In the first few days, the Team quickly advance deeper without bothering about the resources scattered in front of their sights. Although the temptation of obtaining the Spiritual and Master Grade Ingredient and resources would allow their wealth to gain significantly, but the time wasted for the collection would be a trouble.
Along with their way, the group met with a few strong demonic beast, but after a few running and escaping, the team managed to escape without big fight among beast and humans. Like the previous reason, the worthiness of engaging in such battle does not benefit any parts.
One need to understand, In one ecosystem, an equal exchange is always in the account. Each decision will make your future path deviated slightly, depending on how extreme is your decision.
The more beast you kill off, the harder you could advance due to exhaustion.
The more Ingredient you harvest, the higher risk you will face when confronted by opposing cultivators.
The deeper you venture, the bigger your return, but the higher risk when leaving as well.
The least you advance, the safer you will be, but in exchange, it doesn’t worth the time you spent within the realm.
The weaker you remain, the least your chances are to advance to a higher cultivation.
The choices and decision are always around for each being to select as they move, no matter what is their cultivation level is.
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"Brother Altima, We need help in this area!"
Gu Pang and Wen Qing is struggling in handling a gigantic demonic beast limbs.
"Lock the Cage shackles on the ground and move deeper to its center! It is impossible to kill this demonic beast, so let's grab as much as we could from its body before we are exhausted!"
Altima passed the message to the Duo before he manages to restrict the Head part of the beast onto the ground.
(Third Surging Wave Covers the Skies!)
Altima swept his spear as heavy as he could, and manage to remove a large number of beautiful Shining carapace covering the Beast's neck area.
"Do not use any Yin or Yang base attack, as that would destroy the usefulness of the Kun (Earthly) Essence crystal carapace."
Altima reminds the members again and again.
"Understood!"
The group answered, two more hours later, the group finally retreated from continue to attack the Gigantic Demonic Beast that manages to cover an acre of land by its body mass. Tired but bountiful, the group quickly harvest all available perfect material before they retreated to a hundred steps away from their fighting point, in order to escape any unwanted pursuits.
"Brother Altima, this harvest is not bad, I would never imagine we would ever meet with the mild tempered Kun Element Beast here."
Wu Chung commented. In another side of the forest, a group of shadow quickly entered Altima's realm in secret as they return from their task.
Altima battle on one side, while allowing the Ancient Elves to harvest the materials in another.
With his Full Scan, Altima could deduce a large 20 meters wide radius of treasures and ingredients or secret, allowing all his "Citizens" to received the pinpoint location to move in exactly.
Each time he proceeds, Altima's Ancient Elves team will be dispatched in a team of 100 to 200 elves, and proceed with the harvest as required. With each of them is around Middle to Peak Master Practitioner of Zen Stage, the group of elves manages to complete their task, without any problem in between of the process.
Back to the beast the group just engaged in a battle with.
Kun (Earthly) Essence Diamond Shell King Beast
Characteristics: Mild Tempered, and hardly engaging with its opponent in battle, the Kun Diamond Shell King Beast usually timid and always tries to run when it receive heavy engagement from other beast or cultivator. This beast has an extreme appetite, and often being called as the Ground Devourer because of its capability of destroying the forest as its meal, totally uprooting the whole location with a few mouthful.
Threat Level: 7th Stage of King of Zen Tier
Produce: Kun Diamond Carapace (refining ingredient for the Small Kun Essence Soul Pellet) Kun Diamond Substance (for Medium Kun Essence Soul Pellet) Kun Blood Droplet (For Large Kun Essence Soul Pellet)
"Qing Yi, how much material we are able to retrieve in this fight ?"
Altima makes some slight harvest count.
"We manage to scrape a total of 10,000 pieces of completely intact Kun Diamond Carapace from the King Beast, as well about 1,000 Kun Diamond Substance. Too bad there is no Kun Blood Droplet from this first encounter."
Qing Yi quickly delivers her report.
"It's fine. Unless one or two of us are at King Stage, if not, how would we have chances to grab that particular ingredient ?"
"Let us continue venturing deeper, perhaps we could found a few more demonic beast that drops different Essence produce."
