Chapter 537: Chapter 280: Iron-Fisted Tactics, Survival of the Fittest, Hunting Giant Beasts!
"Hmm? The malice of the world’s essence!"
Upon sensing this malice from the source consciousness of the Beast Realm, Lu Sheng’s eyebrows slightly raised, and his eyes narrowed at this moment.
Lu Sheng was already extremely familiar with the malice of the world’s essence.
Back in the Martial God World, Lu Sheng had already dealt with the world’s consciousness.
Standing on the mountain peak, Lu Sheng calmly gazed at the sky, with not a ripple in his eyes.
"Perhaps, from the moment the Martial God Blood Stone Fragment was swallowed by the lizard, the world’s consciousness began targeting me. The beast crushing the lizard to death should also be the work of the world’s consciousness, trying to thoroughly eliminate me!"
"The poisonous lizard, the third-tier eagle, the monkey king’s offspring..."
"From the moment I entered the Beast Realm, the world’s consciousness has been targeting me, using different methods to try and eradicate me."
"But... am I that easy to kill?"
Lu Sheng looked at the clear sky and smiled faintly.
"Perhaps the consciousness of the Beast Realm is much stronger than that of the Martial God World, reaching the level of the seventh tier, but for me..."
"With the existence of the system panel, combined with the essence of the seventh-tier Cosmic Life, achieving the seventh tier is merely a matter of time."
"Then... let’s see."
"Is your targeting faster, or... am I faster at breaking through to the seventh tier!"
A mocking expression emerged on Lu Sheng’s lips, seemingly ridiculing the world’s consciousness of the Beast Realm.
Instantly, the once cloudless sky suddenly gathered dark clouds, with thunder leaping and rumbling within, seemingly angered by Lu Sheng’s provocation.
However, Lu Sheng directly ignored the Beast Realm consciousness’s fury and turned away, descending the mountain peak.
Upon descending the mountain, looking at the two groups of Exotic Beasts prostrating before him, Lu Sheng gave a light command.
"Bring me all the resources from your groups!"
The Monkey King and Vulture had established the groups, which certainly had stored a lot of cultivation resources, used for self-cultivation and rewarding their subordinates.
After subduing the two groups, Lu Sheng naturally had his eyes on these cultivation resources.
As for what to do if there are no more stored resources, Lu Sheng didn’t think about it at all.
Just like in the Martial God World, as Lu Sheng’s power grows stronger, he has many ways to replenish cultivation resources, even expanding the groups.
Faced with Lu Sheng’s command, the Exotic Beasts of the two groups dared not delay, and they quickly moved to bring all the cultivation resources to Lu Sheng.
Lu Sheng occupied the valley where the Monkey King once cultivated, swallowing all the cultivation resources from the groups and some stored Bloodline Power.
Then he closed his eyes, initiated the Dragon Transformation Technique within, and began refining the energy and Bloodline Power within his body.
In an instant, the aura within Lu Sheng’s body began to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye.
...
Time flew by, and in an instant, three days passed.
After three days, Lu Sheng slowly opened his eyes, a terrifying surge of energy suddenly erupted from within him, sweeping across the entire valley.
"Late fourth tier!"
Lu Sheng glanced at the system panel, then retracted his gaze.
"After devouring all the cultivation resources from the Monkey King, Vulture, and the two groups, my cultivation level has finally risen to the late fourth tier."
"With this, I can begin expanding the groups!"
Lu Sheng smiled faintly.
The larger the groups, the more resources gathered, which naturally benefits Lu Sheng’s cultivation.
Lu Sheng slowly walked out of the valley, only to find that some of the Exotic Beasts outside were missing.
Frowning slightly, Lu Sheng caught a third-tier Exotic Beast, and after some inquiry, discovered that during his cultivation, some of the Exotic Beasts had chosen to escape.
Lu Sheng stood there calmly, but a terrifying sense of oppression swept out from him.
"Escaped, did they?"
"So... in their eyes, my previous suppression was nothing but a joke?"
Looking at the trembling Exotic Beasts around him, Lu Sheng knew very well that for these Exotic Beasts, a leader or king of the group must have an iron fist to earn their heartfelt submission.
This time, by allowing those Exotic Beasts to escape, more and more Exotic Beasts would develop such thoughts, eventually leaving the group.
So...
"Hmph!"
With a cold snort from Lu Sheng, a terrifying aura burst forth, immediately causing the Exotic Beasts around the valley to prostrate on the ground, wailing in submission.
In the next moment, Lu Sheng’s figure shot out, and his perception was unleashed to the maximum, instantly locating a portion of the fleeing Exotic Beasts.
