Chapter 139: Opening the Second Ancestral Land
"The Nine-Colored Demonic Fruit?" Xing Sha's heart stirred upon hearing this.
This was a peerless treasure, carrying immense temptation even for supreme overlords of the demonic path, as it could substantially boost one's cultivation realm.
"Deal!"
He accepted the Blood Ghost Old Demon's request.
Taking the Nine-Colored Demonic Fruit from the Blood Ghost Old Demon, Xing Sha immediately transformed into a streak of lightning and soared into the distance.
"Regardless of who killed my disciple, this old man will make him pay a heavy price."
The Blood Ghost Old Demon was still ablaze with towering rage.
As for the killer of his disciple, he had not the slightest worry that Xing Sha would fail to track them down.
Xing Sha was, after all, a blade of the Demonic Palace. Under his command was a unit tasked with eliminating powerful figures hostile to the Demonic Palace, and their intelligence network permeated virtually the entire Tianlong Continent, falling scarcely short of the intelligence network of the Tianlong Dynasty.
The Blood Ghost Old Demon was well aware of his disciple Motianhua's strength. To wipe out his disciple, the commotion of the battle surely could not have been small. Given the Demonic Palace's intelligence apparatus, sooner or later, they would unearth the culprit who slew his disciple.
Of the movements within the Demonic Palace, Yi Tian and the others, currently residing in the Yi Clan settlement near Black Dragon City of the Tianfeng Royal Nation, remained completely oblivious.
They never imagined that the Motianhua they had exterminated would attract the attention of a supreme overlord of the Demonic Palace. Furthermore, the intelligence organization of the Demonic Palace was vastly larger than they could conceive, and danger was creeping closer step by step.
By now, all six members of the Samsara Battle Team had broken through to the Yuanfa realm.
Having stayed in the settlement for several months, Yi Tian and his companions each felt the urge to venture out once more and carve out a domain of their own on the Tianlong Continent.
However, because an unknown and terrifying demon was suppressed beneath the earth near the settlement, representing a colossal threat that could erupt at any moment, Yi Tian and the others were temporarily unable to leave.
Over these past few months, the higher-ups of the settlement had been deliberating over the threat posed by the suppressed demon in their vicinity.
Some suggested that the Yi Clan should migrate, journeying to another location to start anew and distance themselves from this menace.
Yet this decision left the top echelons hesitant and indecisive.
Although they knew that the grand demon was suppressed there, they had no idea when it would break its seal—perhaps in decades, perhaps in centuries, or even a millennium.
Once the Yi Clan undertook a migration, it would prove agonizingly difficult to part with for the vast majority of the clansmen, presenting immense complications.
Eventually, the Patriarch and other senior figures initiated a plan.
They decided against migrating immediately, opting instead for a secondary contingency: to establish a second ancestral ground deep within the Fulong Mountain Range. Should any unforeseen crisis occur, the clansmen could instantly evacuate to this secondary ancestral ground as a foolproof precaution.
Naturally, the Samsara Battle Team took up this mission.
Carving out a second ancestral ground within the Fulong Mountain Range was not a whim of the moment.
It was only after thorough deliberation by the settlement's leadership that the decision to build it inside the Fulong Mountain Range was finalized.
After all, locating the second ancestral ground within the Fulong Mountain Range would facilitate concealment when the entire clan relocated.
As for the second reason, every single member of the Yi Clan had now become a martial artist, and their demand for ferocious beast meat was growing day by day. Only the abundant ferocious beasts of the Fulong Mountain Range could satisfy their consumption.
As Yi Tian and his companions prepared to head into the mountains, Little Black closely followed behind them, casting pitiful glances toward Yi Tian from time to time.
Yi Tian's heart softened, and he decided to bring the creature along into the mountains.
Consequently, Yi Tian resolved to have Yi Li and Yi Hong remain behind to guard the settlement.
With Yi Li and Yi Hong holding down the fort, Yi Tian felt considerably more at ease.
Given the strength of Yi Li and Yi Hong, ordinary Yuan Dan experts were simply no match for them.
Moreover, Yi Tian and the others had left several lower-grade treasured bows with the settlement, vastly augmenting its defensive capabilities.
After bidding farewell to Little Long, Little Ting, his mother, and the others, Yi Tian led the restless Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and Yi Kuang into the mountains—accompanied, of course, by a wildly excited Little Black darting to and fro.
Yi Tian and his companions moved through the air with extreme speed, clearing hundreds of feet with a single stride.
At this moment, Little Black displayed its extraordinary nature, darting back and forth through the sky at a velocity even swifter than theirs.
