Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After resting for a while, Han Tian got to his feet and gave the dead giant scorpion a few kicks as he laughed. “I didn’t expect to kill an ancient remnant species. I wonder if anyone is going to believe me.”
Wutian was relieved, too. The strength of this ancient remnant species was equal to the Reborn Omega stage. While the three’s strengths were more or less the same, they were a level lower than that of the Fire Scorpion. Killing it was definitely not easy. But they did it.
Little Tian lay in his hands, weak and exhausted, pointing at the dead Fire Scorpion. Wutian knew what I wanted. He walked over and placed Little Tian on the body of the giant scorpion. Little Tian opened its mouth and started to gnaw its meat and drink its blood.
A Fire Scorpion’s flesh and blood were extremely nourishing.
Little Tian sucked blood like a whale fed on plankton. It did not take long before it finished off all the blood on the ground. Its body glowed in red, steaming with blood mist as it recovered its strength rapidly.
“Little Thing, don’t keep everything to yourself!” said Han Tian as he took out a vat of one meter tall and one meter in diameter.
He carried the vat and hurried over. Putting the vat beside the Fire Scorpion’s body, his palm shimmered in a golden light. The neck of the corpse cracked open and blood gushed out into the vat.
Wutian knew that the meat of this ancient species was an elixir, and its bones and shell were precious alchemic materials. It could not only enhance his strength but also be sold for a good price. Not to be outdone, he stashed away half of the body into the Mustard Pouch with the wave of his hand.
Han Tian was alarmed and sounding off. He then laid his eyes on a few sharp claws and collected them with the will of his mind.
Now it was Little Tian that got upset. They did not even put a jerk in killing the scorpion, yet when it came to harvesting the booty, they were eager beavers. Little Tian had no Mustard Pouch, but it had something up its sleeve. It wormed its way into the other half of the corpse and started gnawing.
Han Tian was upset and could not help cursing in rage. He grabbed Little Tian by its legs and tried to pull it out and away. Had he not been still letting blood, he would have stashed away the other half of the corpse.
“Caw, caw!”
Little Tian snarled. It was powerful and quick like a drill; it had devoured half of the half corpse in no time. Han Tian’s face darkened. He could not have been more upset. Little Tian chowed down the corpse just like that was wasteful.
The meat and blood of the vicious beast could only unleash their greatest benefits when refined together with the divine herbs, rare woods, divine extract, and so on. Little Tian was ruining the precious Essence of the Fire Scorpion.
Before Han Tian could finish letting the blood, Little Tian had devoured the remaining corpse. Still not satisfied, it laid its eyes on the fresh blood in the vat. The spilled blood did not possess a pungent smell. Instead, it gave out a soothing and refreshing scent.
Han Tian waved his hand, and the vat vanished inside the Mustard Pouch. Little Tian rolled its eyes and stared at the pouch in Wutian’s hand.
It suddenly lunged out, trying to snatch the pouch. But it tripped and tumbled to the ground. It was furious, wondering what caused it to fall. Its eyes lit up, and it drooled uncontrollably when it saw the thing.
It was three teeth, black, each the size of a fist. There was still meat on them, shimmering with black flames. There was a heart-throbbing feeling to it.
These were the teeth of the Fire Scorpion, extremely tough, making a good alchemic material.
“I nearly forgot about it. These things are good stuff.” Han Tian and Wutian got one each, and Wutian was taking Little Tian’s share in his custody. But it was hard to say to whom it would finally belong.
The three of them looked around for a while, but they found no more. Probably the rest of the teeth had fallen into the crack in the earth. Too bad.
Little Tian’s eyes brightened up. It faded into a bolt of black lightning, first out of the gate as it lunged out to the open ground.
“Son of a b*tch, I won’t let you have it!” Han Tian shouted as he suddenly realized that earlier when Wutian smashed the mouth of the Fire Scorpion, a few teeth had dropped on the open ground.
Wutian shook his head and followed suit. He could not help but be tempted by the precious remains of the ancient species.
There were four teeth. So a fight was avoided. It was Wutian who would do the distribution. Little Tian had contributed the most, so it got two teeth while Wutian and Han Tian got one each.
The white egg was still suspended in the air. The milky light emitted from it was brighter than the moon. Not only that, there was a fearsome holy aura permeating the air.
“That one is yours, Little Thing. We are not going to fight with you. But how are you going to get it when it is so high in the air?” Han Tian teased, then he suddenly sighed. “If I could hatch and tame it, I wonder how many girls I could attract when I bring it out to the town.”
That said, he shook his head, knowing that the idea was impractical. Naturally born divine beings were nurtured with the Essence Qi. It was a spirit of heaven and earth and hard to tame. Even if he could hatch it, he was not going to get recognition.
“Caw, caw!”
Little Tian tilted its head, put its finger on the nose, and thoughtfully looked at a stele on the far side of the open ground. The stele was as tall as a hundred feet, looking like a stone tower that extended into heaven. It was massive and exuded powerful energy.
