52: Chapter 52 Treasures That Move People

"Such fast cultivation speed! Cultivating in a medium-sized secret realm with dense mana is indeed incomparable to the outside world!"

After feeling the speed at which the mana in his body condensed, even with Chu Xiu's prior preparation, he couldn't help letting out an exclamation.

With both the intermediate mana nutrient solution and the Star Demon Forging Technique working simultaneously, his cultivation in the medium-sized secret realm would take less than two days to break through to Bronze 5-Star.

However, after exclaiming, Chu Xiu quickly adjusted his emotions and quickly calmed his mind to continue cultivating.

As he continuously operated the Star Demon Forging Technique to cultivate, more and more mana sources gathered around his body.

Later on, the mana sources converging around him even turned into a mist, forming a vortex that continuously poured into his body to be absorbed and refined by him, transforming into his own mana.

Nourished by this dense mana source, Chu Xiu's aura was also steadily rising.

...

Just half an hour after Chu Xiu calmed his mind and operated the Star Demon Forging Technique to cultivate, about three kilometers away from him, a team of five was walking in his direction.

"Wait, why do I feel that the mana source ahead is denser than everywhere else?"

Just as this team approached within a one-kilometer radius of Chu Xiu's location, the short-haired middle-aged man at the lead suddenly looked in Chu Xiu's direction, a hint of suspicion appearing on his face.

"Captain, you felt it too? I noticed it just now as well, but I thought it was just an illusion. Now it seems it's not!"

As the middle-aged man's voice fell, a woman in green beside him immediately stepped forward, a look of surprise on her face.

As soon as the woman in green finished speaking, sharp glints burst from the eyes of the other three members in the team.

One person might have been mistaken, but if both of them had this feeling, there was only one possibility: the mana source ahead was indeed denser than in other places.

And in this medium-sized secret realm, places with particularly dense mana sources generally harbored rare heavenly treasures.

Immediately, the three of them excitedly looked at the middle-aged man at the lead.

"It seems that the perceptions of Boss and Sanniang are both correct. There must be a rare heavenly treasure in the place ahead where the mana source is dense!"

"Hhahahaha, to think that we're about to leave the secret realm and can still run into a rare heavenly treasure, the heavens are treating us well!"

"Boss, let's go over and take a look quickly, lest someone else beats us to the rare heavenly treasure."

Hearing the three's persuasion, a flash of hesitation crossed the face of the middle-aged man at the lead, but soon this hesitation was replaced by greed.

He sensed that the density of the mana source ahead was higher than all the places where rare heavenly treasures he had found during this entry into the secret realm existed.

Even the density of the mana source at the growing site of the highest-grade Silver 8-Star resource among the rare heavenly treasures he had collected this time was not even a third of it.

Nourished by such a dense mana source, that unknown rare heavenly treasure was definitely extraordinary. It might even have a higher value than all the rare heavenly treasures they had collected in this secret realm combined, likely being a Gold-tier rare heavenly treasure.

Faced with a rare heavenly treasure of this level, even if it was guarded by fierce beasts, it was worth him taking the risk.

"Let's go! We'll go take a look!"

Immediately, he made up his mind, and the group of five quickly rushed toward the place ahead where Chu Xiu was cultivating.

"Roar!!!"

Just as the five approached Chu Xiu and entered within a hundred meters of his location, the Snow Shadow Battle Lion suddenly turned around and let out a lion roar in the direction where they were.

"Who?!"

Chu Xiu also woke up from his cultivation, quickly stood up, opened his eyes to look in the direction of the five people, his eyes full of vigilance.

As the Star Demon Forging Technique stopped operating, the dense, atomized mana sources gathered around Chu Xiu also dissipated in the blink of an eye.

After an exclamation, the five-person team of the middle-aged man and the green-clothed woman also walked into Chu Xiu's line of sight.

The gazes of the five happened to meet the gazes of Chu Xiu and the Snow Shadow Battle Lion.

"What an overbearing ice and snow male lion!"

"There's actually someone here!"

"I thought it was a fierce beast guarding the rare heavenly treasure here, but to think it's a mastered beast!"

"The mana source here is so dense, yet there's no trace of any rare heavenly treasure. It must have been snatched by this brat before us!"

When seeing the figures of Chu Xiu and the Snow Shadow Battle Lion, the middle-aged man and the others were stunned for a moment, and then various thoughts flooded their minds.

Since none of them had seen Chu Xiu cultivating, everyone ultimately believed that Chu Xiu had arrived here a step ahead of them and taken the treasure away.

"Big Brother, the lion beside this brat is a Silver 1-Star beast, but I don't know what breed it is; the detector didn't detect it."

"However, the opponent is only one person and has only one Silver 1-Star beast. We have a hundred percent chance of winning against him!"

Just as both sides were in a standoff, a man holding a detector stepped forward to the side of the leading middle-aged man and whispered into his ear.

"Mhm, got it."

Hearing the man's voice, the leading middle-aged man nodded gently, a meaningful smile appearing on his face.

Immediately, he crossed his arms and looked at Chu Xiu with an arrogant expression, speaking, "Brat, hand over the resources you just gathered, and we can let you leave safely."

"Is this running into guys who specialize in killing and robbing in the secret realm?"

Hearing this, Chu Xiu's heart sank.

In the wilderness, without the legal constraints of the cities, Beastmasters fighting fiercely over beast-taming resources and killing for plunder were not uncommon.

It was just that he was very puzzled as to why the other party wanted him to hand over the resources he had just gathered.

He had just been cultivating here and hadn't found any rare heavenly treasures at all.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I was just resting here just now and didn't see any rare heavenly treasures you mentioned."

Although he didn't understand why the other party said this, Chu Xiu knew that since they had appeared, they certainly wouldn't let the matter rest easily.

He immediately responded to the other party with a sentence. At the same time, through his beast-taming contract with the Dark Blade Mantis, he made the Dark Blade Mantis in the Beast Taming Space ready to strike at any time.

His Beast Taming Space had a 256-fold growth acceleration effect. After half an hour of cultivation, the Dark Blade Mantis had long since absorbed and refined all the energy from the devoured Giant Pincer Mountain Spider hearts.

At this moment, the Dark Blade Mantis had successfully advanced to Silver 6-Star, its mana fully restored, and its combat power even stronger.

And he didn't feel the oppressive feeling from the opposite people that only a Gold-tier Beastmaster like Principal Han Xianming had, which indicated that there were no Gold-tier powerhouses among the five of them.

As long as the other party didn't have a Gold-tier powerhouse, relying on the Silver 6-Star Dark Blade Mantis, he was confident he could trade blows with them.

Even if he couldn't defeat the five of them, he could still retreat unscathed.