AWOOO...
At that moment, a long, drawn-out wolf howl echoed through the valley.
Li Changsheng’s expression changed. He quickly stood up, his gaze sweeping across the valley.
His eyes narrowed as he spotted a gentle slope in the middle of the valley.
Dust billowed up from the slope as countless gray wolves surged down like a flood.
"Fuck..."
Li Changsheng’s face fell. "Where did so many wolves come from!"
Then his gaze fixed on a massive boulder on the hillside. Perched atop it was a wolf, scarlet from head to tail.
’Is that the Nascent Vein Wolf Demon?’
Li Changsheng muttered, "Why is it driving the wolf pack into the Beast Valley...?"
According to Mu Feng, a demon at the Vein Condensation Realm already possessed rudimentary intelligence and knew how to seek advantages and avoid harm.
There are two Vein Condensation Realm Cultivators stationed in the Beast Valley. Isn’t it afraid of death?
Just then.
The people inside the Beast Valley collided with the wolf pack.
"AH!"
"Get away! Just die!"
"Help me!"
Caught completely off guard, dozens of people were engulfed by the wolves in the very first clash.
"They’re just ordinary wolves! Die!"
"Kill!"
The crowd panicked for a moment, then realized that most of the wolves were just mundane beasts and began to fight back.
Some used Magic, some used talismans, but most resorted to hacking and slashing with swords and blades, or fighting with their bare hands.
After all, not everyone had mastered Magic, nor did everyone possess talismans.
Most of them relied on their bodies, tempered by Spiritual Power, and would unleash bursts of Spiritual Power to enhance their strength and speed to kill the wolves.
Soon, the ground was littered with wolf carcasses.
People grouped together in twos and threes, slaughtering the mundane beasts while staying vigilant for sneak attacks from Spirit Beasts.
For a time, the stench of blood filled the Beast Valley.
All the while, that Vein Condensation Realm Demon Wolf remained perched on the great boulder, never making a move.
But neither did the Guardian Cultivators of the Beast Valley intervene.
Because Li Changsheng was in a remote location, only a few wolves attacked him, and he fed them all to his insect swarm.
’Why haven’t they made a move yet?’
Watching the brutal slaughter in the Beast Valley, Li Changsheng felt more and more that something was wrong.
’Fuck, don’t tell me they’re in on it together?’
At this thought, the corner of Li Changsheng’s mouth twitched. If that was true, then these two Guardian Cultivators truly didn’t see them as human beings.
Li Changsheng turned, led Xiaohua back into the kitchen, and shut the door securely.
He left sixty of his insects to guard Big Flower and the young ones, and placed fifty in the vegetable garden.
And so, Li Changsheng sat inside, holding a broken blade.
The sounds of battle and wolf howls raged outside, showing no signs of weakening, but instead growing ever more intense.
Time passed slowly.
In the center of the Beast Valley, a thin blood-red mist had risen at some point, tightly enveloping the people and beasts within.
Lost in their blood-crazed slaughter, no one noticed that the corpses on the ground—both human and wolf—were slowly shriveling.
Meanwhile, the blood mist grew ever more scarlet, as if it were about to condense and drip down as liquid blood.
「Scripture Tower, rooftop.」
Tan Hu stood with his hands behind his back. His gaze wasn’t on the carnage in the Beast Valley, but was fixed intently on the Blood Wolf atop the great boulder.
’Soon, very soon...’
As wolves fell one by one and people were bitten to death, the blood mist grew so thick that one couldn’t see more than three feet ahead.
Within the mist, the sounds of battle gradually faded.
Of the several hundred people who had been there, more than half had been wiped out by this wolf disaster.
"It’s about time!" Excitement flared in Tan Hu’s eyes. He leaped from the window and rushed toward the Blood Wolf.
AWOO...
The Blood Wolf suddenly let out a long howl, leaned down toward the valley floor, and opened its mouth slightly.
A powerful suction force instantly enveloped the blood mist.
The blood mist trembled violently, transforming into a river of blood that flowed into the Blood Wolf’s mouth.
After absorbing the river of blood, the Blood Wolf’s body swayed. It gave the valley floor one last deep look, then turned and disappeared into the jungle behind it.
