Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 36 Hidden Crisis

"Uncle, how are you? Are you alright? Oh, by the way, this is that guy's body. I've put it all in this ring."

After finding the tiger-man's corpse among countless piles of rocks, Yaqi hurriedly returned and handed a spatial ring to Hunzhen.

Honri took it as a matter of course, coughed, and said hoarsely, "Although I really wanted to pretend I was fine... but, it seems... I've been too presumptuous, too presumptuous!"

As he spoke, he revealed a heartbroken expression.

The two little ones were naturally ashamed of the threat they had brought upon themselves, and quickly came over to rub their shoulders and backs.

"Alright, that commotion just now probably attracted some powerful monster. I've almost recovered, let's get out of here quickly."

Upon hearing this, Yachi glanced at the natural barrier that had already disappeared.

With endless snowstorms pouring in, it won't be long before this place, which can be called a paradise within the fiery hell realm, is completely assimilated into other dangerous places.

This was a rare find for him, like a secret base. Thinking of this, Yaqi couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.

But the experiences he had gone through during this time had helped him grow a lot. Suppressing his negative emotions, he asked, "Uncle, do you have any good places to go?"

Hunzhen casually pointed ahead: "There is an abandoned human camp a thousand kilometers ahead. That's where I stayed before. I've done some minor modifications so that ordinary fire beasts won't approach."

Yaki's eyes lit up at the suggestion: "Let's go there!"

He secretly admired him, thinking, "No wonder he's an older man; he can actually create a place like this."

Then he gave A-Yuan a wink, and together they lifted Hunzhen up.

Hunzhen rolled his eyes: "Alright, alright, I don't need you to be my mounts. Just carry me onto the big guys' backs."

"what?"

Yaqi looked in astonishment at the rhinoceros fire beast in the distance, which seemed to be petrified.

Hunzhen gave him a strange look and said, "You don't think this guy is dead, do you? It's just pretending to be dead to avoid getting involved in the battle. This guy has no other abilities, but in terms of survival skills, even ten of those tiger-men can't compare to it."

Seemingly hearing Hunzhen's mockery, the rhinoceros-fire beast "slowly awoke" and opened its eyes.

Yaki and Ayen stared at each other, and carrying Hunzhen, they arrived on the back of the rhinoceros fire beast and headed into the distance.

The Rhinoceros Flame Beast system is like a giant mountain, yet it moves with almost no noise.

"Uncle, how did you manage to tame such a huge monster?"

"Hehe, want to hear it? Then let me tell you the story slowly..."

The wind and snow concealed the giant beast's silhouette.

Two days after they left, as the red snow began to thin, dozens of figures arrived at the site of the remains on the mountain peak.

They were not ferocious fire beasts, but a disciplined human hunting team.

They were naturally drawn here by the strong fluctuations that had occurred here two days prior.

"Boss, there's no mistake, these are the marks left by the tiger-headed, human-bodied fire beast that fought us half a month ago!"

A thin man with a pointed mouth and monkey-like face solemnly summarized and reported the information he had just collected from the pile of rocks.

"Oh?"

A man over two and a half meters tall, with a physique comparable to a ferocious beast, yet a head only the size of a normal man's, said, "An extremely fierce battle took place here, causing the original 'Crescent Moon Mountain' to collapse. You say one of them was the tiger-man, but who is the other?"

The thin man frowned and answered truthfully, "It should be a psychic, but... boss, something's strange. This person's psychic energy fluctuations haven't dissipated after all this time; it looks like they deliberately left traces for us. But, something doesn't make sense. Who left such a clue, and for what reason?"

Is it possible that...?

The leader of the small group swung his index finger and said, "He was already seriously injured before fighting the tiger-men, so he couldn't perfectly control his psychic power, which is why his psychic power was wasted and leaked?"

"this……"

The thin man paused, then his eyes lit up: "This explains everything perfectly!"

"Vice Captain!"

A shout rang out as a scout, having gathered the remaining information, stepped forward.

The thin man nodded: "Just say it."

The man quickly replied, "We've already obtained the approximate results! The tiger-man was most likely killed in the previous battle; this is his last remaining information. The other person he fought was a human psychic; we also detected his solidified blood residue on some rubble on the battlefield!"

Having received this corroborating information, the thin deputy captain and the small leader exchanged a glance, their eyes gleaming.

The leader grinned and said, "This uninvited guest has entered our Flame Fang Squad's territory without being invited. It's perfectly reasonable for him to apologize for this, isn't it?"

"What the boss says is absolutely right."

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The thin man replied.

Several days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Thousands of kilometers away from the Crescent Moon Mountain ruins, at a simple mechanical camp, on the back of a giant rhinoceros, there is a comfortable-looking old man's chair.

Under the parasol, on the old chair, Hunzhen, wearing sunglasses, lay comfortably, enjoying a half-shaded sunbath.

"Uncle, here's your grilled meat!"

"Uncle, the iced cola is ready!"

Not far from the old man's chair, Ayano was busy at the barbecue grill, while Yaki was mixing up some delightful spirit drinks at the bar.

At first, the two children refused this kind of work.

But when Hunzhen presented the two golden signs that read "Fresh meat can help me recover my body" and "Cola can soothe my wounded soul," the two sighed and had no choice but to comply.

As laborers, they did their best, but on the other hand, they also found some joy in it.

Compared to the past few months of living a life of hardship and hiding, life is now incredibly carefree.

Most importantly, the delicious food prepared every day is not enjoyed alone by Hunzhen, but is shared by both of them based on the principle that he provides the ingredients and the two children provide the cooking skills.

As Hunzhen watched the two boys complaining on the surface but eating the food with gusto, he felt a sense of satisfaction from their mischievousness.

What the two were unaware of was that, with Hunzhen's wealth, although his physical and spiritual injuries were severe, if he had used the precious resources he had prepared when entering the Realm of Inferno, his injuries would have been healed long ago.

But nowadays, they only have the flesh of the Flame Beast and some ordinary spiritual water.

Not to mention the extremely difficult-to-heal soul wounds, even the physical injuries have only recovered to about 10% or 20% so far.

His soul injury has only recovered to about one percent, meaning he's practically back to his original state after the battle with the tiger-men.

"Um?"

Hunzhen suddenly raised an eyebrow and looked at the distant sky: "Has it finally arrived?"

(End of this chapter)