Demon Forest, Secret Method Completed

A few days later, Liu Xiaoxiao and the other two finally arrived at the outskirts of the Demon Forest.

"This Sun Moon Continent really is desolate." Liu Xiaoxiao frowned. "We've traveled for so long without seeing a single town or village. Could He Qiang have made up some lie to fool us?"

"Perhaps we simply haven't gone deep enough. Or perhaps the Sun Moon Continent's current level of development is even lower than that of the Douluo Continent." Wang Haochen said. "After all, the collision between the Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent was more than six thousand years in the future. No one could say for certain what would happen over six thousand years. Technology has always advanced quickly. Even if this world is subject to all kinds of restrictions from its world rules, I don't think it's impossible for the Sun Moon Continent to go from backward to far ahead technologically in six thousand years."

"Let's go. We'll head in first." Chen Fang said.

Liu Xiaoxiao and Wang Haochen nodded and entered the Demon Forest together.

"What kind of spirit beast should we start with this time?" Liu Xiaoxiao asked.

"Hmm..." Wang Haochen pondered. "Our target needs to be numerous enough, and its strength must fall within a certain range. Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts are too strong; we can't deal with a hundred of them within an hour. As for Blue Silver Grass, no matter how much we cut down, it's useless."

"Look over there." Chen Fang suddenly pointed beneath a tree.

"Thousand Jun Ants?" Liu Xiaoxiao and Wang Haochen both showed a hint of surprise. Wang Haochen said, "Those would be quite suitable."

Over half a day, Wang Haochen used the powerful poison of his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul to kill more than eight hundred Thousand Jun Ants, activating the secret method eight times in the process.

Under He Qiang's continual corrections, the secret method gradually improved. Finally, during the eighth use of the secret method, Wang Haochen successfully condensed a Spirit Bone.

"It worked!" Upon seeing the Spirit Bone before him, Wang Haochen could not help but cry out in delight.

Under He Qiang's guidance, he had experimented repeatedly and traveled everywhere to perfect this secret method. At last, he had succeeded.

"It really worked?" He Qiang's voice came through as well, carrying a trace of irrepressible joy.

"With this secret method, we can mass-produce Spirit Bones on a large scale." As Chen Long spoke, he too grew excited without realizing it.

Spirit Bones were treasures precious enough to turn a team against one another! How many soul masters had slaughtered each other over a single Spirit Bone? Yet now, they could mass-produce them!

"More importantly, the Eighth Trial we need to undergo to become gods now has hope of being passed." He Qiang said. "No matter what kind of god one wishes to become, one must gather six Spirit Bones. I had originally worried that we could only gather enough by killing high-level spirit beasts and snatching them from Spirit Hall, but now it seems there's no need to worry."

"Don't celebrate too soon." Chen Fang said. "Although secret method Spirit Bones are easy to obtain, their quality won't be very high. That's one issue. Second, Thousand Jun Ants are easy enough to find, but they can probably only produce left and right arm Spirit Bones. For Spirit Bones from other parts, we'll have to find other spirit beasts. But other spirit beasts aren't distributed as densely as Thousand Jun Ants."

The quality issue is easy to solve, He Qiang thought. As long as there are three Spirit Bones with similar attributes, they can be fused into a high-grade Spirit Bone. As for spirit beasts, we can figure something else out. You're in the Demon Forest right now; there are plenty of spirit beasts here.

"No matter what, let's first wipe out some of the Thousand Jun Ants in the Demon Forest and collect enough left and right arm Spirit Bones." Liu Xiaoxiao said.

"Of course, we can't wipe them all out. We need sustainable development; we can't drain the pond to catch the fish." Chen Long added.

Over the next few days, the three circled the outskirts of the Demon Forest, wiping out nearly one-tenth of the Thousand Jun Ants. More than ten thousand Thousand Jun Ants died at their hands, and their secret method succeeded twenty-eight times.

