Xuan Mu nodded.
“This subordinate understands.”
Yun Heng turned to look at Qingxiao and Canglan again.
“You will live here from now on. The environment on Spirit Beast Peak is much more suitable for you.”
Hearing this, Qingxiao and Canglan looked at the surrounding forests and vast open spaces, their eyes filled with pleasant surprise.
This place was indeed much better than just finding any random spot on the Main Peak to sleep.
The two beasts bowed their heads in unison.
“Understood, Master.”
After settling Qingxiao and Canglan, Yun Heng stood on Spirit Beast Peak and looked out into the distance.
The buildings and personnel for the entire Spirit Beast Peak had already been arranged.
Yet, on such a vast Spirit Beast Peak, the only spirit beasts actually living here at the moment were Qingxiao and Canglan.
It felt rather empty.
Looking at the massive peak before her, Yun Heng felt a touch of melancholy.
Her card-drawing system could draw buildings, cultivation methods, cultivators, and various resources.
It could even directly pull out entire mountain peaks.
But after drawing so many times, she had never once drawn a spirit beast.
Was her luck simply too terrible, causing her to miss them every time, or was there simply no spirit beast in the system's card pool at all?
The System remained silent, showing no intention of offering an explanation on its own.
Yun Heng waited for a moment, her eyes narrowing slightly.
“System.”
There was no response.
“Stop playing dead. Are there actually any spirit beasts in the card pool?”
After another moment of silence, the System finally spoke up, sounding somewhat embarrassed.
【To be honest with you, Host. There really aren't any.】
Yun Heng was taken aback.
“Why? Is it because the card-drawing system can't draw living creatures?”
But that wasn't right. The people in her clan were also drawn from the System.
If human cultivators could be drawn, why not spirit beasts?
The System's light orb flew out from the Tianheng Jade and slowly bobbed in front of Yun Heng.
【Well... Host will find out in the future.】
Yun Heng glanced at it.
It was speaking in riddles again.
Every time the System encountered a question related to its own secrets, it would use this exact line to brush her off.
Yun Heng did not bother to press further.
“Forget it. If there aren't any, there aren't any.”
At worst, she could search the Taiyan Continent herself.
The Taiyan Continent was so vast; it was impossible that she wouldn't be able to find any spirit beasts.
She glanced at the empty Spirit Beast Peak and continued, “Which place on the Taiyan Continent has the most spirit beasts?”
【Please wait, Host. Let this System search for a bit.】
The System's light orb paused in midair.
After a moment, it lit up again.
【Found it. The Northern Wilderness, beast tide crisis.】
Yun Heng's expression shifted slightly.
“Tell me more.”
【Deep within the Northern Wilderness, a high-level desolate beast has awakened from its slumber. The aura of that desolate beast has alarmed a large number of surrounding spirit beasts, forcing them to flee southward en masse. Countless spirit beasts gathered together, ultimately forming an extremely large-scale beast tide. In the original book, the Northern Wilderness paid a heavy price to resist this beast tide before successfully overcoming the crisis.】
After listening, Yun Heng nodded thoughtfully.
This was indeed a crisis for the Northern Wilderness, but for her, it was an excellent opportunity to subdue spirit beasts.
Having so many spirit beasts appear at once was a rare sight on ordinary days.
If she could bring a portion of these spirit beasts back to the Guiyuan Spirit Domain, the issue of Spirit Beast Peak would be resolved.
“How long until the beast tide begins?”
【In one month.】
Yun Heng immediately asked, “How long will it take to travel from here to the location of the beast tide in the Northern Wilderness?”
【If traveling by the Liujing Vessel, it will also take about a month.】
The timing was perfect.
The Five Domains Prodigy Gathering would not begin immediately anyway, so arriving a few months early would be useless.
She might as well take a trip to the Northern Wilderness first.
With a single thought, Yun Heng left the Guiyuan Spirit Domain and returned to the Liujing Vessel.
She quickly walked into the control room.
The pale blue light screen still hovered over the control console, and the airship was currently traveling along its original route toward Tiandu City.
“System, which city do we need to go to?”
【Shuolin City.】
Yun Heng immediately modified the destination on the light screen.
The original route to Tiandu City quickly vanished, and a new route gradually appeared, extending all the way north before stopping at Shuolin City on the border of the Northern Wilderness.
【Destination changed. Northern Wilderness, Shuolin City.】
The Liujing Vessel slowly turned around in midair and flew rapidly toward the Northern Wilderness.
One month later.
Northern Wilderness, Shuolin City.
Inside a guest courtyard in Shuolin City, a female cultivator wore a dark red gown with narrow sleeves, her long hair tied up high with a jade crown.
Her facial features were exceptionally striking, with distinct brow bones and eyes that tilted slightly upward at the corners. However, her cold expression detracted from her softness, instead revealing a sharp edge that made her difficult to approach.
She was none other than the Third Prince of the Eastern Region, Xiao Cen.
Her purpose in coming to the Northern Wilderness this time was to complete a transaction between the Eastern Region Imperial Family and a beast-taming tribe of the Northern Wilderness.
Both sides had already agreed that the Eastern Region Imperial Family would purchase one thousand Snow-Maned Colts from that tribe, with the final handover to be completed in Shuolin City.
According to the agreed-upon time, the people responsible for transporting the Snow-Maned Colts should have arrived in Shuolin City a few days ago.
However, Xiao Cen had already waited here for several days, yet that beast-taming tribe had still not appeared.
At first, she simply thought that because the Northern Wilderness was vast and the roads were difficult to travel, the other party might have encountered some issues on the way, making a delay of a few days quite normal.
However, as time passed, things gradually began to feel amiss.
The people she had sent out to meet them had not returned for a long time.
Even the Transmission Jade Slips could not connect.
Whether it was the people from the beast-taming tribe or the imperial guards she had dispatched, there was absolutely no news.
A bad premonition arose in Xiao Cen's heart.
There was no point in continuing to wait in Shuolin City.
She decided to personally lead her people out of the city to investigate the situation.
The group left through the northern gate of Shuolin City and headed straight north.
The environment of the Northern Wilderness was vastly different from that of the Eastern Region.
Most of what met the eye were dry and desolate plains, with a stretch of rolling mountains in the distance.
The further north they went, the sparser the surrounding cities and signs of human habitation became.
Just then, the ground beneath their feet suddenly vibrated slightly.
Xiao Cen paused in her tracks.
The imperial guards following behind her also stopped one after another.
“Your Highness?”
Standing in place, Xiao Cen carefully sensed the movements around her.
The ground vibrated again shortly after.
This time, it was even clearer than before.
The distant sky had darkened at some point, as massive clouds of dust and yellow sand rose into the air, obscuring most of the originally bright daylight.
Something was wrong.
Xiao Cen knitted her brows tightly.
An unusual aura appeared in the air.
She looked up into the distance.
At the edge of the wilderness, a blurry line of yellow dust had already appeared.
The dust storm was approaching them at an extremely rapid pace.
As the distance closed, the vibrations of the ground became increasingly violent.
Waves of chaotic beast roars echoed from deep within the yellow sand.
Xiao Cen's expression changed abruptly.
“Oh no!”
“It's a beast tide!”
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