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Chapter 1657: Chapter 875: Contract

Li Shiming stepped into the Divine Beast Garden. As he crossed the threshold, the world transformed, and it seemed as though he had entered another realm.

The sky stretched endlessly above, and the area where he stood was a platform suspended in the air, with only a single wooden door on it.

Standing on the platform, he could overlook the world below, where there were rolling hills, rushing rivers, a vast lake in the distance, and even further, a forest.

He did not leave the platform immediately. In the air, a Golden-winged Roc seemed particularly familiar. If he wasn’t mistaken, it was the very Golden-winged Roc seen outside.

However, considering the existence of the Divine Beast Garden, theoretically, the Golden-winged Roc shouldn’t be able to leave. He wondered how it managed to do so.

The Golden-winged Roc was the ruler of this area. In the distance, a Phoenix was soaring through the sky, and Li Shiming could faintly hear the sound of a dragon’s roar.

Li Shiming felt a chill in his heart. Although the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and Luanyang Palace’s Grotto Heavens cultivated Red Gold Phoenixes, those Grotto Heavens were designed by powerful predecessors specifically for that purpose.

But here, it seemed like many divine-level spirit beasts were visible at a glance.

Now he faced a dilemma: how could he contract one of the divine beasts here?

He suspected that it might require defeating the divine beast or possibly some special method, but his understanding of the Divine Palace was too limited, leaving him at a loss.

He glanced at the Golden-winged Roc. Honestly, if he were to contract a Divine Beast, the Golden-winged Roc seemed the most suitable.

The Golden-winged Roc had the Five Elements Attribute, which perfectly aligned with his cultivation of the ’Heavenly Human Technique.’

He decided to attempt to subdue the Golden-winged Roc to see if he could contract it.

However, before that, he needed to know how much of his abilities he could use in the Divine Beast Garden.

Firstly, he was certain he could fly; otherwise, there would be no way to truly enter the Divine Beast Garden from this platform.

Li Shiming was still somewhat uneasy, so he released the body of Great Cultivator Luo Pei, directed by the Heavenly Ghost, to fly off the platform.

As soon as Great Cultivator Luo Pei left the platform, the Golden-winged Roc flying in the sky immediately approached him.

”You can fly, come back!” Li Shiming had no intention of sending Great Cultivator Luo Pei to his death. Once confirmed that flight was possible, he had Luo Pei return to the platform.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei flew back to the platform, and the Golden-winged Roc reluctantly let him go.

It seemed this small platform was a safe zone where divine beasts wouldn’t attack.

He casually retrieved Great Cultivator Luo Pei and took out the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ and ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak.’ He did not underestimate the Golden-winged Roc.

His figure turned into a bolt of lightning, shooting toward the Golden-winged Roc.

Seeing Li Shiming leave the platform and approach, the intelligent Golden-winged Roc did not immediately attack, planning to strike once Li Shiming was further from the platform.

Earlier cultivators had been too close to the platform. Just as it was about to attack, the timid cultivators had fled back to the platform.

As Li Shiming flew a distance from the platform and was about to enter the range to attack the Golden-winged Roc, he suddenly felt a sense of impending danger.

Without the slightest hesitation, he activated the ’A Step Away to the End of the World,’ a technique he had long prepared, instantly disappearing from his original spot and reappearing a hundred meters away.

At the spot he vanished from, the Golden-winged Roc appeared, sweeping its wings through the Five Elements Energy left behind by his vanishing silhouette.

Li Shiming’s heart raced. He hadn’t expected the Golden-winged Roc to master the art of Space Movement.

If he had been even a moment slower, he might have been hit by the Golden-winged Roc’s sudden attack.

Even a hundred meters away, he could sense the terrifying destructive power of that Five Elements Energy.

Unlike Li Shiming’s use of ’Chaotic Spiritual Power,’ though his research into the Five Elements Energy was extremely deep and he had altered his cultivation to the ’Heavenly Human Technique,’ the essence was still based on the Five Elements Attribute.

But his ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ differed entirely from the Golden-winged Roc’s Five Elements Energy in usage.

His ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ combined Five Elements Spiritual Power with five Five Elements Rules, while the Golden-winged Roc used a method of coordinating five types of Five Elements Spiritual Power.

It was impossible to say which method was superior. Li Shiming’s research and development of ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ was still in its early stages, and he couldn’t represent its true power.

The Golden-winged Roc, however, had a highly mature combat style with its use of Five Elements Spiritual Power, carrying not just power but also some terrifying might within the Five Elements Energy.

He couldn’t currently determine what this terrifying might was, but he didn’t want to experience it firsthand.

The abilities of such divine beasts were not simple at all.

Like the Red Gold Phoenix’s Nirvana Fire, coming into contact with it didn’t just burn the body but also the soul.

Therefore, when fighting divine beasts, it’s best to avoid being hit by their attacks, as they often carry incredibly powerful special effects.

The Golden-winged Roc, missing its attack, was quite surprised. It was the most unique existence within the Divine Beast Garden.

Because during its growth, it mastered spatial abilities not belonging to its kind, making it beyond the control of the Divine Beast Garden and the strongest divine beast there.

It used its own power to occupy the area closest to the garden’s entrance.