Xu Yi put the Origin Bead into his Sumeru Ring and smiled. "Brother He was right. These Origin Beings really do possess intelligence. I went on a killing spree, but it startled the nest, and the rest have retreated."
Actually, from the moment he hunted down the first Origin Being, Xu Yi had already worked out a fairly complete plan.
For the first hunt, he had used the cannibal old steward's corpse as bait, successfully killing the Origin Being that had pounced on the cannibal old steward. He had also taken the opportunity to gauge the strength of the Origin Being's attack.
The second hunt had gone smoothly.
He used blood as bait to lure the Origin Beings in, a fourth-tier battle suit as a shield, and the Shapeshifting Bone Sword to pierce one light barrier after another.
The third hunt was worth mentioning: the slaughter that came when Xu Yi finally plunged into the mist.
At the time, he had killed three Origin Beings. The nearly twenty remaining ones immediately stopped attacking and spread out around the vast sea of mist, barely a hundred yards away from him.
The Origin Beings seemed surprised by his fighting prowess, or perhaps they were weighing their options. Before long, they drew close to one another and began whispering among themselves.
Earlier, He Binji had said that within this boundary point, the divine sense of a Yang Venerate expert was practically useless; it could barely reach beyond three yards.
Even though Xu Yi had repeatedly killed Origin Beings using bizarre secret techniques, He Binji was still certain that Xu Yi's divine sense could not reach beyond ten yards.
In truth, as soon as Xu Yi entered the mist, the radius of his divine sense had reached over a hundred yards. After he fused