Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming - Chapter 856 - 850: 800 Demon Gods 10 Million Demon Soldiers
On the land paved with endless bones, Qin Feng walked forward step by step.
Everywhere he looked, he saw the skeletal remains of various extraordinary creatures.
Not all were white bones; occasionally, he saw skeletons of other colors in certain areas, with hues of black, yellow, red, purple, and even iridescent colors like rainbow glass, making for quite a surprising sight.
Qin Feng was no exception; previously, he could never have imagined that skeletons could be so colorful, and their shapes differed too, with both internal skeletons and external ones, as well as unusual bone spurs growing outward.
Additionally, there were remains of various elemental beings; besides the more common five-elements life forms, there were lifeforms evolved from crystals and gemstones, as well as some peculiar existences, broadening Qin Feng’s horizons.
These peculiar lifeforms didn’t leave bones after death but rather relatively intact corpses, so encountering a few heads or limbs made of metal and crystal wasn’t unusual.
Initially, Qin Feng was resistant to the Abandoned Land, considering it a barren wasteland with nothing of value.
But now, he found this place to have its unique aspects.
Especially throughout his years of wandering in the Abandoned Land, not only did he witness the bones of various strong warriors, but he also encountered many peculiar and still-living creatures, witnessing many wondrous spells and the unique talents of numerous world powerhouses!
Thus, he quickly transitioned from resistance to curiosity, shifting from previously thinking only about cultivating or quickly heading to a gathering place to gather intelligence and seeking a way out, to now wandering and exploring.
With a curious heart, he walked the Abandoned Land, treading upon the bones of strong warriors of unknown realms, heading west!
Initially, he wandered aimlessly; however, recently, when he subdued two monsters, he heard them mention a gathering place several million miles west, and he wanted to see it!
Firstly, because he had roamed the Abandoned Land for over a hundred years, encountering many creatures and powerhouses, he felt his vision and understanding had broadened significantly.
Also, after these hundred years of tempering, even though he hadn’t focused all his energy on cultivation, a few years ago, he naturally broke through the bottleneck, advancing to the Profound Immortal Realm!
With Qin Feng’s foundation, even though he just entered the Profound Immortal Realm, his war power was undoubtedly on par with ordinary late-stage powerhouses.
Moreover, the more Qin Feng traveled the Abandoned Land and encountered many powerhouses, he quickly realized that while there were many strong warriors in the Abandoned Land, the majority came from ordinary worlds, with truly deep-rooted powerhouses from the Great Worlds being rare!
Of course, this was also related to his consistent wanderings in the wilderness!
The Great Thousand Universe comprises 3,000 Great Worlds, which is already not many compared to the vast number of ordinary worlds, and those who end up in the Abandoned Land are even rarer.
Plus, most of the truly powerful and deeply rooted warriors are entrenched in various gathering places, unlikely to wander around like refugees.
The Abandoned Land, other than when the Time River’s tides attract outside warriors, rarely sees new lifeforms coming in.
Amidst countless lifeforms slaughtering and plundering one another, their numbers rapidly decrease. Moreover, due to the different time flow in the Abandoned Land, the rate of slaughter far exceeds the outside world, and many warriors inadvertently find their life span exhausted, dying old here!
And the Abandoned Land is vast; in the years Qin Feng wandered, he feels he’s traversed a region at least as large as two Southern Domains, yet after inquiring with the subdued monsters, he’s only covered less than one percent!
With such an enormous area, and wanderers scattered all around, it’s often tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of miles without seeing a few living creatures.
And these creatures are extremely alert; if they sense a powerful being approaching, they retreat far away, so much so that Qin Feng can only keep his spirit beasts away, not easily displaying them.
He even conceals his own cultivation realm, as he’s not looking to fish for trouble. In such scenarios, if a creature detects him, they have two choices: either they consider him profound and unprovokable, or they believe him weak, planning to kill him for sustenance!
Qin Feng doesn’t pay much mind to those who choose the former; after all, those folks don’t confront him and even avoid him, so he sees no need to chase them down.
