Chapter 37

Under the scorching sun at noon, the pure yang true qi in Yi Tian's dantian had condensed to its peak, causing the dantian space to tremble and suddenly expand outward, undergoing its sixth transformation.

At this moment, Yi Tian broke through to the seventh rank.

At the same time, his dantian space had expanded more than ten times its previous size, like a large lake, at least several hundred miles in diameter.

In the days that followed, Yi Tian consumed over ten thousand low-grade essence stones to fill his dantian with pure yang true qi, forming a massive pure yang fireball that hung in the air. However, to break through to the next rank, he still needed to continuously refine the pure yang true qi to reach the limit of the transformed dantian space, which would take some time to consolidate.

After breaking through to the seventh rank, Yi Tian tried to cultivate the Sky Sword Qi.

However, he failed.

The difficulty of cultivating the Sky Sword Qi exceeded his expectations.

Although he failed to cultivate the Sky Sword Qi, Yi Tian still felt some comfort.

Through the calculations of his star mud avatar, the Pure Yang Art was steadily deducing new meridian pathways, and the pure yang true qi he cultivated became increasingly refined and powerful, not inferior to the refinement effect of the pure yang true qi after advancing to the next rank.

Half a month later, Yi Tian's avatar was undergoing a cultivation session after the deduction of the Pure Yang Art.

Boom!

After passing through one meridian after another, the pure yang true qi in Yi Tian's avatar's body seemed to activate various acupoints, forming one mysterious rune after another, filled with scorching flames.

The pure yang true qi underwent a stunning transformation, becoming even more refined and emitting an incredibly hot aura.

The Pure Yang Art had advanced!

Yi Tian did not expect that his Pure Yang Art would deduce this step so quickly, successfully advancing to the middle-grade earth rank.

Yi Tian was immersed in cultivation.

The members of the Reincarnation Squad were also diligently cultivating, especially after cultivating the advanced low-grade earth rank techniques, their speed of refining the elemental essence energy increased dramatically.

However, three months later, a bad piece of news broke the tranquility of the tribe.

For some unknown reason, many ferocious beasts appeared in the outer regions of the Fulong Mountains. During a hunting trip, the tribe's hunting team encountered the attack of four ferocious beasts.

Caught off guard, the hunting team suffered the deaths and injuries of over a dozen warriors before they managed to slay the four ferocious beasts.

This was one of the heaviest losses the tribe had suffered in decades.

As time passed, more and more ferocious beasts appeared in the outer regions of the Fulong Mountains, making the outer mountains even more dangerous.

This alarmed the tribe's leadership.

If the ferocious beasts continued to linger in the outer regions, the tribe would likely be unable to hunt for a long time.

For the Yi Clan Tribe, which relied on hunting, this would undoubtedly be a significant blow, and they would have to tighten their belts.

What worried the tribal chief and the elders even more was the possibility that the ferocious beasts might discover their mining veins, putting the warriors in the valley in danger.

At the same time, they feared the worst-case scenario: a beast tide erupting from the depths of the Fulong Mountains.

Once a beast tide erupted, tens of thousands of ferocious beasts and fierce beasts would surge out of the Fulong Mountains.

The entire area around Black Dragon City would face a massive disaster.

Even a major force like the Yi Clan Tribe, if it managed to survive the beast tide, would suffer heavy losses, and countless towns and villages would be destroyed.

Generally, the eruption of a beast tide has warning signs.

Ferocious beasts that rarely appear in the outer regions would start to appear frequently, and once the beast tide erupted, the entire area around Black Dragon City would be devastated.

The appearance of a beast tide is unpredictable and generally occurs only once every few hundred years. However, the last eruption was less than ninety years ago, which was too short a time.

At this moment, the tribal chief summoned the chief leader, deputy leader, and others, including Yi Tian.

It was not yet certain whether a beast tide was about to erupt.

However, the tribal chief and the elders unanimously decided not to sit idly by and decided to send several elite teams into the mountains to hunt ferocious beasts, reducing the number of ferocious beasts in their direction.

Even if a beast tide erupted in the future, this would alleviate much of the pressure.

The Reincarnation Squad was naturally part of this operation.

"Chief, the Reincarnation Squad doesn't need to participate in this operation. If anything goes wrong, the loss will be significant," the chief leader said.

"Don't worry, the Reincarnation Squad is not as weak as you think!" the old chief did not look down on Yi Tian's Reincarnation Squad.

