I am getting stronger and stronger in the world of demons and monsters

Sun Lin, a plant-based genetic powerhouse, also frowned.

"Yuncheng, as one of the four major cities of our Yunsong Kingdom, has always been known for its prosperous trade!"

Under normal circumstances, the number of Originium Crystals traded in Yuncheng every day can reach tens of thousands, and the reserves of Originium Crystals in Yuncheng are even more astonishing. It is not reasonable to think that anyone could buy up most of the Originium Crystals in Yuncheng in a short period of time! After all, most of the gene warriors of our Yun Song Kingdom want to come to Yuncheng first after they have obtained Originium Crystals, because only here can they quickly sell the Originium Crystals and get a good price, and they can also buy various other materials!

The situation these past two days has been somewhat unusual; it seems that someone has been buying up Originium Crystals quite early on, and in enormous quantities!

Sun Lin frowned and looked at the several sixth-tier gene experts around her. "Could it be that one of you secretly bought a large number of source crystals? There's really no need to keep this a secret!"

Zhang Yun, the second strongest in Yuncheng, as well as Tian Guang, Huang Liang, and Guan Gu all shook their heads decisively.

Zhang Yun said, "I usually handle economic matters in Yun City and already have a large amount of Originium Crystals on hand, so I don't need any help at the last minute! However, if you fellow disciples don't have enough Originium Crystals on hand, you can take some from me!"

After saying that, he patted the suitcase beside him, "Three thousand ninth-tier Originium Crystals and seven hundred eighth-tier Originium Crystals should be enough for everyone!"

Upon hearing Zhang Yun's words, Guan Gu, a powerful expert with the Dragon-Elephant Gene, couldn't help but brighten up. "So many ninth-tier and eighth-tier Origin Stone Crystals are indeed more than enough. We can fight for several days and nights without any problem! Minister Zhang has really gone all out for this expedition to the depths of the Qiushan Mountains! I prepared a thousand ninth-tier Origin Stone Crystals and two hundred eighth-tier Origin Stone Crystals, thinking that I was already well prepared. I didn't expect Minister Zhang to be even more generous and spend so much money!"

Zhang Yun, the second strongest in Yuncheng, laughed and said, "If we can obtain a fifth-order source stone crystal from the Qiushan Mountains this time to try our luck at the fifth-order life level, let alone this small amount of money, I, Zhang Yun, would be willing to go bankrupt!"

Furthermore, you shouldn't be too surprised that the Originium Crystals in Cloud City have been bought up recently. Cloud City isn't too far from the Hill Mountain Range, and it's common for teams of seventh-tier gene warriors, and even teams of sixth-tier gene powerhouses, to venture into the Hill Mountain Range! It's perfectly normal for them to purchase a large number of Originium Crystals from Cloud City before heading to the Hill Mountain Range as preparation for battle!

After all, among all resources, Originium Crystals, as the most important resource for gene warriors, have always been highly sought-after!

The other sixth-tier gene powerhouses nodded slightly upon hearing this, and no longer mentioned the matter of the large-scale acquisition of Yuncheng source crystals!

However, Zhang Yun, the second strongest in Yuncheng, casually mentioned it, which dispelled Lin Xuankong and Han Liu's suspicions! After all, the recent sale of all the source crystals in Yuncheng was Lin Xuankong's doing!

In addition, Zhang Yun, the second strongest in Yuncheng, who prepared the most source crystals among all the sixth-order gene experts in the entire gene team, was far less than Lin Xuankong and Han Liu in terms of the number of source crystals they prepared. It was estimated that he prepared at most one-third of their amount!

It is evident how well Lin Xuankong prepared for this expedition deep into the Qiushan Mountains!

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Han, you've been here for a while?" After chatting with the other sixth-tier gene experts for a few minutes, Zhang Yun greeted Lin Xuankong and Han Liu.

Lin Xuankong nodded slightly and asked, "When do we depart?"

Zhang Yun and the other sixth-tier gene powerhouses exchanged glances, then nodded in unison. Zhang Yun looked at the rugged and secluded Qiushan Mountain range and said, "Let's set off now. I'm sure all my fellow disciples and friends are eager to have a big battle and get the fifth-tier source stone crystals!"

Eleven hours later,

In the middle of the Qiushan Mountains, atop a mountain peak that is over four thousand meters high.

Seven sixth-tier gene powerhouses from Yuncheng, including Lin Xuankong and Han Liu, stood on the summit, gazing at a distant river about five or six thousand meters wide, with turbulent waves and rapid currents.

