Chapter 17: Precious Technique
A creature such as the Suan Ni, whose monstrosity and fearsomeness would shake even the heavens, even after its death the creature’s whole body could be considered to be a treasure trove of wealth and precious resources. In the face of such a goldmine, who would not be tempted to snatch the precious resource for themselves?
“Hmm such a treasure really makes one’s eyes glow with greed, almost to the point of charging in right away and snatching away both true blood and original precious symbols in one fell swoop”, a group of adolescent youths were eager to get in on the action..
“Even if that Suan Ni is gradually growing older, it’s still not something we are capable of handling. Do not act rashly and wait patiently.” The chief’s face revealed a concentrated expression and solemnly warned.
“Haha, this time the reaped rewards are truly great! The little guy has really outdone himself this time around. It’s thanks to him that we managed to avoid a bloodbath”, a group of people praised.
“Ahhhh…”The little guy put on an embarrassed face and scratched his head in confusion. A loud noise emanated in the distance, drawing the attentions of Zi Yun, Da Peng, Xiao Qing to run to the spot.
Boom!
Atop the clouds a giant bird swooped down and scales flickered with a cold light. The great Green Scaled Eagle had appeared! With a greathongsound, it dropped from its talons a giant fire rhinoceros in the village outskirts. Every so often it would come back and drop a huge prey.
The hatchlings had been born for almost two months now, and their bodies grew rapidly, approaching 2.5 meters in size.Their bodiesgrew sleeker and stronger, and with both wings fully extended, they could almost fly.
“Little Zi and the others, quickly grow up. When you guys grow up, take me with you to see what the depths of the mountain range looks like.” The little guy stroked their necks, and their eyes flashed a glimmer of hopeforwhat theycould become one day. Afterwards he once again started examining the ancestral treasured symbols of the three birds in front of him, in hopes of understanding the unique and mysterious power belonging to their species.
Weng!
A noise shook the air, and soon after a soft yet holy silver moon emerged from the center of his palm and began to spread its clear splendor. Afterwards, the silvery moon began to rise before rotating to the back of his head, making the little guy seem extraordinary.
During the last confrontation with Bei Feng, he only formed a part of the precious symbol into his palm and did not use the complete silver moon. Otherwise, its power would have beeneven more formidable.
The silver moon rotated and revolved around him. Pure white light scattered around him, making the little guy appear unspeakably holy.
“Yiya, I figured out a bit more now. On the moon, there’s a huge bird living within a palace. Could it be that that’s Zi Yun, Da Peng and the other’s ancestor — that Archaic Devil Bird?” Shi Hao muttered to himself.
On that silver moon rests a tree, as well as a palace with mysterious and complex patterns. Currently, the little guy had already made some progress while studying the secret bone texts and was able to understand a bit more about the patterns.
He released the silver moon, and the complete precious moon disk was brandished in bright and shining light. From within the palace rang a bird cry, and that tree began to shake and scatter out its clear splendor.
The silver moon did not look like it was constructed from the symbols, and appeared too real. It was as if the moon in the sky fell down, truly life-like.
Qiang
A metallic sound rang out, as if the bestowed ancestral treasures that had previously been gathering dust were reborn. Akang qiangsound rang out, and the radiance was pure and holy.
The silver moon circled around a five or six meter wide boulder, and with akachasounds, the boulder split open, making a clean and glossy cut. It didn’t disappear, and once again shot out and cut two more boulders before fading away.
“Ya,last time it only managed to split a single boulder. Now it can cut three, how powerful!” The little guy opened his mouth in amazement.
The silver moon flickered with symbols and became much more concentrated compared to before. The palace and the tree were vaguely visible, sharp and lifelike. Its strength increased by a whole level.
“The little guy is so formidable, he can release such a powerful disk. I feel that his strength is sufficient to face those desolate beasts within the mountains.” After seeing this display, some of the children began to become incredibly envious.
“Wu,after seeing how terrifying that Archaic Devil Bird was, if it manages to pass down its imprints intact, it will definitely be a divine skill. However, this is quite a rare event.” The chief spoke.
