The land walks.

When the body of Ba-Shei turned into energy and vanished, Yao Jun kept a close eye on the energy. This was the first time he was going to absorb a Demonic beast while still inside the gate, so he was rather interested in seeing how it would work.

The body of Ba-Shei turned into a stream of black energy that whizzed past Yao Jun, quickly flying towards the ancient tree at the center of the gate. Seeing the energy head towards he tree, Yao Jun's mind moved. His body vanished and arrived next to Guo Luo.

"It's over."

Yao Jun put his arm around her waist and teleported the both of them away from the tree. He did not know if anything would happen to the tree when the energy from Ba-Shei entered it, but he was not willing to risk anything happening to Guo Luo.

The two of them appeared not far away from the tree, and Yao Jun continued to keep an eye on the black energy. The black energy swiftly entered the tree, and Yao Jun could feel the entire gate slightly tremble. The tree started slowly growing, reaching almost 100 meters in height before it stopped growing.

When the tree stopped growing, Yao Jun also felt his own cultivation grow, quickly reaching the late stage of the 1st Mortal Earth. After his cultivation stopped rising, there was another reaction from the tree. A black stream of energy left the tree and flew over to Yao Jun, settling on his chest.

The black energy covered his entire chest before it suddenly solidified. The black energy turned into a pitch black chest plate that connected with the gray armor that covered Yao Jun's back, forming a gray and black body armor.

The gray plate had a pair of unfurled wings engraved on it, covering Yao Jun's entire back. The black plate had the head of a demonic serpent on it, it's maw opened wide, split into three pieces, covering Yao Jun's entire chest.

After the armor appeared, Yao Jun checked his entire body looking to see if there was anything else that would change. After a short moment of examining, he noticed another change taking place. The color of his hair started to slowly change again. Where it used to be black with a few streaks of purple, the purple streaks were now quickly growing, covering and mixing together with the black.

After only a short moment, his entire hair had turned a bewitching dark purple, looking like a mixture of the colors of Little Thunder and Ba-Shei. Yao Jun kept inspecting his body for a little while, when nothing else changed, he finally sighed in relief. The increase in power was nice, but he could not help but hope that he wasn't going to change slightly every time. What if he one day changed so much that not even his parents could recognize him?

"Your hair?"

Guo Luo stepped forward after Yao Jun sighed in relief, reached out with her hand and gently held onto his now purple hair as she looked at it. Yao Jun had told her that his body had changed slightly after he reached the 1st Mortal Earth, much like how her own body changed when she reached the 1st Mortal Earth. But this was the first time she was seeing it for herself.

"It seems like the color of Ba-Shei mixed with Little Thunder's color, giving me this. It might change next time I absorb a new Demonic beast. Or it might not."

Yao Jun did not guarantee that his hair color would change next time. After all, when he absorbed Sirius, there was no change that happened to his body. This showed that it was not guaranteed that his body would change after absorbing a Demonic beast. What it took to cause a change however, Yao Jun did not know.

"I hope it stays like this. We'll match if it stays like this."

Yao Jun's lips couldn't help but curl into a faint smile when he heard Guo Luo's muttering. Indeed, she had a more colorful and bright hair color, but it was a good match with his dark purple.

"Let's go, we no longer have a need to stay in this Zhenya valley."

Since they had managed to get their hands on the serpent type Demonic beast that lived within Zhenya valley, there was no longer a need to stay here. What Yao Jun wanted to do now was to find a safe and quiet place where he could start training in the technique left to him by the Sword Empyrean, Crumbling The Nine Heavens.

After that, he would return to Wan Yi to find more news about other Demonic beasts. Of course, this meant that he would have to do something for Wan Yi. As long as this did not go against his bottom line, he would not mind helping her. Yao Jun wrapped his arm around Guo Luo's waist and with a move of his mind, the both of them vanished from within the gate, appearing in Zhenya valley again.

When they appeared in Zhenya valley once more, the first thing they noticed was that the entire valley was shaking. Not just the valley was shaking, even the two mountains that stood at both sides of the valley were shaking, large cracks appearing on the mountains.

"What is going on?!"

Guo Luo couldn't help but grab onto Yao Jun as she looked at the mountains shake. It was a bit more peaceful within the valley, but the shaking was still bad enough to make it hard to stand.

"I don't know, but we can't stay here."

Yao Jun immediately made up his mind and a gray light flew out from his chest, turning into Little Gray. Yao Jun brought Guo Luo onto Little Gray and gave the order to ascend. Now was not the time to worry about being attacked by other Demonic beasts, the mountains would not shake like this for anything normal.

Little Gray flapped it's wings, shooting upwards at full speed. They quickly soared far above the valley, allowing them to get a clear view of the surroundings, and what he saw shocked Yao Jun. Guo Luo might not be able to see clearly, but Yao Jun was different, if he circulated Qi into his eyes, he could see everything within 25 kilometers clearly. He could even see further if he circulated more Qi into his eyes.

From their vantage point, Yao Jun could see that it was not just the mountains that were shaking, everything around the mountains were shaking as well. Even Mountains Gate City was shaking, the buildings crumbling under the tremors. The city was not just shaking, it was even under attack.

Yao Jun could see a horde of what seemed to be moving rocks attacking the city, slaughtering its inhabitants. These Demonic beasts had six long legs, each one covered in rocks, that held up a single, large and spiky rock. At the end of the rock seemed to be a circular maw filled with sharp rocks, but that seemed to be it, they didn't even have eyes.

Even the smallest of these Demonic beasts was the size of an adult man. And from what Yao Jun could see, the weakest amongst this horde was a Demonic beast at the middle stage of the 2nd Mortal Earth. A horde like this was not something they could even think about facing.

With a slight turn of his head, Yao Jun scoured the area between Zhenya valley and Mountains Gate City, quickly affirming his theory. There used to be a large number of spiky rocks littering the ground between Zhenya valley and Mountains Gate city, but the entire stretch of land was now devoid of rocks.

This meant that the rock like Demonic beasts that were currently attacking Mountains Gate City were most likely the rocks that had been laying on that stretch of land. Why they waited so long before revealing themselves, Yao Jun did not know.

Yao Jun was just about to give the order to fly away when he noticed that the land beneath them was rising. In fact, the land for several hundred kilometers around them was rising, slowly moving upwards. Seeing this, a terrifying sense of dread suddenly filled Yao Jun's entire body and he gave Little Gray the order to ascend even further.

Little Gray was connected to Yao Jun, so he could feel his fear. He did not dare hesitate, immediately shooting even further into the sky, until they were almost touching the clouds. The air so far up was icy cold, causing Yao Jun to feel like his skin was being pricked by needles.

He quickly brought Guo Luo into his Demon God's Gate, giving her shelter from the cold, before he surveyed the land below him with a grim gaze. He channeled every trace of Qi within his body into his eyes to survey the land around them.

He could see that the land for several hundred kilometers had risen up, but this was not the part that scared him. The part that scared him was the six massive legs as well as the one humongous head that was now sticking out from the sides of the now risen land.