Chapter 336 03-25 - 333 Swallowing Sky Toad Eats People
Chapter 336: Chapter 333 Swallowing Sky Toad Eats People
Qin Feng walked upon the earth, moving in a manner that seemed leisurely but was actually rapid, covering a hundred yards in a single step, and in the blink of an eye, he had already approached a large mountain in the distance.
The Divine Skill of Shrinking Ground to Inch had, through constant use in this period, almost become instinctual to him, allowing him to traverse any distance within his control at will.
Just as Qin Feng was preparing to enter the mountain to explore, he suddenly heard a surge of magical fluctuations and the faint sounds of shouting and killing from afar.
Qin Feng reached out and grabbed a handful of the wind, bringing it to his nose for a sniff, and immediately detected the scent of blood, as well as a mix of other odors that did not belong to Demon Beasts.
This was the Smell Wind Skill, one of the tracking spells used by the Beast Taming Sect to pursue Demon Beasts.
Qin Feng stood in place and thought for a moment but ultimately decided to ignore it.
…
Whatever the conflict was about, it had nothing to do with him; his current goal was to quickly complete his task by setting up the Positioning Array and heading back. Roaming alone in the wilderness in search of it was also a substantial test for his character.
Being alone for extended periods brought on a sense of loneliness, which made him feel somewhat uncomfortable.
He continued forward, delving deeper into the mountain for investigation. He thought he would not intersect with those engaged in the battle, but after making a round inside the mountain and emerging on the other side, he still encountered those people.
On the opposite side of the mountain was a small town.
The town looked very primitive, backward, and filthy, yet it also exuded a sense of simplicity.
There were forges run by Dwarves, where one could see robust Dwarves who looked like blocks of muscle swinging huge hammers to craft weapons.
There were also taverns run by the Demon Clan, where small-bodied Demons flitted back and forth, bringing food and drinks to the customers.
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Shops owned by the Winged Clan sold exquisitely woven items.
However, there were also many from the Human Clan around.
These humans looked rough and ferocious.
In truth, they were all criminals wanted by various countries or large churches, or they were ordinary members of the Human Clan who had lost their land and properties to nobles and had no other means of survival. With nowhere else to go, they had no choice but to live in this land devoid of human kingdoms.
Towns like this one, scattered around in their tens, managed to coexist peacefully with the local Alien Races.
Given the sparse number of humans on this land, even the fugitives who fled here would not brazenly start conflicts with the Alien Races.
These small towns were also necessary stops for trading caravans and adventurers entering the Southern Region.
Here, they could replenish their supplies and even sell many of the goods they carried, acquiring various items, making these towns relatively bustling places.
Qin Feng entered the town from the other end.
As he walked at a leisurely pace, he observed the buildings and shops along the streets, particularly finding the peculiar-looking races somewhat novel.
Then, around a corner of the town’s street, he encountered a trading caravan.
Whoosh, a lash of a whip flashed before him, and had he not stepped back in time, he would undoubtedly have been struck by it.
“Move aside, don’t block the way.”
A burly man with a fiery-red beard shouted as he wielded his horsewhip, driving away Qin Feng who had also just arrived at the crossroads.
This big-bearded man was the deputy captain of the caravan’s guard, powerful and hot-tempered, and having been slighted earlier, he was now bursting with anger. Seeing someone in front of the horses, he immediately lashed out with his whip.
“Bob, don’t cause trouble.”
From behind, a middle-aged man with a serious face scolded. However, since Qin Feng looked young, he didn’t pay him much attention.
After all, whether it was warriors or mages, they all needed years of cultivation to advance to higher realms. Based on Qin Feng’s evasive action just now, the middle-aged man thought Qin Feng was a warrior who practiced martial arts. In his view, if a youth of this age could have the strength of a Bronze Warrior, that would already be quite good; such strength did not concern him.
However, the people here from the Human Clan were either fugitives who couldn’t make it in their own countries or adventurers who came here to risk their lives and try to earn a wealth of Gold Coins.
He considered that Qin Feng must be a young man who came to the Southern Continent for adventure with others, and ordinary adventuring groups would not dare to provoke their strong caravan.
