Chapter 339: Beast Tide Attack! The Secret of the Desolate Beasts?

At the same time, in a corner of the starry sky outside the world.

Amidst a chaotic cluster of interstellar meteorites, inside a starship filled with a sci-fi aesthetic, a humanoid creature covered entirely in brown scales with a long, crimson horn suddenly stood up, opening its cyan eyes, which were filled with shock.

"How is this possible?! The power of an—Earth—Immortal—?!"

"... Just what kind of sacred being could actually project their Earth Immortal power into this Zhenyu? Is this really something that can be achieved at the Earthly Immortal Realm? Could it be some His Excellency True Immortal?"

"No, that's not right either! This Zhenyu, ordinary True Immortals would avoid it if they could, how could they possibly come near..."

"Truly strange..."

"No! I absolutely cannot stay here any longer!"

While pondering, the brown-scaled, single-horned creature abruptly summoned the starship's artificial intelligence, and with the help of that rudimentary AI, started the starship and fled in another direction.

It had to leave; regardless of whose masterpiece that creature was, the mere fact that it could project Earth Immortal-level power into this place meant that even if it wasn't a legendary True Immortal, it was still a super-expert among Earth Immortals, and definitely not a small fry like himself, who had only ascended to the Earthly Immortal Realm for less than ten thousand years, could afford to provoke.

Furthermore, the avatar he had gone to such lengths to project had already died, so there was no benefit in staying here any longer.

If not run now, then when?!

At the final moment, the brown creature sitting in the departing starship wore a face full of bitterness.

Thinking back to when he, Hushila, was in the lower realms, he was at least an expert who looked down upon all directions and swept through the world invincible. He sat high in the heavens, possessed the most beautiful women in the world, watched the rise and fall of dynasties and the lives of heroes with a smile, and in the end, even used his own strength to drive his home planet's power level to achieve a massive leap.

How was it that after achieving the final transcendence, leaving the membrane of his home planet and stepping into the starry sky, he became as humble as one could be? Anyone could point fingers at him, and he even had to be servile; where was the joy of his past days of roaming the world?

They all say transcendence is good; had he known that transcendence would be this dangerous and require such servility, he would rather not have transcended at all!

Now, the hard-won opportunity to tour the Zhenyu had been ruined by some mysterious great power, and he didn't even dare to harbor resentment, only able to slink away in fear of being hunted down.

"Sigh~~"

The more Hushila thought, the sadder he became, and at the last moment, only a faint sigh remained, lingering for a long time in the magnetically chaotic meteorite cluster.

The outskirts of the Forbidden Forest.

After a long while, Baichuan opened his eyes again.

Fortunately, at the last moment, he made a decisive choice and finally managed to capture some important information.

This world was indeed, as he had once guessed, an owned object!

But it was not the testing ground he had speculated, but rather one of the most precious resources and cultivation worlds controlled by a super-civilization so powerful it was hard to imagine—the Zhenyu!

Zhenyu, meaning a vast and powerful world that has some kind of connection to True Immortals.

As for what kind of connection it had with True Immortals, the fragmented memories he obtained contained nothing; perhaps this was not information an ordinary Earth Immortal could know.

Thinking about it now, it made sense; as the one who possessed it, Baichuan still had some understanding of the terrifying potential and powerful utility of the exotic metal that constructed the bodies of the Desolate Beasts in this world.

It was absolutely one of the most precious resources on the technological side!

Besides this, the other major piece of information concerned that Disaster Beast and the group of Desolate Kings behind it.

That group of Desolate Kings were all creatures that did not belong to this world, but due to some special reason, they were able to project a portion of their consciousness into this world to seek opportunities.

And because this world was too powerful and possessed a strong repulsive nature, those descending creatures had no choice but to huddle together for warmth and help each other. The reason they came to this Forbidden Forest area seemed to be in search of some important treasure.

Thinking of this, Baichuan suddenly remembered the time when he had just arrived here, when he had seen creatures emitting terrifying auras appear several times, heading into the deeper mountain ranges.

Now that he thought about it, those must have been the outsiders attracted by that special treasure.

His previous strengthening and metamorphosis, and the powerful aura he had unleashed without restraint, seemed to have caused that group of Desolate Kings to misunderstand, thinking he was another outsider Desolate King just like them.

Unfortunately, they had guessed wrong.

But the misunderstanding was fine; intuition told Baichuan that a treasure coveted by a group of Earth Immortals was definitely not an ordinary one.

