Chapter 696: Chapter 662: Sweeping Across the Beast Type World
“Hmph, actually kept this from me…” Fang Zaiji muttered under his breath, following behind Li Fan as they entered the space tunnel.
“Hiss!”
Suddenly, his vision blurred. Just as he entered the Small World, Fang Zaiji saw dozens of Green Wing Flying Snakes baring their fangs and lunging at him.
“You lowly beasts dare to defy me!” Fang Zaiji’s face grimaced in anger, he waved his sleeve, and the spatial tremor in front of him transformed the menacing exotic beasts into dust; their bones were no more.
The entrance was at the bottom of a deep gorge. Amidst the lingering fog, faint traces of the discharging Spiritual Energy could be detected. The commotion caused by Li Fan and Fang Zaiji’s entrance attracted countless exotic beasts from above.
Like waves of a tide, they fearlessly lunged towards them one after another.
“Please, Sir, protect us.” The exotic beasts, although numerous, were at most at the Foundation Establishment Stage. They didn’t pose any threat at all to Fang Zaiji, who was at the Realm of Unification. Li Fan smilingly said to Fang Zaiji, then took out a [Star-Thief’s Lodging Scroll] and put it at the entrance of the tunnel.
After a short while, having completed transcribing the spatial node here, Li Fan passed the Star-Thief’s Lodging Scroll to Liu San, who was waiting in the Valley of Eternal Life.
“Young Master, setting up the space tunnel will probably take more than thirty days. Do you want to come back first or …” Liu San’s voice faintly came from the door.
“Don’t worry, Mr. Fang and I will first scout the area. Liu Elder, with him here, you don’t need to worry about my safety,” Li Fan replied.
“Hmph, it’s precisely because you’re with him that I’m worried.”
“What did you say!” Right when Fang Zaiji was clearing out the exotic beasts, he heard these words and abruptly turned his head.
Just when he was about to argue with Liu San, he found that Liu San had already cut the connection. Fang Zaiji, feeling stifled, could only vent his anger on these clueless exotic beasts.
It didn’t take long for these exotic beasts, which had proliferated in the gorge for who knows how long, to be nearly exterminated.
They flew out of the bottom of the gorge and arrived at a desolate plain. Li Fan took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and felt the surroundings. The Feather of the Mystic Bird in his body emitted a faint dark light, and in an instant, Li Fan sensed the free-floating Heaven’s Fortune that existed everywhere in this Small World.
Just like a whale sucking in water, or a fallen leaf returning to its roots. With hardly any effort, the Heaven’s Fortune within a few hundred miles flowed into Li Fan’s body on its own accord.
Or more accurately, it returned to the Feather of the Mystic Bird.
As more and more Heaven’s Fortune was absorbed, Li Fan also felt a sense of mastery. With a gentle point of his finger, with the flicker of a thought, a gigantic rift emerged from the ground with a loud rumbling sound.
Countless vegetation and exotic beasts were swallowed by the ground-breaking rift, and those who managed to escape emitted fearful roars. They no longer cared about the alien intruder Li Fan, they were doing their best to flee this place.
Li Fan watched the silhouette of the fleeing exotic beasts and with a subtle change in mind, a sudden gust of demonic wind rose in Heaven and Earth.
The wind whipped up sand and pebbles, howling as it swept the exotic beasts into the air, and then brought them back to their original location.
The exotic beasts, which didn’t have high intelligence to begin with, were shivering with fear after such a catastrophe and collapsed on the spot.
Then, Li Fan retracted his Divine Technique.
“My fate is Heaven’s fate, my destiny is Heaven’s destiny. Every word and every action carries the Power of Heaven and Earth.”
“How marvelous!” Li Fan praised in his heart.
“Was that you just now, Sect Master?” Fang Zaiji looked at Li Fan with some astonishment.
You should know that even with his Unity-Path cultivation, it would be very difficult to casually create ground-breaking rifts and gusty wind.
Li Fan simply responded with a smile and didn’t answer.
In the following period, under Fang Zaiji’s protection, Li Fan collected the wandering Heaven’s Fortune of this Small World while advancing into the deep wilderness.
Going by the faint guidance from the Feather of the Mystic Bird inside his body, Little Black’s body should be there.
During this process, Li Fan noticed an interesting phenomenon.
The closer he got to Little Black’s body, the fewer external human characteristics the appearing exotic beasts showed. Also, the stronger the exotic beasts became.
“The beast species in this Small World belong to the [Beast Species] branch that merges humans and exotic beasts. But after thousands of years and numerous generations of reproduction, the bloodline of the exotic beasts has not been weakened; on the contrary, a sort of ancestral resurgence has appeared.”
“Interesting.”
While Fang Zaiji was clearing the way ahead, Li Fan also noticed that some of the exotic beasts had mastered various “spells” for using the free-floating Heaven’s Fortune in battle.
This somewhat hindered the speed at which Li Fan absorbed Heaven’s Fortune. But it was just a bit troublesome.
No matter what kind of Divine Techniques or different methods these exotic beasts had, they were all useless and would be completely crushed in the face of absolute strength disparity.
Fang Zaiji made his way through and Li Fan leisurely reaped the rewards behind him.
“Mr. Fang, take it easy and leave some exotic beasts alive. It’s a good idea to use this place as our Medicine King Sect’s pasture,” Li Fan, carefully inspecting a blue crystal core in his hand, softly reminded.
“It’s up to you, Sect Master,” Fang Zaiji, who was a little impatient after a long period of slaughter, gladly agreed. He could now laze around in the name of taking the Sect Master’s order.
This blue crystal core was found by Li Fan inside the corpse of an exotic beast that had Golden Core Stage strength.
It was just like the exotic beast crystal core that Li Chenfeng described which the cultivators of the Empire used for cultivation.
Li Fan crushed the crystal core and the hot energy akin to boiling water suddenly surged out. After sucking it into his body, he found that some of this hot unknown energy transformed into Spiritual Energy, flowing through his meridians. A small part of it, however, was scattered throughout his flesh in tiny spots.
Strengthening the resilience of his flesh.
“Not bad, this is a good thing.” Li Fan thought to himself.
At this moment, Fang Zaiji also noticed Li Fan’s actions. He casually killed an exotic beast, extracted the crystal core, and absorbed it.
“Interesting, at that time, us cultivators couldn’t absorb the cores of these demonic beasts. I didn’t expect that after a thousand years, they could now be used for our cultivation!” After a while, Fang Zaiji exclaimed.
“It seems the world has changed over these thousand years!” Li Fan responded with a smile.
“Perhaps this is precisely the result of the bloodline of demonic beasts and humans fusing together over thousands of years,” Li Fan thought, remembering the Beast Species which bore a striking resemblance to humans.
As they continued on their way, a three-foot-high black tower stood on the distant land. At the top of the tower, a giant black bird stood with its wings spread.
“As expected, it’s you,” Li Fan’s eyes glittered with determination. The figure of this black bird was strikingly identical to Little Black in the Fallen Immortal Realm.
It seemed like they had already recognized the invincible strength of Fang Zaiji. At this point, there were no more exotic beasts coming to obstruct.
All Li Fan saw was thousands of exotic beasts bowing and begging for mercy under the Three Feet Black Tower.