Chapter 342 03-25 - 339 Horror Claw Monster Evil Eye Rock Giant
Chapter 342: Chapter 339 Horror Claw Monster Evil Eye Rock Giant
As he delved deeper into the Underground World, moving away from the city of the Dark Elves, Qin Feng began to feel much better.
For the farther he was from the city, the fainter the oppressive aura in the air became.
At the same time, he noticed that the elemental energies here were exceedingly active.
The Earth and Fire Elements, in particular, were abundant, perhaps because of the proximity to the Earth’s Core. The ground here was frequently tremulous, and every several dozen or hundreds of miles, there would be a volcanic eruption. Some volcanoes even connected to form continuous flows, their erupting magma turning into fiery and bright rivers of lava that made the Fire Element’s presence overwhelmingly dense.
As Qin Feng explored more, he encountered a greater diversity of creatures.
Besides the Cave-Dwellers, who were native to the Underground World, most of the intelligent races around were lured down from the surface by the Evil God.
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Other than the Dark Elves Qin Feng had already encountered, there were Gray Dwarves that had branched off from the Dwarf Clan and Minotaurs that had been seduced from the Beastman Clan, among others.
Even the powerful Giant Clan had its branch here with the Flame Giants, and astonishingly, a branch of the Black Dragon, the top tier existence among Demon Beasts, had been lured to become the Underground Black Dragon.
Moreover, many Demon Beasts originally native to the surface world were surprisingly not uncommon in this dim Underground World.
After realizing this, Qin Feng’s mood immediately grew heavy.
This indicated that the Evil God was formidable beyond measure, with eerily powerful means to tempt the hearts of others. Otherwise, so many creatures wouldn’t have been lured down here.
Especially since these creatures included the dragons and giants, two of the most formidable races.
With that knowledge, Qin Feng suppressed his aura to the lowest, aware that the Evil God would probably not focus on the ordinary creatures wandering outside, but still worried about attracting the attention of some entities.
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He did not wish to conflict with other creatures and desired to find the world node where the space was the weakest as quickly as possible to lay down an Array and leave this place.
The Swallowing Sky Toad had already sensed that the space here was entirely different from the surface, being comparatively more active, and it often felt irregularities.
Therefore, Qin Feng was certain that he could find a suitable spot to set up the Positioning Array.
Otherwise, having discovered the power of the Evil God, he would have retraced his steps back the way he had come.
However, after traveling further, he also found that the domain of the Evil God did not cover the entire Underground World.
After moving away from the cities established by the various races lured by the Evil God, many Demon Beasts and quite a few intelligent species seemed unaffected, living their lives as they did on the surface without much difference.
Even the Underground Black Dragons still maintained the nature of the Dragon Clan, unaffected, building their nests upon the mountains, gathering shiny gemstones and Demon Crystals to continue their existence; besides their former betrayal making it difficult to return to the Dragon Clan, in the Underground World, they remained dominant rulers.
Their temperaments had just become more selfish, greedy, and brutal.
It seemed that by keeping a distance from those cities, the true nature of many creatures could indeed recover.
With this realization, Qin Feng felt considerably relieved.
Otherwise, if the Evil God’s territory extended everywhere, the constant fear and pressure would be too overwhelming.
From then on, he made a conscious effort to avoid those cities.
Not only because he did not wish to approach the Evil God’s realm but also because those cities were built in places of stable space.
After all, various species needed to survive, and naturally, they were not willing to live in areas where space was weak—such places were prone to various accidents, and spatial fluctuations could easily bring powerful creatures from other worlds, or even cause spatial turbulence leading to casualties.
Since the wilderness had the weakest spaces, naturally, Qin Feng traveled mainly through these areas.
Upon entering the Underground World, Qin Feng moved in a relatively vast direction, heading north.
On his journey, he had encountered more than a dozen weak spatial nodes, and after careful selection, he chose two locations to bury the Positioning Array.
Elder Kongkong had given him six sets of Positioning Array Plates, and even though deploying just one set would suffice for Elder Kongkong to transport people over, the power of a single Array Plate was somewhat feeble, inadequate to support the transfer of too powerful cultivators.
If only a few Golden Core or Purple Mansion Cultivators were sent over, it wouldn’t be of much use.
At the very least, Qin Feng felt that anything ordinary cultivators could do, he could achieve by himself, so the people teleported over the next time should be as strong as possible. Only then could they thoroughly understand the extent of power this world possessed.
Even though he had encountered many hidden matters while at the Light Church and had roughly surmised some details about the strong beings of this world, his own strength was ultimately insufficient to engage with top-tier powers and determine their actual strength.
For instance, he had no clear idea about the true strength of the Underground World’s Evil God.
But considering that the Evil God could lure down entities like the Black Dragons, which could contest Purple Mansion Cultivators, Qin Feng thought it best for the Sect not to send Purple Mansion Dharma Form Realm Cultivators to investigate. It would take at least a Supreme Elder, who had attained the status of Becoming an Immortal, to handle such a task.
So even though he had already set up two arrays, he still did not stop. He continued forward, searching for more nodes suitable for positioning.
Throughout his travels, he faced danger dozens of times.
