276 Twin Beasts (1/2)

After the Alliance Hunt started and the disciples from the various allied sects made their way to the Guiyao planet, the majority of them were focused on killing the beasts and collecting their heads.

There was also a portion of the disciples who robbed others of their spoils. Those who were luckier had only been robbed. The unlucky ones were killed right away.

And it was because of this that the beasts were not the only things they had to deal with on the Guiyao planet; they also had to deal with the threat that their fellow disciples posed.

The ranking for the hunt was decided based on a point system.

However, although the robberies were occurring, they only happened amongst disciples of the same level of training. This was because they could only obtain spoils that were useful to themselves if they robbed someone of the same level of training.

Take for example the ultimate Dharma disciples. It was useless for them to be robbing late Dharma disciples and stealing the heads of late Dharma beasts. This was unless their opponent happened to have the head of an ultimate Dharma beast.

As for the majority of the late Dharma disciples who had been robbed by ultimate Dharma disciples, they would cooperate and hand over all the heads of the ultimate Dharma beasts they had collected to them. This way, they could still keep the heads of the late Dharma beasts and accumulate some points.

Of course, there were also some ultimate Dharma disciples who had thoroughly plundered disciples who were of a lower level of training. They had kept the heads beasts they could not use so that they could hand them off to fellow disciples from their own sects if they happened to meet.

But there were few disciples who were of a high level of training who would kill disciples of lower levels of training. This was because they would be sentenced to death if caught.

It was a free-for-all for disciples of the same levels of training. They were allowed to take each other out, and this was something the Alliance Hunt had implicitly allowed.

In this boundless universe, martial training was a god-defying concept in itself. Whether it was people or the heavens they were going against, the sects of the alliance all hoped for their own disciples to be able to experience and understand the strife and danger of the human psyche.

All the prizes that came with the hunt were but secondary to the true meaning of it, which lay in the experience it granted its participants.

”How boring.”

The other disciples put their all into killing the beasts, and quite a few of them sustained injuries when they were careless. Zhou Donghuang, on the other hand, dealt with them as if they were but small fry, even if the beasts were at the ultimate Dharma stage.

And just that trick of temporarily forcing them out of their consciousness was enough for Zhou Donghuang to go in for the kill.

”I wouldn't be here participating in this Alliance Hunt if not for the Sky Sun Fruit.”

Zhou Donghuang did not forget his purpose for joining this hunt.

Of course, there was something else weighing on his mind now:

There was a demon here, somewhere in the Guiyao planet, that was causing a disruption in the Spirit energy. The demon was also greedily absorbing the life essence of the dead beasts. Before this Alliance Hunt ended, he had to find out where that demon was spawning.

It was safe to assume that that place was not a good place.

The only thing was that he knew it was difficult to locate the place with how feeble and pathetic his Divine Will currently was. It was easier for him to reach the sky.

It was important to note that, throughout the history of the Alliance Hunt, mid Divine Transformation adepts have entered the Guiyao planet in search of the demon. However, not a single one of them had managed to find where the demon was spawning.

Of course, if Zhou Donghuang had the Divine Knowledge of the Divine Transformation stage, then he could be certain that he could find the demon within a few days.

The spawning grounds of a demon like this was often cloaked with an invisibility spell. It was difficult for the average person to deal with that spell, but Zhou Donghuang could see through the spell as long as he could find it.

Even if he was but a Dharma adept now, he could see through the spell as long as it was right in front of him.

”Onward.”

Though this bored him to no end, Zhou Donghuang had to persevere and work hard to find Dharma beast after Dharma beast to kill and loot their heads, all for the first prize: the Sky Sun fruit.

He did not bother himself with going out of his way to chase after beasts who were of other levels of training.

Those that happened to be in his path, he killed.

Just like now.

A late Dharma beast was flying over from the far distance. It was still quite a ways from Zhou Donghuang and thus had not noticed the man, but he had already spotted the beast.

Even then, Zhou Donghuang could not be bothered to strike at it.

To him, a late Dharma disciple, he could only accumulate ten points from killing a late Dharma beast. An ultimate Dharma beast, on the other hand, awarded him 100 points.

It took ten late Dharma beasts to accumulate him as many points as one ultimate Dharma beast could.

He had no plans to chase after the late Dharma beast; his time was better spent searching for other ultimate Dharma beasts that might be hiding in the vicinity.

”Hm?”

All of a sudden, as if he detected something, Zhou Donghuang's ears twitched as he stood in the lush forest.

Boom!!

Rumble!!

…

With his astounding sense of hearing, he picked up on waves of sound that were coming from ahead of him.

”Is that the sound of beasts fighting amongst themselves, or is that a disciple fighting against a beast?”

Zhou Donghuang could hear it: it was the sound of two forces striking against one another.

”No!”

As he flew towards the source of the sound, he could hear even more clearly. ”It's three forces exchanging blows… More accurately, it's two on one.”

With a twist of his body, he moved towards the sound rapidly.