#20 - Star core shattered - The most powerful system in the world of fantasy.

Had Qin BuYi given up? Impossible. Leaving aside the fact that there were still less than three months left in the mission deadline, his personality wouldn't allow him to be someone who gives up easily.

Flying above the cave, he looked at the moon in the sky. As expected, it was night.

He found a wild boar near the cave, and also picked up some firewood and spices he recognized from the ground.

Dragging the wild boar, he flew back down into the cave.

Arriving at the bottom of the cave, he lit the firewood.

The warm firelight illuminated this underground cave that had never seen light since its formation.

He dragged the wild boar to the underground river, removed its internal organs and placed them aside, then plucked its hair and washed it clean.

After washing the wild boar, Qin BuYi pierced it with a thick, long branch and roasted it back and forth over the fire.

Turning around, he went back to the underground river and threw the removed wild boar organs into the river.

Instantly, strange fish in the river, smelling the blood, pounced towards the organs. Qin BuYi, holding the Killing Blade, seized the opportunity.

"Chih!"

Two slashes, and when he pulled back the Killing Blade, it had two strange fish, nearly a meter long, hanging on it.

After scaling and gutting the fish, Qin BuYi also skewered them onto branches and roasted them over the fire.

"Drip!"

The fat from the wild boar and strange fish dripped onto the firewood as they roasted over the fire, occasionally causing large bursts of flames.

Qin BuYi sprinkled wild spices he had picked from Falling Star Mountain Range, and immediately a fragrant aroma wafted out.

The entire underground cave was filled with the smell of roasting meat.

After breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, one could basically stop eating and survive on the spiritual energy of the world, but Qin BuYi had maintained his eating habits for more than twenty years and couldn't completely change them in a short time.

The aroma also wafted into Qing Qian's nose, and saliva immediately appeared in her mouth. She swallowed and stared eagerly at the roasting boar and fish on the fire.

Since being trapped here, she hadn't eaten food for three hundred years.

Now, smelling the aroma of meat, the glutton in her stomach was churning non-stop, like a person dying of thirst in the desert seeing a source of water.

A quarter of an hour later, the meat was cooked.

Just as Qin BuYi tore off a wild boar hind leg and was about to take a bite, he heard Qing Qian's tentative voice beside him:

"Human, look, there's so much, you can't possibly finish it all by yourself, can you give me some."

Hearing this, Qin BuYi looked at Qing Qian with a strange expression and held out his right hand.

"What do you mean?" Qing Qian asked, puzzled.

"Give me money. If you don't have money, you can exchange it for something," Qin BuYi said indifferently.

"You...you, do you even understand the meaning of cherishing women! You're embarrassed to ask me for money for such a small amount of food?"

Qing Qian had already transformed back into her human form and looked at Qin BuYi, her eyes red, as if tears would fall at any moment.

Qin BuYi was unmoved and said in an icy tone, "I will never have the delusion of cherishing a woman who wants to skin me and tear my bones."

After speaking, he opened his mouth and took a big bite of the pig's leg.

Not only that, but Qin BuYi also deliberately showed a look of being intoxicated by the delicious food.

Qing Qian saw that Qin BuYi was acting like he wouldn't do anything without a reward, and she bit her silver teeth secretly. She took out the red handkerchief again, and pretended to hand it to Qin BuYi.

Qin BuYi glanced at the red handkerchief and said, "I don't want this. I want the pendant on your neck."

"Impossible!" Qing Qian refused outright.

"It doesn't matter if it's impossible. Then you can continue watching, and I'll continue eating," Qin BuYi said.

The reason for not exchanging was very simple. The pendant on Qing Qian's neck was much better than the red handkerchief she had taken out, both in terms of texture and appearance.

Moreover, things that can be easily taken out for exchange must be the things with the lowest value.

Qing Qian watched Qin BuYi eating happily not far away. After a while, she couldn't bear it any longer and opened her mouth again, "Exchange it for something else. This one is really not okay. This was left to me by my mother."

Qin BuYi didn't even raise his head and said, "No exchange, no discussion!"

Perhaps because the glutton in her stomach was constantly churning, Qing Qian thought for a long time, and then, with a not-so-good expression, took off the pendant and used her spiritual power to hold it in front of Qin BuYi.

Qin BuYi took the pendant and played with it in his hand. The pendant was carved with a snow-white nine-tailed fox, almost exactly the same as Qing Qian's true form.

"Hey, you've taken the thing, give me the food," Qing Qian said with a hint of anger in her voice.

After receiving the other party's item, Qin BuYi quickly placed most of the wild boar, with only a hind leg torn off, and a strange fish on Qing Qian's spiritual power.

Qing Qian used her spiritual power to pull the wild boar and strange fish back in front of her, and without regard for her image, bit into the roast pig.

While eating, she said vaguely, "The taste is not bad, human, what is your name?"

Qin BuYi didn't speak, and stretched out his right hand again.

"No way...do you want money even for this? Are you obsessed with money!!" Qing Qian said with a face full of disbelief.

Perhaps realizing that his behavior was inappropriate, Qin BuYi opened his mouth and spat out three words, "Qin BuYi."

"Haha, Qin BuYi, what a strange name, BuYi, BuYi, are you very difficult??" Qing Qian laughed after hearing this, not forgetting to ridicule him.