Everyone entering the Abandoned Land has a hard journey, so granting others a path to live is just, and blindly killing without reason is a demon path act, detrimental to his Daoist Heart!
However, for those who dare to harbor malice towards him or act upon it, he either kills them on the spot to feed his spirits or brings them into the Demon Refining Pot to become part of his spirit beast legion.
Over a hundred years, even with Qin Feng subduing monsters occasionally during his travels, the number of those entered into the Demon Refining Pot is not insignificant.
Now, the combat power under his command is several dozen times stronger than before, with over 800 monsters of the Divine Realm!
In comparison, there are very few ordinary demigod monsters below the Immortal God Realm, only about a hundred in total.
It’s not that he looks down on ordinary monsters; it’s mainly because monsters of such realms are too weak, typically only surviving in gathering places by sheer numbers, fighting to seek advancement to the Divine Realm, and few dare to roam outside.
In contrast, most roving monsters are nine times out of ten, of the Divine Level.
Among these 800-plus Demon Gods, there are dozens of middle-rank divine spirit-level ones; as for upper divine spirit realm, none yet.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to subdue higher-level divine spirit monsters; rather, those creatures are clever, retreating early upon sensing trouble.
The few less cunning ones, even when engaging him, either fight to the death, ending in self-destruction, or use racial talents to break out and escape, which is why Qin Feng has yet to capture any upper-level divine spirit monsters.
But Qin Feng isn’t in a hurry; as his cultivation gradually increases and his war power strengthens, he believes there will be ample opportunities to subdue those creatures in the future.
After all, this is an Abandoned Land, with plenty of powerful Monsters for him to tame, and he doesn’t have to worry about provoking some big shot behind them. At most, they are just the Top Level experts from various gathering places, which are far inferior compared to those Immortal Realm experts from other worlds!
Moreover, even if he doesn’t have any Spiritual Beasts of the Upper Divine Spirit Realm under his command, the sheer number of Monsters he has tamed now is already quite tremendous.
Although these Monsters, when fighting alone, can barely match up to the Immortals from the Great World or the Demon Immortals of the same Realm in the Heavenly Demon Realm, they are still formidable Monsters capable of opposing Middle and Lower God Spirits, playing a crucial role no matter where they are.
Take the Beast Taming Sect as an example. Since the sect was founded by the Ancestor during the Ancient Great Tribulation, only a hundred or so Immortals have emerged. Excluding those predecessors who perished in battle during the Great Tribulation, and a few who occasionally died over these tens of thousands of years, only three or four dozen Supreme Elders remain.
Even if you add the Spiritual Beasts of Demon Immortal Realm from the sect, the total number still barely reaches over a hundred, which is far from comparable to the Spirit Beasts Qin Feng has tamed during this time!
This is the benefit of having a cheat, otherwise, even the strongest Jue Tian Ancestor from the Beast Taming Sect couldn’t tame so many Monsters that have reached the Divine Realm!
Even if he could tame them, controlling them wouldn’t be easy!
The sheer number would demand too much of his Spirit, severely affecting normal cultivation. Even if Jue Tian Ancestor gave up on advancing, he wouldn’t choose to command so many Demon Immortals at once!
Qin Feng can almost foresee how conspicuous it will be when he returns to the sect and abruptly releases these hundreds of Monsters comparable to Demon Immortals on the battlefield!
However, after taming many Monsters, he gradually noticed some issues!
Firstly, the cultivation of so many Monsters was a major problem; hundreds of Monsters comparable to Demon Immortals had survived in the Abandoned Land, devoid of Spiritual Energy, for unknown thousands of years. Suddenly entering a place rich in Spiritual Energy, they would definitely absorb it voraciously, not only replenishing the depleted power within but even wanting to fill themselves to the point of bursting without stopping.
Moreover, if some Monsters coveted certain Spiritual Medicine or Divine Fruits, they could easily spoil them, and although there is restraint from various Main Spirit Beasts, many Immortal Herbs and Divine Medicines have suffered damage.
