24: Chapter 24 Strange Movements at Beast Taming Peak, the Battle of Foundation Establishment

Early in the morning that day, Qi Yang carried an empty cloth bag to the Servant Hall to collect this month's spiritual rice and supplies. But the moment he stepped through the gates of the Servant Hall, he felt that the atmosphere was wrong.

The stewards who were usually arrogant and haughty were now anxious like ants on a hot pan, shouting loudly to dispatch the servants.

"Hurry up, all of you! Something big happened over at Beast Taming Peak, and hands are urgently needed to clean up the ruins! Anyone who knows a little about Spiritual Plant cultivation, get up there for me right now!"

A steward waved the roster, his throat completely hoarse from shouting.

Qi Yang hunched his back, squeezed to the edge of the crowd, and pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the gossip of the surrounding servants and Disciples.

"Have you heard? That Tier-2 Sect-protecting Spirit Beast, the Blue-Eyed Golden-Crystal Ape, suddenly went mad over at the inner Sect's Beast Taming Peak! It smashed more than half of the Spirit Beast garden into ruins!"

"A Tier-2 Yao Beast?! That is a terrifying existence equivalent to a powerful Cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage! How could it suddenly go mad?"

"What do you know? I heard from a Senior Brother in the inner Sect that it is because the heavenly spirit fruit tree guarded by that Yao Beast is about to bloom! The blooming of heaven and earth Spirit Medicine causes Spiritual Qi to riot, driving the Yao Beast into a manic period."

"Right now, several Elders of Beast Taming Peak are getting a headache over how to appease it. The damaged Spiritual Plant gardens on the outer perimeter can only be cleaned up by recruiting servants like us to pick up the mess."

Hearing the four words "heavenly spirit fruit tree," a sharp gleam suddenly burst forth from the depths of Qi Yang's cloudy, elderly eyes!

heavenly spirit fruit!

The missing final core primary medicine on the residual formula of the foundation establishment pill!

Qi Yang's heart beat violently in his chest.

Over the past half year or more, what he thought about day and night was how to get the seeds of the heavenly spirit fruit.

But he knew very well that the inner Sect's Beast Taming Peak was heavily guarded, and there was even a Tier-2 Yao Beast holding down the fort. If an outer Sect old man like him dared to force his way in, he would definitely end up slapped into a bloody pulp.

But now, the opportunity has come!

When the heavenly spirit fruit tree blooms, pollen or fragmented petals will inevitably fall. As long as he can get just a little bit, even a trace of active plant tissue, his black gourd can ripen it into a complete, supreme-grade Spirit Medicine!

"This is a once-in-a-millennium good opportunity! If I miss this time, who knows how many decades I will have to wait for the next bloom!"

Qi Yang calculated wildly in his heart.

But reason told him that wealth is sought amidst danger, and this Beast Taming Peak was now a powder keg.

A Tier-2 Yao Beast gone mad, Elders of the Foundation Establishment Stage gathered together—for him, at Qi Condensation 6th Layer, sneaking in was simply dancing on the blade of a knife; the slightest mistake would mean eternal damnation!

"The Dao of shielding oneself is to live longer, but if even the hope of Foundation Establishment is given up, what is the point of hiding in the Qi Refining Stage waiting to die?"

Qi Yang took a deep breath, and his gaze became incomparably firm.

Go! He must go!

Snatching food from the tiger's jaws starts today!

Qi Yang immediately hunched his back, squeezed smilingly in front of the steward, and raised the jade token in his hand inscribed with Special Grade Herb Garden.

"Lord Steward! This old man Qi Yang is a servant of the Special Grade Herb Garden personally appointed by the outer Sect's Grand Elder. This old man has done the work of cultivating Spiritual Plants all his life and is most skilled at it! This old man is willing to go to Beast Taming Peak to share the Sect's worries!"

The steward originally impatiently wanted to kick this old piece of trash away, but as soon as he saw that jade token of the Special Grade Herb Garden, his expression changed instantly.

He definitely did not dare to offend someone under Great Elder Li Changyuan's protection.

"Fine, fine, fine! Since Elder Qi is willing to contribute, then hurry up and catch up with the team! But let's make the ugly words clear first: Beast Taming Peak is extremely dangerous right now. Keep your eyes open and don't get stomped to death by a Yao Beast!"

"Thank you for the steward's reminder. This old man's life is tough; I won't die easily!"

Qi Yang nodded and bowed as he mingled into the team of servants heading to the inner Sect.

Xuantian Sect's inner Sect, Beast Taming Peak.

The concentration of Spiritual Qi here was more than ten times that of the outer Sect, and faint spiritual mist even floated in the air.

But at this moment, this Holy Land for cultivation was a complete mess.

Huge ancient trees were uprooted, precious Spiritual Plant gardens were smashed into pits, and in the distance, deafening beast roars could still be heard, causing people's eardrums to ache fiercely.

Qi Yang mingled among dozens of trembling servants, lowering his head and holding a broken broom in his hand.

