Chapter 67: Hunting and Burial

High in the sky, Chen Yusheng held Xiao Jiu's hand tightly, flying rapidly toward the continuous mountain range in the distance.

In just half an hour, the two had already penetrated deep into the heart of the mountains.

Caw, caw, caw—!

Not long after they arrived above the mountains, a flock of flying Bianyi Shou, two to three meters in length, suddenly soared up from a cliff and lunged fiercely at the two.

As soon as they drew near, a sky full of fireballs, ice arrows, and various other elemental attacks poured down like a rainstorm, bombarding the pair from all directions.

Facing such a dense offensive, Chen Yusheng's expression remained calm, without a hint of panic; he raised his hand and covered himself and Xiao Jiu with the Golden Light Incantation.

Crackle!

A sharp bolt of lightning struck out in response.

It instantly hit one flying Bianyi Shou, and the current chained to another; both Bianyi Shou convulsed all over and plummeted straight down from the high altitude.

Yet the fierce attacks from the remaining Bianyi Shou, landing upon Chen Yusheng's Golden Light Incantation, failed to break even a single crack in the defense.

Caw, caw, caw!

Seeing this, the flock of flying Bianyi Shou emitted anxious, uneasy shrieks.

A moment later, they regrouped and charged at Chen Yusheng like madmen.

Crackle!

Chen Yusheng's Thunder Method moved again at his fingertips; amidst the flickering lightning, two more Bianyi Shou fell in response, while he and Xiao Jiu remained safe and sound.

Screech!

A deafening eagle cry suddenly tore through the sky, its momentum terrifying.

Chen Yusheng turned his head toward the sound and saw a giant eagle with a wingspan of over ten meters, like a colossal beast, rushing over rapidly while wrapped in a gale.

Whoosh!

The giant eagle flew to the vicinity of the Bianyi Shou flock in an instant.

Swish, swish, swish!

Several incomparably sharp wind blades sprayed from the giant eagle's mouth, instantly slaughtering several ordinary flying Bianyi Shou.

Caw, caw, caw!

The remaining Bianyi Shou were so frightened they let out terrified hisses and scattered in all directions, their formation collapsing.

"Xiao Ying!" A joyful smile instantly bloomed on Xiao Jiu's face as she called out loudly toward the giant eagle.

This majestic giant eagle was the very one that had long since been subdued by Chen Yusheng.

Hearing Xiao Jiu's voice, the giant eagle let out a happy, long cry and flew docilely to her side.

Xiao Jiu gave a light leap, landing gracefully on the giant eagle's back.

"You two wait here for a moment; I'm going to retrieve the Crystal Cores."

Chen Yusheng gave a word of instruction to the girl and the eagle, then descended to begin digging out the Crystal Cores from the carcasses of the slain Bianyi Shou.

Before long, Chen Yusheng had retrieved all the Crystal Cores, totaling seven pieces.

Besides the Crystal Cores, he also stored all the Bianyi Shou carcasses into his Space Bead.

Scanning the Crystal Cores with his Spiritual Power, he realized these were all just Ordinary Crystal Cores that could increase cultivation speed by ten times.

After putting away the Crystal Cores, Chen Yusheng also leaped onto the giant eagle's back.

"Xiao Ying, take us to find stronger Bianyi Shou." Chen Yusheng communicated with the giant eagle via intent.

Screech!

The giant eagle let out a long cry, flapped its wings, and carried Chen Yusheng and Xiao Jiu away through the air.

Half an hour later, the giant eagle brought the two to find a giant Bianyi Shou wild boar with a body size comparable to an elephant.

Yin-Yang Lightning Technique!

Crackle!

Chen Yusheng raised his hand and unleashed a Yin-Yang Lightning Technique at the Condensing Origin Realm level, killing the Bianyi wild boar with a single strike.

A moment later, Chen Yusheng dug out a Crystal Core the size of two or three fists from the wild boar's skull.

Probing it with his Spiritual Power to sense it, this Crystal Core could actually increase cultivation speed by nearly fifty or sixty times.

"Not bad."

"Xiao Ying, keep leading the way; let's find stronger Bianyi Shou."

In the days that followed, Chen Yusheng and Xiao Jiu searched for and hunted Bianyi Shou along the way, continuously collecting Crystal Cores.

