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When Allen put down the corpse of the hidden monster, a few strands of pure blood energy from the Blood Hymn also entered his body, replenishing his consumption in the past few days. Copy Address Access
HP: That day, he used the river to shake off Catherine, but he only got less than half a day of buffer time. After leaving the river and resting for a while, Allen continued westward into the forest. Before dawn, Catherine finally caught up with him, and the two of them fought again. There were traces of headhunter activity nearby, and Allen simply lured Catherine to a smaller headhunter tribe to escape in the chaos.
In the next few days, the two of them continued to chase, fight, and escape. During this process, Allen always felt that Catherine did not have enough killing intent towards him, and most of the time, she always looked preoccupied. If it weren't for this, how could he have escaped while fighting? If Catherine had attacked with all her might from the beginning, even if Allen didn't die, he would have been seriously injured. He couldn't hide in a cave like this, casually take care of a lurking monster, and absorb some blood energy to replenish his own consumption.
Looking back at the past few days, Allen felt that he had gained a lot. Catherine's combat skills were very exquisite, and being able to use her as an opponent was also of great benefit to Allen. Through this Major General of the Federation, Allen was able to personally experience the combat skills of that level of expert. Catherine was strong enough to give Allen the pressure of life and death, but she didn't have the intention to kill him and didn't take his life. Such an experience was extremely rare.
One had to know that martial arts were like sabers, and sabers were not sharpened. The same was true of martial arts. Allen had a rare sharpening stone like Catherine. In the past few days, he had experienced a thousand miles in the Martial Dao Saber Realm. Now, he didn't want to end this tempering prematurely. He only hoped that Catherine would be entangled for as long as possible.
He wiped his hand across the blood hymn, bringing along the blood of the lurking monster. Allen used them to wipe his cheeks, armpits, and chest. This was to conceal his scent, and for a period of time, he would emit the scent of a lurking monster. It would cause other lurking monsters to mistake them for their own kind, and it would also cause some low-level underground creatures to retreat upon smelling it, saving them some trouble. After doing all this, Allen found a secluded spot to sit down. He took out a nutrient pack from his backpack and took a bite. Then, he slowly chewed and swallowed it.
As the nutrients entered his stomach, it was as if a ball of fire had been ignited. The various amino acids and proteins contained in the nutrients were released and converted into energy for Allen to absorb.
His physical strength was gradually recovering.
According to the plan, Allen would stay here for five minutes before moving on. Catherine would soon find his current hiding place and follow him. Allen, who had earned some buffer time, would have a chance to engage in close combat with her. After that, it was time to escape, travel, rest, and counterattack. He had repeated this exercise many times in the past few days. Allen could even roughly predict when Catherine would appear.
While fighting and fleeing, he had already begun to familiarize himself with Catherine's movement style.
However, this time seemed to be an exception.
Only three minutes later, the sound of wind came from a deep underground passageway in front of him. It was the sound of an object moving through the air at a high speed. However, the sound carried the sound of wind and thunder and was low. It didn't sound like Catherine. If it was her, the sound of breaking through the air would be softer and longer. Allen frowned. If it wasn't Catherine, it was an underground creature. He didn't want to waste his energy on these planet natives, so he shrank back and pressed himself against the warm wall. He had the scent of a lurking monster on him. Apart from a few exceptionally powerful species, other life forms would naturally avoid his scent.
Soon, a wall of darkness crashed out of the passageway. With the fluorescence emitted by some of the shimmering fungal coats underground, Allen could clearly see that it was a lurking monster. It seemed to be chased by something, and its speed did not decrease. It used its hands and feet like a gorilla and charged straight in Allen\'s direction.
This was the last thing Allen wanted to see.
Without hesitation, he immediately flashed out of his hiding place. Stepping on small steps, Allen\'s speed was surprisingly fast. Moreover, his figure swayed unsteadily, and blurry afterimages appeared at the edges, making it difficult to predict his movements. In the blink of an eye, he crashed into the ambush monster\'s embrace, and the blood hymn buzzed, continuously entering and exiting the ambush monster\'s body. The last horizontal stroke ended the attack, and Allen retreated like a tide.
He retreated a few meters before standing still. Only at this moment did the hidden monster\'s body spurt out a fountain of blood and fall to the ground. Allen exhaled and finally didn\'t let this fellow cry out. Otherwise, if he gave it a high-frequency roar, it would probably attract all of its own kind around it. Unfortunately, before Allen could completely relax, the wind blew again. Three more hidden monsters crashed out from the surrounding passageways.
Looking at their panicked expressions, it was as if they had encountered a natural enemy and were fleeing in a panic. However, it was such a coincidence that they were all running towards Allen. At this moment, a very faint but familiar aura appeared in the depths of a passageway on the left, but Allen was quite familiar with it.
Katherine!
