After my injuries had healed completely, I didn't need to use the Beast Cores to activate my God's power. However, gathering the Beast Cores could still increase my cultivation. On top of that, we had plenty of time. Hence, the Snake Spirit and I continued to travel slowly towards Rockfire Castle. We hunted countless ferocious beasts. Just the flying ferocious beasts with Monster Saint cultivation alone, we hunted close to twenty of them. Apart from swallowing the Beast Cores, we also kept a few in reserve in preparation to bring them back as gifts.
After leaving the West Province, the continuous forest and vegetation disappeared. Instead, the bare ground and dried sand and stones gradually appeared. The desolate Gobi Desert seemed to be a forbidden zone for life. However, when we set up camp at night, we discovered that there were many reptiles on the dried sand and gravel. However, their color was exactly the same as the ground, so we couldn't see them from above.
Not only that, there were rustling sounds in the surroundings at night. Occasionally, there would be green eyes flashing in the distance.
This discovery made the Snake Spirit and I overjoyed. We had gotten used to killing ferocious beasts wantonly over the past few days. We relied on the power of the Beast Cores to rapidly increase our cultivation. We thought that it would be difficult for us to get any more Beast Cores for the rest of the journey, but it turned out that we had worried too much.
The Snake Spirit and I quickly took action. We each chose a direction, and as we explored far away, we released our spiritual senses to search for ferocious beasts at the Monster God realm.
The entire night passed. When we met again the next morning, I had two dark yellow Earth-tier Beast Cores in my hands. The Snake Spirit, on the other hand, had found nothing.
It wasn't that the Snake Spirit was lazy, but that most of the ferocious beasts were hidden underground. It was extremely difficult to find them. I had relied on my spiritual senses that could detect from a long distance. After a busy night, I finally found an underground cave. I entered the cave with great effort and fortunately found two ferocious beasts at the Monster God realm in the cave.
I fought against two of them alone, and it took me a lot of effort to finally kill them.
After sharing the Beast Cores with the Snake Spirit, the Snake Spirit and I didn't act separately for a long period of time. Instead, we moved together. I would be in charge of searching, while the Snake Spirit would be in charge of driving the beasts out of the cave. Then, we would work together to hunt them down.
With the daily replenishment of Beast Cores, coupled with the dangerous battles when hunting ferocious beasts, my and the spirit snake's cultivation could be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.
After one and a half months, we finally passed through the desolate desert. My cultivation base had advanced to the mid-stage of the Demon God Realm, only a step away from the late-stage.
In other words, the current me was not far from reaching the red clouds.
Above the Yang Spirit, the gap between each realm could be described as a chasm.
With my current cultivation, I still don't have much power to protect myself when facing a Sunset Ascension Immortal, but if I were to face people like Old President Li and Celestial Master Zhang, who were half a step into the Sunset Ascension, I don't think I would be much inferior.
If I had this level of cultivation base when the Mountain and Sea Realm opened, I might have been able to escape with Bi 'an....
Of course, there was no point in thinking about these things now. The only thing I could do was to increase my cultivation as much as possible. The evil spirit had said that there was still a chance for things to turn for the better, so I carried on with hope.
After passing through the desolate desert, the snake spirit and I saw a lake in front of us.
When I was in Green Water Village, I had seen on the map that in the Southern Province, there was the largest lake in the Demon Domain. It was called the Weak Water.
In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, there was a water to the north of the Kunlun Mountains, but its strength could not surpass that of mustard, hence the name Weak Water.
I didn't know if this Weak Water was the Weak Water, but the most intuitive feeling I got from the lake was that it was huge. Even when I was sitting on the Black Dragon Beast, I didn't feel like I was looking at a lake, but rather a boundless ocean.
According to the map, this lake completely separated the Southern Province from the Western Province, as well as King City. From my current position, if I passed through the lake in the south, I would reach Rockfire Fortress, and if I passed through the lake in the northeast, I would reach King City.
