Chapter 101
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Chapter 101: Fierce Beast Crystal
After three to four hours, Yi Chen successfully improved the Chaos Technique.
Only then did he stand up.
It was time to begin researching a new skill!
He had already planned the focus for the new skill.
Control fierce beasts!
This was one of the main limits to the rapid expansion of the Flame Mountain Tribe.
Even with a growing population, as the borders spread, they still felt the strain.
Furthermore, as the area of influence increased, many of the subdued fierce beasts were starting to feel rebellious.
Although every time Yi Chen looked at the Strongest Talent System, he did not see a decrease in the area of influence,
that was because the four armies were still busy fighting in all directions.
He could be sure that if he counted the positions of the four armies and calculated the area of influence, it would likely be less than expected.
Those rebellious fierce beasts very likely were excluded from his area of influence by the system.
Only where all living beings, or all intelligent beings, submitted could be included in his area of influence.
Because of this, Yi Chen had to make creating a skill to control fierce beasts his top priority.
Not to mention, the four armies were still controlling many fierce beasts.
These fierce beasts were a powerful support for the four armies and a huge threat.
Squeak…
As Yi Chen opened the door to go out, the Little Gold Ball jumped up happily and rushed outside.
"Tribe Leader!"
The guard at the entrance bowed quickly and greeted Yi Chen as he stepped out.
"If there is anything in the tribe, send someone to find me in the forest south of the valley," Yi Chen said, nodding after giving his instructions, and spirit power surged around him.
He soared into the sky.
Instead of flying directly upwards, he left the valley from midair.
He flew over the gathering place of the tribe.
Looking down, he saw the neatly arranged courtyards.
The tribe members were busy, hard at work.
In the center of the tribe, a Clearing was filled with people, with hundreds gathered.
Various tools, fierce beast skins, and wild fruits were laid out for the tribe members to choose from.
Further ahead, on the outskirts of the tribe, right next to the cliff, there was a courtyard covering over ten thousand square meters.
Inside, several wooden houses were built.
In the yard, children held wooden swords, lined up in rows, practicing sword techniques under the guidance of a middle-aged man.
Through the windows of the wooden houses, one could faintly see rows of seated children learning to read and write.
He flew all the way to the end of the valley.
Only then did Yi Chen speed up and fly at full speed towards the forest to the south.
Soon, a rhino, about two meters tall and covered in black armor, entered his line of sight.
He immediately drew his iron sword and dove down toward the black-armored rhino.
From several dozen meters away, he swung his sword downwards.
Swish!
A powerful Sword Energy howled out.
It instantly sliced through all the branches and leaves blocking its path and struck the back of the black-armored rhino.
The rhino didn’t even have time to scream before the sharp Sword Energy split it in half.
The residual force of the Sword Energy still hadn’t completely dissipated; it left a deep sword mark, one meter long, on the ground before vanishing.
Squeak…
The Little Gold Ball waved its tiny hands from Yi Chen’s shoulder, indicating that this level of enemy should be taken care of by it.
Yi Chen ignored it and flew towards the black-armored rhino.
…
"Impressive! That’s got to be over forty meters! He easily sliced a black-armored rhino in half."
"And Yi Chen probably didn’t even go all out. After reaching this new major realm, his Sword Energy’s distance can reach at least one hundred meters."
"I’m just wondering, after reaching the new major realm, does each small realm increase the Sword Energy distance by one hundred meters or ten meters? If it’s one hundred meters, that would be terrifying!"
"According to the research and predictions of the Experts and Scholars, there’s over a ninety percent probability that each small realm increase adds one hundred meters."
"The main supporting evidence for this conclusion is that after breaking into a major realm, Yi Chen’s spirit power, Qi Sea, and meridians have undergone a qualitative change."
"Hearing the predictions from the Experts and Scholars, which match my own, and the probability is over ninety percent, I’m a bit nervous!"
The audience in the live room excitedly discussed the power of the recent sword strike and the distance of the Sword Energy.
As they watched Yi Chen head towards the black-armored rhino, some began to express their doubts.
"Looking at the situation, it seems Yi Chen didn’t come here on a whim!"
"It really doesn’t look like it. If it was a spur-of-the-moment decision, he wouldn’t have ignored the black-armored rhino he just killed."
"Strange, at first I thought he came to the forest to relax or find inspiration to create a new skill."
"I thought killing the black-armored rhino was just a coincidence, something he did while practicing the Heaven-Slashing Technique. But it looks like it’s not that simple."
Everyone was filled with curiosity.
This black-armored rhino was only a Level 10 Fierce Beast.
If it were an ordinary tribe member, they would definitely pack up the black-armored rhino after killing it and bring it back to the tribe to exchange for spirit stones.
A Level 10 Fierce Beast like this, even if sold whole, could be worth three or four spirit stones.
If it were cut up and sold in the trading market, it might sell for six or seven spirit stones.
Yi Chen, as the tribe leader, clearly looked down on this massive beast meat weighing over a thousand eight hundred pounds.
If he were simply in the mood for grilled meat to relax, he should have chosen smaller fierce beasts.
Theoretically, the larger the fierce beast at the same level, the poorer the quality of its meat.
Especially this beast, which clearly looked more defensive, would have tough and hard meat.
…
He reached the front of the black-armored rhino.
Yi Chen activated his divine consciousness.
He quickly searched within the black-armored rhino’s body.
In his opinion, the best way to control a fierce beast is undoubtedly through a method similar to a soul contract.
Once a soul contract is signed with the fierce beast, if it harbors any rebellious thoughts, it will suffer the backlash of the soul contract, and the master can sense it immediately and eliminate or punish it with their thoughts.
However, Yi Chen could not create a soul contract at this stage.
This involves causality, which is related to the laws of fate.
Although he could perceive the power of the laws and had enhanced abilities in understanding the laws after breaking into the new major realm, he was still completely unaware of the laws of fate.
Therefore, he could only settle for an alternative.
He tried to create a method that could integrate his divine consciousness and spirit power into his blood, then drop that blood into the fierce beast’s fatal areas to control its life and death.
His intention in coming to the forest and killing the black-armored rhino was to study how to use blood to control the life and death of fierce beasts.
‘This is…’
Yi Chen felt a stirring in his heart.
His divine consciousness sensed a yellowish crystal the size of a glass bead inside the black-armored rhino.
This crystal was full of energy, not at all inferior to spirit stones of the same size.
However, the energy inside was rather chaotic and contained other properties, making it unsuitable for use as a spirit stone.
It was more suitable for… refining spiritual artifacts or as auxiliary material for spirit pills.
A smile appeared on Yi Chen’s face.
Finding materials inside the fierce beast that could be used to refine spiritual artifacts or spirit pills was one thing.
The most important thing was that he found the direction for the Blood Pledge of Dominance.
His original idea was to try dropping blood into the fierce beast’s brain.
Another thought was to see where the fierce beast stored its energy and use the Blood Pledge of Dominance to control that area.
Both ideas presented a significant challenge: how to make the blood infused with divine consciousness and spirit power penetrate through the beast’s skin and flesh to reach the brain or the energy storage area.
He would either need to research how to give the blood excellent penetrating ability or dissect the beast and drop in the blood before suturing it back up.
At present, the yellowish crystal made him excited.
For humanity, the energy storage area is the Qi Sea.
And the Qi Sea is fixed and cannot be moved.
However, it seemed the fierce beast had condensed a crystal within its body to store all its energy.
If the crystal could be moved outside the body, he wouldn’t have to worry about how to make the blood infused with divine consciousness and spirit power penetrate through the beast’s skin and flesh to enter its body.
