Luoshui County.
The drastic changes in the County Town had made the originally prosperous County Town significantly more desolate. The street vendors who used to roam the streets were now basically nowhere to be seen, and even most of the shops on both sides had their doors tightly shut, displaying 'Closed' signs.
Pedestrians walked by on the streets, their expressions hurried. More often, there were fully armed officers and constables.
Too much had happened in just one day, completely exceeding people's expectations.
Not only had the two major local powers in the city, Red Flower House and Haihe Gang, completely disappeared and been annihilated, but even the county yamen had suffered heavy losses. County Lieutenant Sun Wenbo and Commander Wu He had died tragically.
Imperial Court officials taking action – it had been many years since something like this had happened.
In the courtyard.
Big Yellow lay lazily on the ground basking in the sun, his black gem-like eyes half-closed, seemingly quite enjoying himself.
Not far from him was a jade basin, filled with large, well-smoked dried meat, from which emanated an inviting aroma.
Big Yellow occasionally and lazily raised his head, picked out a piece of dried meat from the jade basin, and swallowed it whole.
“Woof... woof!!”
On the other side of the courtyard, Big Yellow looked at this scene with longing eyes.
His eyes were fixed on the dried meat in the jade basin, his mouth was open, and streams of transparent, sticky saliva flowed out, already soaking a large area on the ground.
Seeing Big Yellow's lazy and comfortable appearance, Big Yellow bared his teeth and let out strange cries.
However, Big Yellow acted as if he hadn't heard, picked out another piece of dried meat from the jade plate and swallowed it, then squinted at Big Yellow, his black eyes full of disdain.
Watching the dried meat in the jade basin being continuously swallowed by Big Yellow, Big Yellow finally couldn't help but bark a few times, then darted towards the jade basin.
Seeing this scene, Big Yellow's eyes showed some surprise, as if he hadn't expected a mere ordinary beast to actually charge over.
One should know that the hierarchy among Spirit Beasts is extremely strict.
As a top-tier Elementary Level Spirit Beast, he had a Bloodline suppression effect on ordinary beasts.
Ordinary beasts, upon seeing him, would not only dare not approach, but would probably be scared stiff, unable to move.
Seeing Big Yellow trying to snatch food from the tiger's mouth, Big Yellow opened his mouth and a ball of black mist directly enveloped Big Yellow.
Soon, as the black mist dispersed, Big Yellow stood frozen in place, his mouth askew, his tongue hanging down, saliva flowing in a continuous stream, his eyes full of a dazed and foolish expression.
Seeing this, Big Yellow's expression of mockery deepened.
After picking up another piece of dried meat from the jade basin and swallowing it, he lay down lazily again and squint eye in the sun.
At this moment, a dirt-yellow shadow suddenly darted over. Before Big Yellow could react, it had already moved far away.
Big Yellow was stunned. Only then did he see Big Yellow, who had been silly and foolish just now, already holding two pieces of dried meat in his mouth and running to a corner of the courtyard, wolfing them down.
While eating, his brown-yellow eyes were still looking at Big Yellow, his eyes full of a smug smile.
Caw!
Seeing this, Big Yellow was immediately furious and flapped his wings, about to charge towards Big Yellow.
As if sensing the threat, Big Yellow quickly held another piece of dried meat and shot into the room like an arrow.
Big Yellow followed closely behind.
Immediately, there was a commotion in the room, but it quickly quieted down.
Lin Sheng came out of the room, carrying Big Yellow in one hand and Big Yellow in the other.
He casually threw Big Yellow out, and the latter immediately flapped his wings and landed on the large tree in the courtyard.
“I haven't seen you, you mutt, for a while, but you've made quite some progress.”
Lifting Big Yellow in his hand, Lin Sheng's face showed a hint of surprise.
With his perception, he naturally saw everything that happened in the courtyard.
Big Yellow's black mist had a very strong hallucinogenic poison, with a significant hallucinatory effect.
Even without using his full strength, it should not have been possible for Big Yellow, a mere intermediate-level ordinary beast, to resist it.
Moreover, Big Yellow had just escaped from the hallucination in just a breath's time.
At this moment, holding Big Yellow, a series of information appeared on the panel with a thought.
【Beast Name: Rural Native Dog (Ordinary)】
【A common native dog in the countryside, with strong vitality, abundant energy, gluttonous, extremely timid, carrying a trace of the Bloodline of the Demonic Beast Di Wen Dog. Due to long-term consumption of a large amount of Spirit Beast flesh and blood for nourishment, the Bloodline potential has been strengthened to a certain extent. This is an ordinary beast with a certain potential, which is about to break through the shackles and advance to a Spirit Beast. If further developed, there is still potential to be unearthed, of course, the price is a massive amount of Spirit Beast flesh and blood...】
【Ingestion Effect: Perception Increase 5 Agility Increase 4】
“As expected, the Bloodline potential has increased somewhat. Perception has actually reached 5 points, no wonder it was able to escape Little Black's hallucination, and it also gained 4 points of agility increase.”
