Saint-Seizing Land, Mist Forest.
Night fell beneath a dark sky, and the forest's thick mist made it almost impossible to see one's own fingers.
"Roar...!"
A low growl rang out in the dense forest.
A pitch-black Leopard-Shaped Star Beast, wreathed in deep-blue markings, darted out.
It pounced like lightning at a lone figure walking through the dense forest ahead.
Yet just as it came within inches of the figure...
A fair, slender hand appeared before the Star Beast's eyes as though it had teleported.
The hand merely flicked a finger.
The knuckle flick struck the formidable Star Beast squarely on its hard skull.
Bang...!
A muffled impact erupted, like a watermelon bursting apart, and the headless Leopard-Shaped Star Beast landed peacefully on the ground.
Gu Chenfeng turned, casually pulled out a sharp Bone Knife, and deftly slit open the Star Beast's belly, extracting a fingernail-sized Star Crystal.
Inside the crystal were only extremely sparse Spiritual Qi and comparatively powerful Blood Qi fluctuations.
Gu Chenfeng casually stuffed the crystal into the pack on his back.
Having walked through the mist-shrouded forest for a day and a night, Gu Chenfeng had grown fairly accustomed to the environment.
Within the Saint-Seizing Land, aside from martial artists from various planes who had stumbled into this place...
The most numerous inhabitants were actually Star Beasts, which were most sensitive to Plane Laws and adept at squeezing out a plane's resources.
They were like the "scavengers" of the Great Thousand Worlds.
And this dying Saint-Seizing Land, like a small plane whose laws were on the verge of collapse, had also received their visits.
Large numbers of Star Beasts lived in the Mist Forest.
But because of the Saint-Seizing Land's Magic Ban laws, these Star Beasts were suppressed as well.
With sparse Law Power and Spiritual Qi