When system cheat becomes rampant!-Chapter 678 - 501 Youmong

The Ghost Whiskers of Remnant Visage were highly intelligent, certainly not inferior to humans, given the capabilities and execution strength they had shown.

Unbelievably strong.

In order to capture the elite students, they had gone to great lengths to lead the freshmen participating in the newcomer trials into the Withering Forest, and then it was like hunting there, dealing with these students under the watchful eyes of many experts from the alliance.

In order to infiltrate Jiuzhou, they had even gone so far as to dig out their own Beast Pills and mix them with human hearts, a method that greatly limited their strength. Yet, they still continued to deploy their plans with efforts and maintained strict secrecy, silently blending into Jiuzhou for many years without being discovered.

Whether it was Lin Long or Broken Throat, their vigilance was extremely high.

To tell the truth, dealing with a cautious Ghostly Visage like Lin Long wouldn't have been easy if not for Xiang Beifei's unique abilities. Nonetheless, he had managed to gain Lin Long's trust after spending two months undercover.

Xiang Beifei's discernment was indeed powerful, giving him an edge in this regard.

Someone like Broken Throat, if near Jiuzhou, Xiang Beifei surely would have tried to kill, but now he was in the Domain of Requirement, not on human territory.

The Domain of Requirement was the fourth dangerous area of the Outer Wilderness, barely touched by humans. With no reinforcements and Elder Luo unable to come to his aid if something happened, Xiang Beifei chose to hide himself first until he had a clearer understanding of the area.

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Xiang Beifei had already left the territory of the Withering Forest and, guided by the waters of Mao Hou Creek, began to head towards the direction of Chen Hou.

As for whether Mao Hou would be occupied by the Ghostly Visage again, he could not manage that. He couldn't always guard Mao Hou.

Xiang Beifei had flown wildly towards the north for seven days. With his speed, flying for seven days had still not brought him to Chen Hou, leaving him unsure of just how far Chen Hou was from there. Considering his flying speed, seven days would have been enough to fly several hundred round trips across the continent of Jiuzhou.

Constantly flying at full power also consumed his Spiritual Power. Seeing a cliff ahead, Xiang Beifei landed on its edge, making sure there were no desolate beasts around before he stopped to rest.

"This endless expanse, who knows what lies ahead."

Gazing into the vast land ahead, Xiang Beifei couldn't help feeling somewhat emotional.

He had come directly from Chou Hou to Mao Hou in the Domain of Requirement, bypassing the Tranquil Domain entirely. His journey had been like feeling his way across the river by groping for stones, as even the historical records of Jiuzhou did not have detailed accounts of such places.

Sometimes he encountered God Refining period desolate beasts along the way. If they didn't trouble him, he didn't bother with them, but if any blind ones attacked him, he let Erha handle them.

Erha was a diligent and capable fighter, loving nothing more than a good fight – after all, victory meant food. Just earlier, an imposing Earthbound Bear had burrowed out of the ground, attempting to swallow Erha whole, but was immediately stomped to death by Erha, who then harvested its Beast Pill.

"Don't stir up trouble next time," Xiang Beifei flicked Wooden Kirin's head.

"Woof! Woof!"

Erha lay beside Xiang Beifei, not particularly concerned about the earlier incident, contentedly rolling over. Having just eaten a Beast Pill and with the rare appearance of the sun, it was a good time to sunbathe and aid digestion.

"This little sapling hasn't withered, how odd."

Xiang Beifei took out Youmong and placed it in the sunlight. He wasn't sure if the sunlight here was useful for Youmong since Xiang Beifei lacked experience in nurturing such creatures.

For convenience in carrying, Youmong had always been planted in the breath soil.

The breath soil Xiang Beifei owned was different from normal soil, which contains various trace elements essential for plant growth, but his breath soil was just pure sand, extremely clean.

Such soil would definitely not support the growth of normal plants, but considering Youmong seemed like a type of desolate beast, and such conscious plants usually liked Spiritual Power, he decided to give a bit of his own Spiritual Power to it.

Xiang Beifei placed Youmong on a rock, lay down beside it, comfortably stretched, and thought for a moment before injecting some Spiritual Power into the breath soil.

He had been nurturing Youmong with his Spiritual Power for the past seven days, during which Youmong's injuries had significantly improved and it had sprouted two tender green shoots, indicating effectiveness.

Xiang Beifei decided to take a short nap, setting up a protective formation nearby before closing his eyes slightly. Even he needed a rest after continuous travel.

Xiaohei also squatted beside him, wagging its tail as it slept.

But then, Youmong's leaves suddenly quivered twice. The new shoot on top gently turned, tilting towards Xiang Beifei's side, and soon two small cracks appeared on the full small branches beneath the top shoot.

The cracks slightly opened, revealing a pair of timid black eyes, the size of green beans, with vague facial features including a small nose and mouth appearing beneath.

