# 1000
Chapter 1001: White Tiger
Su Zhe, who was charging at the front, saw two "Mystery" creatures at the "Pool" realm flying toward him. He gritted his teeth, about to draw his blade and fight, when a hand forcibly pressed him back.
The girl in black, Su Yuan, glanced at him and said calmly:
"Let me take the front."
As her words fell, Su Yuan drew the straight blade at her waist, facing the two "Mystery" creatures directly, her eyes erupting with blazing fighting intent.
Her figure was like an agile black swallow, instantly surpassing Su Zhe as she engaged one of the "Mystery" creatures with her straight blade.
Su Yuan's forbidden ruins wasn't a combat type, but that didn't stop her from relying on her superhuman combat talent to completely suppress that "Mystery" creature with just one person and one blade.
The other "Mystery" creature was about to bite Fang Mo when an invisible force field surged forth, grabbing its ankle and hurling it into the forest beside them.
Ding Chongfeng lowered his right hand, the spiritual pressure around him gradually dissipating. He果断ly shouted: "Don't look back, keep moving forward!"
The four of them briefly broke through the blockade of the two "Mystery" creatures and dove directly into the complex terrain of the forest.
"Two 'River' realm 'Mystery' creatures have suddenly accelerated and are chasing us!"
Su Yuan, who had shaken off one "Mystery" creature, seemed to sense something and exclaimed.
Everyone's hearts sank.
At their current cultivation levels, they could barely handle one "River" realm "Mystery" creature working together, but if two "River" realm creatures attacked simultaneously, they wouldn't stand a chance. Not to mention the lower realm "Mystery" creatures that were also harassing them.
Su Zhe turned to look at the mountain peak, where a giant steel-spined porcupine and a headless man wielding two blood-red decapitation blades were rapidly dashing toward them.
Once these two "Mystery" creatures entered the battlefield, the four of them present would have almost no chance of survival.
"This is bad..." Su Zhe murmured to himself.
Fang Mo's eyes showed a brief moment of struggle, then like he had made a decision, he proactively unwrapped a corner of the bandage.
A whiff of sweet blood qi溢出ed from the wound on his arm. Upon smelling this scent, Ding Chongfeng and the others froze, then like he thought of something, his eyes widened as he stared at Fang Mo.
"Fang Mo! You—"
Before Ding Chongfeng could finish, Fang Mo's feet slammed against the ground, transforming into an injured white cat and rapidly fleeing from the three of them, charging deep into the mountains.
The two "River" realm "Mystery" creatures pursuing from afar immediately changed targets, following Fang Mo as he left. The "Mystery" creatures surrounding the three also withdrew for the most part.
"Sacrificing himself to actively lure away the 'Mystery' creatures, in exchange for the other team members' survival chance..."
In the shadows of a certain large tree, Lin Qiye, cloaked in deep crimson, slowly outlined his form and murmured quietly, "Let me see, in life-and-death combat, what kind of potential can you unleash?"
After confirming that Ding Chongfeng and the other three wouldn't be in danger, Lin Qiye's figure flickered and silently followed after Fang Mo.
...
In the dense jungle, a white cat was frantically fleeing through the branches.
Behind it, two monstrous beasts were crashing through the trees like tanks, growling as they pressed forward. Though the white cat was agile, its speed was still inferior to theirs, and the distance between them was shrinking.
Feeling the two凌厉 gusts of wind from behind, Fang Mo knew he couldn't outrun them. Boldly, he jumped off the branch and landed on the snow-covered ground of the jungle.
Its soft paw pads dragged two long trails across the thick snow. Its snow-white body rose up, and a pair of heterochromatic eyes stared死死的 at the approaching "Mystery" creatures, revealing unprecedented madness.
Since he couldn't escape, he would have to fight for his life.
It slowly opened its mouth—
The next moment, what emerged from its throat wasn't a cat's "meow"...
But a majestic and sharp tiger's roar!
"ROAR—!!!"
The wilderness forest trembled slightly, and numerous birds fluttered up from the treetops into the sky.
The tiny white cat on the snow took one step forward, its body swelling rapidly. In less than two seconds, it transformed into a massive white tiger nearly two meters tall. Muscular contours bulged beneath its snow-white fur, and its sleek, lustrous whiskers began to glisten with cold, sinister light.
That was never a cat at all—it was a miniature version of... a heterochromatic white tiger.
The pair of amber and crimson pupils gazed at the two "Mystery" creatures with a soul-stirring presence. On its foreleg was a ferocious wound, with trickling blood flowing from the injury, an异香 several times stronger than before emanating wildly.
It seemed utterly oblivious to the wound's existence. With another low growl, it dragged its massive body across the snow in a thundering charge, leaving trails of afterimages.
It crashed directly into the steel-spined porcupine.
The porcupine's sharp steel spines left several blood holes on the white tiger's body, but at the same time, a massive tiger paw came slamming down from above, smashing its head hard into the earth.
The mountain trembled once more.
In the distance.
Lin Qiye gazed at the heterochromatic white tiger battling the two "Mystery" creatures, and astonishment flickered in his eyes.
"One of Great Xia's four divine beasts, the White Tiger? So this is Fang Mo's conduit for bearing divine power?"
Lin Qiye recalled the two flames of vitality he had seen atop Fang Mo's head just now, as if realizing something, understanding dawning in his eyes.
"The God's Ruins is borne by the White Tiger, creating a symbiotic relationship between Fang Mo and the White Tiger... No wonder his blood can attract those 'Mystery' creatures."
White Tiger bloodline, as one of Great Xia's top four divine beast bloodlines, inherently contains extremely pure life force and divine resonance. This blood is a fatal lure for "Mystery" creatures—beings of relatively lower spiritual life forms.
For a divine-level White Tiger, this bloodline would naturally be a tremendous asset, but in the hands of the low-realm Fang Mo, it had become a death sentence.
Especially after transforming back into the White Tiger, the purity of the divine beast blood in his body increased dramatically. Though he could barely match the two "Mystery" creatures in terms of realm, the attraction for other "Mystery" creatures had reached a terrifying level.
Lin Qiye could clearly sense that within a dozen kilometers of this peak, a large number of high-realm "Mystery" creatures were frantically rushing toward this location.
"The training should end here..."
He could sense that Fang Mo, in his White Tiger form, couldn't hold on much longer. If he let him keep bleeding like this, the number of "Mystery" creatures that would be attracted would only grow.
Lin Qiye's eyes narrowed slightly. Just as he was about to act, his raised hand paused.
He let out a soft exclamation and turned to look at the other side of the forest, where a one-eyed boy carrying six dark crimson wings on his back and gripping a straight blade was rapidly approaching!