Seeing Big Yellow's attribute changes, Lin Sheng showed an expression of 'as expected'.
Although no talent appeared, compared to the previous perception increase attribute of only three points, the current Big Yellow has undergone a transformative change.
“Demonic Beast Di Wen Dog, what kind of demonic beast is it?”
Since he discovered Big Yellow's hidden Bloodline, he had also specifically searched for introductions about the Di Wen Dog, but unfortunately, he did not find any related records.
Therefore, this Demonic Beast Di Wen Dog might be an ancient demonic beast that has long been extinct, for who knows how many years.
From a 3-point attribute increase to a surge of 9 points, such a huge improvement, made him somewhat surprised.
“If it can cross the threshold of a Spirit Beast, there should be a considerable improvement. It really has the potential to be cultivated.”
Looking at Big Yellow, who was still holding the dried meat in his mouth while being held by him, Lin Sheng shook his head slightly again.
“Forget it, let's just let nature take its course.”
He now had many Spirit Beasts ingested, and even several high-level Spirit Beasts, so he was not very interested in Elementary Level Spirit Beasts.
He kept Big Yellow by his side, treating him as a mascot, and didn't really expect him to grow to what extent.
He flicked his hand and threw Big Yellow onto the ground. Big Yellow cleverly took the opportunity to pick up two more pieces of dried meat from the basin and darted back to Lin Sheng's feet. While eating, he glanced at Little Black on the tree with a smug look, making the latter repeatedly let out strange cries.
Ignoring the two, Lin Sheng sat by the stone table in the courtyard and lightly clapped his hands.
The next moment, a strong figure appeared in the courtyard. The person was none other than the Leader of the Red Mountain Six Ghosts.
“A'da, how is the evacuation going?”
“Reporting to Gongzi, the evacuation is basically complete. As for the many Spirit Beasts in the manor, they have also been sent out in batches.”
“Very good, you can go too.”
Hearing this, Lin Sheng nodded and waved his hand.
“Yes, Gongzi.”
A'da responded, and his figure quickly disappeared into the courtyard.
When he first arrived at Luoshui County, he had already sent people to prepare a second plan, so that if any accidents occurred, they could quickly evacuate to a safe location.
If he couldn't stay in Luoshui County, he had also made arrangements in other County Towns.
So he didn't have to be as helpless as he was after evacuating from the Congyun Mountains, having to rely on the help of the Dark Star Organization.
As for himself, he had no concerns. He had now entered the Bones Transformation Realm. Although the fourth imprint had not yet been activated, his strength had improved significantly compared to when he was in the Congyun Mountains.
When facing the God-Form martial artist from the Reverse Tenth Floor again, even if he was not his opponent, the gap would not be very large, and he was fully confident in protecting himself.
God-Form martial artist could be considered a top master in a prefecture. Now, he had the ability to protect himself in front of the top masters who suppressed a prefecture.
“It's just this Beast Suppression Army...”
He thought of his encounter when he broke into the county yamen a few days ago.
The strength of those beast-transformed martial artists was greatly enhanced.
Especially the strength that Tie He erupted with in the end.
Although he could not be compared with a God-Form martial artist, he could definitely be considered the strongest person he had seen in the Bones Transformation Realm, much stronger than Wu Xing Sword Shi Hui and the like.
One should know that Tie He's original strength had only just entered the fifth level of Bones Transformation. In terms of actual combat power, he was not even as good as Yuan Zhongfei, and was only slightly on par with Xie Qingyun.
After all, it was just a Gang force in a County Town, and its foundation was still far from being comparable to the Seven Forms Sect.
The method that could increase the strength of such an ordinary Bones Transformation martial artist by several times was undeniably powerful.
Especially that black single eye.
Thinking of that strange black eye, Lin Sheng's eyes narrowed slightly.
It could be said that the main reason for Tie He's surge in strength was that black single eye, which directly beast-transformed him to the limit.
And he already had some understanding of that black single eye.
“Are Void Beasts really that terrifying?”
With a thought, a series of information appeared on the panel.
