Chapter 209 - 209 206 Spiritual Vulture Promoted
Chapter 209: Chapter 206: Spiritual Vulture Promoted Chapter 209: Chapter 206: Spiritual Vulture Promoted Qin Feng had searched the area marked on the map for several days without locating Feisha City, which left him feeling extremely impatient.
However, since he had already come this far, he couldn’t just leave without even catching a glimpse of Feisha City.
Therefore, rather than leaving, he continued to search the vicinity.
He thought that either Feisha City had already been buried under countless amounts of sand by the desert, or it was concealed by some strange method.
That’s why he hadn’t been able to find the exact location.
That afternoon, the fiercely blazing sun suddenly turned dull and yellowish.
Soon afterward, the wind and sand rose up, and the sky darkened as if night had fallen.
…
The sun and the moon were obscured, leaving only a vision of yellow sand swirling in the violent wind.
Far away, twisters reached from the ground to the sky, hurling countless grains of sand into the clouds.
Even Qin Feng found it hard to move in such a violent sandstorm.
He tried to find shelter but to no avail, as the sand dunes around him had been blown away, leaving him nowhere to hide.
Left with no choice, he lay flat on the sand, waiting for the sandstorm to pass.
Wasting Spiritual Power to resist such a ferocious storm would have been irrational – if it continued for several hours, his True Yuan would be completely depleted.
In just a short moment, the ferocious sandstorm had buried Qin Feng, who was lying on the ground, more than two feet deep.
Thanks to his Earth Escape Divine Power, he was unafraid.
Otherwise, within a few years, there would be another skeleton buried in this place.
Qin Feng concealed himself beneath the desert, creating a small space with his Spiritual Power to take refuge in.
He quietly waited for half a day before he noticed that the sandstorm above had subsided and the desert had returned to tranquility.
With a loud “bang,” he burst from beneath the sand.
The sand on the surface flew dozens of feet away, scattering in all directions.
Standing atop a sand dune, Qin Feng looked around.
The desert was now silent and still, with rolling dunes stretching out into the distance.
Under the glow of the setting sun, the dunes took on a fiery red hue, emitting a different kind of beauty.
“Eh?”
Suddenly, he spotted something in the distance that looked different from the dunes.
A glint of Spirit Light flashed in his eyes, and upon closer inspection, his face lit up with joy.
For there lay the ruins of buildings.
“No wonder this place is called Feisha City.
It seems that it only appears after the cleansing of a sandstorm.”
With a light step, Qin Feng swiftly flew toward it using the Divine Movement Technique.
This area of the city ruins was not very large, only about a thousand yards in diameter.
Most of it was damaged and broken, but a few stone palaces built from boulders remained relatively intact.
Wandering through the quiet, ancient ruins, Qin Feng looked around curiously.
He extended his Divine Sense to search for the presence of evil qi.
Although the city ruins would soon be engulfed by the sand again, and Cultivation of Divine Skills would take some time, requiring daily Refining of evil qi, it didn’t matter.
As long as he located the source of the evil qi, he could still use the Earth Escape Divine Power to dive underground and continue absorbing the Earth Evil Qi here.
Soon enough, Qin Feng made a discovery.
His Divine Sense felt a disturbance coming from one of the better-preserved halls.
Qin Feng turned and walked straight toward it.
“Roar…”
As soon as he was about to step into the hall, a dull roar erupted, followed by a ferocious blast of wind and sand that came hurtling toward him with a destructive force.
“Hmm?”
Qin Feng was taken aback.
He hadn’t expected that in this desolate place, there would be a Demon Beast lurking, and this Demon Beast had hidden itself so cleverly that even he had not noticed its presence before.
Seeing the oncoming sandstorm, he didn’t dare to hesitate and quickly pointed out a finger, casting a Spell to create a Defensive Shield in front of him to block the sand.
“Snap, snap, snap!”
A flurry of light colliding sounds rang out.
Then, he saw the Defensive Shield he had cast thinning visibly to the eye until it was shattered by the wind and sand.
Each grain of sand carried by the wind seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and when it struck the shield, it was like being hit by a Heavy Hammer.
