Xiaoxiao.

Looking at the mountain of beast cores, now reduced to a mere hundred or so, Ying Yue's eyes widened in shock, speechless.

These beast cores are the White Dragon's treasure!

How could the legendary level twelve beast's private collection be anything ordinary?

At his level, he was already incredibly close to being a demon.

The value of anything that such a person would set his sights on is self-evident.

Therefore, the lowest level beast core is level six, while the highest level even reaches the terrifying level twelve!

Among them were even the wild beasts that were the parents of the white dragon.

Although these animal cores are much worse than they were originally due to their age.

Even so, the energy they contain should not be underestimated.

Especially those level twelve beast cores, although countless years have passed, the luster on their surfaces has become extremely dim.

Yet the energy it contains is still terrifying!

It is no exaggeration to say that these beast cores are undoubtedly the most valuable treasures the three of them possess so far.

There was a time when they believed that, in terms of energy alone, these beast cores were more than enough to support their advancement all the way to the legendary Tribulation stage.

However, nearly half of her strength has been consumed by Kuang Zheng. Although Ying Yue does not know Kuang Zheng's specific realm at the moment, one thing is certain—he is still far from the legendary realm of Tribulation Transcending!

However, in such a short time, Kuang Zheng, who was still far from the legendary tribulation, had already consumed one-third of all the beast cores!

Even so, his rate of consumption showed no signs of slowing down.

It was only at this moment that Ying Yue realized how terribly wrong their initial assumptions about the Tribulation Transcending stage were.

But she had no time to feel sentimental, because she was horrified to discover that the mountain of beast cores had been emptied in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Ying Yue did not hesitate to take out all the beast cores stored in the Purple Dragon Ring.

With the replenishment of these beast cores, Kuang Zheng seemed to sense it, and his absorption speed suddenly increased, reaching a new level once again.

At first, Ying Yue thought that Kuang Zheng would wake up in the next moment.

Unexpectedly, seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

With less than a third of the beast cores taken from the Purple Dragon Ring remaining, Kuang Zheng still showed no sign of stopping absorbing them.

As he continued to devour, the energy fluctuations emanating from Kuang Zheng's body became increasingly intense.

At first, Ying Yue was able to get close to Kuang Zheng with ease.

However, for the past three days, a suffocating and terrifying pressure has permeated the entire dragon's nest.

Especially today, even though she was hiding in the corner furthest from Kuang Zheng and used all her spiritual energy to resist, Ying Yue still could not withstand the pressure that was as heavy as a mountain.

She knew it was time to leave, because she could no longer resist the energy that Kuangzheng had unleashed with her own strength.

The pressure was still rising rapidly, but for her own safety, she could only glance at Kuang Zheng, who was still motionless, from afar, before stepping into the Purple Dragon Ring with a heart full of reluctance and worry.

Yes, friends, you heard right.

The Purple Dragon Ring also has a magical function—it can not only store various items inside, but it can even store the owner's physical body inside the ring!

However, the master inside the Sumeru space is completely unable to perceive the outside world. For this reason, almost no one who possesses a spatial treasure would do so.

Because this is equivalent to locking oneself in a prison. Once the enemy finds it, they have at least ten thousand ways to make the owner of the spatial treasure die without a burial place.

Fortunately, this is Dragon's Nest, and because of the rectification, there are no security issues.

It was precisely for this reason that Ying Yue dared to make such an attempt.

If they were outside, even if she had ten times the courage, he wouldn't dare take such a risk.

With a thought, Ying Yue witnessed a jaw-dropping scene unfold: her body suddenly vanished as if swallowed by an invisible force!

"Ding~!"

With a crisp sound, the Purple Dragon Ring fell to the ground.

Almost at the same moment, Kuang Zheng, who had been completely still, suddenly unleashed an extremely powerful pressure.

This oppressive force was like a surging wave, sweeping wildly outwards with overwhelming force, its intensity being more than ten times that of the previous one!

The immense pressure seemed to be crushing the entire dragon's nest.

Countless stalactites, unable to withstand the immense pressure, turned into powder.

Even the floorboards, whose texture was indiscernible, cracked, and the heat source and the ice spring floated up under this terrifying pressure.

Fortunately, Ying Yue had managed to hide inside the Purple Dragon Ring in time; otherwise, it's hard to imagine what she would have become under such terrifying pressure.

"Om~!"

Suddenly, there was another slight sound.

The voice was deep, yet incredibly clear.

Immediately afterwards, dazzling energy waves spread outwards rapidly like ripples from the center point of Kuang Zheng.

These energy waves contain terrifying, world-destroying power; wherever they go, space instantly collapses and shatters, turning into nothingness.

It's also thanks to the fact that this is a dragon's nest, whose sturdiness is far beyond what is usually seen.

If this kind of powerful shockwave had occurred elsewhere, it would probably have caused a tremendous earthquake.

Here, you can only occasionally hear a sickening squeezing sound.

Without even looking, you can tell that it must be some natural object that has existed for countless years, which has been crushed into dust.

Just then, Kuang Zheng's absorption rate of beast core energy unexpectedly increased again!

The beast core, which had already been mostly consumed, was now decreasing at an astonishing rate.

"Rumble..."

With a series of low rumbling sounds, the mountain of beast cores on the ground was reduced to about one-sixth of its original size in the blink of an eye.

They had originally expected that a level 12 beast core would be enough to advance one realm, but now, in just a few breaths, the energy contained within it was completely absorbed by Kuang Zheng.

Only a few dozen beast cores remained on the ground, and Kuang Zheng suddenly stopped devouring them.

As the devouring stopped, an astonishing scene unfolded—a surge of gray spiritual energy, like a ferocious beast breaking free of its cage, burst forth from Kuang Zheng's body!

This gray spiritual energy seemed to have a life of its own. As soon as it left Kuang Zheng's body, it eagerly swept towards Kuang Zheng, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, and instantly enveloped him tightly.

In the blink of an eye, the gushing forth of massive spiritual energy completely enveloped Kuang Zheng, forming a huge cocoon of spiritual energy.

As the spiritual cocoon took shape, the spiritual energy that had been continuously overflowing from Kuang Zheng's body abruptly stopped, as if it had received some kind of instruction.

At the same time, the terrifying pressure that had previously permeated the dragon's nest and sent chills down everyone's spines vanished without a trace in an instant, as if it had never existed.