Chapter 771: Divine Particle

Thump, whack, bang! Ouyang Divine King gave the humanoid creature a brutal beating, making it cry out pitifully. This guy was utterly spineless, not tough at all. Crying and wailing, it confessed everything.

Chu Feng and Ouyang Feng were both speechless. This was no divine envoy; it was just an escaped servant who indeed came from deep within the Ferocious Beast Plateau.

"I escaped from the Moon Goddess's research institute!"

He did belong to the Moon Goddess's lineage but was only the lowest-ranking servant. Recently, the Moon Goddess had entered seclusion, and her disciples were all conducting frenzied experiments, hoping to achieve certain results before she emerged and thus receive rewards. This led to an excessive consumption of test subjects.

The servant became frightened. Live test subjects were being consumed so rapidly that there was no stock left in the cave dwelling. Consequently, some servants had continuously disappeared.

So, he decisively fled, fearing he would be next.

Chu Feng and Ouyang Feng listened, completely bewildered. What was this situation? A "research institute" in the Moon Goddess's cave dwelling?!

It sounded somewhat like a scientific research institution. But its master was a deity, revered as the most sacred Moon Goddess of the Ferocious Beast Plateau.

When science and cultivation were mixed together, it always felt strange.

"Be more specific!" Ouyang Feng urged.

"I am a servant raised in captivity," it said. "From childhood, I lived in one of the Moon Goddess's provisional palace cave dwellings, caring for flowers and plants there. Isolated from the world, I had no interaction with the outside; I know nothing."

The humanoid creature was on the verge of tears. According to it, if its situation had been slightly better, it wouldn't have fled.

On the Ferocious Beast Plateau, betraying a deity meant there was no way to survive. It was the greatest, unforgivable sin.

"You know nothing?" Chu Feng stared at it.

"Truly, I'm like a toad raised in a jar," the humanoid creature said with fear. "I've had too little contact with people outside, so my knowledge is limited."

Ouyang Feng was furious and immediately gave it another beating.

"What's wrong now? Did I say something wrong?" the humanoid creature complained.

"You've offended me!" Ouyang Feng's face darkened, and he continued to beat it, saying, "Is there a toad as ugly as you?!"

"You're bullying me! No matter how ugly I am, I'm a hundred times more handsome than a toad!" the humanoid creature wailed while being beaten, extremely indignant.

"I'll beat you to death!" Ouyang Feng's darkened face was almost dripping with rage, and he tormented it with all his might.

"Didn't I just say 'a frog in a well'?" the humanoid creature retorted, having truly thrown caution to the wind. "Looking at you, with that dark face, you should be a mutated turtle spirit, not a toad! How did that offend your taboo?!"

"Damn it, this Divine King is furious! Beat! Beat! Beat! Beat!" Ouyang Feng was panting heavily, delivering a relentless beating.

"Stop hitting me, I'm going to die! Help!" the humanoid wailed. "Most sacred Moon Goddess, please forgive me! Spare your most loyal servant! I know you must be punishing me, but this bastard in front of me is too brutal; he's going to beat me to death! Help!"

Ouyang Feng was truly fuming with rage. If Chu Feng hadn't stopped him, he would have surely slaughtered the guy.

Chu Feng intervened. He could see that the humanoid creature was delusional and couldn't be reasoned with anymore.

Finally, Chu Feng and Ouyang Feng jointly explored the spiritual light cluster in the creature's head. They found that while it had said a lot and was reasonably credible, it had also held back some information.

This guy didn't care for flowers and plants; instead, he delivered food to "test subjects," allowing him to access some information about the lab.

"Ah, I didn't mean to conceal anything," it quickly added. "I was afraid you'd misunderstand that I possessed various lab data and force me to write them down, but I truly don't know."

Then, Chu Feng carefully explored its spiritual light cluster, discerning some more useful information.

For instance, the concept of divine particles.

What were known as 'hetero-arts' were methods for capturing divine particles.

Life was a miracle of the world. Divine particles were nurtured within all things, present in every living being, and could promote individual evolution and continuous transformation.

In addition, there were more complex substances like Dao Ancestor matter, perhaps even higher-grade, also distributed within various organisms, but in extremely rare quantities.

"No one can fully research them," it explained. "Even the Moon Goddess and her disciples are only trying to find ways to refine divine particles and attempting to speed up the process; that's why they conduct various experiments."

Simply put, those experiments were all about improving hetero-arts.

The Moon Goddess possessed an ultimate hetero-art, one of the most powerful hetero-arts on the Ferocious Beast Plateau!

"What is the rank of the hetero-art you possess, and how does it compare to the purple rats' hetero-art on this wasteland?" Chu Feng asked.

He and Ouyang Feng had already succeeded; by searching the humanoid creature's spiritual light cluster, they found a hetero-art that seemed quite extraordinary.

