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Chapter 881: Precious Materials Aid Cultivation
Chapter 881: Precious Materials Aid Cultivation
Bright light radiated through the forest after nightfall, with Chen Chuan standing in the midst of the blinding glow, surrounded by an impenetrable darkness.
It seemed as if countless twisted, formless entities were writhing and jostling within the darkness, emitting various eerie and peculiar sounds. Even the ground below seemed to come alive, groaning under the weight of some heavy burden.
However, Chen Chuan paid no attention to these disturbances, focusing entirely on his current posture and guiding his own breathing.
He had started his cultivation in the afternoon and had not stopped since.
This was the first time he had stood in the open wilderness of the Converged Land at night without any cover, but he felt no great discomfort. The biomagnetic field of a Fighter and the Great Bright Light Style he was practicing could resist external invasions and the fusion from the spiritual world.
However, due to the influence of the other world, his own consumption had increased several times. Whenever he felt his energy was running low, he would eat a large chunk of rusty honey and then return to his practice. Since these things would be left behind if not consumed, he used them without any hesitation.
The swarm of rust bees continued to surge toward him, becoming even more ferocious at night, but it was futile. The gap in life levels made them no match for him. As long as his biomagnetic field remained intact and his psychic power was not exhausted, they could not breach his outer defenses.
Therefore, he did not bother to drive them away, instead immersing himself fully in his cultivation.
Around him, the insect corpses gradually piled up on the ground but were soon absorbed into the darkness by the tidal waves of the spiritual world, turning into wisps of black smoke that faintly coalesced into something before being dissipated by the light of the Great Bright Light Style, like snow melting in the sun.
Chao Ming had descended from the sky before nightfall and was now curled up, holding a piece of honey, sheltered by Chen Chuan's biomagnetic field, sleeping soundly.
In the darkness and the intertwining night, he seemed like an eternal torch, becoming increasingly bright and radiant.
It felt like a long time had passed, yet it might have been just a moment. The darkness around him suddenly dissipated, and a beam of daylight pierced through the trees, shining down from above.
Dawn had come.
Chen Chuan paused his movements, then slowly stopped, the light on his body gradually dimming.
Over the course of the night and half a day, he had become familiar with one of the techniques of the Great Bright Light Style, mastering about half of it. He believed that with a few more days, he could fully grasp it. This was entirely due to the support of the high-energy honey. In theory, as long as there was sufficient energy supplementation and the Fighter's body could endure it, the cultivation speed could be greatly accelerated.
He could persist because his foundation was far more solid than that of other Fighters at the same stage. Additionally, the influence of the Incense Cauldron relic made it easier for him to find the correct path in his cultivation.
The remaining rust bees disappeared with the dawn, apparently giving up. There were no insect corpses left on the ground. He glanced at the towering beehive nearby. Despite the continuous consumption throughout the night, only the honey at the bottom had been used. This honey had the longest shelf life of all high-energy ingredients, reportedly lasting for a hundred years without losing its nutritional value.
However, he could not carry much back by himself. There might be better things ahead, and he considered this place his hunting ground, so he did not plan to completely deplete it. After some thought, he cut out a portion of the honey and placed it in the gaps of his luggage, intending to bring it back and savor it slowly. He left the rest untouched.
Then, he called to Chao Ming, who had climbed up a tree. With a flutter of his wings, Chao Ming soared into the sky, chirping once.
Chen Chuan picked up his luggage and the Snow Lady Sword and continued deeper into the region.
Although he had cultivated all night, the abundance of nutrient substances left him not only without fatigue but also very energetic.
This time, he had no fixed route, choosing his direction based on the terrain and water sources. After walking for more than three hours, he entered a hill. As soon as he arrived, he sensed something unusual.
The surroundings were unusually quiet, and he soon felt a lingering, extremely violent psychic power that was suppressing the surrounding life.
A creature with psychic power?
Interesting.
He pulled down his hat brim and strode toward the source of the psychic power. After more than half an hour, he arrived at a mudflat. In a large open area, he saw a donkey-body ram-head creature.
It was quite large, standing about three to four meters tall on its four legs. Its hooves were hard and pure white, and a bulge protruded from its forehead. On either side of its head were a pair of slightly curved, sharp horns. Its smooth, shiny black-brown skin covered muscles like blocks.
