The Divine Realm, outside a small town near Shenyuan City.
"This is it. The strongest person in this town was just at the Star Radiance Realm in life. Although his strength will increase at night after becoming a mutant, he should not exceed the mid-stage of the Star Radiance Realm. With the full strength of the two of us, taking this town should not be a problem!"
Looking at the map showing the town, Chi Chen confirmed that he and Hu Miaomiao were capable of handling it.
Chi Chen is now at the half-step Star Radiance Realm, and his strength has improved significantly compared to when he was in Yuanshan Town. Now, even with his full strength, Chi Chen can face an early-stage Star Radiance Realm opponent without fear.
"Okay! Let's go in then!"
Hu Miaomiao nodded as well.
The two slowly entered the town and went straight to the center of the town.
Faintly, Chi Chen and Hu Miaomiao felt an invisible gaze upon them. They knew that the strongest mutant in the town was watching them in the dark, and that it would reveal itself at night.
Among the mutated beings in the divine realm, only those who were once at the Moon Realm can appear in broad daylight, but their realm and strength will be correspondingly weakened.
Just like the strongest mutant in Yuanshan Town, at night, his strength is enough to reach the peak of the Ruoyue Realm, but during the day, he can only use the strength of the Xinghui Realm.
According to Venerable Lingfeng, this might be the suppression of those divine beings who have been influenced by the evil shadow by the rules of the divine realm.
From this conjecture, Chi Chen also obtained a piece of information: those evil shadows were not products of the God Realm; to the God Realm, they were foreign invaders.
Walking on the desolate and cold streets, Chi Chen couldn't help but feel a sense of sorrow. This town was located around Shenyuan City, but the mutants in it had never been eliminated by the people sent by Venerable Lingfeng.
Perhaps Venerable Lingfeng and the others couldn't bear to harm these aberrant beings from the divine realm. Perhaps they were still searching for, or perhaps hoping for, a way to restore these aberrant beings to normal human form.
After all, among these mutants, there might be people who were once closest to them. Those who are still normal residents of the God Realm cannot be as ruthless as Chi Chen, an outsider, in taking action against the mutants of the God Realm.
However, judging from Venerable Lingfeng's attitude in sending Chi Chen to these towns, Chi Chen could guess that these aberrant beings from the divine realm could not possibly return to their original state. Otherwise, Venerable Lingfeng would not have sent him to such a place to absorb creative matter.
Lingfeng Venerable's actions were probably intended to use Chi Chen to help the aberrant beings in the God Realm find liberation. Chi Chen felt like he was being used as a weapon by the other party.
However, Chi Chen did not feel any aversion to this. On the contrary, he was grateful to Venerable Lingfeng. The other party could have easily prevented him from increasing his strength by killing the mutants of the God Realm. If the other party had really done that, Chi Chen could not say anything.
Therefore, it seems that Chi Chen and Venerable Lingfeng reached an unspoken agreement. Chi Chen helped Venerable Lingfeng and the others do things they were unwilling to do, while Venerable Lingfeng and the others did not care about Chi Chen's plunder of the material they created. From this perspective, it can only be said that both sides had their own interests.
Time passed by, second by second, until finally, when the sun set high in the sky, the once peaceful and beautiful divine realm instantly transformed into something else entirely.
Throughout the divine realm, the aberrant beings of the divine realm slowly emerged from the darkness. Strange knocking sounds echoed through the air as they knocked on doors one by one, hoping someone inside would clear the obstacles in their path.
"Knock knock knock!"
The same thing was happening in the town where Chi Chen and Hu Miaomiao lived.
"Time's up, let's begin!"
Hearing the increasingly frequent and intense knocking at the door, Chi Chen took a standard longsword that Hu Miaomiao had drawn from the Shadow Gate. This weapon from the God Realm was something Chi Chen had asked Dao Yuanzi for.
Then, Chi Chen, holding a long sword, and Hu Miaomiao, holding a spiked club, calmly opened the door.
Outside the door, no fewer than a hundred alien beings from the divine realm had already gathered.
However, the difference in numbers cannot make up for the gap in combat strength between them and Chi Chen and Hu Miaomiao.