The Dark Creatures that worshiped the Evil God frequently raided the wastelands, capturing various intelligent beings as slaves for their hard labor. Qin Feng had encountered this situation over ten times, with each group led by beings capable of contending with level nine Demon Beasts.
Therefore, Qin Feng would always flee from afar upon seeing them. Sometimes, even the Shadow Transformation Divine Power was ineffective when detected by the strong creatures; he could only burrow deep underground and escape.
However, the most frequently encountered creatures on this journey were various demon beasts.
The Underground World is extremely rich in various mineral resources, but the vegetation is relatively sparse, so the food produced is limited. This results in extremely fierce fights among the demon beasts living underground, not only the carnivorous demon beasts hunting the herbivorous ones but also conflicts between the herbivorous demon beasts themselves, each one savage and messier than the last.
Among them, Qin Feng also encountered many rare and strange demon beasts. According to information obtained from some isolated dark intelligent creatures, those demon beasts were mostly not native to this realm but had been transported to the Underground World from places where space was weak.
There was a type of ninth-level demon beast known as the Horror Claw Monster, with huge claws so large they could easily crush boulders, formidable in close combat.
There were monsters with three heads that resembled the Giant Dragon Clan, but they were definitely not three-headed dragons because they lacked dragon power.
There were also Evil Eyes with powerful mental strength. These demon beasts looked like eyeballs with some tentacles growing beneath, giving them a very bizarre appearance; one could tell at a glance that they were definitely strange creatures from the Hell Abyss.
The innate skill of the Evil Eye was actually Spiritual Shock, which used its potent mental power to break down the mental defenses of other life forms and took control of them to fight and kill on its behalf.
This surprised Qin Feng, as he had not expected that the Evil Eye, like their Beast Taming Sect, was also skilled in beast taming.
However, comparatively speaking, the methods of the Beast Taming Sect were much more sophisticated. The Evil Eye could only rely on mental power to forcefully suppress the demon beasts under its control. Once subjected to powerful external disturbances, these demon beasts might have the chance to break free from the Evil Eye’s control.
Even so, this greatly excited Qin Feng.
Unfortunately, the Evil Eye was a different type of demon beast, completely unlike snakes.
Otherwise, if the formidable mental power talent of the Evil Eye could be fused into the body of the Ruyi Golden Snake, it was likely that his mental power would also surge, reaching far beyond the level of his current Cultivation Realm.
Qin Feng learned from several wandering Dark Elves the approximate strength of the Evil Eyes and then gave up on the idea of engaging them now.
Since the Evil Eyes were communal demon beasts with little warpower of their own, they mainly relied on the demon beasts they controlled to attack, defend, and capture prey for food.
Yet, their control was just too strong; the most powerful among them, the Evil Eye Tyrant, had directly taken control of several ninth-level demon beasts.
Upon witnessing this scene, Qin Feng dared not approach any closer. If he were to be struck by the opponent’s Spiritual Shock and have his mental power shattered, he would become a mindless puppet.
So, Qin Feng merely glanced at it from a distance and bypassed the territory of the Evil Eye Tyrant without any designs on the subordinate Evil Eyes.
In the Underground World, with no distinction between day and night, Qin Feng did not know how long he had been wandering, but according to his own pace and distance traveled, he could still roughly estimate the time.
When Qin Feng once again scouted an area spanning thousands of miles and set up the third Positioning Array Plate, he suddenly felt a strong magic fluctuation coming from far away.
He had become used to the frequent fights between demon beasts in the Underground World and so paid it no mind; sensing the magic fluctuation from afar, Qin Feng knew that it must be two formidable ninth-level demon beasts in conflict.
Such powerful demon beasts in battle would not be able to finish in a short time.
Qin Feng planned to bypass that area and explore even further regions.
But as he prepared to pass behind the region where the two demon beasts were fighting, he suddenly froze.
Because he unexpectedly felt two types of heavy pressure on his body.
One affected his mind, and the other targeted his body.
This greatly surprised him.
Feeling the mental pressure was understandable, as he had already deduced from the roar of one of those demon beasts that one of them should be an Underground Black Dragon.
As a member of the Giant Dragon Clan, Black Dragons naturally possess the innate skill Dragon Power, and using it to suppress their opponents is a common tactic.
But what about the pressure on his physical body?
It was only because he had cultivated the Azure Dragon Daoist Body that his resistance to pressure was incredibly strong; otherwise, if an ordinary Silver Knight were to come here, they might be directly crushed to the ground by this pressure, and even a Golden Knight would be greatly affected, struggling with each step.
Qin Feng was astonished.
This was his first time encountering such pressure outside the realm of mental intimidation.
A strong sense of curiosity arose in his heart.
So, he decided not to leave just yet and directly climbed atop a mountain peak, taking cover behind it to look forward.
Then, he saw that the creature fighting the Black Dragon was a massive, fat Demon Bear.
“Rock Giant?”
Qin Feng slightly startled.
It wasn’t a demon beast.
That wasn’t right either; he didn’t feel any sense of flesh and blood from the Rock Giant. It should be classified as a special kind of life form, perhaps more appropriately regarded as a sentient being made of rock.