The Ferocious Beasts Discovered Something Terrifying: He Really Was Here to Eat

After continuing north,

Lu Yuan encountered noticeably more and more ferocious beasts.

He had now truly entered the heart of the Northern Land, where ferocious beasts gathered.

Places where vast amounts of Sha Qi had converged could be seen everywhere.

In some valleys, the ferocious Sha Qi was so dense that it had condensed into black mist, roiling as it covered thousands of miles around.

For ordinary cultivators, such places were naturally far from pleasant.

But Lu Yuan found the smell especially comforting.

The first time he encountered one,

he only lingered for a short while.

He opened his mouth and took a few breaths.

As a result, the black Sha mist over the entire valley immediately began to thin at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The ferocious beasts living in the valley stared in bewilderment.

These ferocious beasts were not weak.

The strongest had already reached the Mysterious Immortal and Golden Immortal levels.

When they first saw Lu Yuan passing overhead, every one of them had already dropped to the ground in fright.

None dared make a move.

Then Lu Yuan stopped,

and they grew even more nervous.

One Golden Immortal ferocious beast had even prepared to fight for its life.

Its body pressed low.

Its claws dug into the ground.

Its eyes were filled with fear.

Then,

Lu Yuan did not attack them.

He was only eating Sha Qi.

As they watched the black mist filling the sky form an enormous pillar of Qi and stream into that giant mouth without end, the ferocious beasts gradually looked bewildered.

One three-eyed ferocious beast slowly raised its head.

"What... is he eating?"

The ferocious beast beside it looked just as bewildered.

"Sha Qi?"

"He's eating it directly?"

The surrounding ferocious beasts looked at one another.

Soon,

Lu Yuan stopped sucking it in.

This small patch of Sha Qi was little more than a snack to him.

It did very little to replenish him.

He had smelled it,

so he had a few bites along the way.

Lu Yuan did not even land.

He continued onward.

Even after that enormous body had completely disappeared, the ferocious beasts in the valley still had their heads raised.

The three-eyed ferocious beast slowly sensed its surroundings.

More than half of the once-dense Sha Qi had vanished.

The valley even felt somewhat fresh and clear.

It fell silent for a moment.

"Did he really just come here to eat?"

No one answered.

Because they were wondering the same thing.

Before long,

similar scenes began to play out across the Northern Land again and again.

Lu Yuan traveled north.

Wherever the Sha Qi was dense,

he would stop for a moment along the way.

He did not need much time,

nor did he need to devour it on a large scale.

After all, these ordinary places of ferocious Sha Qi contained limited energy.

What Lu Yuan was truly looking forward to now was the Myriad Sha Abyss.

But even though he only ate a little in each place,

the total he accumulated along the way was still considerable.

Even more absurdly,

the environment changed noticeably wherever Lu Yuan went.

Where black mist had once pressed down overhead,

after he left,

the sky was much clearer.

Some mountain peaks that had been buried deep in Sha Qi were even revealed in full for the first time.

Gradually,

more and more ferocious beasts noticed a pattern.

This enormous beast really did not seem to attack ordinary ferocious beasts of his own accord.

At least, along the way,

no one had seen him deliberately pursue and kill anyone.

As long as they did not provoke him first,

they were perfectly safe.

After this discovery spread,

some of the bolder ferocious beasts stopped running.

At first, they only hid and watched from afar.

Later, they found that Lu Yuan paid them no attention at all.

These ferocious beasts grew bolder and bolder.

A few Golden Immortal ferocious beasts even began following Lu Yuan of their own accord.

Of course,

they still kept a great distance.

Tens of thousands of miles.

Over a hundred thousand miles.

They were terrified that Lu Yuan might suddenly turn around.

Lu Yuan soon noticed the group as well.

He looked back.

The ferocious beasts behind him stopped in an instant.

One Golden Immortal giant beast even dropped straight to the ground.

Lu Yuan watched them for a moment.

He could not be bothered with them.

As long as they did not attack him,

they could follow if they wanted.

And so,

an increasingly strange scene appeared in the Northern Land.

A Grand Void Sky Whale nearly ninety thousand miles long swam slowly through the sky.

Far behind him, between the land, mountains, rivers, and clouds, an ever-growing number of ferocious beasts followed.

A thousand.

Ten thousand.

Tens of thousands.

Even more.

Their strength varied.

There were True Immortals, Mysterious Immortals, and Golden Immortals among them.

They had come purely to watch the excitement.

For ferocious beasts who had long lived in the Northern Land,

daily life was exceedingly monotonous.

Fighting over territory.

Snatching resources.

Devouring their own kind.

Cultivating.

