935: The role of two items

The last Desert Wolf was refined into five Beast Tempering Pills.

After distributing three pills to his teammates, Du Xingchen ate the remaining two.

By the time everyone had finished refining these Beast Tempering Pills, the night had completely darkened.

"My body strength has really increased a lot." Liangcai Sword's exclamation about the pills was still strong.

Up until now.

After consuming a total of six Beast Tempering Pills, he could clearly sense that his body had undergone a tremendous transformation.

Body strength, from another perspective, is even more important for a Warrior-type Soul Card Master!

After all, this type of Soul Card Master primarily relies on close combat.

And close combat is the situation where injuries are most likely to occur, or rather, it's a role where injuries are unavoidable.

This current increase in body strength allowed Liangcai Sword to feel confident enough during combat to relax his efforts in protecting himself from injury somewhat, and instead shift more attention to offensive methods.

This is just the beginning!

On the way back to the 16th Stronghold Inn, Liangcai Sword and the other two women learned even more about the effects of the Beast Tempering Pill.

The power of this pill has an upper limit determined by the strength of the Beast!

Some Beasts even possess certain special abilities.

For example, poison, lightning. For high-level Beasts that possess special abilities like these, the Beast Tempering Pills refined from their corpses and cards can grant the user poison resistance and lightning resistance!

It's not just an increase in body strength, but also the addition of another kind of buff!

"Xingchen, no, Captain!" Liangcai Sword chuckled as he looked at Du Xingchen, "Captain, why don't we just not sleep and head out to hunt Beasts tonight?"

Du Xingchen still underestimated the impact that the existence of the Beast Tempering Pill had on the protagonist group members.

It was also fortunate that Wen Xiucheng and Moyun were not present now, otherwise, even if he revealed this ability of his, it would only be planned and utilized according to the intentions of those two.

"I think it's feasible. Beasts are more active at night, making hunting easier," Qing Youyu rarely offered her opinion.

After being completely overwhelmed by Du Xingchen's strength just now, she naturally felt extremely eager to improve her own strength.

"That's fine too," Du Xingchen nodded slightly after a brief consideration.

The process of refining the pills is actually equivalent to recuperating one's spirit; this process is equivalent to sleep.

After killing and refining the Beasts, they could completely rely on the time spent refining the Beast Tempering Pill to nourish their spirit.

Seen this way, this is another invisible benefit of the Beast Tempering Pill.

There's no need for people to deliberately rest; they can completely spend the entire 24 hours of a day acquiring and absorbing Beast Tempering Pills.

As expected, it's something created by capitalists.

With a sudden sigh, Du Xingchen's gaze swept past the 16th Stronghold and looked towards the Outer Domain area.

The Outer Domain was pitch black, but there was significantly less sand and wind.

"Let's go. We'll use these three days as if they were six!" Having made the decision, Du Xingchen no longer hesitated.

With Liangcai Sword and Qing Youyu both expressing support, and Sun Yingying herself not being against it, this trip was decided upon so quickly and decisively.

There was no need to go through any clearance procedures to enter the Outer Domain.

Order here was inherently weak, and coupled with the vast border, people coming and going didn't pay much attention to formalities.

Only when entering the border Cities of various countries would various forms of order gradually become stricter.

"The environment in this Outer Domain is really much better compared to the Desert behind us." The group of four stepped on the thick sandy soil, and they could see rows of bushes faintly glowing under the moonlight around them.

This was just the area upon entering the Outer Domain, and there was still a lot of sandy soil underfoot.

It was blown over by the cold wind from the Desert behind them.

"Liangcai Sword, stay alert. Qing Youyu, go scout ahead. Explore the outer perimeter for now, don't go too deep," Du Xingchen gave simple orders and simultaneously came to Sun Yingying's side.

Qing Youyu possessed the ability to soar through the air; her scouting would not only be safe but also allow her to gather more information.

As for Liangcai Sword, he was a Warrior-type Soul Card Master, capable of handling any surprise attacks from Beasts or people.

He himself was a Warrior-Tank type Soul Card Master, primarily there to protect the safety of Sun Yingying, a Support-type Soul Card Master without defense.

After the simple formation was planned, the four quickly entered a patch of woods.

This patch of woods was not dense; the scattered trees and sparse foliage all looked somewhat malnourished.

The areas of the Outer Domain close to the Desert had long been thoroughly scoured by people from the fringe areas. There wouldn't be any valuable Beasts here, but one couldn't rule out people with ulterior motives.

There wouldn't be many Beasts in the outer perimeter, but it was also relatively safer.

Currently, they weren't looking for any Thousand-Year or Ten Thousand Year Beasts. They didn't need Soul Cards or anything like that.

Even a pack of Desert Wolves that were a few decades old would be a harvest.

Drawn by the Beast Tempering Pills, everyone continued to venture twenty kilometers deeper into the Outer Domain.

This was already truly within the outer perimeter of the Outer Domain.

The surrounding trees were not overly lush, but they had some primitive characteristics.

Dry, hard grass covered the flat ground, scattered with a few large trees with fine leaves. Clusters of man-high bushes became the main feature of this area, and further away, the sound of a small stream could be heard.

"About 100 meters to the West, there's a Desert Tiger, roughly thirty years old."

Qing Youyu landed neatly on a branch like a bird and called out to Du Xingchen.

"Liangcai Sword, it's up to you." Du Xingchen patted the man beside him, who had been very excited throughout the journey.

