Live Strong in the Wilderness

"I suggest withdrawing to preserve our strength. After all, mages cannot participate in battles between divine masters," said one governor.

"I also think so. We need to preserve our strength. We still have many children yet to be born, and staying is too dangerous," another governor agreed to withdraw.

All the governors agreed to the withdrawal plan, which could preserve their strength to the greatest extent.

The Spirit God stood up and said, "Alright, Xu Yi will close the Star Gate of Spirit Blue Star. He is now a level 17 divine master, and the Star Gate is safest with him."

"No way, how could he be stronger than you?" one governor said in disbelief.

Others were also skeptical. After all, Xu Yi had grown up under their watch; how could he suddenly surpass the Spirit Race so completely?

"He has tamed the Illusionary Flower Beast. With its help, Xu Yi has been improving particularly quickly. Therefore, we must also intensify our search efforts because finding one would greatly benefit us," explained the Spirit God.

"Our Spiritual Star doesn’t seem to have any Illusionary Flower Beasts. Despite using over a thousand devices, we still haven’t found any trace of them," a governor said helplessly.

"Regardless, if either humans or we manage to have a level 20 divine master, our chances of winning will greatly increase. As long as we can buy enough time, we can grow quickly. The ’Supreme Profound Scripture’ Xu Yi gave us is very effective and has significantly sped up our progress."

Since everyone’s thoughts were aligned, the Spirit God announced, "Then it’s decided. Besides those involved in the battle, everyone else will evacuate to Earth Star and hide."

"Next, let’s discuss some details of the retreat."

With a word from Ling Qi, everyone began to discuss enthusiastically.

On Xu Yi’s side, he also informed others about the situation.

If they needed to evacuate, they would, and those who didn’t want to evacuate would stay.

After all, staying meant they could become stronger, while evacuating would prevent them from cultivating.

As the Spirit Race meeting drew to a close, they suddenly received a report.

"Everyone, I have exciting news! We have discovered traces of an Illusionary Flower Beast, and it seems to be around level 14," the Spirit God excitedly announced this good news.

The live broadcast room erupted with excitement.

Owning an Illusionary Flower Beast meant they could rapidly increase their strength.

Moreover, this Illusionary Flower Beast was at a much higher level than Xu Yi’s snail, so its effects would naturally be stronger.

"Then we’ll need Xu Yi’s help with this, given his experience in taming Illusionary Flower Beasts," suggested Ling Qi.

The Spirit God nodded, thinking that Xu Yi’s help was indeed necessary; otherwise, taming the Illusionary Flower Beast would be too difficult.

"Alright, I’ll go find Xu Yi. You handle the evacuation," the Spirit God said to Ling Qi before leaving the meeting room.

After leaving the meeting room, the Spirit God contacted Xu Yi.

The Spirit God then piloted a warship to Yimen Continent.

When she landed, Xu Yi and the snail were already waiting there.

Even though the Spirit God was already at level 15, she still fell for it.

The moment she smelled the scent of the Illusionary Flower Beast, she fell into an illusion.

"Snail, give her an injection," Xu Yi commanded the snail.

The snail immediately floated to the Spirit God and administered some vaccine.

Then, the Spirit God woke up from the illusion.

"The Illusionary Flower Beast is indeed magical; even at level 15, I still got caught," the Spirit God said, glancing at the snail. But she knew that using a life support system and isolating from the scent of the Illusionary Flower Beast could prevent it.

The Spirit God came to see Xu Yi mainly because of his experience in taming Illusionary Flower Beasts.

The Spirit Race believed Xu Yi had a natural talent for taming fierce beasts.

"If we’re prepared, it’s not a big deal. After all, the barriers we construct with spiritual power can filter it out," Xu Yi said with a slight smile, knowing the Spirit God wanted to experience it, so didn’t use any protection.

The Spirit God nodded, acknowledging that what Xu Yi said was indeed the case.

However, they intended to tame the Illusionary Flower Beast, which required long-term interaction.

If they could tame it in three to five days, it would be considered exceptionally lucky.

It might take around ten days to tame the Illusionary Flower Beast.

Relying solely on spiritual power for such a long time was obviously impractical.

"Let’s go," Xu Yi said to the Spirit God before heading towards her warship.

Thus, the two set off.

"Xu Yi, I told them about your level 17, sorry about that," the Spirit God said, a bit apologetically. Originally, they intended to keep it secret. But after considering, the Spirit God felt that Xu Yi’s strength was a stabilizing agent for the Spirit Race internally, giving everyone hope.

Without hope, no one would have the awareness to resist.

The Divine Race is too strong, but the Jialan Civilization is no weakling either.

If they can’t handle the Jialan Civilization, how could they possibly think of dealing with the even stronger Divine Race?

