Chapter 46

In the blink of an eye, both parties had entered the mountains. On the Yan family side, including Jiang Chen, there were eleven people. On the Li family side, including Li Changming, there were thirteen people.

In terms of both numbers and overall strength, the Li family seemed to firmly suppress the Yan family.

Outside the mountains, Li Shanyue wore a sunny smile, the scar on his face twitching. In contrast, Yan Zhan Yun frowned deeply.

"Yan Zhan Yun, are you now very worried and afraid? If Ming'er uses his full strength, how many of your Yan family members do you think will come out alive?"

Li Shanyue said this without any reservations.

"Shameless, making a Dan Realm expert participate in the assessment."

The Dan Realm expert who followed the Yan family shouted angrily.

Yan Zhan Yun waved his hand, signaling not to argue with him. Since the matter was already decided, they could only hope that both sides would rely on their own abilities to slay the beasts in the mountains and avoid encountering each other, especially Li Changming.

Given their relationship, which was like water and fire, if they met in the mountains, a conflict would inevitably occur. Once they started fighting, it would be a matter of life and death.

Chen Shuangsan and his two companions stood calmly to one side, completely ignoring the conversation between Yan Zhan Yun and Li Shanyue. They had long known that these two families were enemies. As for whether anyone would die in this assessment, and how many, they didn't care at all. Strife was always like this. The competition among the four major sects within Qi Prefecture was far beyond what the Yan family and the Li family could imagine.

Inside the mountains, the Yan family members gathered together, their eyes fixed on Yan Yang and Jiang Chen. Here, the two of them were their mainstays.

"Brother Yan Yang, what should we do?"

Someone asked.

"Everyone act on your own, use your abilities to slay the beasts. Meet back here in four hours. At that time, we'll see the number of spirit beasts. For us, this is also a good opportunity for training. During the training, try not to encounter the Li family, especially Li Changming."

Yan Yang said solemnly.

"Alright, we understand."

Everyone nodded and dispersed, each heading in a different direction.

"Brother Jiang, let's each fight on our own. Li Changming's target this time is you. Be careful."

Yan Yang looked at Jiang Chen.

"Sure, you be careful too."

Jiang Chen patted Yan Yang's shoulder and turned to walk into the mountains.

At the same time, on the other side, the Li family members also gathered together.

"Brother Ming, what should we do, act together or separately?"

Someone asked, and everyone looked at Li Changming, who was their mainstay.

"Listen up, slaying the beasts is secondary. Our goal this time is to eliminate all the members of the Yan Yulou. As long as we kill them, the Heavenly Sword Sect's quota will be ours. Moreover, with so many of the Yan family's young generation dead, Yan Zhan Yun will surely collapse. It won't take long for Chicheng to be ours. This is a rare opportunity."

Li Changming had a sinister smile on his face. He was a very cunning and intelligent person, with a far-sighted vision.

"Brother Ming is already a Dan Realm expert. With Brother Ming here, the Yan family is finished. We will head directly to the area where the Yan family is."

Someone said, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

"Let's go. You can distribute yourselves freely. Act separately. I need to find Jiang Chen."

Mentioning Jiang Chen, Li Changming's eyes flashed with a ruthless light. Jiang Chen was his most important target this time. Both of his younger brothers had died at the hands of this person, and he was determined to make him pay in blood.

Only beasts that have reached the Qi Sea Realm can be called spirit beasts. Below the Qi Sea Realm, their intelligence has not fully developed, and they can only be called wild beasts or fierce beasts.

Beasts that have reached the Qi Sea Realm have fully developed intelligence, with intelligence almost on par with humans. Spirit beasts are naturally vigorous and have strong physical bodies, so when humans of the same level face spirit beasts, they generally don't have much of an advantage.

Jiang Chen ran quickly, soon penetrating deep into the mountains for a hundred miles. The spirit beasts in the outer areas were too weak, mostly small wild beasts, and had no appeal to Jiang Chen. His target this time was also a spirit beast.

Rustle!

Ahead was a patch of withered vines. Suddenly, a rustling sound came from inside. Jiang Chen's ears twitched, and he focused his gaze. A huge, pitch-black creature emerged from the withered vines.

It was a black-striped rhinoceros, standing two meters tall, with a pitch-black body and golden stripes on its head. At that moment, the black-striped rhinoceros was staring at Jiang Chen with a bloodthirsty gaze, as if it had found its prey.

Roar!

The black-striped rhinoceros let out a roar and began to walk towards Jiang Chen. Its iron hooves hit the ground, making a clattering sound. The black-striped rhinoceros's hooves were its most powerful weapon. This black-striped rhinoceros had already reached the middle Qi Sea Realm, and its black hooves were strong enough to crush hard rocks, making it a terrifying opponent. If one were hit by its hooves, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Come on."

Jiang Chen taunted the black-striped rhinoceros, his face full of mockery.

Roar!

Jiang Chen's taunting gesture clearly enraged the black-striped rhinoceros. It let out a roar and charged forward.

Thud... thud...