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"Escape! Quickly escape this hell hole!"
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A group of the cultivator is seen escaping from the opened volcanic cavern.
As they about to reach the exit, two more Demonic Beast appeared from the both left and right side outside the exit.
Without even bothering about their survivability, the group of cultivators pushed the people from the front to their death.
The people that were managed to escape from the Demonic Beast deadly claw, hastily escape the cavern entrance area and rushed towards the outer forest. But without luck by their side, the end up died before they could do so.
Few more Demonic Beast appeared from the ground, pulling the corpses into the underground as they feast on the dead bodies. A few certain trees that were seen growing beautifully along the outer forest, started to shake as the Root on the bottom moves.
Beneath the tree, a special kind of Demonic Tree Beast is moving along the ground, and revealed their true nature.
One of the Danger within the forest before Mirage Mountain Peak.
Mountain (Gen) Elder Demonic Tree Beast
Characteristics: Hideous to look at, the Gen Elemental Elder Demonic Tree Beast is actually a tree beast with a tree grown on the backbone of this beast. Do not be misguided by the gigantic fruits that was bore by this tree because it is actually the mouth of the beast in disguise. The Tree Beast often trick its food to get close to its fruit, before the lips around the stem turned and swallow the limbs or the head of the target that tried to eat it.
Threat Level: 1st Stage Soul of Zen Tier
Produce: Gen Juicy Roots (refining ingredient for the Small Gen Essence Soul Pellet) Gen Trapper Sprouts (for Medium Gen Essence Soul Pellet) Elder Tree Beast Soul (For Large Gen Essence Soul Pellet)
And the Resident that resides outside of the Mirage Mountain Peak.
Mountain (Gen) Martyr Elder Wolf Beast
Characteristics: Strong Claw and Jaw, the fast, ruthless and hunting in a pack all the times, the Martyr Elder Wolf Beast is the most common threat for those who would like to venture deep into the Mirage Mountain Peak.
The Martyr Elder Wolf Beast reproduce greatly, thus many practitioners decided to escape from this kind of beast often, as they hardly drop quality material for one to consider hunting them down. It is a hassle as well to hunt a pack of wild beast knowing your return is hardly worth the time and effort wasted.
Threat Level: 1st Stage Soul of Zen Tier
Produce: Martyr Thick Veins (Refining ingredient for Small Gen Essence Soul Pellet) Martyr Wolf Jade (For Medium Gen Essence Soul Pellet)
"Senior Brother, are we still continuing to proceed according to this path ?"
One younger cultivator is asking the leader of this group, after witnessing what happened to the earlier group that advance before they did.
"Of course!"
"From our Inner Pavilion Senior, Brother Chu, the best purity produce to forge a Zen Treasure could be easily obtained within this Mirage Mountain Peak Cavern's Inner Crystal Vein."
"And also, even if the Flame Conqueror Capital failed to advance into this cavern, does this means we from the Armament Pavilion will fail as well ?"
"Continue Forward, under my command!"
The Leader, Chang Ming, answer the junior disciple's question with a firm tone and speak in a haughty manner as if he have no worries regarding the view he just had seen.
The Junior disciple wished to advise his senior brother to reconsider his option, but before he could continue, the Senior Brother already withdraw his Zen Treasure to be readied on his body before he continues forward.
Seeing the view in front of him, the Junior Disciple erase his previous thought, and rally the others to prepare and march forward.
"With Senior Brother's treasure, we will success for sure!"
The junior disciple speaks in his mind, after looking again and again on his Senior brother's seven pieces of Early Zen treasure on his body.
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"Brother Wen Wu."
"Are you sure that sister Wen Qing will come over to this direction ?"
A younger cultivator, about 15 to 16 is asking Shi-Wen Wu regarding his estimation.
"I'm sure of it. Wen Qing and her close friend both cultivate in Frozen Yin Martial Arts, most probably they are going to push their luck to obtain more Kan (Water) or Zhui (Lake) essence which is abundant within this Southern direction."
"And by that time, we will act accordingly to allow you to manage to place some aphrodisiac into their body, and then, soon they will be forced to accept your approach."
