16: Breakthrough! Ninth level of demonic energy! A world where only the Shadow Wolf King is injured!

Shadow Wolf King really doesn't trust him!

Walking along the path, Chen De immediately changed his expression.

He carefully sensed the blood-colored mark that the Shadow Wolf King had planted on him.

The mark the Shadow Wolf King placed on him definitely wasn't with good intentions.

After some investigation, Chen De also had an initial hypothesis about this mark.

According to Chen De's estimation, just judging by the energy contained within it,

once it exploded, it would be enough to blow Chen De to smithereens ten times over, leaving no trace.

He really thinks highly of Chen De!

This thing was absolutely not prepared to save Chen De.

As for what the Shadow Wolf King said about it being able to save his life in a critical moment, only a fool would believe such words.

The Shadow Wolf King was too lazy to even make up a lie; it was a blatant threat.

Exposing his identity and saving his life? After hiding for so long, how could he possibly give that up for a small fry like Chen De?

If the Shadow Wolf King really cared that much about Chen De, he wouldn't have let Chen De go.

So, in other words, Chen De might actually believe it.

After all, an honest person like Chen De is very easy to fool.

When Chen De truly encounters danger, if this thing activates, Chen De will likely be the first to feel its power.

Moreover, Chen De vaguely suspected that this thing might also have the function of sensing and locating him.

However, Chen De wasn't worried about this. Although it was the work of a Demon Spirit Realm monster beast, he still had a way to get rid of this mark.

He only needed to activate this mark at the same time as he leveled up.

Because leveling up can instantly restore Chen De to full health.

At that time, no matter how much damage this mark could cause him, it wouldn't matter.

Just like Chen De is now, he can remove this mark whenever he wants.

But Chen De doesn't plan to remove it now; he can do it anytime, and it poses no threat to him.

Removing it now would gain Chen De no benefits. Keeping it, on the other hand, would make the Shadow Wolf King feel more at ease.

Being targeted while killing monsters in other areas is only a matter of time.

It's better to stay here, and there's a monster beast to take the fall for him.

Not only that, Chen De is still very interested in the Shadow Wolf King's legacy.

Or, if he's lucky, he might even get the Silver Scale Rhino King's legacy.

The Silver Scale Rhino King's net worth is probably much richer than the Shadow Wolf King's.

His realm is right there, after all.

These are the accumulated assets of two Demon Spirit Realm monster beasts; even a small portion would be a huge help to Chen De right now.

Just like the Shadow Wolf King, in just one short day, from yesterday until now,

he casually took out some spiritual medicines, which brought Chen De so many attribute points.

It's enough for Chen De to go from a beast to his current level all over again.

Isn't this efficiency much faster than constantly working himself to death looking for monster beasts to farm attribute points?

Godfather must be tricked to death, absolutely tricked to death. All his property should be inherited by Chen De, and the Silver Scale Rhino King should also be spared no effort.

Chen De is the most moral existence in this forest, and the Silver Scale Rhino King is the strongest in this forest.

Their combination is simply a match made in heaven.

The Silver Scale Rhino King's property seems to have been prepared for Chen De all along.

If his legacy isn't inherited by Chen De, then who else could inherit it?

Moreover, ambition is poison, and wealth is the root of all evil. Chen De is a filial and moral person; he cannot just watch his godfather go astray.

As the saying goes, great loyalty seems treacherous, and great treachery seems loyal.

If the Shadow Wolf King had not gone astray, then Chen De would have strived with all his might to save his godfather.

But since godfather has already gone astray, then Chen De must act on behalf of Heaven, righteously destroy his kin, take the inheritance, and benefit the world!

The mistakes godfather made will all be compensated by Chen De!

Let godfather leave his good name in the human world!

Well, let's start benefiting the world from the Eastern Vortex Forest!

The monster beast guarding the Eastern Vortex Forest is the Windtail Boa King, a Demon Origin Realm Seventh Stage.

Speaking of which, Chen De felt that it would be better to improve his cultivation before taking action.

The focus of this operation is a quick battle; it's all about the thrill.

As his cultivation improves, the duration and effect of the Heavenly Revelation Aurora Seal will also be optimized.

It will also be easier and more composed when killing monster beasts and escaping.

And the most crucial point is, in the current situation,

if Chen De doesn't level up, he'll have nowhere to use his attribute points.

To maximize a certain attribute to nine, that attribute must first be raised to 9.9.

His attribute point limit is only three points; he can't accumulate much more.

He's about to go to other monster beasts' territories to assassinate monster beasts, and at that time, a large sum of attribute points will surely come in.

