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Just Wanting to Live a Good Life but Surpassing the Protagonist – 53 The Hunt Begins
“As expected of Lord Ghost Hand, he annihilated the other party’s divine soul with just a glance.”
In a certain location of the secret realm, a giant wolf, a bug-faced creature, and several other large demonic beasts followed behind a ‘human’ who was about 2 meters tall and had one extremely thick arm. Demonic energy swirled around his entire body.
The giant wolf and the other demonic beasts were at least ten meters tall. They nodded and bowed to flatter a ‘short’ fellow. The scene was undoubtedly comical, but no one would dare to say that they were not.
Because the ‘human’ walking in front of them was a genuine demon king, one of the strongest existences in the secret realm, the son of Black Wind.
Unless they had innate (innate) advantages, ordinary spirit beasts and demonic beasts needed to at least reach the Nascent Soul stage and experience the minor heavenly tribulation before they could transform into humans. Those with innate advantages only needed to reach the Core Formation stage or even the Golden Core stage to transform.
The demon race were highly evolved and refined demonic beasts. They possessed the bloodline of demonic beasts, but when they were just born, they could take on human form even without cultivation.
What were the benefits of transforming into humans for demonic beasts and spirit beasts?
Smaller size, greater agility, and less energy consumption during daily activities. These were the reasons.
“Garbage, not worth mentioning.” The early-stage demon king named Ghost Hand snorted disdainfully. He had a rather handsome appearance, but unfortunately, he had a giant Qilin arm that did not match his appearance. Otherwise, if he changed into normal human clothes, he could be considered a cold and cool man.
The giant wolf, the bug-faced creature, and the other demonic beasts quickly dug out the Golden Cores of those human cultivators whose divine souls had disappeared, leaving behind only their idiotic and empty shells, and respectfully presented them to Ghost Hand.
Ghost Hand gave them one each of the more than ten Golden Cores and stuffed the rest into his mouth, chewing and swallowing them.
After the demonic beasts expressed their gratitude, they all ate the Golden Cores. Ghost Hand disdained the flesh of those human cultivators, so it went to them instead. The dozen or so large demonic beasts quickly snatched and devoured the corpses that had not yet completely died. It was no different from how humans liked to eat their food while it was fresh.
“Hmm?” Just as Ghost Hand was digesting the energy contained in the Golden Cores, he suddenly felt a gaze. He looked in the direction of the gaze, but there was a hill there, and no one was around.
An illusion? Ghost Hand didn’t think so. He was a powerful demon king, so how could his perception be wrong?
Completely ignoring his subordinates who were gobbling down the Golden Cores, Ghost Hand only took a few breaths to arrive at the hill dozens of miles away.
Releasing his divine sense to the maximum, Ghost Hand soared into the air with his demonic energy and flew around a few times, but he didn’t find anything except for some insects that had been living on the hill.
Could it have really been an illusion?
Ghost Hand was puzzled. At this moment, his group of large demonic beast subordinates also caught up and asked him what was wrong.
“Nothing, just taking a casual stroll. Let’s go. Let’s try to find that escaped Foundation Establishment cultivator and the Immortal Body and Saint Body before Iron Leopard and the others.”
Soon, a group of demonic beasts with soaring demonic energy left.
On a plant somewhere on the hill, a bug was lying down. Suddenly, it seemed to heave a sigh of relief and made a buzzing sound. If the insect language was translated, it would roughly mean, “As expected of an enemy at the Nascent Soul level, their perception is not ordinary.”
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Without a doubt, this bug was Ye Yong.
Ever since he found the prop(item) that could transform him into other races, it was as if he had unlocked seventy-two transformations. However, it cost 1000 Reversal Points to transform into anything, which was still a little expensive. One must know that a super high-grade Spirit Gathering Core was only worth 3 Reversal Points. In other words, each transformation cost more than 300 super high-grade Spirit Gathering Cores. His ability to spendthrift was top-notch.
Just as Ye Yong was about to transform back from a bug into a human, the nearby insects of the same kind were attracted. One by one, they strutted in front of him, speaking simple and direct insect language. Things like, “Handsome, let’s have a child.” “Handsome, choose me.”
