When system cheat becomes rampant!

The desolate beasts in the Cultivated Domain aren't very powerful. Desolate beasts in this region could be dealt with by Sun Yushan and Fan Kai, but this creature is certainly not something these two rookie pioneers could handle.

"I don't know."

Ye Changfeng's expression was grave, and he was unable to explain this situation.

Xiang Beifei and the other two were not familiar with this kind of desolate beast, but he was well aware that it was a very strange and powerful kind of desolate beast, one that normally did not frequent this area.

"This creature, it's like a parasite. Could it have been attracted by that lad?" the Longyuan Sword inquired.

Ye Changfeng was also uncertain.

"It possesses a very powerful ability to mimic and camouflage; it imitates the appearance of these pioneers just before they were killed," Ye Changfeng said.

"So, that child was one as well?"

A head peeked in through the window. It was Xiang Beifei.

Turning his head and seeing Xiang Beifei had dared to come back, Ye Changfeng scolded irritably, "In the face of such an incident, instead of leaving quickly, why did you come back in?"

"I just felt like there was still one person inside the building, and it turned out to be Mr. Ye."

Xiang Beifei had entered through the window with the assistance of Fan Kai's abilities. He couldn't fly yet, so he relied on Fan Kai to support him.

"Mr. Ye, what brings you here?" another head peered in from a different window, belonging to Fan Kai.

"I came to see the cooperation between the three of you," Ye Changfeng revealed.

Xiang Beifei jumped in from the window and asked, "Then where do we need to improve?"

Ye Changfeng, with a stern face, replied, "You shouldn't be trying to show off! What a pioneer team needs is cooperation."

"I can gauge the difference in strength," Xiang Beifei said, "If I think I can take it on, I do, and that's not showing off. The three of us have been coordinating the whole time."

Ye Changfeng lifted his glasses, unable to find a reasonable fault to criticize beyond that. After a long pause, he stated, "This time you barely made the grade."

In fact, he was very satisfied inside. Xiang Beifei's cultivation might not match Sun Yushan and Fan Kai, but he was the one directing throughout the entire process, maximizing the abilities of Sun Yushan and Fan Kai to their fullest potential.

Most importantly, this was Xian Beifei's first time collaborating with others; the trio hadn't even fought together before, yet they had achieved such a degree of coordination. Xiang Beifei could be said to have the status of a commander within the team.

Sun Yushan and Fan Kai also made their way through the window and then turned their gaze upon the corpses in the corridor.

Xiang Beifei asked, "What kind of desolate beast is this? If I don't know, that's one thing, but how come they don't know either?"

"Don't talk about you guys; even I don't fully understand it," Ye Changfeng answered.

"Even the teacher doesn't understand it?" Xiang Beifei was quite puzzled.

"There are countless types of desolate beasts, and they are extremely special, prone to all kinds of mutations. Especially starting from the third-grade Tranquil Domain, many of the desolate beasts are very strange. Some don't even have names yet. Some desolate beasts only exist in pioneer descriptions and without having captured a real entity, we cannot confirm what their abilities are."

Desolate beasts that exist only in descriptions, unable to accurately understand them, not knowing how to kill them, nor being able to ascertain their weaknesses, can't be included in textbooks, because sometimes that might mislead students.

Those desolate beasts are put into other extracurricular books as warnings, and generally, only those pioneers who have the power to venture into the Tranquil Domain bother to understand these desolate beasts.

Sun Yushan and Fan Kai mostly operated within the Cultivated Domain, and occasionally, under the leadership of Ye Changfeng, ventured into the Marquis Domain in search of desolate beasts for practical tasks. Therefore, they are at most familiar with the desolate beasts of the Cultivated Domain and the Marquis Domain.

But as for the desolate beasts of the third region, the Tranquil Domain, they didn't know much.

After pondering for a moment, Ye Changfeng continued, "The tentacles you guys just encountered, a pioneer who had previously gone to the Tranquil Domain also encountered them. Based on his experience, he simply called it the Wailing Monster."

"The Wailing Monster?"

"Because when that pioneer encountered it, it was screaming in agony, as if it was undergoing great torture, so they named it on the spot. I have only heard about this desolate beast, never seen it myself, and just now it kept crying, which nearly made me fail to recognize it."

Xiang Beifei muttered, "I wanted to name it Crybaby Ghost."

Because that child was crying when feeling smug, and also crying when angry!

"I think this kind of desolate beast is mimicking someone's condition just before death. The first documented pioneer to see it recorded it screaming because it was mimicking someone who was screaming before their death. The person you saw first was lying on the ground desperately crying for help before their death, just like that, and that child..."

Ye Changfeng fell silent for a long while before he slowly said, "If I'm not mistaken, that child must have been one who didn't manage to retreat when the City of the Old Days was breached by the beast tide. The child kept crying before dying, so the desolate beast remembered it, and thus when it mimics a child, it keeps crying, even when it appears to be angrily roaring at you, it seems to be crying in anger."

So that was it.

The hearts of Xiang Beifei and the others were somewhat heavy.

The child was only about two or three years old, not even old enough to reach the age for the Awakening System, but when the beast tide breached the human city, it was submerged in the wave of beasts.

"So should this kind of monster be called 'Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage'?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage?"

Ye Changfeng looked at Xiang Beifei.

"I just said it randomly. Isn't it mimicking someone's appearance just before death? And it has so many strange tentacles," Xiang Beifei said.

Ye Changfeng nodded slightly, "This name is quite appropriate, better than Crybaby Ghost or Scream Monster."

"Was Mr. Ye by our side just now? Otherwise, how could you see so clearly?" Xiang Beifei remembered that he had not seen Ye Changfeng's system interface within his line of sight.

"I was outside, but that doesn't mean this wall can block my vision," Ye Changfeng replied.

Ye Changfeng had many abilities, each sword was an ability. After a while, he added, "I won't always be around. From now on, especially when you are in the wilds outside the domains, you must rely on yourselves at all times."

"Understood," both Sun Yushan and Fan Kai were clear about this.

Xiang Beifei then asked, "So, did I kill it just now?"

Ye Changfeng hesitated for a moment, then said, "It should be dead. I've been watching the surroundings to make sure it couldn't escape, but—"

"But what?"

Ye Changfeng shook his head slightly, "Let's not worry about that for now. I need to take these bodies back first. Judging by their clothing, they should belong to pioneers from decades ago."

He sighed.

To better understand desolate beasts, find ways to counter them, summarize the characteristics of each desolate beast, so that the martial artists of Jiuzhou could better fight against the beast tide when it comes and protect their territories and kind—countless pioneers had been sacrificed over the centuries.

These pioneers were all very great people. Without their selfless exploration of the wild desolate beasts outside the domains, exchanging their lives for the experience necessary to deal with the beasts, humanity would probably have been wiped out by the desolate beasts long ago.

Here lie nine pioneers' bodies, each with their own code, belonging to pioneers from decades ago. They were lost in the wilds outside the domains, but now Ye Changfeng must take them back.

No matter if their families were still around, no matter if anyone remembered them, bringing them back to the land of Jiuzhou was the greatest respect the descendants could offer them.

For decades, it seems the desolate beasts used a special method to keep them in the state they were in just before death; the bodies haven't completely decomposed, but their chest cavities and organs have been hollowed out and there are many cuts on their skin. When the tentacles extended out of their bodies, it also marred their appearances.

Xiang Beifei looked at these unrecognizable bodies and couldn't help but think of those two people.

Was this their fate as well?

Lost in the essential domains of the wild desolate wilderness, turned into stark white bones, or perished in the mouth of desolate beasts, leaving no remains behind?