บท 34: Eating the Egg
บรรณาธิการ: EndlessFantasy Translation
Those few shadows were quick. As soon as Wutian and others disappeared, the shadows came to the cliff in the valley of the demonic wolves. They were all in awe when they saw the scene ahead of them.
"What happened here? How strong one's combat strength needs to be to cause such devastation? Could the resurrection of the Primordial Scorpion be true?" Elder Wu was shocked.
Huoshi looked around, the look in his eyes was telling. "I think we have come too late. We just missed something exciting."
"I am afraid it was not only exciting but also horrifying. I couldn't imagine what fought with the Primordial Scorpion." Liuyan frowned.
"It doesn't matter what it is. It has nothing to do with us. Our priority is to complete the mission Father has assigned us." Huoshi looked at the burly man. "Carry out the plan. Liuyan and I will head back to the Zhao family while you inform everyone to kill anyone who enters Mount Scorpius."
"Got it." Elder Wu looked hesitant a bit, but he still nodded in acknowledgment. He then leaped away and disappeared into the woods.
"Do you really need to kill everyone, Huoshi? If news of us, the Fire Cloud Clan, cultivating Spirit-devouring Manual leaks out, those mainstream sects would come after us," said Liuyan.
"Those so-called mainstream sects only looked good on the outside. They are all hypocrites. So what if they find out? With the strength of the Fire Cloud Clan, we could wipe out any sect in the Redsun Mountains, including the Yan Clan."
"Let's move. It is time." Huoshi looked long and hard at the lava lake down below, only then he spun around and left.
Liuyan was in a pickle. Huoshi was becoming more and more sinister, his way of doing things even more brutal. She did not know if it was right, but she would still quietly throw her support behind him. That was because he was the person whom she most loved.
She sighed and followed behind him swiftly, like a white butterfly.
As the sky started to turn bright, the chill air gradually dissipated.
At the other end of the valley was an endless wetland. The place was overgrown with bushes and roaming with poisonous insects. A blanket of fog covered the area. Visibility was only about a thousand feet.
Wetlands were typically the most dangerous places around the mountains. There were many poisonous beasts living in the wetland. Staying safe was difficult in such a place, especially when there was heavy fog. Countless people and beasts were killed in the wetlands of the Samsara Continent every day.
Under normal circumstances, people would go around the wetlands. But now, three people were knowingly coming into the wetland.
"There is no solid ground to step on. How are we going to cross?" The one speaking was a young man dressed in purple clothes. He looked into the distance at a mound and groused.
The mound was a hundred feet across, overgrown with vegetation and rugged rocks, which meant it was a place they could stay. Surrounding the mound was the vast wetland, in which the mud was blackish and bubbling with a disgusting odor.
"The place is so disgusting, Wutian. I couldn't concentrate to refine the divine liquid. Besides, it was a wetland all around. Who knows what vicious beasts are hiding here? With our current physical condition, I am afraid that a Beta stage demonic beast could even kill us. I think we better find another place!"
These three people were none other than Wutian, Han Tian, and Little Tian. They stood on the edge of the wetland, scanning the surroundings. The dustpan-sized egg was still shimmering. The leaking essence was driving the miasma.
"Here it is. We are not going to switch places," said Wutian. The miasma-covered place was the most ideal hiding place. No one would come to this place.
When they left the valley, he saw a few shadows coming in that direction. It meant the noise had alerted the outside world. Those people could be only the first wave. There could be more to come.
The giant egg was unique and not some mortal item. If found, people could get green-eyed and another round of endless fighting and killing would happen. So they had better find a hidden spot, finishing the refinement first, then only they would go out.
This place was undoubtedly the best choice as the mound was in the center of the wetland, covered in a blanket of fog. It was difficult to be spotted.
"Caw, caw!" Little Tian nodded in agreement. It looked at the egg and was drooling big time. It could not wait to eat it right on the spot.
"But how are we going to cross over? Are you expecting me to swim in the wetland? I don't think I can do that," said Han Tian.
Little Tian stepped forward and patted its chests, basically meaning it had got an idea.
It went not far away and held up a giant rock that looked weighing twenty or thirty pounds, then threw it out with all its might. The rock crashed into the wetland, splashing up a ton of mud and the accompanying foul odor.
Roar!
A roar immediately came as a black vicious beast lunged out of the mud. It was as big as a small hill, its bucket-sized eyes glinting menacingly.
Its upper body was round, much like a giant meatball, and slippery. Its lower body had dozens of tentacles, some thick, some slender, some long, and some short, looking as if squirming vines, or giant snakes.
This was a Mud Beast, living in the wetland. Its body was as black as ink, extremely smelly and disgusting. It was capable of spurting blackish, corrosive fluid.
The Mud Beast was furious. It frenziedly waves its tentacles, splashing up mud tens of feet high in the air.
Prey was getting lesser by the day. While it got its knickers in a twist and even thought of looking for a better place, a giant rock fell from the sky and hit it on the head.
