Suddenly, Ye Tianfan felt something was off, but after careful thought, he couldn't pinpoint what it was. He couldn't help but smile wryly and shake his head, thinking it was just him overthinking due to the unsettling environment he had been in lately.
Ye Tianfan continued to walk forward. "It's so quiet here, there's no sound at all." Xia Lingyue's voice echoed softly from beside his ear, breaking the silence of the forest.
A word awakened Ye Tianfan from his dream, and he finally realized what was wrong - this forest was too quiet, so quiet that there wasn't even a single sound. Then he thought about how powerful demon beasts usually have a strong sense of territory, not allowing other demon beasts to exist, just like how one mountain can't accommodate two tigers. When two powerful demon beasts meet, it often means the start of a territorial dispute. If they fail, it means being forced to leave, or even death.
The probability of death is still very low, after all, everyone is not much different, and the more powerful demon beasts can't even see those demon beast territories, so most failures just leave quietly, only striving to work hard to cultivate, waiting for their cultivation to be higher before coming back to reclaim their territory.
As he thought of this, Ye Tianfan wanted to leave and turned back, but it seemed too late. Just as Ye Tianfan grabbed Xia Lingyun's hand, a faint voice sounded: "A small Yuan Ying period cultivator, and you even bring a little guy who hasn't even reached the foundation building stage, dare to enter my territory. I don't know whether to say you're brave or foolish."
In an instant, a huge golden eagle appeared in front of Ye Tianfan and the other person. The eagle not only had golden feathers on its head like a crown, but also its entire body was shining with golden feathers. This eagle looked like a small mountain in front of Ye Tianfan. Looking at its appearance, Ye Tianfan immediately recognized it as the Golden Winged Eagle, after all, he had read so many books and this was one of the contents recorded in them, so Ye Tianfan immediately identified what kind of demon beast this was.
According to the book, this demon beast has the strength of the Golden Elixir stage at birth. After growing up, it is at least at the initial stage of dividing gods, and it also has a trace of super divine beast bloodline. Although its bloodline has become so thin that it can be ignored, it still allows it to possess the ability to look down on demon beasts of the same level.
After the Golden Winged Eagle descended and transformed into a human figure, it was seen that after transforming into a human body, it was quite tall and majestic, at least nearly 1.9 meters in height. It had a head of golden blonde long hair that shone brightly in the sunlight shining through the trees from outside the forest. A pair of bright phoenix eyes gleamed with an extraordinary luster, a sharp nose, and a mouth that protruded slightly forward. At this moment, the Golden Winged Eagle was gazing at Ye Tianfan and Xia Lingyue with an air of superiority, as if it had control over their lives and deaths, just like an emperor looking down on beggars.
Ye Tianfan had sensed it when the demon beast first arrived, this demon beast was at least in the mid-stage of Split Spirit Realm, and the power it could unleash was absolutely comparable to that of a human in the late stage of Split Spirit Realm. Ye Tianfan felt that he was absolutely no match for it, his first reaction upon encountering such a demon beast was to run away quickly, after all, even if he could exchange a few blows with it, the outcome would definitely be death without survival. After all, even if Ye Tianfan used his sword technique, he could at most unleash mid-stage Split Spirit Realm attack power.
After thinking of this, Ye Tianfan quickly took Xia Lingyin to the north, as the south had been blocked by the Golden Winged Eagle. In a flash, Ye Tianfan dodged and weaved, leaving the beast far behind. The Golden Winged Eagle stared blankly at its 'toy' being suddenly left far behind, instantly enraged, it flew towards Ye Tianfan in pursuit.
"A human being in the early stages of Yuan Infancy is actually so fast, even faster than me in my human form. There must be an extraordinary secret to his physical skills." As he thought about this, his heart suddenly became hot with excitement, and he looked at Ye Tianfan as if he had found a treasure, afraid that he would lose him.
It's no wonder, considering it has a thin thread of super divine beast bloodline, but doesn't have any inherited memories. Its current cultivation base in the middle stage of Nascent Soul was also achieved after nearly a thousand years of hard work. After all, although demonic beasts live much longer than humans, their cultivation cycle is also much longer. Generally, humans can go from the initial Qi Refining stage to the Nascent Soul stage in about three hundred years.
Although it is said that a Golden Winged Eagle will reach the initial stage of dividing gods in adulthood, and it takes about 500 years to reach adulthood, although it's not fast for a demon beast, but after reaching adulthood, the cultivation speed becomes so slow that it's infuriating. This demon beast itself took over 450 years to cultivate to the initial stage of dividing gods, but cultivating to the current middle stage of dividing gods took nearly 400 years, just knowing how slow the speed is.
As for reaching the late stage of Nascent Soul, it was still a long way off for this Golden Winged Eagle. Because at this point in time, it was no longer possible to break through just by relying on time, as the most important thing for demonic beasts was their bloodline, and the stronger their bloodline, the faster they could cultivate, and the higher the realm they could reach. Conversely, if their bloodline was weak, then their cultivation speed would be slow, and the realm they could reach would also be low. The Golden Winged Eagle's bloodline was only enough to allow it to cultivate up to the middle stage of Nascent Soul, and only those with exceptional innate talent had any hope of breaking through to the late stage of Nascent Soul. And it was clear that this eagle did not belong to that category.
Since they can't rely on their bloodline's power to break through, and many demon beasts are unwilling to remain dormant, they have no choice but to resort to other methods. In the world of demon beasts, the best way to break through is to find a high-grade, spirit-rich spiritual medicine. However, this is easier said than done, as high-grade spiritual medicines are often guarded by powerful demon beasts, and even if one manages to snatch it, it might not be enough to make a difference. On the other hand, low-grade spiritual medicines, aside from being beneficial for spirit growth, have little use otherwise.
So this monster was running around its territory, hoping to find a spiritual medicine that would allow it to break through. And indeed, it found the medicine, and at first, it was overjoyed, but soon it couldn't laugh anymore. Because there was an ape-like monster guarding here, as soon as it saw it coming, it knew it was after its spiritual medicine, so they clashed immediately, if it weren't for its speed, it would have been killed already.
After that, he went a few more times, but was chased away before he even arrived. Since then, this golden-winged eagle has been obsessed with it, but there is no good way to do it. Now that the spiritual grass is about to mature again, it can only be anxious in secret, and can only secretly resent itself for not being fast enough. It can only rely on speed to escape its life, and cannot rely on speed to seize it before the ape-like monster reacts. But today, an opportunity has come. If this human has such a speed, what's to worry about? Therefore, he activated 90% of his true yuan to pursue him even more quickly.
