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CUCKOO!!
"Ah! Hey! Why are you getting angry? I was just helping you getting over your previous trauma!" Duan Li covered his face from being pecked by the furious Cucko.
The chicken that has been wronged by Duan Li almost got itself sunked to the bottom of the sea as its feathers became wet and heavy. If not for its dedication to paddle its legs faster and its strong animal instinct to remain alive, it might has well drowned by now.
After all, a chicken's feathers were not like that of a duck's, oily and water resistant to remain afloat continuously!
Di Rou suppressed her laughter when she saw the scene between the two.
Zzuuuu!!
Duan Li then proceeded to cut up the remaining Krakens carefully and extracted their monster cores. He then sat down cross-legged to cultivate them.
Ssuupp!!
Just like that, all 5 monster cores were sucked into his dantian almost instantaneously. This scene greatly shocked Di Rou whom was standing guard beside Duan Li, thus she leaned forward to ask towards the latter;
"Master, how did you managed to cultivate those monster cores so fast?"
Chuckling lightly, Duan Li was just about to answer this question in a mysterious way, but when he turned his head around to face the latter, what he found out was not her face, but the curvature of her two great mountain ranges instead due to her tight clothing. This caused his previous well-crafted sentences in his head to disappear like smokes.
"Mountain peaks.." he subconsciously said and then immediately closed his mouth afterwards with his hand.
"Mountain peaks?" Di Rou furrowed her brows as she pondered about this pair of words.
A short while later, she shook her head.
'It seems that my comprehension towards cultivating monster cores is still too low to understand master's deep knowledge and wisdom..' she thought.
Duan Li sighed in relief. Thankfully, she was a little bit dense, otherwise, he might have already gotten a tight slap on one of his cheeks.
"Master, what about these creatures? After extracting out their monster cores, they're only as good as the other normal animals around.. should we just kill them?" Zhulong said, his intention was to pull the Krakens out of their misery.
Duan Li shook his head, "No.. while it was true that their intention was to kill us before, no matter what, we have to be the one with the higher moral grounds and be magnanimous here. Therefore, I've decided to just let them go!" he said with an air of righteousness to him.
Hearing this, Dilong and Zhulong could not help but to be impressed towards this master of their's!
Such a noble heart!
Duan Li then continued, "However, as the old sayings once said, one cannot be an upright person without ever experiencing punishment to correct their wrong-doings! Therefore, to prevent them from attacking people randomly ever again, I've decided to cut off these troublemaker tentacles of their's!"
Psshhh!! Pshhh!!
He then diligently started to dismember the tentacles of the unconscious Krakens one by one using the One Finger Starlight Slash on a higher output in order to increase the efficiency, since there were no fragile stuff to be worried about unlike the skin that covered their monster cores.
"Master.." Dilong and Zhulong's mouth opened wide agaped.
You cutting off all their tentacles would leave them entirely disabled for life, having nothing to fend off the future danger, nor to catch any food, and will therefore inevitably die a painful death..
Thus, how was this a lesson to teach them their wrong-doings?
Hais..
After a long while, Duan Li finally finished dismembering all of the tentacles and whipped them into his spatial ring with a wide, happy smile. After all, the main reason why he chose to procure the tentacles was due to his Tetra Soul Sense identifying abilities, and he found out that their tentacles were highly nutritious!
I know of a delicious dish that can be made from these tentacles, and if I'm not mistaken.. the name of that dish is Takoyaki!
Duan Li nodded as he thought of this.
"Alright, let's be on our way then!"
They then rode atop of Komodo once more as this animal boat began to paddle forward more carefully this time around to prevent getting another leg cramp.
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Tap!
Finally landed on the beach!
"I can't believe I could step onto these sandy beaches once more! It is not longer a dream but a reality!" Komodo spoke out emotionally.
Just how long has it been since he was trapped inside that boss room of the third maze back in the First region?
It almost drove him insane!
"Okay, hold onto your tears! We haven't reached your pack of herds yet" Duan Li laughed out as they proceeded to enter the thick jungle.
Throughout their journey, since Duan Li had already instructed Di Rou, Daelius and Cucko to gather any resources they came across with beforehand, everything that was of value in their path was ravaged mercilessly!
Furthermore, Since Daelius and Cucko has keen instinct to detect natural resources of high quality with ease, every fetch of their's was worth at least a few high quality spirit stones!
This was further proven with Duan Li's Tetra Soul Sense analytical abilities, that all these items were tagged from rare to ultra rare!
It was like this whole island was filled with these rare resources as if it were mere cabbages!
"For the Grand Immortal to create such a place.. he sure is quite the formidable figure.. perhaps second to my dad?" Duan Li thought of this for a while before shaking his head.
Nah, I haven't even yet met my father, but from the way mother described him, it was like he stood above everyone else!
Maybe my father was even more formidable than this Grand Immortal person!
"Hey Komodo, why was it that I haven't yet encountered any animals thus far?" Duan Li turned to Komodo and asked about this as he found it to be weird.
This was a lush jungle, so how can there be not a single animal in sight? It was a little bit eery to be honest.. because this jungle was just too quiet!
The main reason he entered the Second region was to find some treasure troves or relic items and the sorts, while collecting monster cores was also part of that as well.
Thus, where are all those cute little monsters?
The latter shook its head, "I don't know, it was not this desolate before the last time I was here! There were a variety of animals and monsters that should be roaming around, but I can't seem to smell any.. huh?" Komodo suddenly stopped.
It wasn't that he was lost, but his animal instinct was screaming to him on the extreme amounts of danger that has suddenly surrounded them, causing his body to freeze entirely as he could not cope with it!
Duan Li and Di Rou also seemed to sense this and their countenance immediately changed. Even Daelius whom was usually brave started to whimper like a scared wolf, because other than his grown-up body, his age was still just a kid in the Fenrir's standard!
Cucko on the other hand, had already slipped back into Duan Li's shadow and refused to come out.
"Di Rou, if it gets too dangerous, we will have to escape with all our might by mounting onto Daelius!" Duan Li said in a grim tone.
"En!" Di Rou nodded while her eyes kept on scanning the surrounding around them continuously, looking even for the slightest amount of movement.
Just what sort of entity is it that radiated out this huge amount of lethal, and dangerous aura that was enough to suffocate them?!
Duergar, the little sword hanging onto Duan Li's right earlobe at the moment, felt that this aura seemed to be quite familiar.
Suddenly, the little sword recalled.
"Y-Young Master.. r-run! Quickly RUN!"
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Here comes the main antagonist.. but he will appear more in the future and not right now.. our MC is not UIU yet! :(
Enjoy and thanks for reading! ;)