Treehouse Settlement

Ancestral Dragon Fist!

Boundless!

With a boom, the demonic wolf's head burst apart, and it crashed heavily to the ground.

Xia Yu glanced at the claw marks on his body, his expression calm.

The demonic wolf's claws could only break his skin. As Origin Force from his small world flowed through those minor wounds, they healed at once.

Awooo!

One demonic wolf howled. The next instant, the four remaining wolves lunged at Xia Yu together.

Bang, bang, bang!

Fist shadows piled upon fist shadows!

In the blink of an eye, all four demonic wolves had their heads blown apart.

"Whew..."

Xia Yu let out a long breath. Driving the Ancestral Dragon Fist at full power had taken quite a toll on his body.

Still too weak!

Xia Yu smiled bitterly to himself. At the fifth level of the origin absorption realm, facing six intermediate demonic beasts was no easy task.

If he could activate another small world, he could truly use stacked Boundless. Its power would surely multiply then.

Boundless, a move of the Ancestral Dragon Fist, was pure strength and speed-one overwhelming force to shatter ten thousand arts.

Xia Yu knew how formidable Boundless was. Coupled with the changes to his body and the enhanced recovery granted by activating small worlds, its power would reach unimaginable, uncharted heights.

With just one small world activated, the claws and fangs of intermediate demonic beasts could only break his skin. His defense was astonishing.

After all, the claws and fangs of intermediate demonic beasts could inflict some damage even on advanced demonic beasts.

In other words, if he activated enough small worlds, his body's toughness would surely far surpass that of demonic beasts.

If he activated every small world in his body, he would attain the body of the Ancestral Dragon.

Xia Yu shook his head. It was called the body of the Ancestral Dragon, after all. What was the Ancestral Dragon? The king of all beasts. Naturally, its body was incomparably powerful.

That meant he had to find ways to activate more small worlds.

The little furnace was a useful tool.

With a self-mocking smile, Xia Yu began dealing with the wolf corpses, digging the crystal cores out of their brains.

Demonic beasts were divided into lesser, intermediate, advanced, king-tier, and emperor-tier demonic beasts, followed by sacred beasts and the legendary divine beasts.

It was said that emperor-tier demonic beasts lived in the Ten Thousand Demons Forest. Their might was unrivaled, and no one dared provoke them lightly.

Lesser demonic beasts were the most numerous, but their brains contained no crystal cores. Only intermediate demonic beasts and above developed them.

These crystal cores held the demonic wolves' power and could be used in many formations, talismans, and alchemical applications.

Of course, Xia Yu had only one use for them.

He picked up a crystal core and slapped it against his lower abdomen. It vanished instantly.

The Heaven-Incinerating Furnace showed no change, and a strand of pure spiritual energy finer than a hair flowed back to him.

Xia Yu was speechless. So little?

Forget it. Even a mosquito's leg is still meat. Little by little, it'll add up.

Xia Yu slapped all five remaining crystal cores into the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace.

Just as he was about to turn and leave, his gaze suddenly fell on the demonic wolf corpses.

"Even a demonic wolf's fur is useful. These things should contain Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy too, right?"

Muttering to himself, Xia Yu lifted a demonic wolf's enormous body and gently pressed it against his lower abdomen.

The demonic wolf's corpse vanished instantly.

It worked!

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

The Heaven-Incinerating Furnace trembled wildly!

"Don't feed me such garbage!"

A message appeared in Xia Yu's mind.

Xia Yu froze. After a moment of silence, he slowly said, "Don't be picky. We're still weak. Once we're stronger, I'll feed you good things every day."

Before he had even finished speaking, he tossed another demonic wolf corpse inside.

In the blink of an eye, only a few pools of blood remained on the ground.

"I'll leave the blood. It's too hard to collect."

Xia Yu shook his head regretfully and strode deeper into the forest.

"Are you Zhou the Skinflint?"

The Heaven-Incinerating Furnace protested furiously!

Xia Yu simply ignored it.

