<b>Chapter 347 - Bait</b>
Below the magma, the pale golden ancient hall was falling apart. Huge boulders copsed one after another, andrge pieces of debris plummeted, turning the ce into ruins. Shi Hao soared up rapidly.
He had mastered the Kun Peng’s precious technique!
Shi Hao was excited and filled with joy. This divine ability was extremelyplicated and profound, taking him quite a long time toprehend it. It was something he found incredibly difficult to cultivate, and never would he have thought that he would be able topletely master it today.
He could sense a destructive power just by circting its power a bit. The precious technique of one of the archaic vicious ten had been sessfully brought back to this world!
As Shi Hao tried it out, a tremendous power rapidly swept across the witherednd. Stretches of scarlet-red magma erupted in tidal waves and white smoke rose in session. Even thend itself was even cracking apart.
His body was shaking violently, causing him to stop performing the precious technique in haste. This was not only because of its frighteningly destructive power, but also because the precious technique was using up too much energy and exhausting his body.
“It seems I need to hurry and improve my cultivation realm. The higher my cultivation level is, the better I will be in exerting the power of precious techniques; otherwise, the power of one of the divine abilities of the archaic vicious ten would be severely constrained.”
It would be his deadliest weapon, a power he believed would allow him to roam this world freely in the future. As long as his cultivation was deep enough, he would be fearless of anyone no matter where he went.
Having mastered the technique, Shi Hao felt that it was time to promote his cultivation realm again. Only by doing that could he achieve an overall improvement in all aspects.
Fortunately, by cultivating in that pale golden hall, he was able to lose much less time. The opportunity was a godsend, for it would have taken him several months to aplish what he had without it.
“Is this it?” Shi Hao walked the magmand as he murmured to himself, feeling as if everything felt somehow unreal. After thinking about it in his head, he felt that the praying mat must have yed an important role in his sess.
His forehead flickered with light, and a symbol with primitive simplicity emerged that was filled with the aura of heavenly dao. It demonstrated that he had mastered the Kun Peng’s precious technique and fully understood the real meaning of this primordial symbol.
“I have to earnestly cultivate and improve my strength.”
Somewhere deeper in the ancestral grounds.
mes were springing up within an expanse of hills. The temperature was even higher here, almost melting down the ground itself. Mighty creatures had upied this area.
With a kacha sound, a white pangolin smashed open a giant rock and seized a crimson stone from within. It then swallowed the crimson stone at once.
Not far from it, there were a few mighty experts that emerged, their eyes burning with eagerness. They charged forward, moving into action almost simultaneously. Having summoned their respective weapons, they struck at that white pangolin.
Qiang
Sparks flew off in all directions as the pangolin shone brightly. Its skin was tougher than iron and stones. Rows upon rows of symbols lined its white scales, knocking away all the weapons.
Pu
Meanwhile, it opened its mouth and spat out a streak of white light. It pierced through two people and killed them on the spot.
“It’s so powerful!” Many people went pale with fear.
“Everyone, there is no need to be afraid. It had just devoured divine substance. Its movements will only be increasingly sluggish, so we need to use this opportunity to kill it.” There was someone who tried to boost the team’s morale.
With the mention of the divine substance, the crowd felt their eyes burning with desire again, since it was extremely rare and precious. A divine substance as big as the one the pangolin swallowed was even harder toe by.
Generally speaking, divine substances were contained in magma, soil, or rocks, which were then consumed by creatures living in this area. By umting the divine substances in their bodies over many years, these creatures were able to reach an advanced cultivation level.
The divine substance it swallowed was quiterge. If it was refined, then a fortune could be made by selling it.
A treasured artifact swept across the sky. However, the pangolin jumped up and immediately smashed it into pieces, making the party’s faces go pale. Its gaze even revealed ridicule.
Xiu!
In the split second that followed, the pangolin’s movement exceeded everyone’s expectations. It turned into a streak of white lightning, unleashing ughter. Its speed was absolutely ridiculous as it moved in midair.
Pu, pu...
