Chapter 57 (1/2)

When a red-eyed monster spread out its body, it could reach two meters long. Its body looked like a grey canvas, and there were dark red tendons, and thin bones spreading all over its body. It had an eyeball on its top, and the size of it was as big as a computer mouse. When it died, the eyeball would turn into beige color. Below the eyeball, at the center of its body, there were many small sharp teeth. They were in a circular shape like a flower core, taking up half of its entire body.

Chu Yunsheng turned the monster upside down, he had even stepped on it very hard a few times, but he still couldn’t get the gas he wanted.

‘Is it because the monster was dead, does it mean that the gas will disappear after it died?’ he thought for a second, and then took out an absorption talisman, trying to absorb Yuan Qi from the monster.

As the talisman slowly sucked the energy out of the monster, a blurry ice pattern appeared on top of the talisman. It seemed like it only had one-fifth of a complete pattern.

Based on one red-sh.e.l.led insect could supply one flame pattern of Yuan Qi, it obviously meant that a red-eyed monster’s Yuan Qi was less than a red-sh.e.l.led insect.

Chu Yunsheng guessed that this might also be one of the reasons why red-eyed monsters’ defense ability was much weaker than that of red-sh.e.l.led insects. Although generally, ice elemental energy was stronger than fire elemental energy in defence, if the gap between two types of energy was huge, the result would still be different. Besides, red-eyed monsters didn’t have hard sh.e.l.ls to protect them.

But he still did not find that strange gas he was looking for. The absorption talisman only absorbed pure ice elemental Yuan Qi from the monster, it did not seem to respond to any other things.

But after taking back the absorption talisman, he suddenly had an idea. He deactivated the combat armor talisman and unsealed the combat armor talisman from his body. He wanted to check if he could use the red-eyed monster’s body to upgrade the armor.

However, the armor did not have any reaction to it. It did not seem to have any interests in this monster, which now looked like a piece of old and ripped clothes. Instead, Qian Bi sword started to spin in mid-air. Slowly, a trace of blue gas appeared from the monster’s body. It was the gas that Chu Yunsheng was looking for.

However, that dead red-eyed monster did not have much blue gas left. So he immediately took out all the bodies he had, and let Qian Bi sword absorb the gas from all the monsters. However, he was quite disappointed that in the end, he still did not get much gas out of those bodies.

Inside the crimson-colored Qian Bi sword, Chu Yunsheng could vaguely feel that there were blue ripples slowly appearing. However, there were not many. If he didn’t pay attention to the change of the sword, he would’ve easily missed it.

There were some red-sh.e.l.led insects’ sh.e.l.ls inside the storage talisman as well, so Chu Yunsheng took them out and tried to test the sword on them.

However, the blue gas did not make the sword sharper. It made him wonder if it had something to do with the energy s.h.i.+eld rather than the physical object.

However, there weren’t any live red-sh.e.l.led insects that he could use to do the test.

Then he looked at Yao Xiang, who was still sleeping on the side. But eventually, he gave up the idea to test the energy s.h.i.+eld that he had cast onto Yao Xiang before. He was afraid that if he was not careful enough, he would injure Yao Xiang.

Moreover, Qian Bi sword also did not absorb much blue gas, so the test result wouldn’t be very obvious, even if he did test it. In the end, he decided to wait until he had enough red-eyed monsters’ bodies.

But when he thought about hundreds of red-eyed monsters, he couldn’t help but flinch.

Suddenly, he heard a group of hurried footsteps coming from the doorway. He was startled and immediately stored everything back to the storage talisman.

Before he even had time to activate his combat armor, a group of men and women flocked inside. But when they saw Chu Yunsheng and Yao Xiang, they all stopped!

Yao Xiang was woken from his sleep by the noise. He quickly got up and made a combat posture in a panic.

There were nine people in total, five males, three females, and one kid, who looked around ten years old. Four people were holding long iron bars, the other four were holding two chunks of red-sh.e.l.led insects’ sh.e.l.ls together as their s.h.i.+elds, one chunk for every two people, and the kid was carrying the half of a dog’s body.

This group of people looked like local people. One person in particular was wearing a uniform, and on his uniform, it was written ‘Urban Management Officer’.

Noticing this, Chu Yunsheng gave them a friendly smile. They needed some information about this city from local people, and this group had just arrived at the right time.

However, those people were extremely wary of him and Yao Xiang, and it seemed like they did not want to talk to them at all. They even raised the sh.e.l.ls when they saw them, but they also did not seem to want to leave as well.

Pointing to himself and then Yao Xiang, Chu Yunsheng gave them a hollow laugh, “we are just pa.s.sing by, we were having a rest here earlier, this is my friend.”