Without hesitation, Lu Sheng directly subdued these Exotic Beasts. After subduing a majority of the fleeing Exotic Beasts, Lu Sheng brought them back to the valley.
Then, the King’s Domain suddenly erupted.
"In the future... anyone who dares to flee the group will end up just like them!"
Lu Sheng’s icy voice echoed through the valley. In front of countless exotic beasts, he cruelly snapped the throats of these creatures, devouring them in large bites.
After finishing this, the exotic beasts in the valley looked at Lu Sheng with growing terror.
And it was precisely because of these fearful gazes that Lu Sheng revealed a satisfied expression.
"The Beast Realm is indeed different from the Martial God World, where only the purest form of survival of the fittest exists. The path of evolution and progression is brutally straightforward..."
"To quickly establish oneself in this world, one must exhibit iron-blooded tactics!"
"Only then... can one become a dominator, and only then... can one claim a territory!"
Lu Sheng understood these notions with great clarity.
After completing all this, Lu Sheng instructed his subordinate exotic beasts to continue gathering cultivation resources and capturing more exotic beasts, while he himself fell into deep thought.
"I’m at the late stage of the fourth tier now. It’s time to start preparing for the breakthrough to the fifth tier."
"The world consciousness of the Beast Realm is stronger than that of the Martial God World, meaning I don’t have much time to waste on other matters. I must rapidly enhance my own strength to face the upcoming targeting by the Beast Realm’s world consciousness."
"Only then... can I treat the Beast Realm as I did the Martial God World, as my cultivation ground!"
Strange light shimmered in Lu Sheng’s eyes. He then sought out the oldest exotic beasts in the group to inquire about the territories of other giant beasts nearby.
To rapidly advance to the fifth tier, the bloodline power of the fourth-tier giant beasts cannot be missed.
So, Lu Sheng set his sights on the other giant beasts.
This forest is vast, and Lu Sheng did not believe that only the Monkey King and the Vulture were its sole occupants.
In the group, the exotic beasts that have lived the longest, those who followed the two great beasts, are the ones who definitely know the locations of other giant beasts.
"King, in this forest, besides the two former kings, there are seven other giant beasts. Together, the nine giant beasts once occupied different territories here."
"Now that the two former kings have been slain by you, only the other seven kings remain!"
Faced with Lu Sheng’s inquiry, the elderly exotic beasts dared not delay and quickly shared all they knew.
A faint gleam passed through Lu Sheng’s eyes.
"Point out their locations to me, one by one!"
As Lu Sheng spoke, the elderly exotic beasts hurriedly indicated the locations and areas where the other seven giant beasts resided.
With the knowledge of the positions of the seven other giant beasts, Lu Sheng had a plan.
"I didn’t expect... that the giant beast that crushed the lizard to death would be among them."
Listening to the reports of the exotic beasts, amusement flickered in Lu Sheng’s eyes.
"Just right... time for revenge."
Lu Sheng spoke calmly, then strode towards the territory of one of the giant beasts.
...
Several days later.
In a secluded area deep within the forest, a muffled sound suddenly exploded.
Boom!!!
As the muffled sound erupted, the surrounding trees couldn’t withstand the terrifying power and broke one after another.
Hiss hiss hiss!!
An enormous python, some eighty to ninety meters long, flicked its tongue, casting a cold gaze towards a red giant lizard not far away.
"We’ve never disturbed each other; why must you put me to death!!"
The giant python glared intently at Lu Sheng, speaking in a deep voice.
"Such nonsense!"
Lu Sheng spoke indifferently, and a blaze suddenly roared forth as the King’s Domain activated. His body, resembling a small hill, swiftly charged at the giant python.
In an instant, he raised his claw and slammed down hard on the python.
The sharp claw effortlessly pierced through the python’s scales, causing blood to gush out from its body.
The python, racked with pain and attempting to retaliate, was heavily struck by Lu Sheng’s massive frame, making its internal organs tremble violently.
The next moment, flames surged out, engulfing the python’s body.
The python managed to endure only a dozen breaths within the blaze before losing its life under the triple threat of lightning, fire, and poison elements.
After slaying the python, Lu Sheng leisurely began devouring the bloodline power from within its body.
Over these days, Lu Sheng followed the positions pointed out by the elderly exotic beasts, starting to relentlessly hunt the other seven giant beasts.
The giant python before him was already the third giant beast Lu Sheng had hunted.
Soon, the eighty to ninety-meter-long python was unceremoniously swallowed into Lu Sheng’s stomach.