For now, the most likely way for Fang Zhou to accelerate Vigus’s growth was through the free trading market in Beast Fighting City. Additionally, he had previously obtained the coordinates of a Naraku Civilization ruin deep within the Fierce Beast Mountain Range from a senior student at Sea City Military Academy. When he was at the Black Iron Tier, Fang Zhou had worried that there might be dangers in the civilization’s ruins that he couldn’t handle. Now that he had broken through the bottleneck and advanced to the Bronze Tier, exploring the Naraku Civilization ruins after making thorough preparations should be foolproof. If that didn’t work, he could also spend a large sum of money to hire some adventurers from Beast Fighting City and form an Adventurer Group to explore. This would minimize the risk.

...

While carefully planning his next steps, Fang Zhou swept through the outskirts of the Fierce Beast Mountain Range like thunder clearing out a den. The Black Gem Young Dragon, Tiamat, continuously devoured flesh and blood, growing at a visibly rapid pace. At the same time, the Corpse Warriors in the Tomb were quickly absorbing the Flesh and Blood Essence left behind by the Fierce Beasts to enhance their own strength.

Meanwhile, his clone had already made a breakthrough in the research and development of new Undead units. As long as he continued to pour in resources, there was a high probability that these Black Iron Tier Corpse Warriors would break through to become Bronze Tier Corpse Warriors. Although ordinary Corpse Warriors, even after advancing to the Bronze Tier, had slightly less combat power than Corpse Knights and Corrupt Hatreds, they were still far stronger than anything at the Black Iron Tier.

Fang Zhou spent more than two months continuously searching for and slaughtering Fierce Beasts on the outskirts of the Fierce Beast Mountain Range, working hard to accumulate contribution points. He had even slaughtered several medium-to-large Fierce Beast packs, on a scale far exceeding that of the previous Earth Demon Bear herd.

Fortunately, he was a Bronze-tier Undead Mage capable of summoning a large number of undead creatures to form an encirclement. Otherwise, the task would have been quite a challenge. It wasn’t a question of whether he could defeat them. Rather, if the Fierce Beasts scattered and fled, they would be incredibly difficult to chase down. Fortunately, the Corpse Warriors were there to encircle and intercept them.

For now, Fang Zhou didn’t dare venture too deep into the mountain range to hunt Bronze-tier Fierce Beasts. He still hadn’t fully mastered some of his skills and lacked a clear concept of his current combat system and abilities.

Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.

Having just broken through, he couldn’t even claim to fully know himself, so naturally, he wouldn’t challenge enemies that were too powerful. Therefore, he lingered on the outskirts of the Fierce Beast Mountain Range for two or three months, thoroughly mastering all the skills he possessed. After accumulating a large amount of Fierce Beast materials, he began his return journey.

Coincidentally, thanks to these two to three months of constant nurturing, the Black Gem Young Dragon Tiamat finally broke through its bottleneck and advanced to the Lower Bronze Tier. After this major advancement, not only were its four previous abilities—Dragon’s Spiritual Wisdom, Death Aura, Deadly Dragon Breath, and Nether Dragon’s Might—greatly enhanced, but it also successfully awakened a new skill called [Heaven and Earth Devouring].

This skill was straightforward: by devouring various resources such as flesh, gemstones, and herbs, it could drastically enhance its physical body and accelerate its evolution. Although it sounded ordinary, Fang Zhou’s experiments revealed that the growth boost provided by this skill was quite astonishing. This made the Death Elf, Vigus, rather envious.

Regardless of the undercurrents between his two Spirit Pets, Fang Zhou let out a long sigh of relief. Originally, acquiring enough resources to support himself was already a great strain. Adding Vigus and Tiamat, two "Gold-eating Beasts," to the mix had filled him with pressure. Although the combat power boost provided by the two Spirit Pets was considerable, this constant financial strain had always made Fang Zhou quite uncomfortable.

Now that Tiamat had so helpfully awakened the [Heaven and Earth Devouring] skill to accelerate its own evolution, Fang Zhou would finally be able to save a significant amount of money.

Fang Zhou exhaled gently and began to take inventory of his gains over the past few months. He estimated that slaughtering such a large number of Fierce Beasts would net him several thousand to ten thousand contribution points, which he could exchange for some Skill Materials.

Honestly, if it weren’t for the low efficiency, I would have kept doing this. It’s basically competing with Black Iron Tier adventurers for scraps, and preying on weaker Black Iron Tier Fierce Beasts doesn’t grant much Soul Power. It might be slow, but it’s incredibly stable.

...

Meanwhile, as Fang Zhou was sweeping through the outskirts of the Fierce Beast Mountain Range, the space within a deep cave thousands of kilometers away began to twist, vibrate, and collapse like the surface of water. In the blink of an eye, a massive, irregular rift tore open, expanding to form a rotating black passageway.

ROAR!

BOOM! A blood-soaked, single-horned figure charged out from the depths of the passage, rolling twice on the ground before coming to a stop.

When the horned figure climbed to his feet and saw the dark, rocky cave around him, noticing the Energy Concentration was much thinner, he couldn’t help but laugh maniacally.

"HAHAHA... I succeeded! Long live the Holy Demon! I, Qin Hui, am not dead."

Amidst his laughter, Qin Hui clenched his fists. The blood on his body squirmed like a living creature, gradually flowing back into him. On his body, deep wounds that exposed the bone healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Once his weakened aura had stabilized slightly, Qin Hui suppressed the exhilaration on his face. With a flip of his hand, he produced a purple talisman.

BANG!

As Qin Hui applied force, the purple talisman abruptly shattered. Instantly, a stream of tangible purple Magic Power gushed out, twisting and winding through the air like water before gradually forming a complex and unknown set of blasphemous demonic runes.