BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A series of sharp cracks echoed as the air itself seemed to split apart.

Brilliant beams of sword light struck a pack of calf-sized Starfire Rats. More than a dozen of the creatures had surged out from their underground burrows, squeaking as they were violently obliterated by the blinding flashes.

As the Starfire Rats’ corpses disintegrated, more than a dozen streams of Star Essence Qi flowed out, slithering like Spiritual Serpents into the body of a figure in black.

RUMBLE!

After devouring over a dozen streams of Star Essence Qi, Qin Feng’s body shuddered. A bright, silver-white light erupted from him. Countless ancient Runes refined this starlight, instantly forging it into a new Star Spiritual Vein.

It was a silver Spirit Vein.

His fourth Star Spiritual Vein.

Ever since discovering traces of Starfire Rats on this star, Qin Feng had been tracking them. He finally located their nest here, in a narrow gap within a Stone Mountain.

These Level One Starfire Rats were as strong as experts who had just entered the Condensing Vein Realm. An ordinary Condensing Vein Realm Martial Artist would have been in for a serious fight if a dozen of them attacked at once.

Unfortunately for them, they had run into Qin Feng.

He killed them with ease, one per sword strike, turning them all into nourishment for his cultivation!

’What a pity. They’re all just Level One Starfire Rats,’ Qin Feng thought. ’For someone at my Condensing Vein Realm, the Star Essence Qi they release upon death has limited effect. It’s better than nothing, I suppose, but not by much.’

Feeling unsatisfied, Qin Feng glanced around. The canyon was full of tracks left by the Starfire Rats, but it was also riddled with burrows, making it difficult to find any more of them. He inwardly lamented the missed opportunity.

RUMBLE! Suddenly, a tremor came from above.

The ground thundered, and pebbles on the cliffs of the ravine above began to tremble.

Looking up, Qin Feng’s eyes brightened. His figure blurred, moving like an agile ape as he scaled the ravine wall, appearing at the top in a flash.

From his high vantage point, he saw more than a dozen galloping beasts on the ground below.

They had skin like rock and silvery-white horns. With bodies as powerful as wild bulls, they thundered across the vast, barren plain, making the very earth roar.

’What a find! These are the Level One Middle Tier Nebula Beasts recorded in the appendix of the Mixed Element Star Technique—Earth Giant Rhinoceroses!’

’Some high-quality nourishment has just arrived!’

A fervent glint flashed in Qin Feng’s eyes. The Earth Giant Rhinoceros was a Nebula Beast born when Star Power was tinged with a hint of Earth Qi.

Compared to the Level One Low Tier Starfire Rats, these Nebula Beasts were undoubtedly far more nourishing.

Qin Feng’s figure flashed, and he dove straight down from the mountain peak hundreds of feet high.

Dozens of breaths later, he was right above the herd of Earth Giant Rhinoceroses.

WHOOSH!

With a single slash of his sword and a tremendous BANG, the lead Earth Giant Rhinoceros was blown to pieces by the beam of light.

The next moment, a stream of pale yellow Star Essence Qi erupted from the fallen rhinoceros’s corpse and surged into Qin Feng’s body.

Qin Feng felt as if his entire body was soaking in a hot spring. His bloodline felt like it was on fire as a new power merged with his Mixed Element True Power.

His strength had increased by half a step!

A fire lit up in Qin Feng’s eyes. ’What abundant Star Essence Qi! The amount from a single Earth Giant Rhinoceros is three times that of a Starfire Rat!’

Qin Feng’s eyes shone with delight.

ROAR!

Witnessing their companion’s slaughter, the remaining dozen or so Earth Giant Rhinoceroses went berserk, letting out a series of bestial roars.

Seeing the dense starlight brewing in the rhinos’ mouths, Qin Feng had a bad feeling.

It was Earth Roar, the Lifebound Divine Ability of the Earth Giant Rhinoceros!

With a flicker of movement, Qin Feng vanished in an instant.

The next moment, over a dozen silver beams shot out, landing right where he had been standing.

They exploded on impact!

RUMBLE!

Boulders flew through the air! The earth shook violently!

When the dust settled, seven or eight craters, each several dozen feet deep, had appeared in the ground.

