Chapter 41

“Integrated Network players dead: 1… Remaining players in plane: 4”

Just as Yi Qiu was carefully exploring the path opened up by an unknown large-sized being, a black notification appeared on his screen.

4 people…

Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Although he expected that there weren’t that many players on earth, counting in that unlucky person who died, the total had just reached the minimum number of players.

Earth had over 7 billion people but only 5 players, this ratio meant that Yi Qiu himself was really lucky.

Who knew whether or not there would be new players added in subsequently. Yi Qiu shook his head and didn’t worry about such things.

He could only work hard to improve himself. As long as he became strong, the changes in his environment wouldn’t affect him.

The forest was really quiet. If normal people walked here, their heads would feel numb and terrified, but not Yi Q.iu

Maybe he did, but those emotions were directly stopped by Stillness of Mind.

He followed the dark path and quickly found the first monster:

An axe-wielding Cowhead Monster!

It wasn’t as huge as the illusion Yi Qiu saw in the battle map, but it wasn’t small.

Its 2-meter frame didn’t scare Yi Qiu much as after experiencing the Brown Toothed Boar, monsters of this size didn’t scare him anymore.

But just that close to a meter-long axe made him feel like it wasn’t going to be easy to deal with. Yi Qiu just felt like he had to fight it first to test out the situation.

This Cowhead Monster was holding its axe and resting while laying on the nearby tree. It was snoring softly, that sound didn’t seem like something that should have come from something of its size.

Yi Qiu squinted and he was prepared to open Eight Gates right away.

If he couldn’t defeat it using Eight Gates, then he could only make a strategic retreat.

“Peng!”

Just at that moment, a gunshot sounded!

That one shot seemed like an opener, like fireworks, more and more broke out!

“Kong!”

The entire forest seemed to have been enraged as roars spread out from the depths of the forest!

Yi Qiu glanced at the secret dungeon information and realized that there were now two people inside.

“Kong?!”

The sleeping Cowhead Monster was awakened by the gunshot. After roughly 2 seconds of being stunned, it looked around with its big eyes.

As expected, it noticed Yi Qiu. After all, even under the dim lighting, a bald head still attracted a lot of attention.

“Kong!”

The Cowhead Monster raised up its axe and charged frantically at Yi Qiu.

Looking at the sprouts and branches beings smashed by it, Yi Qiu knew how this monster opened up this small path.

Its cow hoof leg structure allowed it to be able to better spread out the heavy downward force of its body. Due to that structure, the momentum that it gained while charging was really terrifying.

Yi Qiu squinted and started to rotate the Ki in his body.

Eight Gates, Gate of Opening open!

Invisible Ki gathered on his head. His pupils squinted and a huge power surged within his body once more!

“Xiu!”

He ran quickly as the air became less friendly.

Be it the obstruction of the air currents toward his body or the roaring in his ears, it made him feel really annoyed.

Yi Qiu realized that he loved this kind of feeling of tossing everything aside, and courageously charged toward the enemy!

Be it a 2-meter tall wild boar or an axe-wielding Cowhead Monster, he wasn’t fearful. His blood vessels were roaring, his muscles were roaring, and his high speed flowing blood transported power for him for the impending battle. The green veins that popped up were like flying dragons, all of this was for his upcoming strike!

“Peng!”

Like two unstoppable forces crashed into one another, 1.65-meter Yi Qiu and 2-meter Cowhead Monster smashed into one another!

“Hu!”

The pressure from the two seemed to form its own air current, causing the leaves and branches around to tilt.

Yi Qiu was forced several steps back. The ground which was trampled on for years by the Cowhead Monsters, and became really sturdy now, had many deep marks. The Cowhead Monster didn’t move back, but its hooves sunk deeper into the ground.

“Kong!”

Yi Qiu didn’t stop, he stood still and then started to charge at the Cowhead Monster once more!

During the first try, Yi Qiu could sense that the Cowhead Monster wasn’t that much stronger than him. At most, there was a 1 stat point difference. The reason why it wasn’t forced back was because of its body structure.

Due to the advantage of the long weapon, the axe hit Yi Qiu first but it sliced his neck!

“Peng!”

After the sound of metal clanging, Yi Qiu’s fist smacked the monster’s waist!

“Kachi!”

It was like something was breaking. Due to the removal of the Strengthening skill and Yi Qiu not wearing a weapon like a knuckle duster, his attacks were pure attacks.

Pure attacks didn’t cause piercing damage and blood to splatter, but the internal damage it caused wasn’t weaker than pure attacks.

The Cowhead Monster gave out a pained expression. Yi Qiu didn’t hesitate and punched once more using Flurry of Blows!

Crit!

5% crit chance wasn’t high, but it wasn’t low. Due to the frequency of it happening during each battle, the crit chance Yi Qiu received was quite optimistic.

His muscles and body were in harmony, and his fist smacked into the Cowhead Monster with a sharp wind howl!

“Pu!”

As it was pure damage, Yi Qiu’s fist didn’t directly pierce through the body, but this didn’t mean that the damage was much lower.

The skin of the Cowhead Monster started to turn blood red and it started to vomit. Its intestines along with black blood caused the ground to change color.

Yi Qiu frowned. Long before, when it started to look like it was going to vomit, Yi Qiu had moved behind.

“Kong!”

What surprised him was that after vomiting, the Cowhead Monster seemed better, picking up the axe and slashing toward Yi Qiu.

“Peng!”

Another metal clang sounded. Yi Qiu launched a kick, sending it to the ground!

“Pu!”

The 2-meter tall being fell to the ground and dust flew up. This Cowhead Monster didn’t seem to have any fighting strength left.

Yi Qiu kicked its head and ended its life.

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Before he was able to see the notifications on the retina screen, he heard the explosion sounds getting closer!