Shi-Wen Wu happily remind the younger cultivator, which is his younger brother, Shi-Wen Yuan, regarding on their petty tricks.
"Thank you, big brother, Xiao Yuan will remember big brother's help in this matter."
Wen Yuan happily thanked Wen Wu on his "Assistance".
"But remember, make sure you leave Qing Yi to me, I am too, hungry for a fresh lady as beautiful as her."
Wen Wu added before they both continue deeper. But what they don't realize is, there wouldn’t be any chances for them to meet unless North West and South managed to change their direction.
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"Brother Altima, what do we do now ?"
Fang Mu and Wen Qing is tired in their fight.
This is their 8th day within the Autumn Hunt Cosmo Realm.
Within this 8 day, the group continues deeper into the North West, and without stumbling with any other cultivators from the Flame Forest Continent, the group ascends deeper and deeper without any reservations.
In their first 7 days, their haul on the gathered materials is admirable, even if it's taken to be compared with the Great Kingdom Cultivators.
After concoction and refining, Altima and the others manage to Cleanly absorb a large amount of Kun Essence, Gen Essence, Kan Essence and Li Essence. Due to their location located in the middle of two major direction, abundant mixtures of few different essence is available, as long one willing to safely but carefully looking for it.
Especially for the Kan Essence. Water Essence is hardly obtainable due to the harsh dangerous condition is located within the West, but assisted by Altima's proficiency in concocting medicine, the group successfully refine a large amount of Kan Essence with the help of Wu Chung's Fiery Yang Strength, as well as Qing Yi and Wen Qing's Frozen Yin Strength.
With two elements working well with each other, pure and dense Kan Essence is successfully extracted from the Poisonous Marsh that’s located along the Border of West. In the same time, Altima, Gu Pang, and Fang Mu had themselves worn out after fighting with an unbelievable amount of Gen Essence Poison Lizard and harvest a large amount of the Lizards Impure Blood, Pure Blood and Lizard Soul to refine different Gen Essence Soul Pellet.
But on this 8th day, things doesn’t goes too well for the group.
Because they are ambushed by a group of Volcanic (Li) Bullet-Head Beetle.
Although the Volcanic Bullet-Head Beetle is not too strong, but facing a school of 2,000 to 3,000 Early Spiritual of Zen Tier Insect, one will still face large difficulties to completely overcome this threat.
Once after a while, the group will be stricken by a rain of Fiery Bullet that strikes from afar, after the Volcanic Bullet-Head Beetle manage to ate enough volcanic ash to charge their Bullet Holster, that’s located on the tip of their abdomen.
Although the group could utilize the assistance from Water Dragon Cannon to resist the threat, but with the exchange of One Cannon to deflect around 5 to 7 Bullets, Altima's Cannon quickly started to run out without even passing around 2 hours of fighting.
"Brother Mobi, please run a scan so we could have a retreat path. Assist me in checking their current total amount, and their nest condition as well."
"No worries bro, you will be all right."
Altima whispered to Mobi but instead received a confident reply from Mobi instead.
"What's Wrong ?"
"Silly, their amount is reducing by a whole lot, soon they will be totally dead. There is only about 1,000 of them left within this nest."
Altima question Mobi's replied, but after he receives a word from Mobi, he immediately feels delighted with their performance.
"Guys! Let us fight until the end! Their numbers are starting to reduce! We will be able to completely exterminate all of them soon!"
With a word from Altima, the others quickly felt agitated, and fight even better, as if they aren't exhausted in the first place.
Thirty minutes later, the group finally succeed in disposing of all the available Volcanic Bullet-Head Beetle.
But in exchange, they exhausted their Water Dragon Cannon supplies, and it would be required to be replenished later.
Exploring the nest, the group manage to found a large Egg Hatching area, where the group quickly harvest all their great haul before tried to exit the nest.
But before they did, Altima had all of them stopped for an attention.
"Guys! Look at this item that’s buried deep within this Beetle Eggshell Dump."
Altima withdraws a special kind of item out from the sticky area and shows it to the others within the group.