Volume 1, Chapter 58: The Purple-Horned Fiend is Strong, Almost Matching the Shadow Werewolf Beast!

Although Zhu Zhihan had never heard of the Purple-Horned Fiends, she was familiar with the Single-Horned Fiends.

Within the trial battlefield space for rookie beast tamers, Zhu Zhihan had once slain a Single-Horned Fiend with her own hands, though it was said that the Purple-Horned Fiends were far more powerful than their single-horned counterparts.

Purple-Horned Fiends possessed an extremely ferocious and terrifying appearance.

These monsters not only had a massive, blood-dripping maw on their faces, but a second vertical, giant mouth also split open down their abdomens.

Purple-Horned Fiends were pathologically bloodthirsty. Whenever they killed a beast tamer, a beast, or any other living creature, they would invariably devour their prey on the spot!

Consequently, any battlefield plagued by the presence of Purple-Horned Fiends would inevitably turn into a horrifying nightmare.

Many beast tamers, having witnessed their friends and relatives being ripped apart and devoured alive by the Purple-Horned Fiends, would easily lose emotional control on the spot and suffer a complete mental breakdown.

Just as Xia Yumeng was enthusiastically introducing the information regarding the Purple-Horned Fiends to Zhu Zhihan, several ferocious and ugly Purple-Horned Fiends actually appeared not far away from the group.

The moment she spotted those Purple-Horned Fiends manifesting, Xia Yumeng was so frightened that she hurriedly burrowed into Lin Yao's embrace, shrieking while simultaneously complaining about the terrifying appearance of these monsters.

"Darling—save me!" Xia Yumeng cried out at the top of her lungs. "These Purple-Horned Fiends are way too terrifying! They're even scarier than the descriptions in the textbooks!"

One could see that the skin of these Purple-Horned Fiends was covered in purple snake-like scales, looking utterly bone-chilling.

The tusks on their faces were as grim and sharp as the fangs of a venomous serpent.

Their eyes were a pair of scarlet, vertical slits that, when suddenly illuminated in the dim environment, ruthlessly harvested lives.

However, the most unsettling feature of the Purple-Horned Fiends had to be the massive vertical mouth on their abdomens, from which viscous purple corrosive liquid constantly dripped.

If any unfortunate beast tamer was ripped apart and swallowed alive by them, these purple liquids would instantly corrode their bodies away to nothing, leaving behind not even a scrap of bone after being consumed by the Purple-Horned Fiends.

Although Xia Mengying and Xia Yumeng were well aware of Lin Yao's formidable strength, seeing seven Purple-Horned Fiends successively emerge in the distance still caused their hearts to tense up inevitably.

Without waiting for those ferocious and terrifying Purple-Horned Fiends to charge forward, Lin Yao had already manipulated the Shadow Werewolves to meet them in counterattack.

At the same time, he checked the detailed information of the Purple-Horned Fiends.

[Name: Purple-Horned Fiend]
[Level: Level 20]
[Potential: Grade A]

[Talent: Gluttony (Purple-Horned Fiends will consume all edible matter to repair themselves and strengthen their own bodies, including dead members of their own kind.)]
[Skills: Fiend Martial Arts, Hawk Vision, Panther Gait, Corrosive Liquid, Fiend Armor, Purple-Horned Light Blade!]
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The Purple-Horned Fiends that appeared before Lin Yao and the others were exceptionally high in level, all reaching Level 19 or even Level 20.

The combat capability of the Purple-Horned Fiends was also quite formidable. At the same level, almost no ordinary beast tamer or tamed beast could stand as their match in a one-on-one fight.

However, Lin Yao quickly discovered that the Shadow Werewolves under his command still held the upper hand in strength.

Under his control at this moment, the seven Shadow Werewolves were engaged in one-on-one duels with the seven Purple-Horned Fiends.

When the Purple-Horned Fiends had suddenly appeared, Xia Mengying and Xia Yumeng thought a bitter battle was unavoidable.

Yet upon witnessing the fierce performance of the Shadow Werewolves, the two women were both astonished and pleasantly surprised.

By this time, Xia Mengying had already mounted the back of the Whirlwind Fire Wolf and entered a battle-ready state, but looking at the current situation, she seemed to have no need to make a move at all.

