Chapter 63: Underground Giant Tree (2/2)
Blood spurted out and the Steel Gorilla crashed down to the ground.
After the little violet monkey was sure the Steel Gorilla could no longer move, it ran up to the corpse and his small hands began to search for battle trophies.
It clawed open the corpse’s head and fished out a beast core and its mouth opened and swallow the beast core whole.
Huang Xiaolong couldn’t figure out how the little monkey could distinguish between beasts that had cores and those that didn’t; in general, it was rare for demonic beasts below Grade Seven to have a beast core. However, every demonic beast the little monkey provoked was guaranteed to have condensed out a beast core.
After the beast core went into the little monkey’s stomach, Huang Xiaolong walked up to the corpse. Both of his hands formed into claws and he began sucking out the blood soul qi from the Steel Gorilla’s corpse-- he sucked it out and the black threads were absorbed into Huang Xiaolong’s meridians through the veins in his hands.
When every trace of the Steel Gorilla’s blood soul qi had entered Huang Xiaolong’s body, he leaped up and clawed at a big tree twenty meters away.
Moonlight disappeared from the area as if swallowed by darkness.
Two black claw prints appeared in the air.
“Bang!” A loud sound resounded in the darkness. The big tree twenty meters away had two half-meter long tree marks with a half foot depth, ripped out by Huang Xiaolong. This left two black claw prints on the tree trunk and the deathly aura of ghosts around the tree, exuding a dark energy that caused the tree’s leaves to gradually turn yellow and then black.
Looking at the result of the Asura Demon Claw’s first style – Lament of Thousands of Demons, Huang Xiaolong nodded to himself in satisfaction.
While training in the Silvermoon Forest for the past two months, not only had he succeeded in individually summoning his martial spirits, but all his battle skills had increased in power including the Body Metamorphose Scripture.
He wouldn’t have been able to progress at such speed if he remained training in the Tianxuan Mansion or the Academy.
Suddenly, the little violet monkey beside him squeaked.
“Are you saying that in this Steel Gorilla’s lair you found some treasure?” asked Huang Xiaolong when the little monkey finished gesturing. The little violet monkey nodded its head; it turned around and beckoned Huang Xiaolong to follow it as it scurried off in the direction it first appeared from when it was being chased by the Steel Gorilla.
Roughly twenty minutes later, a boy and a monkey arrived at a section of lush forest and saw the entrance of an enormous cave.
“Zhi zhi zhi!” Entering the giant cave, the little monkey grew even more excited and it squeaked cheerfully. It was the first to rush in with Huang Xiaolong following from behind.
As they walked into the cave, a light scent wafted towards them.
And soon the fragrant scent became stronger as they went in deeper into the cave.
Some time later, Huang Xiaolong reached a spacious underground part of the cave that looked to be about a thousand square meters large. From the ground to the ceiling was a height of about thirty meters. And in this underground cave, there was a giant tree so big that it needed seven to eight people to fully hug the tree. Branches stretched in all directions of the cave and some roots were crawling along the cave wall.
Between the dense leaves of the giant tree were little sparkling lights.
Huang Xiaolong was dazed for a moment when he saw the giant tree, and soon it was followed by a feeling of ecstasy and disbelief, “This, this is a cycad tree?!”
A Cycad tree bears a strange fruit called cycad fruit. For those who cultivate battle qi, not only can this fruit enhance one’s battle qi, it also could enhance the physical body – from strengthening all the muscles and bones, the flesh, and even the internal organs. Eating cycad fruits on a long term basis could increase the body's defense, making it become as hard as steel, just like the Steel Gorilla. Common swords or blades would find it hard to penetrate through the skin.
“Zhi zhi zhi!” At this time, the little violet monkey dashed towards the giant tree and was already climbing up the trunk; tiny hands plucked a cycad fruit and swallowed it whole with a ‘gulu’ sound.
Huang Xiaolong smiled. Sometimes he wondered if the little violet monkey’s nose is a dog nose, probably its nose was even better than a dog’s. If not, how can it smell out treasure fruits within a hundred li?
Note:
Cycad (possible) appearance
Name Change - Asura Claw first move changed from Hiss of Thousand Demons to Lament of Thousands of Demons.
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