"This time, we, the Reincarnation Squad, will participate!" Yi Tian did not refuse.

In the tribe, Yi Tian's Reincarnation Squad was just an ordinary elite team, not even considered elite. This time, he wanted to make his Reincarnation Squad famous in the tribe and turn it into a true Reincarnation Squad.

Although the Reincarnation Squad only had six members, which seemed somewhat misleading, they believed that in the future, they would truly become a squad that struck fear into the hearts of their enemies.

Yi Tian gathered the members of the Reincarnation Squad: Yi Feng, Yi Shan, Yi Li, Yi Kuang, and Yi Hong.

This time, they were well-prepared, and with storage bags, everything was very convenient. They quickly left the tribe and entered the deep mountains.

After consuming a large amount of essence stones, Yi Feng and the others had cultivated to the peak of the sixth rank and were on the verge of breaking through to become seventh-rank warriors, high-level fighters.

In the tribe, this was enough to rank them in the top fifty.

When Yi Tian and his group entered the outer regions of the Fulong Mountains, they encountered no fewer than ten dangerous beasts, which made them feel uneasy.

The situation did not look good.

Yi Tian and his group did not engage in a large-scale slaughter.

These dangerous beasts were not a significant threat; their target was the powerful ferocious beasts. Killing one ferocious beast was equivalent to killing hundreds or thousands of dangerous beasts, and only ferocious beasts could breach the tribe's defenses.

Moreover, the more dangerous beasts they hunted, the stronger the blood scent, which could easily trigger the madness of other beasts.

Yi Tian and his group continued to advance, and they did not hesitate to deal with the dangerous beasts that attacked them.

When they reached fifty miles into the outer regions of the Fulong Mountains, they finally discovered a ferocious beast, a Rock Armor Bear, a low-level ferocious beast capable of manipulating earth essence energy and hardening its body into rock armor, which most low-level ferocious beasts could not penetrate.

The Rock Armor Bear was about fifty feet tall, like an iron tower, emitting a powerful aura. Within a few hundred feet, there was not a single dangerous beast in sight.

When Yi Tian and his group appeared before the Rock Armor Bear, it immediately noticed them.

"Roar!"

A roar that shook the forest echoed for dozens of miles.

In the next moment, the Rock Armor Bear's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and it stomped the ground, charging at Yi Tian and his group. Despite its massive size, its speed was not inferior to other low-level ferocious beasts.

Yi Li was the first to act.

He drew a low-grade spirit bow, the bowstring forming a full moon, and suddenly, a piercing arrow shot like a beam of light, heading straight for the Rock Armor Bear's massive head.

The Rock Armor Bear sensed the danger and, at the last moment, emitted a yellowish glow.

In an instant, it was covered in a thick layer of rock armor, becoming even more ferocious and powerful.

Puff!

Yi Li's arrow pierced through the hundred-foot space, penetrating the thick rock armor, but then stopped, embedding itself in the armor, with a trickle of blood seeping out.

The arrow had wounded the Rock Armor Bear.

The injured Rock Armor Bear became even more enraged and ferocious, wanting to tear Yi Li and the others to shreds.

It roared and, covering a distance of several dozen feet, quickly charged at Yi Tian and the others, reaching within ten feet of them in the blink of an eye, causing the ground to tremble.

Yi Tian stomped the ground and instantly drifted away.

Yi Li, Yi Feng, and the others also used the Feather Flight Technique to scatter in different directions.

Boom!

The Rock Armor Bear's massive paw, the size of a millstone, slammed down where Yi Tian and the others had been, creating a pit three feet wide and four to five feet deep. One could imagine how powerful the Rock Armor Bear was; a single strike would likely turn its target into a meat patty.

The Rock Armor Bear pursued Yi Li, the one who had injured it.

At this moment, Yi Feng, Yi Shan, Yi Kuang, and the others began to attack. They took out their spirit bows from their storage bags and fired piercing arrows that tore through the air, creating massive sonic booms, piercing through the Rock Armor Bear's rock armor and embedding themselves in its body.

Soon, the Rock Armor Bear was riddled with arrows like a porcupine.

Even so, the Rock Armor Bear was not significantly affected and became even more ferocious and vicious. Unable to catch Yi Li and the others, it quickly changed its tactics, picking up large boulders from the ground and hurling them at Yi Li, Yi Shan, and the others.

The boulders, like cannonballs, devastated the area, leaving it in ruins.