Buzz … Thunder!!
Feng Luotian's entire figure was wrapped in multiple sparks of lightning as he activated Pinnacle Flash Lightning.
When the other two finally got up from the ground, they sensed an arc of lightning passing right by them.
Suddenly, with two cracking sounds, the scene before them turned 180 degrees clockwise.
After their worlds were turned upside down, their visions gradually dimmed down as their bodies once again fell to the ground.
After he twisted their heads within a second, Feng Luotian slowly walked towards the last survivor before his hand reached out to seize the throat of the figure buried in the wall.
"P-P-Please spare me, Young Master." The thug leader pleaded in terror. He had never anticipated that not only was this God's Son not a cripple, but the guy was also insanely strong and as ruthless as a devil by killing people without even blinking.
His face was full of tears, while his heart was in fear.
"Tell me. Why should I spare you?" Feng Luotian indifferently said.
"I-I-I will … I will be a good man in the future and will never again commit a crime. I'll contribute to the city." The thief voice was trembling when he was trying his hardest to find a reason to let him escape death.
"Really? Then what would be my ending today if I am not strong enough? But remember one thing before you answer. A single lie will cost you your life." Feng Luotian asked again with a cold light flashing through his eyes.
"W-We just wanted to threaten you and get the item. That's all. We never intended to hurt you. Please, you have to believe m—"
Crack.
Before he could beg for his own life, his throat was mercilessly pulled out by the purple-eyed devil.
"I already said that a single lie would cost you your life, didn't I? And why should I spare someone who will potentially hurt others again in the future? If that's really the case, the one who hurts them will be me. You want me to hurt the innocents?!" Feng Luotian snarled and splattered the nauseating chuck of flesh in his hand to the ground.
Subsequently, he spread his palm on the corpse's chest and pulled out a white puff of hazy light from the body.
This process was [Soul Collection].
As the previous owner of Scarlet Demon God Phoenix bloodline, he had to collect souls after activating Last Dance Curse. Otherwise, his cultivation would drop by several levels. It had already become Feng Luotian's habit after killing enemies from his past life.
After the soul entered his palm …
///// Soul collected : Energy +3% » Four Fangs (16%)
///// Increase your hearing by 2%
"!!" Feng Luotian was taken aback by this sudden development.
He could not help but comment: "Well, this is a surprise. I know that collecting souls could provide energy to the collector, but there is no record about getting a hidden benefit like monster cores. Maybe the effects they provide are so minuscule that one would not notice. How on earth would I be able to tell if my hearing has improved by 2%?"
"And there is another possibility. It might be because of Kronos. But never mind that for now. If there is a hidden benefit, why not enjoy it? But 2% hearing is not going to give me that much benefit. I really look forward to collecting some souls from an apex enemy."
An evil smile appeared on his face when he thought about it. Right now, he looked like a psychopath more than a savior.
Next, he retrieved the body into the spatial ring, then proceeded to collect souls from two other corpses.
///// Soul collected : Energy +1% » Four Fangs (17%)
///// Increase your hearing by 1%
///// Soul collected : Energy +1% » Four Fangs (18%)
///// Increase your hearing by 1%
"The energy required for each level is insane!!"
Feng Luotian clicked his tongue and complained.
Killing a cultivator at the same level was hard enough for an average cultivator. At Fang Realm, collecting souls from four to five cultivators at the same level would normally give the energy high enough to prepare one for breaking through a level. Now, however, Feng Luotian had to collect more than thirty of such souls to achieve that.
But in the end, even though collecting souls was the fastest way to increase energy, Feng Luotian would not cultivate with this method anyway.
If there was no evil in the world, he would not go around killing others for the sake of cultivation. Instead, he would feel delighted and relaxed. The fewer enemies in the world, the more peaceful it would be, and the happier he would feel.
Nonetheless, that was just a wishful thinking.