Including the previous Spirit Bone, they already had twenty-nine left and right arm Spirit Bones. The value of so many Spirit Bones was simply impossible to estimate.

"We'll take these Spirit Bones back first and discuss how to use them later." Wang Haochen said. "Now it's time to handle the real business. My primary objective still hasn't been resolved."

"You need two secret method head Spirit Bones, right?" Liu Xiaoxiao asked.

"To suppress the deadly poison in my body, Dugu Bo previously found me a Ten-Thousand-Year head Spirit Bone. But I'm not satisfied with its power, so I want to upgrade it." Wang Haochen said. "My target is an Evil Eye Spirit Bone. To use the secret method, we must kill a hundred spirit beasts of the same kind within half a shichen and trigger the spirit rings, only then is there a certain chance of success. Killing a hundred Evil Eyes won't be easy."

"This is the Demon Forest, already one of the places with the most Spirit System spirit beasts. Head Spirit Bones are rarely produced by non-Spirit System spirit beasts." Chen Fang said. "As long as we spend some time, obtaining a Spirit Bone shouldn't be difficult."

"The crucial issue is that killing a large number of Evil Eyes in a short time may enrage some Evil Eye Tyrants in the Demon Forest. We don't need to fear the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign, since it can't possibly act personally. Ordinary Ten-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrants can't threaten us either; even if we can't beat them, we can run. The problem is Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrants. We can neither defeat them nor escape from them." Wang Haochen said with a frown.

"We'll only act on the outskirts. I doubt those Evil Eye Tyrants will come chasing after us from deeper within." Liu Xiaoxiao said. "Let's first find an area densely populated by Evil Eyes, then make our move."

Over the course of several months, the three killed Evil Eyes and used the secret method eight times. However, they succeeded only once, obtaining a head Spirit Bone.

The main reason was that Evil Eyes themselves were scarce. Even though they were considered relatively numerous among Spirit System spirit beasts, that was only by comparison. Moreover, the Demon Forest was truly enormous, so Evil Eyes were spread extremely sparsely throughout it.

Furthermore, they did not dare use the secret method consecutively. The Evil Eye population was not large to begin with, and a sudden massive reduction would inevitably draw the attention of high-level Evil Eye Tyrants deeper in the forest.

That day, the three were killing Evil Eyes in an area where they were relatively concentrated, preparing to use the secret method.

However, when they reached the ninety-ninth Evil Eye, they realized something was wrong.

"Strange. There were clearly quite a few Evil Eyes nearby just now. Why did they all suddenly disappear? Did they flee that quickly?" Chen Fang said.

"Are all our efforts going to be wasted? We're only one Evil Eye short of using the secret method." Liu Xiaoxiao complained.

"Watch out ahead." Wang Haochen suddenly warned them.

Liu Xiaoxiao and Chen Fang focused their eyes ahead and saw an Evil Eye Tyrant with twelve tentacles appear before them.

"An Evil Eye Tyrant!" Liu Xiaoxiao said quietly.

"According to He Qiang's introduction to Evil Eyes, an Evil Eye Tyrant with twelve tentacles has cultivation somewhere between Sixty Thousand and Eighty Thousand Years." Wang Haochen said. "Its tentacles are red, blue, green, and black, representing fire, water, corrosion, and darkness, as well as the Spirit Attribute inherently possessed by the Evil Eye Clan. Its eye is blue, meaning that water is its primary attribute. It can be called a Water Evil Tyrant."

"If I remember correctly, He Qiang said that among Evil Eyes, the fewer attributes they possess, the stronger they are. In particular, Evil Eyes with pure Spirit Attributes are the most noble." Chen Fang said.

"Looks like we have no choice but to kill it. It'd be a shame to fall short at the last moment." Liu Xiaoxiao said. "It has five attributes, so it shouldn't be particularly strong among Evil Eye Tyrants. We can handle it."