The sudden eruption in his dantian made Evan Chu instantly panic. God’s Blood was a rare phenomenon—seeing it act up here left him feeling a little flustered.
Evan Chu hurriedly retreated dozens of meters and sat down. The energy inside his dantian was rising at a terrifying pace—dozens of times faster than absorbing Immortal Crystals. In no time, his dantian was packed full to bursting with power.
Sweat streamed down his forehead. At that moment, Evan Chu finally understood the agony his son Chase once endured in the Netherworld—his dantian was on the verge of bursting. But unlike Chase’s Hidden Divine Meridians, Evan didn’t have a special bloodline that could turn a shattered dantian into a qi sea. The anxiety in his heart grew.
He focused his mind and frantically circulated the surging energy inside his body, forcing it to rush through his meridians at top speed. The pain was intense, but he gritted his teeth and endured.
After about half an hour, the God’s Blood stopped releasing energy and vanished somewhere inside him again. Evan Chu had already pushed the energy circulation to its limit—his meridians were nearly torn apart, and his whole body was wracked with agony.
Bang! Suddenly, a crisp crack sounded within him. The swelling pain instantly vanished, replaced by emptiness—and then, a surge of power flooded his meridians.
Delight flashed across Evan Chu’s face. This was the sign of a breakthrough—he hadn’t expected that coming to Godfall Valley would accidentally trigger his God’s Blood and let him step straight into the early-stage Immortal Emperor Realm.
The space around him rippled violently. Countless streams of Immortal Essence surged toward Evan Chu, and he couldn’t help but absorb them like mad.
Actually, the Immortal Essence in Godfall Valley held a faint trace of divine qi—because many late-stage Immortal Emperors preparing for ascension had at least a shred of divine qi in their bodies. For Evan Chu right now, that was an incredible tonic.
Evan Chu sat motionless, frantically absorbing energy. He didn’t know how much time had passed before he finally stopped. He could feel that if he kept absorbing, or if the God’s Blood released just a bit more power, he might break through to mid-stage Immortal Emperor Realm.
Now Evan Chu had reached the peak of early-stage Immortal Emperor Realm—he was just a step away from breaking through to the next level. But he knew that truly advancing would take decades, maybe even centuries; sometimes, that last little bit required even more time and effort than everything before.
Standing up, Evan glanced around—he could clearly sense that the Immortal Essence in the air was much thinner than before. That was all because of his own absorption.
Looking over at Skyflight Terrace not far away, he felt a vague sense that the fiend sealed beneath it was deeply connected to him. Otherwise, his God’s Blood wouldn’t have reacted so violently for no reason. He suspected that if he stayed here any longer, he might accidentally trigger the fiend’s release and let it break free ahead of time.
His strength now was far beyond what it used to be. Thinking about the coming Immortal-Beast War, Evan felt a surge of confidence—maybe, when the time came, he alone could turn the tide and drive the beast armies out of the Immortal Realm.
He glanced at the endless green stretching ahead. With a flash, he teleported thousands of kilometers away. When he first entered Godfall Valley, Evan had seen plenty of immortal artifacts, treasures, and corpses of immortals—but they were all low-grade stuff, so he hadn’t cared at all.
Expanding his divine sense, he checked the surroundings. Three hundred-plus kilometers ahead, some Immortal Beasts were active. This was the first time Evan had seen Immortal Beasts inside Godfall Valley, and he couldn’t help but feel excited.
He teleported again, arriving at the spot where the beasts were roaming. Evan looked around—there were dozens of Immortal Beasts the size of small mountains moving through the forest, smashing giant trees with every step. The sound of trees crashing to the ground echoed constantly.
All of them were the same species. They looked a bit like elephants—their trunks were long—but they also had tiger-like faces, much like the Skyfiend Tiger he’d slain before. On their backs were wings as thin as cicada wings, and their tails resembled horse tails. It was a total mishmash, leaving Evan stunned.
“What kind of Immortal Beast is this, looking so bizarre? Why would they appear in a forest? Even a forest stretching for ten thousand miles couldn’t handle creatures this massive.” Evan muttered to himself.
He hadn’t been here long, but already a huge swath of trees had been toppled. Some of the biggest trees were dozens of meters thick, showing just how powerful these beasts really were.
“Master, those are Tiger-Elephant Beasts. They’re extremely rare among Immortal Beasts—crazy strong and with insane defense. See those flesh wings? Their flight speed is so fast it’s hard to believe.”
In the Immortal Realm, Golden-Winged Rocs are the fastest, with Divine Dragons and Fire Phoenixes coming in second and third. These guys rank fourth—if you weren’t riding a Golden-Winged Roc, there’s no way you’d ever catch up to them.
Tiger-Elephant Beasts are actually a type of Primordial Giant-Beast. They prefer living in herds, and if they spot an enemy, they always attack together. In the Immortal Realm, they’re seriously tough to deal with—countless immortals have been killed by them during past Immortal-Beast Wars.
But in the last several million years, their numbers have dropped a lot. I’m not sure if the current Immortal-Beast army still has any Tiger-Elephant Beasts. We’d better leave—there’s no need to mess with these terrifying monsters.”
Evan glanced at the Tiger-Elephant Beasts not far away and asked, “If you kill these guys, do they drop beast cores?”
“Of course. Every Immortal Beast has a powerful core—not really called a demon pill, but a beast core. It’s their energy source, just like a cultivator’s dantian. Even after death, it keeps some of its original power, but honestly, it’s not much use for us.” said the Emerald Immortal Empress.
“How could it be useless? I’ve got two beast-type followers—if they absorb the energy from these beast cores, their strength will definitely improve. Plus, I can transform into a Golden Dragon, so I can absorb beast core energy too. It’s gotta be faster than drawing Immortal Essence from Immortal Stones!” Evan grinned.
“If you really want to kill these guys, you’ll have to be careful. The weakest of them are mid-stage Immortal Emperor Realm, and there are plenty of late-stage ones too. They’re seriously dangerous,” warned the Emerald Immortal Empress.
“Dangerous? Please. If I use Light Transformation to go invisible, killing them will be a piece of cake. Since I made it into Godfall Valley, I’m not leaving empty-handed.” Evan laughed, then vanished and silently approached the colossal Tiger-Elephant Beasts.