Golden autumn season over Black Mountain, the vast forest sea blazing red like fire.

Certainly, it is the prime season to capture Spiritual Beasts. When Zhao Letian and his group entered the mountain, they also encountered many other Sect Disciples who were there to hunt Spiritual Beasts, most of whom were Outer Sect Disciples climbing on foot. As for those from the True Martial Realm of the Inner Sect, they were soaring high, riding Spiritual Artifacts, flying into the mountains.

Zhao Letian's fame within the Outer Sect was unparalleled, highly esteemed like the sun at noon. Thus, even though many people were entering the mountain at the same time, no one dared to provoke him. A few of them were happy with the quiet, admiring the scenery along the way while paying attention to the demon beasts lurking around, leisurely making their way deeper into Black Mountain.

"There's some noise." As they were walking, Zhao Letian suddenly heard a faint rustling sound ahead, seemingly from a demon beast moving through the forest. He quickly stopped and listened attentively.

Liu Wei and the Star Sea Five Tigers glanced at each other, appearing somewhat puzzled; their cultivations were not as high as Zhao Letian's, and naturally, their perception abilities were inferior, so they had not noticed the distant activity.

However, since Zhao Letian had spoken up, they assumed there must be something ahead and thus pulled out their Spiritual Artifacts, becoming alert.

"Be careful, it's coming."

A moment later, the rustling sound suddenly hurried, and Zhao Letian realized that the demon beast in front was rapidly approaching them. He quickly alerted the group, and Liu Wei along with the Star Sea Five Tigers, immediately stimulated the Primordial Energy within their bodies. This chapter was made possible by the community at *.

"Roar! Roar!"

In an instant, a huge black shadow burst out from the dense bush ahead, roaring as it charged towards the group.

Everyone looked intently and saw that it was a Steel-Backed Pig Demon, over ten meters in body length, with a back covered in sword-like tough steel hair, tusks curving outward. It ran causing the ground and mountains to shake, incredibly fierce and utterly wild.

"It's a Steel-Backed Pig Demon, its strength is comparable to a Primordial Martial Seventh Realm Martial Artist. Weiwei, it's up to you, kill it." Zhao Letian immediately recognized the origin of the demon beast and calmly spoke. Such a sinister-looking and not very powerful demon beast was almost unwanted as a Spiritual Beast, so encountering it meant only to kill it. Its strength was too weak, not even necessitating his involvement, just perfect for Liu Wei as a trial.

"Kill it?" Liu Wei was stunned for a moment, her breathing quickened, and she appeared quite nervous since she had never killed a demon beast before.

"Yes, kill it," Zhao Letian nodded. He was well aware that the Martial Arts World was bloody and ruthless, not sparing someone just because they were a beauty. If you don't kill the demon beast, the demon beast will kill you. He wanted Liu Wei to understand this principle at the earliest.

"Okay!" Liu Wei was not a squeamish person. Very courageous at heart, after only a moment's hesitation, she gritted her teeth, gathered her courage, and lifting her Longsword, she charged towards the huge Steel-Backed Pig Demon.

Meanwhile, Zhao Letian and the Star Sea Five Tigers watched with interest from the side, also providing cover for Liu Wei, ready to directly attack the Steel-Backed Pig Demon if any accident occurred.

"Roar!"

The Steel-Backed Pig Demon saw the small figure of Liu Wei charging at it, roared angrily, opened its mouth full of sharp fangs, and bit down fiercely.

However, Liu Wei moved lightly, agilely dodging to the side, easily avoiding its attack, and then swung her sword at the neck of the Steel-Backed Pig Demon, which was supposed to be its least defended area.

"Clang!"

Who knew that the defense of the Steel-Backed Pig Demon was beyond Liu Wei's expectations; even at its weakest point, it still managed to deflect her longsword, and turned to bite at her again. Liu Wei frowned, forced to continue dodging and searching for an opportunity to strike.

"Weiwei's actual combat ability is not bad; probably the result of constantly practicing with people over the past three months. However, her cultivation technique is inadequate, her Primordial Energy is weak and not pure enough, and her sword skill is also insufficient, too weak in power. Otherwise, that strike just now should have been enough to sever the head of the Steel-Backed Pig Demon," Zhao Letian thought to himself while he searched his inherited memories, preparing to find a better cultivation technique and martial technique for Liu Wei.

Liu Wei and the Steel-Backed Pig Demon were evenly matched. The defensive power of the demon beast was far beyond her expectations. Her longsword repeatedly targeted the fragile parts of the Steel-Backed Pig Demon's body, but it was deflected time after time, only leaving shallow wounds and unable to inflict serious damage.

Meanwhile, although Liu Wei was nimble, continuously dodging the Steel-Backed Pig Demon's bites, inevitably, a mistake occurred over time. Distracted once, the demon managed to tear off a small piece of her skirt's fabric, frightening the Xinghai Five Tigers to the point where they almost intervened to kill the demon immediately, but Zhao Letian stopped them. This was part of Liu Wei's training, and she had to complete it alone, or else it would become a mental block on her path of martial arts, detrimental to her cultivation.

After a quarter of an hour, Liu Wei exerted a tremendous effort and finally managed to stab the demon in a vulnerable spot from behind, killing the Steel-Backed Pig Demon. Although it was an inelegant way to finish off her opponent, which made Liu Wei quite embarrassed, no martial artist would mock her, for in a life-and-death battle, a martial artist should indeed use every possible means to kill the enemy in order to survive.

After killing the Pig Demon, Liu Wei slit open its head with a sword and extracted a green crystal core the size of a fingernail, joyfully collecting it.

This crystal core was the result of years of the demon beast's cultivation - a Demon Core. For a creature like this Pig Demon, its Demon Core could be exchanged for several low-quality Primordial Stones, making it very precious for Primordial Martial Realm martial artists.

"Brother Letian, I've realized that the strength of demon beasts is stronger than I imagined. With my strength, I almost have no problem dealing with martial artists at Primordial Martial Eighth Realm, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult against a Pig Demon at Primordial Martial Seventh Realm," said Liu Wei as she came back and wiped the sweat from her forehead, quite vexed.

"It's normal. Under the same cultivation level, demon beasts are usually stronger than humans. Human martial artists usually need to rely on spiritual artifacts and such treasures to compete with them," Zhao Letian calmly replied. Humans and demon beasts each have their strengths and weaknesses. Humans have shorter lifespans, poorer physique, but higher comprehension and are smarter; they progress quickly in cultivation. On the other hand, demon beasts have long lifespans, strong physiques but lower comprehension and cannot cultivate as quickly as humans.

"Hehe, little sister Weiwei, what the master said is not absolute. For example, us five brothers, after advancing to the True Martial Realm, can directly contend with demon beasts of the same rank using physical strength. As for the master, he's even more phenomenal. At present, he can probably crush demon beasts of the same rank using just his physical strength," Da Hu grinned and said.

"Really? Brother Letian is so amazing," Liu Wei looked up at Zhao Letian with admiration, completely ignoring the Xinghai Five Tigers.

"He's not as exaggerated as he says, but indeed, my physical strength is a bit stronger than martial artists of the same rank. Let's go; there are more demon beasts waiting for us ahead. Da Hu, take this Pig Demon with us; let's roast and eat it tonight," Zhao Letian said with a faint smile.

Then, Da Hu lifted the enormous body of the Pig Demon onto his shoulders and continued following Zhao Letian deeper into Black Mountain.