The party steadily penetrated deeper into the Fulong Mountain Range.
They searched everywhere for a suitable location to establish their second ancestral ground—one that must be both safe and well-concealed.
Along the way, they traversed a radius of several thousand miles around the area, yet found no terrain that truly met their satisfaction.
Roar!
High above, the Three-Headed Demonic Canine swooped down with a swift dash.
Instantly transforming into its true form, its devouring head snapped forward and swallowed a mid-grade ferocious beast that had been hunting in a single gulp.
Along this journey, Little Black had already consumed no fewer than ten mid-grade ferocious beasts.
For Yi Tian and his party, even penetrating tens of thousands of miles deep into the mountain range posed no real danger.
Thus, they accelerated their pace, scattering as the four of them searched the rolling mountain ranges independently.
Through their persistent search, they finally discovered a location 12,000 miles deep into the Fulong Mountain Range that perfectly matched their criteria for a second ancestral ground.
It was a basin enclosed by five towering peaks soaring ten thousand feet high, spanning a circumference of over a hundred miles.
Within that basin lay a small lake thirty miles wide.
The entire basin supported numerous low-grade ferocious beasts and wild animals, forming a miniature ecosystem.
However, the basin was not entirely safe.
Each of those five mountains stretched for tens of miles and harbored numerous mid-grade ferocious beasts, which could potentially charge into the basin at any moment and pose a severe threat.
Among them, one of the peaks was home to a flock of Giant Silver Eagles. There were twelve fully matured adults, each boasting a wingspan exceeding eighty feet, placing them at least at the late mid-grade level.
In addition to those, there were eight fledgling eaglets.
While the ferocious beasts roaming the five mountain ranges could be anticipated and dealt with if they broke into the basin, the Giant Silver Eagles entrenched at the mountain summits posed a far greater menace.
They could launch aerial assaults at any moment, a threat against which virtually none of the clansmen could defend.
That flock of Giant Silver Eagles had to be exterminated to eradicate this hidden danger.
Yi Tian, Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and Yi Kuang immediately headed toward the central mountain range.
Before long, they appeared high above the precipitous cliffs.
Along the edges of those cliffs, massive nests sat perched, with individual Giant Silver Eagles currently resting within them while others were away hunting.
As Yi Tian and the others appeared, the Giant Silver Eagles let out piercing shrieks and instantly spread their wings, soaring into the empyrean.
Bathed in the sunlight, the silver plumage of the Giant Silver Eagles shimmered with a metallic white luster, looking majestic and imposing as mighty, ferocious killing auras surged through the surroundings.
"Screech!"
The Giant Silver Eagles stretched their wings to cross the skies, hurtling toward Yi Tian and his companions like bolts of silver lightning.
Their iron-hook-like talons were sharp enough to tear through the scales of mid-grade ferocious beasts; even if Yi Tian and the others were caught by those talons, they would be torn to shreds without a shred of hope for survival.
"Roar..."
Facing the charging Giant Silver Eagles, Yi Shan was the first to charge out.
He materialized instantly before a Giant Silver Eagle, abruptly unleashing an overwhelmingly heavy aura as he threw a punch directly at the creature's body.
Bang!
Amidst a deafening explosion, Yi Shan intercepted the Giant Silver Eagle's high-speed charge with a single punch. His terrifying blow even shattered the creature's plumage, driving deep into its flesh.
In the blink of an eye, that Giant Silver Eagle was heavily battered by Yi Shan's fist.
"Die!"
With a thunderous roar, Yi Shan threw another punch that snapped the Giant Silver Eagle's neck.
On the other side, Yi Feng, Yi Kuang, and the others each confronted a Giant Silver Eagle, suddenly unleashing terrifying sonic roars akin to the cries of ferocious white tigers. In an instant, the plumage of the Giant Silver Eagles shattered, their blood vessels ruptured, their internal organs were pulverized into fine powder, and their massive bodies were nearly blasted into mists of blood.
While Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and the rest engaged their respective targets, the remaining Giant Silver Eagles had already closed in on Yi Tian.
Yi Tian calmly surveyed the scene.
Just as the Giant Silver Eagles charged within a few hundred feet of him, clusters of blazing white flames suddenly erupted from his body, compressed into individual fireballs that instantly slammed into each of the oncoming Giant Silver Eagles.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Giant Silver Eagles were instantly enveloped by massive billows of raging fire.
Screech...
They shrieked miserably within the terrifying flames.
Yet this did not last long; merely five breaths later, the Giant Silver Eagles were thoroughly burned into wisps of ash, dissipating into the empty air.