"Fortunately, honey doesn't spoil. I can use this hive to hunt for a long time."
Hiding in the bushes, Bai Zhe looked at the nearby beehive with joy. Hunting this way was efficient. He believed that in two more days, he could evolve again.
"Hm? Another animal is coming."
Suddenly, a rustling sound reached Bai Zhe's ears. He focused intently on the direction of the noise.
To his anticipation, a figure broke through the grass and appeared in his sight.
Upon seeing it, Bai Zhe's heart jolted.
[Target locked: Jackal! Devouring grants 350 Evolution Points.]
It was a jackal—very likely one of the members of the jackal pack that had conflicted with him before.
Jackals usually move in groups. Since one appeared, others were probably nearby.
Just as Bai Zhe thought, three more jackals quickly emerged after the first.
"So this is the jackal pack," Bai Zhe immediately confirmed.
"Uh… have they spotted me?"
Hidden beside the bushes, Bai Zhe's mouth twitched as he saw the four jackals running straight toward him, ignoring the beehive.
"Damn."
Cursing silently, Bai Zhe shot off, climbing up a tree.
"Woo! Woo!"
The four jackals snarled under the tree.
Jackals can't climb trees, so they could only look up helplessly.
Bai Zhe rolled his eyes, thinking, "You can't get up here—why waste time? Go away."
But then he saw something that made his teeth itch with anger.
The four jackals, unable to catch him, went to the beehive and tore it apart, greedily devouring all the honey inside.
Bai Zhe gritted his teeth.
The hive was meant to lure prey, but the jackals destroyed it and finished the honey.
He had hoped to farm more Evolution Points with the hive, but it was all ruined.
Worse, after eating, the jackals didn't leave—they stayed quietly under the tree.
Clearly, they remembered Bai Zhe had killed one of their pack before and weren't willing to leave after encountering him again.
Bai Zhe was speechless atop the tree.
He then crawled along the branches to another tree. The forest was dense and the branches mostly connected.
The jackals under the tree, seeing him leave this way, hesitated then chased after him.
After two or three kilometers, they gave up, realizing revenge was unlikely in such terrain.
Shaking off the jackals, Bai Zhe slowly climbed down and headed back to the cave.
Though he rested at night, he had been tense in the forest. Only in the cave could he truly relax.
Back in the cave, he climbed onto a raised stone slab on the left wall and fell into a deep sleep.
Two days later, fully rested, Bai Zhe resumed hunting.
In the following days, he encountered the jackals four or five times but avoided conflict by climbing trees each time.
While the jackals didn't threaten his life, their presence annoyed him.
As the saying goes, two tigers cannot share one mountain.
Resources in the mountain were limited; two top predators meant not enough prey for both.
Though prey was abundant, Bai Zhe needed a lot daily, so the jackals affected his hunting.
More importantly, the jackals' noisy hunting scared prey, making them skittish and harder to catch.
This greatly increased Bai Zhe's hunting difficulty.
No matter his annoyance, he couldn't change this. With his current strength, he couldn't drive the jackals away.
"When I get the chance, I'll take care of those four jackals."
Crawling on the ground, Bai Zhe vowed bitterly.
Since the jackals appeared, his hunting had been less smooth. In three days, he'd gained only 1,120 Evolution Points.
To keep his Evolution Points growing fast, he had to deal with those troublesome jackals.
A piece of good news: his total Evolution Points had reached 5,870.
He was about to evolve!
Because of this, Bai Zhe stayed calm and continued hunting in the forest instead of provoking the jackals.
He was now in the forest behind the cave, where trees were sparser and the terrain flatter, but plenty of small animals lived here.
Suddenly, Bai Zhe stopped, flicking his tongue to smell the air. His eyes lit up.
He carefully crawled left.
Soon, a pheasant appeared ahead.
Bai Zhe froze, remaining still—hardly looking like a living creature.
The pheasant walked slowly, unaware of Bai Zhe nearby.
Bai Zhe focused on it, judging the distance.
The pheasant was about two meters away; he planned to attack when it came within one meter.
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