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Chapter 082: Ye Fan's Disappointment
🕑 Added 2023-05-07 22:43:08 +0000 UTC
Following that event,
"My precious! Let's move!"
Jiang Chen's lips curled into a grin as he channeled a copious amount of Yuan Power into the Black Crystal Sky Piercing Shuttle.
In a flash!
He transformed into an afterimage and vanished from the spot!
Nonetheless, the protagonist Ye Fan remained entirely oblivious to this.
He soared ahead, his face brimming with anticipation, hoping to come across more blood-colored humanoid giant monsters.
As time gradually elapsed,
"It's appeared again!"
Jiang Chen, piloting the Black Crystal Sky Piercing Shuttle, once more detected a blood-colored humanoid giant monster.
This time, the monster had reached the Middle-stage Mysterious Platform realm!
Nevertheless,
To Jiang Chen, there was no distinction between Early-stage and Middle-stage Mysterious Platform realm monsters.
"Shadowblade Sword! Slay!"
Jiang Chen fiercely accelerated the Black Crystal Sky Piercing Shuttle, and the Shadowblade Sword in his grasp gathered an immense amount of cold Qi, decapitating the monster with a single, swift strike!
By now,
He had entirely grasped the monster's vulnerability.
The most significant weakness of these blood-colored humanoid monsters lay in their heads, or to be more precise, the golden-red inner core within.
As long as the golden-red inner core was extracted, they would perish instantaneously.
However,
Despite being a vulnerability, the monster's head was, in fact, the most robust part of its body.
Therefore,
This weakness was only relevant to those like Jiang Chen, who could instantly penetrate their defenses and eliminate them in mere seconds.
If it were an average Mysterious Platform realm cultivator, they would be incapable of shattering the monster's head and could only whittle it down to demise.
At this moment,
Jiang Chen effortlessly cleaved a monster with a single sword, extracted the golden-red inner core from half of its skull, and then unleashed a surge of fire to incinerate the monster's remains entirely.
The entire procedure had become highly adept by now.
At this time,
[Ding! You have successfully seized a portion of protagonist Ye Fan's opportunities, Ye Fan's Heavenly Fate Value has decreased by 100 points!]
[Ding! You have acquired 200 points of Villain Value!]
The system prompt resonated once more.
'It appears,'
'The disparity between Early-stage and Middle-stage Mysterious Platform realm blood-colored monsters is not significant; both reduce 100 points of Heavenly Fate Value.'
'Furthermore, vanquishing a single blood-colored monster individually yields far more than the average gain from eliminating thirteen monsters.'
'I surmise that each time I snatch a monster from Ye Fan now, it counts as a seizing opportunity event!'
'...'
While contemplating, Jiang Chen tossed a handful of restorative medicinal pills into his mouth, then utilized the Aura Finder Smoke to pinpoint Ye Fan's location.
However, the smoke from the Aura Finder Smoke wafted towards the back.
This signified that Ye Fan had yet to change his course and was continuing his search in Jiang Chen's direction.
"Excellent!"
"Now, proceed forward and seize more monsters!"
Jiang Chen's lips curled upward, spurring the Black Crystal Sky Piercing Shuttle to soar ahead.
At the rear.
'What's happening?'
'Could it be that there are no more blood-colored monsters nearby? I haven't encountered any in such a long while!'
'In the beginning, there were thirteen, no, fourteen of them all at once!'
'Logically, the density of monsters should not be this low at the moment.'
'Is it because my luck is just that terrible?'
Ye Fan furrowed his brow, feeling a touch of annoyance in his heart.
After all this time, he still hadn't gained anything.
He couldn't shake the feeling that it wasn't supposed to be this way.
Feeling slightly disheartened and perplexed, Ye Fan continued to advance.
Not long after.
Some dubious traces materialized within the range of his divine sense.
"Is this... a battleground?"
"These footprints belong to the blood-colored monsters!"
"But it appears that the blood-colored monsters have already been slain by someone else!"
"No wonder I haven't come across any blood-colored monsters for so long. It seems someone else got to them first!"
Ye Fan examined the traces on the ground, and a look of understanding dawned in his eyes.
Immediately after.
He knit his brows.
The blood-colored monsters held great significance to him, but now someone else had arrived before him and taken one away.
'No matter.'
'The golden-red inner core of these blood-colored monsters is quite peculiar, and they won't be able to figure out its use for some time. They'll likely hold onto it.'
'If there's an opportunity in the future, I'll attempt to barter it back from them!'
'With some cultivation methods and in-depth insights at the perfect level, I'm confident they'll be more than eager.'
With this thought, Ye Fan's spirits lifted somewhat, and he continued his search ahead.
It was not unusual for someone else to have arrived first and slain a blood-colored monster.
Surely, others wouldn't always reach the prey before him, right?
He was bound to encounter one eventually!
Ye Fan believed that he would soon discover the third blood-colored monster.
However!
Time steadily ticked away.
He had been advancing for quite a while, yet he hadn't come across a single blood-colored monster again!
Instead, along the path, he stumbled upon evidence of at least ten different monster battles.
In other words.
At least ten monsters had been vanquished by others!
Even the monsters' remains were obliterated.
As for the destruction of the monsters' carcasses, Ye Fan harbored no doubts.
Monsters possessed immense vitality, and when cultivators confronted them, it was customary to cautiously reduce their bones to ashes.
However.
What caused Ye Fan to furrow his brow was, who could have slain more than ten monsters?
Judging by the remnants on the battlefield, each battle was rapid and decisive, and the individual who defeated the monsters was evidently quite formidable!
But.
In the previous five major sects, there was no such powerful figure.
Even if it was Jiang Chen who had concealed his true strength, he was only marginally more potent than Ye Fan.
Slaying a monster in its prime wouldn't be such an effortless feat!
If it had been a collaborative effort, the battle traces left behind would be even less likely to be so sparse.
'It seems that the top ten sects truly harbor hidden dragons and crouching tigers.'
'Besides Jiang Chen, there are individuals even mightier than him! I must exercise greater caution.'
With this in mind, the notion of hunting blood-colored monsters in Ye Fan's thoughts significantly diminished.
At the very least.
In this vicinity, Ye Fan had no desire to continue hunting the blood-colored monsters.
Primarily, the monsters had been nearly eradicated, and secondarily, a perilous enigmatic expert lurked in this region.
'I have no choice but to change course and leave this area for now.'
Ye Fan's figure altered its trajectory, veering towards a different direction.
Simultaneously.
"Hmm?"
"The Aura Finder Smoke's direction has shifted?"
"It appears that Ye Fan has abandoned his pursuit of monsters in this area, intending to venture elsewhere!"
"Heh heh, Ye Fan, regardless of your actions, I will always remain one step ahead!"
Jiang Chen's lips twisted into a frosty grin, and he promptly commanded the Black Crystal Sky Piercing Shuttle to alter its course, maneuvering around to reach the area ahead of Ye Fan.
En route.
He extended his divine sense into the Moondust Ring, discovering twelve additional golden-red inner cores within.
These had been acquired from slaying the blood-colored monsters subsequently.
Counting the initial thirteen and the first one, there was a sum of twenty-six monster inner cores!
'I cannot utilize these cores at the moment.'
'I must determine whether they can be employed later, or bide my time until I vanquish Ye Fan and seize his jade token before putting them to use!'
Jiang Chen's thoughts stirred, prompting him to examine his panel.
From the blood-colored monsters he had slain thereafter, he had accrued 2,400 points of Villain Value, while simultaneously reducing Ye Fan's Heavenly Fate Value by 1,200 points.