This time, my destination was Rockfire Fortress, so I naturally headed south. I didn't stop at the border between the lake and the desert, and directly urged the Black Dragon Beast to head towards the lake.
The dense water vapor gathered on the surface of the lake, making it look like a Dreamy Cloud Swamp. But in reality, there weren't many plants around the lake, making it look as desolate as the desert. The lake was extremely deep, to the extent that the bottom of the lake was pitch-black.
Occasionally, I could see fishes flipping and jumping on the surface of the lake, which proved that the bottom of the lake wasn't as deathly silent as the surface.
The snake spirit sat by my side and acted as though it knew everything. It explained to me that the Weak Water was directly connected to the mysterious swamp at the easternmost part of the Demon Domain. Thus, there would occasionally be water races appearing in the lake, but most of them were near the Eastern Province.
After explaining the general knowledge, the snake spirit continued to talk about the legends of the water races, such as beautiful mermaid princesses, passionate clam women, and so on.
After boasting for a while, that fellow squinted his eyes and sighed, saying that it was a pity that he couldn't make a trip to the Eastern Province. Otherwise, he would definitely bring a beautiful mermaid princess back to the human world.
While he coveted the women of the water races, I didn't have the leisure to do so. I only released my spiritual awareness to search the bottom of the lake. Not long after, I sensed the aura of many experts. It seemed that there were more high level beasts in the lake than on land. No wonder it was said that the Eastern's water races were extremely powerful. It could be seen just from the beasts in the water.
Since there were beasts in the lake, we wouldn't be bored during this period of time. We would still be able to obtain beast cores to increase our cultivation.
The snake spirit and I quickly took action. We first used our spiritual awareness to determine the location of the beasts, then let the Black Dragon Beast fly by itself. The snake spirit and I landed on the surface of the lake, letting him enter the water to lure the beasts. I would then take the opportunity to kill the beasts and obtain the beast cores.
This method wasn't much different from the way we hunted beasts previously. The only difference was that we hunted the beasts in the lake instead of underground. We were already familiar with this method. Furthermore, the number of beasts in the lake was much more than in the Gobi Desert. As such, the amount of beast cores we obtained every day was rather impressive.
We traveled on the boundless Weak Water Lake for two months. During this period of time, the amount of beast cores we obtained was innumerable.
In the end, by relying on the huge amount of beast cores, my cultivation was forcefully raised to the Monster God Advanced Stage. The next step would be the Monster God Perfection Stage, which was also the cultivation of Old President Li and Celestial Teacher Zhang.
After this period of experience, I couldn't help but sigh at the abundance of resources in the Monster Region. This was a world that was much vaster than the human world. Back in the human world, not to mention the beasts that were at Celestial Teacher Realm, it was extremely rare to see any beasts that had reached Celestial Teacher Realm and could take human form.
In the Monster Region, Celestial Teacher Realm beasts were at the Monster King Realm. Even in the desolate Gobi Desert, there were countless of them.
After being in the Monster Region for so long, my understanding of the Monster Region was still at the initial stage. Even though I had already traveled through three provinces, I was still unable to determine the strength of the Monster Region. However, from the beasts that I had seen, the power of the Monster Region was simply too strong. Not to mention the entire Monster Region, even a single province wouldn't be a match for the entire human world.
Against such an enemy, the human world wouldn't have the slightest possibility of winning if they were to clash head-on. That was why I had placed my hopes on the Four Great Beasts of the Monster Region.
Of course, even if everything went according to my plan, with the help of the Four Great Beasts in the future, the human world's power would still be far from the Monster Region's.
I could only hope that I could make up for this through time.
After two months, after walking out of the Weak Water Lake's southern shore, there was still no greenery in front of us. Instead, it became more and more desolate.
Countless black gravel and yellow quicksand lay in front of us. It was obvious that we had reached a desert.
The shore of the lake was a desert. This obviously didn't make sense. However, I had already found out from the map that the Rock Fire Fortress was indeed a city in the desert. In fact, all of the cities in the southern province that had signs of human activity were located in the desert.