Ye Yong was speechless. Just now, they had all been scared by the demonic beasts and did not dare to come out. As soon as they left, they started to come out to reproduce. He knew that bugs didn’t care about appearance. They must have been attracted by the aura emitted by his Immortal Body.
Before any bold female bug could forcefully come over to have a child with him, Ye Yong hurriedly transformed back into a human.
As soon as they saw the human cultivator, the bugs quickly dispersed.
“Phew, if I had given it to a bug for the first time, I wouldn’t be a human anymore.” Ye Yong wiped away his sweat and then began to think about how to approach Ghost Hand.
To be honest, with more than ten large demonic beasts following him, their combat strength was many times stronger than those groups of demonic beasts formed by a few dozen Crystallized Golden Cores. Moreover, demonic beasts at the level of large demonic beasts and above all had relatively high intelligence. If Ye Yong set up a trap and they sent one of them to investigate and trigger it, wouldn’t his plan be ruined?
Ye Yong thought carefully for a while and spent 30,000 Reversal Points to buy a Demon Subduing Grand Array item that could quickly unfold and trap a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator. He then spent another 70,000 Reversal Points to buy a mid-stage Nascent Soul attack item. Looking at the remaining 170,000 Reversal Points, he knew that he had to save some money, or else his plan might end halfway through due to a lack of Reversal Points.
The plan he had in mind had to be completed in a short period of time. Otherwise, if it was interrupted and he wanted to continue, there might be unexpected changes.
He had a life-saving item that could withstand a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator because Qin Shimeng and Liang Xiaorou had blocked Black Wind’s attack at that time, so his item had not been consumed(consumed). Now that both the defensive item and the demon-killing item were ready, Ye Yong took out the Demon-Seeking Compass and began to search for their location.
The gaze that Black Hand had discovered earlier was actually caused by Ye Yong marking him in the Demon-Seeking Compass.
The demonic beasts’ goal was to find the Immortal Body and Saint Body as well as the surviving human cultivators. They couldn’t fly too fast. Basically, they would stay in each area for a period of time. Therefore, even though they were Moving very quickly, Ye Yong still found them two kilometers ahead.
The hunt begins.
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“Huh!? That’s a celestial body and a holy body!” Just when a group of great demons released their divine consciousness to investigate a desolate mountain area, the giant wolf and the worm face discovered ‘Qin Shimeng’ and ‘Liang Xiaorou’s’ fleeting figures, who quickly disappeared into a cave.
Although they escaped very quickly, because they had seen them before, they immediately recognized who they were.
Without a word, all the great demons rushed to capture them. Blackhand said expressionlessly, “Don’t go all out. They were attacked by my father. Even if they took the best medicine, their cultivation must be completely gone by now. There’s no need to make a big fuss.”
As Blackhand spoke, it was quickly decided that the giant wolf and the worm face who had discovered them would go and capture the celestial body and the holy body.
Blackhand and the remaining ten great demons continued to search the area together.
“Lord Blackhand, I saw something suspicious over there and want to go and have a look.”
“Go.”
“Lord Blackhand, I’m in the west…”
“Go.”
“Lord Black Beast…”
“Go.”
Soon, the monster behind Blackhand had all dispersed and left.
Blackhand didn’t feel anything amiss, because he would usually disperse them to search more efficiently. Just when Blackhand was alone, he suddenly noticed a human male standing not far away on the ground.
Could it be the human that Father spoke of?
Unable to sense his cultivation, Blackhand felt that he should have been shocked to the point of losing all his cultivation by his father’s demon wind, so he looked at him with disdain and landed directly in front of the human: “State your name. Although I don’t care about the names of insects, I’m a little interested in you.”
“My surname is Ri, and my given name is Nima.” The other party said.
“Oh?” Blackhand didn’t realize it at first, but when he connected the name, he realized that it was actually a greeting to his mother. Immediately, the demon on his body erupted, powerful enough to suffocate and kill a Nascent Soul cultivator: “I think you’re tired of living!”
However, when the demon hits the other party, his body only twisted slightly, like a reflection in water: “I think it’s you.”
Blackhand frowned and looked behind him abruptly. He found that another human male dressed in white, but who could clearly sense the cultivation of the Foundation Establishment stage, was standing on the hillside. As he threw something on the ground, a demon- descending demon The formation lit up around Blackhand.