Treasure Distribution Cliff

"Fine, you wait here on your own. I'm heading to the center to take a look."

"Alright, I'll come find you as soon as I get my hands on it."

Bai Yixin parted ways with Little One and continued forward, hoping to snatch up a few more spiritual items.

Several days later, Bai Yixin arrived at the center of the mountain range. Along the way, he had spotted over a dozen treasures, though he only managed to secure six. Including his previous hauls, starting from the Gray Horn, he had collected thirteen in total.

The quality varied; the strongest was that Gray Horn, which possessed both mobility and the power to resist.

The others were decent enough—they didn't run particularly fast and their resistance wasn't overwhelming—but they were time-consuming. Either he couldn't find them, or others would interfere during the chase. If he was lucky, he could finish off the interlopers and still catch his target. If the meddlers were troublesome or possessed their own treasures, he would simply take his frustration out on them.

At the heart of the region stood a massive mountain, grand and imposing, as if dozens of peaks had been fused together. It was exceptionally vast and majestic.

Divine light flickered across the mountain face, and treasures flew up from time to time like blooming fireworks; they were all powerful spiritual artifacts.

At the foot of the mountain, Bai Yixin saw the most elite batch of geniuses: the Bifang, the Golden Divine Bird, the Chi Dragon, the Pixiu, the Pumo Tree, and the Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly.

This was the source of the ruins, known as the Treasure-Dividing Cliff. Legend had it that the place was draped in treasures. People were already on the mountain, all trying their luck at destiny.

"My sword... My sword..." Suddenly, an ancient voice echoed in Bai Yixin's ears, making his hair stand on end.

"Damn it! You scared me."

"Keep your shirt on. I said I'd help you find it, so I will." Bai Yixin pressed his temples. A string of Black Text had emerged on his forehead; the voice was connected to this.

This was a curse. The ancient spiritual existence of the Heaven-Mending Pavilion had endured for eons, and those chosen who failed were destined to die under the Black Text curse.

Bai Yixin glanced at the shop for items that could perfectly dispel such a curse; the cheapest one cost seven figures—over 1,000,000.

"Forget it, let's get your Broken Sword first." Bai Yixin shook his head. This was within his expectations; it was just a headache, but once he fulfilled his promise, it would be over.

The Treasure-Dividing Cliff was majestic and towered into the clouds. The mountain was wreathed in ribbons of black mist, resembling a grand, ancient Demon Mountain, exuding an oppressive aura!

An ancient path paved with bluestone led toward the mountain, filled with the vicissitudes of time. Countless young heroes had walked it since ancient times, only to end up staining the Demon Mountain with blood, never to walk down again.

The Bifang, Pixiu, Golden Divine Bird, Pumo Tree, and others stood apart, wary of one another. Each exuded a terrifying aura; they were the most formidable batch of geniuses, the ones least to be trifled with.

But in Bai Yixin's eyes, they were no different from the other "geniuses"—the only difference was how many more hits they could take from him. The biggest difference, and their greatest commonality, was that each of them possessed at least one top-tier defensive treasure, making them harder to deal with than they were themselves.

Bai Yixin scanned them one by one, lingering a bit longer on the parts that looked particularly "meaty," but he had no intention of stopping his pace. He walked up the bluestone steps, which were grayish-brown with patches of dark red.

By the roadside, the Bifang, Pixiu, Pumo Tree, and the others were all astonished. This human actually dared to scan them like that, seemingly eyeing them as if they were prey, and then walked past them so brazenly, as if they didn't exist in his eyes.

One had to know, no creature entering these ruins dared to be so distracted. The mere appearance of any one of them would incite fear and demand absolute caution.

"How reckless," a Violent Ape remarked, its eyes cold and sharp.

"Oh? You want to have a go, you black ape?" Bai Yixin glanced at the black Violent Ape, looking askance with a sneer.

"Human, you seek death!"

With a BOOM, the black Violent Ape stomped down. It was a move filled with arrogance, wildness, and disdain. It intended to crush Bai Yixin to death from above.

With its wide mouth and fangs, it looked ferocious. This was a display of arrogant confidence and humiliation, as casual as a dragon crushing an insect, striking with an unstoppable force!

Who was Bai Yixin? He had never been bullied by anyone, so he was naturally aggressive. He raised his hand and revealed the fierce Feiyi Sword, striking with precision. It transformed into a streak of crimson light, slamming directly into the sole of the ape's foot.

"Awoo..." The ape let out a pained roar.

