ROAR— A thunderous roar shook the air, and the ground trembled in its wake.
Dozens of massive beasts, each over thirty meters long and more than ten meters tall, were charging across the landscape at breakneck speed.
The beasts were semi-transparent, their bodies radiating a brilliant glow. They looked almost sacred, yet their ferocity was unmistakable.
Any ordinary person who laid eyes on such creatures would have soiled themselves on the spot and fled without looking back.
But at this very moment, a single figure stood atop a winged cheetah, pursuing the herd.
Though the cheetah's body was only a few meters long, its wings spanned more than ten meters, and they were beating at an incredible frequency.
Perhaps thanks to those wings, its flying speed was nothing short of astonishing.
Before long, the cheetah caught up to the herd. The figure standing on its back opened his palm, and there, floating above it, was a radiant golden net.
Whoosh— In a sudden motion, he flung his arm forward, and the luminous object shot through the air.
It expanded at a terrifying rate, and in the blink of an eye, it had transformed into a colossal net stretching thousands of meters across.
The net blotted out sky and earth as it descended, enveloping every last one of the dozens of beasts within its grasp.
Once the beasts were trapped, the golden net began to constrict, slicing into their bodies like razor-sharp blades.
The beasts roared endlessly, unleashing wave after wave of power in a desperate attempt to break free, but it was all in vain. In the end, they were ruthlessly obliterated by the net.
When the beasts died, they transformed into shimmering golden bones. Every bone was identical—only about two feet in length, yet each emitted a faint, pulsing glow.
Although only a few dozen beasts had fallen, the bones they left behind numbered in the hundreds.
The man swept his sleeve, and a powerful suction force surged forth, drawing every last bone into his Universe Bag.
This man was none other than Chu Feng.
What he had just hunted were Realm Spirit Beasts, and what he had collected into his Universe Bag were Realm Spirit Bones.
Half a day had passed since Chu Feng first entered this hunting ground.
The beasts he had just slain were the final batch remaining in this area.
In just half a day, Chu Feng had hunted nearly ten thousand Realm Spirit Beasts, collecting well over a hundred thousand Realm Spirit Bones.
"Who would have thought that clearing out this one area alone would take me a full half day."
Despite the bountiful harvest, Chu Feng was not entirely satisfied. He had genuinely not expected that sealing off this region would still require so much time.
After all, once he had locked the area down, hunting these Realm Spirit Beasts should have been like catching turtles in a jar—effortless.
But unfortunately, though these Realm Spirit Beasts were conjured by formations, their intelligence was far higher than Chu Feng had anticipated.
They only became aggressive when facing someone weaker than themselves.
When they sensed someone more powerful, they would flee immediately.
Worst of all, they could detect danger. Even when Chu Feng deliberately concealed his aura, they would still spot him once he drew within a certain distance—and bolt without hesitation.
So in the end, Chu Feng had essentially been playing a game of cat and mouse with these beasts for half a day.
But at last, every last one of them had been subdued.
"In this Queen's estimation, your harvest over these past half day has been truly remarkable. The only question is whether the Realm Spirit Bones you've collected will be enough to claim first place," the Queen said.
Based on everything they had observed along the way, the density of Realm Spirit Beasts in this area was dozens of times greater than anywhere else.
By slaughtering every beast in this region, Chu Feng had made an enormous haul.
It was the kind of harvest that others wouldn't even dare dream of.
However, the Queen was not certain whether the Realm Spirit Bones gathered here alone would be sufficient for Chu Feng to win first place in the hunt.
After all, they had come directly from the entrance to this spot and had not yet explored the entire hunting ground.
They had no way of knowing whether other areas might hold even denser concentrations of Realm Spirit Beasts.
"Half a day is all that's passed. I can always keep hunting."
With that, Chu Feng turned and headed back the way he had come.
His goal for this expedition was crystal clear: he intended to take first place in the hunting competition. So even though his harvest was already substantial, he did not allow himself the slightest bit of complacency.
Before long, Chu Feng arrived at the region where he had set up his concealing formation.
Though from the outside, no one could see Chu Feng—they would mistake the formation's edge for the boundary of the hunting ground—Chu Feng himself could clearly observe everything beyond it.
"Isn't that the junior from the Chu Heavenly Clan? What are they doing?" Chu Feng stopped abruptly.