When system cheat becomes rampant!-Chapter 627 - 463 The Range of Devouring

"Why is the snowy mountain trembling?" Elder Luo inquired.

"I'm not sure."

Xiang Beifei couldn't be certain either, but he clearly remembered that there was a section of black wood on Mao Hou that seemed to be the bane of Mu Youmeng, but after it was devoured by Erha, the animosity of the Mu Youmeng towards Xiang Beifei decreased, and they even planned to communicate with him.

However, at that time, Mao Hou also trembled, and then all the Mu Youmeng turned back into trees.

Perhaps there are some latent connections between these Hou.

Xiang Beifei and Elder Luo investigated the snowy mountain thoroughly, but still could not find more clues about the matter. They had even thought about draining the blood of the blood tree, but considering that these ice people could not be reassembled once shattered, they decided not to continue this experiment.

"Tianxing said if we want to follow his steps, we need some element from the Hou as a guide, exactly what should we take?" Elder Luo asked.

Xiang Beifei looked at the fierce wind swirling in the sky and said, "It should be these cold airs, the cold air of Zi Hou, the mud of Chou Hou, and the stream water of Mao Hou. They all can devour spiritual power."

"But the cold air devours, and this stuff is hard to carry," Elder Luo said.

No matter using what system items, they are all transformed from spiritual power and will be devoured, and even Elder Luo is no exception.

Xiang Beifei pondered for a moment and asked, "Since items created from spiritual power are corroded, what about non-spiritual power objects?"

"Like what?"

"For instance, a purely handmade clay pot, or carving a piece of wood to hold water. Last time at Mao Hou, that's how we held the stream water."

"But the stream water you carried then lost its devouring ability afterward. Are you sure such water is useful?"

Elder Luo was not vague. Last time Xiang Beifei and his group, to prove what they had seen and heard, took out the stream water to show everyone, but the water had lost its devouring ability and turned into the most ordinary thing.

Xiang Beifei thought about it and then asked Xiaohei in his mind, "Could you bring out the stream water from last time and see if it still has the devouring power?"

Xiaohei was still controlling the blood altar with two bricks deep under the snowy mountain, which also belonged to the coverage of the snowy mountain. Last time Xiaohei used its bubbles to hold some stream water, and although the water lost its effect after leaving Mao Hou, it had been keeping the water and had not discarded it.

"Woof woof!"

Xiaohei tried with a system item, and replied in surprise.

"So this works!" Xiang Beifei exclaimed.

"What works?" Elder Luo asked.

"The stream water we took last time lost its devouring ability after leaving Mao Hou, but once we arrived at Zi Hou, the water regained its devouring ability!" Xiang Beifei explained.

"So these cold airs, stream water, mud, and such, only have devouring power when they are within these Hou?" Elder Luo asked.

"Yes! That also explains why the stream water became ineffective when we wanted to study it last time because we had left the range of Mao Hou!" Xiang Beifei replied.

"This is indeed very peculiar," Elder Luo remarked thoughtfully.

"Anyway, what we need to collect should be the cold air."

Xiang Beifei turned to the cold air swirling in the sky, interweaving into a hurricane, and using breath soil, he pursued and intercepted it, wrapping one of the streams of cold air into a small water pouch. The cold air tried to break through the breath soil pouch, but failed.

"Then I'll also go find a bottle to try," Elder Luo said.

Elder Luo didn't have a container around him to hold the item, and nothing exchanged with system points would suffice. Anyway, the item wouldn't run away, so there was no urgent rush.

They found no further leads and left the snowy mountain.

Now, Elder Luo needed to consider an important matter—where exactly were the Unrestrained study's beast eggs deployed?

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Xiang Beifei let Xiaohei retrieve the two bricks, and then left Zi Hou, returning to Jiuzhou.

It was already the next day's noon.

Elder Luo hurried back to the alliance, preparing to inform other members of the alliance and then to shut down the Wufu Desolate Beast Research Company.

Xiang Beifei now had the cold air from Zi Hou, and the next step was to get some earth from Chou Hou, then to locate the position of Yin Hou.

But he first returned to Liangzhou University, planning to clear the remaining Unrestrained operatives.

Unrestrained was not merely made up of those who had transplanted beast pills; there were also those who hadn't transplanted beast pills but were powerful, such as Xu Yang, and the Dai siblings!

These martial artists, who were human but chose to abet tyranny, needed to be dealt with.

However, when Xiang Beifei returned to Liangzhou University, the Dai siblings were nowhere to be found!

"They ran quite fast."

Xiang Beifei was not surprised; such a major incident had occurred in the Unrestrained stronghold, and they could not have been uninformed. They probably realized something was wrong as soon as they discovered the stronghold had been eliminated and immediately abandoned their monitoring task.

He went to find Ye Changfeng to inquire if he had noticed where Xu Yang had gone. Just now, he had also asked Xiaohei to refine a Ghost Whiskers of Remnant Visage beast pill into a spiritual power crystal to give to Ye Changfeng.

Ye Changfeng was currently in the late stages of God Refining because Xiang Beifei was planning to leave Jiuzhou for the outer desolate realm soon, and he needed to help Ye Changfeng reach the orifice transforming stage as quickly as possible, ensuring Ye Changfeng could intimidate others.

At that moment, Ye Changfeng had just come out of his office. Seeing Xiang Beifei, his spirits lifted, and he asked, "Is the matter resolved?"

"It sort of is," Xiang Beifei responded.

"Did you find the stronghold of the Unrestrained?" Ye Changfeng asked.

"Yes, I've left it to Elder Luo to handle," Xiang Beifei nodded, "By the way, where is Xu Yang, Mr. Xu? Mr. Ye, did you notice him?"