The pangolin was not even a big one, stretching only a bit more than a meter in length. One could even describe it as rather small. Once it turned into the white light, the remaining people were also impaled.
Not a single individual survived its attack, leaving corpses strewn across the ground.
Stter
After everything quieted down, the pangolin spat out the strange red stone. It didn’t actually swallow the stone earlier! The previous act was only bait, and only now did it hold the stone between its paws, choosing to refine it instead of consuming it.
“That thing was pretty cunning.” In the distance, the youngdy withrge eyes whispered. She and several teenage boys were apanying Shi Hao in search of savage beasts in this fiery domain to use as bait for catching the Yang Fish.
“So that’s the White Armored King. It is indeed a savage animal,” Shi Hao nodded.
ording to legends, this creature was incredibly evil and aggressive. Wherever it went, it wouldpletely wipe out all living creatures without leaving a single one alive. Despite its small physique, its fighting prowess was extremely great.
Although they were known as White Armored Kings, this one could not be considered a king yet. Its cultivation time was only long enough to take it to thete stage of the Engravement Realm.
Of course, to people like the teenage girl withrge eyes and herpanions, this creature was definitely a huge threat. Had they ran into it on their own, there was no way they could make it out alive.
Shi Hao was not afraid of it at all. He stepped forward alone, making no attempt to hide his whereabouts. This attracted the savage beast’s attention immediately. It gave Shi Hao a malicious look as wisps of divine light surfaced from its eyes.
Sensing the approaching threat, it hunched down. Following that, it rushed towards Shi Hao rapidly like a white-staffed spear with a chi sound.
Dang
Shi Hao remained where he was and smacked down with his palm, smashing the pangolin to the ground. Its scaled skin cracked apart, and blood oozed out. The pangolin was now rolling around on the ground in great agony.
All of a sudden, light radiated from its entire body, spreading out like ripples. They turned out to be waves upon waves of radiating des, and they were hacking towards Shi Hao murderously.
A ring of halo emerged, covering Shi Hao from head to toe. Although he was only in the middle stage of the Engravement Realm, making his cultivation level inferior to the pangolin, his fighting prowess exceeded that of the pangolin’s.
The rippling halo was like a protective divine ring that could block anything. All the des of light were shattered and pushed outwards.
Peng
The pangolin shook violently, and numerous scales were shed from its body. With the sound of broken bones, it was sted outwards.
Behind them, the big-eyed girl and herpanions cried out in surprise. A White Armored King as powerful as this one did not even have a chance to strike back before it was severely injured.
“Hou...”
The pangolin roared and wentpletely mad. Its body ignited into mes as symbols surfaced one after another. A wave of malicious energy was emitted from its body, indicating that it was now going to fight to the death.
Following a hong sound, symbols began to spread out with astonishing divine might. The White Armored King brought with it with boundless fluctuations, turning itself into an iparably sharp white de.
Shi Hao took a step forward at its direction with a strange power emanating from his entire body. Golden symbols flickered, faintly revealing a screeching divine bird.
Activating part of the Kun Peng power in him, Shi Hao struck out with his palm. It shattered the White Armored King’s precious technique before striking down on its body. The pangolin screeched loudly as its bones continuously released cracking sounds.
Finally, it fell down motionless on the ground. All symbols disappeared with its defeat.
What kind of power was that? The big-eyed girl and the others were utterly shocked. With a sh of the golden symbols, all of the pangolin’s bones were shattered. The effect was too overbearing.
Shi Hao lifted it up by its tail. He had obtained another important prey.
He now had several powerful creatures in his heaven and earth pouch, such as the Crimson Mastiff and the Dark Rhino. All of these were essential prey.
The scripture he obtained had exined how to catch the Yang Fish. By following its instructions, one could create an incredibly effective bait by cooking and refining multiple powerful creatures together.
It would work much better than catching a few powerful creatures separately and collecting their bone marrow.
Shi Hao went through all kinds of hardships in the past two days and finally managed to capture a few. By now, he had more or less gathered the creatures he needed.
