Published: September 2, 2025
Chapter 590: Stormwind Mountain
Stormwind Mountain is a towering giant mountain located at the northeastern corner of the land of darkness and shadows. From a distance, only half of its midsection is visible, while the rest plunges straight into the clouds, making the upper half completely obscured from sight.
The mountain is made entirely of bare black stone, without a single blade of grass or tree able to survive on it. Starting from over a thousand zhang in height, fierce dark winds begin to howl across the mountain.
Ordinary mortals don’t even dare attempt to climb it. Just stepping inside could turn them into a black ice sculpture.
Such a harsh environment causes the area around the mountain to be even more somber and terrifying than usual. Lightning arcs flash and explode in the sky continuously, while cold winds scream across the ground, whipping up flying sand and rocks, as if one had stepped into a ghostly realm.
Despite the heavy aura of darkness and shadows, this place is the favored haunt of the powerful yin beasts. Several extremely ferocious yin beasts have always lurked nearby.
But on this day, an uninvited guest arrived at Stormwind Mountain.
The corpse of a giant beast, standing thirty to forty zhang tall, crashed heavily to the ground amid a flash of silver light. The body quickly shriveled and shrank, lifeless in an instant. At that moment, the silver light wrapped around a mass of black energy and suddenly took off, vanishing into the distance.
A mighty roar echoed from afar, shaking heaven and earth with a resonant hum.
Then the sound of a heavy impact was heard. A silver giant ape, ten zhang tall, appeared beside the yin beast’s corpse after a few leaps. This giant ape was fierce and terrifying, radiating an indescribable overwhelming aura in every movement. On its shoulders sat a man and a woman — Han Li and Mei Ning.
Han Li scanned the yin beast’s corpse below with a glance. With a single palm strike, he lightly floated down.
Then, with a flash of cold light, the yin beast’s skull beneath his feet was cleaved open, revealing an empty hollow inside.
Han Li showed a hint of disappointment but quickly resumed his usual expression.
At present, the number of Dark Shadow Beast Crystals he had accumulated amounted to over a hundred. Although he knew there were still many crystals among the lower-level yin beast groups, he had no time to kill them all one by one. He had to climb Stormwind Mountain before the next rift opened.
At this moment, Mei Ning leapt down from the giant ape’s shoulder.
Instantly, the giant ape shimmered with silver light and shrank to the size of about a foot, revealing itself as the wailing soul beast, though its fur remained silver-white.
Han Li turned and saw the wailing soul beast transform, unable to suppress a smile.
Some time ago, he had taken this wailing soul beast to hunt powerful yin beasts. After absorbing a huge amount of yin beast vital essences, the beast suddenly gained the ability to transform into a giant ape form, and soon its fur changed to this eye-catching silver color.
This came as a surprise to Han Li.
According to the Jade Slip Yuan Yao had given him for crafting the wailing soul beast, the true wailing soul beast should not have this transformation ability. Moreover, after advancing, its fur should turn jet black.
However, this beast had originally been a half-finished product, not fully refined. Also, the yin beast vital essences in the land of darkness and shadows seemed quite different from the normal vital essences of other living creatures. The combination of these two factors resulted in this unique evolution.
It wasn’t what one would call a “mutated spiritual beast,” but it was definitely a previously unseen special evolution.
Although Han Li didn’t know if this path of evolution might make it stronger than a true wailing soul beast, he was very glad to see this change continue.
After all, the true ritual to refine the wailing soul beast was far too bloody. Han Li was not a good man and could hardly complete the subsequent ritual process as described.