’Damn!’ Hundreds of paces away, Qin Feng turned to look back at the scene, his eyes wide as he drew a sharp breath. ’If I’d been hit by that, I would’ve been blown to smithereens, not even a corpse left behind.’

’But now’s my chance!’

After unleashing their Lifebound Divine Abilities in one go, the dozen or so Earth Giant Rhinoceroses had to begin brewing the power all over again.

Seizing the opening, Qin Feng gripped his Battle Sword and charged forward like a whirlwind.

A breath later, he appeared before an Earth Giant Rhinoceros. His Battle Sword swept out, slicing through the beast just as it was about to open its mouth and unleash its Lifebound Divine Ability.

THUD!

A one-hit kill!

"Kill!"

After the first, the second soon followed. With a scorching fire in his eyes, Qin Feng gripped his Battle Sword and shot through the herd of Earth Giant Rhinoceroses like a streak of light. In his wake, one rhino after another crashed to the ground.

RUMBLE!

As the dozen or so Earth Giant Rhinoceroses exploded, their pale yellow Star Essence Qi converged into a raging torrent and flooded into Qin Feng’s body.

Qin Feng felt his body was about to catch fire. The roiling Star Essence Qi bathed his meridians and acupoints, and in an instant, two new Star Spiritual Veins appeared around him.

The Celestial Dao Level Star True Power inside him surged forth, instantly completing the Refinement of these two Star Spiritual Veins.

Six Spirit Veins!

With the slightest movement, Qin Feng could feel a majestic power stirring within him.

Qin Feng felt that if he encountered another Earth Giant Rhinoceros now, he wouldn’t even need to dodge its Lifebound Divine Ability; he could just kill the Nebula Beast outright.

Qin Feng tried flying from a standing start and found he could now ascend two to three thousand feet into the air.

Qin Feng estimated that to fly through the starry cosmos, he would need to condense at least twelve Star Spiritual Veins.

Qin Feng glanced across the plain. The starlight here was exceptionally dense; there was no way only one type of Nebula Beast existed here.

Following some tracks, Qin Feng ventured deeper into the plain.

An hour later, Qin Feng came across another small herd of about a dozen Earth Giant Rhinoceroses.

He repeated the same process and slaughtered all of them, but this time, he only managed to condense a single Star Spiritual Vein.

Standing his ground, Qin Feng’s expression darkened. He sensed that the more Star Essence Qi he absorbed, the less help these low-level Nebula Beasts were to him.

He sped forward, and after covering several miles, he suddenly stopped and looked toward a valley ahead.

ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!

Qin Feng heard immense roars that echoed across the entire plain.

RUMBLE!

The ground shook violently. Before his eyes, a stampede of over a hundred Earth Giant Rhinoceroses charged out of the valley at lightning speed, led by a colossal rhino that was entirely silver-white with a horn shaped like a crescent moon.

This giant rhino was more than ten times larger than an ordinary Earth Giant Rhinoceros.

In the blink of an eye, it was just a few thousand feet away from Qin Feng.

It was heading straight for him.

’A super-sized tonic! Haha, my luck is incredible!’

An undeniable, fiery greed flashed in Qin Feng’s eyes. Achieving the Unity of Man and Sword, he collided with the leading Earth Giant Rhinoceros King in a massive impact just a few breaths later.

BOOM!

Two violent explosions rang out. The lead Earth Giant Rhinoceros King was instantly sliced in two, its corpse shattering into pieces.

The remaining Earth Giant Rhinoceroses scattered in a panic.

A black shadow flashed, and a man in black appeared beside the Earth Giant Rhinoceros King’s corpse. A stream of brownish-yellow Star Essence Qi—ten times purer than that of an ordinary Earth Giant Rhinoceros—erupted from within the body. Surprisingly, this brownish-yellow essence seemed to contain a peculiar speck of starlight, different from the rest.

The pure Star Essence Qi merged into the black-clad man’s body.

The next moment, the man’s body shuddered as a silver light shot toward the sky, and a silver-white Star Spiritual Vein appeared.

The eighth Star Spiritual Vein!

At the same time, with a mere thought, Qin Feng opened his palm. A silvery-white sphere of light materialized there. He tossed it, and a small hill thousands of feet away instantly exploded into dust.

The Earth Roar Divine Skill!

(Four Chapters again tomorrow)