This creature was indeed the one documented in the Bestiary, known as the Zeeyang, with a temperament that was both straightforward and hot-tempered. It was extremely territorial and had almost no natural predators in the first half of the Converged Land.
The current situation confirmed the records as he traveled, many creatures would flee upon sensing his field. Sometimes, when he wanted to find valuable creatures, he would deliberately suppress his field, but this creature, even when it clearly sensed his presence, refused to leave. Instead, it spread its legs, lowered its head, and positioned its horns forward, exhaling an abnormally scorching breath from its nose, assuming an offensive stance.
As the creature charged towards him, he chose to indulge it, sidestepping and delivering a light punch to its neck. A surge of power instantly penetrated its body, causing it to stumble a few steps before kneeling on the ground. It spat out a few mouthfuls of blood and then fell to its side, completely lifeless.
Li Chuan approached the Zeeyang, reaching out to touch the bulge on its forehead. This creature's most important feature was the mutated tissue on its head, the source of its spiritual concentration.
He tightened his grip, tearing off the thin membrane covering the tissue, revealing fibrous white meat.
Li Chuan consumed all the white meat, and his eyes began to glow uncontrollably, flashing a few times before fading.
He clenched his fist, feeling a continuous warm current flowing through his body. Eating this tissue not only benefited his physical body but also provided a certain amount of nourishment to his spirit.
This was primarily because the ingredients were fresh, consumed immediately after extraction, retaining all their nutrients. Additionally, the creature itself had a high level of vitality, only a step away from becoming a Fighter. Its spirit had already begun to connect with that world and naturally grow, hence the formation of such tissue on its forehead.
Most creatures in the Converged Land didn't know how to utilize this power effectively, only stacking and increasing it until one day, they underwent a qualitative transformation. This led to an extreme concentration of high-energy nutrients and substances beneficial to Fighters.
Consuming these tissues, even by Li Chuan's standards, was equivalent to ten days' worth of normal consumption.
Unfortunately, due to their temperamental nature, these creatures were relatively rare, and those that grew to this extent were even scarcer. According to the Bestiary, they were often hunted by Fighters upon discovery. This area, having rarely been used as a hunting ground by Fighters, was the reason he encountered one this time.
Li Chuan thought to himself that he had indeed come to the right place.
Taking another look at the Zeeyang, he changed his mind, drawing his short blade and removing the horns. According to the Bestiary, some Fighters were avid collectors of such items, even willing to trade mutated tissues and ingredients for them. So, he decided to take them along.
After securing the horns to his luggage, he surveyed the hills and decided to continue his search for the next target.
An hour after leaving the hills, he noticed the vegetation becoming sparser, and the number of living creatures dwindling.
This was an unusual situation; in the absence of special circumstances, creatures in the Converged Land thrived.
At that moment, he caught a whiff of an extremely fragrant scent. Following the aroma, he saw mounds of soil, each about three to four meters high, filling his entire field of vision. The scent was so intense that it seemed almost overwhelming.
Within the mounds were heaps of snowy, plump granules resembling rice, which were actually ant eggs—a highly nutritious ingredient.
Due to their difficulty in storage, when supplied to Fighters, they were often served in small plates, but here, they were everywhere.
For ordinary creatures, these eggs were challenging to consume. Once ingested, the ant eggs would hatch inside the creature's body, and the larvae would feed on the creature's body and its mutated tissues to grow. Upon reaching adulthood, they would break out of the creature's body and lay more eggs.
Without proper control and the presence of creatures capable of digesting these ant eggs, they could eventually transform the entire region into a breeding nest for the ants.
However, Fighters had no problem absorbing these eggs. For Li Chuan, this place was like a granary.
Moreover, the eggs were delicious, soft, fragrant, and sweet. When paired with other ingredients, they could better stimulate the release of their nutritional value. That's why they were specifically selected as one of the Fighter's ingredients.
However, efficiency was crucial for Li Chuan in this environment. There was no need to eat them one by one, so he activated his biomagnetic field, causing all the ant eggs within range to float up and instantly shatter into white mist, which then merged into his body.
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(End of Chapter)
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