None of them could believe what had just happened. It already seemed like it was a done deal, why did this person suddenly change his mind?

They looked at him in pure shock, but Lin Fan just revealed a faint smile.

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They knew that there wasn't a chance of surviving if they didn't do anything, so they immediately turned to run, but it was too bad that Brainy was already expecting this. Brainy's vines were already behind them and as soon as they turned, Brainy's vines fell down on their heads just like with their boss.

There were four more headless corpses that fell to the ground just like that.

Lin Fan put away the tiki head statue that he had received and had Brainy clean out the rest of the corpses. After all, even if they were bandits, they did have quite a few nice things that he could use in the future.

Then it was all about cleaning up the corpses.

After all, they had already set up camp and it would be too annoying to move again. But if they just left the corpses there, it would attract beasts and unwanted attention, so they couldn't just leave them there.

However, it was a good thing that Brainy had a use for these corpses.

Most of these corpses had their appearances intact, which meant they were useful to Brainy.

While their cultivations were a bit low, all that mattered was the way they looked. Brainy would definitely have a use for puppets that looked like this in the future.

As for the five that had their heads destroyed, since their heads had been destroyed, they didn't suit the role that Brainy wanted them to play and Brainy couldn't extract the formation from their brains. At the very least, Brainy could use their bodies to perform the array and decipher it from there.

Brainy's intelligence had gone up quite a bit since it had become a second mutation beast, it was on a completely different level from before and it was already quite smart before.

After that was taken care of, Lin Fan's group went back to what they were doing before, sitting around the campfire.

Before long, the sky above them was completely dark and it was the middle of the night.

Seeing that no one was coming, they all went into their tents and settled in for the night.

When morning came, there was still no one that had come to their camp.

It seemed like the lesson that they taught the people around them last night had sunk in and not a single one of them dared to make a move against their camp during the night.

So when they woke up the next morning, Lin Fan's group didn't waste any time at all as they headed deeper into the Kunlun Mountains.

Following the map that they received from the Seekers Guild, they quickly made their way into the middle ring of the Kunlun Mountains.

Once they entered the middle ring, they could tell that this place was different from the outer ring. First, there was the concentration of life energy in the air, it was more than ten times thicker compared to the outer ring. Second, there was a clear difference in the grade of beasts that were living in the middle ring.

In the outer ring, there were all kinds of beasts walking around, even beasts that were just normal beasts without any cultivation at all.

But in the middle ring, there weren't any of those at all. The weakest beasts that were walking around were all in the Silver Realm and there were plenty of Gold Realm beasts walking around as well.

This was definitely not a place that everyone could come to, even those in the Platinum Realm wouldn't be safe.

But for Lin Fan's group who were all above the Soul Realm, it was like taking a walk in the park.

As Lin Fan rode Xiao Huo through the air, there were no beasts at all that came out to attack them since not a single one of them felt like they could. That was just the pressure that beasts with higher tier bloodlines put on beasts with lower tier bloodlines.

Even if there was a disparity in cultivation, the beasts with the higher tier bloodlines would still be able to pressure the beasts with lower tier bloodlines.

The place that the item they were after was actually quite deep into the middle ring, but there was a path that had been carved out by humans who had gone previously.

The ginseng that the client wanted was actually a farmed resource by humans, so there was a path that led to this place. It was just too bad that there was an Embryo Soul Realm beast that suddenly decided to take residence in this place.

As they went through the middle ring, they actually found quite a few Embryo Soul Realm beasts along the way which Lin Fan took note of. He also had Brainy send out its scouts to see if it could find any other Embryo Soul Realm beasts a little further away.

No one expected Lin Fan's group to finish this mission in just two days and Lin Fan wasn't planning on doing that. He was actually planning on going around to find some Embryo Soul Realm beasts to test his strength and farm out a few corpses to sell to the Seekers Guild.

The Hunters Exam was coming up in just a few weeks, so the pressure was on.

A few Embryo Soul Realm beast corpses would definitely be enough to let him qualify.

Eventually, they arrived at the mountain the Nine Star Ginseng that they were looking for was at.

When they first scouted the mountain, it was very clear that there was an Embryo Soul Realm beast that was on this mountain. The Embryo Soul Realm beast was fully releasing its aura, it wasn't trying to hide itself at all.

The strange thing was that there was no other beast that challenged it for this territory even though it was only in the low Embryo Soul Realm.

But in that aura, Lin Fan also felt something familiar. It was like the feeling that he got from Xiao Feng.

Originally, Lin Fan had planned to take care of this beast himself to test his own strength, but that plan had already changed after his pets had begged him to let them fight instead.

They had already gotten bored of fighting peak Fragmented Soul Realm beasts and they wanted to test out fighting an Embryo Soul Realm beast.

Lin Fan normally would have rejected this since he didn't have a problem saying no to kids, but it was too bad that Angela was a different case. Angela was weak towards the cuteness attack of the kids and she had no way of saying no to them, so in the end, Lin Fan was forced to let them go first.

The kids all ran out in their human forms, running off in five different directions.

Even if they did have superior bloodlines and battle strength that far surpassed their level of cultivation, that didn't mean that they could skip all the way to the Embryo Soul Realm.

This was an entire realm and they didn't have as many cheats as Lin Fan did, so they could only use the one thing that they had.

All five of them gathered in a pentagon around the mountain in the center before suddenly releasing their life energy. All that life energy gathered into an array that appeared above the mountain.

When this array appeared, the aura of the Embryo Soul Realm beast inside the mountain also changed.

It didn't take long before there was a figure that suddenly flew into the sky above the mountain and floated there. Looking carefully at it, it was actually an azure dragon that was floating there.

That azure dragon did a full spin and took a look at all five of Lin Fan's pets before saying, "You actually dare to challenge me with just this? Even if you all have superior bloodlines, you think that you can beat me?"

As it said this, it also revealed a greedy look while looking at Xiao Feng.

For beasts to increase their bloodlines, there were two ways.

One was to work for them to work hard and slowly refine their blood until it reached a certain point where they would mutate.

The second was to find a beast with a superior bloodline and kill them to steal their bloodline for themselves. Bloodlines were easy to incorporate for beasts, so as long as they could find a superior bloodline, they would have no problem switching to it.

Now that there was a superior dragon bloodline that had appeared in front of it, how could this azure dragon not be excited?

It had been a long time since it had broken through and it had been feeling its threshold for a long time as well, so it was actually quite stumped. It had come to this mountain because the Nine Star Ginseng were said to have some effect on inciting epiphanies, but it hadn't done anything for it yet.

Since this weak little dragon with a higher grade bloodline was sending itself to its door, it wouldn't say no.

But before the azure dragon could do a thing, the array above it suddenly lit up. As the light became stronger and stronger, there was then a beam of light that fell down right onto the azure dragon.