Although its massive, winnowing-basket-sized black foot was flickering with runes, its arrogant and wild stomp had left it unprotected. After the attack, the light screen on its sole was pierced, leaving a bloody, gaping hole.

Bai Yixin had no intention of sparing this ape. After the crimson light pierced its sole, the glow remained undiminished, the blood-red light blinding as it shot toward the ape's head, aiming for a kill!

Puff.

Blood splattered everywhere. The Violent Ape was wounded, but its reflexes were swift. A protective divine aura erupted, black light surged, and it leaped dozens of meters into the air, narrowly avoiding the lethal blow.

The Violent Ape was furious. It hadn't expected that a moment of negligence would leave it so passive, losing the initiative and falling into a disadvantage.

Though massive, it was agile. With a backflip, it vaulted hundreds of meters through the air and landed with a thunderous crash, shattering the ground.

A massive black hand slapped down in frustration, instantly pulverizing a boulder weighing over a hundred thousand jin.

Enraged, it finally shed all traces of contempt. It retreated, its entire body glowing as a towering black mist rose, forming a Tornado that swirled around it.

This was the Diamond Rune, possessing world-shaking divine power. Its body surged, suddenly growing much taller, reaching a staggering thirty meters. Its muscles bulged, winding around its body like coiled dragons.

BOOM!

The Violent Ape charged again, shrouded in black light as if a massive black bell were covering it. It hummed as it collided forward, causing the earth to crack rapidly. Boulders flew up, and dirt and stone surged forward like a tide, threatening to swallow Bai Yixin.

This was a shockwave erupting from the giant ape. The black runes transformed into dozens of layers of waves, crashing forward and pinning Bai Yixin beneath them.

"This runic transformation is quite interesting." Mysterious divine light flickered in Bai Yixin's eyes. Though he couldn't see it clearly, he could grasp a thing or two.

Bai Yixin stomped his right foot on the ground. Golden runes spread out, and violent golden lightning enveloped him, making him look like a god of thunder.

An identical shockwave formed from Bai Yixin's foot. The golden runes transformed into waves, perfectly canceling out the black tide.

The Violent Ape's eyes were vicious. A massive hand, like a winnowing basket, reached out, pressing down like a thunderbolt, intending to crush Bai Yixin into meat paste.

Bai Yixin's strength was peerless. Without even using his Rune Secret Power, he relied solely on pure physical strength and threw a punch. The heavens and earth trembled.

They collided. The massive hand had seemed to envelop Bai Yixin, but at that moment, it began to spasm before bursting apart. The Violent Ape roared, feeling excruciating pain.

It was horrified.

This was clearly a small body, yet the power it unleashed was greater than its own. The collision had shattered its flesh, blown apart its palm, and even its forearm, leaving it utterly terrified.

This made it realize that it seemed to have kicked an iron plate, and a super ferocious one at that, enough to threaten its very life.

"Open!"

The Violent Ape roared, the black light outside its body becoming even more intense until it truly transformed into a massive black bell, humming and vibrating as it tried to shake Bai Yixin off.

"Boom!"

Bai Yixin fiercely threw a punch of lightning, slamming it into that giant black bell and producing a heaven-shaking sound that carried for dozens, if not hundreds, of miles.

The black bell shattered, splitting into countless fragments.

The lightning-clad Suanni Gauntlets, accompanied by ear-piercing thunder, struck the chest of the black Violent Ape with undiminished force.

Flesh and blood flew everywhere as the Violent Ape was sent flying backward like a black streak of light, crashing into a stone mountain in the distance; dust billowed and boulders tumbled down, burying the giant ape instantly.

"Do any of you have any objections?"

Bai Yixin swept a calm and indifferent gaze over this group of the most powerful geniuses and spoke lightly.

Bifang, Pixiu, the Golden Divine Bird, the Pumo Tree, and the others felt a chill in their hearts; this person possessed world-shocking divine power and was a formidable enemy.

Seeing these creatures remain silent, Bai Yixin ignored them and dug the corpse of the Violent Ape out from the collapsed stone mountain; half of its chest had been blown apart, and its blood, internal organs, and even its heart had been charred by the lightning.

"Hmm, I might have been a bit too heavy-handed." Bai Yixin shook his head, thinking that its value for trading with Huo Ling'er might have dropped significantly, yet his hands did not slow down as he stowed it into his Universe Bag.

(A replica of a Universe Bag, seized from the Rain Clan, it possesses a certain amount of storage space and is considered a rare precious artifact.)