Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming - Chapter 849 - 843: Light Splitting and Shadow Transformation - Wandering Demon Clan

Qin Feng used the Golden Cicada Shedding Divine Power to escape the assault from several monsters, then transformed into a dim golden light closely sticking to the white bone ground, fleeing into the distance.

Although he was soon discovered by the powerful Thousand-Eyed Centipede, Qin Feng’s Escape Technique was so fast that ordinary Divine Spirits couldn’t keep up with him.

Even though the dwarf quickly repaired the mechanical puppet with divine power, it was still far from catching up to Qin Feng.

As for the Fierce Ape, although it transformed into a massive form several hundred feet tall, not only was its strength formidable, its aura powerful, and its speed exceptionally fast—covering thousands of feet with one step of its long legs—

But the Fierce Ape seemed fierce enough, unfortunately, it was like a being starved for thousands of years.

This creature barely maintained such a fierce state for a moment before it couldn’t keep up with the consumption of its internal power. Its massive form quickly shrank, finally returning to over ten feet tall, looking weary and even thinner than before.

This was because its internal power was truly lacking, forcing it to consume its remaining flesh and blood for energy to sustain the battle.

It’s unknown what species this Fierce Ape is that cultivated in such a peculiar way, able to increase its power to the extremity in a short time with abundant food. But if there is no food, it can only sustain itself by consuming its own flesh and blood.

This cultivation method is very unique, and its initial advancement speed far surpasses other methods, but unfortunately, it is severely limited. In this Abandoned Land, where would it find sufficient food to enjoy?

Thus, the Fierce Ape has always relied on draining its own flesh and blood for energy over the years, shrinking from a massive form of several hundred feet tall upon entering the Abandoned Land to over ten feet now.

In contrast, the spherical monster continued its relentless pursuit.

This being floated in the void, flying like a balloon, light and seemingly weightless, moving at incredible speed, even rivaling the Upper Divine Spirit Octopus Monster.

The old Octopus Monster also hovered a few feet in the void in pursuit, its eight massive tentacles under its wide robe rolling like a windmill, moving at great speed.

Not far from it was the Thousand-Eyed Great Centipede.

This Centipede Spirit moved through the air, winding like a dragon, not only having the eerie Thousand-Eyed Divine Power behind it, with extraordinarily strong attack power, but its Flying Escape speed was also extremely fast. In no time, it left the dwarf and Fierce Ape behind, shortly after even surpassing the Octopus Monster.

However, even with this, it wasn’t enough to catch up to Qin Feng!

Qin Feng was proficient in various Escape Skills. Even though his immortal power was more than half consumed now and couldn’t compare to his peak, since he wasn’t fighting those monsters, purely using his power to escape didn’t cause any lack of power.

When he saw the Golden Escape Divine Power couldn’t shake off those followers, especially as the powerful Thousand-Eyed Centipede was drawing closer, Qin Feng quickly switched to other Escape Techniques.

He employed Wind Escape, Fire Escape, and Void Escape Technique all in succession. Although he hadn’t completely shaken off the Great Centipede, he had widened the distance considerably.

If there had been a source of water here or visible land, Qin Feng certainly wouldn’t have repeatedly used the Five Elements Escape Technique.

Then, when passing by a Bone Mountain, the Fire Escape light around Qin Feng flashed, and he transformed into a faint shadow, closely sticking to the white bone ground, escaping along the various sized bones.

In this place, there was neither sun nor moon, no starlight to be seen. The sky and earth were all shrouded in gray mist; there wasn’t an obvious shadow, yet employing Shadow Escaping Technique was inconspicuous. With slight careless attention, it’s possible to lose track of him.

It was only because the Centipede Monster had too many eyes, with a strong sensitivity to Spiritual Power, that it managed to keep pursuing closely by sensing a faint trace of fluctuation.

Even upon discovering that Qin Feng’s escape speed was increasing, and his Escape Techniques growing stranger, those scarlet, eerie eyes began emitting red beams, consuming energy to attack Qin Feng from afar.

Evidently, the Great Centipede was also worried about Qin Feng completely slipping away.

Unfortunately, now the only one that could catch up and restrain Qin Feng was it. Whether it was due to old age and lack of strength or another plan, the old Octopus Monster had already fallen behind.

At the very least, from the surface, the old Octopus seemed truly ancient. After less than an hour of pursuit, it was already panting heavily, its tiny tentacles trembling, not appearing capable of launching another attack on Qin Feng.

As for the spherical monster, although not slow, compared to the Thousand-Eyed Centipede its strength was much weaker.

