Chapter 380
Mu Chen and Ye Shi walked out of the spirit tower and found that only Bai Jinli was left in Bai Jixue's palace.
"You're out? Did you have a good rest?" Bai Jinli looked at the two of them and asked jokingly.
"Ancestor, where are the others? Why are you the only one left?" Ye Shi asked.
"Everyone else has gone to deal with the beast tide." Bai Jinli said with a smile.
Ye Shi was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Beast tide, beast tide, is it starting now?"
Bai Jinli shook his head and said, "Not really. It's only on a small scale at the moment. It's just... the monsters seem to have developed characteristics of demonic beasts, becoming several times more ferocious than before."
For tens of thousands of years, people could protect themselves by not provoking monsters. But now the curse is about to erupt again, and a war between humans and monsters is inevitable.
Ye Shi and Muchen couldn't help but look at each other.
"That shouldn't be a big deal." Ye Shi muttered.
"Nothing will happen for the time being, and it's not these monsters that we need to worry about." Bai Jinli said with some concern.
"Then we need to be careful. What kind of monster is it?" Ye Shi asked puzzledly.
"The curse broke out tens of thousands of years ago. At that time, many monsters were lost in the source of the curse. At that time, everyone thought or deceived themselves and hoped that those monsters were dead, but in fact..." Bai Jinli said with a wry smile.
"In fact, those monsters may still be alive?" Mu Chen asked.
Bai Jinli nodded and said, "Yes! If some of those monsters are still alive and have adapted to the curse, who knows how powerful they would be now."
Ye Shi puffed out his cheeks and said in a depressed tone, "Why do things seem to be getting more and more troublesome?"
Mu Chen smoothed Ye Shi's hair and said, "Don't worry, if the sky falls, there will be someone taller to hold it up."
Bai Jinli looked at Muchen and Ye Shi, and thought to himself: There is actually no need for Muchen to comfort Ye Shi. Everyone else is getting anxious to death. However, Ye Shi doesn't look anxious at all. He eats when he should eat and sleeps when he should sleep, as if he is a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water.
"Monsters are so annoying. I can't even kill them and eat them." Ye Shi said in distress.
Bai Jinli secretly rolled his eyes in his heart. It was already such a late hour, and Ye Shi was still only thinking about eating.
Mu Chen nodded and said, "Yes! The curse content in the monster meat here is too high, and the taste is not good. It is really not easy for our ancestors to stay in the secret realm for so long!"
Ye Shi nodded and said, "Yeah! They don't even have meat to eat. How pitiful."
Bai Jinli: “…” Is this the time to discuss this kind of thing?
Mu Chen smiled and said, "Just bear with it for a while. Once we get out, we'll have something to eat."
Ye Shi nodded and said, "Okay."
Bai Jinli couldn't help but narrow his eyes. Waiting to get out? Is there still hope of getting out?
Mu Chen followed Bai Jinli to the top of the city wall.
A monster with countless pairs of eyes all over its body stands out among the beasts.
The monster had thousands of eyes, sometimes open and sometimes closed. Every time the monster opened its eyes, Ye Shi felt dizzy.
"Thousand-eyed beast." Mu Chen muttered.
Ye Shi frowned and said, "Mu Chen, have you ever looked for this monster?"
Mu Chen nodded and said, "Yes, this guy's eyes can be used as medicine, which is very beneficial to soul power."
He had purchased this kind of monster in Central China. The Thousand-Eyed Beast was very rare. In the outer domain, he purchased a monster that barely reached level eight. It was probably in the late ninth level.
Generally speaking, the soul power of monsters is much weaker than that of cultivators of the same level, but this is not the case with the Thousand-Eyed Beast.
The soul power of the Thousand-Eyed Beast is very strong, and its eyes can emit death rays.
Ye Shi felt dizzy just by being hit by a few death rays emitted by the Thousand-Eyed Beast, which shows how terrifying this monster is.
"That monster seems to be very tricky!" Ye Shi muttered.
Mu Chen frowned. The Thousand-Eyed Beast was best at soul attacks. Fortunately, the city wall blocked it. If they encountered it in the wild, even an Eight-Star Martial Saint would be dead if faced with the thousands of eyes of the Thousand-Eyed Beast. The Martial Lords could not withstand the sharp "gaze" of this monster. The fainted Martial Lords were carried aside one by one.
"You are here." Bai Xiongtao walked over and said.
Ye Shi nodded and said, "Yes! Ancestor, isn't that Thousand-Eyed Beast a bit tricky?"
Bai Xiongtao nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't expect that this kind of monster would appear at the beginning of the beast tide. This Thousand-Eyed Beast has strong soul power and extremely strong defense. Just now, someone used a ninth-level talisman on this guy, but it couldn't break his shell."
Mu Chen narrowed his eyes. The Thousand-Eyed Beast not only had extremely strong defense, but also had extremely strong regenerative abilities even when injured.
"This guy seems to be very slow in movement, but the death rays emitted from his eyes are not to be trifled with. Ordinary cultivators can't get close to him at all." Bai Xiongtao said helplessly.
"Leave it to me." Mu Chen said confidently.
Bai Xiongtao glanced at Mu Chen in surprise and said, "I'll leave it to you. Do you have a solution?"
Mu Chen smiled mysteriously and said, "Of course."
In this world, there's something called a nemesis. Back in the Tianji Secret Realm, he'd absorbed the soul power of a ninth-level alchemist. The alchemist's soul fragments told him that the Thousand-Eyed Beast had incredible defense, recovery, and soul power, but it had one weakness: it was afraid of fire, especially strange fire.
