That unknown area wasn’t large—like a small valley with dozens of jackal beasts inside, their strength at middle second or third grade.
When Jun Changxiao first walked in, he was surrounded by them, each one baring its teeth and roaring.
Although they weren’t wind-element fierce beasts, they were valuable for their high grade.
So Sect Master Jun summoned his low-grade Cold Edge Sword and annihilated them all in an extremely short time, obtaining over twenty crystal cores.
The pelts and bones were also collected.
Poor jackal beast pack—they thought they had surrounded one human, but ended up being surrounded by one human instead.
The unknown area wasn’t large inside.
Jun Changxiao made a circuit, collected the medicinal materials and ores, then returned.
The martial artists outside didn’t know what had happened. Seeing him walk out safe and sound, expressions of disbelief immediately appeared on their faces.
“Boss!”
The fatty exclaimed in shock, “It’s that guy!”
Brother Qin’s brows furrowed tightly, his mind once again shaken.
The unknown areas of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range—even fourth or fifth-grade Wuzongs wouldn’t dare venture in easily. Not only did he go in, but he also came out safe and sound. This was truly inconceivable!
Jun Changxiao paid no attention to the martial artists watching him. He took out his map, locked onto another unknown area, and walked along the route.
After he left, some small teams mustered the courage to enter the mist-shrouded area. Seeing the ground covered with fierce beast corpses, their facial expressions immediately froze.
“These are brown jackal beasts!”
“Each one’s strength is at middle second or third grade!”
“My heavens, in less than a quarter-hour, he annihilated them all by himself?!”
Everyone’s minds were greatly shaken.
This seemingly eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man—just who was he!
Although they didn’t know who Jun Changxiao was, one thing was certain—this was definitely an expert!
With him leading the way ahead, they could definitely sneak into deeper areas!
Thus, many martial artists chased after him one after another, closely following behind Jun Changxiao’s rear. The number of people actually reached several dozen.
Brother Qin and his team also followed.
Soon.
Everyone stopped.
Because Jun Changxiao had already entered the second unknown area.
“He went in again!”
“He really has great skill and great courage!”
“I really want to follow him in to see.”
Although the martial artists were discussing, no one dared enter the unknown area, knowing they didn’t have that capability.
Before long.
Fierce beast roars came out again.
“From the heavy sound, it should be a bear beast with a huge build, right!”
“Could it be a Mountain-Bearing Bear?”
“Even if it’s not a Mountain-Bearing Bear, its strength is definitely only stronger, not weaker!”
As everyone was discussing, Jun Changxiao walked out of the unknown area, still without a scratch.
“This…”
The various teams were dumbfounded.
Coming to their senses, they entered the unknown area one after another, only to see the ground full of bloodstains but no corpse in sight.
Bear beast meat was extremely high quality and plentiful. Jun Changxiao had dismembered it into eight pieces and taken it away.
……
Until nightfall came, Jun Changxiao successively entered five unknown areas, slaying many high-grade fierce beasts and obtaining quite a few resources.
Especially in the last unknown area, he encountered a wind-element fierce beast. Although the crystal core’s grade didn’t match, it undoubtedly brought him hope.
If he continued searching, he would definitely find one!
The various teams following behind, because they had an expert leading the way, safely entered the areas they wanted to go to. Their numbers also gradually decreased.
Brother Qin and his group were still there, after all they wanted to reach the deeper Sixth Area.
Regarding these freeloaders, Jun Changxiao paid them no mind.
Setting out early the second morning, he continued advancing deeper, entering the Fifth Area.
Within this area, the map marked many dangerous locations. He first chose the nearest one to enter.
“Roar!”
“Roar!”
Two middle seventh-grade male and female lion beasts pounced over.
This was their territory, so naturally they couldn’t tolerate humans entering.
“Seeking death!”
Jun Changxiao strode forward, his fists condensing violent power, directly pounding the two lions to death.
The usual routine.
Skinning, meat collection, and crystal core extraction—one-stop service.
