192: Embarking on a journey alone

Chen Fei followed the messenger to the "Qiao Family Treasure Hall," but after waiting for a long time, the person never came out again.

Refusing to believe it, he continued to stake out the place for a few more days, but the person never reappeared.

There was only one reason for such a situation: the person had left using some unknown method.

After thinking it through, Chen Fei made a mental note of the location, not letting a momentary impulse drive him to barge in.

With his current strength, he was not yet capable of crushing everything in his path.

Increasing his strength had become his primary objective.

As for the destination to increase his strength, Chen Fei chose a Fierce Land.

He would first head to the Nine Nether Fierce Land; the fifth-tier Red Spider Lilies there were ready for a wave of harvesting.

After purchasing an extremely fast Shadow Wind Ghost Falcon, Chen Fei set out on the journey alone.

He glanced at the Evil Beast Forum:

Evil King No. 3, Void Demon Ghost, appeared in the Eighth District.

Evil King No. 6, Headless Angel, appeared in the First District.

Evil King No. 7, a Soul System user, appeared in the Eighth District.

Evil King No. 8, a Stitching System user, appeared in the Fourth District.

Evil King No. 9, Grotesque Worm Banshee, appeared in the Eighth District.

Evil King No. 10, a Mirror System user, appeared in the Twelfth District.

Currently, six of the Ten Evil Kings have appeared; it is unknown whether the rest are still slumbering.

However, in his past life at this time, the Second District had already been breached, and several neighboring cities had fallen along with it.

In this life, all twelve districts are still intact, though he didn't know how long they could hold out... "Forget it, there's no point in considering these things now!"

Chen Fei opened the sacred codex to check his status:

[Current slaughter value balance: 50.6 million.]

That final wave where 5 million Gu insects self-detonated had annihilated over 80,000 Fourth-Level Beasts, causing his slaughter value to skyrocket once again.

If it hadn't been for that fifth-tier Earth-Splitting Demon Worm, he might have been able to clear out that entire batch of fourth-tier Evil Beasts.

Now was a good time to allocate his resources.

Upgrading from SS-Rank Potential to SSS-Rank Potential required 100 million slaughter value.

Upgrading from SSS-Rank Quality to Immortal Beast required 1 billion slaughter value.

Without corresponding Heaven And Earth Treasures, it would consume too much slaughter value, so he wouldn't consider Aptitude for now.

Upgrading skill proficiency from Flawless Grade to secret technique level required 10 million slaughter value; this could be prioritized.

After some thought, Chen Fei decided to prioritize the Soul System; he had been left with a lingering shadow from previous encounters.

When Chen Fei attempted to upgrade the [Tiger Subduing Soul Suppressing Domain], a prompt popped up as expected:

[Due to insufficient strength, the physical body cannot yet withstand the energy of the secret technique level.]

Fine then!

Perhaps because it was a Domain, it consumed even more Spiritual Qi.

What about [Soul Stripping]?

Ten million slaughter value merged into Chi Yu's body.

[Soul Stripping proficiency increased: Flawless Grade → secret technique level.]

Upgrade Advantages:

1. This skill can now be used on up to 10 individuals simultaneously.

2. The Soul Stripping Racial Secret Technique has been further enhanced; control duration increased from 5s → 8s.

Number of daily uses increased from 30 to 50.

Backlash received reduced by 70%.

3. Possesses a certain penetration effect; currently able to penetrate fifth-tier stage 6 beings and Flawless Grade Soul Shields.

As for Mastery Level shields, it can penetrate up to fifth-tier stage 8.

4. Can devour a large number of Souls to increase its own strength and penetration effects.]

As expected of a secret technique level proficiency, it actually possesses a penetration effect.

Evil King No. 7's Soul Shield was a fifth-tier stage 8, Flawless Grade skill.

As long as Chi Yu increased her strength to fifth-tier stage 4, she would be able to break through Evil King No. 7's Soul Shield.

At that time, he could wound the opponent and kill those he wished to kill.

Thinking of this, Chen Fei felt a wave of satisfaction.

He decided to use the remaining slaughter value to increase their strength.

Chen Fei became a King-level stage 3 Beast Tamer.

Little Gu, Wu Yun, Chi Yu, and Lin Ya became fifth-tier stage 3 beasts.

With 15.6 million slaughter value remaining, Chen Fei continued to upgrade, and his target was Lin Ya's Cultivation Technique... Two days later!

Chen Fei arrived at the Nine Nether Fierce Land once again, feeling a strange sense of familiarity.