Qin Feng didn’t speak. He retreated to the side of the road and watched with narrowed eyes as the caravan passed by in front of him.
Big-bearded Bob felt somewhat uncomfortable under his gaze, with his anger rising even more. Just as he was about to turn his horse around and teach this kid a lesson, he was persuaded by his companions.
“Don’t make trouble, hurry up and arrange the supplies. After we have lunch, we’ll leave here quickly and return as soon as possible.”
Having listened to the advice of his companions, big-bearded Bob suppressed his anger, turned his head giving Qin Feng a fierce glare, and then rode his horse onward.
Qin Feng stood quietly in place, caressing the Swallowing Sky Toad hidden in the sleeve of his broad robe, contemplating the situation.
He did not originally recognize these guys who looked to be just a regular merchant caravan, but he had previously detected their scent in the wind. With his powerful senses, he easily recognized their smell at close range.
He also sensed some special auras from inside the caravan’s carts.
Those auras clearly did not belong to the Human Clan.
His Divine Sense swept over those carts, and he couldn’t help but furrow his brows.
Because imprisoned inside those carts was a group of young girls from an Alien Race.
It seemed that this caravan was actually a disguised Slave Catching Group.
If it were just this, perhaps it would have ended there, but among those captured Alien Race girls, there were many who were just eight or nine, perhaps ten years old.
And from the mouths of the Slave Catching Group’s members, he heard their words—they were planning to sell these young girls to nobles with special predilections.
To be honest, Qin Feng did not consider himself to be a particularly good person; at the very least, he was not of a purely kind nature. If he were truly kind-hearted, he would not have participated in this expedition.
After all, an expedition to another world entails great harm to the creatures of that world.
However, he felt he could accept any man, friend or foe, dying in the war and could understand any great trauma suffered because, after all, war would not change for his personal will. Plus, this war was destined to happen—ever since the Dark Flame Demon God coveted Biluo Great World, tempting citizens to sacrifice their souls to him, the war was set in motion.
But these acts—under the guise of a merchant caravan, abducting other people’s daughters and delivering them to be desecrated by beasts—were in his eyes utterly revolting.
This was not about sides; it was simply intolerable.
Additionally, the attitude of Big Beard toward him earlier was the truth, he had not directly killed Big Beard earlier solely because he did not want to cause a disturbance in the town by killing wantonly and disrupting the lives of the people here.
Another reason was that when he had scanned over those carriages with his Divine Sense, he had seen a special item.
He decided to wait until these people left the town and then investigate it carefully. If it could be confirmed, he felt that this small item might be of great benefit to their Beast Taming Sect.
Thus, he locked onto the direction of these people with his Divine Sense and left the town one step ahead, waiting for them on a road that turned around the foot of a mountain a few miles away.
Qin Feng arrived by the roadside and with a flash of Ruyi Golden Light, he sliced a large tree by the roadside in half. With a push of his hand, he pushed the tree down, blocking the road.
He sat down on the tree trunk with a bump, bending one leg, and teased the Swallowing Sky Toad with a low-level Demon Snake he had taken from the forest, watching the Swallowing Sky Toad slurp up the big-thigh-thick Demon Snake like eating noodles.
The sound of horse hoofs was drawing near from behind, and one by one, the carriages rumbled toward them.
Qin Feng did not look up. He just sat on the trunk of the tree, bending a leg, his hand still teasing the Swallowing Sky Toad.
The merchant caravan that had been moving quite swiftly came to a slow stop, and the lead middle-aged man with the severe expression looked displeased.
He naturally recognized that the one blocking the road was the young man who had narrowly escaped a whipping by Big Beard in the town. He just had not expected this young man to actually come here to intercept their path.
Although there was only that young man sitting alone on the tree trunk on the road, he did not believe that there was only one person here.
He cautiously looked into the deep forest beside him while not forgetting to glare fiercely at Big Beard beside him.
If it was not for this guy messing around recklessly, they might not have stumbled into this trouble.
Big Beard’s face became stiff, obviously knowing that his prior actions had been too rash, bringing trouble to the team.
