Chapter 436 - 274: Heavenly Rock Blood Feast

Chapter 436: Chapter 274: Heavenly Rock Blood Feast

The pack of wild wolves clearly remembered them.

His senses picked up a total of twenty-three wild wolves, twelve of which were 6th-rank.

A pack of this size posed a considerable threat to Di Kui and the others. Even if they won, they would likely suffer injuries or casualties.

This would inevitably delay their journey.

Yu Fei no longer hesitated. Sensing the Fog Pine Stone waypoint he had just recently placed, he teleported away.

Then, after two consecutive uses of Burning Void Escape, he appeared in front of the wolf pack.

Yu Fei was in stealth, and the creatures hadn’t noticed him.

Several blades of Sword Qi appeared out of nowhere, slaughtering the entire pack in an instant.

It was inconvenient for Yu Fei to act while supposedly under the protection of Di Kui and his men; he didn’t want to leave too much of a trace.

A faction like the Iron Banner Gang would undoubtedly submit to a stronger power and would certainly trade in intelligence. If it weren’t so easy to get lost, he would have set out on his own.

In fact, from his observations over the past few days, he knew he would have definitely gotten lost in the Mist Sea without a guide like Di Kui.

With the thick fog everywhere, the forest all looked the same. Although Yu Fei’s waypoint ability would have eventually allowed him to find his way out, it would have taken much longer.

The gains wouldn’t have been worth the losses.

Since he was already out, Yu Fei took advantage of the others’ rest break to patrol the surrounding few hundred kilometers. He dealt with any threatening 6th-rank desolate beasts he encountered.

He tossed all the desolate beasts’ corpses into his storage space.

He had discovered something. In this vast sea of desolate beasts, the corpses of high-rank beasts acted as a catalyst. Once consumed by low-rank beasts, they could easily advance their rank under the influence of a twisting power.

Whether it was a human Martial Artist or a desolate beast of another race, reaching the 7th rank brought about a world-shattering transformation, increasing their strength more than tenfold.

Yu Fei could now easily defeat and kill 6th-rank desolate beasts, yet the 7th-rank Ah Zhen could fight him to a standstill without much effort.

After he killed the surrounding 6th-rank beasts, he immediately felt a difference.

The accumulation of aura for his golden talent, [Invincible Will], came from defeating higher-ranked enemies. As a Five Realms Divine Intent cultivator, in theory, killing 6th-rank beasts should also provide him with a bonus.

Yu Fei quietly sensed the change. After killing over thirty 6th-rank desolate beasts in half a night, he noticed his confidence suddenly surge. He felt the illusion that there was nothing in the world he couldn’t cut down.

He checked the description on the Fate-Defying Pearl.

The description for the [Invincible Will] talent read: Unstoppable momentum, unparalleled across the world.

The aura boost gained after each victory stemmed from the difference in realm, status, fame, and so on between the combatants.

This was also the accumulation process for the talent’s first effect: Invincible Aura.

The other two effects were Suppression, which weakened the enemy in all aspects and mentally forced them to involuntarily generate negative emotions, and Victorious Will, which enhanced his own comprehension, willpower, and fortune.

If he ever lost a battle, his currently accumulated aura would be halved, and all the effects would be weakened accordingly.

This talent was a bit strange.

Things like status, fame, and even fortune were all abstruse concepts. Even though Yu Fei’s raw power was far superior to that of a 6th-rank desolate beast, as long as his own realm was lower than the beast’s, killing them would accumulate aura.

Yu Fei tried it out; 5th-rank desolate beasts didn’t work.

The golden talent, Invincible Will, was geared more toward fighting across realms, allowing the strong to remain perpetually strong.

It allowed him to snowball his strength through victories while suppressing his opponents, but the penalty for defeat was severe, causing an additional drop in combat power and affecting his mental state.

Yu Fei, however, had a practical view of it. Invincible Will was like the icing on the cake—useful, but not something to be relied upon.

He had tried accumulating a bit of aura, but as long as he didn’t win his fights against Ah Zhen, that accumulated aura would just decay.

’How could a Martial Artist remain undefeated their entire life? You couldn’t always face enemies you could handle; when it was time to run for your life, you had to run. If the confidence boosted by Invincible Will went to his head, he’d likely suffer a fall from which he could never recover.’

’Also,’ Yu Fei thought, ’ordinary Martial Artists’ talents aren’t outwardly visible. Lu Bufan might not have known about the properties of my talent. After being defeated by me, his strength would have certainly dropped. If he started to doubt himself, it might have created a flaw in his mental state, hindering his future promotion to Grandmaster.’

For genius Martial Artists, promotion to Grandmaster was not a guarantee. In fact, because their early cultivation was so smooth, it was highly possible for them to get stuck at a certain point, unable to break through.

Take Yu Fei’s master’s wife, Su Yue, for example. Because of her romantic entanglement with his master, Yan Sea, she was unable to advance for a full decade. A B-rank student from Chongming University’s Celestial Pride Class was actually held back by matters of the heart, making no progress for ten years.

And then there was the incredibly powerful Yu Wen Baji. He was already a senior, yet he was still a Gang Qi Martial Artist and had not broken through.

The Grandmaster threshold was a barrier that stood before everyone. At this stage of cultivation, a Cultivator’s talent and resources were less helpful. Finding the opportunity to break through depended more on having a flawless mental state.

After cleaning up all traces, Yu Fei flashed back to the campsite. The others were completely unaware.

The next day, not long after they had set out, Di Kui returned with a worried expression, urging everyone to pick up the pace.

It was strange. The old forest ranger had always been extremely cautious, but today he was acting out of character.

"Mr. Gao, we need to hurry. Normally, while there aren’t many 6th-rank desolate beasts in the Mist Sea, we still run into them from time to time. But we’ve been traveling for so long today and haven’t seen a single one. Something isn’t right!"

Yu Fei knew exactly why; all those 6th-rank desolate beasts were currently lying in his storage space.

"Why is that? Is there some kind of danger?"