Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 499 - 500 Entering the Deep Mountains_1

Chapter 499: Chapter 500 Entering the Deep Mountains_1

The slowly rising morning sun began to illuminate the scenery behind the carriage. Guo Huai, feeling unable to hold on as the trees steadily receded, leaned against the carriage and hazily fell asleep. After a long while, he felt someone pushing him and, summoning his energy, Guo Huai opened his eyes.

In front of him, he saw someone wrapped in a black robe with a scarf covering their face, revealing only a pair of bright eyes. Guo Huai hesitated for a moment and said,

"Feng Yuan?"

"Seems like you’re not completely out of it~"

Feng Yuan remarked with a mocking tone and pushed Guo Huai again, saying,

"Snap out of it, we need to get off."

Guo Huai, still somewhat dazed, followed Feng Yuan off the carriage and, seeing the dense trees all around, said with some confusion,

"Where is this?"

"Near the Bei Yan Region of the Great Yan at the Cangyun Mountain Range. Let’s go—we’d be in trouble if other people saw us~"

Feng Yuan pulled Guo Huai and quickly plunged into a lush thicket. As soon as they left, people in the same black robes immediately took their place, filling the gap left by their departure.

After walking with Feng Yuan for a while, Mo Li and the others appeared before Guo Huai. By that time, Mo Li and the rest had changed into a different attire—a snug fabric outfit with a specially made cape. Guo Huai recognized it at a glance as the attire of wandering explorers, which was modified from the clothes of martial artists to better serve outdoor activities and battle.

The specially made cape was windproof and waterproof, designed to protect them from sudden downpours in the wild. The hood allowed them to disguise their identities on certain occasions. With that in mind, Guo Huai reached into his bag and took out his own wanderer’s attire, asking,

"Should I put this on now?"

"Suit yourself."

Feng Yuan replied while preparing to don a new green Ritual Robe. Guo Huai’s gaze drifted involuntarily to the hood of the Ritual Robe at the sight of its color. Noticing Guo Huai’s mischievous look, Feng Yuan shook the Ritual Robe, revealing a light gray hood, and said,

"Sorry to disappoint you."

Mo Li and Hua Yiyou looked at Feng Yuan with some perplexity, as the term "green hat" didn’t mean anything special during that period. Feng Yuan glared at Guo Huai and explained the somewhat peculiar term "green hat" to them. After hearing Feng Yuan’s explanation, everyone gave him an odd look as he was changing into the Ritual Robe. Yao Yin asked with some bafflement,

"Why do you insist on changing into the Ritual Robe? Isn’t the warrior outfit fine?"

Clad in the Ritual Robe with the hood on, Feng Yuan flourished a wooden staff and said,

"That’s too plain~ Look how fantastic this is~"

Rolling her eyes, Yao Yin said irritably,

"Let’s see how you get through the bushes in that outfit."

Yao Yin also had a similarly beautiful robe with decent protective abilities, but such garments were not usually worn outdoors, since the small accessories were prone to catch on branches when moving through thickets.

After a while, when everyone had changed, Zi Mo ran out from the nearby thicket, affectionately rubbing his head against Mo Li before standing by her side, ready to follow the group into the forest. Just as Yao Yin was about to enjoy watching Feng Yuan’s misfortune, a green transparent spherical shield enveloped him. The bushes and branches did not get pushed aside or broken as everyone had expected upon touching the green shield but instead twisted to make way for Feng Yuan.

The silent shadow of Agunas flicked its tail and said,

"You are using Nagna’s power for this..."

"Not using Estir’s power is already quite good, okay? The Master of the Forest’s ability is much more powerful in places like this than Nagna’s~"

As Feng Yuan spoke, he seemed quite intrigued. After reading Estir’s information, Guo Huai said with some puzzlement,

"What’s the difference?"

After all, the system provided a rough grading of the Divine Beasts’ strengths. For instance, Nagna belonged to the second tier, weaker than the first-tier Divine Beasts like Agunas. And Estir... the system labeled it as a Sacred Beast Level Divine Beast under special circumstances.

"If it were Estir’s power, I could make the plants carry us, and the entire forest would assist in our advancement. Although that guy, for special reasons, never reached the Divine Beast Level in strength, its power to animate the forest is a bona fide Divine Beast Level move."

