Devour

Cheng Bai didn't notice anything unusual, and he killed several petrified snakes along the way. As long as he avoided their gaze, these monsters wouldn't move fast enough to pose a threat to Cheng Bai now.

In addition to harvesting crystal cores, the essence called "stone marrow" in the bone marrow of these petrified snakes can be consumed to relieve paralysis and petrification effects and enhance resistance.

Cheng Bai dipped it in water and tasted it. He was overjoyed and found it delicious. He put it on the menu, put the petrified snake prey away and left.

News came from the Hunter's Guild that the young talent, the Sword King Xing Jue, successfully challenged the secret realm of Shell Mountain, killed the Shadow Sparrow King, and obtained the legendary ancient sword "Shadow Sword".

Cheng Bai listened to the new rumors with great interest and asked the guild leader: "Is the Shadow Sword the great secret of the Shell Mountain Secret Realm?"

The governor shook his head and said, "Ancient rumors are difficult to verify. The Shadow Sword was the sword worn by the first master of the Yaoguang Holy Temple. It was lost in ancient times. It is made of black gold and the shadow of the Feiying Stone. It is inlaid with an extremely rare Rakshasa King crystal core. Compared with the Overlord Spear, the material is better. Even if it is not unparalleled in the world, it is not much different from the Tianhuang Sword. It is undoubtedly a spiritual weapon."

Guild gossip and discussion were in full swing.

A hunter interrupted and said, "Every secret realm has ancient legends, and they may all contain ancient relics."

Another person responded: "What the evil swordsman said makes sense. The ancient relics have been unearthed, and the seven treasures will have to be re-ranked."

"Except for the Tianhuang Sword which has always been ranked number one for ten thousand years, the other treasures may be completely changed every sixty years."

"There are always treasures that appear and disappear, and the rankings are bound to fluctuate. The martial arts hunting competition is coming, and it is inevitable that we will sort out the rankings again."

"This is also a great opportunity. Ruthless Swordsman, Poisonous Swordsman, how about you two join forces with me?"

"I am willing to stand by my brother's side."

Another small group was born within the guild.

Cheng Bai watched the excitement and asked about the directions to the various secret realms.

The governor said, "Besides the Shell Mountain to the west, the nearest is the secret realm of the Sky Island, nine hundred miles to the south. Hunters above level 22 are recommended to try it, but the time to stay in the Treasure Basin on Sky Island is limited, so it has not been opened yet. More than a thousand miles to the southeast, in the depths of the Panqiu Mountains, the Joyful Valley is recommended to be explored by a team of hunters above level 23."

The resources in high-level secret realms are much richer, and there are fewer hunters capable of entering to raid them.

"Further away, the Giant Beast Island in the north of the Kankyo Wharf and the Shengjin Tower in the southeast of Tianji City are both high-level secret realms. The simplest one is the Howling Ruins in the Ghost Weeping Forest in the northwest, but unfortunately it has the least treasures."

Cheng Bai asked carefully about the details. There are ten secret realms in Qiongqi Continent, all of which are places that hunters are keen to visit.

The most mysterious one is the Ancient Battlefield, which can be entered by level 1, but it is the most dangerous maze secret realm. The highest level secret realm is the Qiongqi Ancient Road, and the guild recommends hunters above level 35 to try it.

At the appointed time, Cheng Bai came to the Qi Zong store, took back the refined black gold ingot, and asked Chi Zhongming: "Does Qi Zong buy monster crystal cores?"

Chi Zhongming nodded and said, "Yes, the price is about the same as the Hunter Guild, but for some particularly good crystal cores, the elders are willing to pay a higher price."

Sure enough, there was a difference. The crystal core of the Yinming Spider Queen was resold at a high price by the Hunter Guild last time. Scarcity makes things valuable.

He took out a Shadow Sparrow King crystal core and three Petrified Snake crystal cores.

Chi Zhongming quickly quoted a price: "For the crystal core of the magpie king, the price can be 5% higher than the recycling price. The petrified snake crystal core can only be recycled at the normal price."

This is much better than the Hunter's Guild, so Cheng Bai agreed to the deal.

Next, he should go to the Yaoguang Temple to exchange for secret skills. He planned to bypass the Fearless Wilderness and the Ghost Forest, follow the Faceless Rift Valley in the southwest back to the Discipline Plateau, and then go to Yuheng City to ask Shi Ziyu's cheap master about the problems of cultivation.

They set out at dawn, Cheng Bai riding Xiao Bai out of the city gate and heading towards the vast wilderness.

Cheng Bai felt quite strange on the way. It took almost a month and a half to reach the Qiongqi Continent, covering thousands of miles, but there were only a few cities and most areas were sparsely populated, becoming a paradise for monsters. There were even "secret realms" with a certain degree of socialization and a high density of monsters, which seemed to be under strict control.

The scenery on the road is beautiful. We passed through the Harvester Wilderness, which is vast and sparsely populated. There are not many kinds of monsters. Occasionally, we would encounter sickle monsters that gathered and dispersed from time to time.