Since he was now being misunderstood by that group of creatures, why not play along and mix in with them first? When the time came, whether it was probing for information, tricking them into talking, finding an excuse to kill a few to extract their memories, or acting as the fisherman who reaps the rewards by snatching that extraordinary treasure, all were good choices.

Of course, the premise for all of this was that he first truly metamorphosed into a real Desolate Beast, rather than being half-Desolate Beast and half-flesh.

The Disaster had just died, so he figured the Time direction should still be sufficient; that group of Desolate Kings shouldn't have received the news so quickly.

Thinking of this, Baichuan withdrew his thoughts and looked at the corpse of the Disaster Beast on the ground.

With the corpse of this Tier 4 Zaiezhuang Desolate King, his Beast Tide plan could finally begin.

Speaking of which, he had to mention the power classification of this world he had just obtained; the power of Desolate Beasts in this world was divided into six stages, and the surviving humans all imitated the Desolate Beast power system: Rank 1 Red Bright Species, 2 Erosion Species, 3 Godspeed Species, 4 Zaiezhuang, 5 Huiyuzhuang, 6...

He, Baichuan, because the land he had eroded was currently too small, could barely be considered the weakest Huiyuzhuang; in other words, a Planet Overlord was only equal to a Huiyuzhuang, so what Rank 6 was, was already very obvious.

"Clatter, clatter..."

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Three days later, in the dense Forbidden Forest, an extremely exaggerated commotion suddenly erupted.

Flocks of birds took wing and left the forest, the earth trembled continuously, dust billowed, and it seemed as if the force of ten thousand beasts stampeding had appeared in this Forbidden Forest!

It was countless creatures, forced by fear, fleeing and leaving their habitats, bit by bit gathering into a massive tide.

At this moment, no matter how powerful a Desolate Species was, facing such an exaggerated Beast Tide, they dared not confront it head-on and could only evade; those who were slow would die!

At this instant, looking down from above, under the lush forest, there was a vast, dark mass; looking closely, one could even see that occasionally, some obviously distinct Desolate Species were mixed into the Beast Tide—these were likely the few Desolate Species that had luckily escaped Baichuan's clutches earlier.

But now, these former powerful Banzhu could only slink away, following the Beast Tide in their flight.

And at the very rear of the Beast Tide was a majestic and awe-inspiring powerful Desolate King—the Disaster!

That beast, shaped like an ox with a green body and red horns, hung at the back of the Beast Tide, occasionally driving the creatures that fell out of the tide, and occasionally intentionally controlling the direction of the Beast Tide's advance—the target: the settlement of the Forest People!

Of course, if someone could get close to this Disaster Beast at this moment, they might see that on the top of the beast's head, near the back, there was a huge opening, and a squirrel the size of a small dog was hiding inside, making corresponding movements along with the Desolate Beast's actions, seemingly driving this Desolate Beast as if it were a piece of technological equipment.

In fact, that was exactly the case; the corpse of the Disaster Beast before him had already been transformed by Baichuan into a true mechanical construct two days ago.

Speaking of this, he had to mention that two days ago, Baichuan, who had originally intended to use his power to erode the corpse of this Disaster Beast and turn it into a mindless puppet, had discovered a shocking secret during the erosion process: the body structure of a Desolate Beast was actually a naturally formed, extremely precise mechanical construction.

Even if this Desolate Beast was dead and lacked conscious control, as long as there was a master control console to connect the electronic neural circuits inside its body, and with a sufficient energy supply, its massive body could be driven just like operating a mechanical construct!

What did this mean?!

It meant that Desolate Beasts were biological mechs that didn't require manual labor to build and could cultivate themselves!

They can reproduce, grow, and become stronger on their own, like real living beings... No, this is a special kind of bio-slaughter machine cultivated for this purpose!

Once these Desolate Beasts mature, they are like prime pieces of fruit; when the master of their world needs to harvest them, they only need to erase the consciousness of the Desolate Beast itself and implant a control console to obtain an incomparably powerful super bio-mecha!

At this moment, Baichuan finally gained a little more understanding of what those super civilizations called the most important resource stars! It was truly terrifying!

After discovering this, Baichuan, based on the Fugitive Fleet technology he had previously obtained and his own knowledge base, barely managed to implant a crude consciousness control console within the body of this Calamity Beast; this console connected to the consciousness of the little squirrel sitting inside, and he then continuously directed the muddled little squirrel to complete his goals.