"Piece of cake!" Liangcai Sword smiled, then suddenly leaped out from the bushes. As a long sword faintly appeared in his hand, he stepped on the tops of the bushes like a swordsman, appearing in the area where the Desert Tiger was in moments!

This was a tiger lowering its head to drink from the stream.

The tiger's size was not large compared to the Beasts of this World, about two and a half meters long including its tail.

Its entire body was covered in brown fur, and a few dark lines didn't display much might or dominance.

"Pfft!"

A flash of cold light swept past, and this Desert Tiger, known as one of the Twin Heroes of the Great Desert along with the Desert Wolf, let out only a final roar before falling straight down.

Fresh blood flowed down along the small stream, and the fish and shrimp in the stream happily churned about.

By the time Du Xingchen arrived, Liangcai Sword had already cut away the surrounding bushes, clearing an area.

Meeting the expectant gazes of his teammates around him, Du Xingchen didn't hesitate and began refining the pill.

This time, the number of pills refined was six.

"I'll stay and keep watch," Du Xingchen gave two Beast Tempering Pills to each of his three teammates, then added.

Although this was the outer perimeter, they had, after all, entered the Outer Domain, and danger still existed.

When they were refining and absorbing the pills, one person definitely needed to be on guard.

This time, Du Xingchen would take the lead in keeping watch, next time it would be Qing Youyu's turn, and the time after that, Liangcai Sword's turn.

Eventually, everyone would take a turn.

Watching the others enter the state of refining the pills, Du Xingchen sat on a bush-covered mound nearby and looked up at the sky.

This trip, their search for Beasts in the Outer Domain was not smooth.

From the beginning until now, a full hour had already passed.

In the end, up to now, they had only found one thirty-year-old Desert Tiger.

If they continued searching at the current efficiency, it was likely that their body strength increase would still be limited after three days.

"Then let's try this thing," Du Xingchen muttered to himself, and fumbled out two items from his person.

These were things the Giant Rhino had left him before leaving.

They were also the Relics left behind by the Saint Master who raised the Beast King in the Jiaomang Mountain Range, whose roar was heard.

A Beast Bone Jade Token, and a flute.

These two items had played a significant role for a period in the original work.

The Beast Bone Jade Token was a special item refined by the Saint Master who was instantly killed by the Giant Rhino.

After infusing Soul Card power into it, this Beast Bone Jade Token could emit a special power fluctuation.

The sole purpose of this power fluctuation was to attract the Beast King that was being raised!

Because the raw material for this Beast Bone Jade Token was cast from the skull of that Beast King's offspring!

In the original work, the protagonist group also relied on this method later to attract that Beast, and then killed that Beast and took its card.

That Saint Master also had another Relics, which was this flute.

This flute, when played, could attract Beasts to gather!

Of course.

It could only attract juvenile Beasts, which are the offspring of Beasts.

Now, if they wanted to hunt as many Beasts as possible, relying on this flute was a very good method.

With the offspring of Beasts gathered, how could the parents of those offspring not appear!

However, this method also had a fatal problem.

That is, it couldn't prevent the upper limit of the Beast's age.

Maybe a Hundred Thousand Year Beast's Child is attracted over, and you turn around only to encounter a Hundred Thousand Year Beast that sees you as prey!

"There shouldn't be a problem in the outer perimeter area," Du Xingchen said, looking at the flute in his hand, and leaped a few times to a tall tree.

After thinking for a moment, he took out a pitch-black card from his hand.

This was a Ten Thousand Year card equipment, one of the five cards he had acquired from the Divine Hall when he set out.

As long as the Beast that came wasn't a Ten Thousand Year one, this card wouldn't be needed.

If there really was a Ten Thousand Year Beast, the two Saint Masters Lord Jiangshan had arranged to secretly protect him weren't useless either.

However, in the outer perimeter area, it was also unlikely to have Ten Thousand Year Beasts.

"Whoo whoo whoo~"

The melodious flute sound slowly spread with the breeze towards the surrounding mountainous area.

The distance the sound traveled was not far; even with this special long flute and his own Soul Card power for amplification, it could only cover an area of about thirty li.

Although the range of effect was not large, it was much better than a few people aimlessly searching for Beasts like headless flies.

The time it takes for two sticks of incense to burn passed in a flash.

Du Xingchen's mouth felt a bit dry.

He now somewhat suspected that the flute in his hand was fake!

It shouldn't be the case, right? Would the Giant Rhino deliberately give him a fake?

While he was thinking this, in his field of vision ahead, there was suddenly a rustling sound in the grass!

Something was approaching!

But he couldn't tell what it was.

"Roar roar roar!" After hearing this sound, Du Xingchen looked down from the tree and realized it was a wild boar cub.

"A Long-maned Pig cub?" Du Xingchen muttered to himself, and put away the flute with a sense of assurance.

The Long-maned Pig, this existence is quite a bit higher class compared to the Twin Heroes of the Great Desert.

Adult individuals are generally eight to nine hundred years old, and there are quite a few that have surpassed a thousand years!

In terms of strength, they are comparable to Four-Star Soul Card Masters.

"Roar!" In the distance, a deep roar also sounded.

Du Xingchen stood on the treetop and looked up, and he could see three large, plump pigs the size of small trucks, tearing through bushes and charging towards him!

"Three heads? Their relationship is quite complex," Du Xingchen muttered to himself, and came to stand directly in front of these adult Long-maned Pigs.