So now is not the time to hold back attribute points.

If he doesn't use them now, when he goes to farm monsters there later, it will definitely cause a lot of attribute point waste.

Holding back attribute points just for the sake of holding back attribute points makes holding back attribute points meaningless.

So Chen De called the system and added the last remaining attribute point on his panel to Defense.

Defense: 8.9 (1:1) — — ＞ Defense: 9.9 (1:100)

Breakthrough!

Demon Qi Realm Ninth Stage, accomplished!

This time, Chen De, upon breaking through, stood at the peak of the Demon Qi Realm.

All three attributes reached the peak value of 9.9.

And after the values of the three attributes became the same, that is, after the three attributes were balanced with each other,

Chen De immediately felt a sense of roundness and fullness, something he hadn't felt in a long time.

Previously, in order to hold back levels and farm attribute points, the three attributes differed too much from each other.

At that time, he was indeed powerful, even making Chen De unrivaled in the same realm.

Even those one or two minor realms higher than Chen De could be instantly killed by him.

But in that state, Chen De always had a feeling that his body had some obvious defect.

It was as if he was in an incomplete realm.

Like a normal person, a certain part of the body suddenly grows, but only that part grows, which is very awkward.

Chen De didn't know where this feeling of incompleteness came from.

Was it the grown part feeling that other parts were too small and thus incomplete?

Or were the other parts feeling that the grown part was too big and thus incomplete?

Or both.

This feeling of extreme disharmony made Chen De very uncomfortable.

After all, it was only a higher realm achieved by two attributes far exceeding another attribute.

It was ultimately not as stable as all attributes reaching the corresponding realm.

The feeling after completion now made Chen De feel very comfortable.

However, after breaking through, he still needs to hold back his realm and farm attribute points.

Reality is reality, life is life!

He cannot give up the opportunity to improve himself just because of a little discomfort.

Then Chen De estimated that with his current strength and realm,

even a Demon Origin Realm First Stage monster beast should be able to be fixed for a moment.

Monster beasts below the Demon Origin Realm are basically easy kills!

Subsequently, Chen De took out the three mid-grade healing spiritual medicines that the Shadow Wolf King had given him.

Chen De didn't plan to keep these three spiritual medicines. No matter how good the healing effect of spiritual medicines,

it can't compare to the tangible benefits brought by realm advancement!

He ate one, gaining three attribute points, adding two of them to Speed to reach the attribute point limit.

The remaining point was added to Defense.

Then he successively ate the remaining two spiritual medicines, repeating the previous operation.

All six newly acquired attribute points were added to Defense.

At this point, the Defense attribute was only two points away from reaching its attribute point limit.

So he called up the attribute panel.

Realm: Demon Qi Realm Ninth Stage

Race: Celestial Crystal Armored Rat (A monster beast with a trace of ancient bloodline)

Talent 1: Giant Force (A talent that every ant-like monster beast possesses; ancient bloodline, higher bonus, strength permanently increased by 50%)

Talent 2: Heaven Crystal (Can condense demon power onto ordinary crystals, granting crystals functions such as hardness, energy storage, and image retention)

Talent 3: God Shield (Naturally immune to 20% of mental attacks)

Speed: 9.9 (1:100) [9/10]

Defense: 9.9 (1:100) [7/10]

Strength: 9.9 (1:100) [9/10]

Attribute Points: 0/3

Skill 1: Divine Crystal Armor (Activated)

Skill 2: Tianjing Extermination Slash (Activated)

Skill 3: Heavenly Revelation Aurora Seal (Activated)

Cultivation Method: Celestial Light Scripture

According to the current situation, Chen De is only five attribute points away from breaking through to the Demon Origin Realm.

For these last five attribute points, Chen De only needs to kill five Demon Qi Realm Ninth Stage monster beasts, or ten Demon Qi Realm Eighth Stage monster beasts to gather them.

Finally, after all Chen De's efforts since his transmigration, he can finally break through his first major realm.

Chen De's excitement at this moment was beyond words!

However, an arrogant army is bound to lose; the better the situation, the less one can relax.

All of this still needs to be planned carefully.

As long as his life is still there, everything can be started over.

He must never be blinded by immediate gains!

Hehehe!

Monster beasts of the east, your greatest and most moral monster beast has arrived.

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"Ding!"

"Host has entered an unfamiliar area. System map scanning initiated."

"Host's current location: Four Profound Heavens — — Eastern Profound Domain — — Qingyun Prefecture — — Monster Beast Mountain Range — — Vortex Forest — — Eastern Part — — Snake Pool"

Hearing the system prompt, Chen De knew he had arrived.

