The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 506 - 358 The New Crossover Point

Chapter 506: Chapter 358 The New Crossover Point

"Is the blood from Good Wings really an antidote?"

In the depths of the dangerous zone, several people made their way forward. At this moment, Jiang Mingtian, shaking the bottle of blood he had collected in his hand, couldn’t help but ask curiously.

Before leaving, Li Yi had collected all the fresh blood shed by Good Wings when it was injured and distributed a portion to everyone.

"It should be. Anyway, just keep it for now. In case we really get bitten by some poisonous creature, it can save lives," Li Yi said, looking at the huge mutant beast with wings on its back that was approaching, and couldn’t help but exclaim, "Good Wings’ vitality is really terrifying. It’s only been half an hour, and during that time I just fed it a box of Transcendent nutritional fluid, and now it has already mostly recovered."

"Does that mean it can join the battle now?" asked Zhao Fangji.

Li Yi asked Good Wings, which let out a cry and nodded in response.

"No problem, it can fight," Li Yi replied then.

Good Wings is very smart and has a strong learning ability. As long as it is willing to be taught, it is estimated that it won’t take many days for it to fully understand human speech and even start cultivating like a human. Some Extraordinary Creatures even cultivate faster than some geniuses of the Golden Academy. If taken seriously in training, its future would be boundlessly promising.

"It’s good that it can join the battle. That will make our journey much easier," said Hu Fei.

As the group continued to move forward.

After traveling several kilometers, Good Wings in the team suddenly became restless. It seemed to have spotted danger, then flapped its wings and rushed towards a corner of the forest at an unbelievable speed. Everyone only saw a succession of afterimages flash by, and then Good Wings was out of sight.

But soon, a massive noise came from the forest. Good Wings seemed to be fighting with some Extraordinary Creature.

However, the commotion came fast and subsided just as quickly.

The battle ended before long.

Then they saw Good Wings return, carrying a creature’s carcass in its mouth.

Hu Fei took one look and expressed surprise: "A Soul Realm Extraordinary Creature was taken down by Good Wings in such a short time?"

Extraordinary Creatures strong enough to survive in the depths of the dangerous zone were definitely not weak, but they seemed like natural prey for Good Wings. The battle was over in just tens of seconds, with the outcome of life and death decided, and strangely, since this Extraordinary Creature was so close to Good Wings’ territory, why hadn’t it been killed before?

But then, Hu Fei figured it out.

It was deliberately left alive by Good Wings, kept nearby as a reserve food supply, to be taken down when no other prey was caught.

Now that Good Wings casually dealt with the neighbor, it probably thought it wouldn’t stay here after this journey, so there was no need to keep the reserve food supply anymore.

The feathered serpent from before was probably also Good Wings’ reserve food.

After all, Good Wings’ blood could detoxify all poisons, a natural nemesis for that feathered serpent. Plus, having two neighbors that can be taken down at any time also served as a warning. In case enemies appeared, they would likely show up near the neighbors first. Then Good Wings, seeing the neighbor killed, would also be able to assess the enemy’s strength and decide whether to fight or flee.

After pondering for a while, Hu Fei felt that this was the great wisdom of survival, not as simple as it appeared.

Li Yi used a Magic Artifact for storage to collect this Extraordinary Creature’s carcass. After giving Good Wings a few bottles of Transcendent nutritional fluid as compensation, he said, "Since Good Wings will take care of the Extraordinary Creatures we encounter on the way, we don’t need to waste time and should hurry to the location of the mythical fruits. Zhao Fangji mentioned earlier that someone named Qin Gang has already led a group of experts there, and I’m afraid we’ll miss out on everything if we’re late."

"Alright, let’s quicken our pace," everyone agreed unanimously.

With Good Wings leading the way, they followed closely behind.

They encountered and killed Extraordinary Creatures of the Spiritual Realm and the Soul Realm all along the way. Good Wings indeed displayed outstanding value; none of the creatures it encountered were its match, not even capable of escaping, which made Li Yi even more pleasantly surprised.

It seems that the previous analysis was correct, Good Wings is indeed a near-mythical variant.

Along the way, Li Yi collected the carcasses of over a dozen Extraordinary Creatures.

"This forest seems different from before. Have you noticed? The trees here are getting taller, and the mountains are becoming more towering..." On the way, Jiang Mingtian noticed something was off and voiced a reminder.

Li Yi had also noticed this issue. This situation could no longer be described as mere change; rather, the environment here, the geography, had greatly diverged from the original world.

"Zhao Fangji, are you sure we’re going the right way?"

Zhao Fangji said earnestly, "There’s no mistake. Once we move forward a bit more, we will have passed through the forest. Then we will see a canyon with miraculously growing trees, and those trees bear silver mythical fruits."

Although the group was doubtful, they had no choice but to press on.

Sure enough.

After advancing a few more kilometers, the scene before them suddenly opened up.

The sunlight cascaded down, presenting a wide-open valley. Wild winds roared through the valley, with wild grass sprawling and bizarre rocks jutting out. The mountains on either side stood like Divine Weapons planted in the earth, majestic and splendid. The cries of fierce birds resounded from the distant skies, unsettling Good Wings, who became restless, wanting to dash out and challenge them.

"This, this...this is definitely not Earth. Zhao Fangji, can you really not recognize it? This is clearly Otherworld. We’ve crossed into another realm," Jiang Mingtian couldn’t help but shout.

Hu Fei, with burning eyes, said, "I understand now. This forest is connected to the Otherworld, a crossing point. It’s just that the two forests highly overlap, so it’s been well-hidden and never discovered until now."

