At the beginning, I traveled through the wilderness, and I controlled the beasts to survive.

Considering that the Hellfire Crocodile is at least a warrior-level creature.

It is a very unwise decision to venture into the depths of the earth to search for their traces.

So Han Ning decided to hunt underground for a while to help Yinyi's strength rise to around the warrior level before continuing deeper.

He looked at the map in his hand, identified the current direction, pointed to an irregular hole in the northwest, and said to Omelette: "Go there."

"Jiji!"

The four claws of the egg cake were firmly attached to the nearly 30° inclined stone wall, and then it crawled down the cliff as if it were walking on flat ground.

Mimicry is turned on, and the figures of one person and two beasts disappear inch by inch.

Omelette ran northwest for several kilometers, and a giant pupilless snake crawling slowly between the rock walls appeared in Han Ning's field of vision.

This is a creature called rock viper. Their character is similar to that of blood demons, they are violent and bloodthirsty.

The reason why I chose this kind of soul beast is because there is no guilt in killing it.

Although nature favors the law of the jungle, Han Ning would still subconsciously choose to kill the bloodthirsty spirit beast.

Without the need for Yinyi and Egg Pancake to take action, the five insect puppets hidden around the cave swarmed up in an instant.

The purple-red psychic light hit the rock viper, who was suddenly unaware, and his whole body twisted and trembled.

Regardless of the attributes of the insects simulated by the Vientiane Spiritual Silkworm, the soul skills released will turn into a purple-red spiritual light, as if it is a combination of blood and dark spiritual energy, which is very strange.

"Kill it and dissect the flesh and blood."

The egg cake shot out a long tongue, rolled it back to the rock viper, and punched it a few times, and the rock viper suddenly died.

Then, the skilled cake maker used his sharp claws to cut open the body of the rock viper, cutting out the crystal stones and flesh like a butcher unloading an ox.

A few minutes later, a bloody rock snake was placed in the open space by the egg pancake.

It and Han Ning hid behind a rock pillar more than ten meters away, quietly waiting for the arrival of other spirit beasts.

Not long after, five ugly-looking rock vipers came pacing over after smelling the smell of blood.

"One is extraordinary, four are awakened..."

Han Ning looked at his body shape and made a judgment.

The purple-red electric ball shot out, paralyzing the bodies of the two awakening-level rock vipers.

Then, a frosty white ice crystal bombarded the location of the five rock vipers.

Four awakening-level rock vipers instantly turned into ice sculptures.

"Hiss!"

The extraordinary rock viper was hit by this blow and was knocked back several meters. Its body scales shattered and a large amount of blood spilled out.

It kept spitting out khaki snake letters, roared violently, and "looked" in the direction of the egg cake. A faint yellow light filled the whole body. It dug down and disappeared into the cave.

"Interesting, a dark stealth soul skill?"

Han Ning's eyes flickered and his mental power was running, and he directly saw the true identity of the Rock Viper.

"This old man... actually wants to escape..."

He was a little speechless, because the Saik tribe's illustrated book said that the rock viper was bloodthirsty and furious...it still looked very smart.

"At one o'clock, lower the Aoki Kasumi's light and launch it as it rubs the ground. Don't let it escape."

Generally speaking, although the beast master is physically fragile, his mental power far exceeds that of the soul beast. When the soul beast cannot sense some environmental information, the beast master can use the powerful mental power to serve as the soul beast's second pair of eyes to assist. fighting.

There was no delay in the mental power, and the electricity shot into Yin Yi's spiritual world.

at the same time.

call out!

A head-thick cyan glow swept across the ground and shot out.

boom!

The beam hit an empty place, and under the green light, the air rippled. The nearly 15-meter-long rock viper revealed its true form, breaking it out of hiding.

Boom boom!

Another two consecutive shots of Aoki Kaguya were released.

The rock viper fell down at the sound.

The four weaker rock vipers were also beaten to death by five puppet insects at the same time, and were thrown not far away from Han Ning.

Han Ning asked Egg Cake to dig out the crystal stones from the bodies of five rock vipers. He did not dispose of the corpses for the time being, but there was still a lot of blood flowing from the snake corpses.

【Energy +322】

The huge corpses of rock vipers were piled in a pile.

The strong smell of blood blows into different passages along with the breeze blowing in the cave.

Within a few minutes, more than a dozen large black rats of different sizes appeared vaguely from the dark and irregular underground passages.

"Corpse-eating rat? Yin Yi, the same as before, Qing Guang."

The corpse-eating rat is an E-qualified soul beast with an extraordinary growth limit. It is about the size of an average adult native dog and often likes to move in groups.