He drew a deep breath. The spiritual energy flowing back to him was so pure, so wonderfully soothing!

There was just too little of it.

He advanced and killed along the way. Over the course of an entire day, Xia Yu pushed fifty li into the forest.

Many demonic beasts on the outskirts had learned that a human god of slaughter had arrived, killing every demonic beast he saw.

After a day of slaughter, Xia Yu's cultivation had broken through to the Seventh Heaven of Origin Absorption.

Breaking through two levels in a single day was astonishingly fast.

Yet activating his second small world still seemed a distant prospect.

Xia Yu discovered that activating a small world required a terrifying amount of spiritual energy.

After killing over a hundred intermediate demonic beasts in one day, his second, gray and hazy small world contained only a trace of Origin Force—no more than one-thousandth of what it needed.

Steeling himself, Xia Yu charged into the middle region of the Ten Thousand Demons Forest.

From here onward, the territory belonged mainly to advanced demonic beasts.

In terms of human cultivation, advanced demonic beasts were at least at the Spirit Origin Realm. Some powerful ones were at the profound origin realm.

The strongest advanced demonic beasts even reached the equivalent of the human half-step king tier.

The stretch where the territory of advanced demonic beasts bordered that of lesser demonic beasts also held the most human cultivators.

Lesser demonic beasts were easy to kill but sold for little. Advanced demonic beasts fetched more than ten times the price.

Thus, many human cultivators who entered the Ten Thousand Demons Forest stayed in this region.

There were even quite a few temporary gathering places for human cultivators here, all built high in towering trees.

Someone had even given these temporary gathering places an interesting name: Treehouse Settlement.

Just after entering the middle region, Xia Yu encountered four human cultivators.

Seeing that Xia Yu was alone, then taking a look at his cultivation, all four looked somewhat startled.

After all, even on the outskirts of the Ten Thousand Demons Forest, a mere origin absorption realm cultivator could not make it through safely alone.

Yet this fellow had even reached the middle region.

Here, a cultivator needed to be at least at the Origin Command Realm just to barely survive.

Even Origin Command Realm cultivators could die here at any moment.

Only those who had reached the Spirit Origin Realm were relatively safe. If they could not win a fight, at least they could flee.

As for profound origin realm cultivators, most ventured deeper into the forest.

"Hey, young fellow! Want to team up? I'm Ruda Nanyang, Spirit Origin Realm," the burly man in the lead called to Xia Yu.

Xia Yu paused, glanced at the burly man's honest-looking face and imposing aura, then shook his head slightly.

"Thanks, but I prefer being alone."

In the Ten Thousand Demons Forest, the greatest danger was not demonic beasts, but human cultivators.

Murdering others for their treasures and killing fellow party members were commonplace.

Xia Yu had heard about that.

Without any hesitation, Xia Yu hurried away.

"Boss, he's just a little origin absorption realm brat. Why invite him?" a skinny man behind Ruda asked irritably.

"If you were at the origin absorption realm, could you cross the outskirts alone?"

"Of course not."

"But he could, and he didn't even look worse for wear. What's more, he headed straight in. What does that tell you? Understand?"

Ruda watched Xia Yu's retreating figure, a thoughtful look on his face.

"Boss, I get it! That kid must have some treasure on him. Let's kill him and take it!"

Smack!

Ruda slapped the back of his head and snapped, "Are you a pig?"

"Forget it. Leave him alone. Let's go." Ruda turned and left.

The other two followed silently behind him, returning to the treehouses.

Soon, a rumor spread through the Treehouse Settlement.

A little origin absorption realm cultivator had entered the middle region alone, carrying a priceless treasure.

Many people quietly slipped away.

Meanwhile, Xia Yu encountered his first advanced demonic beast: a Jade-Eyed Striped Black Tiger.

The Jade-Eyed Striped Black Tiger, whose strength rivaled the Spirit Origin Realm, roared furiously and lunged straight at Xia Yu.

Any human who entered its territory deserved death!