Chapter Eighty-Five: Fang Mu Was a Bit Stunned

After killing the five sawtooth hyenas, Fang Mu let out a long breath of relief.

The pressure of facing five at once had been even greater than he had imagined.

But in the end, he had succeeded.

The prolonged surge of adrenaline left his mind strangely blank as calm suddenly returned to him, as though he had slipped into some peculiar state of detachment.

Yet that sensation did not last long, because in the next instant he felt another tenth of his genetic primal energy being devoured!

This was already the fourth time. Add in the five shots from before, and more than half of his genetic primal energy had been spent!

And the changes in his body were still not over.

The genetic primal energy was still boiling, while his flesh was frantically devouring it. If this went on, sooner or later he would enter that extreme state of hunger!

At the thought, Fang Mu did not hesitate. He was about to take out the flesh of the sawtooth hyenas he had hunted these past few days from his spatial gear and devour it.

The absorption power of the God Refinement Record was simply too strong. As long as he kept eating, he could quickly replenish the missing genetic primal energy and complete this evolution.

But before he could move—

“Senior! Senior...”

A girl’s voice, excited to the extreme, rang out from far away.

Fang Mu’s heart jumped. His motion toward the spatial gear stopped instantly, and his grip on the gun tightened as he snapped his head around.

At once, he saw a female swordswoman with a long blade on her back running toward him from a rise not far off, her face flushed with excitement. As she ran, she kept waving her arms, as though afraid he would not see her. And what she was calling out was...

Senior?

What in the world?

Fang Mu was left somewhat dazed by the sight, his brow furrowing.

“Senior, Senior!”

Seeing that Fang Mu had turned to look at her, the girl became even more excited, waving harder and quickening her pace.

By the time she had nearly reached a distance of two hundred meters, Fang Mu was still a little bewildered and did not know what was going on. But he knew one thing: he could not let the female swordswoman get close to him now.

No matter what her intentions were.

The hand holding the pistol flashed.

Bang!

A burst of fire exploded violently two hundred meters away.

Zhou Xiaozhou had been running over with great excitement, wanting to meet that remarkable expert.

But suddenly, with a sharp crack of gunfire, she was startled. The next moment, a ball of blazing flame burst open and burned across the ground right in front of her.

Her face instantly turned pale, and she stopped on reflex.

“Zhou Xiaolin!”

Zhou Xiaolin, who had been chasing after her from behind, saw the other party raise the gun and was also badly startled. He cried out sharply.

But when he realized the flame had not struck Zhou Xiaozhou directly and was only burning on the ground, he finally let out a breath. Then he hurriedly ran up, grabbed Zhou Xiaozhou with a tense expression, and looked toward the black-clad figure...

He and Zhou Xiaozhou were both bronze-tier evolvers. He was a fist fighter, and Zhou Xiaozhou was a swordswoman.

Ordinarily, for a pair like them to encounter a bronze-tier gun fighter at this distance, there would be no need to be so nervous.

But the key was...

The gun fighter before them was clearly no ordinary person!

Had he ever seen a gun fighter suppress five sawtooth hyenas in close combat?!

He and Zhou Xiaozhou together could at most handle one sawtooth hyena. If there were more than two, the two of them would have no choice but to run for their lives! Whether they could even escape would depend on luck!

Five?

Apart from death, there was no other possibility.

So this gun fighter was simply too terrifying to them.

He absolutely had the ability to kill the two of them in an instant!

“Zhou Xiaozhou has definitely gone crazy! Wouldn’t it have been enough to obediently take candid photos? Why did she have to rush out like a lunatic?!” Zhou Xiaolin cursed inwardly again and again, all the while staring nervously at the distant black-clad figure.

And once he looked, his heart sank even further.

That outfit was plainly meant to hide the wearer’s true face, and if things went badly, the person might be extremely ruthless.

Heavens, was he really going to die here today?

Zhou Xiaolin was nearly in tears.

Even so, he still held his sister’s hand tightly, standing in front of her without retreating even an inch.

Fang Mu, however, found the pair rather baffling. Frowning, he rasped, “Do you want something?”

“Huh? N-no, nothing, nothing!” Zhou Xiaolin snapped back to his senses at once and hurriedly shouted.

Zhou Xiaozhou also recovered from her earlier shock and quickly said, “Senior, d-don’t misunderstand. We, we mean no harm... We just wanted to get to know you, Senior... Y-you’re too strong! How did you do that?!”

Her eyes brightened again as she hurriedly pressed the question.

Fang Mu listened with a furrowed brow, and once they had finished speaking, he immediately understood.

They had seen his battle with the sawtooth hyenas? And his identity as a gun fighter had shocked them?

He was just about to say something when, in the next instant, another tenth of his genetic primal energy dropped away!

A trace of blood-colored light surfaced in his eyes, and that feeling of hunger was already close to emerging.

Unable to spare any more words, he said coldly, “Whatever you want to do, do not follow me. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being merciless.”

With that, he turned and sped away into the distance.

He had to find a place first and deal with the problem in his body.

As for the fact that those two had seen him fight...

Fang Mu did not think there was anything worth worrying about.

Setting aside the fact that he had deliberately concealed his spatial gear this time, and that no one could recognize him in his current appearance...

Even if someone did recognize him, so what?

It was only a battle.

Although a gun fighter’s close combat was indeed astonishing, Fang Mu did not think it necessary to be overly concerned.

Granted, one might perhaps infer that his cultivation art was rather extraordinary...

But so what?

Most cultivation arts were, in essence, genetic seeds.

Once fused into the body, they could no longer be taken out.

Unless he were stupid enough to reveal that his cultivation art was a true core method, something that could be passed on...

Otherwise, even if others knew his cultivation art was unusual, or even exceptionally powerful...

It would not matter in the least.

And whether one cultivated a genetic seed or a core cultivation method could not be seen from appearances.

So what was there to worry about?

What truly could not be exposed...

was the spatial gear.

Because spatial gear was too rare. And it was something that could be stolen.

Wealth stirred the hearts of men.

If that little girl had called out to him a few seconds later, and had seen him use the spatial gear...

Then even if he had not wanted to, Fang Mu would have had to kill to silence them.

But now that the spatial gear had not been exposed, and his condition was not exactly good either, there was naturally no need to create unnecessary trouble.

As he thought this, he had already run two or three hundred meters.

He was now a bronze-tier evolver. Although the evolution of his flesh had not yet been completed, his strength and speed had already surged once more.

When he had still been in the blackiron tier, the limit of his body had already been comparable to an ordinary bronze-tier evolver. Now, after evolving again, he had surpassed ordinary bronze-tier standards by a wide margin.

And that was still with the evolution not yet fully complete.

Once it was completely finished...

The result would likely be even more astonishing.

A trace of anticipation gradually emerged in Fang Mu’s eyes.

Then he turned his head and saw that the two in the distance were still standing dumbly before the flames, not having chased after him. This made Fang Mu let out another breath of relief.

At last, he plunged into the wilderness and vanished without a trace.