The iron hooves of the black-striped rhinoceros hit the ground, causing the forest to tremble as if an earthquake were happening. When it was only two zhang away from Jiang Chen, the black-striped rhinoceros's massive body leaped up, and its hooves, glowing with a dark light, stomped down on Jiang Chen's head, fast and fierce. The sheer momentum alone would have terrified an ordinary person.

Unfortunately, the black-striped rhinoceros had encountered Jiang Chen.

Crack!

Jiang Chen clenched his fist, making a cracking sound. His fist glowed with light, and he punched at lightning speed, directly meeting the black-striped rhinoceros's iron hooves.

After cultivating the Dragon Transformation Technique, Jiang Chen's vital energy became increasingly vigorous, and his physical body became increasingly strong, even surpassing powerful spirit beasts. He enjoyed facing such fierce spirit beasts head-on.

Seeing this tiny human use his fist to resist his iron hooves, the black-striped rhinoceros's eyes clearly showed a hint of mockery.

Bang!

The fist and the hooves collided fiercely, the shockwave lifting the withered leaves below. Under such a powerful collision, the mockery in the black-striped rhinoceros's eyes instantly turned to terror.

Crack!

One of the black-striped rhinoceros's legs was shattered, blood seeping through its skin. Even its seemingly indestructible hooves showed cracks, oozing blood.

Roar!

The black-striped rhinoceros let out a mournful cry, its massive and powerful body flying backward, landing two zhang away, creating a large pit in the ground.

Jiang Chen leaped up, landing above the black-striped rhinoceros. His iron fist slammed down, hitting the black-striped rhinoceros's head with pinpoint accuracy. This punch directly split open the black-striped rhinoceros's skull, and a bright bead flew out, which Jiang Chen caught in his hand.

The black-striped rhinoceros twitched a few times on the ground and then lay still, dead.

If someone had witnessed this battle, they would have been shocked to the point of gaping in amazement. A human could be so fierce, taking down a middle Qi Sea Realm black-striped rhinoceros with just two punches.

For Jiang Chen, a middle Qi Sea Realm black-striped rhinoceros was too weak. Even a late Qi Sea Realm spirit beast could be easily killed by him.

The spirit beast's core was the size of a fist, completely transparent and glowing, emitting a thick energy that could be clearly felt.

The spirit beast's core is the most important part of a spirit beast, representing its essence. The most vital part of a spirit beast is its core.

Jiang Chen opened his mouth wide and swallowed the spirit beast's core. If an outsider saw this, they would be shocked to the point of fainting.

Directly swallowing a spirit beast's core was simply absurd. After all, humans and spirit beasts are different. Although the core of a spirit beast contains powerful, pure energy, it also contains impurities that humans cannot absorb, which are special to spirit beasts.

Therefore, if someone obtained a spirit beast's core, they would usually exchange it for money or medicinal pills, or use it for refining pills. Even if they wanted to absorb and refine it, they would need to extract the pure energy from the core bit by bit. Swallowing it directly, as Jiang Chen did, was simply risking death.

Jiang Chen, of course, was not risking death. He had his reasons. The Dragon Transformation Technique is a supreme divine technique, and when cultivated to its peak, it can transform into a dragon and fly into the sky. What is a dragon? It is a divine beast, the noblest of all spirit beasts.

Moreover, the incantation of the Dragon Transformation Technique has already hinted that cultivating this technique allows the absorption and refinement of any strange bloodline in the world. These powerful strange beasts are all targets for Jiang Chen to absorb and refine. If bloodlines can be absorbed, why not spirit cores?

The spirit core was swallowed into his body, and Jiang Chen immediately activated the Dragon Transformation Technique. The five dragon patterns in his Qi Sea seemed to receive some kind of command and instantly surrounded the spirit core.

A few minutes later, the spirit core was completely refined and absorbed by Jiang Chen. The pure energy within was completely converted into pure essence energy, and the part belonging to the spirit beast was purified by the Dragon Transformation Technique and converted into pure essence energy, which was absorbed by the dragon patterns.

Buzz!

The Qi Sea vibrated, and the shadow of the sixth dragon pattern became more solid.

"The middle Qi Sea Realm black-striped rhinoceros is still too weak. Even if I refine and absorb its spirit core, it won't help me much. To advance to the late Qi Sea Realm, I need to obtain a higher-level spirit core, at least one from a spirit beast whose level exceeds my cultivation."

Jiang Chen thought to himself. The black-striped rhinoceros was indeed powerful, but his cultivation of the Dragon Transformation Technique meant that his foundation far exceeded that of ordinary people, and his cultivation was like a bottomless pit.

"Moreover, the black-striped rhinoceros is just an ordinary spirit beast with no special bloodline. Spirit beasts with special bloodlines have innate abilities. If I can refine such a spirit core, I can use the Dragon Transformation Technique to obtain innate abilities."

Jiang Chen's eyes flickered. This was the most terrifying aspect of the Dragon Transformation Technique—fusing countless strange bloodlines and directly obtaining innate abilities through bloodlines. The development of the Dragon Transformation Technique in the future was beyond what Jiang Chen himself could imagine.

Of course, Jiang Chen was full of anticipation for all of this. This life was destined to be more exciting than his previous one.

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