Clan Cultivation System: Each Breakthrough in My Clan Earns Me Rewards-Chapter 45: Real Challenge (Unlock - with Coins!)

For the next few days, Shen Liqian lived under open skies and was surrounded by white wilderness.

Many beasts fell to his group’s strength, and their carcasses were safely stored within their storage rings.

Shen Liqian fought as well, but he was on a completely different level, and beasts froze before him, letting him finish them easily.

It was still good experience to feel the weight of their hides and their lives on his blade.

On this trek, Shen Liqian swept the area with his Golden Star Eyes, finding hidden arrays running across the snow toward one of the mountains.

And the other direction led back to his home.

I no longer doubt that we will have to search a cave within those mountains.

No one in the Shen Clan has ever reached that deep.

I don’t know if I should check inside with this many people.

Looking at his group, he saw Shen Taofeng and the others doing their best to become beasts themselves.

To do so, they skipped traps and fought beasts head‑on as if their lives were on the line.

They made small progress toward Beast Intent, but a long road still lay ahead for everyone.

It was then that their scout returned.

He was out of breath and clutched a tree to stay on his feet.

"I have found a Snow Blue‑eyed Tigress with cubs!

"They’re surrounded by Cold‑mane Longhorns!

"And the mother has suffered a grave wound!"

In normal circumstances, no one from the Shen Clan would ever dare to approach even a single Cold‑mane Longhorn.

Those beasts were four‑legged, elk‑shaped colossi with shaggy white‑silver manes and beards of rime.

Their twisted black horns were glazed with ice, and their breath disturbed the Snow Qi of the White Forest.

Their height and weight were on another level compared to Snow Branch Antlers Kings, and the beasts Shen Taofeng’s group hunted on their first hunt were like children next to Cold‑mane Longhorns.

"Lead the way and fill us in on their numbers as we go," Shen Liqian said without waiting for Shen Taofeng’s instruction.

They hadn’t found a single Snow Blue‑eyed Tigress in the past few days.

He couldn’t miss this chance.

The scout nodded.

Shen Liqian’s words carried more weight than Shen Taofeng’s, after all.

Soon, the group spotted colossal beasts ganging up on the Snow Blue‑eyed Tigress and her cubs.

Although Snow Blue‑eyed Tigers and Tigresses were huge, the mother of two was wounded and sprawled on red snow.

Her cubs were crying and shaking.

She tried her best to protect them, growling at the Cold‑mane Longhorns, but they were so huge they overshadowed her.

Even the powerful Snow Blue‑eyed Tigress had lost.

Shen Liqian narrowed his eyes.

"Has she just given birth?"

Shen Taofeng leaned forward and narrowed his eyes to take a better look.

"I think so."

It was then that the mother of two noticed them.

Her beautiful blue eyes lit up with hope.

She growled a plea to save her children, even if it meant giving them to humans.

No parent would step back if it were their child.

Her eyes and her voice struck Shen Taofeng’s group.

This beast was like them.

She was doing absolutely everything to save her children.

Shen Taofeng didn’t doubt he would do the same for his kids.

He tightened his grip on his spear, his eyes trembling.

Fatherly instinct hit him like cold water, clear and painful.

How could I never... think this way?

The others asked themselves the same question.

A strange feeling seized them, and they all turned their eyes to Shen Liqian.

At the same time, the Cold‑mane Longhorns noticed the group nearby.

All of them turned to look at the humans.

A beat later, all twelve Cold‑mane Longhorns struck the ground with their front paws.

The sound of ice cracking echoed across the forest.

"They’re coming!" Shen Taofeng shouted.

Cracks like an earthquake exploded at the beasts’ feet as they all rushed at Shen Liqian’s group.

Shen Liqian nodded and calmly walked forward.

"On your positions.

"Kill them all."

In his wake, twelve hydras emerged at once, creating a bestial pressure that brought the Cold‑mane Longhorns to a halt.

Shen Jixian dropped into his shooting stance, and Shen Yiren clenched his spear one‑handed, walking behind Shen Liqian.

His body shivered with excitement as he walked in the shadow from which the hydras emerged.

Shen Liqian’s aura also boosted the confidence of Shen Taofeng and his group.

It was time for them to become the real beasts. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

As fire arrows whistled past, Shen Yiren and the others sped up and charged after them.

Shen Liqian’s hydras reached forward as well, turning into a stampede of monsters.

Along with the Shen Clan, the hydras drove into the frozen monsters.

Their jaws and teeth tore through the Cold‑mane Longhorns’ hides and flesh.

Shen Yiren and Shen Jixian did much less damage, but it was still noteworthy.

Shen Taofeng and his group cleverly used Shen Jixian’s help and struck the areas where his fire arrows had hit.

Their techniques held a faint intent of beasts, as no one here moved like a human.

Amidst the chaos, one hydra stood out: Death Hydra.

Once it bit into a beast’s flesh, it completely killed its Qi and vitality.

The flesh took on a black stain that slowly spread like poison.

The more it spread, the faster Death Hydra chewed through the Cold‑mane Longhorn.

The beasts counterattacked with clouds of Ice Qi around them, but none of that worked on Shen Liqian’s hydras.

Meanwhile, Shen Liqian walked around the chaos and stopped by the wounded Snow Blue‑eyed Tigress.

He conjured a leather pouch out of his storage ring and rummaged inside, taking out a red pill.

"It’s a regeneration pill made by my mother.

"Take it."

His golden eyes met the tigress’s blue eyes.

There was clear hesitation, but eventually the tigress opened her mouth.

Shen Liqian tossed the pill into her mouth.

Her bleeding stopped immediately, and her life was no longer in danger.

Her ragged breaths evened, and the panic in her eyes thinned.

Just then, a howl that sounded like tons of ice cracking all at once swept through the area.

Trees fell one by one as something moved.

A few breaths later, a colossal beast stared down at Shen Liqian from above the tree canopy, her long twisted black antlers towering like black clouds.

The light seemed to shrink under those antlers.

Cold‑mane Longhorn Matriarch.

Shen Liqian called back his hydras and stared up along with twelve other pairs of eyes.

"You’re not oppressed by my aura.

"You’re, therefore, a real challenge."

He smiled.