Counterattack System appeared when I'm already At The Mahayana Realm

Chapter 617: Chapter 616: Melted into the Earth

“Hmm, why is this San-style savage beast melting?”

The crowd noticed that the San-style savage beast, which was just casually killed by Advisor Fang, was melting away like an ice cube and returning to the earth.

Advisor Fang released his Divine Sense and found that not only the San-style savage beast but also the dead people were melting into the earth.

“This is quite normal,” He Chong said as if it was a matter of course.

“Both humans and savage beasts draw power from the earth. When they die, they naturally return the power. This is a normal process that we call ‘earth burial.’

Advisor Fang frowned, somewhat puzzled by this principle. It seemed as if the earth was consuming creatures.

Was it an issue with the land or with the savage beasts?

Advisor Fang turned to his disciples and said, “You tend to neglect battles in your daily lives. The Sect Master has emphasized many times the full utilization of the practice ground, but it remains deserted. This is a good chance to train you.”

“Go and hunt a Qi Cultivation Stage, Foundation Establishment Stage, and Golden Core Stage beast in the nearby areas. Bring back each beast corpse intact. Go.”

“As for Dong Li and Bai Heitu, I don’t know what the nature of your relationship with the Sect Master is, and I don’t want to know. The Sect Master emphasized before we set off that you guys should be treated just like any other disciple. So, make sure to hunt a Golden Core Stage beast on your own.”

Jiang Li and Bai Hongtu complied.

Advisor Fang let loose his Divine Sense, observing every move of the disciples, with a slight frown.

Their performance was too poor – dealing with Qi Cultivation Stage and Foundation Establishment Stage beasts was still fine due to the advantage of their realm, but when faced with a Golden Core Stage beast, they became panicked and disoriented.

Luckily, they knew to work together. If they couldn’t defeat the beast one-on-one, they would team up in pairs or groups of three.

“The performance of Dong Li and Bai Heitu is actually very impressive, even I couldn’t do better than them.”

Advisor Fang took a vine from his bosom and pressed it onto the ground. The vine wildly grew underground, shooting towards a savage beast in the distance.

The beast, gnawing on a human who had just died but had not yet started to melt away, suddenly saw the ground bulge up. A vine suddenly sprouted, piercing the beast right between the eyes.

Realizing its death was imminent, the beast shrieked continuously. The sound waves reverberated, cutting through the earth like a heavenly blade and severing the surrounding trees at their waists.

Advisor Fang recited a scripture. The vine sprouted leaves, growing from the beast’s eye through its veins until the roar of the beast abruptly stopped.

If someone were to dissect the beast, they would find no blood vessels left in its body, only vines!

“Got a Nascent Soul Stage beast.”

Advisor Fang let the vine drag the beast back. This easy kill left He Chong dumbfounded.

This Nascent Soul Stage beast could simply shatter city gates, leading to the fall of an entire city. Yet it had died so easily in the hands of this man.

Once the disciples brought back the intact savage beasts, they reported their accomplishments to Advisor Fang.

“Advisor Fang, what’s the use of these beast corpses? Are we to analyze the cause of their craziness?”

Advisor Fang put away all the beast corpses and found the disciples’ question quite amusing: “Analyze the beasts? We are the Spirit Plant Sect, who understands the structure of a beast?”

“Then you want to…” The disciples were confused.

“Of course, bring them back and let the professionals analyze them. We may not know, but does that mean all the sects in the Nine Provinces don’t know?”

Advisor Fang laughed, “Don’t forget, what backs us is not just the Spirit Plant Sect, but the whole Nine Provinces world.”

Upon hearing these words, the disciples suddenly understood.

Before this, they had always considered turning to the Sect Elder in case of any difficulties in the foreign world, but they never realized that help could also be sought from other sects.

Advisor Fang continued, “Entering the foreign world certainly offers the advantage of gaining a head start and providing you experiential learning, but remember, the most important purpose in exploring the foreign world is to stop the scheme of the outer realm Heavenly Demons. That should be the priority.”

“We will bear this in mind.”

“He’s doing well,” Jiang Li passingly communicated to Bai Hongtu. So far, there hadn’t been any issues with Advisor Fang’s words or way of thinking.

“I just wonder if he’s always been like this, or if it’s due to the courses opened by the Confucian School.”

Leading everyone, Advisor Fang left the dense forest and asked He Chong to obtain exploration rewards from the human officials. As for them, they fabricated identities and settled down among the humans.

“Why don’t we disclose our real identities?”

“Because we haven’t grasped the human officials’ attitude towards us, and we don’t know the strength of the human community either. Although He Chong said that a Body Integration Realm hasn’t emerged in a long time, it doesn’t guarantee there are none on the human side.”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

“What if there are Body Integration Realms among the humans and they harbor malice towards us?”

“Should we ask the Sect Elder for help?” the disciple thought of the backing they had.

Advisor Fang shook his head: “The Sect Elder has many matters to deal with and can’t be bothered with everything. This will create a dependence.”

“Remember, when out and about, don’t be complacent simply because you have someone supporting you. Be cautious.”

Still confused, a disciple asked, “Why did we tell He Chong the truth? Won’t he report us to the officials?”

“The truth was told to win his trust and to understand the situation of this world firsthand. As for He Chong reporting us to the officials-”

Advisor Fang pointed to his head: “I have been observing He Chong with my Divine Sense. He indeed reported us to the officials, but they didn’t believe his words.”

He laughed coldly, “It’s clear that in this world, nobodies have no say. The human higher-ups do not care about the opinions of nobodies.”

“Let’s go to the library, the place with the most information.” Advisor Fang paid no more attention to He Chong. The foremost task now was to understand the history and battle power of this world.

Advisor Fang found a dictionary and asked everyone to learn this world’s language together. Previously, conversations relied on Divine Sense, but reading books required translation for which Divine Sense had no effect.

These disciples were all Gold Core Period cultivators, and after Jiang Li, Bai Hongtu, and Yu Yin improved the practice methods of Divine Sense, Gold Core Period cultivators could also utilize Divine Sense, significantly increasing the learning efficiency.

Soon, everyone learned the language of this world.

“While I use Divine Sense to scan books in the history section, you go to the body refining area and gather information on the body refining methods of this world. Then we will summarize the information and analyze the situation.”

“Yes!”

Advisor Fang signaled them to lower their voices: “Keep it down; this is a library.”

…

“World history is more or less as He Chong described. Over two thousand years ago, this was a world of cultivators, but the cultivators’ levels were generally not high. The reason probably lies in the fact that the then cultivators were not willing to share their cultivation experiences. The unique cultivation methods would completely disappear once the master and the disciple both died.”

“How could any progress be made like this?”

“On the other hand, there was too much mixed breeding amongst the beasts, preventing them from manifesting their true lineage power. The highest level they could reach was the Divinity Transformation Stage, but the beasts of that time were rational.”

“Later, a Body Integration Realm appeared among the humans and signed a cease-fire agreement with the beasts, after that, he disappeared.”

“Some say he ascended to immortality, some say he roamed space. No one knows where he went.”