When I woke up, I wanted to go home.

As the steed galloped at breakneck speed, Zhu Chongjiu exclaimed in admiration, "It's no wonder it's a professional charioteer; it can maintain such a high speed without any bumps!"

During this time, Zhu Chongjiu made Zhouju move forward at its fastest speed, which amazed Zhu Chongjiu. It was almost as fast as his own. If Zhouju had not fought with Zhu Chongjiu at that time, but had chosen to run away, Zhu Chongjiu would have had a hard time catching up.

After all, they are indigenous people and are well aware of dangerous areas, while I am completely clueless and dare not venture deep into the area to pursue them!

Moreover, the endurance of a professional chariot puller is unmatched by Zhu Chongjiu. Zhu Chongjiu has stronger explosive power than Zhouju, while Zhouju has stronger endurance than Zhu Chongjiu.

During this time, Zhu Chongjiu asked Zhouju, "Your speed is so fast, how come it took you more than 600 years to complete the journey through Shenxu?"

Zhouju replied, "I haven't been traveling the whole time. I need to eat and sleep, right? I've been stopping and starting. I don't have anything urgent to do!"

Zhu Chongjiu thought about it and realized he was right; he had made a foolish mistake!

After traveling for a day and a half on the Shenxu Plain, Zhouju stopped and said, "Ninth Brother, we'll reach the Black Wind Monster's lair in another five hundred li."

There are many rare and precious treasures in the lair of the Black Wind Monster!

According to Zhouju, the Black Wind Monster's true form is an Emperor-level Divine Void Black Eagle. When this black eagle spreads its wings, it can cover the sky and sun. When it flaps its wings, it can stir up black sand all over the sky. The black sand it stirs up is as sharp as a knife and is also extremely tough. Even an Emperor-level physique cannot withstand it!

What's even more frightening is that, alone in the endless black sand, one's divine sense cannot penetrate it, and one's eyes cannot see through it, just like a blind person.

With both factors combined, the prey can only be slowly worn down and killed in the black sand.

This is just one of its supernatural abilities; we don't know if it has other supernatural abilities or how strong it is in combat.

After listening to Zhouju's explanation, Zhu Chongjiu looked at Zhouju with suspicion and asked, "How do you know so much detail?"

Seeing Zhu Chongjiu's questioning gaze, Zhouju answered evasively and hesitantly: "When I was traveling through the Divine Void before, I accidentally passed through its territory and ate a Ground Fruit Flower. Then it chased after me and attacked me. Fortunately, my body is made of indestructible steel and I can run fast. In the end, I managed to escape its territory!"

Zhu Chongjiu asked, "Earth Fruit Flower? What level of rare and precious material is that? What are its uses? Are there any more?"

Earth Fruit Flower can enhance one's affinity with the earth, greatly aiding in the cultivation of earth element, and can also improve the physical attributes of martial arts masters.

As for whether there are any left, I don't know. I only saw that one plant. The Shenxu Plain is barren, and there are very few plant-based natural treasures, unlike the three ley lines inside, especially the Shenxu Mountains, where plant-based natural treasures are everywhere. Otherwise, it wouldn't have attacked me like that after eating just one Earth Fruit Flower. After all, I am also an Emperor-level demon beast.

After hearing this, Zhu Chongjiu suddenly realized and said, "I said that you didn't go when I asked you to take me to find rare and precious materials, but you did go later. At first, I thought you were afraid of death, but now I understand. It's true that you are afraid of death, but you also want to use me to avenge yourself."

I always thought you were stupid, but now I realize that I'm the stupid one. How could a demon beast that has lived for six or seven thousand years, spent over six hundred years traveling all over the Divine Void, and is an Emperor-level demon beast, be stupid!

With his innocent, big eyes, Zhouju looked at Zhu Chongjiu questioningly and said, "Ninth Brother, you always thought I was stupid? How am I stupid? Where did you see that I'm stupid? Get off me, I'm not helping you anymore, go find it yourself!" Zhouju became more and more agitated as he spoke!

Zhu Chongjiu was dumbfounded. Was this an act with me, or had I really overestimated it?

No, no, no! Little Colt isn't stupid at all, it's Ninth Brother who's stupid, Ninth Brother who's stupid! If Ninth Brother wasn't stupid, how come he didn't see Little Black's intelligence?