【Beast Name: Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord (Void Beast)】
【Appearing as a fusion of a giant octopus and human skeleton, covered in black tumors, with a thousand eyes on the tumors, possessing extremely strong contamination ability. This is a powerful and terrifying extraterrestrial Spirit Beast, which had almost crossed the Void Beast shackles and entered a higher Realm, but unfortunately, it failed at the last moment and died, its remains drifting in the extraterrestrial space for a hundred years before falling into this Realm. This Spirit Beast has extremely strong contamination ability, even a remnant corpse still possesses mysterious and unpredictable power.】
【Ingestion Requirements: Spirit 14 Perception 15 Enlightenment】
【Ingestion Effects: Spirit Increase 14 Perception Increase 15 Strength Increase 15 Constitution Increase 15】
【Talent: Fear Devour】
【Talent: Corrupting Contamination】
【Talent: Thousand-Eyed Manifestation】
Even though he had checked this series of information more than once.
But every time, he couldn't help but feel shocked.
This was the first time he had seen the legendary Void Beast.
Even now, he knew very little about this terrifying existence, only knowing that it was a terrifying existence much more powerful than demonic beasts.
And its information and attributes completely exceeded his expectations. This was a Spirit Beast far more powerful than the Scarlet Eye Flame Dragon.
A total of 59 attribute points was something he could not have imagined before. One should know that even the Scarlet Eye Flame Dragon's attribute increase was only a little over 30 points, and the latter could be said to be among the top tier of demonic beasts.
When flipping through the records of ancient beasts that had long been extinct in ancient times, he had also thought about the power of these Void Beasts, but it was far less shocking than the powerful Void Beast named Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord in front of him.
Aside from the high attribute increase, there were also three talent attributes, which was also the first time he had seen this.
Although the information obtained from the panel was not much, he also derived many astonishing speculations.
This so-called Beast Suppression Army, or rather, this beast transformation method, was probably inseparable from this terrifying fierce beast.
Combining what he had seen and heard, it was not difficult to reach a conclusion.
The remains of this terrifying fierce beast from outside the Realm were obtained by the Imperial Court, and the Imperial Court, through some method, used its remains to create this terrifying method.
“The System says that this Void Beast has extremely strong contamination ability, so what does this contamination refer to?”
Lin Sheng thought about the changes in Tie He after the single eye was ingested, and after a while, he shook his head slightly.
“Forget it, thinking so much is useless. I don't know if the Great Yan Imperial Court has discovered this, but no matter what, the Great Yan Imperial Court is playing with fire.”
Although this Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord was a Void Beast, it was a terrifying Spirit Beast that was almost about to cross this level. Other Void Beasts were probably far from being comparable to it.
Although this beast had great value, it was also extremely dangerous.
This was the conclusion he reached.
“If that remnant corpse is still there, I wonder if I can ingest it.”
Lin Sheng muttered in his heart, but soon smiled wryly and extinguished this unrealistic idea.
Not to mention that this Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord was originally a remnant corpse and had been consumed by various experiments by the Imperial Court, the possibility of it meeting the consumption required for ingestion was unlikely.
Even if it was enough for him to ingest, its high ingestion requirements were far beyond what he could currently achieve.
The requirement of fourteen points of spirit attribute seemed not much compared to other increased attributes, but the difficulty of increasing spirit attribute was much higher than other attributes.
Even now, his spirit attribute was only just four points.
Thinking of the terror of this Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord.
Lin Sheng had already made up his mind in his heart. No matter what, it was better to stay away from the Beast Suppression Army in the future.
While thinking in his heart, he suddenly turned his head to look at the eaves on one side, as if he had sensed something.
There were a few withered yellow leaves falling there.
“A hallucination?”
Lin Sheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyebrows seemed to relax.
However, the next moment, his body suddenly erupted.
A thick dark green force shot out, aiming at the eaves.
As the force landed, a black umbrella suddenly unfolded from the eaves.
The fierce force landed on the umbrella surface and was instantly swallowed, without causing any ripples.
“Hehe... you're despicable enough, I like it...”
A light laugh sounded from the eaves, the black umbrella closed, revealing a petite figure.
“Very keen perception, and the force is not bad. Coupled with cunning and despicable, no wonder Sister Qi values you so much.”
As the figure spoke, she landed on the ground without a sound.
This was a charming young woman with a height of only a little over 1.5 meters.
Such a height was quite short in this ancient world.
However, the woman had fair skin, and although she was not tall, her proportions were good, and her features were soft and beautiful, making her look quite clever and cute, like a young lady from a noble family.
“You know Senior Qi?”
Hearing the woman's words, Lin Sheng raised an eyebrow, and the surging force that appeared on his hands did not subside.
Seeing this, the charming young woman covered her mouth and smiled, looking at Lin Sheng with interest.
“Cautious enough, I like it. Here, this should prove my identity...”
As the woman spoke, she flicked her finger, and a delicate and small emblem shot out.