41 Throwing Knife

With a few fire element magic crystals in his hand, Han Jin walked to a more secluded place. It was one of his habits, because, one, he did not want to be disturbed, and, second, because he didn't want the others to find out about his secret.

After some hesitation, he put two second grade magic crystals into his mouth and the third grade magic crystal into his pocket. He had learned his lesson a while back, and no one would want to fall in the same place twice.

Han Jin jumped onto one of the branches and found a place to sit down, then closed his eyes. The energy contained in the magic crystals was released and absorbed by Han Jin at an extremely fast speed thanks to his increasing skilled mental cultivation methods. After the intermediate stage of basis construction, his energy storage location had been transferred from the lower elixir field to the middle elixir field, while the pure elements of fire had all been transmitted to the tripod of his lower elixir field. The elements of darkness made him feel fretful, while the elements of fire brought him a sense of warmness like bathing in the light of the sunset. Unfortunately, he had hundreds of magic crystals of darkness, but only few with fire elements.

Suddenly, Han Jin felt the tree trunk violently shake. Earthquake? He immediately cleaned his mind and threw away all his distractions, leading all of his energy to his middle elixir field before opening his eyes again.

A giant animal jumped into his vision. It was a giant bear with a pothole in its left eye, leaving it half blind. Ferocious red light was emitted from its right eye, which would make an ordinary person shudder with horror. If Sunier were here, she would immediately recognize that it was precisely the Bear of Earth which they had attacked the other day.

The bear ran forward ferociously like a rampaging tank, but compared to the stampede of holy animals following behind it, it looked small by comparison.

Seven or eight bull-like holy animals were closely chasing behind the giant bear. They galloped like an entire charging armor with an overwhelming momentum, leaving the trees and rocks along the way to be smashed into smithereens. Despite how dense the forest was, the stampede of holy animals still managed to leave a path of splintered rocks and branches behind them by sheer force.

While Han Jin was still in a trance, a wild ox rushed from the side of the woods and caught up with the giant bear. Its horns, nearly two feet in length, stabbed the belly of the giant bear and savagely hooked it upwards.

The running bear immediately lost its balance and rolled forward more than twenty meters under the force of inertia. The calf in its mouth also rolled far into the distance and happened to collide with the tree in which Han Jin had hid himself, which greatly startled him.

The giant bear bursted into rage after this attack. It stood up with its two posterior limbs like a man and let out an ear-splitting roar, making the leaves within one hundred meters tremble and rustle. Han Jin covered his ears with his hands at once.

However, that wild ox was not affected at all. It rushed towards the giant bear with its head slightly lowered down, and its horns stretching out like two sharp swords.

Another deafening roar came from the bear. The giant bear held out its palms, which were as large as a cattail leaf fan, and struck them down on the head of the wild ox. With a loud boom, the wild ox's head was pressed deep into the earth. Its body flew forward and drew a semicircle in the air before its back thudded down heavily onto the ground.

Such dominating power! Han Jin thought to himself with astonishment. If this attack was targeted at him, he would have been instantly turned into a puddle of blood and flesh.

But what happened the next moment made him thoroughly dumbstruck. The wild ox stood up again like a drunkard with staggering steps. It was still alive after suffering an attack like that?! Han Jin couldn't even believe his own eyes.

The other wild oxen were also rushing toward the bear. Under their violent clashes, the bear was knocked back by force. Several deep wounds also appeared on its belly and waist.

Han Jin was in no mood to watch this intense fight anymore. All he thought of at this time was how to escape from here. He looked around and tried to find a route to escape. The center of the battle was less than twenty meters from his location and could be shifted to him at any time. As the saying goes, 'A fire at the city gates brings disaster to the fish in the moat.' He was the fish in the moat at the moment!

What's worse, the old tree he had chosen was very 'eccentric' as it stood relatively far from all the other trees. Even if he tried to hide in another tree in desperation, he couldn't unless he jumped down first. But the problem was, did he dare to go down?

The fight between the holy animals turned increasingly fierce, and the giant bear was completely surrounded by the wild oxens at this point. Even though it had great strength that could crack boulders, and each strike of its palm would send an ox flying, or into the ground, it was useless because the wild oxens were simply too tenacious. No matter what, each ox would immediately return to the fight as if nothing had happened after a few moments of rest.

Suddenly, a wild ox launched its attack from behind the giant bear. Its sharp horns stabbed into the place under the tail of the bear. Instantly enraged and put in great pain, the giant bear immediately turned around and smacked away that particularly despicable ox onto the ground.

The bear clearly wasn't done with its revenge yet. It again heavily slammed its palm into the belly of the ox, and with a loud boom, the body of the ox curved in from the middle until its front and hind legs met. By the time the ox's body had stretched back to its natural position, blood was gushing from its mouth like a fountain. After trembling for a few moments, it finally stopped and laid motionless on the ground.

Holy animals were not as clever as human beings. If a human being was injured by a sharp weapon, they would move along the direction of their wound, and would never choose to turn around so violently. Although the bear succeeded in finally killing one of the oxen, its fresh wound was torn wide open due to his violent attacks. Blood and even a part of its guts flew out of the opening.

With a roar, the bear stood up again with both of its palms patting the ground. All of a sudden, rows of large thorns bubbled up from the ground. The largest of the thorns were as tall as a dozen meters, and even the shortest were about five or six meters tall. All of the wild oxen, including the dead one, were stabbed by the thorns and carried into midair.

The red glimmer in the eyes of the bear greatly diminished after that. It turned around and ran toward Han Jin's direction.

No! Han Jin shouted in his mind. He didn't want to be involved with this battle at all. Seeing the charging bear, his first instinct was to jump down from the tree and immediately flee. But when he saw the bear's guts dragging behind the bear, an idea came to his mind. Instead of running, he took out a dinner knife.

A cold light streaked across the sky. The knife had shot through the bear's guts, pinning it firmly on the ground.

But that bear didn't notice this and kept running. In a minute, its guts had been dragged straight for more than ten meters, and with a snap, it flew into the sky like a snake. The grass behind the bear was instantly dyed red by a geyser of blood.

The bear immediately went completely mad from the piercing pain. It suddenly jerked forward and charged toward the 'eccentric' old tree. Han Jin had already prepared for this. With a light tap on the branch, he jumped down sideways and threw out a wooden army calling charm.