He said sheepishly, “Shall I go take care of that kid?”
“Humph.”
The middle-aged man with the severe expression snorted coldly, “Are you sure there’s only him here?”
“I…”
Big Beard fell silent.
The middle-aged man took his horse forward a few steps and said loudly, “Young friend, Bob did wrong earlier, I apologize to you on his behalf. We are the caravan of the Chrysler Chamber of Commerce from the Holy Thorn Kingdom. Could you please give us some face and let us pass?
If you have any affairs in the Holy Thorn Kingdom later on, you can come to our caravan to find me, and I assure you that we will take good care of you.”
Qin Feng glanced at him, then continued to lower his head and stroke the Swallowing Sky Toad, saying indifferently, “Leave the carriages and that Big Beard behind, and I won’t kill you all.”
“Bullshit!”
Before the middle-aged man could continue, Big Beard Bob couldn’t help but curse from behind, “Andrew, this kid is clearly targeting us, let me kill him first before dealing with his accomplices!”
Before his words had finished, he had already reached for the huge Double-Bladed Battle Axe strapped to his back. Roaring angrily, his body surged with fiery red Fighting Energy, and he spurred his war horse toward Qin Feng. From afar, he raised the Double-Bladed Battle Axe to split the young man in front of him in two.
The middle-aged man frowned, but did not stop him.
Since the young man was so disrespectful in his words, it meant that he had no intention of letting them go on behalf of his backers.
Given the circumstances, they might as well kill this young man first, and then deal with the hidden opponents.
Qin Feng felt the fiery red Fighting Energy Blade that had already hacked in front of him, as well as the power within this Fighting Energy Blade.
This full-bearded man, whose face was like flames, actually had the strength of a late-stage Golden Warrior.
That’s right, a warrior, not a knight.
Because when Big Beard charged on his war horse, it was clear that he did not unite his strength with the horse underneath, nor did he make use of the advantages of his mount. He simply relied on the power of his Fighting Energy to make a slash.
Of course, the power of a Golden Warrior’s Fighting Energy was also very great.
Qin Feng felt that although the cultivation of Fighting Energy was explosive and greatly damaging to the body, unlike the life-sustaining effects of Daoism’s True Yuan, in terms of sheer combat and killing power, it was still tremendously huge and not weaker in fierceness compared to Daoism’s Gang Qi.
However, faced with Big Beard’s Fighting Energy Slash, Qin Feng neither blocked nor dodged.
He just pinched the Swallowing Sky Toad’s round, plump, and fair belly.
Then the Swallowing Sky Toad displayed the Divine Skill of Space Distortion that it had comprehended after its Demon Core had advanced.
Next, Big Beard’s mighty Fighting Energy Slash, to everyone’s inexplicable gaze, passed by Qin Feng, shattering a piece of the mountain rock behind.
“Saw the Undead?”
Big Beard Bob was somewhat dazed.
“Hey, Bob, did you not eat enough, or did you waste too much energy on that girl last night, when did your accuracy become so poor?”
From behind, a companion teased, causing a round of raucous laughter.
“Shut up.”
Annoyed, Big Beard glared back at the person who had spoken, then raised the Double-Bladed Battle Axe in his hand, slashing out more than a dozen Fighting Energy Slashes.
“I refuse to believe I can’t hack you to death!”
Unfortunately, when he saw those more than a dozen Fighting Energy Slashes still just grazing by Qin Feng’s form and only smashing a few broken rocks behind, not only did his face change, but the faces of everyone behind also grew stern.
“Are you done?”
Qin Feng slowly stood up, jumping down from the tree trunk, “Then it should be my turn now, right?”
As soon as the words fell, a shadow flashed, and Bob screamed miserably, being wrapped tightly by a tender and translucent long tongue, then dragged into a tiny mouth.
It was the Swallowing Sky Toad that had unexpectedly shot out its tongue and coiled up Bob’s body and swallowed it down.
But to the eyes of the merchant caravan behind, it looked like Big Beard Bob’s figure suddenly shrank, turning into the size of a small bug, and was swallowed by the little toad held in the young man’s hand.