Divine Beast Creator

Knowing the truth of this resource land’s creation, Feng Yuan didn’t continue wandering outside. The sun was setting, and he felt somewhat hungry. He needed to hurry back and report these matters.

After all, the disturbance just now was quite significant. If he doesn’t provide Liao Yu with a complete report, it might lead to misunderstanding. Moreover, through this investigation, he confirmed one thing: many seemingly unreasonable resource lands might have traces of time influencing them.

The key to unlocking these traces of time, however, is...

Glancing at Tamur, Feng Yuan ultimately didn’t speak. How things are done is Tamur’s freedom—it’s not his job to interfere. Besides, the appearance of parallel spaces might not be a good thing for Great Xia.

Feng Yuan hasn’t forgotten Quine’s threats. Though they’ve temporarily taken no action, Feng Yuan understands they won’t give up easily. After all, plans spanning thousands of years aren’t so easily thwarted.

Right now, the more valuable things Great Xia has, the greater the danger. That thing won’t run away; Feng Yuan decided to omit this part in his report for now. Knowing it would only add worry; Tamur might seem transparent beside Feng Yuan, but Feng Yuan knows he’s indifferent.

Unlike Agunas and Veronia, Tamur’s attitude toward humans is apathetic—it’s best if they don’t interact.

Thus, under normal circumstances, Tamur wouldn’t take the initiative. Of course, Feng Yuan estimates that after some time, he might take action.

After all, for Divine Beasts, their duties are quite important. Agunas is always busy, not just because he’s closer to humans, but because his duty is to maintain the stability of the Time River, and his authority is related to humans.

As for dealing with texts, other than humans, even Spirit Beasts rarely create them. Hence, inherently, Agunas has a connection with humans.

For Divine Beasts, fulfilling their duties brings them joy and satisfaction, so Feng Yuan isn’t worried that Tamur’s indifference to humans will lead him to completely ignore matters of parallel spaces.

Only, now is not a good time for parallel spaces to appear. After all, the turmoil caused by the Crystal Domain hasn’t disappeared. If a parallel space appears at this moment, it would be chaos.

In Feng Yuan’s view, it’s only after everyone is familiar with the Crystal Domain and can control the battle within the Crystal Domain that the timing would be right for parallel spaces to come forth. Otherwise, if it triggers a conflict, with the boosts from both sides in the Crystal Domain, the attack power increases significantly, leading to severe environmental destruction and substantial casualties.

Just like the current resource contest, not only is Cha Mu Town on high alert, but all regions are on high alert. Every country has recalled their main combat power, dispatching large numbers to oversee the various resource contests.

There’s no way around it. The resource contest itself is a measure to avoid unrestricted underhanded tactics when competing for resources leading to a surge in Beastmaster casualties.

In a resource contest, casualties can be minimized, but this is based on existing rules and power as a premise.

With the appearance of the Crystal Domain, unless the usage of the Crystal Domain is banned, there’s no way they can completely control the suddenly skyrocketing combat power. How to prevent the resource contest from spiraling out of control is the major issue they must face now.

As for banning the usage of the Crystal Domain, it merely postpones the issue. Everyone knows taking an evasive attitude is not the best choice; the more they suppress it, the higher the likelihood of incidents occurring, and the greater the probability of bigger problems.

This time, perhaps there will be considerable casualties, but they believe that after this time, those using the Crystal Domain against enemies will be more cautious.

Because everyone understands that many things, no matter how dangerous they seem on paper, aren’t intuitive enough. Only by facing them directly will they know the actual impact of the Crystal Domain in combat, even if it results in significant casualties, it’s inevitable.

If not for this brutal experience, even with rules set, subsequent resource contests would inevitably encounter unexpected incidents. Only by showing everyone the brutal scenes of resource contention before the contest can help maintain subsequent stability.

Of course, these matters have nothing to do with Feng Yuan— or with Agunas watching, the chance of accidents in this area is minimized.

Will it affect the original plan?

Feng Yuan doesn’t think so, because Agunas wouldn’t provide protection right from the start. Facing death, the deterrent effect might not be weaker than actual death.

The reason others wouldn’t do this is simple—an immediate rescue is extremely difficult, especially in such chaotic battlefields; aside from Divine Beasts, perhaps only Sacred Beasts can barely manage.

Rather than being resented for ineffective rescues later, it’s better to announce doing nothing initially.

Although Xu Family Town is mostly under the control of Cha Mu Town, during the resource contest period, even if Cha Mu Town Area was the last victor, they can’t remain in Xu Family Town.

Fortunately, this has long been a convention, so the villa district built in the woods here functions well. Even with Feng Yuan and others joining midway, it doesn’t result in the embarrassment of not enough beds, forcing many to squeeze into one room.

Upon arriving at the base, Feng Yuan ran into Wu Dingwu, who had been searching for them this whole time. Initially, Feng Yuan told him he’d come with Cha Mu Town’s Beastmaster team. Everyone else had arrived here long ago, but Wu Dingwu hadn’t found Feng Yuan, naturally causing worry.

It wasn’t a worry for Feng Yuan’s safety.

After all, Wu Dingwu knows Feng Yuan’s strength, understanding that if even Feng Yuan couldn’t handle it, the squad of Beastmasters wouldn’t arrive safely.

It’s just that he couldn’t help but worry if something in the surroundings had stalled Feng Yuan, especially concerning the changes in the woods before. It made him anxious that a major incident might occur during this resource contest.

There’s no choice; there has been a recent surge of chaotic matters, each being significant, even involving Maomu Academy previously. Wu Dingwu inevitably worries there might be unexpected events here too.

However, after greeting Feng Yuan and learning the truth, he felt relieved.

As for parallel spaces, Feng Yuan didn’t mention them. Knowing that the anomaly was caused by Feng Yuan and not the outcome of a special event was sufficient.

"I didn’t expect you to participate in that ritual ceremony, that’s nice." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

After learning about Feng Yuan and the others’ experiences over the past two days, Wu Dingwu looked at them with envy. Although he knows about Yunhuo Village’s ritual ceremony, it’s so important that others, even as spectators, can only watch from a distance—not like Feng Yuan and the others, who saw the core area from the towers.

After all, the ritual ceremony is too important. Yunhuo Village can’t let people near the core area, but the peripheral area is no problem. There are so many Spirit Beasts guarding that disruption is impossible.

Because he couldn’t see the altar, Wu Dingwu didn’t attend the ritual ceremony, yet didn’t expect Feng Yuan and the others could enter.

As for Feng Yuan and the others not observing near the blessed team or altar, that isn’t surprising. Even as distinguished guests, they couldn’t approach the most crucial spots.

Otherwise, an accident would be bad for everyone.

"Hehe, if you had mentioned it earlier, I could’ve invited you. But now..."

With a shrug, Feng Yuan wasn’t embarrassed. After all, if Wu Dingwu didn’t mention it, he wouldn’t have invited him. He was joking; their relationship wasn’t close to that extent.

Wu Dingwu chuckled, not minding. He knows that if he asked Feng Yuan for help, he probably wouldn’t refuse, but there’s no need.

He’s aware his relationship with Feng Yuan isn’t particularly close. Such matters would consume Feng Yuan’s goodwill—merely for witnessing the ceremony closely—it’s unnecessary.

Thinking of something, he lowered his voice looking at Feng Yuan and the others, saying,

"By the way, did you know? For this resource contest, the authorities sent someone to watch over it, suggesting something big might happen."