To the Tai Ah Divine City's cultivators, hunting desolate beasts in the Divine wilderness was a major event. Usually, an experience would last for half a month. For such a long time outside, they had to make all sorts of preparations.
To travel alone in the wilderness, it was not enough to just be strong. One had to know all sorts of techniques and knowledge of wilderness survival.
Before Yi Yun set off, other than the interspatial ring that the Capital's Four Bully Lords had lost to him, he had also spent 50,000 dragon scale runes to buy an interspatial ring with a larger capacity.
Following that, Yi Yun spent a day buying all sorts of supplies.
This included bone relics, healing medicine, life-saving disk arrays, backup weapons, etc.
Yi Yun also bought a detailed map of the Tai Ah Divine City's surroundings. He spent some time familiarizing himself with the Divine wilderness's terrain, familiarizing himself with every desolate beast, and understanding their strength, weaknesses and habits …
All these preparations had to be done perfectly. Every year, 99% of the cultivators who died in the Tai Ah Divine City died on the Divine wilderness trials. As for those who died accidentally in the arena, it was extremely rare.
Many a time, some seemingly insignificant knowledge could save lives.
Yi Yun had heard that a few days ago, a three-man team of cultivators was completely annihilated. The reason was that they had mistaken a Heart Piercing Snake for a Golden Thread Snake.
The two snakes were completely golden in color and were about two meters long. There was almost no difference in their appearances, but the Heart Piercing Snake was more than ten times stronger than the Golden Thread Snake. Furthermore, it had a lethal poison. Even a warrior who had just entered the Yuan foundation realm would die from the poison within five seconds if they were bitten.
The Heart Piercing Snake and the Golden Thread Snake could not be distinguished by their appearance. The only difference between the two was their habits. When the Golden Thread Snake moved forward, its body would sway left and right, and its trajectory would be curved. However, the Heart Piercing Snake would move in a straight line.
Many of the cultivators in the Tai Ah Divine City had died not only because of their lack of strength, but also because of their carelessness.
Yi Yun's current strength was not bad, but compared to the cultivators ranked high on the Earth roll, he was still far from it. And even the cultivators ranked high on the Earth roll could die on the trials, so Yi Yun naturally had to be careful.
Yi Yun did not form a team. He trained alone. As such, the risks of the trials increased by a lot.
On this day, the weather was clear and the sun was shining high in the sky. There were white clouds in the sky. Yi Yun brought all the items he had prepared and headed to the Divine Wilderness for training.
In the past, Yi Yun had left the Tai Ah Divine City to pick herbs in # 60 herb mountain, but back then, Yi Yun had used a teleportation array to do so.
But today, Yi Yun wanted to leave the Tai Ah Divine City through the main gate.
Walking to the Tai Ah Divine City's city gates, Yi Yun looked down at the desolate lands from a height of 10,000 meters.
The boundless wasteland was connected to the sky, majestic and ancient.
Chains as thick as water buckets hung down from the Tai Ah Divine City's huge rock pillars. They extended to the plains tens of thousands of meters below, forming a vast expanse of mist.
This was the road leading to the Divine wilderness from the Tai Ah Divine City. To defend against the beast horde, the Tai Ah Divine City's road into the city was an absolute natural barrier.
Yi Yun took a deep breath and with a leap, he landed lightly on the metal chain.
Then, Yi Yun placed a strong rope on the metal chain and suspended himself in midair. His two hands grabbed onto the two ends of the rope, and under gravity, Yi Yun slid down.
From a height of 10,000 meters, with just a rope, he flew down in a freefall.
Yi Yun could hear the wind whistling in his ears as he saw the ancient desolate lands getting closer and closer.
The Divine wilderness had existed for an unknown number of years. Within the Divine wilderness, it was unknown how many treasures there were. It was also unknown how many elites' corpses were buried there …
But now, Yi Yun wanted to use his own feet to explore this land.
"Boom!"
Yi Yun's feet landed on the ground. Due to his extreme speed, Yi Yun's feet sank into the ground, sending up a cloud of dust.
Looking at the desolate lands in front of him, there were sparse grasslands, black plains, bare rocks, and tall ancient trees that stretched far into the horizon.
Yi Yun locked onto a direction and began running.
A typical warrior had to choose a suitable speed when running in the Divine wilderness. He could not go too fast. It was not a problem of stamina, but if he went too fast, he would not be able to discover the desolate beasts lurking in the surroundings. Without sufficient vigilance, he would be ambushed by desolate beasts.
There were cases of people running too fast into a desolate beast's nest, only to end up with nothing left of them. This was not rare in the history of the Tai Ah Divine City.
But one could not run too slowly. The Divine wilderness was too vast. If one's speed was too slow, they would only be able to explore a small area with a large amount of time. That would cause them to miss out on many opportunities.
Yi Yun first ran at a normal speed for tens of miles before suddenly increasing his speed. At the same time, Yi Yun opened the Purple Crystal's energy vision.
In the energy vision, all energy bodies would return to their origins. There was nowhere to hide.
With the Purple Crystal, Yi Yun did not need to be distracted.
Around the Tai Ah Divine City, there were not many desolate beasts that could be hunted. The powerful desolate beasts had been intimidated by the Tai Ah Divine City's power, so they had long hidden far away.