After hearing Zhu Chongjiu's words, Xiao Hei calmed down and pouted angrily, saying: That's more like it.

Zhu Chongjiu got off Xiao Hei's back, raised his hand and pointed forward, saying, "Xiao Hei, you go and search for treasures, I'll go and avenge you. I'll pluck all the feathers off that black eagle, and then we'll eat roast chicken together."

Go! ! !

Zhu Chongjiu dashed out in one stride, and Zhouju followed closely behind, neighing loudly as it charged out with him.

Two kilometers away, the Divine Void Black Eagle, which had been resting, suddenly opened its sharp eyes, shook its steel-like wings, and slowly stood up.

The instincts of an Emperor-level demon beast made it sense a deadly danger. The Divine Void Black Eagle was about to flap its wings and take off to investigate when it sensed a tiny figure in front of it, and a... um? The guy who ate my fruit flowers was behind it, rushing towards it at lightning speed!

Two figures, one large and one small, appeared from the consciousness of the Divine Void Black Eagle into the visible reality. The Divine Void Black Eagle immediately activated its innate divine power: Black Sandstorm!

By the time Zhu Chongjiu could see the Divine Void Black Eagle with his naked eye, he was already quite used to it. After all, all animals in this world are large; it's just a matter of how large.

But when Zhu Chongjiu saw it for the first time, he was still taken aback by the magnificent appearance of the Divine Void Black Eagle. Its body, which was hundreds of feet long, was covered with huge black feathers that shone brightly. Its huge claws and its four- or five-meter-long beak, if used to make weapons, would surely be no less than divine weapons!

When Zhu Chongjiu saw the Divine Void Black Eagle activate its innate divine power, it suddenly accelerated. Xiao Hei, who was following behind, saw Zhu Chongjiu's figure suddenly disappear. Then, the black wind that was about to rise stopped. Looking at the Divine Void Black Eagle, it was already lying on the ground without moving. Zhu Chongjiu was now on the Divine Void Black Eagle's huge head!

Xiao Hei also sped up and arrived next to the Divine Void Black Eagle. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the Divine Void Black Eagle had a hole the size of a bucket on its forehead.

Upon seeing the hole, Xiao Hei subconsciously touched its forehead with its front hoof, thinking to itself: As expected of Ninth Brother, it can jump through a hole without moving or making a sound!

Zhu Chongjiu jumped down from the head of the Divine Void Black Eagle and said, "What are you looking at? Hurry up and find the treasure. Why do you need your big brother to do such a small thing? Ninth Brother will make you roasted eagle. By the time you find the treasure, the roasted eagle will be ready, and we can eat together."

Xiao Hei glanced at the Divine Void Black Eagle again, then vanished from Zhu Chongjiu's sight in a flash.

Zhu Chongjiu looked at the black eagle in front of him, drew the great sword from his back, and muttered, "Give me an eagle wing and an eagle leg, that should be enough for me and Xiao Hei to eat." With two swishes, the great sword went back into its sheath, and Zhu Chongjiu began to pluck the eagle's feathers!

The rest were put into Zhu Chongjiu's storage ring. While plucking the fur, Zhu Chongjiu muttered, "This fur is really hard. It's not good. This one is so long that it could be used as a big knife without any processing!"

Twenty minutes after Zhu Chongjiu finished talking to himself, having cleaned up one eagle leg and one eagle wing, he stretched out his left hand, channeled his inner energy, and a ball of flame emanated from his palm.

In fact, Zhu Chongjiu discovered that he could sense fire elements when he was still in the library of the Mage Academy in Viter City. However, fire elements were very rare in Viter City, and he could only condense a flame the size of a candle in his palm.

Even if it can only condense into a flame the size of a candle, the power of that flame is immense.

The meat of the Sky-Splitting Tiger that Zhu Chongjiu ate was slowly roasted by this small flame.

It should be noted that ordinary flames cannot cause any damage to the flesh and blood of monsters of the Emperor level or above.

At the time, Zhu Chongjiu was also quite puzzled. After much thought, he could only attribute it to the flame pattern copied from the fire in the mysterious cave on his back.

However, after entering the Divine Void, Zhu Chongjiu discovered that both water and fire elements were extremely concentrated there.

However, because he was always accompanied by a hunting team, Zhu Chongjiu did not experiment with his fire element!