"Mine is the crudest hetero-art among the Moon Goddess's disciples," the person answered, "however, it should be a bit stronger than the purple rats' hetero-arts."

Even the simplest hetero-art, after all, originated from a deity. Although it was prepared for servants, it was not comparable to ordinary beast-race hetero-arts.

Hearing this, Chu Feng and Ouyang Feng decisively memorized this hetero-art.

Finally, they brainwashed this person, erased its related memories, and then released it.

This was a servant of a deity, and they didn't want to have too much involvement with it. Erasing all traces of their interaction was the safest approach.

Although Chu Feng and the other had obtained a more powerful hetero-art, a rudimentary technique from the Moon Goddess's lineage, they couldn't immediately find targets to practice it on.

The creatures roaming this wasteland were all very powerful. It wasn't until nightfall that they had any success.

Over a dozen silver bats were very conspicuous in the night sky, all at the Dining on Aura level. Flapping their wings, they rapidly approached from afar, emitting sound waves from their mouths and swooping down to attack the two.

Ouyang Feng used the mental martial art he had just studied. A divine rainbow shot out, directly tearing open a bat's skull.

Next, he opened his mouth and let out a whistle. A strange mental wave vibrated forth, and four silver bats in the night sky successively crashed down headfirst.

On the other side, Chu Feng's battle was quicker. He tested his Soul Bell, letting eight silver bats dive towards him. Outside his body, a small black bell glowed and suddenly vibrated.

With a deep clang, it was as if a deity from the primeval era had struck a grand bell. Not only did it scatter the sound waves emitted by the bats, but as the bell body trembled, black ripples flew out, causing all eight bats to shriek in agony and die instantly. They all fell to the ground, their spiritual bodies obliterated!

"So domineering! A single bell chime caused eight very powerful creatures of the same level to die instantly?!" Ouyang Feng was moved, his eyes wide with astonishment.

Next, they tested the new hetero-art. In an instant, swaths of silver light particles flew out. They now knew these were divine particles.

The effect was stronger than the purple rats' hetero-art!

Before long, they concluded this unique cultivation.

Chu Feng was originally at the Great Perfection level of the Dining on Aura realm. Absorbing "divine particles" like this, if he had a physical body, he wouldn't be able to suppress it and would directly break through to the Shaping realm.

His spiritual light cluster became more solid and exceptionally brilliant, and a trace of Yang energy appeared.

That night, they didn't return. Chu Feng and Ouyang Feng hunted on this wasteland, relying on their Fiery Golden Eyes to avoid many dangers and specifically targeting huntable ferocious beasts and fierce birds.

"Rumble!"

Suddenly, at dawn, the earth trembled. Then, like an earthquake, the entire wasteland seemed to be quaking.

"Run!"

Chu Feng shouted. He felt a crisis where his spirit was about to collapse, because an boundless aura of blood energy surged from the horizon, and the Yang energy was too intense.

"What kind of massive creatures are these?!" Ouyang Feng was also astonished and fled desperately with Chu Feng.

Soon after, they saw tens of thousands of Thunderhorn Beasts surging from the horizon. They were enormous, each tens of feet long, somewhat resembling horses but covered in scales, and each had a single horn on its head, wreathed in lightning.

"Oh my heavens, tens of thousands of Golden Body level monsters!" Ouyang Feng exclaimed, terrified, as he fled frantically. "No wonder their blood energy is overwhelming; who can stop them!"

He and Chu Feng dared not flee along the Thunderhorn Beasts' charge path. Instead, they fled horizontally, trying to escape their path of movement.

This was extremely difficult. Even from a great distance, the oppressive, suffocating blood energy bore down on them. Most importantly, it was full of Yang energy, which was too damaging to "Yin spirits" like themselves.

Ultimately, they were forced to hide in a fissure in the ground, rushing deep underground. But then they encountered a large burial pit, with surging malevolent aura and black mist permeating the air.

They moved horizontally underground, swiftly evading.

"Squeak, squeak..."

In the dark underground world, countless squeaking sounds of rats rang out, and pair after pair of glowing green eyes fixed on them.

The two fled in disarray, with the underground rat swarm chasing relentlessly behind them!

When they emerged from underground, the Thunderhorn Beasts had already passed. However, a massive, overwhelming flock of tens of thousands of black fierce birds appeared, surging towards them.

The tide of birds was still overflowing with blood energy!

Chu Feng summoned his Soul Bell, protecting himself and Ouyang Feng, and then rushed towards the distant land. Otherwise, their spiritual bodies would have been dispersed by the blood energy in the sky.

What was happening? They were shocked. Above and below ground, fierce birds and savage beasts were everywhere; a terrifying beast tide had occurred.

They concluded, "They are all fleeing from the direction of the Ferocious Beast Plateau. Something major might have happened there."

To their astonishment, they found that each group of various fierce beasts numbered at least several hundred to a thousand, fleeing from the Ferocious Beast Plateau.

