Gao Wu: Others practice martial arts, but you cultivate immortality?

A few strange creatures were left inside the Myriad Soul Banner for research, while most of the other strange creatures had their wills erased and were then released by Chu Yuan as cheat codes.

His initial intention was simply to make some noise to determine if there were any strange and powerful figures lurking in the starry sky, but he later realized that he was really lacking in imagination!

He could totally use this place as a monster spawner!

If they stayed here for hundreds or thousands of years, they would surely fill the entire Ten Thousand Souls Banner...

However, he couldn't possibly stay here for that long;

Furthermore, the powerful beings in the strange realm are not fools; they wouldn't let him expend so much energy... Therefore, Chu Yuan decided to settle for second best and take them all down in one fell swoop!

The Soul Palace has been peaceful for two years; it's time to get back to work...

......

Inside the grand hall, a giant bird on the throne gently flapped its rotting fleshy wings;

"What is the situation of the newborn members of the clan?"

"My lord! It's thriving! It's thriving everywhere!"

"Once these tribesmen grow up, we will surely receive the lord's reward!" shouted a large, round head.

"...Go down."

The big-headed man was full of questions. It was clearly good news, so why did the adult seem so uninterested?

Little did he know, his superior was also troubled at that moment...

The fact that the quality and quantity of the new strange creatures were both met is naturally a good thing.

But they probably won't get the lord's reward... Two years ago, the devastating scene in the starry sky terrified the lord. After that, the lord was single-mindedly focused on being transferred and kept submitting applications to his superiors. He had no time to think about rewards.

I'm afraid the lord no longer cares about any new members of the race.

But you can't blame the lord... to be honest, he wanted to run away too;

When the special envoy from the Sixteenth Realm first arrived, he was blasted to smithereens. How could his small body withstand that?

With a sigh in his heart, the giant bird still got up, preparing to report the good news to the lord.

He arrived at a palace built of bones and respectfully said, "Lord! Good news! Our race has been reborn..."

"Get out!" A furious shout echoed from the main hall...

......

"What did you do!?" Yan Fan's pupils contracted the instant he saw Lina;

He actually sensed an extremely strong sense of pressure from Lina!

Is this reasonable?

He knew that Lina secretly cultivated every night for about eight hours... but he himself cultivated for more than sixteen hours every day! He only used the remaining few hours to deal with the affairs of the Soul Palace;

What makes Lina think she can surpass herself?

Furthermore, Lina's cultivation level was clearly only so-so when she left...

"I didn't do anything?" Lina asked, somewhat bewildered, then asked nervously, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with me?"

"Of course not, it's a good thing..." Yan Fan said after a moment of silence, looking even more puzzled.

Doesn't this woman even know that her strength has increased?

"How did you suddenly become so much stronger?"

A memory suddenly surfaced in Lina's mind, and she blurted out, "It's a monster... On my way back, I encountered a monster slaughtering a village, so I ate it!"

"It only devoured a strange creature?" Yan Fan was even more puzzled;

Everyone has experienced the bizarre; it's nothing new to us.

Yan Fan even developed a method to refine weak and strange creatures into pills... but how could simply devouring them allow a tenth-realm spiritualist to advance to the eleventh realm?

Lina frowned, more 'memories' surfacing in her mind;

"It says...it comes from the temple?"

"Wasn't the temple destroyed by us long ago?"

"No, it is a true temple...the place where the gods reside;"

"Above the stars!?" The two simultaneously turned their gaze to the grotesque statue inside the hall;

This thing was originally used by the temple to 'enlighten' people, but after the Soul Palace inherited everything from the temple, this thing could still be used normally... However, Yan Fan had no intention of worshipping any gods;

And he has always believed that there is something wrong with the spiritualists in the temple system... so this thing has been left here all this time.

But now, an unavoidable problem lies before them... They seem to have found the source of the strangeness!?

Yan Fan activated the secret technique inherited from the temple, and the ferocious statue released a chill.

Then several small, eerie creatures emerged from within...

A black shadow flashed behind Yan Fan, swallowing the strange creatures whole in one gulp;

The strength has hardly changed... Could it be that only the special and bizarre things in the so-called 'temple' can do this?

Above the stars...

Yan Fan wasn't surprised that the source of the strangeness was found so easily.

He discovered during the battle with the temple that the temple had long since distorted the concept of "fighting the strange with the strange" passed down from the ancestors of the Phantom Silk Clan!

The ancient sages believed in subduing the supernatural and integrating it into the body;

The strange entity that the spirit was supposed to merge with should have been something they captured themselves... or something they captured with the help of others.

But it's definitely not about praying to some random god and then receiving a generous gift... So, it's not hard to guess that there's a strange source behind the temple.

Why did they show up so early?

Is it because the temple was destroyed and the so-called gods no longer had "offerings" that they personally descended to the mortal realm to eat?

If it's truly because there were no more offerings that they had to take matters into their own hands... then it seems the so-called gods aren't very powerful after all.

And there is a fatal problem;

Yan Fan didn't know why the so-called gods didn't appear after the Soul Palace replaced the Temple, but if it were him, he definitely wouldn't let the Soul Palace go!

It's not that we need to eliminate them, but at the very least, we need to take down their lackeys, right?

Countless speculations surfaced in Yan Fan's mind...

But now he knows one thing;

It's time to prepare for the battle...

......

Yan Fan was very eager. After making another breakthrough in his strength, he personally went to explore the starry sky.

He actually found the magnificent, sprawling palace complex that stretched across the sky.

Before he could even get close enough to investigate, a powerful and eerie creature appeared, leaving him completely disoriented...

But he survived in the end;

It wasn't because his methods were particularly clever, but because... that powerful monster seemed to have no intention of killing him at all?

Yan Fan saw its eyes; this was the first time he had ever seen such intelligent eyes in a strange creature.

Its gaze toward itself was filled with satisfaction, like an old farmer looking at the crops he had carefully tended;

At the same time, it's like an elder looking at a junior clan leader...

That look made Yan Fan feel disgusted and shudder...

He did not back down because of the strange and powerful nature of the creature; on the contrary, he became even more eager!

A strong intuition told him that he couldn't wait any longer...