Zhu Chongjiu held up the flames with his left hand and used his internal force to support the eagle's legs and wings with his right, flipping and moving them back and forth to prevent them from burning.

An hour later, Little Black returned to its original size!

When Zhu Chongjiu saw Xiao Hei's appearance, he asked, "Why did you turn back?" Xiao Hei replied, "Waaah, waaah..." Then, as if remembering something, it opened its big mouth and spat out a bunch of things, including various spiritual herbs, colorful stones that shimmered with light, and some weapons.

Zhu Chongjiu grinned as he looked at the mess that Xiao Hei had spat out of its mouth on the ground. "Aren't you disgusting? Why did you put it in your mouth?" He then picked up a spirit herb and said, "Look, there's still your saliva on it. How are others supposed to eat it?" He then pinched his nose.

"I won't use my mouth, how am I supposed to get it back? Tell me, what am I supposed to use to get it?" Little Black said, stretching out its four hooves.

Zhu Chongjiu thought for a moment and muttered to himself, "That's right, I forgot to give you a storage ring." With that, Zhu Chongjiu took out a spare storage ring and inserted it into the gap between Xiao Hei's scales. Storage rings can be opened with internal force, and demon beasts also have internal force. Then he told Xiao Hei how to use it.

Xiao Hei was having a great time in the world of opening and closing the storage ring.

Afterwards, Zhu Chongjiu invited Xiao Hei to eat roasted meat. The two of them began to eat eagle meat. Zhu Chongjiu made Xiao Hei shrink to the size of a kitten, otherwise this amount of meat wouldn't even be enough to fill its teeth.

Little Black ate the roasted eagle meat and said with satisfaction, "This is so good! This is the best thing I've ever eaten in my life."

Zhu Chongjiu chimed in from the side: "Then you see, Ninth Brother's cooking skills are truly exceptional. Besides, there's an old saying in our hometown: 'Better to eat a bite of bird than half a pound of beast!'"

We'll keep this bird for ourselves and not give it to the team. We'll report back to them when we kill other monsters.

After the two children had eaten and drunk their fill, Xiao Hei lay on Zhu Chongjiu's stomach, its eyes already half-closed. Just as Xiao Hei was about to drift off to sleep, Zhu Chongjiu reached out, grabbed Xiao Hei's tiny neck, and tossed it away, saying, "Wake up! Next stop, let's go!"

Xiao Hei groggily opened his eyes and said, "Ninth Brother, what are you busy with? Let me sleep for a while before you leave."

Sleep my ass! We're short on time and have a heavy workload. I only have a little over two months left. You don't want the beasts who bullied you to get away with it, do you?

When Xiao Hei heard Zhu Chongjiu mention beating up the monster that had bullied it, it immediately perked up. With a somersault, it instantly grew larger, picked up Zhu Chongjiu, threw him onto its back, and disappeared in a flash!

Ten days later, Zhu Chongjiu and Xiao Hei arrived at the border between the Divine Void Plain and the Divine Clan Swamp.

Zhu Chongjiu said: "How come the deeper we go, the stronger the monsters become? At the beginning, it only took three-tenths of my strength to kill the Divine Void Black Eagle, but it took five-tenths of my strength to kill the last Plain Wolf!"

Xiao Hei looked at Zhu Chongjiu with disdain, thinking to himself: Look at this, is he even speaking human language? Huh? What do you mean you need to use five-tenths of your strength? Are all the demons in our Divine Void this weak and frail? I suspect you have a very serious Versailles disease!

Zhu Chongjiu looked at Xiao Hei with that kind of gaze and said, "What are you doing? I'm just stating the facts. Besides, you're much stronger than them. You were able to withstand seven-tenths of my strength without dying. I don't know how you managed to get beaten up by them back then."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Hei flew into a rage, its large head lunging towards Zhu Chongjiu. Zhu Chongjiu reached out and blocked Xiao Hei's head, letting it perform its spacewalk, raising dust on the ground.

Zhu Chongjiu was annoyed by the dust kicked up by Xiao Hei. With a forceful push, he sent Xiao Hei flying dozens of meters away and said: "Alright, don't say I took your scales. Tell me quickly, what is the environment of Shenxu Zaozhe and who will beat you up next? Ninth Brother will avenge you!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Hei stopped arguing with Zhu Chongjiu and began to introduce the environment of the Divine Void Swamp and the name and abilities of the next demon beast!

