Live Strong in the Wilderness

Chapter 567: Xu Yi’s New Discovery

Just from hearing the roar, everyone felt an incredibly terrifying presence.

Their mounts all crouched down and began trembling uncontrollably.

Of course, Lu Ke and the others were also shaking.

The only one seemingly unaffected was Xu Yi.

After the roar disappeared, they all returned to normal.

The territory of a level-six fierce beast was filled with a light fog, entirely different from the territory of a level-five fierce beast.

Xu Yi thought it must be this white mist that blocked the aura of the level-six fierce beast; otherwise, these beasts would have been too frightened to get here.

Xu Yi found a place to set up the camp.

Then, everyone cooked dinner together.

After dinner, they entered a state of cultivation.

Xu Yi did not cultivate but instead walked toward the territory of the level-six fierce beast.

He felt he was close to breaking through to the peak of level five and wanted to know if he could withstand the spiritual energy of the level-six fierce beast’s territory.

As soon as he stepped in, Xu Yi knew he couldn’t endure it.

The realization was clear, so he backed out.

Then, he saw a fierce beast not far away, with half its body in the level-six fierce beast’s territory, the front half in the level-five territory.

After seeing this, Xu Yi stood at the edge, with his back facing the level-six territory and his face toward the level-five territory.

Then he began to cultivate Supreme Profound Spiritual Meditation.

It was effective; Xu Yi found this method of cultivation very effective.

No wonder that fierce beast was doing the same, and with a distance of fewer than a hundred meters, it didn’t even notice Xu Yi. Or perhaps it noticed him but didn’t have the time to care.

Cultivation—Xu Yi’s heart was focused solely on these two words now.

The spiritual energy penetrated through Xu Yi’s skin, entered his body, and was absorbed by it.

His spiritual power gradually increased, and once it accumulated to the limit, he would reach the peak of level five.

At that point, he would have to break through.

Breaking through the fifth level’s boundary to reach the sixth level would allow his spiritual power to continue accumulating. Otherwise, once reaching a certain ’capacity,’ it couldn’t increase further.

In simple terms, advancing is just expanding one’s capacity.

Of course, the actual situation is more complex.

Expanding capacity is just the most basic expression and understanding; it simplifies comprehension.

Xu Yi continued to cultivate without any other unnecessary actions.

The fierce beast beside him let out a sudden cry in the middle of the night and then rushed into the territory of the level-six fierce beast.

It seemed to have made some breakthrough but did not reach level six.

Soon, daylight broke.

For Xu Yi, one night of cultivation brought significant gains.

"System, clock in."

Before opening his eyes, Xu Yi completed his 274th clock-in.

After settling the clock-in matter, he headed back to the camp.

Lu Ke was already cooking breakfast, and upon seeing Xu Yi return, she joyfully greeted him.

Xu Yi responded and went to help Lu Ke.

In no time, everyone gathered to eat breakfast.

Xu Yi took this chance to say, "Last night, I found a fierce beast nearing the level-five peak, with half its body in the territory of a level-six fierce beast and half in the level-five territory. Facing the level-five territory, I discovered it was quite effective. Today, you can cultivate this way to speed up considerably."

Wang Jin, gnawing on a fierce beast’s hoof, curiously said, "Is there really such a perk?"

Xu Yi took a sip of meat soup and replied, "Indeed, as long as you face the level-five territory. If you can’t endure the spiritual energy in the level-six territory, you can adjust your contact area with it."

After hearing Xu Yi’s advice, everyone quickened their eating pace.

Once they were done, they tidied up and rushed to the boundary.

They found Xu Yi was right; it indeed sped up their improvement.

This feeling was similar to when they were at level four, training in the territory of a level-five fierce beast.

Just as they began cultivating at the boundary, lightning appeared above the meteorite crater.

Cheng Jie and the others had just finished breakfast and were preparing to work.

According to the plan, Cheng Jie and the others had to plant some of the seeds Xu Yi brought, seeing if they could grow.

With only five people, they were indeed short-handed. Even if they were efficient, comparable to machinery, they still lacked manpower.

So Gong Bin and the others hoped more people would give up.

Unfortunately, so many days passed without a single person giving in.

"Cheng Jie, the lightning—it’s Xu Yi’s lightning," Liu Li suddenly noticed the lightning in the distant sky and excitedly exclaimed.

Cheng Jie squinted her eyes slightly, and a smile slowly spread across her lips.

"Gong Bin, you guys go start cultivating; we’ll follow soon." Cheng Jie knew Xu Yi must have sent something back with the lightning, but this time it wasn’t likely to be fierce beasts.

Though curious about what Xu Yi had sent with the lightning, Gong Bin and the others followed the orders and, with Tian Ming and Zhu Jun, began to cultivate new land.

A minute later, the lightning landed inside the meteorite crater.

Here, nothing changed much.

After all, Cheng Jie and others focused their efforts on cultivating land and planting crops. They didn’t have the resources to work on building the camp.

That is unless they had enough manpower.

Once the lightning landed, Liu Li and Cheng Jie noticed a backpack hanging from its neck.

They stepped forward and removed the backpack.

"There are so many star charts, about..." Liu Li quickly counted and exclaimed, "About 20 pieces, so many!"

"And there’s a flash memory. It should contain messages from Xu Yi. You check the star charts, and I’ll see what Xu Yi said." With that, Cheng Jie pulled out her personal tablet and inserted the flash memory.

There were four videos inside, so Cheng Jie clicked on the first one.

The first video contained some of Xu Yi’s plans and instructions.

The second was the Body Refining Technique, the third was Body Tempering, and the fourth was Shaking Mountain.

"Just these three star charts have the meat of level-five peak fierce beasts; the others are empty," Liu Li finished checking and informed Cheng Jie, then curiously asked, "What did Xu Yi say?"

"See for yourself." With that, Cheng Jie passed the tablet to Liu Li. In the first video, Xu Yi mentioned these star charts were for Liu Li to store vegetables.

The next batch, Bai Yu would bring more star charts over.

Since they couldn’t transport supplies back anymore, each team member having three star charts was enough; the rest were to be brought by Bai Yu to Cheng Jie and the others.

Storing vegetables elsewhere had limited preservation time, but star charts didn’t have that problem. They could preserve items for years without spoilage.

Liu Li took the tablet; apart from the first video, she skimmed through the others without watching closely, as each lasted around an hour.

Besides, they were already familiar with the Body Refining Technique.

"Incredible. The Shaking Mountain martial technique can help us handle level-five peak fierce beasts. If we’d known this, we wouldn’t have stayed behind," Liu Li said regretfully, preferring to stay with Xu Yi and the others.