Chapter 666: Dominating The Beastkin World
Chapter 666: Dominating The Beastkin World
"Hmph! Keeping secrets from me..." Fang Zaiji muttered under his breath, following close behind Li Fan as they stepped into the spatial passage.th
Ssss—!
His vision swam and blurred. The moment he entered this minor world, Fang Zaiji found dozens of green-winged flying serpents baring their fangs and lunging straight for him.
"You beasts dare to provoke me?!" Fang Zaiji's expression twisted with fury. He swept his sleeve wide, and the space before him trembled. In that instant, the grotesque exotic beasts were ground into fine powder, their bodies and bones utterly destroyed.
The entrance sat at the bottom of a deep ravine. Shrouded in mist, faint traces of spiritual qi spilled down from above. The commotion of Li Fan and his companion's intrusion drew the attention of countless exotic beasts from higher up.
Wave after wave, they surged forward, fearlessly courting death.
"Mister Fang, please guard me," Li Fan said with a calm smile.
The beasts were numerous, but the strongest among them had only reached the Foundation Establishment realm, no threat at all to a Dao Unity cultivator like Fang Zaiji. With that, Li Fan produced another Stellar Transposition Scroll and laid it over the passage's entrance.
Before long, Li Fan finished transcribing the spatial node at this location and passed the Stellar Transposition Scroll to Liu San, who was preparing the passage back in Longevity Valley.
"Young Master, constructing the spatial passage will take about thirty-some days. Will you return first, or..." Liu San's voice came faintly from within the door.
"No rush. Mister Fang and I will scout this place first. With him here, you needn't worry about my safety, Old Liu," Li Fan replied.
"Hmph. It's precisely because you're with him that I'm worried," Liu San shot back.
"What did you say?!" Fang Zaiji, who had been clearing away the exotic beasts, spun around sharply. He was about to argue with Liu San, only to find the connection already severed. Frustration gnawed at him, and he could only vent it on the reckless beasts.
Before long, the exotic beasts that had bred for ages in this deep ravine were nearly all dead.
Flying up from the ravine's floor, they emerged onto a desolate plain. Li Fan took a deep breath and closed his eyes to sense his surroundings. Within him, the Xuan Bird Feather shimmered with profound, dark light. In a single instant, Li Fan detected the drift of heavenly providence pervading every corner of this minor world.
It was like a whale drinking in water, like falling leaves returning to their roots—without any real effort, the scattered heavenly providence for hundreds of li in every direction surged eagerly into Li Fan. Or rather, it returned to the Xuan Bird Feather.
As he absorbed more and more heavenly providence, a feeling grew within Li Fan's heart. He pointed gently ahead, and with a flicker of intent, a massive fissure split the earth with a thunderous roar.
Countless plants and exotic beasts were devoured by the chasm. Those fortunate enough to survive let out low, terrified howls, no longer caring about the intruding strangers. They fled with all their might, desperate to escape.
Li Fan watched their retreating backs. As his will flowed outward, a strange, demonic wind suddenly coiled through heaven and earth.
It kicked up flying sand and shifting stones, roaring as it swept the beasts into the sky. Then, just as abruptly, it dropped them back exactly where they'd started.
The exotic beasts, never known for high intelligence, were so shaken by the ordeal that they collapsed on the spot, trembling and paralyzed with fear.
Li Fan withdrew his divine ability.
My providence is heaven’s providence. My will is heaven’s will. Every word, every action carries the authority of heaven and earth.
Marvelous!
"Sect Leader... was that you?" Fang Zaiji stared at Li Fan, somewhat shocked. Even with his Dao Unity cultivation, he could not have split the earth and raised such a gale so effortlessly.
Li Fan simply smiled and said nothing.
The two journeyed on through this minor world, and Li Fan gathered its wandering heavenly providence while pushing ever deeper into the wilderness.
Based on the faint guidance from the Xuan Bird Feather within his body, Little Hei's corpse should lie somewhere ahead.
Along the way, Li Fan noticed something interesting.
The closer they got to Little Hei's corpse, the fewer human features the various exotic beasts possessed, and the stronger they grew.
The exotic beasts in this minor world belong to the beastkin branch, a fusion of human and beast. But after millennia, through countless generations of propagation, the beast bloodline hasn't weakened. Instead, it's exhibited a phenomenon similar to atavism.
Interesting.
As Fang Zaiji cleared their path forward, Li Fan noticed that some exotic beasts had actually found a way to harness the free-floating heavenly providence, casting what amounted to arcane arts.
This slowed the rate at which Li Fan absorbed the heavenly providence somewhat, but it was nothing more than a minor annoyance.
No matter what divine abilities or peculiar arts the exotic beasts here possessed, they were all destined to be crushed before such an absolute disparity in strength.
Fang Zaiji bulldozed through every obstacle in their path, and Li Fan followed leisurely behind, reaping the harvest.
"Mister Fang, go easy. Leave some of these exotic beasts alive. This place would make an excellent pasture for our Medicine King Sect someday." Li Fan held a blue crystal core in his hand, examining it closely as he gave the instruction.
"Whatever you say, Sect Leader." The repetitive slaughter had made Fang Zaiji somewhat impatient, and with Li Fan's command giving him an excuse to slack off, he readily agreed.
Li Fan had found the blue crystal core in the corpse of a dead exotic beast at the Golden Core realm.
It was exactly the same as the exotic beast crystal cores Li Chenfeng had described, the ones the Empire's people relied on for cultivation.
As Li Fan crushed the crystal core, energy surged out from within, as hot as boiling water. As he drew it into his body, he found that part of this scorching, unknown energy transformed into spiritual qi and flowed through his meridians. A smaller portion scattered like starlight throughout his physical body.
It tempered the resilience of his flesh.
Not bad. This is good stuff.
At that moment, Fang Zaiji noticed what Li Fan was doing. He casually slaughtered an exotic beast, extracted its crystal core, and absorbed it.
After a moment, Fang Zaiji exclaimed in admiration, "Interesting. We cultivators couldn't absorb these demonic cores back in the old days. Who would've thought that after thousands of years, our kind could finally make use of them!"
Li Fan smiled in agreement. "Heaven and earth have changed a great deal in thousands of years!"
He thought back to those beastkin that looked so similar to humans. Perhaps this is the result of the bloodline fusion between demonic beasts and humans over the millennia.
They continued onward. In the distance, a black, obelisk tower stood ahead. A huge black bird perched atop it, wings spread, solitary and proud.
Indeed. A sharp glint flashed in Li Fan's eyes. The black bird's form was exactly the same as Little Hei's in the Fallen Immortal Realm.
It seemed even the exotic beasts had finally acknowledged that Fang Zaiji's strength could not be stopped. Here, no more of them came to bar his way.
Li Fan watched as tens of thousands of exotic beasts knelt beneath the black obelisk tower, kowtowing before the black bird perched atop it.