CHAPTER 340 – ANGRY

The black jaguar had him. Its jaws clamped down around his torso, its fangs plunging deep into his chest. He felt bones break—ribs shattered like brittle twigs. Something sharp tore into his lung, and hot blood surged up his throat.

Leyvi resisted with everything he had, muscles straining to keep his body from being torn clean in half by the monstrous bite. His vision flickered. Blood poured from his chest, and the intense pressure felt like his entire torso would collapse at any moment.

He tried to channel his Qi, tried to gather just enough power to launch Big Bang Annihilation, but his control slipped through his fingers like water. The pain, the shock, the suffocating pressure—he couldn't focus.

His body was ablaze with fiery Qi, flaring in panic, but it couldn't build. He couldn't reach the threshold. The fire surged in vain.

And the jaguar? It wasn't even reacting.

Its eyes stared into his, cold and mocking. Mocking his struggle. Mocking his weakness.

The pressure increased slowly. Bit by bit. Another rib cracked—then another. Leyvi could hear them snapping one by one, like dry branches underfoot.

At this moment, Leyvi realized his struggle was indeed futile.

It had no intention of killing him quickly. It wanted to crush him slowly, savor his fear and resistance. His limbs thrashed, his fire roared, but nothing changed. The moment he was caught in those jaws... it was over.

The strength of its bite was beyond overwhelming.

"Sigh, what a short show. It's already over for the human, huh? It couldn't be helped. The Shadow Hunter is strongest at night, after all. He might've had a chance during the day. The human made the wrong decision. He should've turned back with the other human."

Wrong decision?

Leyvi's eyes widened slightly. That phrase echoed in his head like a gong. Over for me? That's what it said?

Something inside him snapped.

A feeling of rage began to stir.

"Over for me? Hahaha—cough! Cough!!"

Blood spurted from his mouth as he forced a laugh. His whole chest trembled under the increasing pressure of the bite, but he laughed anyway. Spitefully. Madly.

The black jaguar continued biting down, its massive fangs sinking deeper into him, but it paused slightly, curious now. Still amused.

"Eh? Did he just…? No, that can't be right. Must be a coincidence," the mysterious voice muttered.

"Coincidence my ass!" Leyvi spat, coughing blood again. "You think this oversized cat can stop me… from meeting my panda wife? HAHAHA! Not a chance!!"

His body was broken. Bloodied. His Qi was scattered. But the thought of Anda—her smile, her warmth, her devotedness—burned like a flame in his chest.

He couldn't accept it. Wouldn't accept it.

He would not let this be the end.

All the annoyance, all the rage from the past year—the separation, the accumulated annoyance from many other things—everything erupted now, triggered by those words: It's over for him.

"..." The voice was silent. Confused. He heard me? But how?

"Heheheh…" Leyvi grinned, his teeth stained red. "You stupid cat... cough! You should've killed me while you had the chance..."

The jaguar stared at him with narrowed eyes. It still looked down on Leyvi. Just another one of those fools who thought they had one last burst left before death.

At that moment, the atmosphere around Leyvi trembled violently. Before the black jaguar could react, an immense invisible force erupted from Leyvi, prying the beast's jaws open with such power that its jawbone cracked with a loud CRACK!

ROAARRR!! it howled in agony.

As its maw gaped wide, Leyvi seized the chance to break free, blood gushing from the deep punctures left by its fangs.

Without pause, he directed his spiritual pressure at the writhing jaguar. A crushing force slammed down on its body, flattening it against the earth. The ground beneath it groaned and caved in, the crater widening and deepening with every passing second.

While holding the beast down with his pressure, Leyvi hastily consumed a healing elixir. A faint glow surrounded him, but the injuries were too severe to mend quickly.

He didn't care.

As soon as the bleeding stopped, he rose to his feet, enduring the searing pain, and faced the roaring beast. The band that once held his ponytail had long vanished, and his long hair now scattered wildly, swept by the storm of his spiritual aura.

His left hand was still missing. It was regenerating, but far slower.

Usually, even when his injuries were severe, everything remained intact, making healing relatively easy. As far as he knew, even reattaching a severed limb wouldn't be a problem. But now it was clear—regenerating a new limb was a far more demanding task for the healing elixir. He would likely need several more before it fully grew back.