Looking at Qing Qian with the eyes of an idiot, Qin BuYi began to lower his head and eat silently, no matter what Qing Qian said, he would no longer speak.

Seeing that Qin BuYi was no longer paying attention to her, Qing Qian didn't bother to make a fool of herself and focused on enjoying the delicious food in front of her.

A quarter of an hour later.

Qin BuYi was full and satisfied, cleaned up the residue on the ground, and holding the Killing Blade, flew up again and slashed towards the Star Core.

"Killing Life・Slaughter!"

"Boom!"

"Killing Life・Annihilation!"

"Clang!" "Clang!"

...

"Again...again? Doesn't this guy need to rest?"

The sound of loud noises came from her ears, and the speed at which the power within her body was being drawn accelerated. Qing Qian suddenly felt that the meat in her mouth didn't seem so fragrant anymore.

Shaking her head, she ignored Qin BuYi, who was attacking crazily in the sky, Qing Qian took a hard bite of the meat, chewing fiercely.

As if she was eating Qin BuYi's flesh and blood to relieve her anger.

Days passed...

During this period, Qin BuYi would fly to the top of the cave every day to find various foods, deer, rabbits, sheep, etc., and occasionally pick some wild fruits.

Qing Qian discovered that since this human appeared, her days seemed to be getting better and better, especially in terms of food.

But correspondingly, her wallet was getting emptier and emptier, and there were few valuable things left on her body. There was no way, if she wanted to eat, she had to give money, and it was useless to say anything without giving money.

Looking at Qin BuYi, who was constantly attacking the Star Core in the sky, Qing Qian couldn't help but say, "Qin BuYi, you extort a weak woman with food all day long, don't you feel guilty in your heart?"

Qin BuYi stopped his attack and said in a serious manner, "First of all, you are not weak. If you weren't trapped here, I'm afraid you could kill me with one finger. Secondly, did I force you to eat?"

Qing Qian was speechless by Qin BuYi's words, turned her head away and stopped talking, secretly thinking in her heart, "Don't let me out, if you let me out, I will definitely make you wish you were dead!"

A month later.

Under Qin BuYi's crazy attacks tens of thousands of times a day, the Star Core shook for the first time.

Although it was only a slight tremor, it was enough to be encouraging.

During this month, Qing Qian's entire fox was not well. She could hold on for the first few days.

As time went on, the power within her body was constantly flowing outwards every day, gradually reaching a state of loss.

The spiritual energy drawn from nature couldn't keep up with the speed of consumption at all. Seeing the Star Core shaking, Qing Qian's heart "thumped".

She didn't know what would happen if Qin BuYi continued to attack next, but in any case, she couldn't let this human know that the Star Core was drawing her power.

Based on her deductions of Qin BuYi during these days, if he knew, his attacks would probably be even more crazy.

More than two months later...

Under Qin BuYi's simple and crude offensive every day, the Star Core showed signs of being unable to withstand it for the first time.

"Crack!"

A crack appeared on the surface of the Star Core.

After the cracking sound appeared, Qin BuYi stopped his offensive and looked towards the Star Core.

Qing Qian said below in a somewhat strong but hollow voice, "Stop! If this continues, it may explode, and then you and I will be wiped out."

In the past two months, the spiritual power in Qing Qian's body had been consumed to near exhaustion.

Qin BuYi stood in front of the Star Core thinking. There were still three days left until the deadline for the epic mission.

If the mission was not completed by then, he would still not be able to escape the fate of being wiped out, so he might as well take a gamble.

Thinking of this, he continued to attack with the Killing Blade.

"Killing Life・Slaughter!"

"Killing Life・Annihilation!"

"Boom!" "Clang!"

...

"Qin BuYi, you're crazy, you're a madman! If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!" Qing Qian shouted anxiously below.

"Crack!"

With the attack, more and more cracks appeared on the Star Core, and through the cracks, one could feel the destructive energy contained within the Star Core.

Qing Qian looked at Qin BuYi above with somewhat dull eyes. She no longer had any hope of survival at this time. When this madman in front of her blew up the Star Core, everyone would die together.

"Killing Life・Slaughter!"

"Cut!" Qin BuYi shouted loudly.

"Crack!"

"Boom!"

The Star Core, which had not left its original place for more than two months, finally moved to the side when it was about to break, and at the same time, the Stellar Force linked to Qing Qian disappeared.

Qin BuYi and Qing Qian looked at the Star Core at the same time, and the somewhat dull look in Qing Qian's eyes instantly recovered.

Before Qing Qian could react, Qin BuYi grabbed the Star Core, put it into the storage space, and used a fourth-order teleportation talisman to leave.

"Bang!"

Almost the next second after Qin BuYi left, Qing Qian's offensive arrived. With one blow, the entire underground cave collapsed!

"Swoosh!"

In a few breaths, Qing Qian appeared in the Falling Star Mountain Range.

"Qin BuYi, a small Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, actually dared to play with me for more than two months, exchanging a pile of worthless wild beast meat for many of my treasures! You deserve to die!"

Qing Qian's eyes were filled with cold killing intent, and her voice, like the cold winter, echoed in the Falling Star Mountain Range...