Swallowing the Stars: Analyzing All Things

Lin Yan is lucky.

He flew to the end of the boundless deep blue desert in the World Lord's World in just over half an hour. If he had chosen the wrong direction, he would probably have had to wander in the air above the desert until dawn.

He flew out of the desert.

The undead desert behind them remained silent, like a sleeping behemoth lying prostrate in the darkness.

It was still pitch black all around, but unlike the desert of the dead, Lin Yan could see his surroundings clearly.

This is a continuous mountain range, with ridges winding like dragons, layer upon layer extending towards the sky. The rocks that make up the mountain range have a strange bluish-gray color, and their surfaces are covered with mottled moss.

In the ravines of the mountains.

Occasionally, you can see small streams flowing between the rocks, making a crisp sound that is particularly clear in this quiet mountain range.

"Phew~"

Lin Yan took a deep breath.

The air in this mountain range is fresh, completely different from the dry and stifling feeling of the undead desert.

In addition, as mental energy radiates outwards, the suppression here, though still present, is somewhat better than in the desert, covering an area of ​​about 150 kilometers.

"Um?"

The flight lasted only a dozen minutes.

Lin Yan suddenly sensed strange fluctuations of energy coming from ahead. The energy fluctuations were chaotic and violent, like the instinctive energy of some kind of wild beast. He slowed down and quietly approached the direction from which the fluctuations came.

This is a valley surrounded by mountains.

In the valley, a dozen enormous creatures lay or stood, scattered throughout the valley. Their bodies resembled moving hills, and their entire bodies were covered with bluish-gray scales.

A ferocious beast.

Lin Yan recognized him at a glance.

Unlike monsters, ferocious beasts are enemies of humans. Monsters, though they are enemies of humans, possess intelligence that is no less than that of humans. They can cultivate, think, and communicate, forming a vast population of life forms.

Ferocious beasts, on the other hand, are animals with extremely low intelligence. Their actions are entirely based on instinct, without reason or fear, only instinctive desires and a strong attachment to their territory.

These enormous creatures before us are naturally ferocious beasts.

They are enormous, like moving hills, with huge heads, small eyes, broad snouts, and mouths that stretch to their ears, revealing rows of jagged, sharp teeth.

Lin Yan concealed his aura, preparing to quietly bypass the valley.

However, the perception of ferocious beasts is completely different from that of cultivators. They do not rely on life force or energy fluctuations, but on something more primal and instinctive—

It's as if the world has given me this intuition.

As soon as Lin Yan stepped into the valley, the largest of the beasts sensed something amiss. When Lin Yan's gaze fell upon it, its murky, dark yellow eyes suddenly shifted.

"roar!"

As if sensing something, a roar exploded from its throat, like muffled thunder rolling through the valley.

With a sudden burst of strength from its limbs, its massive body soared into the sky, its bluish-gray scales gleaming with a chilling light. It opened its blood-red maw, filled with sharp teeth, and lunged straight at Lin Yan.

At the same time, the roar startled the other ferocious beasts, and the valley seemed to come alive instantly.

More than a dozen enormous creatures sprang up from the ground at the same time. Their bodies varied in size, and their bluish-gray scales were connected, shimmering with a cold light under the dim light.

The ground was shaking.

The rocks are cracked.

A dozen ferocious beasts surged toward Lin Yan from all directions, and the huge commotion made the entire valley tremble.

"laugh!"

They stared at the ferocious beast rushing towards them.

With a thought, Lin Yan unleashed a silvery-white light from the mirage feathers, which instantly enveloped the entire valley like a tidal wave, causing a brief moment of confusion to appear in the murky eyes of the ferocious beasts.

However, the beasts' instincts were too strong; the illusion only made them momentarily disoriented, but it could not completely confuse them.

One breath...

For Lin Yan, that was enough.

His figure passed by the ferocious beast that pounced on him, and the silver-white light shuttle precisely pierced through the beast's eye socket, penetrating its brain and directly annihilating its chaotic consciousness.

The ferocious beast's massive body lost all its strength, and driven by inertia, it flew thousands of meters before crashing to the ground, kicking up a cloud of gravel and dust.

one move.

A seventh-tier cosmic-level ferocious beast has died.

Lin Yan's figure flipped in mid-air, and the mirage transformed into a silver-white longsword. A ferocious beast pounced from the left, its mouth wide open, biting at him, and the stench between its sharp teeth assaulted his senses.

As it dodged the gaping maw, the sword's gleam rose from below, instantly slicing through the softest flesh of the beast's jaw. The sword light continued upwards, plunging straight into its brain.

The second ferocious beast was killed.

Of the dozen or so ferocious beasts in the valley, apart from the largest one which was at the seventh level of the cosmic level, the strongest of the others was only at the third level of the cosmic level, and most of them were only at the first level of the cosmic level.

Dealing with such a ferocious beast, devoid of intelligence and driven only by bloodlust, was far easier for Lin Yan than for any martial artist.

They were almost always one-shotted.

Lin Yan killed all the ferocious beasts that surged forward in just a few breaths, and when the last beast fell, the entire valley was completely unrecognizable.

Huge craters dotted the ground, and the mountain walls were collapsed in several places. Lots of rubble piled up like mountains, and the streams were blocked and diverted, altering the entire outline of the valley.

The once beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains, has now become a vast wasteland.

……

"Phew~"

Lin Yan stood in the center of the ruins, his breathing steady.

He looked around, his gaze sweeping across the valley that had been mostly destroyed, where the corpses of more than a dozen ferocious beasts lay scattered haphazardly among the rubble and dust.

The corpses of these ferocious beasts were of no value to him. Although their scales were hard, they could not be used as materials for forging weapons, and their blood was even less valuable.

He turned around to leave, but suddenly stopped.

No—

Lin Yan's pupils contracted slightly.

His gaze suddenly swept back to the corpses of those ferocious beasts.

Those enormous corpses were shrinking at a visible rate; their scales were losing their luster, their flesh was drying and shrinking, and their bones were softening and collapsing.

It was as if something was drawing energy from them, draining away every last drop of their life essence.

"Whoosh~"

Lin Yan's mental energy instantly spread out, following the direction of a flow of life energy, tracing its path—

His gaze fell on the rock face deep in the valley.

There, a pale blue crystal was embedded, emitting a faint bluish-white light.

The light was breathing.

With each flash, the corpse of a ferocious beast shrank a little, its life energy flowing out of the corpse and converging into the crystal along the ground and the rock wall.

……