Chapter 285: Bloodline Suppression

The Jingwu Academy disciples were stunned for a moment before their faces lit up with excitement.

“The beast is looking to die!”

“Perfect timing! Let’s slaughter it!”

“Damn it, that wolf meat didn’t sit right. Pork is way better.”

With a shout, the disciples grabbed their weapons and swarmed forward.

The Pig Demon scraped the ground twice with its hooves. Facing over a hundred Innate Martial Artists from Jingwu Academy, it showed no fear. It lowered its head slightly and charged violently into the crowd!

It was only when the Pig Demon charged that the group of Martial Artists realized something was wrong.

When they slashed down with their weapons, the beast’s stiff bristles dissipated most of the force. Striking the Pig Demon felt like their weapons were sinking into a swamp; they couldn’t cut through at all.

Someone drew a bow, but their arrows strangely slid aside upon hitting the Pig Demon’s body.

All sorts of weapons rained down on the Pig Demon, only making it squeal in anger. They failed to injure it in the slightest.

But when the Pig Demon charged, it was devastating!

It smashed a huge gap through the crowd, sending a dozen Martial Artists flying. They collapsed on the ground, screaming in agony, completely unable to fight back.

Someone was pierced through by the Pig Demon’s tusks, blood gushing like a fountain.

“Dean Jiang, help us!”

The disciples were in chaos, and someone cried out for help.

Jiang Tao didn’t move an inch, clearly having no intention of intervening.

“Senior Brother Yang, this Pig Demon is so strong! What’s its weakness?”

“Senior Brother Yang, where are you?”

The crowd once again pinned all their hopes on Yang Feng.

“Are you guys morons?!”

Just then, Yang Feng’s cursing voice came from up high.

In the midst of the panic, someone subconsciously looked toward the sound.

No one had noticed when, but Yang Feng had already climbed up a towering ancient tree. He was looking down, muttering curses under his breath.

“That’s a Pig Demon! You guys actually dared to provoke it!”

Yang Feng shouted, “First the pig, then the bear, then the tiger! Before reaching the Alchemy Dao, a Pig Demon is even trickier to deal with than a Bear Demon or a Tiger Demon. Pig Demons are extremely territorial, love to fight, and are unusually ferocious.”

Someone asked while fleeing for their life, “Senior Brother Yang, we can’t break its defense! What’s its weakness?”

“Obviously!”

Yang Feng said, “The Pig Demon is thick-skinned and tough, its bristles are as hard as iron, and it usually rolls around in mud pits, which is like wearing a layer of heavy armor. Forget your Lower and Middle Grade Treasure Artifacts. Even this Top Grade Treasure Artifact in my hand could probably only break its skin. It wouldn’t be able to hit a vital spot.”

Another person was terrified, his voice trembling. “Then what do we do? This Pig Demon is invincible!”

“Climb the trees!”

Yang Feng said, “Didn’t you see I climbed up here a long time ago?”

“Damn it!”

In their hearts, the Jingwu Academy disciples had already cursed Yang Feng’s entire lineage eight generations back.

‘The Pig Demon shows up, and what does Yang Feng do? Without a word, he climbs a tree to save himself first.’

Hearing this, the disciples threw their dignity to the wind, found the nearest large trees, and scrambled up them with all their might.

Before long, the nearby trees were full of Jingwu Academy disciples, all hanging on in awkward positions. They looked down from time to time, utterly disheveled and covered in dirt.

“Xiaolu, let’s go! We need to find a tree too.”

By another bonfire, a nervous Luo Qing whispered.

‘This Pig Demon is too difficult. We have to avoid it for now.’

“No need.”

Lu Bai smiled and said, “It’s fine. We can just sit here.”

Luo Qing looked at him with suspicion, her delicate brows furrowing.

She wanted to find a tree to climb.

But she couldn’t bring herself to leave Lu Bai behind. She could only brace herself, gripping her longsword tightly. Her expression was tense as she stared fixedly at the Pig Demon in the distance, her palms sweating.

After a short while, everyone except the disciples who had been sent flying at the beginning had climbed a tree.

At that moment, the furious Pig Demon was circling under a few large trees. It fixed its small, crimson eyes on a nearby tree and rammed its head into it!

BAM!

The impact sent the large tree shaking.

A cracking sound came from the thick trunk.

Yang Feng, who was clinging to that very tree, was jolted by the impact. His grip loosened, and he almost fell.

After the collision, the Pig Demon itself stumbled back a few steps, its head spinning.

But the Pig Demon didn’t give up. It retreated a few steps and rammed the tree again!

CRACK!

This time, the large tree could no longer hold. Cracks spread across its trunk, and it began to teeter.

Yang Feng wanted to cry but had no tears.

In his panic, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the two figures by the distant bonfire.

Yang Feng quickly waved his arms, pointed at Lu Bai and Luo Qing, and shouted, “There are still two people down there! You beast, do you have a pig’s brain? Why are you only ramming me?”

The Pig Demon followed the direction Yang Feng was pointing and couldn’t help but shiver.

The bloodline aura emanating from that person was terrifying. It was not to be provoked.

That bloodline exerted an absolute suppression over it!

‘That person in the tree is so evil, trying to make me go after that terrifying existence.’

Thinking this, the Pig Demon’s rage intensified, and it rammed the teetering tree once more.

This time, the towering ancient tree finally gave way and snapped with a loud crack.

Yang Feng was an Innate Perfection expert, after all, and knew some Qinggong. As the tree collapsed, he executed a Body Technique, using the branches of the jungle trees to leap onto another ancient tree.

“Senior Brother Yang, don’t come over here!”

An academy disciple was clinging to that ancient tree. Seeing Yang Feng fleeing in his direction, he was afraid it would attract the Pig Demon and quickly shouted to stop him.

Yang Feng paid him no mind and shamelessly scrambled closer.

“Weird, this is too weird!”

Yang Feng cursed inwardly.

‘Lu Bai is right down there, but the Pig Demon isn’t going after him. It’s specifically targeting us people hanging in the trees.’

By the bonfire, Luo Qing had also noticed the problem.

The Pig Demon was clearly wary of something.

It certainly wasn’t afraid of the sword in her hand.

It was Lu Bai, standing beside her.

When Lu Bai condensed his Blood Qi Golden Core, he had absorbed and refined a wisp of True Dragon Blood.

Even a mere trace of the True Dragon Bloodline was far beyond what a Demon Beast like the Pig Demon could resist.

This was a bloodline suppression that crossed several species!

It was more terrifying than a mouse seeing a cat.

Although others couldn’t sense it, Demon Beasts like the Pig Demon were extremely sensitive to this kind of bloodline aura.

HISS! HISS!

Just then, a strange sound suddenly echoed from the depths of the Cyan Mountain Hunting Ground.

It sounded like the cry of some Demon Beast, radiating a power that made one’s heart palpitate!

That hissing cry must have come from the Tier Three Demon Beast area of the Cyan Mountain Hunting Ground.

The Pig Demon, which had been ramming the tree Yang Feng was on, seemed to sense danger upon hearing the cry. It abruptly abandoned the crowd, turned, and dove into the bushes, disappearing in an instant.

“Hm?”

At the same time, Jiang Tao seemed to sense something. His expression grew solemn as he suddenly stood up and looked in the direction of the hissing sound.

“All of you, be careful. Something’s not right with that sound. I’m going to check it out.”

Leaving those words behind, Jiang Tao suddenly shot into the air and quickly vanished into the night.