章節 32: Rise of the Scorpion
編輯: EndlessFantasy Translation
The vision inside the Stele of Spiritual Incarceration was horrible. Wutian and Han Tian were worried. If this threat was not rid of immediately, it would be a time bomb waiting to explode.
Little Tian rolled its eyes. It needed no reminder. The egg looked absolutely yummy to him.
It scurried back into the valley, then a loud rumble came and the ground shook. Little Tian was staggering back out with a giant rock in its hands. The rock was as large as a hill, probably weighing forty or fifty kilotons.
"Little monster!"
Han Tian's face twitched as he saw what happened. Little Tian looked as if some primordial vicious beast. It carried such a weight without even breaking a sweat.
Not forgetting that they almost died touching the Stele of Incarceration. Yet Little Tian was not affected even a bit. He was suspecting if this thing was a Gobbler.
Little Tian carried the giant rock on his head, and there was almost no gap between the rock and the ground as if the rock was moving on its own. Little Tian's body was glowing in black light, mist rising as it panted big time, looking very hilarious and vicious at the same time.
"Caw!"
It shouted at the top of its lungs, his black face reddening as it threw the giant rock at the egg. A loud clunk came from the impact as if the rock had hit something of steel.
The white egg was tough. The forty- to fifty-kiloton giant rock, when combining with the throwing force of Little Tian, was producing no less than a hundred kilotons of force. But the egg just shook a bit. But the rock shattered and crashed into the cliff on the far side. Dust filled the space with rumble still reverberating in the air. Half of the place was destroyed.
Little Tian jumped up and down as it was pissed.
The egg was still suspended in the air, glowing as Essence Qi surging within, as if an indestructible stone of some celestial realm.
"Caw, caw!"
Little Tian jumped onto Wutian's shoulder, then pointed at the sky, snarling and gesturing, basically telling him to swing it up there so he could directly break the egg with its teeth, and the egg would fall in no time.
Wutian was struck dumb. "Will it work?"
Little Tian kept nodding with a smile that said 'no worry.' He had absolute confidence in its teeth.
Wutian gripped Little Tian by its feet and swung it up. It flew like a meteorite before it landed on the egg. Little Tian gave the egg some angry kicks before it sank its teeth into it.
Crack! Little Tian felt a sharp pain and its eyes welled up. It quickly cupped its mouth with its hands, peeking down at the two below, afraid that they would laugh at it.
But a silverish white tooth still slipped through its fingers. Little Tian almost went mad. It quickly grabbed it and shoved it back into its mouth, fixing it back in place. It then pounded its chest furiously and then continued to gnaw the egg.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
A few more teeth came off. But this time, Little Tian finally had left some marks on the white egg with hazy light diffusing out of it. Little Tian was excited and worked even harder this time using both its teeth and claws.
A brilliant light shot up into the sky as a crack the size of a fingernail formed on the white egg. The brilliant ray and Essence Qi made the egg look like a beautiful rainbow gemstone.
Little Tian was feverishly excited, drooling like nobody's business. It shot the two guys below a triumphant glance. Finally, it peeled off a fingernail-sized shell from the egg. A droplet oozed out. It was translucent and glowing in brilliant light. It was the surging Essence Qi that made the egg glow such brilliantly.
This droplet was the essence of the egg. It was as if a liquid jade, glowing and emanating an invigorating aroma. It contained a type of terrific spirituality that was Essence-, Qi-, and spirit-enhancing.
Brooom!
Just then, the Stele of Spiritual Incarceration shook violently, as if an ultimate vicious beast was breaking free from its shackles. The earth was also shaking and cracking open, mountains and towering trees tumbling down accompanied by the horrified wailing of the demonic beasts.
Boom!
Heinous energy shot up into the sky and shrouded the entire area. Wutian and Han Tian took the hit as if a thousand horses overran them. They were forced back and blood spurted out of their mouths.
Little Tian gripped the egg by the crack, preventing itself from being blown away. It then called out at the Stele of Spiritual Incarceration as if it was throwing down the gauntlet. As it curled its long tongue, a drop of liquid from the egg went into its mouth and its body instantly glowed in a brilliant light.
Boom! Boom!
As the Stele of Spiritual Incarceration kept shaking, the cracks in the ground spread into the entire open ground. Even the mountain peak up ahead was affected as half of the peak was collapsing with giant rocks and ancient trees tumbling down in a cloud of dust.
"Not good. You broke the shell and alerted the Primordial Scorpion. It has gone mad. Little Tian, do it quick!" said Wutian in a hurry.
"Watch out! Get out of there. The stele is going to crack. It is not going to hold anymore," warned Han Tian.
As soon as his voice trailed off, shocking vicious energy burst out of it and shot into the clouds. The sky cracked open and chaotic energy gushing out of the hole. They had never seen such horrible energy. It was ruthless and brutal. It felt as if a river of blood was floating with millions of bodies.
Heaven and earth faded, mountains and rivers crumbled, and beasts shivering in fear. Even the moon seemed to hide behind the clouds, too afraid to show itself. A rumble rose in the entire mountain range as if thunder had descended and shook the tens of thousands of miles of land below.
"What's going on? Is it an earthquake?"
The town of Ironstone was shaking, jolting everyone out of their sleep. People scrambled to flee their homes, some standing on the streets, some on the plain, looking at the Mount Scorpius in the distance.