And some species, such as the Thunderhorn Beasts and black fierce birds, numbered in the tens of thousands. It was terrifying; this scale could likely overwhelm even Sub-Saints and Ancient Saints.

Then, a swarm of flying red ants, each as large as a stone mill, densely packed and numbering as many as a hundred thousand, also surged out of the Ferocious Beast Plateau.

"Are they mad? All sorts of monsters have escaped!" Chu Feng exclaimed. "What on earth happened on that plateau?!" Chu Feng and Ouyang Feng were in utter misery, constantly hiding.

Finally, with great difficulty, the two found a safe ground fissure to hide in. They encountered no malevolent aura from burial pits, nor any purple rats.

For a full day and night, the ground trembled continuously as fierce beasts and birds fled in massive numbers.

When Chu Feng and the others emerged, the land was bare, marked with footprints of various fierce beasts and much bloody mud, where slower creatures had been trampled.

They found a limping monster, which hadn't escaped and was recuperating there. From its account, the two roughly learned what had happened.

"Divine beasts!" the monster explained. "Five divine beasts have charged into the Ferocious Beast Plateau. They want to wage war against the deities there and settle scores with a certain tyrant."

Such a thing had actually happened!

Previously, divine beasts had perished on the Ferocious Beast Plateau. Now, five divine beasts had intruded, seeking revenge.

"What do you think?" Ouyang Feng asked.

"I think our opportunity might have arrived," Chu Feng said. "The Ferocious Beast Plateau is very dangerous, but at the moment, it might also contain immense opportunities!"

"I think so too," Ouyang Feng replied. "If we go in the opposite direction, we might find many monsters severely injured from being trampled during the great migration. We can use our hetero-arts to cultivate."

And so, the two set off.

For three consecutive days, they had abundant gains. Both their spiritual bodies were growing stronger, becoming more condensed, with wisps of Yang energy emerging.

However, just as they approached the Ferocious Beast Plateau, without having truly stepped inside, they stopped and ultimately turned back and left!

Because wisps of terrifying blood energy emerged, causing the very earth to crack. Sub-Saint level fierce beasts were wailing and growling; something terrible was happening on the Ferocious Beast Plateau.

"This world is too bloody; let's go!"

They acted within their capabilities, not daring to truly enter, clearly understanding their situation.

Afterward, they headed towards the crimson mountain, intending to rendezvous with the others. Two days later, Chu Feng told Ouyang Feng to stop, as he showed a look of surprise and suspicion.

An envoy from the Primal Chaos Celestial Palace appeared at the edge of the horizon, talking with a cavalry squad, looking very respectful.

"Humanoids, all riding savage beasts!"

Chu Feng saw that the Celestial Race envoy had restrained several spiritual body companions behind him and handed them over to the cavalry.

"What is this bastard doing?" Ouyang Feng exclaimed, astonished. "Trading with some faction in this world and giving his own people away!"

"Let's go, we need to leave here!" Chu Feng's expression darkened slightly. That cavalry force was formidable; they were all experts. Most importantly, they had physical bodies and an overwhelming amount of Yang energy. If they truly fought, he and the toad would certainly suffer great losses.

He muttered to himself, "We must quickly become stronger. The creatures in this world are generally highly cultivated; people at our level can easily be hunted down here."

"We need to inform the people at the crimson mountain," Ouyang Feng said. "Otherwise, they might be sold off by this Primal Chaos Celestial Palace envoy without even knowing it!"

And so, the two set off, embarking on their return journey. However, along the way, they encountered several scattered groups of fierce beasts, small communities of creatures left behind after the beast tide.

This forced them to constantly make detours, taking two days to finally return, nearing the crimson mountain.

At this time, in front of the crimson mountain, Qin Luoyin's expression was strange. She felt a ball of mist beside her, within her five-colored soul armor, enveloping a spiritual body.

Her heart trembled, and she guessed what it was.

Within that mist, the young Daoist priest was furious, saying, "That damned old hag, she actually made decisions for my hateful mother and sealed me for a hundred years! Fortunately, this Daoist Lord is defiant enough against the heavens, carrying the supreme primordial qi from the Reincarnation Cave, I broke through the seal. This Daoist Lord doesn't believe in evil; who can seal me? The more they obstruct me, the more I will be born prematurely! Huh, wait, where is this? Ah, where's my physical body? Heavens, this Daoist Lord doesn't want to live anymore, my physical body is gone! Ahhh... Limitless Heavenly Venerable, you old bastard!"

Then, he suddenly fell silent, having a premonition. "Amitabha, Limitless Heavenly Venerable," he said, "I sense it very clearly this time: my biological father is nearby! Biological father, quickly come to my rescue; let me escape this sea of suffering! And find me another mother! This Daoist Lord permits you to do so; find me a second mother, a third mother, a fourth mother!"