Moreover, the Thousand-Eyed Divine Power on the Great Centipede’s back countered its defenses, so it didn’t dare to approach the Centipede Spirit too closely, only followed near the Octopus Monster.

As such, the real threat to Qin Feng was only from the Thousand-Eyed Centipede.

But now, besides the red beams it emitted from its eyes disrupting Qin Feng a bit, it couldn’t accomplish much more.

Qin Feng transformed into a faint shadow, zigzagging around to avoid the evil eyes’ red beams from the Great Centipede.

Finally, when he grew annoyed by the Thousand-Eyed Centipede’s harassment, his form flickered, transforming into hundreds of afterimages flying in different directions.

Simultaneously, his real body also transformed into a shadow mingling with them, making it indistinguishable which one was real or fake!

This was the Light Splitting and Shadow Transformation Technique, an illusion technique, applied to some spells capable of deceiving the eyes, appearing quite visually impressive. In truth, the spell itself had no power or ability to harm enemies.

But currently, Qin Feng adapted it to the Shadow Escape, directly splitting into hundreds of shadows, each looking indistinguishable from when he employed the Shadow Escape Technique.

Now, this made the pursuing Great Centipede somewhat puzzled.

Though it had many eyes and incredibly strong attack power, with a touch for sensing energy that was exceedingly keen, it lacked the ability to see through the real and illusionary, so it was confounded by Qin Feng’s move.

The Great Centipede’s thousands of scarlet eyes were all glancing around haphazardly, some with dozens of eyes focusing on one afterimage, launching chaotic red beams, and some with a single eye on another afterimage, each thinking it spotted the real Qin Feng, wanting to chase the direction it saw.

This resulted in the Great Centipede’s thousand pairs of knife feet flailing around in disorder, leading to its fall from several feet high, twisting about on the ground for some time, finally returning to normal.

The Thousand-Eyed Centipede was actually incredibly formidable, not only with astonishing strong life force, but each segment of its body also contained a portion of its spiritual energy.

In such a situation, even if its body were cut into dozens of segments, it could control the severed parts to flee in different directions, and then reassemble them.

Even if most of its body were destroyed, as long as one part escaped, it could cultivate until it fully recovered.

Unfortunately, this kind of exotic spirit, despite its survival-enhancing ability during danger due to this trait, it caused interference at this moment.

After realizing things were amiss, it simply closed its thousand eyes on the back, using only the two eyes on its head to navigate.

But when it flew back up, looking ahead, where was Qin Feng’s figure to be found?

During the moment it fell to the ground, Qin Feng had long fled beyond sight.

Actually, if Qin Feng wasn’t in an off state, he would have wanted to return and strike while it was down—the Thousand-Eyed Centipede’s flustered moment surely could have given him an advantage, perhaps even dealing it a severe injury!

Behind, the octopus monster’s dim old eyes fixed on the Thousand-Eyed Centipede for a moment, its eight large tentacles somewhat restless.

However, the Thousand-Eyed Centipede quickly returned to normal, and the octopus monster withdrew its gaze, its drooping eyelids concealing the greed in its eyes.

They had merely gathered in this area by coincidence, which didn’t imply any camaraderie between them.

In fact, in the Abandoned Land, what one often had to consider each day was how to fight opponents, obtain their flesh and blood energy to nourish oneself, leaving no time to form bonds with other life.

If such a presence truly existed, it was either foolish or had ulterior motives—mostly likely waiting for the other party to let down its guard and then taking the chance to launch a sneak attack, thereby plundering everything from the other’s body to sustain their own vitality!

The octopus monster was too old, and having long been deprived of energy supplementation and nourishment, combined with the distinctive flow of Time Law in the Abandoned Land differing from the outside world, and frequently facing natural and man-made disasters and deadly battles, it aged particularly fast, greatly shortening the longevity it originally should have had.

Just now, if the Great Centipede had continued in its chaotic state of a thousand segments and a thousand legs each acting on their own for a moment longer, it might have been unable to restrain the greed in its heart and taken action.

If it could devour the Great Centipede, allowing it to obtain sufficient flesh and blood energy to replenish its internal strength and restore to its peak state, it might be able to extend its lifespan by several decades!

Unfortunately, the Centipede recovered too quickly, plus the octopus monster was extremely apprehensive of the Thousand-Eyed Centipede and somewhat worried that the other party was acting to lure itself into a trap; thus, it missed the opportunity!

After all, just as it coveted the other’s rich flesh and blood essence, the Thousand-Eyed Centipede was equally greedy for the energy within it, and if given the chance, it would absolutely not hesitate to devour it to maintain its strength.