"A crossing point? I’m not really sure about that," Zhao Fangji scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly: "When I came here before, I didn’t think too much about it, just felt it was different from other places. I thought it was a geological change after Sky Tipping, not considering the Otherworld."

"Whether it’s a crossing point is not important; what’s important is to accomplish our goal for this trip," said Li Yi.

After that, he looked up, and soon.

His gaze locked onto a large tree in the middle of the canyon. The tree was at least twenty meters tall, lush with green leaves, and the crown was luxuriant. It bore silver mythical fruits, which sparkled under the sunlight, looking particularly striking.

And there was more than one such tree.

Li Yi also discovered one halfway up the mountain. That tree seemed even older, its trunk like a Qiu Dragon, twisted and tangled, with very few silver mutant fruits hanging from it, just a sporadic few, but they were particularly large, like silver lanterns.

Apart from that, there were several other trees scattered around, some close and some far.

And the silver mutant fruits on the trees varied in size as well.

The nearest one to Li Yi had its mutant fruit already picked clean, leaving it bare. It must have been harvested by Zhao Fangji earlier.

If he wanted to continue getting them, he would have to risk venturing deep into this valley.

But for some reason, the valley always gave off a very dangerous vibe, and a rash entry could mean never returning.

"There are at least eight trees with mutant fruits, two of which are rather special. One is growing halfway up the mountain with very large silver fruits; the other is in the middle of the valley, lush and plentiful. The others are scattered all over without obvious value. Which tree shall we go for first?" Hu Fei said in a subdued voice, "However, there’s something special about this place; I don’t know why, but I feel restless, as if the valley is not welcoming us."

"I have the same feeling," said Jiang Mingtian.

Zhao Fangji said, "When I came here before, I was only at the Spiritual Realm and my soul senses weren’t strong enough. Now that I’ve broken through to the Soul Realm, I too have this uneasy feeling. But I’ve been to the valley. Last time, I only encountered an attack from the Qingluan Eagle. It was dangerous, but I managed to take away the mutant fruit successfully."

"Of course, it’s also possible that the tree I harvested was closer, so the danger did not befall me. But this time, I’m only responsible for bringing you here; whether or not you can harvest is none of my concern," he added.

Jiang Mingtian asked, "Li Yi, what do you plan to do?"

Li Yi pondered for a moment, looked towards Good Wings, and after a hesitation said, "I plan to use a Thunder Fighter to fly directly there and bring back those largest mutant fruits. Let’s not risk it. If something really happens, the only loss would be a Thunder Fighter."

"That’s a more reliable method," everyone thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

Letting the fighter carry out the trial was better than risking people.

Li Yi then began to arrange the operation; he released five intelligent robots and took out a Thunder Fighter from his Magic Artifact.

The Thunder Fighter also came with an intelligent system, fully capable of fulfilling routine mission requirements.

After giving the orders, the five intelligent robots boarded the Thunder Fighter.

Then the fighter took off directly towards the tree with mutant fruits located halfway up the mountain in the valley.

Everyone thought the fighter would encounter danger, but unexpectedly, the operation went smoothly. The fighter quickly reached halfway up the mountain, hovered, and as the hatch opened, the five robots agilely climbed onto the tree and started harvesting the silver mutant fruits.

The mutant fruits, as big as lanterns, were held by the robots and returned to the cockpit.

"It actually worked," Zhao Fangji was stunned.

He didn’t expect there to be such a trick—the fighter, together with intelligent robots, completely avoided the dangers within the valley.

Soon enough.

Five silver mutant fruits were successfully harvested.

Just as the robots were about to pick the remaining four silver mutant fruits.

Suddenly.

An angry and shrill cry came from afar, sounding as if it could shatter stone, extremely piercing. Even Li Yi and the others at the edge of the forest felt a pain in their eardrums.

Then, a streak of silver lightning moved at an inconceivable speed across the sky and struck the Thunder Fighter.

In the instant that the silver lightning struck, everyone barely made out what it was.

A huge peng bird covered in silver plumage, extraordinarily formidable in strength.

"An Extraordinary Creature of the Spirit Power Realm," Li Yi couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth at the sight.

Under the strike of the silver peng bird, the Thunder Fighter was torn open, spewing black smoke, yet the fighter did not fall. It remained hovering in the air and quickly opened fire with its main cannon for a counterattack.

The silver peng bird cried out and, like lightning, shuttled back and forth in the sky, avoiding the Thunder Fighter’s gunfire.

"Thunder Fighter No. 2, abort mission and return immediately," Li Yi issued the command without delay.

Then he watched as the smoking fighter returned.

If the Thunder Fighter was still operational, all was well; if not, he would have to abandon it.

Thunder Fighter No. 2 appeared not to have damaged its propulsion system; it engaged its energy jets, gave up on counterfire, and swiftly flew back.

But the silver peng bird wasn’t willing to let go of the Thunder Fighter and immediately pursued.

"Fortune favors the bold. Let’s go all out," Li Yi decided, and released the last Thunder Fighter from his Magic Artifact while also taking out six high-energy light beam cannons. Then he handed each person a high-energy sniper rifle.

"Together, let’s fend off this silver peng bird."

From this distance, the only thing they, as Soul Realm cultivators, could do was provide remote support fire.

With six light beam cannons, one Thunder Fighter, and four high-energy sniper rifles, all going well, fending off this silver peng bird shouldn’t be difficult.