The Divine Void Swamp is mostly swampy for 100,000 miles, perpetually filled with poisonous miasma and occasionally rained acid that could corrode even the skin of a king-level demon beast. Only a small portion of the land is occupied by powerful demon beasts.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this monster is only on the edge of the Divine Void Swamp. This Emperor-level monster has the largest territory in the Divine Void Swamp. Its territory is a swamp belt that spans more than 30,000 miles and is more than 4,000 miles wide.

This demonic beast is called the Divine Void Giant Crocodile. It is a giant crocodile with a body length of a thousand feet, and its head alone is a hundred feet long. On its hundred-foot-long head is a ninety-foot-long mouth with an astonishing bite force. Ordinary emperor-level demonic beasts are as easy to eat as water radishes in its mouth. Its innate divine ability is a devouring divine ability.

After unleashing its supernatural power, it can release a huge suction force by opening its mouth. Once it sucks something into its mouth, it is basically doomed. Any bird or beast that passes through its airspace or swamp without its permission will end up in its belly!

They thrive in swamps, moving with incredible speed and possessing immense strength.

As far as I know, the territory of ordinary demon beasts, whether it is a small demon or an emperor-level demon, will be updated and replaced every few decades or even several hundred years, with the new wave replacing the old. However, in the entire Divine Void, apart from the Divine Void King, the territory of the Divine Void Giant Crocodile has been maintained for the longest time!

Oh? Little Blackie, then today I'll show you a battle between Sun Wukong and Princess Iron Fan!

Xiao Hei: What? Sun Wukong fighting Princess Iron Fan?

After Zhu Chongjiu finished speaking, he activated the Snow Treading Without a Trace technique and flew towards the swamp airspace of the Divine Void Crocodile!

Seeing Zhu Chongjiu fly away, Xiao Hei followed him.

Zhu Chongjiu flew over the airspace of the Divine Void Crocodile that Xiao Hei had mentioned and hovered there, waiting to be eaten!

Zhu Chongjiu thought to himself, "Everyone says that things made of crocodile skin are quite expensive. Once I catch one, I'll make a few pairs of leather shoes and a few bags to give to everyone and my wife when I get back." But he waited and waited, and the giant crocodile never appeared.

Hmm? Asleep? Or are you too far away to sense me?

Should I fly along this swampy area and go a bit further in?

After Zhu Chongjiu finished thinking, he was about to move when he was suddenly startled and saw a huge mouth closing up!

Seeing this from a distance, Xiao Hei cried out, "Damn it!" and ran towards the Divine Void Giant Crocodile, shouting with his innate supernatural power as he ran, "Quickly release my Ninth Brother, or I'll kill you, you big flatfish!"

The Divine Void Crocodile felt its head was about to explode, and its blood was about to boil. It forced its eyes open and looked toward the source of the sound. How did it end up encountering this plague-ridden thing? With that, it began to dive deeper into the swamp!

Just as the giant head of the Divine Void Crocodile was about to fall from the sky and plunge into the swamp below, with a "plop," Zhu Chongjiu appeared in the air. Then, the Divine Void Crocodile plunged into the swamp headfirst again, but this time it sank slowly into the swamp!

Just then, Xiao Hei arrived in front of Zhu Chongjiu, looking at him with admiration. Zhu Chongjiu was pulling the giant crocodile by its tail out of the swamp, but the thing was too big, and the swamp's suction was too strong. Zhu Chongjiu couldn't get much leverage in the air. Seeing Xiao Hei staring at him blankly, he said angrily, "Are you blind? Can't you see I'm working? Hurry up and help! With your lack of tact, you'll never find a wife when you grow up in our area!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Hei flew into the air and transformed back into its original form. It stretched out its two front claws and followed Zhu Chongjiu in pulling out. With great effort, the two of them finally dragged the thousand-foot-long crocodile from the swamp onto land.

Both the man and the black-clad figure lay on the ground, panting heavily. Ten minutes later, after their heartbeats had stabilized, Zhu Chongjiu instructed them, "Same as always, you go find the treasure. Today, your Ninth Brother will cook you two dishes: grilled fish and fish bone soup. I guarantee I'll rip your tongue off!"