"He's teaching; he took advanced students to the outer desolate realm this summer to search for desolate beasts," Ye Changfeng said.

"Then it seems he won't be coming back," Xiang Beifei muttered to himself.

"He will come back, don't worry. No matter where he runs, he can't escape my tracking. Did you really think I would lose track of someone that easily?" Ye Changfeng smiled calmly.

Xiang Beifei's eyes lit up: "So where is he now?"

"Let's not rush that," Ye Changfeng said, twisting his wrist and observing Xiang Beifei closely before slowly adding, "Do you still remember what you said to me when you left yesterday?"

Xiang Beifei paused and then reluctantly said, "Do I really have to answer that now?"

"Enough talk!"

Ye Changfeng waved his hand, and a long sword had already appeared in his hand.

He stood there, the sword in his hand like a pool of autumn water, emitting bursts of chilling brilliance. His figure was ethereal and transcendent, truly like a dust-free, elegant Sword Immortal.

"Draw your sword!"

Ye Changfeng pointed his sword directly at Xiang Beifei!

"Mr. Ye, why are you so insistent on sparring with me?" Xiang Beifei scratched his head and asked.

—Pretending to be ignorant! A little later, and you wouldn't be able to defeat you.

Ye Changfeng knew about Xiang Beifei's talent. He had reached the God Refining stage within a year. Who knew if next month he might directly rush to the Orifice Transforming stage?

Better take the chance to defeat him while I still can, and give him a good thrashing first!

"I had a sudden insight, and upon calculating, I found that you are the only one I can discuss the sword over wine with!" Ye Changfeng said seriously.

"Mr. Ye's swordsmanship is unparalleled in this world, I'm truly no match."

Xiang Beifei took out his Ronin Sword very perfunctorily, gave it a swing, considering that he still had to respect his senior's ego.

He might as well admit defeat—it didn't matter to him whether he saved face or not.

But just then, Ye Changfeng's phone rang. He placed his sword horizontally, saying, "Hold on, I'm taking a call, it's from Elder Luo."

He had to take Elder Luo's call, then walked to the side to listen earnestly to the call.

His expression was initially spirited during the call.

Then it became stupefied.

It solidified next!

Then incredulous?

Finally, his eyes widened!

...

Whoosh!

After hanging up the call, Ye Changfeng abruptly turned his head, staring at Xiang Beifei in shock!

"You… you… you killed an Unrestrained at the Orifice Transforming stage?" Ye Changfeng asked in disbelief.

"Oh, you mean that, just luck," Xiang Beifei said.

Ye Changfeng: "..."

Damn! How can I even compare swords now!

What the heck!

Ye Changfeng, annoyed, sheathed his sword and glared fiercely at Xiang Beifei, "You've beaten someone at the Orifice Transforming stage and you're admitting defeat to me? Admit defeat to a cactus! Why didn't you say earlier that you alone wiped out a lair with thirteen Orifice Transforming stage Unrestraineds?"

"There wasn't time to speak," Xiang Beifei said helplessly, spreading his hands.

"Sigh! It seems I was too slow after all, there's nothing I can do about you now."

Ye Changfeng felt pained.

Yet he was genuinely astounded. Elder Luo had just briefed him on the situation, and he was surprised that Xiang Beifei had such formidable strength, eradicating a lair with about a dozen Orifice Transforming stage Unrestraineds just after reaching the late stage of God Refining?

How on Jiuzhou did this little monster manage that?

Ye Changfeng's mind was troubled for a long time, but he quickly collected himself, straightened his sleeves, and said, "Elder Luo asked me to help out with the Wufu Desolate Beast Research Company at the alliance, so I need to head over there. Here, take this Tracing Sword and find Xu Yang, I've marked him, you will be able to locate him."

He flung a short sword to Xiang Beifei.

"Oh right, Mr. Ye, my Eclipse Sword just got damaged."

"Take it! All yours! Just take it!"

Ye Changfeng, full of resentment, flicked another Eclipse Sword over with his finger.

As frustrated as he was, he still had to spoil his junior.

"Thank you, Mr. Ye, take this," Xiang Beifei tossed over a white spiritual power crystal.

"What's this?" Ye Changfeng looked at the spiritual power crystal in surprise.

"A Beast Pill from an early-stage Orifice Transforming desolate beast!" Xiang Beifei explained, "I refined it into a spiritual power crystal. The spiritual power it contains is very pure and can be absorbed directly, enough to quickly nourish your soul and let you step into the Orifice Transforming stage sooner."

"An early-stage Orifice Transforming spiritual power crystal?" Ye Changfeng exclaimed.

He well knew the value of such a thing. An early-stage Orifice Transforming spiritual power crystal was equivalent to an Opening Orifice Pill; it would take him years of completing system tasks!

Ye Changfeng felt the immense spiritual power fluctuations, profoundly shocked.

This item was indeed a million times more precious than the swords he had given!

But he suppressed the excitement in his heart, and threw it back to Xiang Beifei, "Why aren't you urgently using it to nourish your own soul? Why give it to me?"

"I don't lack these things, I still have plenty. Mr. Ye must quickly cultivate to the Orifice Transforming stage, only then can you help Elder Luo."

Xiang Beifei stuffed the spiritual power crystal into Ye Changfeng's hand, smiled slightly, "Now we are on the same starting line, if Mr. Ye still thinks about treating me, there's still a chance. I'm off to find Xu Yang now."

Without waiting for Ye Changfeng to respond, he took a step and disappeared into the campus.

"Is there still a chance?"

Ye Changfeng smiled bitterly.

Forget it, no more comparing with this kid, it just adds to my own frustration.