Youmong blinked its eyes twice and then moved its two side branches, which bore leaves like small hands, quietly lowering them slightly.

Seeing that Xiang Beifei seemed to be asleep, Youmong propped itself with its side branches on the breath soil and pulled its slender roots out, the roots at its feet splitting into two little feet.

It then sneaked another glance at Xiang Beifei, and seeing that he was still asleep, turned around stealthily, stretching its small hands and tiptoeing to the edge of the rock, and jumped down.

It clearly intended to land on a rock half a meter below, but perhaps it was still too tender, and stumbling with its footing, it fell with a "clap" to the edge of the rock. Panicking, it stretched its side branches, desperately clutching at the edge, dangling there.

Youmong hurriedly tried to pull itself up onto the rock with its little feet. After struggling for a while, its side branches slipped and a trace of panic appeared in its eyes before it fell off the cliff.

It hadn't even hit the ground yet but its vital essence seemed to drain away as if withering right then, and soon it turned into a piece of withered small tree trunk.

"Where do you think you can go looking like that?"

Xiang Beifei lazily opened his eyes, waved his hand, and, with a sweep of his Spiritual Power, directly rolled Xiaohei over to him and caught him in his hand.

The moment Xiaohei got close to Xiang Beifei, his vitality began to recover, as if recharged with energy and bursting with life again.

Xiaohei looked at Xiang Beifei in panic and kept retreating, ran out from Xiang Beifei's palm, and jumped into the crevice underneath, desperately trying to squeeze in, but the crevice was too narrow, and he couldn't fit through.

"Once you leave my side, you wither, so where can you run?" Xiang Beifei asked.

Xiaohei called out to Xiang Beifei in a milky voice, "Youmeng!"

This call sounded very cute, perhaps similar to a kitten's.

"If I wanted to hurt you, you would have been gone already," Xiang Beifei spread his hands.

After a moment, he felt curious again.

"Youmeng!" Xiaohei called out softly again, his eyes still full of fear when looking at Xiang Beifei.

"Alright, we need to learn some Youmeng language," Xiang Beifei said.

However, Xiaohei still harbored deep fear towards Xiang Beifei, tightly closed his eyes, his little feet scrabbling in the stone crevice, and quickly burrowed into the soil of the crevice, transforming back into a small sapling, stubbornly refusing to cooperate with Xiang Beifei.

"Woof?" Xiaohei asked.

"It probably thinks I'm an accomplice to the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage," Xiang Beifei explained.

Clearly, the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage that massacred the Youmeng resided inside people's bodies, using human appearances to operate. Thus, seeing Xiang Beifei, it subconsciously deemed Xiang Beifei as the murderer of its kin.

Xiaohei was so young, obviously just born, and probably couldn't even tell the difference between the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage and people.

Xiang Beifei didn't mind, he had rested enough, then he stood up and said to Xiaohei, "I'm leaving, do you want to come with me?"

Xiaohei was unmoved, still standing on the cliff.

Xiang Beifei moved his feet and took a small step forward, about two meters away. At that moment, one of Xiaohei's side buds began to yellow.

Whoosh!

Xiaohei moved the side bud toward Xiang Beifei, and the withered leaves turned green again.

Xiang Beifei took another step forward.

The vitality on Xiaohei's body started to ebb, he slowly bent down, stood for a moment, but finally couldn't stand it anymore, stealthily pulled out his little feet, moved a little towards Xiang Beifei, and then burrowed back into the soil, finally straightening his back again.

Xiang Beifei chuckled wryly.

This little guy looked quite stubborn.

Xiang Beifei was in no hurry, slowly moved another step, maintaining a distance that would make Xiaohei wither, and Xiaohei couldn't bear it anymore, pulled his feet out of the soil, and rushed towards Xiang Beifei again.

But this time, before he could take root, Xiang Beifei moved forward again.

Xiaohei could only follow clumsily once more, but his walk was awkward. He stumbled every three steps and almost turned into a muggle.

"You can jump over here."

Xiang Beifei rolled the breath soil over to Xiaohei's feet.

Xiaohei held his head high, looked away with a very 'I'd rather wither and exhaust myself leaping off this cliff than compromise' attitude.

But the breath soil exuded a strong Spiritual Power, temptingly fragrant, attracting him.

He held his head high, still refusing to look at Xiang Beifei, quite temperamental!

However, his body betrayed him, his little feet couldn't help but probe into the breath soil.

"Youmeng!"

Xiaohei rooted in the richly Spiritual Power infused breath soil, finding it so comfortable that he couldn't help but moan out loud. However, he quickly realized something and hurriedly covered his own mouth with his two side buds!

"Silly buns."

Xiang Beifei smiled slightly and after a while, touched his chin and mused, "Strange, aren't you supposed to turn human only at night? Isn't it still daytime now?"

He grew more and more curious about Xiaohei.