Sweeping the beast world

“Hmph, he actually kept it from me…” Fang Zaiji mumbled softly, following behind Li Fan and entering the spatial passage.

“Hiss!”

His vision blurred for a moment. As soon as he entered this Small World, Fang Zaiji saw dozens of green-winged flying snakes baring their fangs and lunging at him.

“How dare you beasts bully me!” Fang Zaiji’s expression changed dramatically. With a flick of his sleeve, the space in front of him trembled, and the ferocious exotic beasts instantly turned into dust, leaving no trace of their bones.

The entrance was at the bottom of a deep ravine. Amidst the swirling clouds and mist, faint wisps of Spiritual Qi could be detected. The commotion caused by Li Fan and him attracted countless exotic beasts from above.

Like waves of a tide, they surged forward relentlessly, fearless of death.

“Mr. Fang, please act as my Protector,” Li Fan said with a smile to Fang Zaiji. Although these exotic beasts were numerous, the strongest among them were only at the Foundation Establishment Realm. They posed no threat whatsoever to Fang Zaiji, who was in the Harmony Dao Realm. Li Fan then took out another [Star-Stealing Host-Shifting Talisman] and placed it at the entrance of the passage.

Not long after, having completed the transcription of this spatial node, Li Fan passed the Star-Stealing Host-Shifting Talisman to Liu San, who was preparing in Chang Sheng Valley.

“Young Lord, the construction of the spatial passage will take about thirty-odd days. Are you coming back first, or…?” Liu San’s voice faintly came from the portal.

“No hurry. Mr. Fang and I will first explore the situation here,” Li Fan replied. “With him here, Old Liu, you don’t need to worry about my safety.”

“Hmph, it’s precisely because you’re with him that I can’t rest assured.”

“What did you say?!” Fang Zaiji, who was clearing out the exotic beasts, suddenly turned his head upon hearing this.

Just as he was about to argue with Liu San, he found that Liu San had already cut off the connection. Feeling stifled, Fang Zaiji could only vent his anger on these exotic beasts that didn’t know their place.

Before long, these exotic beasts, which had bred in the deep ravine for an unknown period, were almost all dead or wounded.

Flying out from the bottom of the ravine, they arrived on a desolate plain. Li Fan took a deep breath and closed his eyes to sense. The Xuan Bird’s Feather within his body emitted a faint dark glow, and in an instant, Li Fan perceived the ubiquitous free-floating Heavenly Luck in this Small World.

Like a long whale sucking water, or fallen leaves returning to their roots. With almost no effort, the free-floating Heavenly Luck within several hundred miles rushed into Li Fan’s body, as if by their own accord.

Or rather, returned to the Xuan Bird’s Feather.

As more and more Heavenly Luck was absorbed, a feeling simultaneously arose in Li Fan’s heart. Gently pointing forward, with a slight thought, a huge fissure appeared in the earth amidst a rumbling sound.

Countless plants and exotic beasts were swallowed by the earth crack, while those who escaped let out terrified low roars. They no longer cared about Li Fan, the unexpected intruder, and desperately tried to flee the area.

Li Fan watched the retreating figures of the exotic beasts, and as his thoughts flowed, a series of demonic winds suddenly swept across the heavens and earth.

Stirring up flying sand and rolling stones, they howled, sweeping the exotic beasts into the sky. Then, they swept them back to their original positions.

The already unintelligent exotic beasts, after such a sudden change, trembled in fear and collapsed to the ground.

And Li Fan also withdrew his Divine Ability.

“My Luck is Heavenly Luck, my Destiny is Heavenly Destiny. Every word and action carries the might of heaven and earth.”

“Wonderful!” Li Fan exclaimed in his heart.

“Sect Master, was that what you just did?” Fang Zaiji looked at Li Fan with some shock.

One must know that even with his Harmony Dao Realm cultivation, it would be very difficult to cause such earth-shattering and wind-whipping effects with such ease.

Li Fan, however, smiled without answering.

For the next period, under Fang Zaiji’s escort, Li Fan collected the free-floating Heavenly Luck of this Small World while heading towards the deepest part of the wilderness.

Judging from the faint guidance of the Xuan Bird’s Feather within his body, Xiao Hei’s corpse should be there.

During this process, Li Fan discovered an interesting phenomenon.

The closer they got to Xiao Hei’s corpse, the fewer human-like external features the various exotic beasts exhibited. The stronger the exotic beasts’ power became.

“The types of exotic beasts in this Small World belong to the ‘Beast Seed’ branch, which is a Fusion of humans and exotic beasts. But after thousands of years and countless generations of reproduction, the Bloodline belonging to the exotic beasts has not been weakened; instead, a phenomenon similar to atavism has appeared.”

“Interesting.”

As Fang Zaiji cleared the path forward, Li Fan also noticed that some exotic beasts had actually mastered various “Spells” using free-floating Heavenly Luck for combat.

This caused Li Fan’s speed of absorbing Heavenly Luck to be somewhat hindered. But it was only a minor inconvenience.

No matter what Divine Abilities or strange Spells these exotic beasts possessed, they were all useless and would be crushed in the face of absolute power disparity.

Fang Zaiji pushed forward relentlessly, while Li Fan leisurely harvested behind him.

“Mr. Fang, go easy and leave some exotic beasts alive. This place would make a good ranch for our Medicine King Sect in the future,” Li Fan instructed, holding a blue crystal core and observing it carefully.

“Whatever you say, Sect Master.” The prolonged killing had made Fang Zaiji a bit impatient. Now that Li Fan had given instructions, he could openly slack off, so he readily agreed.

This blue crystal core was discovered by Li Fan in the corpse of a Golden Core Stage exotic beast that had died.

It was identical to the exotic beast crystal core that Li Chenfeng described as being relied upon by the Empire’s Cultivators for their cultivation.

Li Fan crushed the crystal core, and energy as hot as boiling water immediately surged out. After absorbing it into his body, Li Fan found that a portion of this scorching unknown energy transformed into Spiritual Qi, flowing through his Meridians. Another small portion scattered like specks of light throughout his Physical Body.

Strengthening the resilience of his flesh and blood.

“Not bad, it’s 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, took out its crystal core, and absorbed it.

“Interesting. These Yao Cores couldn’t be absorbed by us Cultivators back then. I didn’t expect that after thousands of years, this item could actually be used by our generation!” Fang Zaiji exclaimed after a moment.

“This is a change in heaven and earth over a thousand years!” Li Fan agreed with a smile.

“Perhaps this is precisely the result of the Bloodline Fusion between Yao Beasts and humans over thousands of years,” Li Fan thought to himself, recalling the beast species that were extremely similar to humans.

Continuing forward, a black three-legged tall tower stood on the distant land. On top of the tower, there seemed to be a giant black flying bird, spreading its wings and standing alone.

“It really is it.” A glint flashed in Li Fan’s eyes. The appearance of this black bird was exactly the same as Xiao Hei, whom he had seen in the Fallen Immortal Realm.

It seemed that the exotic beasts had already sensed Fang Zaiji’s unstoppable power, as there were no more exotic beasts coming to block them at this point.

Li Fan only saw thousands of exotic beasts kneeling beneath the black three-legged tower, bowing and pleading towards the black flying bird.

Only one chapter today. I’ve been staying up late these past two days and can’t handle it anymore.