Yi Yun's target was the Meteorite Abyss. Legend had it that tens of millions of years ago, a huge star burning with Yang flames fell from the sky and smashed into the Divine wilderness. It broke a mountain range that stretched for tens of thousands of miles, creating a huge abyss.
This abyss was the Meteorite Abyss!
Back when the star landed, the Yang flames that swept through the Divine wilderness had burned many powerful desolate beasts to death. If one was close to the center of the explosion, even primordial species would not survive. They would instantly be reduced to ashes!
After tens of millions of years, the destruction caused by the fallen star had long been repaired. However, the Meteorite Abyss was still like a huge scar that spanned across the Divine wilderness.
That star had already merged with the Meteorite Abyss. Although the Yang flames that swept through the Divine wilderness had been extinguished, deep within the Meteorite Abyss, there were still seven-colored Yang flames burning. All the Yang Qi in a radius of millions of miles was gathered here!
Hence, there were large numbers of pure Yang elemental desolate beasts gathered in the Meteorite Abyss.
Yi Yun cultivated the 'Ten Thousand Beast Totem', and the first attribute he chose was pure Yang.
Meteorite Abyss also became Yi Yun's first target.
However, with Yi Yun's current strength, he did not dare to really enter deep into the Meteorite Abyss. He could only hunt desolate beasts in the periphery of the Meteorite Abyss to condense an Aspect Totem.
The wind whistled in his ears as Yi Yun flew without touching the ground.
After passing through a large stretch of wilderness, there was a grassland in front of him. The grass was about half a person's height. This grass was called Frost Star Grass.
On the Frost Star Grass's leaves, there was an ice-cold frost dew. This frost dew's temperature was far below freezing point, but it did not freeze. If a mortal wanted to pass through the Frost Star Grass plains, they would be frozen by the frost dew in just a few steps.
Yi Yun forcefully gathered his Yuan Qi and circulated his blood, causing his body to heat up.
He charged into the Frost Star Grass plains. The crystalline dew was dazzling under the sunlight, soaking Yi Yun's body bit by bit. However, Yi Yun only felt his body turn cold, and it did not affect his movements at all.
With his extremely smooth movement technique and the Purple Crystal's energy vision, Yi Yun was like a hawk soaring into the sky in the complicated terrain, or like a python lurking in ambush.
Along the way, Yi Yun also encountered a few desolate beasts, such as a Ghost Python that was hiding ten meters underground in the wilderness, and a Three-spotted Tiger that was crawling on a mountain. These were all detected by Yi Yun's Purple Crystal's energy vision in time, so he avoided them early on.
Yi Yun's goal was clear. He wanted to hunt pure Yang elemental desolate beasts and absorb their pure Yang energy and beast blood to condense an Aspect Totem.
Along the way, unless there was a desolate beast of great value, Yi Yun would not stop.
Meteorite Abyss was very far away, so Yi Yun was very careful along the way. He moved stealthily. When the Sun on the horizon was completely swallowed up, and the stars in the sky spread out, Yi Yun had no choice but to stop.
At this moment, he came to a barren plain. The night wind blew the pebbles, constantly shattering the silence of the night.
The Divine wilderness at night was even more dangerous. Yi Yun needed to sleep and meditate to maintain his strength.
With the Thousand Army Saber in hand, Yi Yun quickly dug out a pit that could accommodate a person. He carefully placed soft hay that was suitable for sleeping in the pit.
Although warriors were said to have strong stamina, there was a lot of Frost Star Grass growing in the desolate plains. The night dew was so cold that it pierced through the bones. It was inevitable that a warrior's body would suffer a certain amount of damage, causing unnecessary loss of blood.
Around the crater, Yi Yun dug traps in a few spots and placed a triangular disk array.
Each disk array was about the size of a fist, but it contained a weak explosive energy. This was the "Priming Disk Array" that many Tai Ah Divine City warriors brought when they went to the Divine wilderness for training.
This "Priming Disk Array" could not kill desolate beasts, but it could serve as a warning. After all, a warrior's perception of their surroundings would decrease when they were meditating or sleeping. But some desolate beasts were proficient in concealment. Many cultivators died from sneak attacks while they were sleeping or meditating.
Sleep and meditation were indispensable. If one were to be tense for a long period of time and be wary of their surroundings, then even without the desolate beasts killing them, they would be mentally exhausted and their battle strength would be greatly reduced.
Therefore, in many cases, this kind of cheap and good "Detonation Formation Disc" had the miraculous effect of saving lives.
After setting up the "Priming Disk Array", Yi Yun took out a cloth bag from his interspatial ring and sprinkled all the powder in it.
This was the powder of a king-ranked desolate beast's feces. This powder emitted a special smell that only desolate beasts could smell. It would make other desolate beasts think that this was a king-ranked desolate beast's territory, so they would not dare to enter.
With two layers of insurance, Yi Yun, with the Thousand Army Saber hanging by his waist and the Tai Cang Bow on his back, curled up in the pit.
It was a habit that warriors had to develop when they went out to hunt desolate beasts. Once there was any sign of trouble, they would be able to enter a combat state at any time.
In the Divine wilderness, there was danger at every step, so it was never wrong to be cautious.
But even with everything in place, there was no guarantee that nothing would go wrong …
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