Though the vast spaces within each layer of the Demon Refining Pot are abundant in Spiritual Energy and filled with Spiritual Medicine, there is no worry for some wastage, especially in the Beiming Immortal Mansion, whose space and Spiritual Energy far surpass other layers. Allowing these Monsters to cultivate isn’t unfeasible.
But Qin Feng must consider the future.
If he continues to tame more Spirit Beasts like this in the future, the Spirit Veins within the Demon Refining Pot would inevitably be depleted at some point!
He doesn’t know how many years he’ll spend in the Abandoned Land; he must plan for the future, firstly ensuring his own cultivation isn’t delayed, secondly not affecting the cultivation progress of his Nine-Headed Main Spirit Beasts, and then address the cultivation of other Spirit Beasts!
Thus, upon noticing that there were too many Monsters at the Demon God Realm under him and the rapid consumption of Spiritual Energy, Qin Feng directly ordered that all Monsters with restored Spiritual Power should no longer absorb Spiritual Power for cultivation, they only needed to maintain their current Cultivation Realm.
In the Demon Refining Pot, they don’t need to fight, and as for resources, those are his treasures; when will it be their turn to seize them?
Since there’s no need for battle, there’s no need to consume energy; maintaining the minimal standard is sufficient, along with enjoying various foods, which is far better than their previous struggles outside.
It’s the ordinary Spirit Beasts that have not achieved Demon Immortal Realm that Qin Feng has not imposed any restrictions on.
Mainly because these ordinary Spirit Beasts absorb limited Spiritual Power, and if they cannot advance to Immortal God Realm, they would eventually perish within the Demon Refining Pot, their power dissipating across various layers without causing Spiritual Power loss.
Additionally, he needs to maintain the diversity of Spirit Beasts within the Demon Refining Pot, allowing ordinary Spirit Beasts to reproduce on their own, not only increasing the number of Demon Soldiers under his command but also gradually forming a stable ecological chain, preventing him from worrying about food for his Spirit Beasts.
Otherwise, in this Abandoned Land, with bones everywhere, where can he find enough food for them?
Under his indulgence of ordinary Spirit Beasts, their numbers are growing rapidly, doubling in a hundred years, and now exceeding ten million Little Demons.
Of course, the vast majority are ordinary Demon Beasts at the Qi Refining Early Stage, with weak strength.
But if he could train these Demon Beasts to enhance their collective strength further, elevating them to the Late Stage of Qi Refinement or even Foundation Establishment, regularly practicing with war formations to consolidate their power, his Ten Thousand Beasts Formation would definitely see its potency greatly increased!
Besides Monsters extracting Spiritual Energy causing Qin Feng a headache, he gradually discovered another limitation of the Demon Refining Pot.
That is, the quantity of Spirit Beasts it could accommodate!
Indeed, at its peak, the Demon Refining Pot could house billions of Demon Soldiers; during the Ancient Great Tribulation, that Demon Clan Great Power roamed Biluo for years, destroying sects numerous times, and defeating cultivators’ resistance and encirclement countless times due to this.
But that refers to the Demon Refining Pot at its peak, which isn’t the case now!
Since the Demon Refining Pot was damaged during the Ancient Great Tribulation, its nine-tier space was destroyed, with only a fraction of its power remaining.
Over the years Qin Feng painstakingly placed a large portion of various Space Treasures he accumulated, especially the Beiming Immortal Mansion as a Cave Heaven World and the semi-destroyed Cave Heaven Treasure Chaotic Sky Map, all into the Demon Refining Pot.
Even so, the current Demon Refining Pot barely makes up one and a half Cave Heaven.
The other seven-tier spaces are substantial, but compared to the Cave Heaven World, they are far inferior!
When Qin Feng distributed the Monsters he tamed across various tiers, he gradually noticed a state of being full in these spaces, unable to accommodate more Monsters.
Only the first-tier Chaotic Sky Map and the second-tier Beiming Immortal Mansion remain relatively unaffected.
Qin Feng understands that to unrestrictedly gather Spirit Beasts, he must continue to collect Cave Heaven Treasures, transforming all nine-tier spaces into Cave Heaven Worlds!