While Qin Feng was astonished, he cast another Defensive Shield and looked toward the source of the attack.
He saw a colossal figure emerging from within the stone hall.
The figure was bizarre, its body seemingly made of yellow sand, not quite human and not quite beast, looking very strange.
However, this creature was powerful.
The gusts of wind it blew forced Qin Feng to retreat continuously, and his Protective Shield had already been broken three times.
“Is this a Sand Beast, or a Life formed within the sandstorm?
Or is it the resentful spirit of a powerful being who died in the desert and formed from absorbing the Earth Evil Qi here?”
Qin Feng couldn’t figure out exactly what this entity was after observing it for a moment.
It wasn’t a living creature in the usual sense.
But that was not the main concern.
The crucial point was that Qin Feng had already felt the tremendous evil qi within this creature.
He didn’t need to guess to know that this creature had absorbed a lot of evil qi here.
Sigh.
Qin Feng inwardly sighed.
It seemed that the local evil qi had been ruined by this unknown monster.
Such an existence didn’t know restraint and would absorb everything good it found.
He wondered how much of the evil qi was left.
Seeing that the Yellow Sand Monster continued its relentless attack on him, even as he’d retreated from the stone hall’s vicinity, Qin Feng shook his head and then released his Spiritual Beasts.
If it had been just him alone, he would have chosen to flee immediately.
But the disciples of the Beast Taming Sect, which he belonged to, were never afraid of such battles.
“Though you may be stronger than I am, I have subordinates.”
So, when the Fire Ape, with a Cultivation Realm matched to the Wind Sand Monster, furiously punched with its fists, and the Swallowing Sky Toad, which also possessed Foundation Establishment strength, sprayed vast amounts of water to sweep over the Wind Sand Monster’s body, and the Ghost-Faced Spider spun webs to slice through the yellow sand, even the late-stage Qi Refinement Green Fox and Spiritual Vulture joined in to assist the attack, the Wind Sand Monster suddenly seemed unable to withstand it.
The creature felt immense pressure, especially as the water waves sprayed by the Swallowing Sky Toad continuously eroded its body.
In addition, the raging Fire Ape was brawling with it, and every punch caused a clump of yellow sand to explode from a part of its body.
Although it could continuously restore itself by absorbing the desert sands, this place was after all within the ancient city’s boundaries.
Once blown away by the wind and sand, there wasn’t much sand left in the city, unless it waited for the next sandstorm to arrive, bringing vast amounts of sand to cover the area once again.
It wanted to escape the ancient city.
As long as it stood upon the desert sands, it feared no foes.
In the desert, it was nearly immortal, and even if overpowered, it could always use the Sand Escape Technique to flee.
Once it buried itself in the desert sands, its aura would merge with the vast desert, and its body would blend into the sands indistinguishably, making it impossible for anyone to trace it.
Regrettably, this was the ancient city, not its home turf.
In fact, it wouldn’t have lingered here if not for its desire to absorb the Floating Dust Evil Qi.
It just hadn’t expected that despite so many uneventful times before, today it ran into a cultivator from the Human Clan.
“Thinking of escaping?”
Before it had moved far, Qin Feng saw through its intentions and couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh.
With a thought, the Ghost-Faced Spider leaped high into the air from its position, several meters up, and landed directly behind the Yellow Sand Monster.
It spat out webs connecting to the stone hall and several other structures, quickly weaving several layers of webs to block the Yellow Sand Monster’s path.
Then it redoubled its efforts, setting up more webs in several directions around it, blocking the Yellow Sand Monster from all sides, leaving it no chance to escape.
Even if it was strong enough to break through the webs, it would need some time, but the Fire Ape was wrestling with it up close, not giving it a chance to break free, spewing fire and melting much of the sand on its body.
The wind sand it spat out could hardly breach the Fire Ape’s outer layer of Flame Armor, and even if it did, it would at most cause superficial damage, unable to inflict serious harm.
As for close combat, its body was made of sand and thus was somewhat flimsy, not as solidly powerful as the Fire Ape, and it lacked the Fire Ape’s sharp claws, thus it could only suffer as the Fire Ape relentlessly struck, scattering the sand from its body.