Allen could only smile bitterly. The Major General had clearly changed his tactics. He no longer chased after Allen alone, but used his tyrannical aura to drive away the underground creatures. He let them search and consume Allen\'s strength. Allen was certain that there were lurking monsters or creatures like the Earth Dragon scurrying around in the other cave passageways. Once a creature suddenly died in a certain direction, Katherine could easily lock onto Allen\'s position.
This was a simple and effective method.
Knowing that, Allen did not choose to escape. He put away his smile and reached out to catch it. An invisible force field drove the Blood Hidden Heavy Saber that was stabbed in the back. The Blood Hidden Saber trembled slightly and jumped out of the ground, landing in Allen\'s hand. The moment he grabbed Xue Yin, Allen\'s aura surged. As he straightened his back, his aura became even more domineering and arrogant, rushing towards the three hidden monsters like flames.
Affected by Allen\'s might, the hidden monster\'s body froze. The sharp black claws on their hands and feet desperately pierced into the ground to stop their bodies. However, Allen had already raised his saber and dodged forward. Blood energy surged around the heavy saber, like a burning dark red flame. As the saber swept towards the three hidden monsters, Xue Yin moved and gave birth to the aura of a thousand troops and horses, which was in line with the heavy saber\'s artifact nature.
However, just as it was about to hit the first monster, Xue Yin lightly wiped the hidden monster\'s throat and floated towards the other monster. Allen stepped on his agile steps and passed by the three hidden monsters in the blink of an eye. He stood still and pointed his heavy saber at the ground. The three bat-like heads behind him flew up at the same time, and only then did the headless corpse spit out a fountain of blood.
These lightning-like blades were the essence that Allen had learned in the past few days. Back then, Katherine had pointed out that only by deepening the artifact nature could one forget the physical nature of weapons. Only when one was unrestricted and could attack as they pleased could one be considered to have touched the door of the Battle Skill Hall and be considered to have entered the hall. At this moment, he was still a little far from the realm that Katherine had described, but he was much more refined than before.
Those few sabers were powerful, but they were as light as the wind and as fast as lightning. With a hint of nature, he was no longer restricted by the nature of heavy weapons. In actual combat, it was impossible to guard against. If it was in the past, Allen would have been able to kill these three monsters in the blink of an eye, but it would have been an incomparably miserable ending, not as clean and efficient as it was now.
The moment the three hidden monsters died at the same time, the girl walking underground raised her small face. The black and gray ponytail floated up gently and instantly straightened. Katherine had already leaned forward, and like an arrow leaving the bow, she flashed towards the direction where the hidden monster\'s aura had disappeared.
It took less than a minute to arrive at the scene of the battle, and Catherine saw the corpses of four Lurking Monsters lying on the ground. Her eyes flashed with a deep and gloomy light as she swept her gaze across the corpses. He only stayed on the three headless corpses for a moment, but he stayed on the first hidden monster that Allen had killed for a long time. In the end, she walked over and gently reached into the back of the corpse.
As she touched the corpse of the hidden monster, a group of images naturally appeared in her mind. In those scenes, Allen approached like a ghost. He must have been holding a weapon like a short knife in his hand. Otherwise, the wound wouldn\'t have been so thin. If it was Xue Yin, this saber would have pierced a hole in the monster\'s chest. After the dagger entered the body, it first cut off the monster\'s spine and paralyzed its movement. Then, he took advantage of the situation, cut open the muscles and nerves, and finally pierced into the heart, ending the monster\'s life.
The hidden monster\'s wound was very smooth. Whether it was muscles or bones, they were effortlessly cut open by Allen like cheese. Compared to the three headless corpses on the ground, this corpse was more indicative of Allen\'s strength. The corner of Katherine\'s mouth curled into a faint smile. Then, she realized that she had lost her composure and immediately pursed her lips.
The first time she attacked, she realized that she couldn\'t kill Allen. Otherwise, Allen wouldn\'t have had the chance to escape through the river that night. This was something that had never happened to Katherine. Only she knew how determined she was to appear in the Snow Crystal Mine before she decided to harvest Allen.
But even so, when she really faced Allen, she always hesitated when she could kill him, giving Allen chances to escape again and again.
Katherine didn\'t even use the projection of the Snake and Scorpion Empress. Until now. Rather than saying that she was chasing after him, she felt that she was sharpening Allen\'s battle skills. The corpse beneath his feet was proof. This feeling was very strange and uncomfortable.
What are you thinking? Katherine shook her head. Wasn\'t killing Allen and seizing the King Snake\'s blood her goal all along? But when this goal was right in front of him, why couldn\'t he do it?
Another voice in his heart said, "Because if you kill him, there will be one less person of your kind in this world." And this is the only person of your kind?
Katherine tried her best to squeeze this voice out of her mind. Otherwise, if this voice continued to exist, the scythe of the Grim Reaper would become blunt.
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