The savage beasts had poor control over their auras. No matter how much they tried to conceal it, Dongbo Xueying’s Void Domain could easily detect and confirm their presence—this was a peak Divine Lord-level beast.
“After spending over a year actively searching, I’ve finally encountered a peak Divine Lord-level beast,” Dongbo Xueying mused silently. Only beasts of this caliber held sufficient value, as they represented the pinnacle of savagery and were typically slain by Divine Emperor-level experts—though peak Divine Lord-level Ascenders could also manage it. “Fortunately, I have twelve hundred years. I believe I can hunt enough of them.”
Whoosh.
Dongbo Xueying pretended to be oblivious as he flew past a vast lake.
Just as he reached a certain point above the water—
Splash! A massive, translucent figure burst from the lake. Its body stretched over ten miles long, and its upward surge was as swift as lightning. Its soft, transparent form instantly enveloped Dongbo Xueying.
“Rip!”
Dongbo Xueying flicked his right hand.
A void rift tore downward, slashing across the beast’s pliant, translucent body. The semi-transparent form bore a grotesque face, and though the attack sent ripples through its body, dispersing the force, its momentum slowed. Seizing the moment, Dongbo Xueying retreated swiftly through the gaps in its grasp.
“A peak Divine Lord? Hah! Rare to find such delicious prey,” the massive beast rumbled, its twisted face distorting as its voice boomed across the sky.
Before the echoes faded, it lunged again. Its transparent body seemed unaffected by resistance, moving at terrifying speed. Even with his Void Path techniques, Dongbo Xueying was only slightly faster. But escape wasn’t his goal—he intended to slay this beast.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The beast relentlessly pursued, attempting to fully encase and imprison him.
Dongbo Xueying, however, treated it as a training dummy, testing various Void Path techniques. Yet none could harm it. “This beast’s survivability is absurd. My attacks barely tickle it—far tougher than the Bat Mountain Lord’s ‘Bat-Dragon Body.’” Every strike was effortlessly dispersed by the rippling, gelatinous form.
“You’re quite the dodger. Enough games,” the beast suddenly declared. Its body split into countless translucent threads, thinning slightly as they multiplied.
A dense web of threads shot toward Dongbo Xueying.
“Hmm?”
He raised a finger and tapped lightly.
Whoosh.
A colossal void bubble enveloped the beast and its threads, collapsing instantly into a black dot before exploding. The beast emerged unscathed.
“Die!” Enraged, the beast twisted its threads into nine long, whip-like tendrils.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The whips lashed out with devastating force, but Dongbo Xueying dodged effortlessly.
“This beast is peak Divine Lord, yet its defense is unparalleled. My Void Path techniques can’t even scratch it,” he lamented inwardly. If he could wound it, time might wear it down. But without even that, prolonged combat was futile.
“Even I can’t harm it. Among peak Divine Lord beasts, this must be exceptionally rare,” he reasoned.
Indeed.
Though he’d come to the wilderness to hunt, he hadn’t gathered detailed intelligence on peak Divine Lord beasts. The Junshan City’s Feng Clan offered little public data, while the Tianxin Tower’s exhaustive reports were costly. Besides, Dongbo Xueying sought tempering through battle. To him, any peak Divine Lord beast was fair game—ignorance only heightened the challenge.
Danger?
Peak Divine Lord beasts posed no threat to him.
“Enough. It’s out of tricks—no more tempering value.” With a thought—
Boom!
Dongbo Xueying locked eyes with the beast, still thrashing wildly. A terrifying Illusory Realm assault crushed its soul, while his fist struck as a mere facade—ensuring any future time-reconstruction observers would see only a physical kill.
“Pfft.” The punch landed.
The beast’s face twisted in horror before its massive body was sent flying, its aura vanishing as its soul extinguished.
Crash!
It slammed into the lake, floating lifelessly on the surface.
Dongbo Xueying retrieved the corpse, storing it in his spatial treasure.
A joke, truly.
His Illusory Realm techniques could overwhelm mid-tier Deadraiser Tribesmen and native generals in the Broken Tooth Mountain Range—equivalent to mid-tier Divine Emperors here. A mere peak Divine Lord beast, especially one so brutish and simple-minded, stood no chance.
Hunting was never perilous for him. The battles were mere training for his Void Path.
“Next target.” He resumed his search.
—
Time flowed.
Peak Divine Lord beasts were scarce. After each kill, Dongbo Xueying would teleport to a new location.
A month before the Tianxin Tower’s auction, he halted.
“Time for Jiangyuan City.”
Standing mid-air, he slipped through a black rift.
Three teleportations later—adjusting for Jiangyuan City’s approximate location—he arrived.
“There.”
Flying swiftly, he glimpsed the colossal city ahead. Jiangyuan City stood among the mightiest in the Divine Realm, dwarfing remote Junshan City.
Swoosh.
He landed at the gates, drawing brief glances from guards before entering. The city teemed with outsiders, often arriving via grand ships.
“Tianxin Tower.”
Before him loomed a towering structure, flanked by sprawling palaces—Jiangyuan City’s Tianxin Tower.
Though grander, its layout mirrored Junshan’s. Familiar, he ascended to the third floor.
“I wish to sell savage beast remains,” he told an attendant.
“What level?” the attendant asked.
“Peak Divine Lord.”
“Please follow me.”
Startled, the attendant led him through corridors into a hall.
Dongbo Xueying noted the scale. “Junshan’s third floor had three halls. Here, dozens—with hundreds of attendants.”
“Esteemed Divine Lord, please present your wares,” two Tianxin experts requested. Before them floated a spatial array, compressing a hundred-mile space into a mere hundred meters.
With a wave—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Corpse after corpse flew into the array—massive lizard-like beasts over thirty miles long, tiny insectile ones under a meter. Their residual auras were potent.
The experts gaped. Over ten peak Divine Lord corpses in moments—and more kept coming.
“How many did he hunt alone?” they wondered, breathless.
Dongbo Xueying remained calm. He released them gradually to avoid clogging the array. These kills were mere currency for the auction.
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