The demonic leopard was a shadow leopard that comprehended the dark element. The black spots on its body were proof that it comprehended the power of the elements. As a shadow leopard, it wasn't best at direct confrontation, but sneak attacks and tracking. Following the traces left behind by the old wolf, the shadow leopard found the cave where the old wolf lived just before night fell.
The old wolf was old. It only reacted when the shadow leopard touched its cave entrance. Although it woke up immediately with rich experience and dodged the shadow leopard's first attack, the shadow leopard blocking the old wolf's cave entrance still didn't intend to let the thief go.
The old wolf's only remaining eye glowed with a cold green light in the night. It stared fiercely at the shadow leopard. With its other blind eye, it looked unusually fierce.
The shadow leopard was like an elegant cat, circling around the old wolf and slowly looking for flaws. Its feet were firmly on the ground, and its neck was slightly bent. The shadow leopard wasn't as relaxed as it appeared.
After the old wolf confronted the shadow leopard for a while, it made the first move, pouncing at the shadow leopard at the cave entrance. Unlike the Shadow Leopard, which was young and energetic, the old wolf was not good at fighting a protracted battle. Its muscles had already tightened during the confrontation, and now they were aching unbearably. The wounds on its body also ruptured under the strain of its muscles, and pus dripped down from its blind eye, making it look even more ferocious.
The shadow leopard was very smart. With its keen perception, it naturally knew that the old wolf wasn't in a good state at this time, so the shadow leopard only blocked the cave entrance. This time, it decided to get rid of the only old wolf that was close to its territory once and for all. The night was the shadow leopard's world. The black spots on the shadow leopard's body flashed with a faint light. The surrounding dark element slowly gathered around the shadow leopard, and the shadow leopard's speed increased. In this battle, it was either you die or I die. The shadow leopard thought so in its heart.
Although the old wolf's physical strength and strength weren't as strong as the shadow leopard's, as a demonic creature, it was much stronger than the shadow leopard's. The longer a demonic beast lived, the stronger it would be, but the longer it lived, the more elemental power it would comprehend and absorb. There was no doubt about this. Both beasts had their own advantages, and neither retreated. The old wolf knew that it couldn't drag out the shadow leopard, so it decisively pounced on it first.
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The battle between the two beasts did not end well. One of the old wolf's hind legs had been bitten by the Shadow Leopard, and the Shadow Leopard's abdomen had been scratched by the experienced old wolf. There were three wounds on the Shadow Leopard's body, allowing people to see the Shadow Leopard's internal organs. The Shadow Leopard did not have the ability to continue chasing. It needed to recover as soon as possible. As the overlord of the nearest territory, it still had many opponents of the same level. Demonic creatures were very smart. Under normal circumstances, they would not do something that would perish together with their enemies. Of course, even though the Shadow Leopard's wounds were frightening, for a demonic creature with a strong body, all it needed was time and food to fully recover.
The old wolf was different. The Shadow Leopard's wounds could be healed, but the old wolf's lame leg could not be reattached. Its hind leg bone had been bitten off. Just like the old wolf's teeth contained fire elements, the Shadow Leopard's teeth contained dark elements. Traces of corrosive dark elements were attached to the old wolf's lame hind leg. There was no hope for it to recover.
The cold night wind was like a knife, blowing on the old wolf's fur. With a blind eye, a lame leg, and countless scars and internal injuries on its body, the old wolf felt that its life was in danger. The wolf fur on its body was either bare or bald. It had all been torn off by the Shadow Leopard in the previous battle. Thinking of the Shadow Leopard, the old wolf's glowing eyes turned cold. If it was five or six years ago, the old wolf alone could defeat the leopard without the help of the wolf pack. It was not impossible for it to kill the leopard.
There were not so many ifs in the world. The old wolf was old, and survival of the fittest prevailed in the jungle. It could no longer keep up with the law of the jungle. Perhaps it would be tonight, or tomorrow, or in a month, the old wolf would fall. The serious injuries on its body had caused the old wolf to enter its old age. As a spiritual beast, it already had a premonition of its own death.
"Awooo ~ ~ ~" The old wolf walked on the top of the hill and howled at the bright moon. As it howled, it seemed to have returned to the scene when it was young and fought for the alpha wolf in the tribe. It became the alpha wolf and led the pack through the woods, dominating the outskirts of Morphey Forest.
The past was still vivid in its mind. The old wolf's only remaining eye was moist. It kept howling at the moon. This was the old wolf's yearning for life and its protest against the unfairness of fate.
"Awooo ~ ~ Awooo ~ ~" The old wolf's howl echoed back and forth between the Bering Mountains. Many wild beasts and monsters hiding in the caves in the forest also came out of their caves, echoing the old wolf's howl one after another.
The old wolf's approach now seemed to be courting death. What it was doing now was provoking all the overlords of the Bering Mountain Range. It was possible that some other monsters would rush out and fight it to the death.
Of course, the old wolf knew this, but it ignored it and continued to howl at the moon. The old wolf, whose life had come to an end, was making its last nostalgia for this world.
The moonlight quietly penetrated the old wolf's skin. The old wolf's brown fur was slowly rendered bright white under the moonlight, but the old wolf was not aware of it. The old wolf's throat moved as it howled. Its body gradually grew taller. The old wolf, which was one meter tall and two meters long, slowly grew to a height of 1.5 meters. Although its length did not change, it now had the physique of a tiger.
The changes in the old wolf's body were most directly reflected in the old wolf's sense of touch. His body felt warm and the stinging wounds also began to become numb. The old wolf, whose physique had grown a lot taller, finally stopped howling. It lowered its head in confusion and looked at the changes in its body.
