Leisurely mountain village

"Only level three?" Ye Huan nodded. He had never fought against it, only heard about it from Niu'er, so he couldn't judge his own strength or whether he could fight a level six ferocious beast alone. Therefore, he couldn't boast, since he was physically strong, but his martial arts were even stronger.

"To minimize casualties, we usually only hunt level four wild animals when we go into the mountains, such as deer, yaks, and boars. If there had been a pack of more than twenty wolves that day, we wouldn't have dared to attack them," Zhu Han explained.

"That kind of wolf pack has the strength of level five. Ordinary level five beasts don't dare to fight a wolf pack, such as leopards."

"Wolves are level three, so what about deer, cattle, and sheep? They're level four?" Ye Huan asked, puzzled.

“Hmm,” Zhu Han didn’t know how to explain it either; he didn’t know why Ye Huan asked that question.

Ye Huan nodded, knowing she would find out tomorrow. "And what about that stone flower? What is it?"

"The six-petaled white flower that grows in the cracks of the rocks on that snow-capped mountain is it," Zhu Han explained. Compared to the blood of a level six ferocious beast, this was simpler; it was just that the snow-capped mountain was more difficult to traverse, and the six-petaled flower was harder to find.

Also, the higher you climb, the more uncomfortable you feel, and the more difficult it is to breathe.

Zhu Han and Ye Huan discussed these things, and Ye Huan nodded: altitude sickness, snow lotus?

"Level six ferocious beasts, besides the bear we hunted before, include white apes, rhinoceroses, porcupines, and giant flower worms, oh, and those giant-tailed crocodiles." Zhu Han then explained the ferocious beasts to Ye Huan.

“These things basically don’t leave the mountains; they’re all deep in the mountains, unless they’re driven out by level seven or eight ferocious beasts.”

"There are also level seven or eight ferocious beasts?" Ye Huan thought that rhinoceroses and tigers were enough.

"Yes, legend has it that our ancestors saw a giant beast with a long nose, as big as a small mountain. With a twitch of its nose, it could easily uproot a tree that would take ten people to encircle," Zhu Han said with lingering fear.

"We also saw another ferocious beast. It wasn't very big, even smaller than that wolf, but it had nine tails. Its screams were enough to make our ancestors faint, but it didn't eat them."

"Holy crap, elephants and nine-tailed foxes?" Ye Huan was dumbfounded. He had seen these before, and even had a nine-tailed fox at home, but he never expected to see them here in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

"A nine-tailed fox is only level seven? I can hardly imagine what kind of monsters are at level eight or nine. Could there be dragons and phoenixes here too?"

"The Imperial Clan has a dragon-bodied, human-faced god, a level nine ferocious beast, which is also their totem," the old priest said.

"What is that?" Ye Huan was stunned. "Dragon body and human face? What kind of monster is that? Level nine? You still fought them back then? How brave must your tribe be? Or do you also have level nine ferocious beasts?"

"Yes, but it was swallowed by it." To everyone's surprise, the old priest nodded in agreement, then rummaged through the pile of animal hides and found one, handing it to Ye Huan and the others to see.

"What is this?" Ye Huan didn't recognize it either. It didn't look like a tiger, nor like a leopard. The key thing was that it actually had five tails, and a single horn on its head, similar to a tiger's. It looked very... peculiar, yes, very peculiar.

"Zheng, it feeds on tigers and leopards, its roar is like a giant hammer striking a rock, a level nine ferocious beast," the old priest said.

Ye Huan and the others gasped in astonishment. As expected of a powerful figure capable of going toe-to-toe with the Imperial Clan, they had to admit defeat.

"So, the original inhabitants of the tribe all used the blood of level nine ferocious beasts to refine their bodies?" Ye Huan thought of a possibility.

"Only the strongest warriors can bathe in the blood bestowed by the divine beast," the old priest shook his head.

Ye Huan nodded in agreement. That was indeed the case. Before a powerful tribe was defeated, it had at least ten thousand able-bodied men. Even if they were drained of all the blood of a level nine ferocious beast, it still wouldn't be enough.

"In addition, there are some legendary level ten ferocious beasts that lurk in various forbidden places, rarely revealing themselves." The old priest's words left the others speechless once again.

Level 10. Just how strong would that be? Ye Huan didn't know. He didn't know if, even if he could use supernatural powers, he could defeat a level 10 ferocious beast.

"This one is based on the legends of the tribe, and a great figure in the tribe saw it back then." The old priest took out another piece of animal skin and handed it to Ye Huan.

Above was a gigantic monster with a head that resembled a dragon but actually had nine heads. Its body was clearly that of a snake. Ye Huan could sense its ferocity and brutality just from its animal hide.

"A nine-headed serpent? No, a nine-headed dragon? No, a nine-headed dragon-headed serpent monster..." Ye Huan finally named the monster.

"It seems this is indeed a very, very powerful world, a world where ferocious beasts and witches coexist. I just wonder if there are any other races." Ye Huan sighed, truly, reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles.

He now understands why the previous Ancestor Fangcun loved traveling through the myriad worlds so much, and why the Ancestral Emperor said he wanted to travel alone to seek opportunities for breakthroughs. These myriad worlds are truly colorful and magnificent.

Ye Huan suddenly felt a surge of pride and wanted to emulate the legendary feat of the Ancestor Fangcun in traveling through countless worlds and see the human and alien races of those worlds.

Let's talk about that later. Right now, let's find some meat and fill our stomachs. Having been stranded in the Mountain and Sea Realm, we've lost our supernatural powers and divine consciousness. We can't even open our storage rings anymore. Our bodies have reverted to their instincts, so we need a lot of meat to replenish our energy.

In the village, there are only two meals a day, with no breakfast. If Ye Huan divides the time into 24 hours, he would eat about once at 10 a.m. and once at 4 p.m., and that would be it.

The food mainly consisted of wild potatoes, boiled meat, and boiled wild grass. Salt was available, but Ye Huan just chuckled at the rest. However, when he was starving, he could ignore the fishy smell.

As for why it was wild grass, Ye Huan believed it was definitely not wild vegetables, but wild grass. The broth from cooking meat would blanch the wild grass, thus providing vitamins and the broth.

Just putting the food in his mouth hurt his throat. Ye Huan had no choice but to force himself to eat it in order to get vitamins. There were also wild vegetables mixed in with the weeds. He didn't know if they didn't recognize them or if they thought they were all edible and didn't distinguish them.

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After Ye Huan, Niu'er, and Shen Ni fell into the mysterious vortex, Lie fled in panic with the young master. The Holy Master and the two elders had disappeared without a trace. Knowing that things were going to go wrong, and seeing the look in Du Batian's eyes, it ran away without hesitation.

Fortunately, Du Batian was wary of the founder behind Ni, so he didn't dare to attack Yu. Instead, he chose to return to his holy land and plan his next move.

If Ni were gone, Du Batian would have no way of resisting the temptation to seize that holy land. The allure was too great. After all, Ni had reaped enormous benefits during the Great War of Creation.