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Chapter 166: Chaos Beast
Joseph seemed eager to understand his own strength.
Lian Yun, however, paid little attention to this and simply nodded before turning away. In just a few steps, he reached the edge of the village. Once the Three Spirits and Chen Er Gou returned swiftly, he moved far away.
To be honest, although Lian Yun was not afraid to challenge the King's Peak Chaos Soul Beast located ten miles away, he chose not to engage in such a confrontation.
Firstly, completing the initial mission was his priority. Secondly, he had already encountered the first trap before even getting out of the vehicle, and shortly after stepping out, he faced a second scheme. This made Lian Yun acutely aware of the complexities of Yin and Yang.
While he wasn't overly aggressive, for safety's sake, he felt it prudent to wait until he had a better understanding of the rules of Yin Yang City before making any detailed plans.
For now, his focus was solely on completing the mission.
After about half an hour, despite being delayed for several minutes, Lian Yun opted to head north outside the village.
Two or three miles was merely a moment for Lian Yun; however, it took him nearly three minutes to traverse that distance. The reason lay in the unique restrictions present in Yin Yang City.
The air here was fresh and pleasant, imbued with a rich scent of Spiritual Energy, yet it could not be utilized or absorbed.
This inability to harness the Spiritual Energy posed a significant challenge for Lian Yun. He knew that the Sword Control Technique was not only incredibly fast but also immensely powerful. However, its Guardian History relied primarily on one's own will, supplemented by the Spiritual Energy in the air. Without the ability to cultivate Spiritual Energy, he could not effectively wield his Eastern Sword.
Now that he couldn't draw upon the Spiritual Energy in the atmosphere, it meant that using the Sword Control Technique would require him to expend his own spiritual power. While this wouldn't drastically weaken its effectiveness, it would greatly affect his endurance in prolonged battles.
Especially with his sword-drawing technique; after one strike, it would likely leave him as depleted as if he had used Eastern Sword One—without any residual strength left.
In this way, Lian Yun's combat power was significantly diminished.
However, for some reason, this situation gave him a strange sense of reality and authenticity.
Perhaps it was because, under these circumstances, anyone could only display their most fundamental strength!
Then, recalling how the people in the novice village schemed and offended newcomers without knowing their strengths or weaknesses just to deceive them for their spiritual liquid, Lian Yun realized that the Spiritual Energy within the Black Spirit Coin might indeed be usable, but for someone at the First-Class Monarch level, it could very well be more harmful than beneficial.
Thus, in order to minimize the consumption of his internal spiritual power as much as possible, Lian Yun proceeded at his own pace.
Soon after, he encountered what was referred to as the Chaos Beast.
Once again, the scene astonished Lian Yun.
Arriving at a basin, he noticed a group of 'living wild boars' below. They charged wildly, shaking the ground and relentlessly attacking seven or eight scattered individuals within the basin.
However, when these living wild boars were killed, their bodies instantly emitted smoke that coalesced into a black coin in mid-air, while the remains quickly turned into a pile of sand that sank down, restoring the ground to its original state.
Although this scene was quite magical, Lian Yun found himself pondering another question.
That was about the composition of the Chaos Beast.
When he had never seen it before, he might not have thought much about it. But now that he had witnessed it, Lian Yun considered that this Chaos Beast was formed by combining the chaotic soul power from the ocean with sand and then utilizing the silicon within the sand to transform it into normal spiritual power through a certain method.
After the formation of the Chaos Beasts, someone needed to eliminate them to release usable spiritual energy.
However, spiritual energy naturally varies in quality, and the Black Spirit Coin was clearly the lowest grade, even containing impurities that could harm both humans and Spirits upon absorption.
After observing for a while, Lian Yun noticed another issue: the Chaos Beasts were also born from the ground.
As some wild boars were killed, new ones would spawn from the ground after a certain period. Strangely, almost every wild boar exhibited slight differences.
To Lian Yun, this might be related to the chaotic soul energy that composed them.
Another problem was that not every wild boar would yield a Black Spirit Coin upon being killed; many of the boar corpses would emit smoke that coalesced halfway before suddenly collapsing and dissipating.
At this realization, Lian Yun suddenly awakened to the understanding that Yin Yang City was essentially a massive Spiritual Energy harvesting machine. Regardless of their treatment, he and the other outsiders were merely laborers for Yin Yang City or the Eternal Emperor.
This revelation left Lian Yun feeling somewhat disheartened, but it did not slow his actions. He moved to the other side of the basin and then descended into it, releasing Zhao Jinlong, Zhao Jinhui, Sword Mountain, Three Spirits, and Chen Er Gou to engage in battle.
As for Big Head, Hei, and the Twelve Fierce Warriors, they remained behind. This was due to the special circumstances surrounding Hei and the Twelve Fierce Warriors.
Under normal circumstances, Hei would have likely jumped onto Lian Yun's shoulder instead of staying within the Yin-Yang Stage. However, ever since Lian Yun obtained Supreme Power, Hei's absorption process had become different from others.
Perhaps because Hei was not humanoid, after absorbing Supreme Power, it needed to convert that power into its own beast king aura. This transformation process required a considerable amount of time.
The Twelve Fierce Warriors needed to convert Supreme Power back into their own potential. Without any special formations to assist them, this process also took a significant amount of time. Thus, Lian Yun had Big Head watch over Hei and the Twelve Demon Slaves.
As for Yang Zai Xing, it was Lian Yun's trump card, something he would not easily reveal under normal circumstances.
Lian Yun calculated that the formation rate of Black Spirit Coins was around eighty to ninety percent. A typical High-Level Monarch could kill thirty to forty wild boars per minute, which meant he could harvest five to six Black Spirit Coins in that time.
Gathering one hundred Black Spirit Coins within twenty minutes was not a problem; it could be considered an easy test from the Old Village Chief.
However, with the malicious obstruction from the elders of the novice village, along with the time spent gathering information and the travel time required, many people found it difficult to complete this task.
Under normal circumstances, obtaining three thousand Black Spirit Coins within two hours was not hard; in fact, there would even be ample time, though it might be a bit of a struggle.
Lian Yun chose not to dwell on this and instead slaughtered wild boars alongside his Ghost Slaves.
For Lian Yun and the Ghost Slaves, collecting one hundred Black Spirit Coins was almost a matter of minutes, and he was in no hurry at all.
After acquiring some Black Spirit Coins, Lian Yun began to study them while letting the Ghost Slaves fight on their own.
From time to time, Lian Yun would check on Chen Er Gou's situation, as his fighting style was reckless and relentless, almost as if he had lost his sanity.
(End of Chapter)
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