Perhaps the yearning for life had stimulated the old wolf's potential, or perhaps the goddess of fate had favored the old wolf. The old wolf had actually absorbed the moonlight and comprehended the closest element of fire, the light element.
The moonlight wolf was a low-rank monster. The agile and sensitive moonlight wolves were the most patient hunters in the jungle. The moonlight was their best cover and their most important source of power. The places where the moon shone were the most active were the places where the moonlight shone.
The old wolf was a monster with fire elements in its body. Under normal circumstances, it should have advanced into a low-rank fire wolf. Moonlight wolves were the nobles of the wolf pack. They were elegant and arrogant. For a low-rank fire wolf monster to advance into a moonlight wolf was a miracle of evolution.
The old wolf looked at its white fur with one eye and was very surprised. Was this still itself? It sniffed the scent on its body. Yes, it was still itself. The old wolf continued to howl excitedly. Having lived for so long, it was not difficult for it to see that it had advanced. Low-rank monsters were also an overlord in the outskirts of Morphey Forest. The old wolf had seen those low-rank monsters wantonly hunt and kill monsters countless times. It had long yearned for low-rank monsters.
The old wolf let out another long howl. This time, there was less twilight in its howl and more vitality. There were almost no monsters in the Bering Mountains, so the old wolf's howl was also a howl for the sudden increase in its strength. The monsters that had been howling with the old wolf also stopped howling. With their keen insight into elements and sounds, it was not difficult for them to tell that the owner of the howl was a low-rank monster.
After the excited howl, the old wolf stopped what it was doing. Its injuries had not healed yet. It had only advanced into a low-rank monster. Its blind eyes were still blind, its lame hind legs were still lame, and its body was still in a state of serious injury. Fortunately, the body of the moonlight wolf was full of light elements. Light and water elements were second only to life elements in terms of recovery. As long as it absorbed enough moonlight, the old wolf's body would gradually recover.
Evolving into a low-level magical beast would not increase the lifespan of a magical beast. Fortunately, the old wolf had evolved into a moonlight wolf. Compared to ordinary magical wolves, moonlight wolves had an extra 10 years of lifespan because they used the light element. This was also why moonlight wolves were considered nobles among magical wolves.
The old wolf was still an old wolf. It had just changed from a state where it had just entered the ground to an old moonlight wolf. It was actually only in its twenties. Compared to the more than 40 years of life of a moonlight wolf, it should have been middle-aged. However, it had suffered serious injuries before. Every injury on the old wolf's body would permanently shorten its lifespan. Even if the old wolf advanced into a low-rank moonlight wolf, it would only have 10 years to live.
The old wolf did not care about its short lifespan at all. Instead, it was very glad that it had been lucky at the last moment of its life. The old wolf, who had advanced into a low-rank monster, did not even think about retaliating against the shadow leopard that had ambushed it. Instead, it wanted to return to the previous wolf pack and take charge of the pack again as the leader. A pack of wolves with a low-rank monster as the leader was much stronger than a pack of wolves with a monster as the leader, not to mention that it was a moonlight wolf. The size of their pack would also double. As a gregarious creature, the old wolf did not want to continue to be a lone wolf.
The old wolf, who had just advanced into a moonlight wolf, had very little light elements in its body. Most of them were still covering the old wolf's most seriously injured eyes and lame hind legs. The rest were scattered around the old wolf's wounds and internal injuries. The warm light elements slowly repaired the old wolf's body. Its blindness was caused by tissue necrosis. It could not be repaired after a long time, but at least it could relieve its pain. However, its lame hind legs had just been injured and could still recover.
The cold night wind blew on the old wolf's white fur. Now it did not feel the cold piercing to the bone. The moon hanging above its head was its endless source of motivation.
In addition to the slow recovery of its own understanding of the elements, there was another way for a monster to recover — eating! The old wolf, who had just advanced, had the light elements in its body scattered to all parts of its body in an instant to repair itself. The old wolf could be said to be empty of elements now, and elements could not be conjured. They needed to be obtained through the body's interaction with the outside world. In short, the old wolf was now hungry and in urgent need of a large amount of meat to replenish itself.
It sniffed around. Unlike before, when it was in a state where it would only be startled when an enemy approached it, the old wolf's sense of smell was no different from when it was young. It vaguely smelled the scent of a living person. Was it a human? In the past, when it was in Morphey Forest, the old wolf had also hunted some ordinary people or adventurers who had strayed into Morphey Forest. Human flesh was more tender than beast flesh. The old wolf drooled and limped in pursuit.
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In Xiao Dou's current state, he could only update once a day. He was very sorry to the readers who urged him to update in the comments section. Xiao Dou also wanted to write faster, but the time for writing each day was limited. Moreover, Xiao Dou was not the kind of person who knew how to count words. Basically, it took nearly two hours to write 3,200 words a day. Xiao Dou did not pursue speed, but precision.
He suggested to the readers that they should be like Xiao Dou and first collect the books they liked, store them for a period of time, and then sell them when they were fat. When Xiao Dou read novels in the past, he would always think to himself, "This damn author writes so slowly, how can I read so happily?"
The scale of this book in Xiao Dou's mind was very large. To reach Xiao Dou's expectations, it would take a long time and a lot of effort. Moreover, Xiao Dou's writing pace was relatively slow, and he liked to write about details, so some people suggested that Xiao Dou speed up the pace. Xiao Dou would listen to the suggestions of the readers and speed up the process appropriately.
Xiao Dou did not want to write books as a career. He just wanted to relieve the boring life. Xiao Dou, who only had 20 collections, did not do well. One reason for this was that Xiao Dou's literary foundation was not good enough, and another was that Xiao Dou's typing ability was not good enough. Xiao Dou was already very satisfied that there were a few readers reading his books.
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