Deathly Stillness Creatures

Chen Fan looked at him calmly.

His expression was slightly strange.

The young man was completely unaware of Chen Fan's unusual behavior. He eagerly made a mark on his Student Badge, and a faint light flashed. The mark representing the Guardian Authorization instantly peeled off his badge and transferred to Chen Fan's badge.

"The task is simple, I'll explain it all at once, and then I'll leave!"

The moment the handover was completed, he felt as if a tremendous burden had been lifted, and he felt much lighter.

The young man pointed to the far end of the Wasteland, to the entrance of a bottomless black mine that seemed to devour all light, speaking so fast it was like a barrage of bullets.

"Your main task is to go there and collect Deathly Silent Crystals. Just collect 10,000 each month, and any extras are yours."

"The academy sends someone to collect the crystals once a month; that's your only chance to see a living person!"

He seemed somewhat emotional when he spoke the word "living person".

"Oh, right," he slapped his forehead as if remembering something, "There's a local specialty near the mine called 'Deathly Stillness Creatures,' monsters formed from the condensation of Deathly Silence Qi. They're generally weak, mostly at the late Golden Body Realm, with only one or two occasionally igniting Divine Fire, but they're very weak. They're just impossible to kill, very annoying. You can take care of them while you're at it."

He finished explaining all the precautions in less than ten breaths.

The young man let out a long sigh of relief, a wild laugh of immense relief spreading across his face.

"I'm free! I'm finally free!"

He activated his personal teleportation device, and a soft light enveloped him.

"I'm going to drink the strongest liquor and listen to the loudest music! This damn place, you... enjoy it yourself! Haha!"

Amidst deafening laughter, a flash of light appeared.

The young man vanished without a trace in an instant.

The entire world was once again shrouded in absolute, suffocating silence and coldness.

It was as if that frenzied clamor just moments before was nothing but an illusion.

On the Wasteland, only Chen Fan remained.

He looked down at the new Guardian Authorization and mission briefing on his Student Badge, then looked up again, his gaze slowly shifting from the spot where the young man had disappeared to the deep, dark entrance to the mine in the distance.

The cave entrance is about 100 meters wide, resembling the gaping maw of an ancient behemoth lying on the earth, constantly spewing out a deathly aura that is even colder than the outside world.

The aura was so dense it was almost tangible, forming a visible gray mist at the cave entrance.

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Fan stepped inside.

Unlike the desolation outside, the inner walls of the mine are covered with black crystals that emit a faint glow, like Stars in the Ye Mu, adorning the dark rock walls.

These are the Deathly Silent Crystals that my former senior mentioned.

Chen Fan casually raised his hand and made a gesture in mid-air towards a rock wall covered with crystals.

Buzz!

The golden, Undying Divine Fire moved almost imperceptibly, and an invisible pulling force instantly enveloped that area.

The next moment, hundreds of Deathly Silent Crystals of varying sizes silently detached from the rock wall and floated in front of him in perfect unison, like subjects summoned by an emperor.

The whole process was as easy as picking wildflowers by the roadside.

Chen Fan picked up the largest one; it was icy cold to the touch, as if he were holding a piece of ancient ice.

Divine Thought probed in.

Boom!

An incredibly pure Origin of Death instantly washed over his senses.

"I see."

Chen Fan understood.

Without hesitation, he immediately activated the ever-burning golden Undying Divine Fire in his Dantian.

With a thought, he carefully extracted a strand of Origin of Death, thinner than a hair, from the crystal.

When this wisp of gray aura touched the cluster of golden divine Divine Fire symbolizing ultimate vitality, the expected annihilation and clash did not occur.

On the contrary.

This wisp of Origin of Death, like the most efficient fuel, silently merged into the Divine Fire.

Boom!

The golden flames suddenly shot upwards, burning even more fiercely and brilliantly.

At the same time, a profound realization clearly welled up in Chen Fan's mind.

"Is this the shortcut my Senior Fellow Apprentice was talking about?"

A glint of light flashed in Chen Fan's eyes.

Since the verification is correct, there is no need to be overly cautious anymore.

Testing the waters has never been his style.

"The Myriad Dao Furnace!"

With a thought, he activated the "Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture" at full power.

An invisible Great Furnace- like phantom instantly expanded, enveloping all the hundreds of Deathly Silent Crystals floating in front of it.

An overwhelming and unparalleled refining power erupted!

"Click... click click!"

Those crystals, harder than divine iron, couldn't even last a moment under the immense power of the Great Furnace. Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on their faces before they shattered with a crash.

The purest Origin of Death transformed into torrents of gray energy, which were frantically drawn in and refined by the invisible Great Furnace, ultimately becoming the most Origin Source energy, which was poured into the cluster of Undying Divine Fire within Chen Fan's body!

The entire process was smooth, efficient, and forceful.

It didn't even take a minute.

Hundreds of Deathly Silent Crystals were completely reduced to dust and vanished without a trace.

"Call..."

Chen Fan slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

He could clearly feel that his understanding of the Death Dao had deepened. The Divine Fire within him had also grown stronger than before.

But... it was only a tiny bit.

The distance to Bone Refinement the Golden Body with Divine Fire and condensing the first drop of Undying Golden Blood is still as far as the eye can see.

He smacked his lips, a look of disdain on his face that only he could understand.

The Kindling is of good quality.

"The quantity... isn't enough to burn."

The sound echoed clearly in the empty mine shaft.

Chen Fan did not linger and continued walking deeper into the mine.

Since the scattered firewood outside isn't enough, let's go deeper and carry out a larger-scale logging operation.

We traveled and collected as we went.

Every single Deathly Silent Crystal within his sight was refined by him in the most brutal way.

Just as he had collected hundreds more crystals, preparing to refine them all at once.

The previously calm and flowing aura of death suddenly became frenzied.

Ugh!!

A low, guttural roar, seemingly emanating from the depths of the Nine Netherworlds, echoed from the mine, carrying a pure malice directed at all living beings.

Chen Fan stopped in his tracks.

He raised his head and looked into the endless darkness deep within the mine.

There, pairs of scarlet lights quietly lit up.

One pair, two pairs, ten pairs, a hundred pairs...

Densely packed, endless.

Immediately afterwards, countless distorted, Deathly Stillness Creatures, formed from pure Deathly Silence Qi, silently emerged from the shadows.

They have no physical form; their bodies shift between reality and illusion. Only their scarlet eyes are fixed on Chen Fan, their sole source of life.

Like a swarm of sharks attracted by the scent of blood, they surrounded Chen Fan from all directions like a tidal wave.

Faced with this scene that would make any Golden Body Realm's scalp tingle, Chen Fan not only showed no nervousness, but also stopped collecting crystals.