They arrived at a great valley and discovered a me Bear after some searching. Despite its incessant mes and vicious might, the bear was still ultimately killed.
They came to a mountainous region a dayter and detected the smell of blood from far away. Body remains were scattered along the road, all of them belonging to human beings.
It was clear that this ce was the territory of a powerful creature, and all those who trespassed here were killed.
Chi
A streak of light suddenly darted out of the mountains, cutting two mighty experts in half at their waists. The two shrieked miserably before dropping dead.
“What was that? Could such a creature really exist?” The teenage boys apanying Shi Hao were all astonished.
They had asked around and paid a lot of money for this piece of information. They were told that a terrifying creature known as a Silver Winged Mantis was residing here.
Shi Hao told the rest of the team to stay where they were before marching forward alone. Just as he arrived at the bottom of a low hill, an iparably sharp and dazzling light sliced over.
Dang
He raised his hand to fend off the de. Upon turning his head, he discovered a creature on the rocky mountain. It was silver white in color with a body that was shiny and full of luster. At this moment, it was giving off a ferocious aura.
It was a mantis at least five zhang in length. Its body was translucent and sparkling with a splendid silver light. A frightening aura was being released from its body.
Its forelimbs looked like a pair of great knives, snow white and terrifying. Numerous symbols covered the forelimbs, indicating that they had been transformed into the Silver Winged Mantis’ precious artifacts.
Those silver wings were bright and clear. A metallic colliding sound was made as they knocked against each other.
“Once I defeat this mantis, I’ll be able to lure out a lot of Yang Fish.” Shi Hao spoke to himself as he stared at that savage creature. He instinctively knew that this was not a creature to be trifled with!
Although he was still two to three prey short, Shi Hao didn’t think that those would be found easily. As long as he could catch this mantis, it would be enough for his purpose.
Chi!
A shiny silver de swept across the air. It was enormous and seemed unstoppable.
Shi Hao moved swiftly, abruptly lifting up a gigantic boulder weighing hundreds of thousands of jin in weight before chucking it at that long silver de.
Ka
The silver knife sliced the boulder in half with a single sweep. Its sharpness was unparalleled, with seemingly nothing that could withstand that de.
Shi Hao was surprised. A ck fish emerged from his palm and fingers, revolving with a lunar force. It brought with it surging ck tidal waves as it struck into the heavens, trapping those des.
Chi
With its de being frozen, the Silver-winged Mantis flew over to Shi Hao itself. It released numerous symbols, blotting out the sky and covering the earth. The creature was indeed incredibly furious.
Shi Hao attacked continuously and fought fiercely against it without activating the Kun Peng’s divine ability. This Silver Winged Mantis had an extremely high cultivation level and was quite terrifying.
In the end, Shi Hao managed to suppress and kill it. He captured this bizarre creature.
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The magnificent magmake was so vast that it almost seemed to stretch to infinity. The crimson color was boundless. As waves of heat roiled about, even the sky seemed to turn red.
“This is the ce. Apart from that unique forbiddennd in the deepest corner of the ancestral grounds, this magmake is thergest.”
The big-eyed girl and herpanions led Shi Hao to this location. It was much more convenient to have someone familiar with the ancestral grounds lead the way. Of course, these people made their way here after following their predecessors, and so they knew much more than Shi Hao about this ce.
Shi Hao was very cautious. He flew high up into the sky and sprinkled down a small amount of bait. He dared not throw it in all at once, fearing that he might waste it.
Leading the rest of the team, he then fell back and hid by the shore while keeping a close eye on theke.
Before long, theke surface rippled, and a dazzling golden light gleamed in the distance, giving the entireke a resplendent look.
“There are too many of them!” Those teenage boys were dumbfounded.
Schools of golden Yang Fish swarmed towards theke in dense numbers. The scene was somewhat frightening.
Shi Hao watched the fish with utter joy. If he could catch them all, how much divine liquid could he refine out of them? It might be enough for him to break into thete stage of the Engravement Realm!