"Die for me!" Zeng Hu gritted his teeth and plunged the knife towards the black cat's head.

The other party can't ignore such direct harm like I can!

Thump thump——

At the critical moment, Zeng Hu suddenly felt his heart racing, as if a deep-rooted fear of death erupted from within, chilling his spine, making it feel like he would die the next second.

This pure and overwhelming fear of death made his stabbing motion slightly pull back.

Ultimately, under the control of this fear, even with his [Material Penetration] active, he chose to dodge the black cat's bite.

Rip——

The sound of fabric being torn, along with intense pain and the taste of blood, rushed into his mind.

Zeng Hu lowered his head in disbelief, looking at his arm, which despite his best efforts to dodge, had been bitten by the black cat.

A finger-sized, one-centimeter deep blood-red pit appeared on his forearm.

It was left by a piece of flesh bitten off the moment the black cat's teeth met his arm, now bleeding profusely.

"Ah... how could this happen?" Zeng Hu gasped, enduring the pain in shock.

I clearly had [Material Penetration] on!

How could it still bite me?

Am I just that unlucky? Did I encounter a special type of Fierce Ghost with a unique Spiritual Body?

Damn, no! This black cat doesn't look like a Spiritual Body at all, right! It even left such a huge pit on the ground with its paws!

Gulp——

While Zeng Hu was still puzzled, not far away, the black cat tilted its head back and gulped down the piece of flesh it tore off moments ago.

At the moment of consuming human flesh, the emerald green in its eyes seemed to grow more intense, looking as dazzling as a brilliant green gemstone.

Smelling the human scent that had filled the air, which went unnoticed due to the bleeding wound on Zeng Hu's arm, the black cat licked its lips with its tongue and prepared for another pounce.

This time, it targeted its opponent's throat.

In an instant, Zeng Hu had already realized the outcome of this pounce—death!

The first time was because the black cat didn't know about [Material Penetration], and the second time was because it didn't expect he would dodge at the last second.

Now, on this third attempt, he has no way to deceive, mislead, or evade the black cat's bite.

After all, the speed difference between them is simply too vast.

"Meow!"

The moment the black cat's voice sounded, its figure had already reached Zeng Hu.

Its sharp teeth were just a step away from his throat.

No matter how much he tried to twist and dodge, only one desperate thought was left in his mind—Am I going to die here?

Even though my Awakened Ability is so unique; I haven't yet taught Ling Hu Li to toughen up; I haven't yet figured out what happened outside the city, and I'll just die inexplicably at the mouth of a passing Fierce Ghost?

This dream-like adventure really seems to be over.

I have nowhere to escape now...

Pfft——

A sudden sound came from in front of Zeng Hu. Looking up, the black cat that was about to kill him lay motionless on the ground.

Several gray-white Sharp Swords had penetrated from its head to its torso, pinning it like a porcupine!

Moments later, the black cat's body gradually disappeared on the ground, leaving only a single jet-black cat hair, possibly a fragment of the Fierce Ghost's body.

Then a wildly laughing voice came from behind Zeng Hu: "Hahaha! Run? Where to? Offending Abbot and still wanting to leave?"

This sudden change made Zeng Hu involuntarily turn back to look at the speaker.

It was an incredibly handsome man whose appearance also exuded a trace of elusive evil, shirtless, revealing chiseled muscles full of masculine hormones, which would have been extremely charming.

But his image was ruined by the curved Demon Horns on either side of his forehead and the creepy, terrifying smile that stretched to his ears.

This... could this be another Fierce Ghost?

Just out of the wolf's den and right into the tiger's den?

"Hmm? Wait... you, kid... you're human?" After his laughter, the man frowned and pushed his face closer to Zeng Hu, almost touching.

At such close range, Zeng Hu could even feel the warm breath from the man's exhalation, but it was also because of this, Zeng Hu slightly relaxed.

If he's breathing, he shouldn't be a ghost, right?

"I... I'm human, of course! Thanks for saving me, brother; if nothing else, I'll be on my way."

Though he sensed the breathing, the man's sudden appearance was indeed very strange. He hadn't encountered anyone along the way; could humans really be living outside the city?

Regardless, in his current shocked state, Zeng Hu was frightened to the point of seeing threats everywhere and just wanted to quickly get away from here.

He needed to tend to his wound quickly before investigating the plains ahead.

"Heh, trying to leave? Don't you want to know why that cat managed to bite you just now? Material Penetration... this ability is quite interesting."

Upon hearing these words, Zeng Hu, who had already turned around and taken two steps forward, seemed to be frozen by magic, turning around with an incredulous expression.

The man, grinning maliciously like a demon, waved his hand, clutching a conspicuously blood-red knife.

"My knife! No, how do you know about my ability? And the black cat's attack... Who are you?" Zeng Hu was somewhat speechless.

There were too many dubious points about the man before him, not to mention how he knew the black cat could attack him in the [Material Penetration] state; he hadn't even noticed when his blood-red knife was taken.

But these two points were enough to make Zeng Hu stay; after all, he desperately wanted to know why his ability suddenly failed.

This was a matter of life and death!

"Don't even think about getting the knife back; it's too dangerous with lethal side effects. Since when did the official dare hand such things to kids?" the man chuckled: "As for your ability, it's how the cat managed to bite you."

After saying this, he suddenly vanished from sight.

Then appeared beside Zeng Hu, reaching boldly for his wound.

Faced with such a grab, Zeng Hu instinctively used [Material Penetration].

Clap——

Yet unexpectedly, his arm was firmly grasped by the man, with no sign of being penetrated!

Then the man laughed wickedly and said, "Got it? It's not just Spiritual Bodies that can grasp you. When the Spiritual Power is strong enough, it can still bypass your penetration state, unless your Spiritual Power also reaches the City-Destroying Level to easily penetrate the dead cat's mouth."

"City... City-Destroying Level!?"

At this point, Zeng Hu completely ignored the pain from his wound being grabbed.

He was somewhat stunned by the man's words.

Was that black cat just now a City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghost?

And this strange guy in front of me is also a City-Destroying Level powerhouse!?

Clap——

The man patted Zeng Hu's head and said:

"Don't get it wrong; you didn't actually believe you could exchange a few blows with a real City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghost, did you? It was already on its last breath, at best an escape route for its original body; otherwise, you'd have been a corpse in its first claw swipe."

"From now on, follow me to meet the boss, see how he's gonna deal with you, there are still a lot of leftover residues of City-annihilating Ghosts not cleaned up, if you don't keep up and die, that's your own problem, the boss won't blame me."

Having said that, the man started moving towards the plains on his own.

Zeng Hu hesitated for a moment but then quickly followed, whether what he said was true or false, at least his knife was still in his hands!

The two walked one after the other.

It wasn't until they reached the center of the plains that Zeng Hu finally saw clearly what the small black dot in the distance on the plains was—

It was the massive carcass of a black cat as tall as a small hill, surrounded by piles of slightly familiar black cat hair.

The being that had just forced him to the brink even without a chance to resist was merely a strand of cat hair attempting to escape with its Spiritual Power.

The man beside him suddenly showed a disgusted expression: "Tsk, this thing's not good to eat, cat meat tastes sour, and just full of fur."

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