Even carrying a three-meter-long Primordial Qi Vein, Ding Huan still exited the cliff cave with ease using the Wind Control Skill.
"Big brother, are we really leaving Earth?" Qi Xinyue did not have much attachment to leaving Earth.
The only family she had was her mother, and after leaving Luoshen Valley, she knew she would never see her mother again.
Her master had mentioned that her mother remained on the Zhan Shen Continent solely for her. If it weren’t for her, her mother would have already left the Zhan Shen Continent with her master.
Where her mother would go, she did not know.
"Yes, I feel my strength is still too low, and remaining on Earth will not allow me to advance any further.
Before we leave, there are a few things I need to take care of," Ding Huan sighed as he spoke.
In any case, Earth was the place of his birth and upbringing. If he wasn’t mistaken, after he left Earth in his previous life, Earth was probably overtaken by Fierce Beasts.
As for humanity, it’s likely they were nearly extinct or had fallen to becoming vassals of the Fierce Beasts.
So, before leaving Earth this time, Ding Huan intended to kill those several Great Fierce Beasts.
If the Great Wilderness Golden Ape did not swear loyalty, he would kill it too.
There was no time for mercy.
He might never return, and this could be considered as doing something for Earth.
Qi Xinyue had been with Ding Huan for more than just a day or two, and she somewhat understood what kind of person he was.
Despite Ding Huan’s decisiveness in killing and his annihilation of the alien invaders, he inherently had feelings for Earth. When Ding Huan spoke of having a few things to do, she knew for sure that he intended to go to the human corridor defense line to kill the giant ape and the Demon Dragon.
After a moment of hesitation, she still said,
"Big brother, I heard from Cang Beichun that there is also a Fierce Beast above Level 9 in the Kunlun Mountain Range. I don’t know exactly what kind of Fierce Beast it is. I suspect what he said isn’t false."
A Fierce Beast above Level 9 in the Kunlun Mountain Range? Could that mean it’s a Demon Beast?
Ding Huan was startled and then seemed to discover something, accelerating his pace.
In just a short time, he arrived at the outskirts of Blue Star.
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"It seems there really is a Demon Beast stronger than a Level 9 Fierce Beast here," Ding Huan said, looking at the damaged protective railing outside Blue Star.
This protective railing was set up by Lao Liu.
Lao Liu was quite meticulous in his work, using large trees and boulders to construct it, and now a massive gap had appeared.
Clearly, someone had been here.
Aside from powerful characters like Cang Beichun, ordinary people could not reach this place.
That left only one possibility: a Fierce Beast had come.
What was strange was that after the Fierce Beast came here, it only tore open the protective railing outside Blue Star and did not destroy Blue Star itself.
"Did a Fierce Beast come here?" Qi Xinyue also noticed the situation.
The outside protection barrier of Blue Star was not randomly torn apart but seemed to be methodically dismantled. The gap that was created did not appear messy at all.
Only humans could achieve something like this.
However, Ding Huan was certain it was not a human, so it must be an intelligent Demon Beast.
"Not only has a Fierce Beast come, but this beast is also waiting for us not far from here, and might even be watching this place right now.
No, this can’t be called just a Fierce Beast, but a Demon Beast," Ding Huan spoke while his Divine Will scanned the surroundings.
"Ah..." Qi Xinyue exclaimed in shock; she was quite aware of how formidable Demon Beasts were.
That Demon Dragon was seriously injured before, and under those circumstances, Ding Huan and Zhong Chi almost lost even when combining their powers.
The reason Ding Huan ultimately won, Qi Xinyue initially did not comprehend fully, but after advancing to a Level 5 gene cultivator, she understood clearly.
If Ding Huan still possessed his original strength, and he fought with the previously injured Demon Dragon again, he would likely lose eight or nine out of ten times.
To put it bluntly, Ding Huan’s Wind Blade Skill and Fireball Technique were not that powerful.
The reason he defeated the Demon Dragon was due to tactical strategy.
Taking advantage of the Demon Dragon’s ignorance, he used the Wind Blade to open up its wound and then launched a Fireball.
After reflecting on the encounter, the Demon Dragon would realize that the Wind Blade Skill and Fireball Technique were essentially insignificant, making Ding Huan’s methods meaningless.
Ding Huan was puzzled; his Divine Will did not sense the Demon Beast nearby.
Now his Divine Will could scan an area of four to five thousand meters; could this Demon Beast be watching from over a dozen miles away?
In Ding Huan’s mind, the reason the Demon Beast came here was definitely not because it desired Blue Star, but because it sensed the Blossom God Crystal Stones and Energy Veins on Blue Star.
Ding Huan approached Blue Star and immediately noticed that the outside of Blue Star had been struck by something.
No, it should be a mark from claws.
That had to be the Demon Beast.
Given that the materials used for Blue Star were so extremely tough, even a Demon Beast could not leave a single mark on its exterior.
Previously, using the Starry Sky Blade to cut wildly inside such a battleship, he unconsciously assumed that the materials for Blue Star were just average.
Now he understood that the materials used inside and outside of Blue Star were clearly different.
Inside, a chaotic mess could be made, but the outside was likely impenetrable.
This Demon Beast was quite intelligent; after scratching a few times and failing to leave a mark on Blue Star, it gave up.
He simply stopped trying to fix the Blue Star spacecraft and even wiped clean the areas he had grabbed, so that at first, Lu River didn’t realize anything was amiss.