Now, a giant beast completely beyond their understanding had suddenly appeared,

eating Sha Qi all along the way.

Naturally, they could not suppress their curiosity.

More importantly,

the direction Lu Yuan was heading had grown increasingly clear.

Deep into the north.

The ferocious beasts who truly knew the terrain had already guessed where he was going.

The Myriad Sha Abyss.

At the thought,

some of the ferocious beasts grew even more excited.

"Is he really going to the Myriad Sha Abyss?"

A flying ferocious beast beat its wings, following far behind.

A Golden Immortal giant ape beside it replied in a low voice, "If he keeps going in this direction, there's only the Myriad Sha Abyss."

"Even Taiyi ferocious beast kings don't dare venture deep inside casually!"

Another ferocious beast could not help saying,

"The outer reaches are all right, but the farther in you go, the more dangerous it gets. I've heard the Sha Qi at the heart of the Myriad Sha Abyss can directly corrode a true spirit."

"A Taiyi peak ferocious beast king once went in to seek a fortuitous opportunity. After coming out, he completely lost his intelligence, with nothing left but the instinct to kill."

"Is this giant beast... really going in?"

More and more voices joined the discussion.

They made no deliberate effort to hide it.

Lu Yuan's Divine Sense covered a vast area.

Naturally, he heard them loud and clear.

Corrode a true spirit?

Even someone at the Taiyi peak couldn't withstand it?

After hearing this, Lu Yuan became even more interested.

The greater the danger,

the higher the concentration of energy usually was.

His body could directly convert ferocious Sha Qi.

The effect of ordinary Sha Qi on him was almost negligible.

As for whether what lay inside the Myriad Sha Abyss could threaten him, he would have to try it himself to find out.

A bolder Golden Immortal ferocious bird saw Lu Yuan slow down slightly. After hesitating for a moment, it actually approached him of its own accord.

Of course,

even then,

it still kept a distance of tens of thousands of miles.

"The Myriad Sha Abyss is just ahead."

The ferocious bird sent a message from afar with its Divine Sense, its voice full of caution. "The Sha Qi inside is very different from what's outside. Are you going in?"

Lu Yuan turned his head slightly.

At last, there was someone who dared speak to him.

"Mm."

The ferocious bird was visibly nervous when it heard his response.

It swallowed.

It continued to warn him, "The core region is extremely dangerous. Many ferocious beasts go in and never come out."

Lu Yuan nodded.

"Thanks for the warning."

The vicious bird relaxed a little when it heard that.

It seemed this giant beast really could communicate normally.

And his temperament was not as ferocious as the rumors claimed.

It was just about to retreat.

Lu Yuan suddenly asked, "Does the Sha Qi get denser the closer you get to the core?"

The vicious bird answered instinctively, "Of course. The Sha Qi on the outskirts of the Myriad Sha Abyss is already dozens of times denser than in an ordinary Sha vein. It's even more terrifying in the true depths."

The light in Lu Yuan's eyes grew brighter.

"Then it's just right."

The vicious bird stopped in its tracks.

Looking at Lu Yuan's visibly more eager expression, it suddenly understood something.

When an ordinary vicious beast heard "danger,"

it would think about whether it could come out alive.

But the fellow before it seemed to have heard only one thing.

The Sha Qi was denser.

The Golden Immortal vicious bird fell silent for a moment.

Then it quietly put a little more distance between them.

When the vicious beasts behind it saw it return, they gathered around.

"How did it go?"

"What did he say?"

"Is he still going in?"

The vicious bird glanced back at Lu Yuan.

Its tone was complicated.

"He's going in."

"And... he seems pretty happy."

The group of vicious beasts around it fell silent.

A moment later,

a giant ape said in a low voice, "I suddenly feel a little sorry for the Myriad Sha Abyss."

None of the other vicious beasts laughed.

Because they felt much the same.

There had been so many places where Sha Qi gathered along the way.

Wherever Lu Yuan went,

a vast amount of Sha Qi disappeared.

The Myriad Sha Abyss might be vast,

but this fellow's appetite...

seemed just as vast.

Just then,

Lu Yuan slowly came to a stop.

All the vicious beasts behind him stopped as well.

They looked up.

At the far end of the world ahead,

a sea of black mist with truly no end in sight had appeared before them.

Below the sea of mist,

the earth looked as though a wound had been torn open in it by brute force.

It was an abyss stretching for tens of thousands of miles, no one knew how many.

Billowing Sha Qi surged constantly from within the abyss.

The sky had darkened completely.

Even the light was distorted by the dense, vicious Sha.

Lu Yuan drew a breath.

The breath carried in the air made every inch of flesh and blood in his body come alive.

"We're here."