From the black jaguar's perspective, trapped beneath the crushing weight of Leyvi's spiritual pressure, the sight was terrifying. Leyvi loomed above, eyes burning with fury, staring down at it like a wrathful god.

Thum!

The spiritual pressure intensified, sinking the earth deeper. The crater widened, trees around it buckling and crashing to the ground.

ROAARRR!!

How the tables had turned. The black jaguar that tried to crush Leyvi previously was now the one getting crushed.

Sensing the healing effect weakening, Leyvi consumed another elixir without hesitation.

With the wounds on his chest mostly closed, he could finally channel his Qi again.

Then, without warning, he leapt into the crater, landing directly on the jaguar's head. His spiritual pressure surged once more, condensing in the pit. But Leyvi, as its source, remained unaffected.

ROAARRR! ROAARRR! ROAARRR!

Leyvi understood the meaning behind its roars—pain and humiliation. But it meant nothing to him.

Just noise.

He raised his right leg and channeled his fiery Qi into it. Instantly, flames burst to life, swirling around his limb with wild intensity. The heat rippled outward, distorting the air as Leyvi pushed more and more Qi into the strike. The ground beneath his feet began to glow faintly red, scorched by the radiating heat.

"Sigh… I didn't expect my spiritual pressure to get this strong just because I got angry," he muttered. "Some protagonists in Sayu's novels got stronger like this too."

He let the flames build, eyes distant for a moment.

"I rarely get angry," he said softly. "I don't like the feeling… But this time—this time, I just couldn't help it. I almost died. Anda almost lost me forever."

His brow furrowed as the fire intensified.

"I can't even imagine how that would've made her feel. She might have turned into a villainess, destroyed herself."

By now, the heat radiating from his leg had reached its limit. The deep crater had become a seething cauldron. Fallen trees crumbled to ash. The earth itself hissed and cracked. The demonic black jaguar, which had once shrugged off fire without flinching, was now roaring in pain—its body writhing under the unbearable heat and the crushing weight of Leyvi's spiritual pressure.

Leyvi's leg burned with gathered force, pulsing with an overwhelming amount of Qi.

He exhaled slowly.

"Just die."

And he stomped.

BOOOOOM!

The explosion shattered the silence. A blinding flash. A wave of heat. The entire mountain range quaked violently.

A massive shockwave ripped through the forest, uprooting ancient trees and sending them flying. Boulders cracked apart. The crater exploded outward into a vast chasm, blackened and fractured from the blast. A towering column of fire and smoke surged into the sky, turning the misty forest red with a hellish glow. The earth rumbled for long moments, and distant demonic beasts scattered in every direction, fleeing the thunderous echoes that rolled across the valleys.

Then, gradually, the storm passed.

The flames didn't last long. The forest's natural dampness and the heavy mist—momentarily blown away by the blast—returned quickly, smothering the remaining fires. Ash floated gently through the air, and the entire area fell into an eerie, suffocating quiet. Mist crept over the scorched ruin, cloaking the devastation like a burial shroud.

Leyvi picked up the demonic beast core from the pitch-black crater—the only thing left of the black jaguar. Its entire body had been completely incinerated by his Big Bang attack.

He stored the core inside his internal storage room, then took out another healing elixir and drank it. Warm energy surged through his body, continuing the regeneration of his left hand and closing the wounds in his chest. His arm had already regrown up to the wrist. Maybe just one more elixir would be enough to heal him completely.

Climbing out of the crater, Leyvi let out a long, tired sigh.

"Alright... I'm not angry anymore. Calm down, calm down..." He rubbed his forehead and groaned. "Ugh... my head feels heavy. I used too much mental energy."

Suddenly, he remembered—there was still another presence here. That mystical voice.

Oh shit, I better leave this mountain! I don't have more strength to deal with another unknown creature right now. Brother-in-law Victor, I already tried my best to find you, even almost died because of it. So don't blame me for leaving now. I need to see Anda as soon as possible.

Leyvi immediately dashed down the mountain, hoping the owner of the mystical voice wouldn't act hostile to him.