“Hm?”
After finishing his work, Jun Changxiao discovered a pond deep within, with faint cold air swirling above it.
“A cold spring?”
He approached and reached his hand down, feeling waves of icy coolness.
Cold spring water was one of the auxiliary materials for refining middle-grade Cold Light Swords. Since he had found it, he naturally collected it all.
“Whoosh!”
Shortly after, the pond’s bottom was visible.
Jun Changxiao left satisfied, continuing to explore several other unknown areas.
Like this, he busied himself until nightfall came, finding a clean place to rest for the night.
Today’s harvest was quite bountiful. Not only did he find enough cold spring water, but he also encountered a spider nest. After eliminating it, he obtained quite a lot of spider silk.
He had gathered materials for quite a few sets of Soft Silk Armor.
Unfortunately.
He didn’t encounter any wind-element fierce beasts.
After automatically refining the Soft Silk Armor, Jun Changxiao withdrew the Casting Pavilion panel, murmuring, “It seems I can only enter deeper areas to possibly find this rare type of fierce beast.”
“Chomp, chomp.”
Beside him, Little Dragon was happily gnawing on a large piece of fatty meat.
Over the past two days, Sect Master Jun had selected quite a lot of premium beast meat for it. Food wouldn’t be lacking for the time being.
“Little Dragon.”
Jun Changxiao said, “Coming to this mountain range overrun with fierce beasts, don’t just lie around all the time. At least show off a bit.”
Little Dragon swallowed a piece of meat, its fiery red eyes showing disdain, as if telling its master: “The fierce beasts here are too low-level. They’re not qualified for me to take action.”
True enough.
It had violently beaten a second-grade Wuwang.
Going to bully Wutu and Wushi-level fierce beasts was somewhat beneath its status.
Brother Qin and the others resting behind were at this moment absolutely filled with ten thousand parts admiration for Sect Master Jun.
Coming and going freely in unknown areas—what tremendous prowess this was!
……
The next day.
Jun Changxiao continued his journey, entering the Sixth Area.
Brother Qin and his team no longer followed, heading in the opposite direction.
They were different from the independent cultivators of Death Valley. They definitely weren’t here to pick up scraps, but had entered with purpose and planning.
“Thud!”
In an unknown area, a fierce beast comparable to a peak Wushi crashed to the ground.
After processing the corpse, Jun Changxiao searched internally and obtained quite a few aged medicinal materials, as well as various types of ores.
Nightfall came.
Having visited five unknown areas, he obtained quite a few resources, including cold iron, iron ore, and other ores for refining weapons and equipment.
“Still need fifty jin more.”
Jun Changxiao murmured, “Then I can refine the middle-grade Cold Light Sword.”
……
The Seventh Area.
Jun Changxiao entered on the fourth day.
Very few teams could enter here. Walking inside for half a day, he actually didn’t see a single person.
Fewer people.
More fierce beasts!
Just walking a few miles, Jun Changxiao was attacked no less than thirty times.
The attacking fierce beasts’ grades were also very high, some even comparable to first-grade Wuzong level. As a result, they all came to deliver heads and crystal cores.
Jun Changxiao opened his map and discovered that only one unknown area was marked. He couldn’t help but wonder, “So few?”
It wasn’t that there were few.
It was that the Seventh Area’s level was too high.
The mapmaker didn’t dare risk his life to force his way through, and could only record the one place he knew about.
So this meant that this area still had many dangerous regions not marked on the map. Jun Changxiao could only explore them himself.
“Whoosh!”
Entering the only unknown area marked on the map, icy cold air blew toward him head-on. The ground was even covered with layers of frost.
Jun Changxiao speculated, “Could it be there are ice-element fierce beasts here?”
“Thud!”
Right at this moment, a lion-like fierce beast walked over, treading on the ground’s frost.
Its build was four to five meters tall, its eyes flashing with cold light. Its entire body seemed to be piled up from ice blocks, even its mane looking like grains of ice shards.
One word: majestic!