The five puppet insects are responsible for attracting hatred. Silver Ripple waved his hand, and the Aoki glow shot out, killing a bunch of them. Obviously there were no extraordinary corpse-eating rats.

No matter how small mosquitoes are, they are still meat and have little energy, but they can't stand the large number. Han Ning took the earth crystal stones collected by Egg Pancake one by one, absorbed the energy, and then threw the empty shells to it to eat.

Most of the soul beasts in the underground are of earth attribute, and some are of darkness and fire.

【Energy +147】

Time passes quietly.

Han Ning, Yinyi, and Egg Pancake just waited and hunted the soul beast for three hours.

The soul beast corpses in front of him were piled up into a "hill".

In one morning, he gained a total of 754 energy points, which was considered a fruitful harvest.

Most of these soul beasts are entry-level and awakening levels, and there are only two extraordinary level ones.

Bang bang bang~

Several more awakened underground centipedes were penetrated into the brains by the long tongues of egg cakes.

Han Ning collected the crystal energy as usual.

But at this moment, he suddenly had a mental movement and felt a faint dangerous aura coming from the dark hole in front of him on the right.

The effort to raise your head.

The black shadow flickered, and a big black mouse with black hair and a circle larger than an ordinary tiger was rapidly approaching the "mountain of corpses".

"Dark Demon Rat? It's so fast, at least it's extraordinary... the limit?! No, it's approaching us."

Han Ning keenly discovered that the dangerous atmosphere was always lingering on his side, so he made a prompt decision and used his mental power to send a message,

"withdraw!"

Omelette's limbs fluttered, streaks of blood emanating from her body, turning into a swimming phantom, running wildly underground behind her.

However, this soul beast was at least beyond the limits of the extraordinary, not to mention the opponent was the Dark Demon Rat who was famous for its speed. The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer.

"Ling!"

Boom boom boom!

Ice crystals exploded one after another, turning into frost-white flowers and blooming. Cold air overflowed, blocking the movement of the Dark Demon Rat.

Five puppet insects swarmed forward, blocking the opponent's movements with their flesh and blood.

"squeak!"

A scarlet light flashed in the eyes of the Dark Demon Rat. He raised his claw and waved it, and a black shadow energy claw full of rotting aura shot out.

Yin Yi swung the sword thrust and moved forward to block it.

Galala!

The shadow energy claws were so powerful that they directly shattered the outer layer of frost crystal shield into pieces, and then slashed at Yin Yi's sword stab with unabated force.

A surging psychic storm erupted.

Yin Yi couldn't bear the strength and flew backwards.

Han Ning hugged Egg Pancake's back tightly without looking behind her.

Taking advantage of the brief gap in the fight, the Dark Demon Rat's speed surged, and the distance between the two sides quickly closed to within ten to ten meters.

Just when Han Ning turned over and jumped back, Yinyi and Egg Pancake were ready to fight to the death.

The Dark Demon Rat seemed to notice something, and his figure suddenly stopped, sniffing forward, and then turned around and ran away with a look of panic on his face.

Han Ning in the front noticed that the enemy behind him had retreated, and quickly asked the egg pancake to stop.

He ran forward a few meters and ordered the egg cake to leave a few scratches on the surrounding stone walls as marks.

This is the plan he came up with.

Use the intimidating power of underground warrior-level soul beasts to hunt soul beasts near their territories and collect large amounts of energy.

It's not that the soul beast that transcends the limits of the world is difficult to resist, but because...

Through the information left by the Insek tribe and Niya, we learned that there is a warrior-level soul beast called the Abyss Rock Turtle living below.

If you encounter them, you might be able to escape with your life.

Once you encounter a spirit beast whose strength exceeds your expectations, you will immediately rush to the intimidating range of the warrior-level spirit beast.

Their personalities are relatively gentler than other dangerous spirit beasts, which is one of the reasons why Han Ning chose to hunt nearby.

He was worried that when fighting the Dark Demon Rat, the violent spiritual energy fluctuations would attract the attention of the Abyss Rock Turtle below, so if he could, he would do his best not to fight. Killing the entry, awakening, and early transcendent soul beasts would be enough.

Although this move is very dangerous, it will undoubtedly maximize the harvest.

After he finished carving the mark on the egg cake, Han Ning found a relatively quiet cave, took out some biscuits and fast food, and started eating.

After resting for a while, he took Yinyi and Egg Pancake with him to explore in another direction.

This time, he did not go to the place where he stayed in the morning, but he still hunted above the abyss rock turtle territory.

…

The time of struggle always flies by very quickly.

In the blink of an eye, a day passes.

In the evening, Han Ning almost grinned to the back of his head when he looked at the piles of soul beast corpses and the small words "Remaining Energy: 912" that appeared on the panel.