Xu Yi smiled slightly and said, "It’s alright; making it public might be better, at least showing everyone that reaching level 20 isn’t so impossible. To be honest, I wouldn’t have progressed to level 17 so quickly without a stroke of luck I had on Jialan Star."

"I think so too. Confidence is very important for everyone," the Spirit God smiled at Xu Yi and continued, "Once we defeat the Jialan Race, we can conquer and rule them. With just our own strength, we cannot stand against the Divine Race."

Xu Yi nodded and said nothing.

The Jialan Race might not be so easily governed.

Because they were brainwashed by the Divine Race since childhood, the Divine Race is their god.

Unless their ’god’ is defeated and their faith is shattered, their mindset cannot be rebuilt.

But, is the Divine Race so easy to kill?

If they were easy to kill, would the Pan Race need to use a planet to build a prison?

Clearly, the Divine Race is not easily killed; imprisonment is a better solution.

Xu Yi feels that a race that has survived for tens of thousands of years is hard to kill.

The Divine Race can leave those statues at any time, so their power must have recovered considerably, reaching at least level 20.

Therefore, even if they thwarted the Jialan Race’s expedition plan, they couldn’t possibly rule the Jialan Civilization.

The most effective method is to strengthen the Pan Race’s grand formation, restore Jialan Star to its original state, and completely hide it, preventing anyone inside from coming out.

This way, humans and the Spirit Race can continue to develop themselves.

The ’heritage’ of the Jialan Civilization is actually their cultivation techniques.

These, Xu Yi can obtain from the system.

Once he reaches level 30, Xu Yi can acquire advanced authority and receive countless advanced gift packages.

After all, the advanced gift packages never specified any limitations.

Of course, Xu Yi knows that these advanced gift packages are not unlimited; there must be a certain quantity.

But, surely there will be more than the beginner and intermediate gift packages.

With these packages, Xu Yi can properly train more Divine Masters.

"Alright, we have arrived. Let’s go down directly. It’s better for the warship to stay in the air; the fierce beasts here are all over level 15," the Spirit God said to Xu Yi.

"Okay, let’s go directly down." Xu Yi, after all, was level 17, and he did not really consider level 15 fierce beasts as a threat.

So, Xu Yi and the Spirit God flew straight out.

After flying, the two landed on the ground.

However, the Illusionary Flower Beast had already moved away.

The detector for the Illusionary Flower Beast had been destroyed by a flying fierce beast, so they needed to find the Illusionary Flower Beast’s location themselves.

After several hours, Xu Yi and the Spirit God found the location of the Illusionary Flower Beast.

Both were cautious, maintaining a distance of 500 meters, and constantly communicating.

This way, if the Spirit God was affected, Xu Yi could rescue her in time and bring her back.

Gradually, the two approached the Illusionary Flower Beast, neither of them affected.

The ’vaccine’ from the snail clearly had an effect, giving them immunity to the Illusionary Flower Beast.

"So big, it can actually grow to such a gigantic size." Xu Yi looked at the Illusionary Flower Beast that was as large as a house, feeling very surprised.

Moreover, the flower body of this Illusionary Flower Beast had many flowers, unlike the snail, which had only one.

"I’ll limit its movement, you tame it." Xu Yi said to the Spirit God, then used his spiritual power to trap the huge Illusionary Flower Beast in front of him.

Xu Yi felt that this Illusionary Flower Beast had awakened spiritual power.

It belongs to the Demon Race!

Yes, Xu Yi sensed the spiritual power of the Illusionary Flower Beast, which was counterattacking.

"Spirit God, stop." Xu Yi hurriedly shouted to stop the Spirit God.

But he found it was already too late, the Spirit God’s spiritual power had already invaded the beast body of the Illusionary Flower Beast.

As a result, the Spirit God was invaded in turn.

Without any choice, Xu Yi could only use the Spirit Blade on the Illusionary Flower Beast.

After suffering Xu Yi’s attack, the Illusionary Flower Beast immediately retracted its spiritual power, breaking the spiritual link between it and the Spirit God.

"Xu Yi, what’s going on?" The Spirit God asked, somewhat perplexed.

Xu Yi explained, "This Illusionary Flower Beast is no longer a mere beast; it has awakened spiritual power and has become part of the Demon Race."

"Demon Race?" The Spirit God was momentarily stunned, then regained her composure.

"So I can’t tame it now?" The Spirit God asked somewhat reluctantly, as earlier she had sensed the strong spiritual power within the Illusionary Flower Beast, which seemed much stronger than hers.

Under such circumstances, not to mention taming the Illusionary Flower Beast, she could be killed by it.

"It seems so, unless you reach level 17 or 18," Xu Yi said helplessly.

"Give me a moment, I’ll report the situation to others." Thus, the Spirit God explained the situation to other Spirit Race governors.