Hearing Feng Yuan’s explanation, Guo Huai said with some surprise,

"Can it really be like this? Even if it’s not a Divine Beast Level?"

Feng Yuan glanced at Guo Huai with annoyance and said,

"What’s so strange about that? No matter what, they are still Divine Beasts, they’re bound to have some aces up their sleeves."

"However, there doesn’t seem to be any Spirit Beasts around here."

Feng Yuan put away the long staff in his hand, raised both hands to the back of his head in boredom, and looked around. Guo Huai glanced at Feng Yuan, not knowing what to say about him. You have to know, traces of human activities can still occasionally be seen around here. If there were Spirit Beasts lurking around, they would definitely be the ones highly alert to humans. The ones friendly to humans would have followed the people away a long time ago.

Yao Yin thought for a moment and said,

"How about... I fly around on my sword to see if there are any Spirit Beasts nearby?"

Mo Ling, pulling on Yao Yin’s arm, smiled and said,

"No need, let’s leave it to fate. This isn’t something we can force."

Mo Ling had also tried to build a good relationship with Zi Mo of Mo Li, but after many attempts, Zi Mo was only close to her because of Mo Li’s face, and her own two Spirit Beasts had come to her on their own accord. Thinking of this, she began to understand why Feng Yuan had previously said to go with the flow.

As everyone moved deeper, the vegetation around them became denser. At this time, Feng Yuan leisurely followed behind the group. Yao Yin looked at the easy-going Feng Yuan with some dissatisfaction and said,

"Why don’t you go ahead and clear the way?"

"Tsk!"

Feng Yuan pursed his lips, holding Pomiti, walked to the front, cleared out a path with one hand, moving aside the two Guards who were clearing the way ahead. The branches and shrubs would automatically give way upon encountering Feng Yuan’s green Barrier, and once Feng Yuan passed, the plants would revert to their original state, curving back from the side. Feng Yuan gave Yao Yin a provocative glance and said,

"What do you think?"

"Can’t you just clear a straight path?"

Yao Yin said with some dissatisfaction, glancing at her, Feng Yuan said irritably,

"Nagna is a Life Divine Beast, how could it possibly have that kind of Barrier? It would be more likely if it were a combat-oriented Divine Beast like the White Wolf Deity."

"Then why did you choose Nagna’s power?"

"Otherwise, whose power should I choose? Lorraine Tower’s or Gitalien’s? The power of the twin gods of space and time causes too much commotion. We’re not here to stir up trouble, and as for the White Wolf Deity’s... did you forget that the White Wolf Deity is currently presiding over Wolf Mountain Hall?"

Upon hearing Feng Yuan’s words, Yao Yin glanced at the White Wolf Deity beside her. The White Wolf Deity, currently resembling a big white dog, noticed Yao Yin’s gaze and glared back at her, exhaling a puff of white air as if expressing discontent.

"If I wear the Wolf God’s Robe, do you believe they won’t realize I’m not in Yongning before long?"

Feng Yuan impetuously said, it was known that there were currently only two people publicly associated with Wolf Mountain Hall: Feng Yuan, who was guarding Wolf Mountain Hall, and Feng Yuan, who ran to Mo Li’s side and seemed to have a grudge against Wolf Mountain Hall’s Feng Yuan. Feng Yuan didn’t want to create a new identity, that would be too much trouble.

After all, unless he created another avatar, differences would eventually be spotted.

Yao Yin spread her hands noncommittally and said,

"That’s hard to say, what if they don’t have any informants in Great Yan?"

Noticing that the two seemed ready to argue endlessly, Mo Ling quickly pulled Yao Yin aside, whispering something to divert her attention. Hua Yiyou watched Feng Yuan with amusement as he instructed the Guards to cautiously clear a barely passable path ahead, while the Guards trailing at the end of the procession made sure to carefully cover up the traces of the group’s passage.

As the day gradually waned, Feng Yuan bent down and gently patted Xiao Ji’s head, saying,

"Go and see if there’s an open area around here."

Yao Yin looked puzzled at Feng Yuan and said,

"Isn’t it fine to make camp right here?"