Chi Chen composed himself, drew his sword, and charged out, severing the head of a mutated god from the heavens with a single strike. Then, he lightly touched the mutated god's brow with the tip of his sword. A glimmer of relief flashed in the eyes of the mutated god's head in mid-air, and then a bit of creative matter extracted from its body was absorbed into Chi Chen's body.
After several encounters with the aberrant beings from the divine realm, Chi Chen and Hu Miaomiao discovered a quick and efficient way to extricate them from their predicament: first, sever their heads, and then strike their foreheads. The aberrant beings from the divine realm would then quickly dissipate.
Like wolves among sheep, the two of them, amidst a group of God Realm mutants who were at most at the early stage of the Star Radiance Realm, provided relief to one of the mutants with each swing of their weapons.
In just about half an hour, less than ten of the hundred-plus mutated gods remained, and at that moment, the strongest being in the town finally revealed himself.
"Ugh!"
The strongest God Realm mutant let out a howl, and then charged towards Chi Chen and Hu Miaomiao along with the remaining God Realm mutants.
A dozen minutes later, Chi Chen stood on the street where there were no more aberrations from the God Realm, letting the extracted creative matter enter his body.
"Phew! This mutated god is much weaker than I imagined. However, correspondingly, the creative matter he extracted will also have a weaker effect on my improvement!"
Chi Chen felt a subtle improvement in his realm. Just as he thought, the stronger the mutated god realm creature, the stronger the strange energy contained in the creative matter it extracted.
"Judging from the improvement this time, if all the remaining towns are like this, we'll need to go to at least four more towns before I can reach the Star Radiance Realm!"
Chi Chen did a simple estimate of the energy he needed to advance. Although he was only half a step away from the Star Radiance Realm, the energy required was still considerable. After all, the leap from the Ascension Realm to the Star Radiance Realm was a qualitative leap, and even Chi Chen would have to spend a lot of time to cross that threshold without the help of creating matter.
"It's a pity that the evil shadows around Shenyuan City have been almost completely wiped out by Venerable Lingfeng and the others, otherwise the advancement time could have been shortened considerably!"
In fact, compared to slaying the God Realm mutant, Chi Chen now prefers to slay the Evil Shadow to obtain the Creation Material. Firstly, Chi Chen has no psychological burden at all in eliminating the Evil Shadow. Secondly, the Creation Material extracted from the Evil Shadow is actually of much higher quality than the Creation Material extracted from the God Realm mutant's body.
Five days later, when Chi Chen and Hu Miaomiao walked out of the last town they had chosen, a smile appeared on Chi Chen's face, because as expected, Chi Chen had stepped into the Star Radiance Realm.
However, due to his current situation, Chi Chen's joy was somewhat diminished.
Looking at Chi Chen with a smile on his face, Hu Miaomiao admired his optimism. After all, what was about to happen to Chi Chen was a hellish scene, yet he could still smile.
"I don't know if I'll be able to laugh again in the future, so I should laugh as much as I can now!"
With his hands behind his head, Chi Chen seemed to have guessed Hu Miaomiao's thoughts and spoke in a relaxed tone.
He had endured the pain alone for five long years, and he had survived the most difficult time. Now that he was no longer alone, what did he have to fear, even if there were mountains of knives and seas of fire ahead?
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. After all, Lin Bai and the others are still waiting for me. I'll definitely go back!"
Chi Chen noticed that Hu Miaomiao's pretty face had puffed up a bit because of the previous sentence, so he quickly continued with a serious expression, saying that no matter how difficult the road ahead was, he would definitely get through it, not only for himself, but also for those he cared about who were still waiting for him.
"Of course, even for your sake, I will definitely pull through!"
Chi Chen suddenly chuckled and spoke to Hu Miaomiao.
"Hmph, who needs you to do this for me? And what do you mean by 'even if it's for me'?"
Upon hearing this, Hu Miaomiao snorted softly, exhaled a breath of cold air from her nose, turned her head, and quickened her pace.
However, even when Chi Chen couldn't see Hu Miaomiao's pretty face, the corners of Hu Miaomiao's mouth slightly lifted, revealing a faint smile.
"What a proud little kitten!"
Seeing this, Chi Chen smiled and then shamelessly pressed himself against her.
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