Chapter 48: King-Class Monster

Those two mighty demon apes were still cheering for their boss's brutal tactics, completely oblivious to this subtle detail. It was not that they lacked intelligence; rather, the power possessed by the Vajra Ape boss was simply invincible in their minds!

"Rushing to their deaths."

Luo Feng, suspended in mid-air, flickered a thought, and the Soaring Sky Shuttle beneath his feet detached from the nine metal fragments. These metal fragments, spinning like hiltless flying daggers, transformed into a series of hauntingly beautiful streams of light slicing across the firmament.

In just a fraction of a second, the two mighty demon apes standing in front of the Vajra Ape had their skulls pierced by the flying daggers and were instantly slain.

The Vajra Ape barely managed to react, but faced with the vast gap in strength, it could only watch in despair as the flying daggers descended upon it, burrowing into its body to tear its internal organs and brain to shreds.

Having dispatched the three lord-grade ape monsters, Luo Feng had no intention of stopping. The Soaring Sky Shuttle beneath his feet split into even more blade fragments—at a glance, numbering at least in the hundreds.

Hundreds of blade fragments, carrying spiritual telekinesis powerful enough to easily slaughter advanced commander-grade beasts, shuttled wildly through the densely packed swarm of ape monsters.

In just over a minute, more than half of the ape monsters had their lives harvested by these flying daggers.

Whether beast-soldier grade or advanced commander-grade, all were killed instantly!

Watching the points on his interface continuously ticking upward, Luo Feng felt a deep sense of satisfaction.

"The energy gained has increased again." Luo Feng glanced at a few records on his mission interface.

[Kill Advanced Lord-grade Monsters (Repeatable)] (Completed 23 times)
Reward: 35,200 points
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[Kill Primary Lord-grade Monsters (Repeatable)] (Completed 86 times)
Reward: 7,201 points
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He still remembered hunting lord-grade monsters a few months ago, when a primary lord-grade beast would yield only three to four thousand points.

Now, it yielded over seven thousand points, an increase of nearly twofold.

"The stronger my strength, the higher the efficiency of gathering energy," Luo Feng thought to himself.

Perhaps when his strength improved by another few dozen or hundred times, even killing a beast-soldier grade monster would yield triple-digit points.

Tsk tsk. Luo Feng dared not imagine how exhilarated he would feel when that time came.

***

While Luo Feng was momentarily distracted, the tens of thousands of ape monsters below, save for a small fraction that had started far away and scattered to flee from the very beginning, were almost entirely wiped out.

Another massive haul of points was credited to his account.

Luo Feng flew on his shuttle, his figure passing over the monster carcasses below, while the Myriad Soul Banner in his hand actively gathered the souls of the deceased beasts.

Within the spatial dimension, Baichen also moved his thought, storing a vast quantity of ape monster carcasses into the dimension's warehouses.

Inside this special internal dimension, ten such warehouses solely for storing monster carcasses had been established, piled with millions of monster carcasses kept fresh through special methods by Baichen.

When needed, these monster carcasses would serve as base materials for manufacturing blood pills or other items.

Hmm?

Just as Luo Feng finished sweeping up the corpses of tens of thousands of ape monsters, a faint disturbance echoed from the depths of the valley.

Had Luo Feng's spiritual telekinesis not been incomparably powerful and his vigilance maintained at all times, it would have been truly difficult to notice this subtle movement originating from deep underground.

Under Luo Feng's vigilant perception, the faint movement in the depths of the valley approached the ground right beneath him.

"Is it trying to ambush me?" A smile touched the corner of Luo Feng's mouth.

A king-grade monster was being this cautious even against him, someone who hadn't yet reached the planetary level?

However, this played right into Luo Feng's hands. To be honest, after the 'Energy Abundant' system detected the presence of this king-grade monster, Luo Feng had been somewhat troubled.

Because the opponent was actually hiding underground.

Although a spiritual reader's power was better suited for underground combat than a martial artist's, compared to a monster born and raised underground—especially a king-grade one—Luo Feng's advantage in tunneling compared to other martial artists turned into a disadvantage.

"I'd have been annoyed if you didn't come out," Luo Feng chuckled inwardly, yet his expression remained entirely nonchalant. As if completely unaware of the opponent's 'sneaky' movement, he continued unhurriedly holding the smoke-emitting Myriad Soul Banner to harvest monster souls.

These were all his cultivation resources.

As Luo Feng's willpower grew stronger and his soul became purer and more potent, the number of Divine Origin Pills required each time was also increasing; therefore, monster souls were naturally as many as the better.

Usually, during his cultivation, Luo Feng would also plant the Myriad Soul Banner in areas densely populated with monsters, allowing it to actively absorb the free spiritual energy in the air, never wasting a single opportunity to acquire cultivation resources.

"It's coming!" A thought flickered in Luo Feng's mind, and a force amplification of six times imbued his physical defense.

At this moment, he wore an outer layer of C2-grade combat uniform, underneath which was an enhanced version of the Black God Set, followed by a physical defense amplified by six times his force multiplier.

Under this triple defense, Luo Feng even doubted whether the king-grade monster lurking underground, preparing for an ambush, could even break his defense.

Should he give it a try?

"Roar!"

An earthy-yellow earth dragon suddenly burst forth from the ground, lunging to swallow Luo Feng—who was hovering dozens of meters in mid-air—whole into its maw to digest him.

A trace of triumphant glee flashed in the eyes of the king-grade earth dragon as success seemed within its grasp.

Yet the very next moment, its body stiffened abruptly.

Above that human's head, a towering white giant elephant standing tens of meters tall suddenly materialized, looking as solid as reality itself.

The white giant elephant emitted a heaven-shaking roar, then trampled through the air with all four hooves, delivering a vicious, heavy kick right to the forehead of the somewhat caught-off-guard king-grade earth dragon!

Under the terrifying colossal force, the earth dragon's tough hide and muscles—harder and tougher than Koro alloy by severalfold—buckled under the heavy stomp of the white giant elephant. Force ripples propagated through, turning large swaths of skin and muscle mushy and soft, shattering its brain matter and completely destroying and pulverizing its internal structure.

ROAR!!

With half its head caved in and reduced to a soft mush, the king-grade earth dragon wailed in agonizing pain, its colossal earthworm-like body twisting frantically in an attempt to alleviate the excruciating torment.

"As expected, it's an earth dragon."

Standing steadily on the back of the white giant elephant, Luo Feng gazed at the frantically struggling king-grade earth dragon, a look of confirmation flashing in his eyes.

The imagery provided by 'Energy Abundant' resembled a large python or serpent, and among the giant python-like monsters capable of burrowing underground, there were only a few possibilities, of which the earth dragon was the most likely candidate.

Seeing that the earth dragon had thoughts of escaping, Luo Feng lost any lingering desire to observe it further. The white giant elephant, condensed from twenty-two giant elephant particles, let out another heaven-shaking roar, its four hooves wildly trampling the king-grade earth dragon.

Just like crushing mud.

After ravaging it for a full several minutes, the life signs of the king-grade earth dragon finally vanished completely from Luo Feng's perception.

"As expected of an earth dragon famed for its tenacious vitality; it's so enduring." With a thought, Luo Feng gathered its soul into the Myriad Soul Banner and then had Baichen collect the carcass.

Without a moment of lingering attachment, he transformed into a stream of light and vanished into the horizon.