This was also the troublesome part about the Calamity Beast not being willing to submit to him; if it had submitted to him, he would only need to control the other party, without having to consider so many cumbersome steps.

But now that the other party had rejected him and died until only its body remained, and given that he could not leave the range of the eroding land, he could only indirectly complete his goals through his minions.

While deep in thought, in the vision Baichuan projected onto the little squirrel, an unusually towering ancient tree gradually appeared.

Among the already immensely tall ancient trees, this one stood out as exceptionally towering and massive, like a lush, verdant mountain peak standing proudly above the rest in this ancient forest, reaching straight into the clouds.

Near its massive, tangled roots, an unusually large complex of buildings was built in a chaotic, staggered manner, with an unusually tall and sturdy city wall on the outside.

That was the place where the Forest People, who had controlled this region for generations, lived in clusters; only the most powerful Phantom Knights and Forest People of very high status could live in the canopy of that towering ancient tree, as this was a symbol of status!

At this moment, the Forest People had also finally discovered the abruptly attacking Beast Tide, and a shocking chaos erupted in the tribes around the tree roots; under the command of the managers below, the heavy, loud, and ancient-sounding horn began to blare, and sounds of panic, unease, and calling out were incessant, interspersed with the comforting and evacuation calls of some Forest People soldiers.

In the past, the Forest People, who possessed the protection of the Spirit, would never have encountered this kind of Beast Tide attack.

Because, in the past, all situations in the surrounding area, even in ordinary times, were patrolled by Phantom Knights, and once any sign of abnormality appeared, Forest People soldiers would be dispatched instantly to wipe it out.

Besides that, any intelligent Desolate Species, as long as they were a bit powerful, let alone wanting to incite a Beast Tide, would be driven away or even destroyed by the power descended by the angry Spirit the moment they stepped in from the outside; as for those inside, the intelligent Spirit would also constantly maintain the ecological balance within.

Yet now, the Beast Tide had truly and genuinely appeared among the Forest People who had never encountered a Beast Tide attack!

At this moment, Zhou Yun and his sister were among them.

Since that day when the Forest People lifted the restrictions, under the care of the Phantom Knight Grand Captain of the Forest People, the entire Sand Castle had been the talk of the Black Shishan Range.

No one expected that the Sand Castle, which was only a second-rate force in the past, would actually have a connection with the regional Banzhu, the Forest People; for a time, various forces visited one after another, and the threshold of the gate was almost trampled flat.

Because everyone wanted to strike this deal with the Forest People; one must know that among the many forces in the Black Shishan Range, those arrogant Forest People would not pay attention to just any force.

Thus, the influence of the Sand Castle rose with the tide, and as the most outstanding of them, the Zhou Yun siblings were specifically brought out by the Castle Master who valued them, preparing to cultivate this pair of siblings who had no roots in this world.

However, unexpectedly, they had just arrived at the giant city of the Forest People with a large amount of cargo, and before they could even see their old friend Gu Ying, they encountered something that hadn't happened in a hundred years—

A Beast Tide attack!

"I hope it's just a scare."

With this glimmer of hope silently flashing through his mind, Zhou Yun pulled his sister and followed Uncle Dan, quickly retreating to a place of refuge under the guidance of the Forest People soldiers.

At the same time, as that towering ancient tree appeared in Baichuan's eyes, he also silently sent an order to the minions he controlled!

In an instant, as those Phantom Knight servants who had been dispersed into another team saw some knights fall toward the bottom of the towering ancient tree due to the Beast Tide attack, the eyes hidden under their tight helmets lit up, their chests under their armor grew hot, and a dragon-shaped mark slowly emerged; the next moment—

"Pfft!"

"Ah— Gu Shi, you, what are you doing?"

"No, why? Aren't we comrades—"

"Gu Fei, what are you doing?"

"Harming your colleagues, aren't you afraid of the punishment of the clan rules? The anger of the Spirit?"

"Stop, stop it! Someone come!"

"Damn it, crazy! Crazy!! Everyone is crazy!!!"

For a time, sounds of surprise, anger, questioning, scolding, or cursing continued to come from the mouths of these Phantom Knights.

However, facing their former colleagues, these attacking Phantom Knights remained silent, as if they were wooden, while the weapons in their hands were clean and swift, each strike aimed at vital points.

Blade light flashed, blood splattered, and large heads were constantly thrown into the air, all with expressions of disbelief, confusion, and angry incomprehension.

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(End of chapter)