They are covered with hair, stand in human form, are tall, can use simple weapons, like to grind rocks or metals into sickle shapes to carry, have primate wisdom, and look different from ape monsters. Some powerful sickle monsters have subordinates, and they are as majestic as slave owners.

Cheng Bai hunted along the way, dispersed a slave tribe of a pair of sickle monster masters, cut off the heads of the two leaders, killed several sickle monster users, took away the crystal core, and some sickle monster soldiers screamed and fled everywhere.

Some ragged humans also fled in all directions. They were civilians who went deep into the Harvester Wilderness to look for scattered mountain copper mines, captured by the sickle monsters, and even a few low-level hunters.

The two Ya Mountains in the north and south of the wilderness rise into the sky like a pair of giant fangs. There are no magical medicines around them, but mountain copper veins are often found, attracting many miners, but unfortunately most of them die in the wilderness.

Cheng Bai searched among the scattered sickle monster tribe and found more than a thousand kilograms of scattered mountain copper ore.

Among them was an old man with dishevelled hair and a mad look. He looked up at the sky, as if he was out of the matter, not caring about the things around him and turning a deaf ear to everything.

Seeing that he was the only one left, Cheng Bai thought he was a slave who had fallen into the hands of the sickle monster. He stuffed a piece of barbecue into his hand and asked, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Perhaps it was the secret art of communication that worked, the old man responded: "I am Li Haotian."

After saying that, he put the meat into his mouth and chewed it, then turned and left.

Cheng Bai did not stay for long. He crossed more than a thousand miles of Harvester Wilderness and came to a larger and more sparsely populated primitive area.

The Faceless Rift Valley stretches across the continent, running through the east and west, stretching for 4,800 miles. It looks like a huge, shocking scar on the surface of the earth, which is spectacular.

There are majestic high peaks on the north and south sides, dense jungles stacked one after another, deep and green, with colorful exotic flowers and trees scattered high and low, full of vitality everywhere.

The widest part of the Great Rift Valley is nearly 100 miles wide. The water at the bottom of the valley converges into scattered lakes, which, from a distance, look like a crystal necklace, creating a picturesque scene.

On this day, Cheng Bai stood on the peaks in the north of the canyon and looked across. In the distance, there was a different scene. The mountains in the south were rolling and one peak after another, like a crawling giant beast, extending from dark blue to light blue, to the endless blue sky and disappearing into the depths of the mist.

"If that mountain is a monster, I wonder how big it would be."

Cheng Bai was casually praising the miracle of nature when he suddenly discovered a figure approaching on the southern peaks. Looking far to the north, their eyes met.

"What kind of creature is that? Or a monster? Why does it look a little strange?"

Cheng Bai's eyesight is now extraordinary. Not only can he see thousands of miles away, he can clearly see within a hundred miles. The figure is roughly human-shaped, tall, hairless and beardless, with slender eyes, no nose, no mouth and no ears. Several slender tentacles are waving on the lower half of the face. The skin color is dark blue, and the hands, feet and limbs are extremely strong.

Just as Cheng Bai was observing carefully, the strange man pulled up a thousand-pound boulder and threw it at him.

The huge rocks whizzed past, making a hissing sound as they rubbed against the air, crashing into trees like meteorites, and hitting the ground, splashing up dust and smoke all over the sky, with a terrifying momentum.

Cheng Bai dodged easily but was horrified.

His strength increased day by day, and now he was able to lift a huge stone weighing tens of thousands of pounds. To throw a huge stone weighing thousands of pounds, he had to use proper techniques at most, hundreds of meters away. To fight against gravity and air resistance, the strength required was even more amazing, and a distance of a hundred miles was unimaginable.

Judging from strength alone, the opponent is much stronger than Qiao Beihao and other hall masters. Theoretically, with one step, he can cross the north and south ends of the canyon and immediately arrive in front of Cheng Bai.

The weirdo seemed to be just playing a prank. When he saw Cheng Bai dodging in panic, he held his stomach with both hands and trembled all over, as if he was laughing very happily.

Cheng Bai took the opportunity to take Xiao Bai away from here.

The primeval forest on the northern edge of the Faceless Rift is called the Watcher Forest.

The main force and the strongest monster in the eastern forest are the giant mammoths. They have a human-like upper body and an elephant-like lower body. They are only slightly larger than the violent Cyclops. They are good at using blunt weapons, and a pair of huge, curved and sharp fangs extending under their broad cheekbones are also commonly used weapons.

The giant mammoth tribe is extremely united and has great strength in numbers.

When they had a conflict with a giant mammoth during their hunting, Cheng Bai killed it and took away its crystal core. The next day, he attracted hordes of giant mammoths to encircle and hunt it.

Looking at the dozens of giant mammoths surrounding him, Xiaobai knew that he was outnumbered and let out a series of unwilling growls.