Chapter 533 - 530: The Dog Bullies by Relying on Human Power, Devouring Rainbow Bridge
“Actually, if Qin Feng hadn’t been focused on returning to Biluo soon to solidify his achievements, he would have liked to stay longer in the Undead Realm, collecting some Underground Yin Spirit Veins before leaving.
With his skilled proficiency in capturing Spirit Veins that he’d developed in the Fire Kingdom, within a year, he could have gathered enough Yin Veins in the Undead Realm to accumulate the quantity of a giant Undead Yin Vein inside the Netherworld Treasure Pearl.
However, compared to becoming the Chosen Son of Biluo and receiving the enhancement of Heavenly Dao’s Qi Fortune, those mere Undead Yin Veins were not something he considered important—he couldn’t risk his own Daoist path, so he had to put that plan on hold.
After all, the Netherworld Treasure Pearl originally contained a large Yin Vein, sufficient for the Hellhound to continue its cultivation inside!
As it ran, the Hellhound was incredibly fast, whether crossing barren plains or treacherous peaks of the Death Swamp; it leaped over them, its limbs flying, leaving behind only a few huge paw prints and shattering some rocks.
Thus, after more than ten continuous days, the Hellhound rapidly crossed half the Undead Realm and arrived near the Rainbow Bridge.
From a distance, seeing the Rainbow Bridge that connected the three realms, Qin Feng’s heart couldn’t help but relax deeply.
Staying in the Lower World for a long time put tremendous pressure on him, as each of the three great kingdoms had many powerful beings; that he had mingled safely to this point and even gained numerous benefits was nothing short of miraculous luck.
But he could not keep relying on luck to mix in this world full of strong beings—it was too dangerous; it was better to leave as soon as possible.
Relatively speaking, the Midgard World was much safer.
Although the Midgard World was relatively safe for the weakest Human Clan, there were also powerful Frost Giants and Hill Giants, powerful beings from the Vanir Gods, and occasionally gods from the upper Divine Country, Asgard, would descend to the lower realm.
But Qin Feng no longer intended to explore the secrets of various races and forces in Midgard; he would leave that to other disciples participating in the trials. He couldn’t monopolize all achievements and should give other disciples a chance to participate.
Of course, the main reason was that he no longer wanted to take risks.
Now that the information he had obtained was sufficient to secure a spot for himself, there was no need to endanger his life further. Once life is lost, all benefits would belong to others.
‘Master!’
The Hellhound turned its head around, opening its massive fanged mouth–a terrifying sight—yet spoke in the most humble words, ‘Please instruct, Master, where shall we go now?’
Previously, Qin Feng had only mentioned the area near the Rainbow Bridge; it did not know what Qin Feng specifically intended to do, and only now did it ask.
‘Leave the Undead Realm, go to Midgard!’
Qin Feng opened his Yin Yang Ghost Eye, looked around to see that there were no Undead strong beings nearby, and then directly commanded.
‘To Midgard?’
Hearing this, the Hellhound was startled, ‘Master isn’t planning to claim a territory in the Undead Realm?’
It had imagined that Qin Feng wanted to conquer territory near the Rainbow Bridge to declare himself king.
Throughout the journey, it had fancied that once its master became king, it could show off its power, relying on its master’s majesty to bully other Undead and display its own might.”
Upon hearing that their master was about to leave the Undead Realm, the Hellhound was greatly shocked: “Master, is the Undead Realm not satisfactory? Why leave?”
“If Master wishes, as your most loyal subject, the faithful Batty is willing to be the first to charge into battle for you, conquering a territory so that all nearby undead with spiritual intelligence will swear allegiance to you and offer tribute each year. We could also…”
“Hehe…”
After hearing this, Qin Feng couldn’t help but laugh, surprised that it had such aspirations.
He smiled and waved his hand to interrupt the Hellhound’s words, “Let’s forgo expanding territory. The Undead Realm is not a place to linger for long. We’d better leave here quickly.”
“Master, why is that?”
The Hellhound was full of confusion: “Wouldn’t it be free and easy to become a local overlord here, with many undead at your disposal?”
“How would the sparrow understand the ambition of the swan!”
Seeing its confusion, Qin Feng felt it was not appropriate to reveal his identity and trial mission to it. He slightly lifted his chin and gazed distantly at the murky sky above, as if he were the King of Gods seated on the highest throne, possessing an indifferent view of the three realms, the nine countries, and countless beings, “Look at this sky, shrouded in deathly mists all year round, where not even the true starry sky is visible.
Compared to this small Undead Realm, my true goal is the vast ocean of stars. Since you have chosen to follow me, you should keep up with my pace, rather than confining yourself to this corner.
How vast is the world outside, and how can a small Undead Realm compare? If you cannot even see this, how can you continue to follow by my side and accompany me in conquering all directions?”
