I am just a mortal, why do you all worship me as a saint?

Chapter 96: The Black Falcon King with a Strong Sense of Crisis

The Cloud Spirit Forest is actually very large, three or four times larger than Cloud Spirit City.

The reason it's called Cloud Spirit Forest is simply because there's only one city, Cloud Spirit City, in the vicinity. In fact, the forest's boundary is already on the edge of Dry Cloud Prefecture.

Deep in the forest, monsters roam everywhere.

There are many demonic beasts that can rival Nascent Soul stage cultivators, and in the deepest part, there are three or four demonic beast kings.

Although I have never seen the Demon King, I have heard of its power. It is said that it would take six or seven Nascent Soul cultivators working together to defeat it, even if they were below the Tribulation Transcending stage.

Therefore, Gu Heng is now all alone, having entered the danger zone.

These assassins, seeing him as merely a mortal, were terrified. They didn't know what had gotten into him, daring to venture so deep into the wilderness so recklessly. Even they themselves were filled with dread, considering they were all only at the Core Formation stage and not skilled in direct combat. What if they encountered demonic beasts...

It's simply unthinkable.

"Stop talking nonsense. Qing Lao Er has given the order, so we have to follow it."

The assassins wanted to leave, but they were more afraid of Qing Er's methods than the monsters. Those who disobeyed orders would suffer a worse fate than being eaten by the monsters.

So the group continued to lie in ambush, silently watching Gu Heng.

They felt that Gu Heng couldn't have gone far.

What's even stranger is that they've come all this way, yet they haven't seen a single demonic beast along the way...

This place is no more than fifty miles away from the territory of a certain demon king, so how could there be no demon beasts here?

Could it be that they were just lucky? A sense of relief had just begun to creep into the minds of several assassins…

But soon, a chilling wind blew by, making the assassins shiver. What followed was a demonic aura that made their expressions change drastically!

This demonic aura was so terrifying, it even exceeded their imagination!

Amidst the rustling of wind and the cries of cranes, a sharp screech fell!

Suddenly, the once peaceful dense forest was filled with all sorts of strange bird calls.

"There is a monster!"

"Come on!"

The assassins panicked, but they had no chance to escape. A bird's shadow swept past, and several clouds of blood mist exploded in mid-air.

The powerful demonic energy instantly crushed them, leaving no trace of their screams; the assassins were reduced to nothingness.

The assassins' bloodlust was plundered by the bird's shadow, followed by another bird's cry, as if they were still unsatisfied.

"Ok?"

Gu Heng also turned his head to look behind him.

Why is there suddenly a commotion coming from the trees over there?

He also heard the bird's call and was puzzled.

He looked up at the treetops.

Atop the tree canopy, a purplish-black falcon had perched, its wings seemingly still stained with blood, and a foul stench emanated from it; it was clearly no good bird.

"How come there's a mortal here?"

Black Falcon King wondered to himself why there was still a bewildered mortal in this place.

It is one of the three demon kings in this Cloud Spirit Forest.

This place is not actually its territory. It's because the aura of a powerful human has been sensed recently, and the monsters in the forest have all sensed it, especially the three monster kings, who feel a great sense of crisis.

Deep within the Cloud Spirit Forest, in the territory occupied by these demon kings, lies a place brimming with spiritual energy.

It has also fostered many rare and precious natural treasures.

Originally, these things were meant for the Beast King to enjoy alone, and even if humans tried to take them, they couldn't defeat them.

But now it's different.

In just over ten days, two auras shot into the sky from the two distant ends of this place, giving the demon beast kings a small shock.

Monsters and humans are essentially locked in a cycle of mutual slaughter and devouring, with no logic to speak of. Even the intelligent monster king is no exception. Originally, there were no powerful humans within thousands of miles outside the Cloud Spirit Forest who could threaten them.

But now, two have appeared all at once!

The Black Falcon King was the first to make a move. Deep within its cave was a six-thousand-year-old Blood Lotus Grass. Originally, the Falcon King planned to nurture it for another three hundred years to make its medicinal power even stronger. When it swallowed it, it could evolve its body and increase its strength!

However, Black Falcon King felt that he might not have three hundred years left.

Perhaps in a few days or months, humans will come knocking on their door, stealing their rare and precious resources, and then slaughtering them to make medicine and elixirs.

Therefore, the Black Falcon King decided to use fresh flesh and blood to stimulate the Blood Lotus Grass!

In the past few days, it left its territory and went on a rampage in the surrounding forests, hunting down weaker demonic beasts and human cultivators. It killed thousands, mostly demonic beasts, using their flesh and blood to feed the Blood Lotus Grass.

But after killing for so long, the Black Falcon King is now facing a dilemma—there's nothing left to kill. Sensing the Demon Beast King's rampage, which has intensified the instincts of the lower-level demon beasts, they are fleeing to the vicinity of other Demon Beast Kings' territories. The Black Falcon King cannot pursue them too far, because if it reaches the outskirts of the Cloud Spirit Forest, it will definitely attract the attention of powerful humans.

Black Falcon King doesn't want to attract the attention of any living creature right now.

However, it did have some extra gains today. Several very weak human cultivators dared to venture so deep. The Black Falcon King admired their courage, but it still killed them. Although there weren't many, they were still meat.

However, it had just discovered that there was another human here... and he didn't seem to be a cultivator.

He was just a mortal.

But if they are ordinary people, why would they come here?

The Cloud Spirit Forest is infamous; unless you're completely insane, no mortal would dare to come here!

Of course, the Beast King possesses intelligence, but not much.

The fact that the Black Falcon King could even question "Why would a mere mortal dare to venture deep into the forest?" was already enough to nearly burn out its bird brain.

"What are you looking at!?"

Seeing that the bird was strangely shaped and covered in blood, and that it kept staring at him, which made Gu Heng very annoyed, Gu Heng shouted loudly.

He intended to scare the bird away.

But it didn't work.

"Oh, this won't scare you away?"

Gu Heng was a little surprised. Logically speaking, birds should be frightened by the sound.

He suddenly got interested, walked up to the tree, and kicked it hard!

The force was considerable; the lush green leaves on the treetop rustled down, but the birds on the branches remained unmoved, staring at him with their bright black eyes.

Gu Heng laughed: "You're quite composed." He thought he could keep a bird at the clinic and tease it every day, which would be quite interesting!

But Black Falcon King had already been enraged.

This mortal really thinks of it as some fragile bird that's easily startled!

They were shouting and kicking the tree!

Do you just want to see it get scared and fly around wildly?

This human is far too disrespectful to him!

Human flesh and blood are still flesh and blood, and we can't have too many of them, so let's kill them!