At this point, the strange state of the ground finally caught people’s attention.
"What’s going on?"
"How did they all die..."
"Where are the wolves?"
As the blood mist dissipated, the survivors looked around. Seeing that their numbers had been cut by half, they couldn’t help but feel a sense of shared sorrow and fear for their own fates.
The smarter ones among them simply shook their heads and left quickly.
The more cunning ones began to scavenge, looting the belongings of the dead and collecting the wolf carcasses.
In less than an hour, the crowd had completely dispersed.
Only the dense carpet of shriveled corpses and shattered bones on the ground bore witness to the horrific casualties.
「Meanwhile.」
Tan Hu moved through the jungle at a steady pace. Not far ahead of him, the Blood Wolf was running swiftly. Strangely, a plant with three leaves, a reddish-gold stalk, and a blackish-red fruit had appeared on its back.
’Almost there, almost there...’
Tan Hu’s eyes gleamed with excitement as he watched the fruit on the Blood Wolf’s back turning darker.
His more than ten years of nurturing were all for this very moment.
Ever since he discovered that the Blood Wolf had a symbiotic Spirit Vein Fruit Tree growing on it, he had gone to extreme lengths to cultivate it, fearing it would be drained to death by its own Spirit Vein.
He was the one who set the rules in the Beast Valley! All for the sake of nurturing this Spirit Vein Fruit on its symbiotic Demon Wolf.
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「Meanwhile, high in the sky.」
A jade-like Flying Ship, glowing with a soft white light, was speeding in from the horizon.
Lu Ping suddenly stopped the Flying Ship and said with a smile, "We’ve arrived."
Liu Feng glanced around, confused. "Where are we, Martial Uncle?"
"Hehe, right below us!" Lu Ping chuckled.
Before Liu Feng could ask, the Flying Ship suddenly descended, landing directly on top of a large tree.
Liu Feng scanned his surroundings once more.
They were surrounded by mountains, the air filled with the scent of flowers and the songs of birds, but he couldn’t see the Beast Valley anywhere...
Lu Ping flipped his hand over, revealing a Light Gold Token. He channeled his Spiritual Power into the Token, formed a hand seal for a Technique, and shouted, "Open!"
The Light Gold Token swirled with light, and a beam of golden light as thick as an arm shot forward.
RUMBLE...
Liu Feng felt the ground tremble, and then a black vortex appeared before his eyes.
"Haha, let’s go!"
Before Liu Feng could ask, Lu Ping piloted the Flying Ship directly into the vortex.
The Flying Ship vanished, and the vortex closed at the same time.
"Wow!"
After entering the space, Liu Feng looked around in shock and quickly asked Lu Ping, "Martial Uncle, is this a great formation?"
Lu Ping shook his head and smiled. "Yes and no. This was once a shattered minor realm. After the grandmaster inscribed a great formation upon it, it became this small, pocket dimension."
"Wow, the grandmaster was amazing," Liu Feng said with a look of admiration.
Lu Ping’s expression grew wistful. "Indeed..."
Just then, a man dressed in the opulent robes of a wealthy landlord came striding over from a short distance away.
Lu Ping shook his head with a small smile and pointed ahead. "Look, here comes trouble."
Before he had even gotten close, Jin Fang’s voice rang out. "Welcome to the two Lord Stewards! Hahaha..."
"Trouble?" Liu Feng frowned, looking at the man.
Lu Ping cupped his fist and smiled. "So it is Jin Guardian. And where might you be going?"
Jin Fang didn’t dare act presumptuously. He smiled obsequiously and said, "I heard this was the Lord Steward’s first time visiting the pocket dimension. My Junior Brother Tan and I were worried you might get lost, so we came to receive you."
Lu Ping smiled. "How thoughtful of you."
"It’s our duty, our duty," Jin Fang said, waving his hands dismissively.
Lu Ping pointed to the Flying Ship beneath his feet and smiled. "Please, I’ll have to trouble the Jin Guardian to lead the way."
"Er..."
An awkward expression appeared on Jin Fang’s face. He cupped his fist toward Lu Ping and said with a pained smile, "Lord Steward, I wonder if I might inquire about a certain matter?"