The Eastern Part is the territory of the Windtail Boa King.

The law of the jungle here is still cruel, not much better than the Whirlwind Forest Northern Part.

Moreover, due to less external pressure, internal strife became more pronounced and intense.

Fortunately, the resources were richer than in the Whirlwind Forest Northern Part, and it was considerably calmer than the Shadow Wolf King's territory.

The most crucial point was that the average strength of the monster beasts here was much higher.

Without even mentioning anything else, in just this short time, Chen De's system map detected no fewer than ten Demon Qi Realm Ninth Stage monster beasts.

Yet, in their Whirlwind Forest Northern Part, there wouldn't be more than five Demon Qi Realm Ninth Stage monster beasts, even with a generous estimate.

As for Demon Qi Realm Eighth Stage monster beasts, there were even more; the entire Eastern Vortex Forest had no fewer than three hundred late-stage Demon Qi Realm monster beasts.

Indeed, environment almost determines the lower limit of growth; living in a good environment means a significantly higher starting point than average monster beasts.

Unlike their northern part, plagued by internal and external troubles, they had to endure the combined difficulties from the eastern and western parts.

They also faced dangers from humans, and their resource output was not high. The northern part was indeed the worst.

Conversely, the monster beasts stationed in the eastern and western parts were not very hostile; in fact, their relationship could be described as good.

The reason was simple: the Silver Scale Rhino King could not possibly hand over the southern and Central Vortex Forest to them.

Nor could he allow one monster beast to guard two territories simultaneously.

In the entire world, without conflicts of interest, people rarely antagonize those of their same level.

Of course, there were a small number of eccentrics who would do so.

However, one should view matters by proportion, not by individual cases.

To use individual cases to make a point, wouldn't that be playing a trick and treating people like fools?

There are all sorts of people in the world, and a unique situation appearing is not strange at all.

In Chen De's previous life, there were many such people.

They would use so-called individual cases, appearing once in millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people, to feed people 'chicken soup for the soul'.

It truly tricked many people.

This principle also applied to monster beasts.

Therefore, there were no conflicts of interest between them; instead, they could join forces.

Together, they would deal with the Shadow Wolf King, who truly posed a potential threat to their interests.

After all, neither of them knew which of the two the Shadow Wolf King's target was.

As for going to ask the Shadow Wolf King, that would be too foolish; who could guarantee that what the Shadow Wolf King said would be the truth?

What if the Shadow Wolf King promised not to attack you, only to stab you in the back immediately? What could you do?

Moreover, if one was overthrown, could they not fight their way back up?

At that time, the other one who managed to survive the previous round might not be able to hold on this time.

Thus, the three of them would only fall into endless mutual targeting.

No one would have peace!

The best solution was for the two monster beasts, whose interests were currently not in conflict, to join forces.

Together, they would suppress the Shadow Wolf King, who could potentially threaten both of them.

Keeping the Shadow Wolf King from ever rising would benefit both of them.

It would ensure that the interests of the two monster beasts would never conflict.

This approach meant the Shadow Wolf King would suffer a bit, while they would reap the benefits.

And so, a world where only the Shadow Wolf King suffered was achieved.

Chen De could still understand this behavior; it was all for the sake of profit, so there was no shame.

This world was inherently cannibalistic; either you ate others, or you were eaten.

Didn't Heaven send Chen De here to end such chaos?

Looking back at the monster beasts in the Eastern Vortex Forest, the number of late-stage Demon Qi Realm monster beasts.

It gave Chen De a feeling that the emergence of Demon Origin Realm monster beasts was being suppressed.

Before the Vortex Forest was unified, there were countless monster beast tribes with Demon Origin Realm monster beasts.

This also proved that the resources of the Vortex Forest could fully support a large number of Demon Origin Realm monster beasts.

The current situation must be the result of their deliberate suppression.

Just like the Silver Scale Rhino King back then, who eliminated all monster beasts in the entire Vortex Forest that had the potential to break through to the Demon Spirit Realm.

These stationed monster beasts also seemed to not allow the emergence of monster beasts that could threaten their status in their territory.

The upper limit suppressed the lower, and the lower suppressed even lower.

The control over interests among these monster beasts was quite blatant and strict.

However, these were not what Chen De should be thinking about now; perhaps it would be related to him in the future, or perhaps not.

One must act practically, and the immediate priority now was to break through to the Demon Origin Realm as quickly as possible.

Chen De had decided that the moment he broke through to the Demon Origin Realm would be the time of great chaos in the Vortex Forest.

This Vortex Forest had suffered under the Silver Scale Rhino King for too long; for a long time, no monster beast had resisted such unjust behavior.