Mu Chen released the little fire dragon and the little tiger, and the man and the tiger pounced on the Thousand-Eyed Beast at the same time.
The Thousand-Eyed Beast, which had been calm and leisurely, suddenly screamed when it came into contact with a dragon and a tiger, and thousands of pairs of eyes flashed around randomly.
The flames were burning fiercely, and the Thousand-Eyed Beast immediately let out a series of sharp screams.
The soul attack that the Thousand-Eyed Beast was proud of had no effect on the strange fire. The Thousand-Eyed Beast was slow in movement and could not avoid the attack of the strange fire at all.
Bai Xiongtao looked at Mu Chen and couldn't help but said, "Chen'er, you still have a way."
Mu Chen smiled and said nothing. One after another, strands of soul power and soul threads were drawn into Mu Chen's sea of consciousness. Only the Thousand-Eyed Beasts of level nine and above could condense into soul threads. These were priceless treasures.
Muchen absorbed strands of soul threads and integrated them into his sea of consciousness. Muchen's soul power increased rapidly.
Under the burning of the strange fire, the Thousand-Eyed Beast was soon left with only a bunch of eyeballs.
Mu Chen threw out the spirit tower and collected all the eyeballs of the Thousand-Eyed Beast.
This wave of beasts was neither big nor small, and several nine-star martial saints did not take action.
Mu Chen solved the most troublesome Thousand-Eyed Beast with the strange fire, and the other monsters were not a concern at all.
After the beast tide ended, Mu Chen was called away by Bai Jixue.
"I saw you absorb the soul threads of the Thousand-Eyed Beast?" Bai Jixue asked Mu Chen straight to the point.
Mu Chen nodded and said, "That's right."
"You absorbed the soul threads of the Thousand-Eyed Beast. Did you gain some of its memories?" Bai Jixue continued to ask.
Mu Chen raised his eyes, glanced at Bai Jixue calmly, nodded, and said, "Yes, ancestor."
Bai Jixue looked at Mu Chen, clenched his fists, and asked nervously, "What are they?"
Mu Chen was silent for a moment, then said solemnly, "There are many demonic beasts in the curse's origin area, and they have completely adapted to it. The Thousand-Eyed Beast can also absorb the curse and cultivate, but its transformation is not yet complete. There are probably no less than twenty demonic beasts with auras as powerful as yours, Old Ancestor."
Bai Jixue closed his eyes and exhaled for a long time before saying, "Don't reveal this news for the time being."
Mu Chen nodded and said, "I understand." If this news gets out, people will probably be uneasy.
Bai Jixue looked at Mu Chen helplessly and said, "Chen'er, do you think you can get through this time?"
Mu Chen smiled and said, "Everything depends on human effort. Why should you be discouraged, old ancestor?"
Bai Jixue looked at Mu Chen, smiled helplessly, and said, "Chen'er, this restricted area, whether you can escape this time, I hope it all depends on you."
Mu Chen: "Grandfather, you are embarrassing me..."
Bai Jixue looked at Mu Chen and said, "The old ghost of the Fate Clan calculated that everyone in this restricted area will suffer a catastrophic disaster, and no one will be spared. You are the only variable."
Mu Chen: “…” That old ghost from the Fate Clan really thinks highly of him!
Ling Cang's palace.
"The survival of everyone in the secret realm depends on Muchen. The old monster of the Fate Clan wouldn't just want to be lazy and push the blame onto Muchen." Ling Qi muttered.
Ling Cang shook his head and said, "Zhuang Yitian wouldn't joke about something like this."
"Speaking of which, Mu Chen is indeed powerful. If he didn't have a way to remove the curse, once the curse broke out, the cultivators in the city would be unable to withstand it and would self-destruct. Without the demonic beasts attacking the city, we would be finished."
"This monster tide is too exaggerated. It's just the beginning, and a very troublesome monster has appeared."
"That Thousand-Eyed Beast is probably at the late ninth level. If it weren't for Muchen's strange fire, which could just restrain it, it would be really difficult to deal with."
"Although Muchen is only a five-star martial saint, he possesses strange fire and has a strong soul force. The role he plays is probably second only to that of the ancestor."
Ling Cang shook his head and said, "Although Muchen is only a five-star martial saint, his soul power is much stronger than mine. He can transform all things into one, perfectly integrating the power of the five arts and various origin patterns. Even if I were to face him, I might not be able to gain the upper hand. He also possesses strange fire. I'm afraid Muchen's strength is already above mine."
"Grandfather, that's not the case." Ling Qi muttered. Mu Chen was only twenty-two years old! Ling Cang, on the other hand, had been practicing for tens of thousands of years.
"Mu Chen's cultivation is progressing very quickly. I think he still has room for improvement. Even if he's still a little behind, it won't be long before he catches up with me," Ling Cang said. "Okay, let's not talk about Mu Chen anymore. Mu Chen is indeed powerful, but we old men can't put all the responsibility on a child like Mu Chen."
Ling Lichen flexed his wrist, gave a wry smile, and said, "I'm so ashamed. These past few years, I've been wary of the curse and have spent most of my time in the city. I almost forgot how to kill monsters."
Ling Qi smiled bitterly and said, "Who said it wasn't?"
Ling Cang narrowed his eyes and said, "These days, if there is a small beast tide, you should adapt to it on your own. Don't wait until a large beast tide breaks out and you are caught off guard."
"Don't worry, ancestor." Ling Qi and others said.
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