From behind, the Swallowing Sky Toad’s angles of attack were tricky; it didn’t use the more powerful Star Light, which was generally less effective against a creature made entirely of individual grains of sand.
Under Qin Feng’s command, it used water waves to sweep over the Yellow Sand Monster’s body.
Once a significant amount of water penetrated it, the toad would then spew out cold air to freeze parts of its limbs, hindering its movements.
The Green Fox hid behind the Fire Ape, casting Illusion Techniques periodically to confuse the Yellow Sand Monster, while the Spiritual Vulture in the sky constantly fanned Wind Blades to support the assault from above.
Under the siege of these Spiritual Beasts, the Yellow Sand Monster quickly fell into a disadvantage.
Qin Feng didn’t even need to make a move.
He simply stood with his hands behind his back, watching the battle with an indifferent expression.
Before long, the Yellow Sand Monster, devoid of the protection of the desert, was beaten into a sorry state by the several Spiritual Beasts, shrinking from over five meters tall to just over one meter.
This was because the sand within its body had been scattered and couldn’t be replenished.
Finally, when the Yellow Sand Monster was once again afflicted by the water waves and then had parts of its body frozen by the cold air spewed from the Swallowing Sky Toad, the Fire Ape roared furiously, leaped high into the air, and struck down hard with a fist, turning the Yellow Sand Monster into scattered sand in the sky.
Qin Feng did not choose to subdue this Yellow Sand Monster.
Not that he didn’t want to.
In fact, he noticed that the Yellow Sand Monster’s abilities were quite impressive, with the capacity to heal itself through sand, making it an insurmountable opponent if it stood upon the desert, where it could always return to its peak state.
He might also venture into the desert in the future, and having such a subordinate in the sands would undoubtedly be very useful to him.
But this Yellow Sand Monster was not suitable.
Because its essence was linked to the vast desert, leaving this desert would kill it.
Qin Feng felt that this Yellow Sand Monster might be related to that powerful being that had turned this place into a vast desert years ago.
He didn’t want to raise a creature possibly connected to an ancient force.
What if he accidentally revived that Ancient power?
Although the likelihood was minute, it was better to be cautious.
“Screech…”
Suddenly, a sharp cry from the Spiritual Vulture came, conveying to Qin Feng not only its cry but also its uncontrollable excitement.
Qin Feng, connecting his spirit with the Spiritual Vulture, quickly understood why it was so excited.
For the Yellow Sand Monster had left behind an Energy Crystal upon its death, and that Energy Crystal contained pure Wind Element Power, greatly attracting the Spiritual Vulture.
It could sense that if it devoured that Energy Crystal, it would be able to undergo evolution and advance to Foundation Establishment.
“This is an unexpected fortune,” Qin Feng commented.
Approaching the Energy Crystal, Qin Feng lifted it up in the air and examined it, feeling the pure Wind Element Power within it as well.
After a moment of thought, he handed it directly to the Spiritual Vulture for it to devour.
Originally, he had planned to give up on nurturing the Spiritual Vulture.
After all, compared to the resources he had invested, catching a new Spiritual Bird would be much more cost-effective.
But since he had encountered such an opportunity here, he didn’t mind letting the Spiritual Vulture consume it to enhance its strength.
No matter what, it had been with him for a long time, and he did have some affection for it in his heart.
Delighted, the Spiritual Vulture cried out joyfully and swallowed the Energy Crystal whole.
Soon after, a torrential aura surged from its body, and currents of wind spread around it, lifting up the remaining sand left by the Yellow Sand Monster.
“Screech…”
After a while, the Spiritual Vulture soared into the sky, flapping its wings wildly in the air, sending out blasts of wind as it expelled the excess power that its body couldn’t digest.
Nearly half an hour later, the Spiritual Vulture finally settled down.
By then, it emanated the aura of the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
This made Qin Feng somewhat envious.
Although the cultivation speed of these Demon Beasts was somewhat slow, as long as they had enough resources, they could evolve by brute-force devouring, far surpassing Human Clan Cultivators in this regard.
ps: I’m too tired from the past two days and not in a writing mood.
I’ll try to finish this part today and then return to the Sect to start the next storyline.