Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

As Xuan Hao left behind the ancient alchemy sect ruins without the slightest bit of hesitation after grabbing his disciple and his friends, the weaker cultivators belonging to the different major powers who had been clashing with each other minutes earlier and were already in the process of escaping from the ancient alchemy sect ruins, all began panicking far more than they had following Xuan Hao’s earlier arrival and dominance of the different Celestial Immortal Realm cultivators...

ROOOAR-!

”What... What is that!?”

”Demon beast... A demon beast that is far stronger than those Celestial Immortal Realm cultivators that were fighting earlier!”

”Huh? Strong... Stronger than the Celestial Immortal Realm Ancestors!?”

”Run! Don’t hold anything back, use everything you have on you to get out of this place as fast as possible!”

The reason for this was none other than the Land Creation Realm demon beast that Xuan Hao had ended up accidentally freeing from the treasury that had been imprisoning it for an untold number of years.

Even without knowing the exact strength of this demon beast, the sheer pressure it brought with a single roar was more than enough for them to understand just how terrifying this demon beast was.

Not to mention, Xuan Hao hadn’t exactly hidden the fact that he had run away and a few of the stronger cultivators at the Dao Seed Realm had managed to catch a glimpse of him when he had picked up Chu Yang and the rest before he had disappeared alongside them. Clearly unwilling to face off against the terrifying demon beast that had just emerged.

Because of this, every single cultivator still around with something on hand that could increase their speed instantly used it in a last-ditch attempt to escape from the terrifying demon beast that had suddenly emerged behind them.

Unfortunately, the demon beast they were trying to escape from had reached the Land Creation Realm. Even their ancestors would have a difficult time running away from this kind of demon beast, let alone them, who at most had something left behind by their seniors to strengthened themselves and increase their own escape speed....

”Great Demon, spare-”

PTSH-!

”Aaaaah-!”

Swish-! Ptsh~

Because of this, it didn’t take long before countless painful screams echoed out across the now chaotic mountainous region, as the Land Creation Realm demon beast found itself tearing through the countless cultivators who had been gathered inside the ancient alchemy sect ruins to search for treasures-

”Don’t-”

Chomp~!

”Nooo-

Chomp~! Rooar-!

But this was far from enough for the demon beast that had found itself starved for years inside the treasury, as it soon decided to take the opportunity to start snacking on the different cultivators. Swallowing them whole instead of just squashing them like it had done before.

Soon enough, coming to the realization that it really enjoyed the taste of these cultivators, switching completely to chomping down on any cultivator it encountered instead of slapping them to death like it had been doing at first. Finding out that just slapping these cultivators to death and reducing them to dust was a waste of good food, something that hurt it deeply considering how long it had gone without eating anything outside spiritual herbs and whatever else was stored inside the treasury.

At one point, it had even resorted to eating the manuals and books that had been stored inside the treasury... And although it was far from enjoyable, it had at least been nice to have something to chew on every now and then.

In the end, this had ended up ruining any technique or cultivation mantra that had originally been stored inside the treasury.

But... Now that it had a taste for what it considered to be real food, it no longer had any interest in chewing down on cultivation mantras and combat techniques and was instead far more interested in chewing down on the large number of human cultivators currently attempting to flee helplessly.

The earlier thought about hunting down Xuan Hao having already completely vanished into thin air, as it found itself far more interested in chomping down a few human cultivators over wasting time trying to catch someone.

At the same time, the anger it had felt from what had happened earlier had similarly disappeared, as only joy was left in the shadowy demon beast’s eyes, along with a bit of gratefulness towards Xuan Hao who had been the one who ended up freeing it from its prison.

Strong as it might be, the shadowy demon beast was a rather simple-minded demon beast that hadn’t managed to develop properly like other demon beasts did when they reached a high enough cultivation realm. Ultimately making it a demon beast that was only slightly smarter than a wild demon beast due to its prolonged isolation.

Rooar-!

Of course, with that in mind, although the demon beast continued to happily swallow up cultivators, it didn’t stop them from escaping and remained entirely focused on enjoying itself with all the snacks around for it to pick freely from.

Allowing the few Dao Seed Realm cultivators who had rushed ahead of everyone to reach the passage leading back outside the ancient alchemy sect ruins. Wasting no time as they rushed outside and directly used a teleportation talisman to get as far away as possible from the terrifying demon beast behind them. Not daring to stay for even a second longer in case the demon beast ended up becoming interested in finding out how they tasted.

Although they had been able to use teleportation talismans inside the ancient alchemy sect ruins like some of their seniors in the Celestial Immortal Realm did, doing so came with significant risk of ending up somewhere unwanted without high enough comprehension of the Dao of Space. Only those at the Celestial Immortal Realm were somewhat able to ensure they ended up moving in the correct direction and that still came with risks.

In fact, a few weaker cultivators did end up taking the risk, some ending up lucky right next to the passage leading to the outside world, while most ended up being teleported backwards behind the shadowy demon beast...

Rooar!?

In response to this, the shadowy demon beast was left in a state of utter confusion as it watched some of the snacks just vanish into thin air all of a sudden before its gaze filled with a hint of understanding that soon turned into anger, as it watched several other snacks disappearing the second they managed to leave the ancient alchemy sect ruins and step back into the outside world where the spatial restrictions that had kept them limited to moving around inside the ancient alchemy sect ruins were lifted.

The snacks that had suddenly appeared behind it after failed teleportation attempts, ended up suffering the burnt of this anger, as close to half of them ended up being reduced to a bloody mist by the shadowy demon beast’s terrifying killing intent, while the other half plummeted to the ground helplessly. Unable to move even a single muscle in the face of the terrifying killing intent coming out of the Land Creation Realm demon beast, the killing intent having formed a special domain not much different from the domain of someone in the Domain Lord Realm.

”This... This is bad! I Can’t move!”

”You don’t say...”

”Ancestor, please save this junior!”

Feeling the terrifying killing intent that almost instantly incapacitated everyone left inside the ancient alchemy sect ruins, the cultivators from the different major powers all began panicking as they understood that they had run out of time to escape and no longer had the chance to escape.

After all, so far, it had been clear to everyone that the demon beast hadn’t been taking them seriously when it had been casually hunting them down and snacking on them while they were desperately trying to escape. Instead, it had just been enjoying itself having a good time.

But... Now that it realized they could escape, it lost its patience and decided to suppress everyone left and stop any more of them from escaping.

Dreadful as this situation was to everyone, it also gave them a faint hope that they would be able to survive their current situation.

The reason for this hope being that the longer it took the demon beast to kill them, the greater the chances was that a senior figure capable of contending with this terrifying demon beast would show up an rescue them.

At the end of the day, even if they were far weaker than the demon beast, they were still a large portion of over a dozen major powers younger generation and future pillars of said major powers. All of them dying would be a major loss to every major power involved.

RUUUUMBLE-!

And for this reason alone, one of the ancestors from one of the major powers involved ended up using a special artifact to increase his speed and arrived at the scene before the shadowy demon beast had the chance to swallow everyone present.

But...

”This-! Nobody told me it was a Land Creation Realm demon beast!”

This ancestor was only at the Sea Formation Realm, far from strong enough to contend with a Land Creation Realm demon beast!