Before coming, he had already swallowed an improved version of the wuxiang pill, firmly suppressing his Qi Condensation 6th Layer cultivation down to Qi Condensation Third Layer.

The decaying aura of one nearing the end of his life on his body made him look like a breathing mummified corpse.

"Listen well, all of you! Your task is to clean up the withered branches and fallen leaves on the outer perimeter, and replant the Spiritual Plants that can still be saved! Anyone who dares to approach the back mountain Forbidden Ground by half a step will be killed without mercy!"

An Inner Sect Disciple at Qi Condensation Great Completion rebuked coldly, looking at these servants as if they were a group of ants.

The servants repeatedly agreed and immediately dispersed to work.

Qi Yang pretended to be dim-sighted and clumsy in his hands and feet, deliberately choosing a piece of ruins at the very edge, closest to the back mountain Forbidden Ground.

Spiritual Qi here was chaotic, with the danger of being affected by the aftermath at any time. No one wanted to come here at all, which happened to suit Qi Yang's intentions.

He hunched his back, slowly sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground.

But in reality, his strong perceptual power had been extremely compressed by him into a thin line invisible to the naked eye, hugging the ground and silently infiltrating towards the direction of the back mountain Forbidden Ground bit by bit.

This operation was incomparably dangerous; once scanned by the spiritual sense of an Elder in the Foundation Establishment Stage, he would be exposed immediately.

A layer of cold sweat oozed from Qi Yang's forehead, his concentration at its peak, and the tension of dancing on the knife's edge made all the blood in his body boil.

His perceptual power passed through layers of dense forest and finally touched the defensive Formation at the edge of the Forbidden Ground.

Qi Yang was inwardly overjoyed, sensitively perceiving that due to the manic impacts of the Tier-2 Yao Beast, several extremely tiny cracks had unexpectedly appeared on this originally impregnable Formation light screen!

"Right now!"

Qi Yang was just about to extend his perceptual power along the cracks to check the condition of the heavenly spirit fruit tree.

But right at this moment!

Rumble!!!

Three terrifying auras descended from the sky, and the air of the entire Beast Taming Peak seemed to solidify at this moment!

"Vile creature! Cease your rampant behavior! Will you not submit to the law quickly!"

A furious, thunder-like roar exploded in mid-air.

Qi Yang suddenly raised his head and saw three Elders in the Foundation Establishment Stage of the inner Sect wearing purple robes arriving together, suspended above the Forbidden Ground.

Each of them sacrificed a Magic Treasure in their hands, radiating brilliant light, and directly bombarded that terrifying giant ape deep within the Forbidden Ground that was as large as a hill and covered all over in golden fur!

Tier-2 Yao Beast, the Blue-Eyed Golden-Crystal Ape!

"Roar!!!"

The giant ape's eyes were bloodred as it emitted a heaven-shaking roar. Its huge arms fiercely beat against its chest, and it actually withstood the combined strike of the three Elders in the Foundation Establishment Stage raw!

The Foundation Establishment battle erupted abruptly!

The terrifying aftermath of the magical battle was like a category 12 hurricane, sweeping across the entire back mountain of Beast Taming Peak.

The violent Spiritual Qi storm directly twisted the surrounding ancient trees into wood chips, and huge stones flew everywhere across the sky.

"Ah!! Save me!"

The servants who were still working on the outer perimeter simply could not withstand this level of aftermath and were directly blown away by the air wave.

Several unlucky ones were directly smashed into bloody pulp by flying boulders, with screams merging into a continuous chorus.

In front of this terrifying power, Cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage were truly not even as good as cannon fodder!

Qi Yang's pupils contracted sharply. Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately activated the black turtle shield worn close to his body, while simultaneously swallowing the turtle breathing pill that he had kept hidden in his mouth for a long time!

Bang!

Qi Yang smoothly fell to the ground, skillfully rolled into a large pit blasted out by the air wave, and casually pulled a corpse of a servant who had just been shaken to death to cover himself, perfectly feigning death.

His heartbeat stopped, his Spiritual Qi retracted internally, and his entire person turned into a lifeless stone.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The battle directly above his head had entered a white-hot stage, with violent Spiritual Qi storms ravaging wave after wave.

Lying in the pile of dead bodies, Qi Yang stared fixedly in the direction of the Forbidden Ground through the gaps between the corpses.

Just at the instant when the three Foundation Establishment Elders and the giant ape exchanged blows with all their might, a terrifying Spiritual Qi shockwave slammed fiercely against the defensive Formation of the Forbidden Ground!

Crack!

The Formation light screen, which was already covered in cracks, could finally no longer withstand it, and a gap several feet wide was torn open!

And at the very moment when the Formation shattered, the heavenly spirit fruit tree exuding seven-colored rosy light in the center of the Forbidden Ground suffered a violent shock.

On the tree canopy, a spiritual flower that had just blossomed and was as translucent and crystal-clear as crystal was directly swept away by the violent air wave. As luck would have it, it floated out along the Formation crack and headed straight to fall into the large pit where Qi Yang was feigning death!