As if it was a work of gods, no world was without bad men. There would always be someone to provide souls for him to collect.
After finishing the soul collection, Feng Luotian put their bodies inside the spatial ring. He left the city in his own pace, heading straight into Warland Thicket in the area where the monsters were most populated.
Warland Thicket was incredibly vast. It spanned billions of acres. Apart from Divine Bird City, it neighbored Silver Fox City, Vermillion Kingdom, as well as several other cities and hundreds of small towns. There were also various tribes and villages situating within the thicket itself.
Warland Thicket was abundant in herbs and monsters. The deeper one ventured into it, the more one could find rarer herbs and stronger monsters, like the phrase "no venture, no gain".
As it was previously mentioned, the thicket was divided into green, yellow, orange, red, and black zones according to its danger level.
There were only Fang Realm monsters within the green zone. Talon monsters ruled the yellow zone as Wing monsters did the orange zone.
As for the red and black zone, not even Peacock Lord dared to enter. There were rumors about the monsters above the Wing Realm that could transform into humans pretending to help those who accidentally ventured into the zone before morphing back into monsters and devouring those people without mercy.
Of course, Feng Luotian would not be able to survive in the zone deeper than the yellow even with all those knowledge and cheating features of his new bloodline's ability.
He only arrived at the middle part of the green zone where only Four Fangs to Seven Fangs monsters lived.
Nevertheless, there were much more monsters here than in the area where he trained with Mei Yue'er and Sun Wuji yesterday.
Furthermore, with Kronos's hiding his aura, monsters would only think of him as someone without cultivation, allowing him to move more easily than other cultivators.
Monsters would only hunt a commoner when they were desperate for food.
Usually, they would hunt other monsters or cultivators at similar levels because once they ate them, they would considerably grow stronger. That was how monsters cultivated their strength. Thus, eating a commoner would only satiate their hunger and nothing else. That would be a waste of their time.
As for the monsters at an early-stage Fang Realm that normally hunted commoners ...
How could they be fast enough to chase him down?
Feng Luotian ran through the forest without a hitch before he reached his destination and stopped by a river.
Ignoring all the danger that might occur at any moment, the scene was quite beautiful here.
A field of Phoenix Horsetails dyed the hill into a flame color with dozens of One Horn Emerald Squirrels sneaking and playing with each other in the field.
What seemed to be huge boulders amongst the Phoenix Horsetails were actually White Spike Rock Rhinos sleeping after their meals. Even when lying down, their body was taller than an average oak tree.
The river beside the hill was dark blue and glittering like liquid sapphire. Hundreds of pure white dots on the river were painted by Moon Lotuses drifting around back and forth, making the river look like a vast starry sky at night.
From time to time, there would be an explosion causing a fountain to shoot out from the river as monsters were fighting underwater, creating a magnificent rainbow afterward.
"Mhm, here is good." Feng Luotian smilingly remarked before he started setting up his camp.
When he completed his work, he stretched his arm and back as he said: "First, let's find someone to train with."
Feng Luotian jumped up on top of high trees and traveled deeper into the thicket.
After traversing for some distance, he sensed something.
Feng Luotian stopped on one of the thickest branches before touching his spatial ring, and one corpse appeared.
It was one of the three thieves who had tried to rob him earlier.
He dropped the body to the ground, then sat and waited up high.
While he was waiting for something, Feng Luotian took out all the monster cores he got from the gem shop and placed them down in front of him.
He wanted to refine these monster cores to pass some time, but right when he was about to pick Triple Dots Lightning Cobra Core, Kronos was acting up again.
///// Introducing new feature [Instant Refinement] : Refine the desired monster cores instantly.
///// 57 monster cores detected.
///// Energy +48% at Four Fangs
///// Lightning skill proficiency +45
///// Speed skill proficiency +92
///// Speed +15%
///// All Duration +2 minutes
///// Vision Range +20 meters
///// Lightning Resistance +2%