This type of powerful attack can be considered a Precious Technique. A technique that will usually be kept as a precious secret!
“After such a long time, my clan can finally be considered to have a Precious Technique.” Some of the elder were beginning to feel a bit emotional.
These types of Precious Technique would normally only be in the hands of powerful clans. If not for the little guy raising these Green Scaled Eagles and carefully researching them from a close distance, it would be impossible to obtain it.
“We still don’t know what the situation regarding Suan Ni. If it really is dying from old age and we manage to obtain its remains, then that will signify us obtaining another Precious Technique.”
“The stronger the Archaic Descendant species, the more it would protects its secrets. Especially the imprints of its Ancestral Treasured Symbols, which would likely be destroyed before death.” Shi Yunfeng frowned.
It is precisely because of this reason that Ancestral Treasured Symbols were so rare and precious. It was truly uncommon, as it represented a species’ major inheritance and that there was a chance of obtaining a Precious Technique.
“I really hope that Suan Ni doesn’t destroy its own precious bones, as those are from a genuine Archaic Descendant … The Precious Technique it holds must be astonishingly powerful!” Shi Linhu said.
The Chief shook his head and said, “Don’t be too greedy. For our clan to unexpectedly obtain a Precious Technique is already quite fortunate.”
Four days later, a world-shaking roar rang out, and shook all of the mountains and ravines . All of the wild creatures were trembling with fear as they groveled on the floor, and all of the vicious birds fled to the skies. The mountain boulders rolled about, and thousands of trees swayed back and forth as the entire forest trembled.
That Suan Ni came out from within the depths of the mountains and arrived in the surrounding area. Since it was on the verge of death, it wanted to find a place of rest. Its power and influence were extremely frightening.
“It really is about to die from old age. Most likely, it will be within one or two days!”
Stone Village was bustling. If they managed to obtain that Suan Ni’s corpse, then that would be a tremendous treasure deposit. The quality of its true blood would be astonishing beyond belief, and that would truly be blood medicine.
“Wu, it really is an Archaic Descendant. If the blood vessels are pure enough, then the little guy’s baptism will depend on it.” Even Shi Yunfeng couldn’t remain calm anymore. He paced back and forth rather excitedly. He really wanted to go and take it right now.
“Send some people to carefully scout the area. We need to prepare well and be ready to leave at any time!” Several of the elders couldn’t sit still any longer. They were nervous, excited, worried, and it was hard for them to calm down.
As for Shi Linhu, Shi Feijiao and some other robust men, they were even more anxious and their eyes were turning red.
“I saw that Suan Ni tear apart a bunch of vicious beasts and turned that area of the forest into a forbidden zone. There aren’t even any tracks of beasts or birds left.”
A day later, a villager ran back to the village and reported the terrifying scene that he saw when he stood far away on top of a mountain peak.
Chief Shi Yunfeng suddenly turned his body around and said, “Let’s go, we need to start moving. However, we must carefully prepare this time, as we will most likely not be the only ones. There will be other creatures and villagers fighting over it.”
“Grandpa Chief, I am going too!” The little guy begged.
The villagers did not object, as his current fighting strength was already quite frightening. Although he was extremely young, he was already able to grasp a precious method. At a crucial moment, he could display his divine might.
Jiu Jiu
Da Peng, Xiao Qing, Ah Zi gathered in front and rubbed their heads against his arm. They showed their intimacy and wanted to tag along as well.
“Be good, don’t be so noisy, it’s very dangerous within the mountains. You guys haven’t grown up yet, and cannot go take such risks. Wait for me here at home, when I come back, I’ll bring you guys to catch and eat some fish.
Shi Hao pacified the three little birds and at the same time warned them. He needed to persuade the Green Scaled Eagle to help him again when the time was right. Since the expedition to seek out the precious body of the Suan Ni was quite dangerous, if he had the help of a formidable vicious bird, everything would become a lot smoother.
“Let’s go, to the mountains!”
A group of people entered the mountains with their head held high towards the cemetery of the Suan Ni.
Hong!
