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A low growl came from behind me. I did not stop, continuing to fly while turning along the way. To prevent divine beasts from being in the sky as well, I only moved beneath the cover of the leaves.
Before long, I found an entrance to a rift in the earth. As I descended through the rift, the stench of decay filled the place, and I could not help frowning.
The divine beasts probably would not like this place either, so I flew deeper inside without worry.
The growls and tremors abruptly ceased after I entered the rift. It seemed that the divine beasts tracking me were also afraid of the area where I was.
I soon found the source of the stench. This was a monster's lair, with quite a bit of stored food, including the corpses of ferocious beasts that had begun to rot. There were even several furred beasts that I had killed earlier.
The divine beast here had probably gone out hunting. There were no living creatures in the lair. These dead divine beasts were not worth much, because if their artifact cores were not extracted before their lives completely faded, they lost their effect.
As for Origin Blood, that was even more hopeless. These divine beasts looked intact, but their blood was all black. A few of them were actually still alive, letting out pained moans.
After examining them, I found that the black blood possessed an extremely powerful anesthetic effect. A few had been starved thin, yet somehow had not died.
Just as I was inspecting the surroundings, a burst of wind suddenly swept overhead. My expression changed drastically. I had originally planned to dismantle the paralyzed divine beasts and make an unexpected profit, but now it seemed that plans