Xiang Beifei was somewhat astonished!
It had been almost two months since he left Jiuzhou. During these two months, he had constantly been running through the desolate wilderness beyond the domains, without seeing a single living person.
The last time he heard human speech was the not-so-standard "Messenger from the Extremity Abyss" spoken by the stone man Zhang Yu, and then it was the Ghost Whiskers of Remnant Visage, disguised as humans.
After leaving Chen Hou, he hadn't spoken to anyone for an entire month, and he didn't expect to hear human speech here again.
"Is it the Ghostly Visage?"
The first thought that flashed through Xiang Beifei's mind was them, because he didn't know of any other race in the desolate wilderness beyond the domains that could speak the Human Race language so standardly.
He quickly extended his Orifice Perception towards the two people who were talking.
The source of the voice was on top of a giant tree 100 meters tall to the left of the Flood Dragon, where two blurry figures stood. These two, a man and a woman, were shaped just like humans, but what was magical was that they each had a pair of wings on their backs.
This did not resemble the Ghostly Visage.
Xiang Beifei was quite surprised when he perceived this.
Winged humans? And they spoke the Human Race language?
But because the rain was pouring down so heavily, and there was something strange about the rain here that greatly affected Xiang Beifei's Orifice Perception, he couldn't see their faces clearly, only a vague impression.
"We need to make it quick and decisive, we can't let others see our appearance," said the woman.
"No worries, the opportunity will come soon. The Flood Dragon is a member of the Dragon Clan, and this Flood Dragon must have awakened its dragon pearl. Getting hold of it would be a tremendous help to us," the man spoke again.
Then the two fell silent again. They squatted there, always keeping an eye on the distant Flood Dragon.
Xiang Beifei wasn't in a hurry. He continued to observe the two figures in the distance while also tempering his own Orifice Perception.
While Xiang Beifei was cultivating, the other three were utterly bored.
Erha lay reluctantly in a corner with a golden patterned array outside the earthen house; it didn't thing. However, Xiang Beifei had just given it an orifice-transforming phase spiritual power crystal, and it was busily digesting it with its belly filled.
Its strength had already reached the peak of late God Refining phase, but to reach the orifice-transforming phase, it would still need a lot of spiritual power crystals. It wasn't something that could be achieved by simply piling them up; it also had to cultivate.
Xiang Beifei wasn't very clear about it because Erha didn't seem like it knew how to cultivate the Orifice Soul. Even Erha probably didn't know when it would step into the orifice-transforming phase.
It just played it by ear.
Xiaohei was lying by the window, tail up, as if taking a little nap, looking rather comfortable. It usually didn't need to cultivate, its combat power wasn't high, but it was clever and tricky. With its advantage in invisibility and wielding a brick, it was an expert in sneak attacks.
Youmong sat by the window, sticking out its little feet to catch rainwater. Being half-human and half-plant, it also needed water to sustain itself. But soon it became picky; it withdrew its roots, as the rainwater here didn't seem suitable for its growth.
It turned its head, looking at Xiang Beifei, who was cultivating. At this moment, Xiang Beifei was enveloped in a mysterious aura of Yin and Yang; a faint black and white spiritual power intertwined with each other, producing an alluring scent.
Youmong liked Xiang Beifei's spiritual power very much. Being nourished by Xiang Beifei's spiritual power, it had grown quite a bit recently, reaching a height of one chi and four cun, and it could now touch Xiang Beifei's knee when it jumped.
Seeing the spiritual power emanating from Xiang Beifei's body, it couldn't resist any longer. However, it always felt there was something strange about Xiang Beifei's spiritual power today, as though it had turned into black and white.
But it didn't think too much of it, because normally, when it absorbed some of Xiang Beifei's spiritual power, he didn't mind. So, it carefully moved closer to where Xiang Beifei was cultivating and then nestled beside the edge of Xiang Beifei's cultivating spiritual power, swallowing the excess spiritual power that Xiang Beifei exuded, its eyes full of happiness.
However, it soon realized something was wrong because Xiang Beifei's spiritual power seemed to be unbalanced. It had only consumed a bit of the white spiritual power when its body suddenly began to feel uncomfortable, starting to convulse.
Youmong clutched its body as white light surged rapidly, causing its body to swell as if it was about to burst.
Just then, a strand of black aura wrapped around Youmong's body, merging with the white light and neutralizing the white spiritual power, calming Youmong's convulsing body.
Youmong climbed up from the ground, looking at Xiang Beifei uncertainly.
"When I'm cultivating, don't absorb the spiritual power I'm splitting. It's very dangerous."
Xiang Beifei opened his eyes and patted Youmong's head, chuckling wryly. He then gave Youmong a strand of his complete spiritual power to absorb.
After a while, he found it strange that ever since he had Orifice Perception, his spiritual power had taken on two entirely different forms, and he didn't know why.
He could only guess it was related to Orifice Perception, but the more he cultivated these two perceptions, the more sensitive his own Perception became.
"Let's go, we've got to take a look at those two birdpeople."
Xiang Beifei stood up and called out to Xiaohei and Erha.
He stepped out of the breath soil cottage, and at this time, the outer walls of the cottage were overgrown with various insects and desolate beasts. These creatures seemed eager to approach, having seen an earthen house on the tree in the rain, whether to seek shelter from the rain or to launch an attack.
However, Xiang Beifei had set up a golden pattern on the cottage with two bricks, which would paralyze them as soon as they hopped onto the cottage. Therefore, the outside was full of various petrified insects and serpents.