The entire earth shook and the mountain quaked, and it seemed as if an earthquake occurred within the depths of the mountain, making the entire mountain tremble. It was truly a terrifying scene.
“Chief, the Suan Ni is at the end of its lifespan and at death’s door. It entered a mountain cave and caused a cave-in. A few villagers ran back to rapidly and loudly report the circumstances.
“Go, we need to move faster!” Shi Yunfeng shouted.
Chapter 18: Rebellion Within the Mountains
A group of people rushed straight towards the heart of the mountain. The Suan Ni’s life force had been completely exhausted as it passed away, meaning that an entire body of true blood and precious bones had become priceless treasures. How could they not be excited?
“Faster, we are moving too slow!” Shi Linghu and the others were anxious. They feared that they would arrive late, since ‘the early bird catches the worm’.
Lofty mountain peaks surrounded them one after the other. The mountains were endless, and the ancient forest was extremely astonishing. The tree tops towered into the towers as they reach over 1000 meters tall. They overshadowed some of the mountains, and were ‘hiding the sky and covering the earth’. Even vine grew for who knows how long, and even several adults could not wrap themselves around them. They grew alongside the mountains like a vigorous and young horned dragon.
The people of Stone Village madly rushed to get there, and when they arrived near the place where the Suan Ni perished, they felt a baleful aura. The aura was overbearing, and it was what the King of Ten Thousand Beasts left behind.
“So quiet!” Everyone felt that something was abnormal. This place was too tranquil, and not a sound could be heard, making it feel as if they were in a graveyard.
There wasn’t even a single bird present let alone ordinary beasts. Even the bugs and ants hid themselves within the caves in seclusion. The mountain forest was desolate, silent, and had a death-like tranquility.
“Before the Suan Ni died, it killed many vicious beats and started going crazy. The birds and animals here have all fled.” Shi Linghu said.
“Something’s wrong!” Chief Shi Yunfeng suddenly said in fright and immediately said in an urgent voice, “Linghu, don’t be in such a rush. The carcass of a Suan Ni is rare and precious, and I don’t think we’re the only ones here. A few vicious beasts here are spying on us, so let’s retreat for now and not act recklessly.
He felt waves of dangerous aura, as if some powerful and desolate huge beast was approaching from afar. Its eyes were ice cold, and the old chief felt a chill on his spine, and immediately ordered the villagers to retreat.
The little guy also felt this. His hairs stood up and he clenched his fists. Shi Hao also told everyone that he felt this sensation.
Everyone rapidly scattered away, and did not approach that crumbled rock mountain.
“We’re just giving up like this… this is really is difficult to bear!” Shi Feijiao smacked his own chest as he felt an incomparable urge to choke.
“Let’s not rush in first, we must wait for an opportunity. A person’s life is the most precious thing. Despite a Suan Ni’s blood being incredibly frightening and possessing precious techniques that defies the heavens, we must still keep our lives to use them.” Shi Yunfeng solemnly said.
They sped up faster and faster, and climbed up onto a vantage point on a tall mountain. They surveyed the surrounding from afar, and paid close attention to the circumstances from there.
There were a few traces of people. Sounds came out from that mountain nearby, and three groups of people came from different directions. Although they came from different directions, their goals were the same. They all rushed towards that crumbled rock mountain, wanting to excavate that Suan Ni’s carcass.
“As expected, it wasn’t just us who lusted over the ancestral descendent Suan Ni’s remains. Everyone who lives in this desolate area all paid attention to this.”
The three groups of people came into contact, and without any provocations, they immediately conflicted, causing sounds of murder to disperse from within the middle of the mountains.
“AWOOOOO….”
Suddenly, five ferocious beasts appeared one after the other, and all of them were as big as houses. They all exposed their white carnivorous teeth, and suddenly pounced onto those groups of people who had the intention of fighting over the Suan Ni’s carcass.
At the same time, long cries could be heard from the birds in the sky. Violent gales erupted, and many vicious birds flew over. Each of them measured five to six meters long, and with a wingspan of over eleven or twelve meters, they dove down. Right away, over six or seven people were ripped apart as blood spilt everywhere.
