Cultivation: Immunity to Negative Effects

This was a massive valley surrounded by mountains, where the Spiritual Qi was even more abundant than in the Pill and Artifact Sect’s ruins.

That was precisely why the Beast God had chosen this place as its lair, rather than the Pill and Artifact Sect’s ruins.

After all, many of the legacies left behind by human Cultivators were precious to other Cultivators, but they were of relatively little value to Demon Beasts.

And that Beast God was a Demon Leopard. The inhabitants of Beast King Valley were all of its kind, or in other words, its descendants.

These leopards didn’t have the exaggerated size of the Demon Bears, but their claws and fangs were sharp, and they were incredibly fast. Coupled with their completely cyan bodies, they moved like a cyan gale.

That was how these leopards got the name Cyan Wind Leopard, and they were a rather famous type of Demon Beast in the Endless Desert Sea.

However, the Cyan Wind Leopards outside the valley were Tier Three at most, and very few could ever grow to Tier Four.

’That so-called Beast God is indeed at Tier Four Peak.’

Outside Beast King Valley, Zhang Chi used his Celestial Eye Technique and immediately detected the aura of a powerful expert.

This aura was stronger than the Demon Bear King’s, but it was still within the Tier Four range. It was clearly at Tier Four Peak.

At the same time, Zhang Chi also discovered that the Demon Leopards here seemed to be preparing to retreat.

Zhang Chi laid in wait for a while, captured a lone, Low Tier Demon Leopard, and performed a Soul Search, confirming his suspicions.

Clearly, these Demon Beasts weren’t fools.

However, Zhang Chi wasn’t in a hurry. Instead, he continued to lie in wait outside the valley, constantly monitoring the auras of the Tier Four Demon Leopards.

That morning, the auras of the many Demon Leopards suddenly vanished all at once. Zhang Chi immediately rushed toward the depths of the valley.

He then discovered that only some Tiers One and Two Demon Leopards remained.

At that moment, many Demon Leopards were surrounding a cyan Stone Gate covered in ancient patterns deep within the valley, unleashing flurries of Wind Blades in a frenzied assault.

The Stone Gate was actually just a frame. The space within it rippled like blue water—it was clearly a Teleportation Gate.

This thing was similar to a Teleportation Array; it was the spatial passage for leaving the Oasis Ruins.

The Beast God and the other Demon Leopards must have already left.

However, they had no way to close the Teleportation Gate, so they left it to the remaining Demon Leopards to destroy it.

After all, although the Teleportation Gate’s Level was high, it wasn’t a typical Array or Magical Treasure. It wasn’t sturdy, so even Tier Two Demon Leopards could destroy it if they attacked it for a while.

BOOM! BOOM!

At that, the Corpse Puppet and the Spirit Beast immediately moved forward, spewing out clouds of poisonous mist and Corpse Evil, effortlessly killing all the Demon Leopards.

Afterward, Zhang Chi extracted the soul of a Demon Leopard and performed a Soul Search, discovering that his deductions had been correct.

Two conditions were required to open the Teleportation Gate: first, embedding it with Top Grade Spirit Stones, and second, possessing the Beast God’s Token.

To pass through the Teleportation Gate, one needed the protection of a treasure like the Qiankun Shifting Order. Both the Beast God’s Token and the tokens of the Major Demon Beast Races served a similar function.

Otherwise, entering the Teleportation Gate directly would result in being instantly torn to shreds by the Power of Space.

The reason the Beast God hadn’t brought these Low Tier Demon Leopards was that the Beast God’s Token could only transport a limited number of them. Furthermore, taking these Low Tier Demon Leopards out would just be sending them to their deaths. It was better to leave them behind to destroy the Teleportation Gate.

Afterward, they could continue to multiply within the Oasis Ruins. As long as they left Beast King Valley, they could survive.

After all, the human Explorers couldn’t possibly kill every single Demon Beast in the oasis.

As for the other Major Demon Beast Races, while they would lose their chance to escape because of this, the Demon Leopards clearly didn’t care.

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"Hm?"

Just then, Zhang Chi swept his Divine Thought across Beast King Valley, wanting to see if the leopards had left any supplies behind.

His brow furrowed a moment later. With a slight movement, he flickered to the western side of the valley, where he saw numerous human corpses, as well as some Demon Leopards gnawing on them.

There were many enclosures here, like pigsties or sheep pens, but what was kept inside wasn’t livestock. It was humans.

The humans here didn’t even have clothes. Their living conditions were appalling, and they were all food for the Demon Leopards.

The High Tier Demon Leopards understood sustainability, but they had already left. The Low Tier Demon Leopards obviously didn’t care about that.

Besides, not only were the Low Tier Demon Leopards less intelligent, but they were also about to leave this place. Naturally, they wouldn’t spare these humans.

And that was why this scene was unfolding.

"You beasts! Die!"

Seeing this, Zhang Chi erupted in fury.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

He instantly shot forward like a phantom, throwing a series of punches that blew the Demon Leopards to bits, yet he still didn’t feel his anger had been vented.

The Demon Bear Race had also kept humans in pens, but not within the Pill and Artifact Sect’s ruins.

Theirs had been located some distance away.

When Zhang Chi left, he had also rescued those humans and contacted Cai and Xiang of the Golden Wind Sect, telling them the humans’ location so they could report it to the Desert Divine Palace.

That was why, at the time, Zhang Chi had mostly just felt that what those humans had gone through was pitiful.

But this time, he had witnessed the tragedy firsthand, and the immense shock naturally made him even more furious.

It was a long while before he finally calmed down. Afterward, he prepared to burn the bodies here with a burst of fire.

After all, he didn’t have time to give them a proper burial.

Even if he buried them, they might be found, dug up, and eaten by Demon Beasts. It was better to simply turn them to ash.

"Huh?"

But just then, he suddenly stopped. He walked over to a corpse lying face down on the ground, turned it over, and immediately saw a baby.

The baby, though covered in blood and filth, was still breathing.

The corpse was that of a woman. Even in death, she was still holding the baby tightly, though he didn’t know if she was its mother.