Watching the distant battlefield, she couldn't help but remark to Lin Yao with deep emotion, "Have these Shadow Werewolves already become this strong? Or is it that... what they are displaying right now is still not their full strength?"

Lin Yao shook his head. "The combat power the Shadow Werewolves are displaying right now is their current full strength. However, they grow very fast and will become even stronger after a little while."

Just as Lin Yao finished speaking, one of the Shadow Werewolves on the battlefield completely tore a Purple-Horned Fiend to pieces.

While the combat capability of the Purple-Horned Fiends was indeed formidable, the fighting strength of the Shadow Werewolves was undoubtedly superior.

One had to know that the Purple-Horned Fiends possessed a major flaw.

Although they possessed a certain degree of endurance, they had to constantly feed in order to repair their own injuries.

The Shadow Werewolves were different; after sustaining injuries, they could rapidly heal themselves through shadow energy.

Furthermore, the Shadow Werewolves were protected by Lin Yao's [Damage Sharing] talent, meaning the damage they took each time was merely 1/34 of the original amount.

As a result, when matching up against the Purple-Horned Fiends, the Shadow Werewolves could completely fight them head-on, focusing entirely on offense without defending.

For any other beast tamer or tamed beast to do this would be no different from seeking their own doom.

Yet relying on this simple and crude tactic, the Shadow Werewolves beat the Purple-Horned Fiends to the point of utter helplessness.

Besides, the Purple-Horned Fiends were not stupid to the extent that the Cyan Fiends were.

The moment they realized they could do nothing against the Shadow Werewolves, they immediately dropped to all fours, lowered their bodies, and bolted away in frantic flight like startled leopards.

Seeing the Purple-Horned Fiends attempt to flee, the battle intent in Zhu Zhihan's eyes flared intensely. She immediately and excitedly volunteered, "Big Brother, let Zhihan go hunt down those fleeing monsters!"

Lin Yao readily nodded and said, "Alright, exterminate them completely, leave none alive."

With permission granted, Zhu Zhihan flicked her slender hand, and the Dragon Shadow Longsword materialized in her palm.

The next instant, she directly activated the [Roam Mountains and Seas] skill, transforming her entire body into a transparent cyan dragon shadow as she chased rapidly after the panicking and fleeing Purple-Horned Fiends.

Upon seeing this, Lin Yao couldn't help but support his forehead with one hand, thinking to himself since when had his little Zhihan grown so infatuated with this style of close-quarters melee combat.

Every time a fight broke out now, she loved to personally charge into the fray wielding her Dragon Shadow Longsword.

When Zhu Zhihan had volunteered just moments ago, Lin Yao originally thought she would use her Thunder God Spear to pin down and execute these Purple-Horned Fiends one by one from a distance.

Still, it didn't matter; under normal conditions, Zhu Zhihan's strength was already seven to eight times that of a Shadow Werewolf.

Coupled with the amplification of Lin Yao's [Attribute Multiplication] talent, Zhu Zhihan's combat power instantly soared to seventy or even eighty times that of a standard Shadow Werewolf!

These Purple-Horned Fiends couldn't even defeat the Shadow Werewolves, let alone face Zhu Zhihan—she easily resolved all of them with a single sword stroke each, cutting through them as effortlessly as slicing vegetables.

Xia Yumeng already knew that Zhu Zhihan's strength was not weak, but she never expected her to be strong to such an absurd degree!

As for the Flame Empress, who knew relatively little about Zhu Zhihan's true strength, she grew increasingly shocked at this moment.

In her view, Zhu Zhihan's strength was certainly superior to the Shadow Werewolves, but she had assumed the gap wouldn't be too vast.

Who could have imagined that Zhu Zhihan would be stronger than the Shadow Werewolves by several entire tiers!

This caused the Flame Empress's perspective of Lin Yao to shift once again.

Lin Yao might not be considered a supreme powerhouse at present, but he undoubtedly harbored quite a few secrets worthy of study!

When Zhu Zhihan finished slaughtering the Purple-Horned Fiends, the Flame Empress noticed yet another method displayed by Lin Yao that left her inwardly amazed: his Shadow Mark and Shadow Soul Devouring.

The Flame Empress had witnessed similar abilities in the past, but those skills clearly still bore a significant gap when compared to Lin Yao's [Shadow Devour].