Dongfang Zhi worked with great efficiency. It didn't take long for him to arrange a large number of people to start digging the mountain.
Those on the periphery dared not get too close after Mo Xuanye's outburst of anger.
Some brave ones backed off a certain distance but didn't leave.
"Only this few people?" Mo Xuanye was clearly dissatisfied as he eyed the workers.
Dongfang Zhi twitched the corner of his mouth. "These are the ones who were just free. The rest are on their way."
Hearing this, Mo Xuanye fixed his deep gaze on the sunken area again. He used his power to protect it, preventing a landslide while the workers were digging.
Feng Yi also joined the digging team.
Half an hour later, Dongfang Zhi managed to triple the manpower. Meanwhile, Xiao Ying had unblocked Feng Yuqin's meridians, who was buried under the mountain.
Although the original owner's meridians were blocked before, she had never slacked off on her cultivation.
Now that her meridians were unblocked, Feng Yuqin could clearly feel a surge of power gushing out from her Dantian, and the spiritual energy around her started to converge towards her.
Feng Yuqin immediately sat down to start cultivating.
Seeing the rich spiritual energy swirling around her, Xiao Ying wisely guarded her.
In a short while, the surrounding spiritual energy poured into her body, transformed into soul power, and then entered her Dantian.
Once the soul power entered the Dantian, it was as if a bomb had been detonated. Her Dantian exploded with a roar, and her strength started to soar out of control.
Boom!
Level One Soul Master!
Boom!
Level Two Soul Master!
...
Level Three Soul Master!
Feng Yuqin was stunned by such a rapid upgrade speed. Moreover, the soul power in her Dantian was constantly surging out.
Boom!
Level Four Soul Master!
...
Mo Xuanye, who had been keeping his spiritual sense on Feng Yuqin, noticed her rapid promotion and his expression changed slightly.
"What's wrong?" Dongfang Zhi asked in confusion when he saw Mo Xuanye's strange expression.
Mo Xuanye raised his elegant eyebrows slightly and said with a smile, "I've discovered something interesting."
"What interesting thing?" Dongfang Zhi asked curiously.
If Ye said it was interesting, it must not be a simple matter.
But unfortunately, Mo Xuanye didn't seem to want to say more.
Feng Yuqin opened her eyes abruptly after finishing her upgrade.
"Master, your cultivation speed is so fast!" Xiao Ying said excitedly.
She had directly reached Level Four.
But Feng Yuqin's attention was drawn to something else at the moment.
She frowned and said to Xiao Ying, "I feel like I'm being monitored."
"Is it the person who monitored us before?" Xiao Ying's senses had been weakened because he had almost exhausted his power while helping Feng Yuqin remove the poison, so he didn't notice the surveillance.
Feng Yuqin gave a faint hum.
"Then there should be no danger." Xiao Ying thought that since the person who monitored them before was clearly very powerful but didn't harm them, there should be no problem.
Xiao Ying paused for a moment and continued, "Master, my energy shield won't last long. You need to communicate with the Gold-devouring Beast quickly, or we'll really be buried alive."
Feng Yuqin nodded and immediately entered her spiritual sea.
The Gold-devouring Beast woke up when Feng Yuqin tried to communicate with it.
When it woke up, it opened its dazed eyes. Before it could figure out what was going on, it found that its previously incurable injuries were recovering at a visible speed.
"Master, at this speed, it won't take half a cup of tea for the Gold-devouring Beast's injuries to fully recover," Xiao Ying said excitedly.
Xiao Ying's words filled Feng Yuqin's heart with anticipation.
The movement of the Gold-devouring Beast's recovery was imperceptible to those with low strength, but it was impossible to hide from someone like Mo Xuanye.
So when Mo Xuanye sensed the power fluctuation below, he immediately said to Dongfang Zhi beside him, "Take your people and leave immediately."
Seeing Mo Xuanye's suddenly solemn expression, Dongfang Zhi didn't say anything more and immediately led his people away.
At the same time when Dongfang Zhi and his people left, the Gold-devouring Beast's injuries were fully recovered.
