Wilderness: I Tame Beasts to Survive

Chapter 368: Chapter 259: Consolidation 2 (Part 2)

"Getting a local guide will help us avoid some unknown traps and save us some trouble," Han Ning explained.

Lin Tianhe smiled. "Oh... is it the beautiful Abyss Beastmaster that Teacher Hom mentioned?"

"Beautiful? You’ll see for yourself in a bit whether she’s beautiful or not..." Han Ning couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

Speaking of beauties, Hom, with her Witch Spirit Race appearance, was actually a great beauty by human standards.

But she was already a married woman, Fei Lin’s mother, and, to top it all off, a Flesh Puppet created by the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm. Han Ning couldn’t muster the slightest bit of interest.

A short while later.

Ah Yu, whom they hadn’t seen for several days, ran over, tightly clutching a black stone in her hand.

When the people beside and behind him saw Ah Yu’s face—especially the men—the looks of anticipation they had for seeing a beauty instantly vanished.

Although the Hexagon Race was generally humanoid, their skin color was far from what humans considered aesthetically pleasing.

It was ashen-white, like a corpse’s, and their faces bore blood-like markings.

"Lord Han Ning!" A delighted smile spread across Ah Yu’s face when she saw Han Ning. She quickly led the Hexagon People behind her in a deep bow to him.

Han Ning nodded and sent a message with his Spiritual Power, "I need a guide to avoid the dangers along the way and take me to the outskirts of Night Nether City. Ah Yu, what do you think...?"

"I’ll go with you!" Ah Yu replied without any hesitation.

"Alright. The payment will be the same as before. There’s no time to waste, let’s go."

"Okay!" Ah Yu nodded emphatically, said something to her people, then leaped onto the back of a Black Night Demon Wolf and quickly came to Han Ning’s side.

Han Ning motioned for her to recall her Soul Beast and sit on Egg Pancake, then commanded the others to fly up and follow him.

On the way to Night Nether City, Han Ning asked casually, "Has anything happened in the Grudge Abyss in the days I’ve been gone?"

"...I heard the northern region was hit by an extremely powerful Subspace storm. A lot of the Abyssal Race died, but other places are the same as before, nothing much has happened," Ah Yu said after a moment of thought.

’Another Subspace storm? To think that even this place is starting to get ’windy’.’

Han Ning’s heart grew heavy at her words.

Logically speaking, the space near the Grudge Abyss was more unstable than the surface, so the probability of storms appearing here was higher.

According to the Alataku People’s prophecy, the Insect Queen was like a giant tumor parasitizing the Insect Continent, constantly draining its nutrients. The time when every inch of land was completely devoid of Energy and the nearby spatial barriers grew weak would be when it awoke from its hunger to devour the entire continent.

Now, the frequent appearance of Subspace storms in various places was a sign that this event was imminent.

The last time they went to Night Nether City, they were only escorted by Qingyao, who was at the peak of the Lord Level. This time, Qingyao had become a Monarch Level Soul Beast and was even holding a precious Soul Artifact. Along the way, no Soul Beast could hinder their progress.

Several thousand kilometers passed in a flash.

The seemingly eternal Wall of Fireflies on the outskirts of Night Nether City came into view.

Such a magnificent sight once again drew gasps of amazement from the Beast Masters.

Even the well-traveled Beast Masters of the Dragon Blood Race were exceptionally astonished.

Their large, lizard-like heads shook back and forth, making for a rather comical sight.

...

「The outskirts of Night Nether City.」

A group of several dozen uninvited guests arrived amidst a pile of rubble and ruins.

Three Star Cores, emitting an eerie starlight, immediately captured everyone’s attention.

"Listen up. I’m sure you can all feel it. The Spiritual Pressure and radiation here far exceed the outside world. We will establish our residence near the Wall of Fireflies, not close to the three Star Cores."

"You can only approach within one kilometer of the Star Cores after you’ve broken through to Tier Three and have the protection of a Lord Level Soul Beast’s Spiritual Shield. Any future trips to the Cosmic Light Tower must be led by a Lord Level Soul Beast. Do not, under any circumstances, act alone. If you do, your body will be affected by the intense radiation and become cancerous. When that happens, I fear that not even Advanced Purification Soul Techniques will be able to cleanse the endlessly dividing cancer cells from your system."

