting—a massive volley of boundless Sword Qi.

Mr. Hu was instantly enraged. Dropping its meal, it let out a sudden roar that shattered the Sword Qi.

Seeing that Yu Fei had already vanished into the distance, Mr. Hu didn’t give chase and went back to intently devouring its food.

But then, Yu Fei shamelessly snuck back. This time, he tossed out a handful of Fog Pine Stone waypoints.

He threw them so lightly that Mr. Hu paid them no mind.

His interest piqued, Yu Fei immediately began using the scattered waypoints, teleporting near the carcass to poke at the tiger from the east, then stab at it from the west.

Unable to contain its rage, Mr. Hu shot to its feet and lunged ferociously at Yu Fei.

The chase covered a considerable distance. Then, Yu Fei used his teleportation ability to vanish from Mr. Hu’s sight, reappearing at the original feeding spot. He promptly stored away the partially eaten corpse of the Tier 7 Desolate Beast.

Just as he finished, he saw Mr. Hu rushing back in a panic.

Its food had vanished without a trace, and there stood the annoying two-legged beast, right at the scene of the crime.

"ROAR!"

A bloody flame seemed to ignite around the tiger, radiating a boundless Evil Qi.

Even though Yu Fei had used a waypoint to put several hundred meters between them, the roar still shook him to his core.

’So strong!’

A massive, bloody afterimage lunged toward him. Yu Fei didn’t dare try to block it. The warning from his Dongyou insight was clear: contact meant being torn to shreds.

Yu Fei struggled to escape, flinging new waypoints ahead with his boundless Sword Qi. It was a game where life and death were decided in an instant.

If his Sword Qi was a fraction of a second too slow, the enraged tiger would instantly tear him to shreds.

This was, quite literally, snatching food from the tiger’s mouth!

The enraged tiger’s Qi Blood surged, making it unbelievably powerful. Any blow Yu Fei failed to dodge would rip his skin and mangle his flesh; a more serious hit would tear his tendons and break his bones.

’This time... I think I’ve gone too far!’

Yu Fei’s actions had thoroughly enraged the beast. No creature had ever dared to steal its prey; all those who tried had become its food instead.

The chase lasted for nearly a full day. By the end, the tiger’s blood-flame had vanished, and it was panting heavily. Yu Fei was in a wretched state, but this time, he had endured!

Though he was weaker than the giant tiger, his stamina and recovery were far superior, which was the only reason he could last until the end.

Finally, the giant tiger stared intently at Yu Fei for a long time, panting heavily, before giving up the chase and turning to leave.

"Hahaha!"

Yu Fei roared with laughter and fell onto his back. His sword, Zhan Ming, clattered to the side, but he was filled with immense joy.

This was the first time he hadn’t been forced to flee the Eternal Night Forest. He had actually made this apex predator give up the hunt.

At that moment, his spirit was incredibly active. Without him even realizing it, the Returning Ruins Realm Sword stirred, spontaneously devouring a great deal of sword intent!

Though excited, Yu Fei noticed the change but paid it no mind. He used a waypoint to leave the area. His injuries were severe and needed immediate attention.

「Five days later.」 Yu Fei followed his senses and found the pangolin-like Desolate Beast he had first encountered.

He used Silent Shadow Stealth to get close, then launched a sneak attack with his Fallen God Finger. Before the beast could burrow underground to escape, Yu Fei pressed his assault with Zhan Ming, enduring a deep gash across his own forehead from its claws—a wound so deep, the white of his skull was visible.

Empowered by the shadow of the Returning Ruins Realm Sword, a pure, suppressive force of destruction shattered the pangolin’s scales and finished it off.

After his "intimate encounters" with Mr. Hu, the purification of Yu Fei’s spiritual intent had progressed significantly. The external manifestation of this was a massive increase in the power of his sword techniques.

The pangolin’s scales, which he had previously struggled to damage, could now be broken with a full-strength attack.

Yu Fei then adjusted his tactics. There was little point in continuing to simply harass Mr. Hu. The only way to achieve true purification of his spiritual intent was to defeat—or even kill—the tiger in a head-on confrontation, now that he understood its capabilities.