Nowadays, not only did Chen Yusheng need a large number of Crystal Cores for his own cultivation, but Xiao Jiu's cultivation also could not do without the assistance of Crystal Cores.

Chen Yusheng secretly planned to leave all the ten-times-speed Ordinary Crystal Cores for Xiao Jiu to use in the future, while he himself would specifically take the higher-multiplier High-grade Crystal Cores for his own cultivation.

Two days passed in a flash, and Chen Yusheng and Xiao Jiu had cleared out most of the powerful Bianyi Shou within this mountain range.

The harvest this time could be called bountiful.

They had reaped over one hundred and fifty Crystal Cores with ten times the cultivation speed, and there were also more than a dozen Mid-to-high-grade Crystal Cores with multipliers ranging from over ten to fifty or sixty times.

After hunting the Bianyi Shou in this mountain range until few remained, Chen Yusheng planned to head elsewhere to continue hunting.

"Brother, I want to go home and take a look; is that okay?"

Just as Chen Yusheng was preparing to set off to change locations, Xiao Jiu spoke softly and made a request.

"Where is your home?"

"It's in the city over there." Xiao Jiu raised her hand and pointed in the direction of Funancheng.

"Alright." Chen Yusheng nodded slightly.

The two immediately changed direction and flew rapidly toward Funancheng.

Before long, the two had arrived above Funancheng.

Funancheng was the very abandoned city where Chen Yusheng had descended when he first transmigrated; he had once been hunted here by the He Family, and it was also here that he had met Xiao Jiu.

But when Chen Yusheng and Xiao Jiu looked down at the city, they could not help but be slightly stunned—this once dead and silent ruined city was now teeming with a large crowd of people.

Judging by their appearance, these people were all Scavengers or members of Hunting Teams sent out by the Base.

Chen Yusheng noticed that they were driving vehicles, fully loaded with various industrial goods and supplies, traveling back and forth between Funancheng and Fubei Base.

It seemed that although the previous battle to purge the Zombie King had failed to completely kill the Zombie King, it had cleared out all the ordinary Sangshi in the city.

Now that Funancheng no longer had much of a Sangshi threat, the Scavengers naturally had no scruples and were scavenging resources on a massive scale.

Everything in this abandoned ancient city had become supplies easily accessible to the Base.

From high above, Chen Yusheng saw the building where he had first landed when he transmigrated, and he also saw the ruins of the building that had been blasted into rubble by the He Family with missiles back then.

"Xiao Jiu, where is your home?" Chen Yusheng asked softly.

"It's right over there."

Xiao Jiu pointed in a direction and flew forward first.

Chen Yusheng followed closely behind, and before long, he followed Xiao Jiu into an old residential compound.

Inside the compound, Xiao Jiu led Chen Yusheng through a window into a five-story building.

Inside the window was a living room, but the room was in a mess, and two skeletons were scattered on the floor, a shocking sight.

When Xiao Jiu saw the two skeletons on the ground, her eye sockets instantly turned red, and tears rolled down uncontrollably.

The next second, she knelt down abruptly and kowtowed heavily toward the skeletons.

"Mom and Dad! Yao Yao is back..."

Witnessing this scene, Chen Yusheng's eye sockets also turned slightly red for some reason, and a wave of bitterness welled up in his heart.

"Mom and Dad, it was Yao Yao who harmed you, sob..."

"Xiao Jiu, don't be too sad; your parents' spirits in heaven surely wouldn't want to see you so upset." Chen Yusheng hurriedly stepped forward and comforted her softly.

"I know, I just... can't help it..."

Under Chen Yusheng's soothing, Xiao Jiu gradually stopped crying, though she still couldn't stop sobbing.

Afterward, with trembling hands, she began to gather the scattered skeletons on the floor.

"Let me help you store them in my space," Chen Yusheng said.

"Thank you, Brother." Xiao Jiu nodded, choking back sobs.

Chen Yusheng waved his hand and properly stored the two skeletons into the Space Bead.

"Brother, I want to give Mom and Dad a proper burial."

"Where would you like to bury them?" Chen Yusheng asked gently.

"I want to bury them on the highest peak deep within the mountain range." Xiao Jiu pointed into the distance, toward the towering highest peak in the mountain range.

"Alright, Brother will go with you to lay your parents to rest." Chen Yusheng nodded solemnly.