Ancient Yue Beast, the Vanished World

A thumb-sized baby crab slowly crawled out of its shell.

Seeing this, Su Mu felt a little reluctant to kill it and prepared to set it free. Though one should pull up weeds by the roots, he had eaten its entire family of three nice and neat. He should let this little baby crab go.

Lest it draw attacks from crab lovers.

However, Su Mu spotted a blind spot.

The mother crab had been so tenacious that it took several days of simmering in Spirit Fire to kill her. How had this unborn little crab survived?! It was rather bizarre. By all reason, it should not have been able to survive.

Then there was only one explanation: this little baby crab's vitality was so tenacious that it had endured Su Mu's Spirit Fire—a Transformation Spirit Realm cultivator's flames—for several whole days!

No, tenacious vitality was no longer enough to describe it. It was a miracle!

Even the heavens were unwilling to let this tiny life die.

At that moment, an evil thought suddenly arose in Su Mu's heart.

Why not contract it?

Letting such a miraculous life go like this would be a bit of a waste.

Why was it somewhat evil? Because one second ago, he had eaten its entire family of three, and the next he was going to make it acknowledge the thief as its father.

But as long as Su Mu did not tell it, the little baby crab would never know. Its life force was weak now, and its intelligence had yet to awaken.

Actually, even if Su Mu set it free, it would most likely fail to survive.

If he contracted it and used Favor Points to heal it, he could save its life.

After hesitating for a short while, Su Mu still decided to form the contract. Such a tenacious little life was truly a miracle, and he did not want to miss it.

Contract with "Stone Yue Beast"?

"Yes."

The next second, a mental connection formed between them.

Through the mental connection, Su Mu could clearly sense that the little baby crab's life force was like a guttering candle flame, ready to go out at any moment.

The name of this little baby crab in this world was "Stone Yue Beast." It sounded rather nice.

Spend "500" Favor Points to heal "Stone Yue Beast"?

Su Mu froze at the sight.

Huh? It actually cost five hundred points!

Wasn't that far too much?

Forget it, forget it. He happened to have enough.

Who knew what kind of fate this was? Over the past few days, Su Mu had saved up exactly five hundred Favor Points—not one more, not one less, just enough to save the little baby crab.

Forget it. Consider it compensation for eating your whole family of three. Saving one crab's life was better than building a seven-story pagoda! Looking at it this way, he truly was a great benevolent man! After all, this was five hundred Favor Points.

"Save it. Five hundred it is."

Right afterward, the little baby crab's life force instantly recovered completely. However, its eyes remained closed, because it had not fully hatched yet. It would need to be raised for a while before it could truly come back to life.

In front of his stone house, Su Mu dug a small water pit.

Then he turned around and used the Water Control Mystical Power. At once, he could control ten jin of water away from the water's surface.

However, filling this small water pit would require around fifty jin.

He only needed to use it five times, but after finishing the second use, he was already panting heavily. The consumption was enormous!

This left Su Mu utterly dumbfounded. Why was his Water Manipulation mystical power so useless!!!

But for now, the only water he could control was the river before him.

It took fifty minutes and five transfers to fill the little water pit.

After filling it, Su Mu placed the little baby crab inside.

"You should grow properly here. Once you've developed, I'll return you to the river."

This little baby crab had absolutely no ability to survive on its own, so he could only raise it here first.

At this moment, in the spacetime of some realm, a human supreme being seated in the void suddenly opened his eyes.

"Hmm?"

"Why has the Yuan Kui Realm disappeared!"

He circulated his cultivation technique and began deducing. In the end, he discovered something horrifying and abruptly rose to his feet.

"Jiang Cheng."

At his soft call, a tall man slowly stepped out of the void.

The tall man wore golden armor, and his aura was powerful to the extreme, causing the surrounding void to distort and fracture.

The Golden Armor Man came before the figure and dropped to one knee. His deep voice slowly rang out. "What are Your Majesty's orders?"

"Go to the Yuan Kui Realm immediately. If you discover anything abnormal, return at once and report to me!"

The Gray-robed Man was clearly anxious.

Hearing the king's tone, the Golden Armor Man was also greatly surprised. He rarely saw His Majesty reveal such an anxious expression.

The Yuan Kui Realm was the core and most important realm under His Majesty's rule. Could something have happened to the Yuan Kui Realm?

"Yes!"

The Golden Armor Man rose and strode away in great steps. Before long, his body vanished into the void.

After quite some time.

The Golden Armor Man emerged from the void once more and came before the Gray-robed Man. At this moment, terror covered his face, as though he had witnessed something immensely horrifying. It stood in stark contrast to his previous composure.

Seeing the Golden Armor Man's expression, the Gray-robed Man immediately felt that something was wrong.

"How is it?"

At those words, the Golden Armor Man unconsciously swallowed. His voice trembled as he said, "Your Majesty, perhaps you should go see it yourself."

As soon as he spoke, the Gray-robed Man swept out a hand and tore open a rift in space. The next second, his entire body transformed into a streak of light and shot into the Space Crack.

Seeing this, the Golden Armor Man followed after him.

In just a single breath, the two arrived one after the other at the Yuan Kui Realm, countless billions of kilometers away.

The Gray-robed Man stared at the "Yuan Kui Realm" before him and stood frozen in place.

After cultivating for over ten thousand years and taking control of eight great realms, there was little left that could stir his heart.

Yet the scene before him had already surpassed the bounds of his understanding.

The region where the Yuan Kui Realm had been was utter nothingness. Nothing existed there.

The Yuan Kui Realm had been as large as ten independent minor realms combined, occupying space measured in countless trillions.

Such an enormous great realm had simply vanished??

At this moment, the Golden Armor Man stood behind the Gray-robed Man without daring to speak, afraid that a single word might enrage His Majesty.

When he had come to inspect the Yuan Kui Realm earlier, he too had been scared senseless. He had even thought he was dreaming.

A perfectly fine Yuan Kui Realm had actually disappeared into thin air? The Gray-robed Man remained stunned in the void for a very, very long time before finally coming back to his senses.

He controlled eight great realms, and the most important among them was this Yuan Kui Realm, because its spiritual energy was several times more refined than that of the other great realms, and ten times more abundant.

Of course, that was not the most important part. Most importantly, the Yuan Kui Realm was incomparably rich in resources and exceptionally suited for cultivation.

Thus, the Yuan Kui Realm had become his private cultivation realm, specifically used to nurture his descendants.

His disciples, granddisciples, and younger descendants were all cultivating in the Yuan Kui Realm!

And now, the entire Yuan Kui Realm had been moved away out of thin air.

Did that not mean he was going to be completely cut off with no descendants left??? The Golden Armor Man naturally knew this as well, which was why he did not even dare to breathe too loudly.