At this moment, Ding Huan was certain that as soon as he opened the Blue Star, the Fierce Beast would definitely charge over to seize the spacecraft without a doubt.
Ding Huan’s Divine Will penetrated out once again.
He refused to believe a Demon Beast tens of miles away could rush over here in an instant to prevent him from entering the Blue Star.
Sure enough, this time Ding Huan noticed something different.
Less than two hundred meters from him, there was a huge rock.
Next to that rock was an old tree that must have been dead for many years.
The girth of the dead tree was at least twenty meters, and although it couldn’t compare to the millennium cypress of Luoh River City, it was definitely an ancient tree.
A Large Eagle Owl was perched on the dead tree.
If one didn’t look closely, the Large Eagle Owl and the tree bark were the exact same color, indistinguishable from each other.
This was undoubtedly a mutated Large Eagle Owl, as normal ones would never exceed one meter in length. This Large Eagle Owl was at least three meters long.
Its massive beak rested against the dead tree without a trace of incongruity.
Its eyes were half-open, and Ding Huan noticed something unusual.
He instantly felt the subtle flow of elemental power from the Large Eagle Owl’s body.
Ding Huan felt a bit of regret that his Divine Will was still not strong enough.
If his Divine Will had substance, he would have been able to differentiate between living beings and non-living things.
Being able to detect the presence of living things, he would have sensed the Large Eagle Owl instantly.
Currently, his Divine Will was just slightly better than his eyesight.
"Xinyue, you and Lao Liu lift this Primordial Qi Vein up," Ding Huan indicated the Primordial Qi Vein he had just dropped on the ground.
Lao Liu grabbed the Primordial Qi Vein immediately, feeling at ease even though he couldn’t cultivate, just by holding the several meters long vein.
Qi Xinyue had access to open the hatch, she walked to the Blue Star and opened its door.
As soon as the hatch of the Blue Star opened, the rich Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi dissipated out.
Ding Huan, with his back to the Large Eagle Owl, seemed to be inspecting the Primordial Qi Vein. Although he was holding the wooden spear in his hand, the tip of the spear was angled towards the ground.
At that moment, a blow almost as fast as the Light Killing Crossbow whizzed towards Ding Huan’s back.
At the same time, the White Hardwood Long Spear in Ding Huan’s hand had already shot out.
As Ding Huan bent over with his back to the Large Eagle Owl, he fired the long spear.
He had been worried the Large Eagle Owl really was a Demon Beast, and he might not be able to defeat it.
So, he concluded that if the Large Eagle Owl was hiding here waiting for the hatch of the Blue Star to open, it was sure to launch a surprise attack the moment the hatch opened.
In this place, what the Large Eagle Owl probably feared the most was him.
And the surprise attack would undoubtedly target him.
After launching hundreds of beam lights, they instantly coalesced into a single line.
That’s the feature of the first technique of the Soul-shattering Spear—it could unleash thousands of lights in a single blow, or converge them all in an instant.
"Boom!"
Along with a piercing owl scream, feathers scattered across the sky, and a cloud of blood sprayed into the air.
"Crack!" The White Hardwood Spear in Ding Huan’s hand snapped into two pieces, and the powerful backlash force reached him, causing Ding Huan to spurt out a stream of blood.
Ding Huan understood that such a terrifying force of impact couldn’t belong to a common Fierce Beast.
It must have been a Demon Beast, albeit one that had barely advanced in rank and wasn’t strong in combat, which is why it was seriously injured by his surprise attack.
A gray shadow rushed into the depths of the mountains and vanished in a flash.
"Big brother," Qi Xinyue turned pale.
The exchange between Ding Huan and the Large Eagle Owl had happened in the blink of an eye; the Large Eagle Owl was set on ambushing him, but Ding Huan had been prepared.
Even though Ding Huan’s speed couldn’t match that of the mutated Large Eagle Owl, he made his move first.
So when the Large Eagle Owl surged towards Ding Huan’s back, his White Hardwood Long Spear pierced through the Eagle Owl’s chest, stabbing through its heart.
Even if the Large Eagle Owl was a Demon Beast, when it concentrated its Primordial Qi to attack Ding Huan, its heart was pumping blood frantically.
The spear’s lethality was immense, akin to causing a severe hemorrhage in the Large Eagle Owl’s heart.
"Xinyue, you and Lao Liu enter the Blue Star and wait for me to return..."
After saying this, Ding Huan’s figure flashed as he chased after the shadow of the disappearing Large Eagle Owl.
He was almost certain that, if not for the surprise attack, he might really not be a match for the Large Eagle Owl in a head-on confrontation.
Especially since this Large Eagle Owl was incredibly fast and cunning.
It could be only blamed that this Large Eagle Owl was too cunning. If it had confronted him head-on, he truly wouldn’t have been able to deal such a heavy blow.
Now that the Large Eagle Owl was injured, how could Ding Huan let it slip away? If he let this chance go, unless he completed Genetic Foundation Establishment, he would never be able to defeat it.
Such a formidable Demon Beast on Earth would be a calamity among calamities.
Watching Ding Huan chase after the beast, gratitude filled Lao Liu’s eyes, glad for the choice he had made before.
Ding Huan hadn’t lied to him; not to mention the Demon Dragon and the giant ape Ding Huan had referred to before. The Large Eagle Owl just now could have easily crushed him.