"Master..." The Gold-devouring Beast knelt in front of Feng Yuqin respectfully, its face full of excitement.
Xiao Ying looked stunned. "Isn't it said that the Gold-devouring Beast is very difficult to tame?"
Hearing Xiao Ying's voice, the Gold-devouring Beast looked at him in surprise. "A phoenix? Master's bloodline is truly powerful. Even a phoenix can be contracted."
Feng Yuqin noticed something and narrowed her eyes slightly. "So you recognized me as your master because of my bloodline?"
When the Gold-devouring Beast just woke up, she clearly felt the rejection in its heart. However, before it could resist, the matter was put on hold because of its injury recovery.
During the whole process of its injury recovery, she could clearly feel the Gold-devouring Beast's state of mind changing from reluctance to submission.
The Gold-devouring Beast nodded. "Yes, master."
"Let's leave here first," Feng Yuqin said.
Although Feng Yuqin was curious about her bloodline, she also knew that this was not the right time to talk about it. She had to leave here as soon as possible.
Moreover, she had to shake off the person who was monitoring her outside.
Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The earth-shattering momentum made the entire Life-taking Mountain tremble and sink.
Mo Xuanye and Feng Yi sensed the danger and retreated out of the range of the Life-taking Mountain just before the mountain sank.
Everyone else was glad that they didn't go in, otherwise they would have been buried alive in the Life-taking Mountain.
The people on the periphery fled at the moment when the mountain trembled, so they didn't see the whole Life-taking Mountain turn into a small pile of soil.
Previously, this mountain was the body of the Gold-devouring Beast. As soon as it left, most of the soil of the mountain seemed to disappear out of thin air, which was extremely strange.
Mo Xuanye's spiritual sense scanned the area and found that he could no longer sense Feng Yuqin's aura.
He suddenly smiled...
For so many years, it was the first time that someone had disappeared under his spiritual sense.
Seeing his master's smile, Feng Yi shivered.
He had been with his master for so many years and had never seen him smile. So in the Dongyuan Kingdom, his master even had the nickname of the Cold-faced Prince.
But now, this Cold-faced Prince was smiling.
He felt that someone was going to be in trouble.
...
At the same time.
Feng Yuqin had been taken to the Western Song Kingdom by the Gold-devouring Beast.
She had just checked into an inn when that familiar aura appeared again.
"Master, the person who has been monitoring us has appeared, and this time there's a faint aura of danger," the Gold-devouring Beast said with a tremor in its voice.
Damn it!
This person was really persistent.
Just as Feng Yuqin was about to leave, she saw a masked man appear in the room and block her way.
Feng Yuqin quickly attacked the man.
But due to the huge gap in strength, her moves were easily defused by the man, and he even grabbed her hands when she was about to launch another attack.
The soft and smooth touch of her delicate hands made the man pause for a moment.
Feng Yuqin curled her lips slightly, a hint of cunning flashed in her eyes, and suddenly a surge of power erupted from her body. She disappeared from the spot.
Mo Xuanye looked at his empty palm, a hint of smile flashed across his eyes, which he didn't even notice.
When he was on the Life-taking Mountain before, he had noticed that her sudden disappearance was unusual.
Now he finally understood that there was a divine beast on her.
A person with such low strength actually had a legendary divine beast. Her luck was truly extraordinary.
If the people on the Tianyuan Continent knew about this, wouldn't she be hunted down and robbed by everyone on the continent?
Thinking that someone might harm Feng Yuqin, a hint of coldness flashed across Mo Xuanye's eyes.
Feng Yi, who had just caught up, staggered when he felt this coldness.
His master was really scary. He'd better run away quickly. "Master, I'll go after her right away."
"Come back," Mo Xuanye said. There was a hint of wildness in his expression, and his gorgeous eyes sparkled with a charming light. "Since she's in the Western Song Kingdom, it's not hard to guess where she'll go."
Feng Yi immediately understood. His master was going to wait for her like a hunter waiting for its prey.
He silently mourned for Feng Yuqin for a second. No one who had been targeted by his master had ever escaped.