apart from the exposed fangs, it was no different from an ordinary bullfrog.
however, this fellow's aura was that of a seventh-layer exotic beast!
"cough, as expected, one shouldn't talk about ghosts when it's dark."
li chonglou felt as if he had just been slapped in the face. in the previous moment, he had thought that this place seemed very safe, with no other dangers besides the three exotic beasts guarding the cave entrance.
and in the next moment, a great surprise had arrived!
moreover, just as elder an had reminded him, this bullfrog exotic beast had locked onto him before it even appeared.
li chonglou sighed and said helplessly, "elder an, inform the others."
there was no response, but he figured they were speechless.
inside the bottle space.
"damn it, what is little li up to? didn't he say he was going back to the general bureau to retire?"
lao lin couldn't help but wail.
his energy was less than half left, and if he used any more, he really didn't know if he could last until li chonglou's retirement was over.
the others also sighed repeatedly.
elder an comforted them, "don't worry, we've only encountered a seventh-layer exotic beast. with little li's experience, it shouldn't take long."
lao lin's eyes lit up, "another exotic beast? is there any energy replenishment?"
"not this time, but this exotic beast should replenish some."
everyone was immediately disappointed.
but despite their disappointment, they still had to do what they had to do, as their fates were already tightly bound to li chonglou.
prosperity together, ruin together!
outside the bottle space.
after receiving the energy replenishment from lao lin and the others, li chonglou once again felt his true peak strength.
"it seems i still need to find time to heal my injuries, otherwise i'll have to trouble others for everything."
muttering to himself, li chonglou's figure suddenly disappeared.
roar!
fierce fighting sounds soon erupted in the valley, but it ended as quickly as it began. in less than half a minute, the entire mountainside returned to peace.
li chonglou stood on the bullfrog's head and stretched his muscles.
"a bit too weak."
he felt a sense of dissatisfaction.
old an couldn't help but retort, "if you had dragged it out any longer, you would have had to say goodbye to lao lin and the others."
a massive remnant soul aura was madly absorbed by the gong stone. li chonglou held the gong stone and smiled faintly, "it's alright, this should make up for it."
after absorbing remnant souls so many times, he had also figured out a rule: the higher the realm of the exotic beast or creature killed, the more remnant soul energy he would gain. this was on a proportional basis.
for example.
if li chonglou hunted a first-layer exotic beast and gained a remnant soul energy of one, which was equivalent to one-tenth of its total energy when alive, then the energy he gained from hunting a second-layer exotic beast would be ten, equivalent to two-tenths of its total energy when alive.
this proportion basically followed a regular pattern.
in other words, the energy brought by this seventh-layer exotic beast had already broken into four digits, one surpassing hundreds of the lower-level ones!
of course, after deducting the energy previously consumed by lao lin and the others, the replenishment was not much. after all, there were many souls in the bottle space. if they used the seventh-layer exotic beast as a standard.
it would take more than ten such beasts to restore everyone to their peak level!
however, the one in front of him was an accident, and li chonglou didn't pay much attention to it. he didn't even touch the parts that might be valuable.
there was no choice. he still had to return to donghai island. if he brought these items, it would attract the attention of other high-level experts from the general bureau, such as wang bing. it would be difficult to explain.
a person with only fifth-layer strength possessing items with seventh-layer aura was no different from walking naked on the street.
after carefully scouting the surroundings again and seeing no other situation, li chonglou returned to the cave entrance.
"huh? why are they gone?"
to his surprise, the three exotic beasts that should have been guarding the cave entrance were nowhere to be seen. their auras couldn't even be detected.
"they wouldn't have been scared away, would they?"
li chonglou recalled the previous battle. although it ended quickly, it was still a battle between seventh-layer realms. those three exotic beasts, not even fifth-layer, would not be surprised if they were frightened.
however, li chonglou was a little disappointed.
if they had really been scared away like this, then he would have lost his tool beasts that helped him guard the cave.
"forget it, i'll go back and take a look first."
this cave was connected to the underground world, so it couldn't be considered a closed space. if the poisonous gas inside, or rather the black spirit, had not dispersed, he could always come out.
returning to the pitch-black darkness again, elder an in his mind suddenly spoke, "little li, do you think those three exotic beasts might have come in here?"
li chonglou's footsteps suddenly stopped.
"uh, it's not impossible!"
only now did he think of a crucial point.
although the valley outside the cave entrance had no other exotic beasts, the adjacent mountain had them!
and it was a big seventh-layer fellow!
how these three creatures survived in this environment was a big question.
and elder an's words reminded him of something.
this cave also had a restrictive effect on exotic beasts. for these three exotic beasts, wouldn't it be a natural sanctuary?
there was also one more point: those seventh-layer big guys couldn't squeeze in!
the more li chonglou thought about it, the more likely it seemed, and he couldn't help but quicken his pace.
just as he reached the halfway point of the passage, three huddled figures immediately appeared in his perception.
perhaps sensing li chonglou's arrival, the three figures unceremoniously surged further inside. although he couldn't see them, li chonglou could feel their panicked emotions.
"damn it! the stone door hasn't been closed yet!"
li chonglou's expression changed drastically, and he quickly unfolded his movement technique.
the three exotic beasts had just reached the area with the premium live grass when li chonglou caught up.
"stop!"
with a whoosh, li chonglou stood in front of the three exotic beasts.
"squeak!"
the exotic beasts that had been roaring with the sounds of tigers and leopards and were once arrogant now cowered in a ball like frightened mice, emitting squeaking noises.
this contrast stunned li chonglou.
"could it be because you're covered in the aura of that seventh-layer exotic beast?"
li chonglou suddenly understood, thinking that it must be the case. otherwise, given the attitude of these three fellows towards him before, they wouldn't be reacting like this now!
thinking of this, li chonglou pointed to the stone door behind him and shouted, "you cannot leave here, understand!"
the three exotic beasts did not respond, only looking at li chonglou with terrified eyes.
"don't you understand human language?"
li chonglou scratched his head, suddenly missing his little white. that little fellow didn't even need words sometimes; a single look was enough for it to know what he wanted.
after thinking for a moment, li chonglou made some simple and easy-to-understand gestures.
"i'm saying, you can't leave this stone door, understand?"
while pointing at the stone door, he made a throat-slitting gesture.