Chapter 2842 — The Thunder Pig's Intervention

Zhang Naipao found it even more unbelievable. Why hadn't that giant ape attacked Wei Zhao? If it simply hadn't seen him, that would have been understandable—but it had clearly seen Wei Zhao, and it wasn't as though it couldn't beat him. Yet for some reason it had held back. Now that was truly strange!

"Could it be that the giant ape had just killed someone and had no stamina or true qi left?" Li Ciba simply couldn't make sense of it. He shook his head, utterly baffled. "No, that's not right either. The giant ape looks quite full of energy."

"Maybe this giant ape just has a gentler temperament, and that let Brother Lin escape calamity!" Ge Xian reasoned.

"Most likely that's it," Feng Shipian agreed with a nod, silently counting their luck.

Still, as the saying goes, you may dodge the first day but not the fifteenth. Just as everyone had breathed a sigh of relief, a black ferocious-tiger spirit beast came charging toward them—and though its path wasn't aimed directly at Wei Zhao, he was still well within its line of sight...

This breed of black ferocious-tiger spirit beast was savage by nature. When it spotted human cultivators, there was generally no hope of survival; it even preyed on lower-ranked spirit beasts, unlike most spirit beasts, which sustained themselves through cultivation rather than eating.

The lower-ranked spirit beasts here would all flee far away at the sight of a black ferocious tiger, lest they become its next meal.

So although this black ferocious tiger possessed only the strength of the early Mystic Rank, in everyone's eyes it was even more terrifying than the giant ape had been! Wei Zhao was within its line of sight—there was simply no way he could escape this calamity!

"How can we be this unlucky?!" Zhao Qitan lamented. He had thought Wei Zhao might dodge this disaster, never expecting misfortune to descend so quickly.

Feng Shipian, Li Ciba, and Ge Xian all drew a sharp breath as well! It truly was dreadful luck—barely escaped from the wolves only to walk into the tiger's jaws, and this time it was far more dangerous than before.

The Thunder Pig glanced indifferently at the black ferocious tiger but did not move. By rights, with its strength at the peak of the late Mystic Rank, it could easily have suppressed the black ferocious-tiger spirit beast, yet it did no such thing. It simply sat where it was, composed and unhurried, pondering how to free Wei Zhao from his current state.

But at that moment, Feng Shipian, Li Ciba, Ge Xian, and Zhao Qitan had all overlooked the Thunder Pig, and the matter of spirit-beast rank suppression never crossed their minds. In their eyes, Wei Zhao was surely finished this time...

Yet what no one expected was that a miracle occurred once again. Although the black ferocious-tiger spirit beast saw Wei Zhao, it did not attack him. After a few glances, it quickly departed, showing no intention of drawing near Wei Zhao at all!

"Huh?" This time, even Zhang Naipao gaped in astonishment. Once might be luck, but how could twice also be luck? Especially against this savage black ferocious-tiger spirit beast, there should have been no chance of survival—yet who could have imagined the beast would not attack Wei Zhao at all? This defied all reason!

In truth, what the others did not know was that, because Wei Zhao carried the perfume sachet Tian Chan had given him, in the eyes of the earlier giant ape he was a spirit beast! The giant ape was fairly intelligent, on par with the Thunder Pig, so it had looked at Wei Zhao several more times and sensed that he was a spirit beast and yet not one—and his appearance was unlike anything it had seen, though somewhat similar to a cultivator's!

However, though the giant ape was not weak, its nature was not vicious. To its mind, Wei Zhao was a kind of spirit beast, so naturally it would not attack him. Puzzled as it was, it had still left—and the other human cultivators were far away, so there was no need for it to go out of its way to attack them either.

As for the black ferocious tiger that came afterward, savage as it was, its strength was only at the early Mystic Rank, while in its eyes Wei Zhao was a late Earth Rank spirit beast. Given the rank suppression among spirit beasts, no matter how savage its nature, it could only bully Yellow Rank spirit beasts. Whether or not Wei Zhao resembled a spirit beast, it dared not look at him for long and hurried away.

This was also why the Thunder Pig had not acted. It knew about the perfume sachet Tian Chan had given Wei Zhao, and being a spirit beast itself, it had personally felt the sachet's marvel—so it was not worried that Wei Zhao would be attacked by spirit beasts!

The saying "once, twice, but never a third time" proved remarkably accurate. Wei Zhao successfully evaded the first two spirit beasts, but before long, a Heaven Rank eight-legged lizard came crawling slowly past. This lizard possessed the strength of the mid Heaven Rank. Though it crawled very slowly, its power was not to be underestimated—at a glance, it was clearly not to be trifled with. Its two eyes blood-red, it stared at Wei Zhao, who was running about not far away!

"I hope Brother Leader can dodge this one too. But it should be fine, shouldn't it?" Zhao Qitan was not especially nervous this time.

"Indeed. Though Brother Lin is in a frenzied state, the spirit beasts all seem rather friendly toward him. There must be some secret to it..." Feng Shipian had noticed the pattern as well.

"That does seem to be the case..." Ge Xian nodded. "I've heard of a secret art that can disguise a human cultivator with the aura of a spirit beast. I don't know whether it's true, but from the look of things, Brother Lin may well have mastered it!"

Everyone had stopped panicking this time—but the Thunder Pig was scared half to death, its fur standing completely on end! Others might not know, but it did: Heaven Rank spirit beasts all had considerable intelligence, and Wei Zhao's sachet could still deceive spirit beasts below the Heaven Rank, but against those at Heaven Rank and above, it began to fail. And from the look in the Heaven Rank eight-legged lizard's eyes, one could tell it was rather annoyed with Wei Zhao and was preparing to go finish him off!

Yet even having noticed this problem, the Thunder Pig did not know what to do. Its strength was what it was—even if it went up, it could not stop the lizard, could not suppress the eight-legged lizard spirit beast at all. But even so, the Thunder Pig had no choice but to grit its teeth and go negotiate...

The eight-legged lizard spirit beast was slowly crawling toward Wei Zhao, preparing to finish off this human cultivator who kept flitting about before its eyes in provocation!

"Squeak, squeak... (Hello, my name is Thunder Pig. I am this human cultivator's contracted spirit beast...)" The Thunder Pig dashed over and spoke to the eight-legged lizard spirit beast.

"Whoo, whoo—(Little one, so you're the contracted spirit beast of that human cultivator who provoked me? You were forced into becoming his contracted spirit beast, weren't you? Rest assured, I'll help you kill him. From then on you'll be free—you can cultivate freely in the Five Evils Mountain Range!)" said the eight-legged lizard spirit beast.

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