Chapter 760 (1/2)

Chapter 760: Distorted Human Nature

Translator: Udeze Editor: Udeze

An adage says that the more beautiful the appearance of something is, the more dangerous it is. The same thing applied to this picturesque forested mountain. It seemed like a cluster of flowers and piles of brocades with trees providing pleasant shades, augmented with the misty white fog that added a bit of wonderland flavor to it. Yet, Tang Xiu and his men, who had passed through the bridge and continued forward for hundreds of meters, abruptly stopped as though they were about to face a formidable enemy.

It was a white pigeon. That’s right, it was the usual white pigeon, but with a body that was ten times larger than an ordinary white pigeon—comparable to an ox. At present, it was lazily strolling through the patches of flowers and grasses. Even though it noticed the arrival of Tang Xiu and his men, it just casually glanced at them and spewed out a spray of flames.

But then, the flowers and plants were instantly burned through when the blue flame touched them. Right as it landed on the ground, a soccer ball-sized stone exposed to the flame instantly burned into blackened ashes and scattered with the wind.

“This… is a freaking monster…”

Xue Sha was a very brave man, and yet he was still scared and stunned by the scene before him.

Tang Xiu gazed deeply at the white pigeon as his eyes slowly scoured the surroundings. Just a few seconds after, he found ants climbing a towering old tree. The ants were the size of an adult’s fist, and despite the tens of meters of distance, he could clearly see that it had sharp claws.

“Look over there…” Mo Awu suddenly whispered.

Tang Xiu looked at the direction he pointed and couldn’t help but twitch his eyes. In the bushes about forty-plus meters away, a hedgehog was drilling out from underneath. It was as big as the previously bull-sized white pigeon as it swayed its sharp spines regularly while its pointed sharp mouth exhaled out white air that was like a chilling wind in the winter, so cold that the flowers underneath it were covered with a layer of frost.

“Keep going forward.”

Tang Xiu did not sense any hostility coming from these beasts. Even when he intentionally approached the white pigeon, it only languidly looked at him before walking away, as though this was its own courtyard.

After half an hour, Tang Xiu was still calm although he was also rather surprised inside. But Mo Awu, Jin Shi, and the others were so shocked that they became numb. As they trekked all the way upward and hiked up for a quarter of its height under that special pressure, they had already encountered hundreds of animals, but the size of each of these animals were dozens of times larger than the ones in the outside world. These animals evidently had their own characteristics, but their common point was that they all could fly! Even a pig could tread in the air and had a slow flight ability.

“This is the haven of spirit beasts!”

Tang Xiu recalled the spirit beasts he raised in the Immortal World and let out a smile. All those spirit beasts had their own sentience, and some of them were very intelligent. For instance, a group of two-meter-high apes and monkeys. Although they were not hostile to the humans, oftentimes they played people by throwing melons and fruits.

“We can no longer trek upward, Boss,” Mo Awu breathed raggedly as he spoke with difficulty with a flushed face and sweat on his forehead.

Tang Xiu shifted his gaze to Mo Awu and also observed the others. Finally, he helplessly said, “Then just stay here since you can’t continue! Awu, you are wearing an interspatial ring, so you and the rest pick up all the herbs, fruits, and ores. Store all of them into your ring.”

“Yes!” Mo Awu slightly nodded. They did see many precious and rare herbs. Many of them were even thousands of years old. A massive number of trees had various precious fruits and they could smell their fragrance from far away, and they could find a few precious ores if they looked around. It could fetch a big price once they were to be sold in the outside world.

The mountain itself had no trails or roads.

Tang Xiu stepped on the stone to jump and jump again, continuing to climb under the pressure while picking up and storing all the precious herbs, spirit fruits, and ores he could find on the way into his interspatial ring. After spending a full two hours, he finally arrived at the point halfway up to the mountainside. But his harvest in these two hours had already surpassed all the herbs, spirit fruits, and ores he had obtained in the outside world.

“I can no longer climb up.”

Tang Xiu felt a bit regretful while helplessly looking at the majestic palace atop the mountain summit. The huge pressure was blocking his path forward. He was fortunate that his physical strength was far beyond that of an ordinary person’s, else he would not have been able to reach this mountainside at all. He did have the intention to use this huge pressure to help stimulate and temper the potential of his body, but recalling that he had yet to fully solve the Darkening Virus, he had no choice but to give up and planned to come back later.

On the way down the mountain, Tang Xiu encountered a few seven-plus-meter-high spirit beasts. One of them was a huge tiger that even its pressuring aura made Tang Xiu shiver inside. Fortunately, these spirit beasts did not have the intention to attack a human and simply ignored Tang Xiu’s arrival.

Whew…

Tang Xiu jumped from a huge boulder and appeared beside Mo Awu. Then, he said with a smile, “Tell everyone to gather here. We’ll leave this place.”

“There are so many resources here, Boss,” said Mo Awu quickly. “Coming here was quite difficult, so I think we should stay here for a while. We must pick up a bit more so we can have more resources in the future!”

“No rush. Besides, this mountain won’t run.” Tang Xiu chuckled. “We have to solve the problem outside first, and only then can we have the spare time to seek cultivation resources. Worry not, though! I’ll call Xiaoxue after going out. I’ll tell her to come here with more people.”

Mo Awu understood in a flash and smilingly said, “Well, I was kinda afraid of being poor, to be honest. Don’t laugh at me, Boss.”