…

Qin Feng used the Light Splitting and Shadow Transformation Technique to shake off the monsters chasing him from behind, then headed deeper into the Abandoned Land, covering tens of thousands of miles before stopping his light escape, standing on a Bone Mountain and looking around.

Once he confirmed he had completely shaken off his pursuers and no other life was hiding around, he exhaled deeply.

With a flash, he flew to the remains of an unknown monster nearby and sat cross-legged atop its large skull.

Then he summoned the Hellhound, Swallowing Sky Toad, and three-legged Death Crow to protect him, while he began meditating and cultivating, absorbing Spiritual Energy to restore immortal power!

The three spiritual beasts, upon appearing in such a perilous land, couldn’t help but show surprise in their eyes.

The Hellhound was originally a monster birthed in the Death Kingdom, accustomed to seeing all sorts of dead things, but even it found the sight of endless white bones here somewhat astonishing.

It curiously circled around Qin Feng’s cultivation site several times before finding a very complete skeleton of a giant beast, biting it down—crunching sounds filled the air as its sharp fangs turned the hard bones into bone shards.

But soon, all three of its dog heads spat out the bone shards in a series of “ptoo, ptoo” sounds.

While spitting, it cursed under its breath: “What kind of damned place is this, how can such powerful beasts have absolutely no energy in their bodies after dying?”

Initially intending to utilize its congenital bone-chewing talent based on the principle of waste not, want not, and use the Devouring Principle to digest these bones, accumulating more energy for future advancement, it was shocked to find the bones tasteless and devoid of energy, proving useless even for mere sustenance, offering no benefits besides being excreted!

“Caw caw caw…”

The three-legged Death Crow let out a few mocking cries, circling lightly in the void.

Out of instinct, it dared not soar into the high skies, swiftly settling atop a tall monster rib near Qin Feng, its body still—a gaze like an endless vortex scanning until confirming no signs of life around it before settling quietly on the rib.

The Swallowing Sky Toad, seeing the Hellhound, croaked a couple of times and did not imitate the Hellhound’s attempt to devour beast bones but quietly nestled down several meters in front of Qin Feng, shrinking to the size of a fist.

Surrounded by Space Law, its demon energy remained entirely concealed, its tiny being barely noticeable without careful inspection.

Thus, these three faithfully protected Qin Feng.

Besides the Hellhound which often roamed aimlessly, marking corners with its urine to define its territory, the other two spiritual beasts remained completely still.

Although uncertain if alive beings could be found in this world of white bones, the Hellhound habitually claimed its ground to warn any intruders not to encroach upon its domain.

It was unaware that without such an act it might have remained unnoticed, but due to this display, instead summoned the covetous eyes of other monsters.

…

In the distance, a few creatures with features either hideous or ferocious traveled together.

Among them, one had seven or eight sharp horns on its head, filled with fangs, its body covered in pale blue scales, evidently a member of the Demon Clan!

There was also a Minotaur with a beefy full-bodied physique, carrying a large Totem Pole on its shoulder, its body marked with dark green rune tattoos, appearing exceedingly fierce.

A creature with a human head and an eagle body soared low, its feathers like iron, talons gleaming with cold light.

Another had a One-Eyed Giant trailing behind, accompanied by a Bimong Giant Beast.

The One-Eyed Giant was the most powerful among them, holding a sizable copper hammer, exuding an aura of ferocity surpassing even the Demon Clan member leading the party.

The Bimong Giant Beast obediently followed behind, pacing slowly, though frustrated by the Giant’s slow movement, yet refraining from passing it!

These beings were wanderers drifting out from highly competitive gathering places, roaming across the unidentified vastness of the Abandoned Land, seeking solitary wanderers and entities weaker than themselves, fighting and slaughtering to obtain food and energy.

Of course, if they encountered entities stronger than themselves, there was little choice but to accept the misfortune.

Many wanderers continually roamed the Abandoned Land as the harsh competition of gathering places proved too unmanageable for various life forms, thus motivating their exit.

Moreover, wandering the Abandoned Land wasn’t without opportunities; should a batch of life from the outside world happen to arrive, they might enjoy a feast and perhaps even gain a chance to escape!

Though the odds seemed low, it was not impossible.

Legend tells of such a lucky escapee!

Though the tale’s antiquity is uncertain, its longevity in the Abandoned Land suggests its potential truth.

At that moment, the Demon Clan with pale blue scales suddenly sniffed, remarking in surprise, “What kind of scent is this, why does it smell so peculiar?”