This bloody scene was horrifying, and not to mention the people who were personally experiencing this, even the people of Stone Village who were observing from afar were all scared. Soon after, the vicious birds and the ferocious beasts all retreated; this was an absolute disaster.
“AWOOOO!”
Sure enough, beast cries could be heard occasionally from all over the mountains. The vicious birds and ferocious beasts who were scared away by the Suan Ni all came back. Their goals were to obtain the carcass of the Suan Ni and making themselves more powerful.
Not only did this happen in this part of the mountain, even other mountains from afar had movements from tyrannical living creatures. Cries of birds and beasts were occurring all over the place, and the entire mountain range was heating up.
All of the beasts began to revolt. The larger ones measured ten meters, and the small ones measured a few feet. In just a blink of an eye, over a few hundred of them appeared. These were all formidable species, otherwise, they would not dare to rush over. They resembled a flood as they swarmed over, violently howling along the way.
The same situation was happening in the skies as well. All kinds of bird species fluttered about with their steel beaks and sharp claws, ‘hiding the skies and covering the earth’. It was like they were a gust of wind rushing towards this piece of the mountain as scales and feathers fluttered in the breeze.
“Run!”
Those three villages lost over forty people, and they all jumped into the middle of a river. They used the water as a mean of escape, otherwise, no one would be left alive.
On the peak of the mountain, everyone from Stone Village who were observing all had a blank expression. They had previously thought there would be vicious beasts fighting over the remains of the Suan Ni King, but they never thought that there would be this many.
Ahhh!
Those who thought they were safe after jumping in the water let out a blood curdling scream. There were several snakes over ten meters long rolling about. They opened their bloody mouth and instantly swallowed four to five people.
Kacha!
On the other side, a gold colored crocodile over ten meters long showed its presence. It opened its vacuum like mouth and instantly tore five or six people apart. Blood flowed through the cracks of its white teeth, dyeing the river red.
This sight made everyone’s bones shiver. The survivors quickened their pace and didn’t dare slow down again.
“So terrifying, luckily we decided to temporarily retreat. Otherwise, we’d likely end up in the situation as them.” Ling Shihu still lingered in fear after finding out his back had been doused in his own cold sweat.
“Looks like this Suan Ni’s body is much more precious than we thought, or else why would groups of birds and beasts fight over it with their lives?” Shi Feijiao said.
Over by the crumbled rock mountain, there were several hundred vicious beasts and birds of prey. They all fanatically battered ahead, wanting to dig one huge boulder after another to dig out the Suan Ni’s precious remains. They were also fighting each other at the same time; the smell of blood entered their nostrils and all kinds of roars and cries were deafening.
“There aretoo many fierce beasts, we’re not safe here. We can’t say for sure, but we might get involved.” An elder exclaimed.
AWWOOOO….
After his words just finished, a violent gale erupted on the mountain. Two huge beasts suddenly appeared together. They were seventy or eighty meters long each and were covered in brown fur. The long and fearsome beasts appeared side by side.
It was actually terrifying tigers, and two of them showed up at once!
The tigers’ upbringing were strange. They were disdained by their mothers and never drank any milk. They were discarded since their mortality rates were extremelyhigh. If they weren’t starved to death, they would just be fed to other mountainous beasts. If by chance, one survives to grow up, its power would shake the entire mountain, eating all kinds of fierce beasts.
Now, there were two tigers that appeared. This was truly shocking. They were much more difficult to deal with than normal fierce beasts.
“HUU”, a violent wind blew by. One of the huge tigers took action and dove down. It opened its bloodied mouth, and all of a sudden bit two villagers.Kacha, one of them had their body snapped in half. Blood spewing out violently, and it was truly a tragedy to behold.
“Shi Lin!”
“Ah Yun!”
The villagers all voiced out their sorrowful anger. Like rain, iron arrows were shot out.
This was all too sudden. These savage tigers could fly and they measure seventy to eighty meters long. These kinds of huge monsters’ sudden appearance wasn’t something they could protect against. Naturally, they brought with them a bloody massacre.