Roar!
When it saw two humans standing on the edge of the wetland, it could not help but get excited. Food! There is food! He no longer needs to move his house now.
A few tentacles shot out. It was using the thickest tentacles it had, wanting to make sure it would catch its prey. Apparently, it was starving.
Little Tian cawed. It did not dodge, but grabbed one of the tentacles and swung it. The Mud Beast wailed before being flung into the wetland, splashing up more mud.
Little Tian grinned as it again grabbed the Mud Beast by its tentacle and swung it. The Mud Beast cried as it was tossed into the sky before plunging back down.
Little Tian might have been injured, but after swallowing the divine fluid leaking out from the egg, it had somewhat recovered. Dealing with a beast like the Mud Beast was just a walk in the park for it.
Boom! The hill-sized Mud Beast was at least tens of thousands of pounds heavy. Yet Little Tian swung so effortlessly as if it was playing a ball.
The Mud Beast wept and begged for mercy. It could not have felt worse than this. It thought the food was coming to its doorstep. But little did it expect this food was a little primordial beast—in fact, it was more horrible than that. The Mud Beast was absolutely helpless.
Little Tian stopped and cawed. The Mud Beast nodded frantically, like a kitten.
It dared not to resist because the little vicious beast was snarling at it. It might stink, but its body had got quite a lot of meat. It had no choice but to obey lest getting eaten alive.
It swam to the shore and looked at the two humans, tears flowing down its cheeks like a timid little wife who had just been bullied. Seeing this, the two had goosebumps all over their skins.
Wutian took out the remains of the Fire Scorpion and waved it in front of the Mud Beast. "As long as you listen and fetch us over there, this will be yours."
This was a wetland, and they could not find any place to put their feet on. If the Mud Beast did not keep its word, they would be basically finished. So Wutian thought it could not be too careful.
Roar, roar!
The Mud Beast kept nodding, eyes lighting up. The meat of a primordial species was too irresistible to the demonic beast. If it could eat enough of this meat, it might be able to break the fetter and get back its ancestral bloodline.
Han Tian raised his thumb. At first, he was still worried that the Mud Beast might change its mind. But Wutian had thought of this. He could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
The three carried the giant egg and walked onto the Mud Beast's head. It was soft. The only downside was that it stank. They could still smell the disgusting odor even though they had pinched their nostrils shut.
The giant egg was too heavy, apparently, as the Mud Beast staggered and nearly sank into the mud. The three of them broke out in a cold sweat, wary of getting dirtied by the mud.
The Mud Beast was surprised when it sensed unusual energy running through his skin into its body. It had never felt so good. His old wounds healed miraculously.
Its eyes were darting around as if it was planning something in its head. But at last, it decided to give up and swam toward the mound.
They inevitably encountered some vicious beast halfway. Those beasts were ugly and disgusting as hell. But Little Tian had got them handled.
The Mud Beast could not have been happier. Every vicious beast had its own territory. They would never encroach into other's territory. Now those beasts were dead, and it was the only one left here. It did not have to worry about food any longer.
About an hour later, they finally arrived at the mound. Wutian gave a claw of the Fire Scorpion to the Mud Beast and sent it away.
At first, the Mud Beast was indignant because Wutian had promised the entire corpse. Now it only got a leg. But Wutian promised it that if it could fetch them out from here next time, he would give the entire corpse to it. Only then the Mud Beast nodded excitedly and disappeared into the mud with the claw.
"Another stele?"
The three carried the egg to the highest point on the mound and stumbled upon a stele. Like the Stele of Souls' Incarceration, it was similar in size and shape, and also had an engraving that read: Stele of Corporeal Incarceration.
This mound looked more like an island. It was about a thousand square feet in size with strange rocks, lush green, and flying insects and poisonous beasts from as large as a fist to as small as a grain of rice. But not a single poisonous bug came within a hundred feet of the stele. Not even a stalk of grass. The ground was barren and lifeless.
"Could it be that this stele is the same as that Stele of Soul's Incarceration, incarcerating a Primordial Scorpion?"
After learning it the hard way, the two did not touch the stele but just looked at it and frowned.
"The Stele of Soul's Incarceration suppresses the three spirits of the Primordial Scorpion. This Stele of Corporeal Incarceration should function to incarcerate the seven corporeality of the scorpion. There might be a few more steles scattered around Mount Scorpius, combining to incarcerate the Primordial Scorpion."
"Who knows Mount Scorpius is really a fossil of the Primordial Scorpion? If that is true, then it is too incredible. This thing isn't something we can handle right now. Forget about it. Let us refine the divine liquid." Han Tian shook his head and pounced at the egg.
"Little Thing, don't take everything for yourself. Leave some for me!"
Little Tian had started. It broke off a few pieces of shell, revealing the brilliant divine liquid. The other living things on the island saw this and came closer to take a curious look.
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