Over there, a brilliant glow had drowned out the dark clouds, illuminating half of the sky on behalf of the moon. Heinous energy was looming in their direction.
"Legend has it that Mount Scorpius is a fossil of the Primordial Scorpion. Could this vision have something to do with it? Is it coming back to life?" Someone brought up this terrifying conversation.
"Impossible. Even if that legend is true. It has been millions of years and the thing could not exist anymore. It has long decayed."
Someone rebutted. But no matter how hard this person tried to convince himself otherwise, he still could not help but felt a chill run up his spine. Except for the primordial beast, not a living thing could exude such horrible energy.
It was akin to an unprecedented megathrust earthquake. The energy was too high and the scene too horrible. Every village, every clan in the Redsun Mountains could sense this, and they looked at what happened in puzzlement and shock.
Near Mount Scorpius, about 5,000 miles from the valley of the demonic wolves, dozens of people were standing on a thousand-foot-high giant rock in a forest. There were men and women, young and old. The leading figures were a man and a woman, both about thirteen to fourteen years old, wearing white, dapper with an extraordinary temperament.
Except for the bare-chested, burly man behind them, the other people looked at them with reverence and piety.
If Wutian were here, he would have surely recognized these two persons. They were none other than Huoshi and Liuyan.
Huoshi looked at the mountain range in the distance and frowned. "What do you think, Elder Wu? Is the Primordial Scorpion really resurrected?"
The burly man was silent for a while, then shook his head. "No one has ever seen the Primordial Scorpion. It is hard to tell. But when things of such multitude happen, it sets to attract a lot of attention. We have got to be extra cautious, Young Clan Master. Should we move to another location?"
"Elder Wu has a point, Huoshi. There is too much noise this time. People are going to come checking out what is happening. All the things we achieved so far would be in vain if we are exposed."
"Damn it! After planning this for long, and while thinking this haunted spot is foolproof, this thing happens!" Huoshi's face looked dead. He was silent for a moment, then let out an evil smile. "We will stay put and everything goes as plan."
"Why?" The burly man was struck dumb.
"Haven't you heard that the most dangerous place is the safest place? As clever as the Yan Clan is, they would not have thought we could steal their recruits right under their nose." Huoshi smiled evilly, then spun around and swept his eyes over the dozen disciples behind him. "You all spread out, hide in the dark, and release the roofie mist. Kill anything that comes in and devour the meat and blood, turning this place into an utterly haunted land."
"Aye!"
A group of disciples wore ruthless smiles on their faces, their eyes glinting, thirsting for blood. They then lunged up and split up in all directions before disappearing into the woods.
The burly man frowned. "This is not right, Young Clan Master. The clan master has instructed not to reveal the Spirit-devouring Manual as it is a demonic technique. Besides, the cultivation base of these disciples is still not up to par. If they devour so much Essence blood, I fear they could not withstand the demonic manual's abrasion and would be turned into soulless evil beings."
"That's exactly what I want. I want them to be turned into evil beings, killing machines. Only then the Fire Cloud Clan could take control of Greendragon, and even the entire Samsara Continent as quickly as possible."
"But Clan Master—"
Huoshi interrupted. "You have been following Father for years, don't you know what he really wants? We have been snatching thousands of disciples from other places for these years. Do you really think it is all because of talent-cherishing?"
"You mean it is the clan master who authorizes this?" The burly man was struck dumb.
Huoshi let out a mysterious smile. "Go in there and check it out. I have never tasted the meat and blood of any primordial beast. I reckon it must be super good."
The mountain range where Mount Scorpius sat was shaking. It was a massive earthquake. The peak was crumbling. Rocks as large as a hill fell like a meteor shower. The earth was ravaged and destroyed.
All beasts were roaring in fear, frantically fleeing in a stampede, sending tremor to the already quaking earth, trampling down all vegetation in their paths.
"Run, Little Tian!" Wutian shouted. This was something not the few of them could resist. The Stele of Spiritual Incarceration was shaking violently. A crack had formed in it and it could break apart at any moment.
"Caw, caw!"
Little Tian lay on the white egg, holding on to it and not wanting to let go, no matter what. As black flames rose from its body, it hit the egg with its claw. The egg shuddered and dropped a couple of inches with a high pitch sound.
It was delighted. A black light burst out of its claw and it hit the egg repeatedly with all its might. It did not disappoint. The white egg dropped further and quicker, just over a hundred feet from the ground.
A dazzling golden light shot out of the Stele of Incarceration. The engravings on the stele glowed brilliantly. It came off the stele and hovered in a circle in the air, then translucent, dazzling, curtain-like things cascaded down. The struggling of the Primordial Scorpion had woken up the stele spirit.
The stele was quaint. But the horrible energy it released felt as if heaven was in wrath. It was in a different league compared to the Primordial Scorpion. The void of this place suddenly cracked like a mirror. The hazy, chaotic energy had blocked out the sky.
The brilliant glow rapidly subsided and fell toward the golden engraved words. It exploded in a brilliant work of fire; shock waves spread out as if tsunami. A mountain peak exploded. Rocks were flying, a brilliant glow subsided and the curtain-like thing disappeared into the ground.
Wutian and Han Tian had lunged into the valley in time. But the shock wave still hit them and sent them flying and crashing into the mountain wall. Blood instantly spurted out of their mouths.
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