Zhang Yun, the second strongest in Yuncheng, pointed to the great river and frowned, saying:

"We are currently in the middle of the Qiushan Mountains. Once we cross the Longmen River, we will be deep within the Qiushan Mountains!"

Twelve years ago, I followed Master Zhao to hunt source beasts in the Qiushan Mountains. I once came to this Longmen River. At that time, there were countless aquatic source beasts in this Longmen River. A large number of aquatic source beasts, some tens of meters long or even hundreds of meters long, made this Longmen River full of danger!

Many gene warriors from our Yun Song Kingdom once ventured deep into the Qiushan Mountains to hunt aquatic source beasts in the Longmen River.

Back then, many of our Yun Song Kingdom's gene warriors gained fame in Yun City and Qiu City for hunting powerful source beasts in the Dragon Gate River. Among them, Qian Wu, the third strongest warrior of our Yun Song Kingdom, and Sun Hong, the fourth strongest warrior, both fought bloody battles in this Dragon Gate River, creating one battle miracle after another. Even now, many older gene warriors still speak with great emotion about their experiences fighting source beasts in the Dragon Gate River back then!

Upon hearing this, Huang Liang, a powerful expert with earth-elemental genes, nodded slightly and said, "That's right. Back then, this great river wasn't actually called the Dragon Gate River. It was because many powerful experts with earth-elemental genes hunted down powerful water-elemental source beasts in this river, thereby obtaining a large number of source stone crystals, which greatly increased their strength and even broke through the life level!"

Thus, this great river was renamed the Dragon Gate River. It means that as long as one can come to the Dragon Gate River and hunt a sufficiently powerful source beast from this great river, there is a chance for a gene powerhouse to leap up, quickly break through the life level, and become a gene powerhouse that everyone envies!

But now, the Longmen River has become like this.

Upon hearing this, Han Liu and the others looked carefully at the Longmen River in the distance. Although the water of the Longmen River was crystal clear and covered with a lot of aquatic plants, there was not a single large fish swimming in it!

After taking a closer look, Lin Xuankong couldn't help but frown.

The gene warriors present were all sixth-tier gene powerhouses with extremely strong perception and eyesight, so they were able to see the situation in the Dragon Gate River from thousands of meters away!

However, the distance was still too far, so even though these sixth-order gene experts could see the situation in the nearby Longmen River, they could not see the water within a range of ten or even twenty miles clearly!

Lin Xuankong was different. Relying on the powerful genetic talent ability of True Eye from You Rui, he could clearly see the situation within a radius of more than 20 miles. He could even see the movements of a cicada or a bird more than 20 miles away with perfect clarity!

However, despite his exceptional eyesight, he couldn't see a single fish swimming in the Longmen River, not even a small fish or shrimp, let alone a large one!

This fast-flowing Longmen River is like a river of death; there are no water-based source beasts as Zhang Yun had mentioned before!

This bizarre situation likely has only one possibility: there may be an extremely terrifying source beast in the nearby waters, and it is very likely that it is an aquatic plant-type source beast!

Because if there are powerful aquatic animal-type source beasts in the waters around here, they will definitely not be able to escape Lin Xuankong's Eye of Truth ability! If the aquatic animal-type source beast is large enough, say more than a hundred meters long, then Lin Xuankong can even see its activities from tens or hundreds of miles away!

However, the Dragon Gate River is very strange. No aquatic animal-type source beasts can be seen. In fact, some animal-type source beasts can be seen drinking water on the banks of the Dragon Gate River!

"The Dragon Gate River is probably a bit strange these days. There isn't a single animal in it. Could it be that there's some powerful plant-like beast in the river?"

Lin Xuankong couldn't help but ask.

For Lin Xuankong, no matter how powerful the aquatic plant-type source beasts in the Dragon Gate River were, it was not a problem. After all, he had cloud beast pets, which he could summon at any time to carry him across the Dragon Gate River and continue his journey!

However, his cloud beast pet was ultimately one of Lin Xuankong's trump cards, and he didn't want to reveal too many of them to these gene-powerful individuals from the Yun Song Kingdom so soon! Therefore, he wasn't planning to summon his cloud beast pet for the time being! Furthermore, for Lin Xuankong, a water-type ice-type gene-powerful individual, fighting near a large river was absolutely ideal! It was just that the fact that the entire river resembled a dead zone was indeed unsettling!