It ran toward it in excitement, then put its claws on it. Probably it was trying to pull it out of the ground. Wutian and Han Tian watched on and found it extremely funny.
“Caw, caw!”
It was as if an ant was trying to move an elephant; the stele did not budge an inch. Little Tian got upset and gave it an angry kick, hurting itself. Still not giving up, its body steamed with black light as he held the stele and tried to pull it again.
There was a rumble as the stele had moved a bit. Little Tian was overjoyed and this time, it pulled even harder.
Han Tian frowned. “Did you find something is wrong with the stele, Wutian?”
Wutian’s heart missed a beat when he saw the engraving: Stele of Soul’s Incarceration on the stele with a melancholy feel to it. It looked nothing amiss at first glance, but once carefully perceiving with the mind, it had a terrifying vibe.
“Stop, Little Tian!”
Wutian called out. When he came in front of the stele, his heart skipped a beat. The pulling force of Little Tian was thousands of pounds. But the spots where its hands gripped the stele left no marks behind. Other than the engravings, the rest of the stele was smooth.
“Something is not right, indeed!”
Wutian extended his hand, but when his finger touched the stele, violent energy rushed into his body. He shuddered big time as the Sea of Qi in his body went on a rampage, the Essence elixirs in him were out of control and running away, hurting his organ.
All of a sudden, he saw a vision. Heaven and earth turned dark, and the land roamed with all kinds of creatures. There was a ten-thousand-foot-long, nine-headed giant python, a flying ape, a golden dragon, a flaming phoenix—all of which were the legendary ancient vicious beasts.
They were on a frenzied killing spree. The nine-headed giant python was spurting lightning, blasting a few mountain peaks into pieces. The flying ape flapped its wings and a black light beam shot down from heaven, breaking the earth into several pieces.
The golden dragon was as massive as a mountain range with its body reaching to the end of the horizon. It spat out a golden light ball into the air. From the light ball came an explosion as if the sun had gone supernova, blasting a black hole out of the sky. The phoenix flew from the horizon, shooting down its flames and turning the earth into a lava ocean.
This was a doomsday scene. The sky was torn apart, the earth breaking and drifting as countless living beings roared and rushed in a direction.
Roar!
An ear-shattering roar came from that place, shaking heaven and earth. The sky was distorted as black holes emerged one after another. The energy of chaos gushed out and blocked out the sun, making the sky even darker.
Several massive cracks that looked like a spider web formed in the earth and spread to the edge of the continent. Magma spurted out of the earth, mountains came tumbling down, and seawater went inland.
Boom!
A giant vicious beast revealed its true form. Its head towered into the sky as it stood on the earth, its ten colorful claws standing erect in the air. As it exuded horrifying energy, the earth shook, and the void collapsed. The place turned into nothingness.
Wutian’s body jerked, and he spurted a mouthful of blood. And the stele absorbed every drop of his blood.
Han Tian and Little Tian were stunned and called out. They even shook his body, but Wutian did not respond as blood continued to spurt out of his mouth.
Han Tian frowned when he noticed Wutian’s hand. He immediately struck Wutian’s hand, thinking of smacking it off the stele. As his hand unwittingly touched the stele, his body shuddered and blood spurted out of his mouth. His eyes looked dazed, and he was motionless.
He was seeing the same images as what Wutian saw. This place was worse than the hell of the asura.
Little Tian gave them a push and looked at the stele in puzzlement. It touched it with its claws, but nothing happened. It snarled and attacked the stele relentlessly. But each strike seemed to disappear into the stele, leaving no marks behind.
It gripped the two by their legs, trying frantically to pull them away from the stele. But their hands seemed to be stuck on the stele. No matter how hard Little Tian tried, they did not move an inch.
Then a buzz came.
The milky glow on Wutian’s forehead suddenly burst out, shrouding the two within. They shuddered and their hands were freed. They collapsed to the ground, their bodies drenched in a cold sweat, shock and fear filling their eyes.
It was not until a few moments later they could calm down. “The Primordial Scorpion!” they exclaimed in unison as they looked at each other.
Wutian got up and looked at the stele. There was still fear in his eyes. The scene he saw earlier was absolutely horrifying, with heaven falling and earth breaking. The legendary vicious beasts appeared in flocks; those things were not something that the humans could deal with.
“Could it be that this place is the fossil of the Primordial Scorpion, or that it is not dead but incarcerated beneath the stele?”
Wutian and Han Tian looked up at the white egg in the air spontaneously and were having the same thinking.
“No matter what, you have got to eat that egg today, Little Tian!” Wutian’s face looked grave, and Han Tin nodded in agreement.
His earlier suspicion was proven valid. The two of them had been suspecting that the Primordial Scorpion was metamorphosing in the egg. If this was true, they would be in serious trouble.
This thing was undefeated back then. It was not until all the beasts came against it at once and after half of them died, they successfully subdued the Primordial Scorpion here. But now that it had metamorphosed into a naturally born divine beast. If it was allowed to come to this world, it was going to be multiple times more powerful than in the past. There was nothing in the Samsara Continent that could defeat it today.
So it must be destroyed before it was born.