I was lucky in the afternoon and didn't encounter a warrior-level soul beast.

He made a rough calculation and found that in one day today, they had killed more than 100 entry-level soul beasts, more than twenty awakening-level soul beasts, and 2 extraordinary-level soul beasts.

Most of these awakened soul beasts are in stages I and II, III occasionally appears, and there are only a few at the extreme level.

As for wantonly slaughtering the lives of soul beasts, do you feel guilty...

If humans want to rise from this cruel world, they must climb up on a lot of dead bones. When survival is not guaranteed, the lives of mere wild spirit beasts are nothing.

Moreover, the soul beasts in the ground are really like weeds, and they cannot be killed all.

Of course, when encountering lizard-shaped soul beasts, Han Ning would spare their lives. He had to take care of Omelette's psychology.

As for other types of soul beasts... it doesn't matter.

…

Time flies, and three days have passed in the blink of an eye.

After the first day of hunting, the number of spirit beasts that could be killed nearby became less and less.

Soul beasts are creatures with certain intelligence. Han Ning estimated that they would use some means to learn that a group of "killers" suddenly appeared here. If they deliberately avoid them, it would be difficult to encounter them.

During the day, he, Yinyi and Egg Pancake hunted entry-level to awakening-level soul beasts near the Abyss Rock Turtle territory.

In the evening, under the protection of the soul beasts, they practiced the "Spirit Melting Method" to help everyone absorb spiritual energy.

The one who has made the most rapid progress is Yin Yi.

After all Han Ning's daily energy was converted into attribute points and smashed down, Yin Yi's strength had broken through to the level of Extraordinary IV (2548/4500).

"The soul beasts around the Abyss Rock Turtle territory already know our existence. I'm afraid it will be difficult to hunt more soul beasts."

"...Going further down is the high-temperature zone. The strength of the soul beasts will be significantly improved, and warrior-level groups will soon appear..."

In the early morning of the fourth day, Han Ning turned over and sat on the back of the egg pancake. Looking at the simple map drawn by the Insek tribe, he confirmed that this place was about 5 kilometers underground. The passages along the way were not entirely due to Some of the beast passages opened by the people of the Sike tribe were dug out by huge underground earthworms or opened by other spirit beasts, but these passages have existed for a long time.

It existed as far back as the first few generations of Insek clan chiefs explored the Diyan Forbidden Land.

In order to ensure safety, Han Ning let the Vientiane Silkworm enter Egg Pan's body.

With the blessing of flesh and blood from the All-Seeing Silkworm, Egg Cake's body and spiritual energy have been significantly enhanced.

So much so that its mimetic soul skills almost exceeded the scope of the awakening level and reached the extraordinary level.

Mimicry becomes broader and more subtle.

After carefully avoiding a group of large tawny crickets that were larger than a truck, we continued deeper underground.

It is only 5 kilometers away now, and the area where the Hellfire Crocodile lives is about 10 kilometers underground. There is still a long way to go.

At the next hunting spot, he planned to slowly descend while killing some soul beasts that actively attacked them, and help Yin Yi break through to the warrior level.

Every time he dropped 100 meters, Han Ning felt the pressure around him slowly increase, and the frost-white crystal shield suspended on the surface of his body made a crisp "bang bang bang" sound.

"You must not leave the range of the frost crystal shield, otherwise the high temperature and pressure underground will severely squeeze my body."

Han Ning looked at the gurgling cold air escaping from the surface of the frost shield. The cold air quickly melted into water vapor in the air, consuming Yin Ripple's spiritual energy every moment.

As for Yinyi and Egg Pancake, one is an extraordinary level soul beast and the other is a temporary extraordinary level. They can barely tolerate the high temperature underground.

All the way down...

Fine cracks gradually appeared in the frost crystal shield that resisted external pressure, and then quickly repaired as before.

After entering below 7 kilometers, the road map of the Insek tribe has completely lost its effect. Han Ning can only rely on the roads that appear in front of him and can be chosen, and go underground based on his feelings.

He encountered several purple bats that exuded powerful psychic pressure and had completely degraded eyes, flying silently from the top of the cave in front of him.

I also encountered a big brown-black snake that was more than 30 meters long. It poked its head out of the ground strangely, looked in the direction of the egg cake with cold and ruthless eyes, and then disappeared quietly.

Finally, after cautiously traveling downward for nearly 8 kilometers, we passed through a hot, narrow and irregular underground passage.

Ahead, a dreamy world of brilliant colors appeared.

Transparent and translucent gems and crystals of different colors, and strange ores reflect a psychedelic light under the shining white light.

When he looked up, his eyes were filled with the reflected light of colorful gems. Until the end of his field of vision, he could not see the existence of the top of the rock.