“…”
The Hellhound was somewhat dazed but felt that its master’s image had grown even greater in its eyes.
From these words of its master, it was clear that it was being told its vision and knowledge were too shallow, and continuing this way, it would not be able to keep up with its master’s pace.
This wouldn’t do – it prided itself on being the top boot-licker under its master’s command, needing to stick closely by its master’s side, guarding the home and tearing apart all opponents, it couldn’t just become mediocre like the other Spiritual Beasts.
Indeed, in its heart, it had already relegated the White Dragon, Qingluan, and Death Curse Crow to synonyms for mediocrity. In its view, only those less powerful than it couldn’t compete for favor and were naturally just ordinary Spiritual Beasts.
Although the Hellhound had never left the Undead Realm and couldn’t understand the cosmic void outside this world, nor had it seen what the full starry sky looked like, it didn’t quite grasp Qin Feng’s words.
However, understanding was unnecessary – as a loyal dog, it was always ready to show allegiance, “Master, rest assured, the loyal Batty will always keep pace with you, wherever you go, I will follow, and whoever you say to attack, I will bite them to death immediately!”
“Good.”
Qin Feng extended his hand and patted its dog head, showing a satisfied expression: “Keep up the good work, and you will be rewarded!”
“Thank you, Master, thank you!”
After being patted on the head, and hearing these words from Qin Feng, the Hellhound was overjoyed, which indicated that the Master greatly valued it.
Although it didn’t know that it was being groomed by Qin Feng as a primary Spirit Beast for the sixth layer, nor had it experienced integrating with other canine Spirit Beasts’ bloodlines to obtain Divine Skills, it instinctively took its master’s rewards to heart, hoping to quickly accomplish impressive deeds and receive its master’s reward.
Under Qin Feng’s encouragement, the Hellhound immediately abandoned the idea of showing off in front of a group of Undead in the Undead Realm and directly stepped onto the Rainbow Bridge.
Unlike the section of the Rainbow Bridge that connects Midgard to the Divine Country, which always saw powerful beings passing through, be it Giants attacking or Divine descending into Midgard, there were also Valkyrie girl warriors commuting between the two realms, collecting the Heroic Spirits of valiant warriors from the battlefield.
The section of the Rainbow Bridge connecting the Undead Realm to Midgard was rarely visited by any strong beings from the lower realms.
Both the Evil Dragon and the Flame Giant refrained from crossing the Undead Realm, so they basically never came here, and the powerful entities from the Undead Realm similarly did not wish to leave the Netherworld that they found comforting. Going to Midgard or the Divine Country would only weaken them and subject them to the suppression of the Divine Clan.
Thus, on his way, Qin Feng didn’t encounter any other mighty travelers and safely left the Undead Realm, returning to the Midgard World.
At this point, he dared not proceed any further.
Otherwise, once he faced the Divine Clan descending or happened to encounter Giants attacking the Divine Country and got blocked by the Giants, his only option would have been to head to the Divine Country.
However, he didn’t immediately leave the Rainbow Bridge but was rather lost in thought as he observed the mist hovering over the bridge.
When he first arrived at the Rainbow Bridge, he was attacked by Luo Xiao before he could take a good look, and later he was besieged by Giants. While fleeing to the lower realm, he had to escape frenetically for fear of the Giants pursuing him, never really getting a chance to carefully observe the structure of the Rainbow Bridge.
Now undisturbed and having cultivated the Great Divine Power of the Yin Yang Ghost Eye which significantly enhanced his vision, he attentively observed and soon discovered some interesting phenomena.
The Rainbow Bridge, serving as a bridge linking the three realms, was naturally filled with wonders and felt incredibly solid to step on, but its essence of being a rainbow could never be altered.
The rainbow is essentially a spectral light, and although the Creation miraculously turned it from illusory to real, the basis of its solidity was formed by three elements: ice, fire, and air.
Therefore, apart from rainbow light in the Rainbow Bridge, one could also spot ice, fire, and air, albeit quite subtly interdependent with the rainbow, forming this miraculous path under the divine craftsmanship of the Creation Power.
These rainbows and the elements of ice and fire also contained the Space Laws and held Space Power within them.
It was due to these Space Powers and Laws that the Rainbow Bridge could connect the upper, middle, and lower realms.
Qin Feng stretched out his hand to touch a strand of rainbow light, feeling the spatial fluctuations within it, and his heart suddenly surged with excitement.
He hurriedly summoned the Swallowing Sky Toad, “Quick, feel this. Can you absorb the Space Power in this rainbow light? Can the laws on the Rainbow Bridge be referenced?”
The Swallowing Sky Toad was a bit dazed from being suddenly pulled out.