Hearing Lin Xuankong ask this,

The other sixth-tier gene powerhouses all became serious, carefully looking at Zhang Yun, the second strongest in Yun City.

Zhang Yun nodded solemnly.

"Mr. Lin is right. This Dragon Gate River has now been occupied by a powerful aquatic plant-like source beast called Water Ghost Grass!"

The countless powerful aquatic animal-type source beasts that once filled the Longmen River like carp crossing a river have all been devoured by this powerful aquatic plant-type source beast called Water Ghost Grass, turning into its nutrients! Many animal-type source beasts whose nests were near the banks of the Longmen River have probably also suffered the same fate!

The Longmen River today is not the same as it used to be; its danger level has become frighteningly high!

According to Master Zhao, there are seven or eight fifth-order life-level Water Ghost Grass plant-type source beasts in the Longmen River, which stretches for thousands of kilometers.

The combat ability of this Water Ghost Grass plant-type source beast is slightly weaker than that of a fifth-tier climbing beast. Moreover, it relies on water to unleash its truly terrifying combat and regeneration abilities. However, because its regeneration ability is dozens of times stronger than that of plant-type source beasts like climbing beasts, this Water Ghost Grass plant-type source beast is actually more troublesome to fight!

Because their root system and stems are extremely developed, often reaching tens of thousands of meters in length, even if you can destroy a part of their body, it will be of no use, as it is impossible to damage their roots!

However, once entangled by them in battle, it will be extremely fatal. Their roots and stems are covered with special poisonous thorns that can pierce the skin and defenses of source beasts and gene powerhouses of the same level of life. Once hit, they will lose their rationality and lose most of their combat power!

This aquatic plant-type source beast, the Water Ghost Grass, while weaker in combat than most plant-type source beasts, is only weaker relative to other plant-type source beasts of the same life level. Compared to animal-type source beasts, their terrifying regenerative abilities, combat prowess, and toxicity are overwhelming. They can effortlessly kill most animal-type source beasts of the same level, and only a very small number of animal-type source beasts could possibly defeat this Water Ghost Grass plant-type source beast!

The other sixth-tier gene powerhouses present, apart from Lin Xuankong, all frowned after listening to Zhang Yun, the second strongest in Yuncheng, introduce the Overlord Clan Water Ghost Grass plant source beast in the Dragon Gate River.

Even Han Liu, who was always a little proud, felt his heart pounding.

"A body tens of thousands of meters long, my goodness! Compared to this aquatic plant-type source beast, those animal-type source beasts with bodies over a hundred meters long are just tiny karami!" Han Liu couldn't help but twitch his lips.

He had always been extremely confident in his ability to manifest Void-devouring worms, but the powerful plant-type source beast with a body tens of thousands of meters long was simply too astonishing. Even if the beast stood still and let Han Liu's Void-devouring worms keep devouring it, it would still be very difficult to devour it! It was likely that even if Han Liu exhausted all his source energy and then consumed thousands of ninth-tier source stone crystals, it would still be difficult to kill this sixth-tier aquatic plant-type source beast!

For Tian Guang and Guan Gu, who are both powerful with the Dragon Elephant gene, this aquatic plant-type source beast with an extremely overpowered physique is obviously a bigger headache, and they probably can't even figure out how to fight it!

For a time,

The many sixth-tier gene powerhouses present fell silent.

After a while,

Sun Lin, who possessed plant-based genetic abilities, raised an eyebrow and said:

"Everyone, we haven't even reached the depths of the hills where fifth-tier plant-type source beasts roam wildly yet. Are we going to be scared by a mere aquatic grass plant-type source beast?"

Even if it has a body tens of thousands of meters long and possesses regenerative abilities dozens of times greater than other source beasts, even if it's almost impossible to kill, so what? Our goal in coming to the Hill Mountain Range this time isn't to hunt the sixth-tier plant-type source beasts in the Dragon Gate River; our target is the climbing beast's nest!"

"Sigh, it's easier said than done!"

If the Dragon Gate River were only a few hundred meters or a thousand meters wide, there would be no need to worry about the powerful plant-type source beasts within it!

Because all the brothers present have powerful sixth-order genes, a river hundreds or thousands of meters long is just a matter of leaping across it in a few bounds!

However, most of the Longmen River is five or six kilometers wide. Such a width makes leaping across quickly not an easy task, especially if one were to...

Guan Gu, a powerful expert with the Dragon-Elephant gene, frowned and shook his head.