“Bastards!”
Shi Linhu and Shi Feijiao roared loudly. The others brandished their broadswords and rushed forward. They brought with them a few strong, able-bodied males and charged in the direction of that huge tiger.
Despite the fact that these species of animals did not have ancestral treasured symbols on their bones, their corporeal bodies were extremely strong and fearsome. Their killing power was unbelievable. On their normal hunts, the villagers made sure that they avoid these creatures at all cost.
AWWWWOOOO…
The other tiger fearsomely roared and pounced from a different angle. With a wave of its claws, cold light flickered and the sound of ringing could be heard. Sparks flew in every direction, and broadswords as well as huge clubs flew out of the villagers’’ hands.
Pu
Among them, two people dodged a bit too slow, and their stomachs were tore apart. Blood spilled on the ground, and they suffered an unimaginably heavy injury. They were dragged towards the back by the other villagers.
“You overgrown cat, give my uncle Yun and the others’ lives back!” Shi Hao grew anxious and charged in with symbols on both arms lit up like a shining constellation. In the middle of his palm, specks of light formed and a disked silver moon appeared.
This disked moon appeared very real, as if a godly moon fell from the ninth level of heaven. Holy light radiated everywhere and rapidly rushed towards a huge tiger.
DANG!
The huge tiger waved its huge fan-like claw, and cold light spewed everywhere as it clashed against the silver moon. The sound of metal could be heard, shaking the entire mountain.
One must know that this silver moon could split huge boulders. Its strength was limitless, but just now, this huge tiger used its claws to shake it off.
In this brief deadlock, with apusound, this tiger let out a world shaking roar. One of its claws finally broke off, and blood poured out, painting the ground red.
At the same time, that silver moon’s strength did not decrease. With anotherpusound, the moon chopped towards the tiger’s head. All of a sudden, it cleaved a huge crack, and a terrifying wound continuously bled out.
The beast’s roar shook the sky and trembled the forest. This huge tiger shook violently, and with a look of disbelief, the light within its eyes gradually faded. With a rumble, it dropped into the middle of a pool of its own blood.
This was in fact a precious technique of the Green Scaled Eagle, and its power was astonishing. With Shi Hao’s one strike, it beheaded a terrifying huge tiger.
“Good shit! Little guy, do it again!” Shi Feijiao shouted.
Shi Hao turned around and charged towards the other tiger. With the light on his palms lit again, the terrifying power of the precious technique showed its horrifying might again. The silver moon streaked across the sky, and that seventy or eighty meter long huge tiger’s neck started to bleed profusely. The silver light turned around, and chopped straight towards its head, and with agudong, it dropped onto the floor.
That huge beast’s blood spouted out like a river, splashing all over the villagers’ bodies.
“Such a terrifying precious technique!”
This type of attack method was held in reverence by many of them.
After the little guy killed the two huge tigers, he was caught in a daydream. This was still his first time in the forest killing a beast. He looked down on his white and tender little hands and spend a long time speechless.
“It’s nothing, don’t fear the smell of blood child. Which male growing up in these desolate mountains didn’t come in contact with blood? Everyone’s like this.” Shi Linhu walked past and patted his shoulders
Shi Hao lifted his head with some effort. Even though his heart wasn’t at peace, right now, he tightly shut his mouth and didn’t speak too much. If he didn’t just kill those huge tigers, many more villagers would have suffered death.
“Precious techniques are truly difficult to comprehend, enabling one the power tokill huge beasts and save people. If we can obtain the Suan Ni’s ancestral symbols, it would truly be a great fortune.” After a long while,the little guyfinally muttered to himself.
A loud bird cry sounded from the middle of the clouds, and a Green Scaled Eagle appeared before rapidly descending, bringing with it a fierce gust of wind.
The little guy jumped up before waving his hands and yelling loudly, “Auntie Green Scaled Eagle, help me! You’re the overlord of the outer mountain region, and I can also help you a bit. Let’s fight over the Suan Ni’s precious techniques together!”
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