The fifth-tier stage 5 Giant Skeleton had no Gu insects controlling it and no remnant Souls; he didn't know what mysterious power was maintaining it.

No matter how Chen Fei targeted it, it could always piece itself back together.

Left with no choice, Chen Fei focused his gaze on the Red Spider Lilies.

Not long ago, he had been somewhat helpless against the fifth-tier Red Spider Lilies, but things were different now.

"Ya, try out the Cultivation Technique!"

Chen Fei could also Cultivate multi-attribute Martial Arts, but only Assassin Class Martial Arts could be upgraded with slaughter value.

Beasts were different; their Martial Arts were like any other attribute and were not restricted by the "Assassin Class."

Thus, Chen Fei had made several trips to the ten thousand spirits trial stele and found a Cultivation Technique suitable for Lin Ya in the Myriad Beast Sect's library.

The first one: "Void-Breaking Sword Technique."

At Major Achievement, one could use Sword Qi to slash through the void.

For Lin Ya, who possessed the Space System, he could slash through the void even without reaching Major Achievement.

Therefore, even though this Cultivation Technique was sixth-tier, Lin Ya comprehended it extremely quickly, reaching the entry level in just one afternoon.

After that, Chen Fei upgraded it to Flawless Grade.

Lin Ya drew the monarchs sword and swung a strike toward a fifth-tier Red Spider Lily.

This strike did not have a thunderous momentum, nor did thousands of sword glows appear; it even looked quite ordinary.

But wherever the grayish-white Sword Qi passed, the void was gently sliced open with a crack that quickly sealed back up.

Looking at the fifth-tier Red Spider Lily again, the flower and the stem had already been separated.

It seemed plain, but it actually possessed an incredibly powerful might.

If this were to hit a King-level Beast Tamer, they would likely be decapitated instantly.

In addition to the "Void-Breaking Sword Technique," there was another Cultivation Technique called "Instant Shadow Thousand Illusions."

To be more precise, it was a sixth-tier movement technique; the body's position shifted instantly, making it eerie and unpredictable.

At Major Achievement, one could even leave thousands of phantom images in place, making it impossible for others to find the Main Body.

Lin Ya spent several days and still couldn't reach the entry level, so he decided to find the feeling through actual combat.

The third set of Cultivation Techniques was a seventh-tier sword technique the Shadow Great Emperor had found for Lin Ya—"Thousand Folded Mountain and Sea Sword."

This sword technique was actually a charging-type sword technique that could transform Spiritual Qi into layers of Sword Qi and then stack them infinitely.

When stacked to a thousand layers, it could split mountains and sever seas with unstoppable momentum.

However, the current Flawless Grade sword technique could only stack up to a hundred layers; when fully stacked, it could kill a fifth-tier stage 7 Yao Beast.

The only drawback was that the charging time was somewhat long, and enemies wouldn't necessarily give Lin Ya that much time.

And so it went.

Lin Ya held the monarchs sword, wrapped himself in a Spatial Barrier, and then boldly barged into the cluster of Red Spider Lilies, continuously unleashing Sword Qi to slaughter them.

Wherever the Sword Qi reached, it left behind only cracks in the void.

[Killed a fifth-tier stage 5 Red Spider Lily, slaughter value +8,000.]

[Killed 100 fifth-tier Red Spider Lilies, slaughter value +800,000, current slaughter value balance: 14.4 million.]

Just as Lin Ya was starting to get the hang of it, the ground suddenly trembled.

Among the Red Spider Lilies, thousands of peculiar existences appeared.

They were no longer dark red, but black.

They were sixth-tier Red Spider Lilies; their killing moves were no longer just Blood-Sucking Spores and Soul-Devouring Vines.

Every petal could transform into a Nether Gate, summoning powerful Netherworld creatures to drive away enemies.

And the creatures summoned were precisely sixth-tier Netherworld creatures.

Chen Fei couldn't help but curse, "Holy shit, this is ridiculous!"

Wasn't it agreed that sixth-tier beings couldn't exist on the Spirit Taming Continent?

Could it be because this place was a Fierce Land?

Thinking about it, that must be it; the Void Primordial Demon was at least an eighth-tier demon and could still exist on the Spirit Taming Continent, likely due to the special Law of this place.

But Lin Ya had only killed 100 fifth-tier stage 5 Red Spider Lilies before summoning sixth-tier ones; wasn't that a bit too much?

Even bringing out fifth-tier stage 9 Red Spider Lilies would have been acceptable.

Run!

Aside from running, Chen Fei couldn't think of any better way. He had Lin Ya take him and teleported directly into the Bone Temple...