60: It's still faster to snatch it.

In a dark valley within the Secret Realm, a monster with purple skin and eyes flashing with yellow light sat upon a throne.

A hideous scar ran across his face, and his tusks protruded directly from his mouth. He looked nothing like a Human, yet he could speak the Human language.

"How is the collection of those crystal cores going?"

"Reporting, Milord. We have had a fruitful harvest this time, but it seems this world has also become known to the Human Race. They are now planning to compete with us for the crystal cores."

A subordinate reported. His appearance was not much different from the monster's, but his aura was considerably weaker.

"Heh, they are merely the Human Race. They won't send any powerful experts to compete for this kind of resource. We have a Quasi-Emperor Expert overseeing our operation this time, so there is no need to fear them. Continue hunting the creatures of this world on a large scale. Once we obtain a certain number of crystal cores, we will retreat."

The subordinate nodded respectfully and then withdrew.

In a massive pit behind the throne, pale pink crystal cores had clearly piled up into a huge mountain of crystals.

Judging by the quantity, one could tell how many living beings they had slaughtered in this Small World.

Zhang Hai soon landed in the Secret Realm, and the people accompanying him were all safe and sound.

"Senior Sister, I heard you set a Secret Realm on fire before. Please try not to do that this time, I'm afraid that if..."

Zhang Hai seemed hesitant to speak further. Su Yao stuck out her tongue sheepishly. That was her previous achievement; she hadn't meant to do it, but she hadn't expected the fire to grow so uncontrollable after just one spark.

While the two were chatting, a rustling sound suddenly came from afar. Zhang Hai and Su Yao immediately looked over alertly. Soon, a dark green Porcupine emerged from the bushes, glaring angrily at the crowd.

The aura emanating from this fellow was actually that of the Peak Nascent Soul Stage.

Su Yao immediately became interested. The black phoenix whip suddenly appeared in her hand, and she lashed it fiercely toward the Porcupine.

The Porcupine was clearly not to be trifled with. It quickly arched its back, and a large number of quills were launched directly from its back at an astonishing speed.

The quills that met the black phoenix whip were instantly vaporized, but the rest shot toward the group.

"Whoosh!"

Su Yao exhaled a large amount of black smoke, instantly burning the quills clean and turning all the spikes into ash.

The Porcupine seemed to realize that these people were difficult to deal with and turned around, attempting to flee.

Behind it, a black-and-white figure, grinning obscenely at it, had appeared sometime unnoticed.

"Wangcai Charge!!"

Wangcai let out a roar and kicked the Porcupine directly in the head mid-air.

The moment he made contact with the Porcupine, his body suddenly grew more than ten times larger, transforming into a large dog several meters tall.

The Porcupine was thus kicked to death by Wangcai, who was at the Peak Nascent Soul Stage.

Su Yao did not immediately step forward to collect the crystal core. Instead, she took out a Kitchen Knife, licked her lips, and sliced into the Porcupine, quickly cutting off a piece of meat.

After briefly cooking the meat with her flame, she handed the piece of meat to Li Haotian.

Li Haotian looked at the green meat in his hand, feeling a wave of nausea. This thing couldn't be poisonous, could it? But when he saw Wangcai grooming himself nearby, he immediately got an idea.

"Wangcai, you killed the pig, making you the greatest contributor this time. You must eat the first piece!"

The nearly roasted meat flew toward Wangcai's mouth. The latter immediately snapped it up with a "woof," chewed it, and swallowed it.

"Thank you, thank you. You truly have great magnanimity, worthy of being my Revered Master's Revered Master!"

Wangcai licked his lips and chuckled foolishly. Seeing that nothing had happened to him after eating it for so long, Li Haotian finally relaxed.

"Let's turn this pig into roast pork and have a good meal before doing anything else. Since Wangcai has eaten it and is fine, it should be non-poisonous."

Hearing this, Wangcai, who had been excitedly grinning and wagging his tail, suddenly froze. *You used me as a poison tester?*

Zhang Hai looked at his Revered Master and Senior Sister and suddenly felt they were rather unreliable. He began searching through the Porcupine's body himself and quickly found a pink crystal core.

"This must be the thing."

Zhang Hai examined it curiously before putting it away.

Soon, the group ate their fill and set off again, slaughtering all the Yao Beasts they encountered along the way.

Nirvana Realm Expert Su Yao could handle them solo. When Heaven-Human Level Yao Beasts appeared, they could only barely contend with them and couldn't defeat them.

In the end, Little Green took action and slapped it dead. The stronger the Yao Beast, the larger the pink crystal core inside its body.

After a journey of continuous slaughter, the group soon ran into a small squad. This was not a squad of the Human Race; it was a group of monsters with purple skin and yellow eyes.

"Holy crap! Monsters!"

"Holy crap! Humans!"

Both sides were startled by the other and watched each other warily.

"The Sinister Aliens?"

Lin Tianxuan tightly clenched his fist. The attack he suffered when he was attempting his Breakthrough was carried out by an expert of the Sinister Aliens.

The Sinister Aliens do not refer to a single race; they are composed of many races, though no one knows exactly how many.

"Heh, you people must also have crystal cores on you. Hand them all over, and we'll spare your lives."

The group of monsters in front of them brandished their weapons, a hideous smile on their faces. Their auras were not weak.

Li Haotian and the others exchanged glances, their expressions somewhat strange.

Ten seconds later, the corpses of the group of monsters lay scattered on the ground, and blood was still dripping from Little Green's mouth.

After searching all the crystal cores from Li Haotian and the others, they immediately realized that hunting the Yao Beasts of this world one by one seemed less efficient than simply robbing these Aliens.

"Search again. Next time, remember to leave one alive and ask where their main base is. Robbing them is much more efficient than hunting monsters ourselves."

Li Haotian's words enlightened everyone. They had heard stories about the Sinister Aliens since childhood—how they loved to eat the flesh and blood of the Human Race, and how, a long time ago, the Human Race was even raised by them as livestock for food.

Therefore, they naturally held no good feelings toward the Aliens.

"Haha! Big Brother, we killed another Yao Beast and got so many crystal cores! We'll definitely be rewarded when we go back. I can buy a new set of furniture for my wife and children!"

Deep in the jungle, after a group of monsters hunted down a Yao Beast, one of them took out the crystal core, his eyes filled with excitement.

"That's right. After this mission is over, I'll go back and spend time with my wife and children. Living a life like ours, licking blood from the blade, we might die any day..."

The leader monster had only finished half his sentence when his stomach strangely caved in, and a dog head, spewing blood from its mouth, drilled out of it.