In the forest, two figures, one after the other, darted rapidly through the jungle.

Time and again, blades edged with ferocious flames whooshed past Lin Chen.

But Lin Chen's movement technique was unpredictable, and each time he managed to narrowly escape from beneath Hinata's slashing shadow.

With the People's Qi System Navigation, Lin Chen thrived in the jungle like a fish in water, masterfully aware of where monsters and ghosts lurked.

In contrast, Hinata was rather unfortunate.

Hinata was blindly bulldozing through the jungle, relying on strength to constantly destroy the trees and lesser demons that blocked his path.

Whoosh!

Lin Chen passed by a cave entrance, flicked his wrist, and launched an explosive flame into it.

Accompanied by a roar, an adult bear demon charged out of the cave, enraged.

As it happened, Hinata was close to the cave entrance at that very moment.

The bear demon glared with bloodshot eyes, mistaking Hinata for the culprit who had disturbed its home, and lunged at Hinata with an enormous gaping maw.

"Damn it, get out of my way, you nuisance," Hinata hissed through clenched teeth as he brandished his sword to meet the charge.

"Crack!" A blade that trailed flames sliced through the air, cutting the bear demon clean in half.

Along the way, this sort of situation occurred frequently, and the deeper they went, the higher the level of the demonic beasts encountered, making Hinata's progress increasingly difficult.

Lin Chen repeated his trick, and this time he targeted a Demon King's lair.

"Howl!"

With an angry roar, an eight-legged spider emerged from the cave.

At this time, the troublemaking Lin Chen had already hidden in a mountain crevice.

When the spider emerged from its lair, it caught sight of Hinata, who was in hot pursuit.

Glimpsing the gigantic spider demon, Hinata's scalp tingled with fear.

A Demon King, whose strength was comparable to a human Nascent Soul expert, was far beyond his ability to withstand.

"Damn it, despicable little scoundrel!" Now, Hinata had no intention of chasing Lin Chen anymore; his only thought was how to escape.

He turned and fled in the opposite direction, but after just a few steps, he felt a tightness around his feet.

A strand of silk spat out by the spider demon had tightly bound his foot.

"Damn!" Hinata was shocked, and he swung his sword in response.

A fiery blade shot out and burned through the spider silk wrapped around his foot.

Just as Hinata attempted to continue his escape, he slammed hard into a massive web.

"Spider web!" The realization terrified Hinata.

The web of a spider Demon King differed from that of ordinary spiders; it was made of spiritual silk and coated with venom, making it extremely difficult to break free once entangled.

Although Hinata burned through the spider web with all the Spiritual Power of his Qi Sea, the spider Demon King had already caught up with him.

"Damn it!"

As countless strands rushed towards him, Hinata turned pale with horror.

"Crimson Flame Slash!"

In a desperate final effort before his impending death, Hinata unleashed his attack, and eight fiery blades streaked towards the spider Demon King.

"Pfft!"

Hinata's last-ditch effort landed fiercely behind the spider web.

"Boom!"

The spider's body blazed with flames, emitting a series of screams.

Meanwhile, the spider King's silk wrapped tightly around Hinata.

Having lost all hope, Hinata was well aware that if he was bound by those silk strands, he would be wrapped up like a mummy and slowly drained of his essence until death.

Between life and death, he quickly made a choice—better to die alongside his foe than to be tortured to death by the spider demon.

"Explode!"

The moment the spider silk wrapped around him, his body inflated like a balloon about to burst.

"Boom!"

A massive explosion rang out through the valley.

An SS-ranked martial artist's self-destruction was immensely powerful; the Demon King Spider didn't have time to dodge and was also blown to bits.

From within a crevice, Lin Chen watched this life-and-death struggle, silently heaving a sigh.

If it had been him, he probably wouldn't have even had the chance to self-detonate!

The Demon King Spider at this time had several of its legs smashed, and it was on its last breath.

Emerging from the crevice, Lin Chen looked down at the struggling Demon King Spider on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, a strand of spider silk shot out from the Demon King Spider's mouth.

Clearly, the Demon King Spider hoped to grab Lin Chen and absorb his yang energy in a last-ditch struggle.

"Damn beast, not even honest in death," Lin Chen muttered coldly as a ball of fierce flames burst from his hand.

"Boom!"

The explosion of fire burst upon the Demon King Spider, and the spider demon finally fell to the ground. A huge demon soul emerged from its body, which Lin Chen absorbed into the Prison of Time.

He hadn't expected to receive such a gift just as he entered the forest.

"Lin Chen found that ninjas from the Island Nation were just too kind to him, always delivering a surprise when he needed it most."

Just as Lin Chen was preparing to leave, he suddenly noticed more than a dozen figures rushing toward him from not too far away.

Humans!

Seeing the group that suddenly appeared, Lin Chen's heart tightened.

Now that Lin Chen had reached the fifth-layer mountain, logically, humans shouldn't be here. The only possibility that someone could be here was one—a martial artist.

A dozen people in white landed in front of the Demon King Spider. Looking at the Demon King Spider that was already dead, the leading man stepped forward, "Did you kill this Demon King?"

Lin Chen nodded, watching the group with wary eyes.

"We need the items on this Demon King, your Demon King should be given to us, as a favor to the Bai family," Bai Yu said coldly.

Before Lin Chen could respond, Bai Yu's subordinates had already jumped onto the Demon King Spider to harvest it.

Lin Chen desired only the demon soul; he had no interest in the rest, and he wished to avoid entanglements with these people.

"Fine," Lin Chen said and turned to leave.

At that moment, a skinny man with glasses suddenly approached Bai Yu and whispered, "Second Young Master, do you think this guy could be the one the eldest young master told us to watch out for?"

Although the voice was low, Lin Chen felt a stirring in his heart—the young master Bai, the Bai family.

"Stop!" Bai Yu suddenly called out to Lin Chen.

Lin Chen paused, but before Bai Yu could speak, he said, "Actually, there's something I didn't tell you. There are two Demon Kings in this cave. I killed one, and the other is outside hunting for food. Look, it's coming back," pointing toward the valley.

"What?" Bai Yu was startled by Lin Chen's words, and he turned his gaze toward the direction of the valley.

In that instant, Lin Chen threw a smoke bomb from his hand and dashed into the jungle.

Bai Yu reacted immediately, "Damn it, we've been duped. This guy is Lin Chen—chase him, we must kill him."

"Damn it, running into people from the Bai family," Lin Chen muttered to himself as he fled the forest.

His luck was just terrible. Having just solved one problem, he had stumbled upon an even bigger one.

Among these people, there were five SS-ranked individuals with supernatural powers. If caught by them, Lin Chen would undoubtedly die.

Having run to the seventh-layer mountain, Lin Chen could still feel those Bai family martial artists hot on his trail with murderous intent.

Suddenly, Lin Chen felt a disturbance in his Qi Sea—damn it, why did he have to breakthrough at a time like this!

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