Kunlun Mountain.
Towering into the clouds.
At a glance, the mountain forest seemed endless. It was home to countless demon beasts and all kinds of mutated creatures.
In the current apocalypse, with spiritual energy returning, the sky was gray and gloomy. It was impossible to see what was happening at the mountaintop.
However, Ye Tian had no intention of heading toward the summit. He raced forward and plunged straight into the forest halfway up the mountain.
"Croak..."
"Croak..."
"Croak..."
"Roar!"
"Awoo!"
The moment he entered the forest, those faint sounds attracted the roars of countless demon beasts.
Immediately afterward, Ye Tian clearly saw pairs of eyes appear in the darkness before him, each resembling a red lantern.
The eyes varied in size, and upon closer inspection, one could even make out the outlines of certain demon beasts.
The dead leaves scattered across the ground trembled incessantly, while all kinds of unknown crawling creatures probed their surroundings.
This place was like a huge wilderness battlefield.
Other than Ye Tian, everything else consisted of bizarre demon beasts to an extreme degree.
Yet when Ye Tian saw this scene, the corners of his mouth slowly curled upward.
He simply took one step forward.
Crack!
In an instant, a bone-chilling cold spread from his body.
The sudden drop in temperature made the eyes around him tremble violently.
It seemed they had not expected the weather to change so drastically.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
In an instant, two sounds tore through the air. Then, from between the dead leaves, ten enormous snakes suddenly leaped out. Each was a full five meters long and nearly as thick as an arm. With their jaws stretched wide and sharp fangs exposed, they surged toward Ye Tian like bolts of lightning.
But—
The instant they leaped into midair, accompanied by the spread of cracking sounds, all ten venomous snakes instantly transformed into icy-blue ice sculptures!
Reflected through those scarlet lights, the icy-blue sculptures took on an incredibly strange color.
"Crash!"
While some of the demon beasts were still stunned, the ten snake sculptures instantly fell to the ground.
Clang!
With a crisp sound, the snake sculptures shattered into countless pieces, turning into ice crystals scattered across the ground.
This sight made countless demon beasts tremble instantly!
Although they were demon beasts whose intelligence was nowhere near that of humans, they could still sense the danger instinctively.
Among these demon beasts, those venomous snakes were extremely troublesome existences. The slightest carelessness would result in being bitten.
And yet...
This intruder had dealt with them so easily?
Some demon beasts stood where they were, staring fixedly at Ye Tian.
Others drooled from the corners of their mouths.
They exhaled heavy breaths through their nostrils.
Then, with a single step forward, dozens of enormous demon beasts—including ten-meter-tall wild wolves, leopards, and black bears—glared viciously and pounced toward Ye Tian all at once!
During the attack, beams of different-colored light shot from their paws and mouths!
These demon beasts... had completely mutated under the return of spiritual energy.
However, the instant these demon beasts pounced, they followed the same path as the ten venomous snakes.
Accompanied by the emergence of cracking sounds, before long, these demon beasts instantly turned into ice sculptures.
Dozens, even hundreds, of demon beasts attacked at once, yet they all became ice sculptures, as if they had been dealt with effortlessly.
This scene truly terrified countless demon beasts.
In an instant, the remaining demon beasts tried to change direction and flee as quickly as possible.
However, before they could even start running, waves of icy aura swept over from behind, gradually freezing them into ice sculptures.
If one looked down from the sky, one would see that with Ye Tian at the center, waves of icy aura had transformed into rippling waves of ice, freezing everything within a full kilometer.
In an instant, the entire kilometer-wide area halfway up the mountain seemed to have become a world of ice and snow.
Countless demon beasts maintained their fleeing postures as they turned into icy-blue sculptures.
Ye Tian looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction. As light flashed, he directly used the Water Immortal Spirit Art to turn the demon beasts into fragments filling the sky.
After collecting the cores one by one, Ye Tian stopped paying attention to anything else. Moving as if teleporting, he covered a hundred meters with every step and disappeared from the spot in the blink of an eye.
At that moment, the entire Kunlun Mountain range was basically in the same state. With the return of spiritual energy, the demon beasts were growing stronger, the monsters were becoming more monstrous, and the environment was growing increasingly bizarre.
But one place was different.
It was located slightly above the halfway point of the Kunlun Mountain range.
The only difference between this place and its surroundings was that it was as verdant as spring, filled with lush greenery.
Most importantly, this area was a bamboo forest!
Within the bamboo forest, a Nine-tailed Fox crouched beside a bamboo stalk radiating green light. As her chest rose and fell, waves of green light enveloped her.
Before long, under the infusion of a wondrous life force, her entire body was wrapped in intersecting green and pink light.
After a moment, a pair of long, fair legs emerged from the light.
Immediately afterward, the owner of those fair legs walked out of the ball of light completely naked.
With a full figure and fair, beautiful skin, she was an absolute beauty!
That was right—she was the Nine-tailed Fox!
After transforming into human form, the Nine-tailed Fox nodded in satisfaction. With a wave of her hand, a modern pair of shorts and a short-sleeved shirt were formed by her cultivation technique and slipped onto her body.
However, before she could react, a huge burlap sack suddenly appeared in midair and directly enveloped her!
What was more, after entering the sack, she discovered that her skills had actually—actually—all been sealed!
She was instantly dumbfounded.
I just cultivated into human form, and I've already... already been captured?!
After obtaining the Nine-tailed Fox, Ye Tian happily sent her straight into his storage space. Then, he slowly walked over to the bamboo stalk radiating pure energy.
Upon closer inspection, what else could this bamboo be but Bitter Bamboo?
"This is a mobile spring. What a treasure."
Ye Tian grinned and dug up the Bitter Bamboo, sending it into his storage space as well. Then he stopped wasting time. His figure flashed, and with the support of the Sword Flight Technique, he flew rapidly toward the Underground City in Dragon City.
In his previous life, he had known that a Nine-tailed Fox capable of transforming into human form had once appeared here. However, someone had merely seen her, and there had been very little information about her whereabouts.
But this time, Ye Tian finally understood that the Nine-tailed Fox had cultivated entirely through the Bitter Bamboo. After her intelligence had fully awakened, she had hidden herself away.
In any case, he was definitely going to obtain the Bitter Bamboo in this life. Therefore, after seeing the Nine-tailed Fox, he naturally would not let her go.
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