Chapter 607: Within the Forest

Ye Feng left everyone else in the second layer of the Death Forest, while he and Long Tian entered the third layer. The monstrous beasts at the star domain and star realm levels had much stronger territorial awareness than those in the previous two layers. As soon as Ye Feng and Long Tian entered, they were attacked.
“These beasts react quickly,” Ye Feng said, looking at the monsters that surrounded them.
“Of course. Beasts at the star realm level are extremely sensitive to their territory. They have merged their realm with their territory to some extent, so once someone enters, they are immediately detected,” Long Tian explained. “Those star domain level beasts are just their lackeys. Our presence is only at the star sea level, so they deem it unnecessary to act personally and send these star domain level beasts to hunt us.”
At that moment, there were nearly thirty star domain level beasts surrounding Ye Feng and Long Tian, most of whom were only at the early to middle stages of that level.
“Kill them all! There are plenty of monsters in this forest anyway,” Ye Feng said. He stretched out his ten fingers, and ten streams of purple lightning shot out, targeting ten beasts each. In an instant, the lightning pierced through the beasts’ brains, just like nails sinking into tofu—effortlessly. Before the shock on those beasts’ faces could fade, they collapsed to the ground.
Without even looking, Ye Feng sent out another wave of lightning from his fingers.
The finger techniques derived from his Lightning Destruction Art were essentially an upgraded version of the Sky Splitting Fingers. Each finger could amplify the power of the Destruction Art by twenty times. Although the Destruction Art was only a fourth-level technique, with Ye Feng’s enhanced power, its strength was even more terrifying than that of a fifth-level technique.
Long Tian’s skills were equally formidable. His set of boxing techniques was like the descent of an Indra, with lightning swirling around his body. Each punch could kill a star domain level warrior, showing that it was also a highly advanced divine technique.
In just a few moments, the group of beasts was completely wiped out.
“Let’s split up! This way, we won’t get the same training effect,” Long Tian said, looking at Ye Feng in exasperation. Ye Feng’s skills were simply too terrifying; even being by his side, it seemed difficult to catch any monsters.
“Mm, be careful,” Ye Feng nodded in agreement. He had also seen the effectiveness of his own techniques and planned to find stronger beasts to test them on.
Long Tian stored the few beasts he had killed in his storage ring and then left quickly.
Ye Feng then stored all the beasts he had killed in his storage ring and continued deeper into the forest.

Within the fourth layer of the Forest of Death, Jin Wen was fighting against a celestial-level monster. He had been battling it for an hour already; although he held the upper hand, he still couldn’t kill it. What annoyed Jin Wen was that the monster was only in the later stages of the celestial level, while his own cultivation had reached the peak of that level. Under normal circumstances, the monster’s combat strength should have been utterly inferior to his, but after being injured, its recovery speed far exceeded Jin Wen’s expectations. Moreover, upon realizing it was outmatched, the monster entered a special berserk state—its eyes turning red—as its attack power, defense, and even speed increased tenfold, allowing it to stand toe-to-toe with Jin Wen. For a while, the two were locked in a stalemate.

Logically, despite being at the peak of the celestial level, Jin Wen’s strength should have been sufficient to match even pseudo-void-level warriors who surpassed his rank. The monster’s cultivation was even weaker than Jin Wen’s, yet it could still contend with him, which seemed utterly unbelievable.

He had originally thought he could easily slaughter all the celestial-level monsters in this area and take credit from Ye Feng, but now he was blocked here, which inevitably made Jin Wen frustrated. He began to doubt whether those monsters at the peak of the celestial level were actually stronger than him.

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Zhen Zhu and the others moved through the area filled with star-sea level monsters by working together methodically. Working in groups of three, they divided the captured monster corpses among themselves. With several groups working simultaneously, their overall hunting speed wasn’t slow at all.

As for Xiao Yu, Xiao Bei, and the rest, they chose to hunt alone, relying on constant combat to strengthen their abilities.

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After entering the small hut, Luo Yan suddenly found himself in a starry sky. Streams of starlight shot out and instantly penetrated his body. Luo Yan felt as though the starlight was moving within him, searching for something, as if some invisible eyes were peering into all the secrets of his body. After a moment, the starlight turned into specks and fully merged into Luo Yan’s blood, muscles, and bones. In just an instant, he discovered that the pseudo-void-level barrier had been broken, and he had now reached the true-void level of cultivation.

Then, a grand door appeared in the void, emitting a magnificent multicolored light. The light was intense but not blinding.

Luo Yan looked around and found that there was only this one thing in the void, so without hesitation, he stepped inside. After passing through the gate, the scene changed instantly, revealing a magnificent palace whose grandeur was even comparable to Ye Feng’s Liuluan Hall. Outside the main hall, there were twelve additional halls—some for raising rare demonic beasts, some for growing spiritual herbs, and others for storage purposes. What delighted Luo Yan the most was that every palace, including the main hall and the twelve side halls, was filled to the brim with treasures. Here, there were vast resources that could easily help him raise his cultivation to the level needed to ascend to a higher primary plane. “These resources…” Luo Yan was too shocked to speak. “Only after claiming ownership will all these resources become yours,” came a woman’s voice. Luo Yan turned and saw a woman in a red dress walking slowly toward him. “Who are you?” Luo Yan was taken aback. “I am the spirit of this palace. The Progenitor instructed me to wait here for someone destined to inherit it,” the woman in red said with a faint smile. “This palace is called the Bloodline Hall. Only descendants of the Progenitor with sufficiently high bloodline concentration can succeed in claiming it. The Progenitor’s sons all tried but failed. Yet he is quite optimistic about you.” “The Progenitor’s sons failed?” Luo Yan was stunned again, his confidence waning instantly. “Why don’t you give it a try? If you fail too, I’ll likely have to wait trillions of years for the next person,” the spirit said helplessly, shaking her head. “Please follow me!” The spirit grabbed Luo Yan’s wrist, and the two instantly appeared in a strange room. There was nothing in the room except for a golden bead, the size of a fist, floating in midair. “Force out a drop of your life essence to claim ownership!” the spirit said, looking at Luo Yan. Without hesitation, Luo Yan forced out a drop of his life essence and dropped it onto the golden bead.