Sword Sovereign of the Celestial Emperor

"Uncle Gu, don't worry. I won't risk my life,"

Chu Ming said softly, but he secretly remembered the position Gu Yuan had mentioned.

To further advance his body refining power, finding the five-tailed black cat demon was essential.

Sundown approached, resembling a gigantic dark fierce beast with a wide open mouth, engulfing everything around. The Saint Tribe plunged into darkness, except for a few houses still lit.

A slightly blurred shadow flew out from the northern part of the Saint Tribe at an extremely fast speed, leaving the tribe within a few leaps.

Glancing back at the Saint Tribe, Chu Ming turned around and continued forward. His destination lay two hundred miles north of the Saint Tribe. With Chu Ming's speed, he could safely arrive within ten minutes.

Whoosh!

A light layer of mist still surrounded, obstructing Chu Ming's sight. Even his spiritual sense could only cover within fifty meters. After ten minutes, Chu Ming reached the location Gu Yuan had mentioned. It was a rather large forest, trees standing tall, and not far away, stood a hundred-meter-high stone wall deeply etched with claw marks.

With Chu Ming's eyesight, he could instantly tell these claw marks were left by the black cat demons.

Whoosh!

Chu Ming had just steadied himself when a shadow leapt at him from the other side of the stone wall. The fierce wind was chilling, filled with intense killing intent, making Chu Ming shiver internally.

Clang!

The Star Trace Sword instantly unsheathed, turning into a white sword light that illuminated everything around, with overlapping sword shadows.

Slash!

Immortal Sword Intent burst forth!

Slaughter Sword Intent erupted!

Splurt!

A spray of blood splattered. Amidst the tumbling white waves, sword light pierced through the head of the shadow. With Chu Ming's slaughter sword intent reaching Tier Five and his mastery of the Heart Sword Realm, the shadow instantly died with his full force strike.

Thud!

The shadow fell to the ground, revealing its full appearance - indeed a black cat demon. Chu Ming turned its body over and saw five small splits at its tail, instantly causing a smile on his face; it was a five-tailed black cat demon.

Chu Ming fumbled in the five-tailed black cat demon's body for a moment and extracted a fist-sized blood pearl, surrounded by blood qi, containing dozens of times more blood qi than a four-tailed black cat demon.

After placing the blood pearl into his storage ring, Chu Ming was satisfied. However, a single blood pearl from a five-tailed black cat demon couldn't fully meet his requirements. He remembered Gu Yuan mentioning that hundreds of five-tailed black cat demons once besieged the Saint Tribe and were all killed by the four Saint Envoys.

While there was some exaggeration in this, it also indirectly indicated that five-tailed black cat demons were not difficult to find; just finding the right place was crucial. Chu Ming suspected that there were more than one five-tailed black cat demons in this area.

Chu Ming continued north, but his speed significantly slowed down. Simultaneously, his spiritual sense spread out like tides, constantly watching the surroundings. While five-tailed black cat demons weren't strong, being cautious wouldn't hurt.

Splurt! Splurt!

The reality proved Chu Ming's suspicion right. Just two hundred meters forward, he encountered two more black cat demons, one five-tailed and one four-tailed. Both died under his sword.

"I've been surrounded!"

Just as Chu Ming placed the two blood pearls into his storage ring, his expanding spiritual sense detected over fifty black cat demons closing in on him, mostly five-tailed and four-tailed black cat demons.

A spark of interest flickered in his eyes. As long as there weren't six-tailed black cat demons among them, Chu Ming wouldn't fear. The strength of five-tailed black cat demons wasn't weak but only relatively speaking; Chu Ming could kill one with a single strike.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

While Chu Ming was momentarily dazed, a group of black cat demons approached, their yellowish eyes glaring prominently in the dark night, looking eerie and chilling.

Chu Ming remained still, waiting for the black cat demons to slowly close in. As one breath passed, the atmosphere solidified, and finally, a few black cat demons couldn't resist. They pressed their forelimbs against the ground hard. With one leap, resembling a dazzling black beam, they landed in front of Chu Ming. Their sharp white teeth in the pitch-black night induced a chill.

Whoosh!

The Star Trace Sword unsheathed. A sword blade mixed with a faint golden hue and red light shot out from the Star Trace Sword. Chu Ming's sword momentum, once triggered, was like a storm. The bodies of the few black cat demons ahead got pierced directly, blood splattering everywhere, some even splashing onto Chu Ming.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The scent of blood on the ground further aroused the surrounding black cat demons' ferocity. With several jumps, they transformed into black winds, sweeping towards Chu Ming.

Clang clang!

A black cat demon's sharp claws scratched Chu Ming's body, only tearing his clothes, sounding like metal clashing against his skin and emitting sparks.

Boom!

Chu Ming withdrew, utilizing his soul to the utmost, moving through the black cat demons like a fish swimming in the ocean. The Star Trace Sword in his hand transformed into a phantom, instantly causing more than a dozen black cat demons to fall in blood pools.

Chu Ming's sword was already unimaginably fast, resembling flashes of lightning in the night sky, blood mist obscured. Within a few breaths, over fifty black cat demons lay dead, devoid of any life.

Whoosh!

Chu Ming extracted all the blood pearls from the black cat demon corpses, counting them carefully. There were thirty-six blood pearls from five-tailed black cat demons and twenty-seven from four-tailed black cat demons. He placed these blood pearls into his storage ring.

Using the Star Trace Sword, Chu Ming dug a deep twenty-meter, several meters in diameter pit and tossed all the black cat demon corpses into it, covering them with soil. Only then did he leave, satisfied.

.....

Not far from where the black cat demons besieged Chu Ming, in a cave, a massive figure watched everything, ice-cold yellow eyes. This black cat demon was at least two to three times larger than a five-tailed one. As it breathed, the wind around subtly changed, with faint thunderous sounds inside its body, and its spiritual power fluctuated immensely unstable.

If the people from the Saint Tribe noticed, they would understand that the black cat demon before them was at a critical stage of evolution. The number of tails on a black cat demon wasn't fixed; it increased slowly with the growth of its strength. Clearly, this black cat demon was evolving.

...

Chu Ming did not return to the Saint Tribe but arrived at a cave where he had rested a few days ago, preparing to immediately refine the blood pearls and enhance his body refining power.

Sitting on the ground, Chu Ming took out the blood pearls from his storage ring, holding them tightly in his palm.