Seeing the shiny golden-colored beast core that had rolled its way in front of his feet, Shun Long didn't hesitate to pick it up and place it inside the herb garden in his 'Stone of Time'.
At the same time, only when she saw the corpse of the middle rank 4 magic beast fall on the ground did Liu Mei allow the black ball of death qi from her hand to disappear.
Although she and Shun Long were both many times stronger than before, Liu Mei guessed that if the 'Silver-clawed earth burrower' had reached the peak of rank 4, they may not have been able to kill this beast even with all of her skeletons and undead knights combined.
After all, even Shun Long wouldn't have been able to affect a peak rank 4 magic beast with his 'Dao of Time' just yet, while his cultivation was still at the middle of rank 4.
Despite having almost half of his qi being drained at once after using his 'Time Prison', Shun Long didn't sit down to recover just yet, and instead, after removing the 'Silver-clawed earth burrower's' silver claws as well, he abandoned the useless parts of its body, as he and Liu Mei continued further inside.
Staying in that place to recover his qi would only bring more trouble.
Shun Long knew that the scent of blood coming from the middle rank 4 magic beast would certainly attract other predators in this area.
If a powerful peak rank 4 or even a rank 5 magic beast showed up, then it would surely cause a commotion and attract even more people and magic beasts in this area.
Additionally, although Shun Long had a certain degree of certainty in dealing with an early or even a middle stage rank 5 magic beast using the 'Soul Poisoning hell grass' poison, he also knew that some magic beasts were naturally immune to poisons as well.
He wouldn't bet things on luck to see if the magic beasts that were attracted here, were actually affected by the 'Soul poisoning hell grass' poison or not.
As he and Liu Mei continued walking deeper inside time continued to pass, but Shun Long was disappointed that even after 4 hours of walking, they didn't seem to find any other rank 4 magic beast.
Even early rank 4 magic beasts seemed to have been scarce in this area, which was completely different from the rumors about this place.
Shun Long suddenly understood that the 'Ten thousand beasts' mountain range' seemed to have certain layers that it was comprised of, which also indicated the different territories of the magic beasts here.
The first layer that he was at now, seemed to still be the very outskirts.
The magic beasts in this place seemed to be at the early rank 3 to the peak of rank 3.
Of course, among the rank 3 magic beasts, there probably existed some powerful rank 4 magic beasts that were usually hidden as well like the 'Silver-clawed earth burrower', but these beasts were extremely rare and wouldn't easily show themselves.
If it wasn't because the 'Silver-clawed earth burrower' had sensed that Liu Mei's aura was at the middle of rank 4 of the Spirit realm, this beast would have certainly avoided attacking them.
As he and Liu Mei continued to walk deeper inside the 'Ten thousand beasts' mountain range' night soon fell, before the sounds of fighting as well as miserable cries of men and women sounded from the distance.
Liu Mei turned her head to look at Shun Long who was staring in the distance ahead before she asked curiously
''Long-ge, should we...?''
After thinking about it for a moment, Shun Long nodded his head at Liu Mei, before the 2 of them both climbed on top of a tree, and started moving forward, under the cover of the tree branches ahead of them.
Usually, flying, or even hovering above the ground was avoided in this place, since it would easily attract the attention of the magic beasts hidden in the surroundings as they sensed the qi fluctuations coming from Shun Long's and Liu Mei's bodies, but since there was a huge fight going on in the distance, Shun Long knew that he and Liu Mei wouldn't be spotted as everyone's attention would be placed in the fight ahead of them.
Shun Long could feel that the energy fluctuations from the fight ahead had definitely reached the late-stages of the Spirit realm.
Of course, taking a look at the situation and getting directly involved were 2 different things.
If there was really something precious, he didn't mind getting involved in this fight.
Less than a minute later, covered behind the shade of the rank 3 'Heavy bark earth trees' around them, Shun Long and Liu Mei had already arrived at the scene of the fight.
Surprisingly, the fight was even more intense than what Shun Long had originally estimated.
In front of a large lake close to the edge of the forest, a group of 6 mercenaries comprised from 4 men and 2 women had gathered together, as they fought against a 10m(33ft) long blue-colored turtle that was constantly bombarding them with its attacks.
The blue turtle had spiky thorns on its shell, but instead of feet, pairs of purple-colored tentacles expanded from its body.
The turtle's mouth spat out water without stop, not letting the mercenaries rest for a moment, while its powerful purple tentacles unceasingly bombarded them with attacks from the sides.
Although the mercenaries could sense that this magic beast was just a peak rank 4 magic beast, even the 2 peak rank 9 Spirit realm experts from their group as well as the early rank 9 Spirit realm middle-aged man were helpless against this beast that didn't seem to leave any openings to attack them.
As for the peak rank 7 Spirit realm young man and the 2 rank 6 Spirit realm cultivators, they were in an even more miserable condition.
Every slap from the turtle's tentacles brought with it immense power that shook these cultivators to their core.
If it wasn't for the peak rank 9 Spirit realm experts helping them, then these 3 would have already turned into a pile of flesh splattered on the ground.
No matter how this group of mercenaries tried to resist however, under the terrifying turtle's attack they were only accumulating more and more injuries as time went on.
Shun Long however didn't seem to care too much about the miserable condition of this group of mercenaries, while his eyes stared at the huge 10m(33ft) blue-colored turtle with a bright look in his eyes as he mumbled to himself
''A 'Purple tentacled poison turtle'!''