Then let him, Chen De, carry out this righteous act, and let him, Chen De, fire the first shot of this uprising, this resistance, this great chaos in the Vortex Forest!

Chen De would raise the banner of righteousness, redistribute wealth to the poor during the great chaos of the Vortex Forest, and at the same time benefit his monster beast compatriots in the Vortex Forest!

To achieve Chen De's great ambitions and ideals, Chen De's first target was a Demon Qi Realm Ninth Stage Abdomen-Striped Demonic Snake.

He hoped it could contribute its share to Chen De's ideal!

Chen De immediately went to find a Demon Qi Realm Ninth Stage monster beast for the first reason.

That was, the difference between Ninth Stage and Eighth Stage monster beasts was not significant, and the impact of one Eighth Stage and one Ninth Stage disappearing was similar.

However, to kill ten Demon Qi Realm Eighth Stage monster beasts in a short period.

It would obviously be more easily detected than five Demon Qi Realm Ninth Stage monster beasts.

Chen De did not want the other party to react so quickly before he broke through to the Demon Origin Realm.

For Chen De, the difficulty of killing Eighth Stage and Ninth Stage monster beasts was similar, and Ninth Stage was clearly more efficient.

Upon arriving at this monster beast's territory, Chen De found that this monster beast was actually playing with several small snakes.

The monster beast family was enjoying themselves, and Chen De felt a pang of reluctance in his heart at this warm and harmonious scene, falling into self-doubt.

What, after all, was he doing by killing so many monster beasts?

Wasn't it so that every life could live more peacefully, stably, and excitedly?

They were playing so happily, and I still have to go, to disturb them.

This is really…

This is really…

A good opportunity!

So Chen De flashed, taking advantage of the Abdomen-Striped Demonic Snake still playing with abandon and not paying much attention to its surroundings, and appeared before it.

First, he feigned an attack on the small snakes, which indeed diverted the Abdomen-Striped Demonic Snake's attention.

Chen De's move was called 'attacking what the enemy must save'.

Thus, although snakes react quickly, Chen De caught it off guard, striking when it was halfway across the river.

Before it could react, to be safe.

Chen De also used the Heavenly Revelation Aurora Seal to ensure a one-hit kill.

The Abdomen-Striped Demonic Snake's body stiffened, and Chen De unleashed a Tianjing Extermination Slash.

It pierced directly through its head, and Chen De landed steadily behind it.

Then Chen De's gaze swept towards the small snakes. When they saw the Abdomen-Striped Demonic Snake killed by Chen De, they all froze in place.

Their eyes were filled with sadness and disbelief, as if they couldn't believe it.

The Abdomen-Striped Demonic Snake, which had just been with them, had died just like that.

It was only in the blink of an eye.

Killed by a blue rat!

Their strength was far inferior to Chen De's, but they still wanted to avenge the Abdomen-Striped Demonic Snake.

But just as they were about to desperately charge at Chen De, Chen De had already made his move.

The moment Chen De looked at them, he had already struck.

In an instant, the sharpness of Chen De's claws flashed, a few swift strikes.

All the small snakes were torn into seventeen or eighteen pieces by Chen De.

In this battle, what surprised Chen De was.

Among all the small snakes, not a single one fled, not one!

Even if they wanted to escape, it would be impossible!

But their filial piety towards the Abdomen-Striped Demonic Snake was almost comparable to Chen De's.

Of course, it still couldn't compare to Chen De.

After all, Chen De had the title of 'Moral Ceiling' bestowed upon him; no matter what he did, he could stand on the moral high ground.

Any matter, in Chen De's hands, would appear incredibly moral.

This was something no one, no monster beast, could compare to.

To compare morality with Chen De was simply asking for humiliation!

Despicable?

Noble people don't speak of despicable!

Shameless?

Moral people don't speak of shameless!

And he, Chen De!

Was such a person!

To achieve his goals by any means necessary, choosing to use some immoral methods.

Ordinary people certainly couldn't do it, because it would be very shameless.

But Chen De could, because Chen De had morality and would not be shameless.

The same thing depended not on how it was used, but on who used it.

If a moral person used these methods, then these methods were moral.

The love between the Abdomen-Striped Demonic Snake and those small snakes was, after all, only a small love; only Chen De possessed true great love.

Therefore, their small love, in the face of Chen De's great love, was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, overestimating themselves.

Thus, Chen De logically, dutifully, unquestionably, and as a matter of course, accepted the attribute point gained this time and added it to defense.

Only four more attribute points!

After planning, Chen De, valuing speed, set off towards his next target!