"How did you enter this world?" asked the Automaton beauty.
Yang Tian smiled. "Have you heard of Spirit Power?"
The beauty nodded and smiled. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Mancy. What about you?"
"Yang Tian," answered Yang Tian.
"I hope to see you again in the future." With that, Mancy's figure faded and disappeared into the rune formation.
The rune formation she was in not only had the function of preserving consciousness, but it also had the function of teleportation.
When Mancy was being teleported, Yang Tian felt a powerful suction force. If he had not tried his best to control it, this sliver of Spirit Power with consciousness would have been teleported away with Mancy.
Yang Tian guessed that Mancy had been teleported back to the huge virtual world.
After Mancy left, Yang Tian withdrew his consciousness from the red crystal.
Looking at the red crystal in his hand, Yang Tian let out a long sigh.
Originally, he thought that the Automatons were purely intelligent machines like Bell.
However, that was not the case.
The Automatons were essentially humans, but they had the consciousness of humans and the bodies of machines.
After a long time, the Automatons were like humans, beasts, and other races. They had become a unique life form in this world.
After putting the red crystal into his storage bracelet, Yang Tian began to pay attention to the Little Blue Dragon.
It seemed like only a short time had passed since he entered the red crystal world, but it had actually been almost twenty minutes.
The Little Blue Dragon had almost completely "digested" the energy of the two Life Crystals. Yang Tian waited for more than ten minutes before the Little Blue Dragon's body emitted a powerful energy wave. It then weakened and gradually stabilized.
The Little Blue Dragon had finally reached the Returnance realm!
The reason why it was so fast was because the Little Blue Dragon was the same as Yang Tian. It was lacking in energy.
If it had enough energy, it would be able to level up quickly just like in the previous universe.
"Roar!"
The Little Blue Dragon, who had become even more powerful, let out a deep roar. It was filled with battle intent.
Yang Tian immediately jumped onto the Little Blue Dragon's back.
The Little Blue Dragon carried Yang Tian and quickly flew above the beast horde.
The man and dragon once again joined the battle of hunting exotic beasts.
A few minutes later.
Yang Tian encountered a massive Bi 'an.
This was a beast at peak Returnance. It was even more powerful than the one Yang Tian had slain before.
Earlier, Yang Tian had used a special method to temporarily increase his battle prowess in order to cleave the Yong Beast in two.
But now, he couldn't. This guy's speed was comparable to Lan Bao's, and his strength was even stronger than Lan Bao's.
In less than a minute, Yang Tian's arm had been scratched open by the Nightmare Beast's claws.
The Little Blue Dragon, who had been eyeing them covetously, seized the opportunity and rushed forward.
Boom!
The little Azure Dragon, which had grown larger in its resting form, opened its mouth and spat out a stream of pale golden dragon flames at the black Nightmare Beast.
After reaching Returnance, the Little Blue Dragon could spit out dragon flames once more.
"Roar!"
The Nightmare Beast, enveloped by the golden dragon flames, let out a miserable cry. It charged out of the flames and slammed into a huge boulder.
'Bang!' A loud sound was heard.
The boulder that weighed several tons was smashed to smithereens. From the looks of it, its eyes had been burned, and it had lost its ability to see.
The little Azure Dragon quickly rushed down, opened its mouth, and bit down on the beast's back. It directly lifted up the thousand-pound beast and shook its head.
"Poof ~" a sound was heard.
A large piece of the Nightmare Beast's back had been torn off by the Little Blue Dragon. Blood splattered everywhere.
This was far too savage!
The Nightmare Beast, which had lost its spine, had lost its ability to fight. Yang Tian flashed forward and slashed the Nightmare Beast's head to end its pain.
Following this, Yang Tian cut open the Nightmare Beast's chest and picked out a silvery white Life Crystal the size of a goose egg.
Following this, Yang Tian took out a bag used to store miscellaneous items from his storage bracelet. He put the Life Crystal into the bag and tied it to his waist.
Yang Tian naturally did not want to hand over the Life Crystal that he had obtained with great difficulty. However, he had no choice but to do so in this situation.
After putting away the Life Crystal, the Little Blue Dragon flew into the sky and continued to search for its next target.
The exotic beasts that the Little Blue Dragon was searching for were all at Returnance. It was not difficult to defeat such exotic beasts. It could kill them in a few minutes and obtain the Life Crystal.
Yang Tian and the Little Blue Dragon stayed far away from the more powerful exotic beasts.
A few hours later, a large number of powerful exotic beasts were slain. Another howl that seemed to belong to a beast king rang out in the distance.
With this howl, the swarm of exotic beasts immediately dispersed and returned the way they had come. Very soon, they fled into the distant wilderness.
The beast wave this time had finally come to an end.
Seeing that there were no more exotic beasts in the surroundings, the Little Blue Dragon turned back into a mini dragon and landed on Yang Tian's shoulder.
Yang Tian carried the three bags and made his way back to the clan.
At this moment, all the Returnance cultivators returned in twos and threes, aside from the cultivators from the Illusion World who continued to pursue the fleeing exotic beasts and increase their harvest.
The hunt for powerful exotic beasts this time was not an easy matter. A large number of Returnance cultivators had been devoured by the exotic beasts.
Although the cultivators who returned were filled with joy from their harvest, they were unable to hide their exhaustion.
"You, stop right there!"
As soon as Yang Tian passed through the gap in the first wall, a cold voice rang out from beside him.
Yang Tian turned his head and saw a black-robed young man with a group of subordinates stop a cultivator who had just returned.
The person who had been stopped was a skinny, white-robed middle-aged man. He was a Returnance cultivator.
After fighting exotic beasts for so long, his white robes were covered in black blood.
The black-robed young man was not even at Returnance.
Even though that was the case, the cultivators all feared the black-robed young man very much. They all avoided him when they saw him.
"Ah! So it's Sixteenth Elder," the white-robed middle-aged man smiled when he saw the black-robed young man.
The smile on his face was extremely ugly.
'Elder' was a form of address, just like 'mister' on earth and 'sir' in his original world.
Judging from the white-robed middle-aged man's attitude towards the black-robed young man, his status in the Hui 'e clan was very high.
"What are you carrying in your hands?" Sixteenth Elder glanced at the two bulging bags on the white-robed middle-aged man's waist and asked with a smile.
"I- these are life crystals," the white-robed middle-aged man smiled awkwardly.
"Life crystals …" Sixteenth Elder paused and glanced at one of his subordinates.
The subordinate immediately arrived before the white-robed middle-aged man and took away one of the bags.
The white-robed middle-aged man did not do anything during this process. He just watched as the half of the life crystals he had risked his life for was taken away.
After returning, he would have to hand over the other half, which was equivalent to a quarter of what he had obtained. It was a great loss.