Since the discussion had ended for the day, the villagers dispersed back to their quarters. However, the group of Outsiders had yet to find a moment of rest as they ran around the mountain forest in embarrassment. They had just learned the hard way that the desolate beasts they had hunted earlier in the day were those at the bottom of the food chain. The night was when the others higher up the food chain came out.
The Outsiders ran frantically throughout the mountain forest, not caring that they were leaving tracks everywhere. Their terror had not ended.
They were being stalked by a pack of wolves whose eyes flickered with a gloomy dark green color as the desolate beasts locked onto their target.
Wolf Village residents would have easily recognized the pack of wolves as it was the one that was once commanded by their guardian spirit.
But now that their guardian spirit had been killed, the pack of wolves no longer had a leader and did not want to follow the commands of Wolf Village either. Thus, they ended up wandering the dense forest until they now bumped into the group of Outsiders.
There were eighteen of the Outsiders in the group initially. However, only thirteen had survived. The rest had been taken, not by the humans of Stone Village, but the desolate beasts.
Back at Stone Village, Ye Yun could not help but feel nervous when he saw the villagers leave.
He had coincidentally heard the sentence by Shi Hao - the Qi flow.
But Ye Yun was confused, how could Shi Hao sense his Qi flow if he had been using the Breath Concealing Technique?
[The host's Qi flow had been exposed during the recent breakthrough.]
"Oh, so you do know how to respond." He was not sure how to trigger responses from the system and started to wonder if it had a soul.
But now that he knew how Shi Hao was able to detect his Qi flow, Ye Yun felt more at ease. So what if the boy had sensed it? No one was able to find out his identity or locate him anyway.
Ye Yun did not want to think about it anymore and decided to check his cultivation progress.
He had now cultivated the Art of Nine Revolutions Essence to the point where he could refine his soul, and his roots had now spread out to cover every acre of soil in Stone Village.
In addition, Ye Yun noticed that even if his main body could not move, his roots could, and quite agilely too. He could stretch his roots out of the ground and expose them to the air if he wanted to. But that was his limit.
"Heh, I may be just a blade of grass but it seems like I'm almost on par with you now in terms of my root system, Willow Deity." Ye Yun could not help but smile as he subconsciously communicated with the willow tree.
'Cultivating the Art of Nine Revolutions Essence means that I am forming my Golden Core. But I wonder when I will be able to get there.' Ye Yun muttered.
'Oh well, there is no use considering this at the moment. Let's check out the ranks of the items I have obtained. If the World Map is at the Super God level, the others shouldn't be too bad, right?' Ye Yun quickly browsed through the virtual screen.
[Item: Sacrifice Acceptance Ability (can be accumulated); Rank: Dao Level]
[Item: Art of Nine Revolutions Essence; Rank: God Level]
[Item: Breath Concealing Technique; Rank: Dao Level]
[Item: Shu Shan Sword Method; Rank: Ancient Immortal Level]
[Item: Blood of Dragon's Son (can be upgraded); Rank: Dao Level]
[Item: Guardian Spirit Essence; Rank: Dao Level]
[Item: Spring Water of Life x1; Rank: Spirit Level]
[Item: Clairvoyance; Rank: Immortal Level]
"System, how are you classifying these ranks?" Ye Yun was confused.
[Beep beep, item rank classification: Spirit, Dao, Immortal, Ancient Immortal, God, Super God, Immemorial, Saint, Law.]
"Oh, so only Shu Shan Sword Method and the World Map are good items. The rest are basically trash?" Ye Yun felt that his worldview had been refreshed once more - his rewards were not that great.
Ye Yun started to feel restless.
And it was as if the system had sensed it as it pinged again.
[The system rewards items with a different ranking from this continent. Host, please note the number of continents.]
"What? What do you mean? Why are you being so ambiguous? Are the rankings related to the specific continent or world?" Ye Yun was still confused.
[I hope the host can explore it on his own.]
The system went silent after that.
"Well, I shouldn't have asked then if you weren't going to give me anything useful." Ye Yun sighed helplessly.
After sorting out the things that he had obtained, Ye Yun was once again feeling bored. He had just raised his cultivation not long ago and did not want to cultivate anytime soon. In the end, he decided to help the Willow Deity clean up its roots to kill his boredom.
Meanwhile, the bishop and other Outsiders had finally escaped the pursuit of the desolate beasts and arrived at Wolf Village.
And the latter had been waiting for them. Even though it was already nighttime, the people in Wolf Village, including those from other tribes, were still awake.
Upon arrival, the Outsider children who had been left with Sand Eagle Tribe for their safety were on their way back to meet up with the bishop's group.
Several groups of people gathered together, and the atmosphere was especially strange.
The Wolf Village's chief walked forward with concern for the recent arrivals' wellbeing.
On the surface, he looked warm and caring. But internally, he was laughing at the state of the Outsiders. Lang Ji had said that these people were strong. So why were they in such a sorry state upon their return from Stone Village?
Moreover, they were missing a few people. Only thirteen were present out of the eighteen that they were informed of.
Those at Wolf Village had heard of the commotion coming from Stone Village earlier. They did not bother to go over and thought it must have been the work of the people from the Hall of Souls.
But if that were true, how did that explain their current state? Did they encounter an accident on the way? Was it the Stone Village's guardian spirit?
But how powerful could their willow tree guardian spirit be? If the Wolf Village's guardian spirit was still alive, it could have taken out the willow tree guardian spirit, and Wolf Village wouldn't have had to go through all this fuss just to exact their revenge on Stone Village.
"You must be the Outsiders mentioned by Sand Eagle Tribe. Why are you in such a sorry state? Are you okay?" The Wolf Village's chief's voice was still masked with concern.
But their cultivation prodigy decided to be the more honest one. "What else could have happened? It's obvious they haven't taken out Stone Village with their sorry state. I've already warned that that village has quite a few trump cards up their sleeves. And you can trust me to know because I faced one of them directly before."
That encounter was deeply engraved in Wolf Village's cultivation prodigy's mind like a grudge. The child from the desolate Stone Village had proven difficult to deal with, so much so that the child defeated him almost single-handedly! But he was just a child! That was how Wolf Village's cultivation prodigy was certain that the child had a magic treasure on him. Otherwise, how could he have hurt him?
"Little guy, are you tired of living?" The amount of pent-up anger and frustration accumulated from the entire day in the bishop was about to overflow and he really needed to vent it soon. Now that this arrogant young man had spoken, he must have decided to be the outlet for the bishop to vent.
He no longer cared about the abilities of the people of Wolf Village. He had to act now or he might just explode! He needed to teach this brat a lesson today or he could never maintain his dignity as a bishop!