In the past, when summoned by his master, it was either for combat or as a protective Spiritual Beast at his side, but over recent years, its strength couldn’t keep up with the progress of Qin Feng’s cultivation, so it hadn’t been summoned often.
The Swallowing Sky Toad was also quite frustrated. Judging by the cultivation pace of its kind, it could be considered as one of the fastest. However, due to the burden of space within its body and the overly obscure Space Laws, it was stuck at the Peak of Demon Core and couldn’t advance!
Though Qin Feng took good care of it, because the Swallowing Sky Toad was the only Spiritual Beast that mastered the Space Divine Power among them, it couldn’t have as many fusions of Spiritual Beast bloodlines like the other main Spiritual Beasts. It could only rely on its own comprehension of the Laws, causing its cultivation progress, which should have looked down upon its kin, to fall behind among Qin Feng’s Spiritual Beasts, becoming the only main Spiritual Beast that hadn’t advanced to the Purple Mansion.
During recent battles, Qin Feng hadn’t called it out to fight. While there was certainly an element of Qin Feng looking out for it and not wanting it to get injured, this care made the Swallowing Sky Toad feel uneasy within.
Ultimately, it didn’t want to be a burden. Every time it saw other Spiritual Beasts being summoned out while it could only stay in the Demon Refining Pot to cultivate, it felt filled with reluctance.
Qin Feng thought Swallowing Sky Toad wouldn’t be summoned for a while, so the toad silently cultivated, hoping to achieve the Purple Mansion soon and not lag behind. Unexpectedly, its master summoned it again.
At this moment, upon hearing Qin Feng’s words, Swallowing Sky Toad was momentarily stunned, then reacted and carefully sensed the surroundings.
Eh?
The Space Power on this Rainbow Bridge is really strange, but… although it seems unified under the Space Law due to its enormous size and composition of countless rainbow lights and ice-fire air, the power is somewhat scattered.
More importantly, the Rainbow Bridge is not a living creature; it lacks spiritual intelligence, so absorbing a small amount won’t provoke an attack from the bridge.
Although the speed of absorption and refining was slow, and the Space Power on the bridge formed its own system under the Binding of Law, Swallowing Sky Toad could only absorb and refine it bit by bit like unraveling silk from a cocoon, yet it indeed served as nourishment for its own cultivation.
Moreover, with its keen understanding of space and long-term painstaking perception, it had vaguely sensed some Space Law. By now placing that vague perception on the Rainbow Bridge, it suddenly sensed the specific form of the Space Law clearly.
Although the Space Law on the Rainbow Bridge was not in line with the direction Swallowing Sky Toad mainly cultivated — the Rainbow Bridge’s Space Law emphasized penetration and connection, whereas Swallowing Sky Toad’s direction was about opening and refining —
this did not hinder it from learning from it, and it could even integrate this Space Law with its own understanding, as both were fundamentally about the application of space.
“Quack quack…”
Swallowing Sky Toad joyfully croaked twice, informing Qin Feng of its discovery.
Hearing this, Qin Feng was overjoyed and lifted his hand, placing Swallowing Sky Toad on the Rainbow Bridge.
With a splash, Swallowing Sky Toad instantly enlarged its body, transforming from the size of a fist to a toad as big as a house.
Despite its considerable size, its emerald-like color was extremely pleasing to the eyes, and together with its snow-white belly, its appearance was far from the usual ugliness of a toad, but was instead quite endearing.
Swallowing Sky Toad lay on the Rainbow Bridge and opened its mouth wide, directly absorbing the scattered rainbow light on the bridge’s surface into its belly. It crazily refined the power within its own independent space, soon feeling streams of Space Power merging into its inner space, bringing an all-encompassing comfort to its body.
For a moment, it even thought about staying on the Rainbow Bridge to cultivate forever.
According to the current rate of absorption, it would definitely accumulate enough Space Power to ascend to Demon Immortal within a thousand years!
Unfortunately, such a wish could ultimately not be realized. Needless to say, Qin Feng was about to return to Biluo and did not trust leaving it in this realm; even if it were really left here, it could not constantly stay on the Rainbow Bridge to absorb the scattered rainbow lights.
No other reason—it was just too dangerous.
Just like now, a subtle fluctuation suddenly occurred on the previously calm Rainbow Bridge.
Though the fluctuation was inconspicuous, it instantly alerted Swallowing Sky Toad, extremely sensitive to Space Power, which immediately told Qin Feng about someone approaching above the Rainbow Bridge.
Hearing this, Qin Feng, without a second word, grabbed one of its hind legs and pulled it into the Demon Refining Pot, then, not even leaving the Hellhound outside, sent it into the Demon Refining Pot, turned around, and transformed into a streak of Light Escape, disappearing into the distant void.