"Without the protection of a Lord Soul Beast, a Tier Two Beastmaster must never go within three kilometers of the Star Cores."

Han Ning’s expression was grave. His sharp gaze swept over everyone’s face as he said in a deep voice,

"Did you hear me?"

"We heard you!" the crowd replied in unison.

"Good. Now, clear away this rubble, find a suitable spot, and build a temporary shelter. Once the shelter is built, I’ll take you to see the Cosmic Light Tower."

"Yes, sir!"

While his companions were busy cleaning up the area, Han Ning sat down on a relatively clean, flat piece of ground. He took out the materials Akatos had provided for crafting the Soul Nourishing Soul Artifact and began to study them.

Because the Taiyin Soul-Vibrating Technique provided detailed crafting instructions, and his panel offered real-time "AR" marker prompts, the difficulty of creating the Soul Artifact was drastically reduced.

The full name of this Soul Nourishing Soul Artifact was the "Soul Nesting Pearl." Its base was a crystalline ore, naturally formed from the absorption of dense Dark Energy. Various Spiritual Energy Circuits, designed to nurture Residual Souls, were to be etched upon its surface.

The Spiritual Energy Circuits on the Soul Nesting Pearl were a completely different discipline from Professor Hom’s Alatak and Witch Spirit Spirit Patterns.

Han Ning was simply following a template, using a special Spiritual Pen to continuously carve mystical patterns onto the spherical Crystal Stone according to his panel’s guidance.

He had been carving this Soul Nesting Pearl for several days now, ever since he first received the materials, and he was finally nearing the end.

Countless intricate patterns crisscrossed over its surface, faintly forming magical images.

A closer look revealed distorted images of lotus flowers, bamboo, and immortal cranes.

As the Soul Nesting Pearl neared completion, large flakes of crystal were shaved off onto the ground by Han Ning’s Spiritual Pen.

It had started out the size of a human head but had gradually been whittled down into a smooth, fist-sized pearl, pitch-black in color with a faint fluorescence flowing across its surface.

If not for the panel marking every single line in detail, Han Ning really wouldn’t have been confident in his ability to carve the irregular ore into a small sphere, stroke by painstaking stroke.

Even so, he had still failed several times. Fortunately, Akatos had provided enough raw ore for him to have plenty of chances to practice.

This was his fifth attempt.

With his whole body and mind invested in the task, he gradually forgot the sounds of his companions moving heavy objects and talking amongst themselves.

It was as if his world had narrowed to only the gradually rounding black ore and the constantly moving, sharp Spiritual Pen.

An unknown amount of time passed before a ghastly, cold wind suddenly kicked up in this relatively stable corner of Night Nether City.

The people busy building the temporary shelter abruptly felt the surrounding temperature plummet.

To their surprise, they discovered that the area around Han Ning was already covered in a layer of ethereal blue ice.

A faint black mist, visible to the naked eye, surged from all directions into the increasingly round pearl in his hand.

Throughout this process, his right hand never stopped vibrating rapidly at a constant frequency, continuously making the pearl’s curvature even smoother.

At the same time, more and more patterns of unknown meaning appeared on the surface of the black pearl.

"Is this the Soul Nourishing Soul Artifact unique to you humans? What powerful Soul Absorption." Hom stood at the forefront of the crowd, shoulder-to-shoulder with Luo Chen, staring intently at the completely engrossed Han Ning, her tone filled with astonishment.

’Unique to humans?’ The humans behind her exchanged glances but said nothing.

"Leave two people to watch him. The rest of you, get back to work." Leon, the oldest member of the study group, waved his hand, breaking up the crowd of onlookers and taking on the responsibility of organizing them.

「About an hour later.」

A strange, cold wind materialized out of thin air in a corner of Night Nether City and spread outward at extreme speed.

This mystical, cold wind seemed to have disturbed the Residual Souls that had been slumbering here for countless years.

In an instant, the cold wind erupted throughout Night Nether City, and a chilling aura permeated the air.

Just then, Han Ning, who had been completely lost in his work, slowly began to come back to his senses.

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