Chapter 121 - Mystical Beasts Attacking the City? (2/2)
“This particular genius from the House of Ye is an extraordinary figure. He became an Eighth Level combatant at the age of seventeen and has made a great name for himself during the Grand Martial Tournament of the Eighteen Houses of Lianyun. The Master Apothecary, Xuanyi, has chosen this person to be his protégé. It’s said that this guy is exceptionally talented and is capable of becoming a master apothecary someday! However, for some reason, he hasn’t gone to the capital with Master Li.”
“This genius is indeed impressive. Logically speaking, such a genius would never stay in a small place like this. Why would the Second-rank Prince become enemies with the House of Ye then?”
“There’s more to the situation than you know. That genius once suffered an ambush when he was still young and had his meridians severely damaged. The Ye Clan Chief, Ye Zhantian, knelt before the Second-rank Prince of Donglin and begged for the Nexus Pill on his behalf but got beaten up and driven away by the Second-rank Prince. That was how they became enemies.”
“The Second-rank Prince of Donglin has lacked foresight. Had he given them the Nexus Pill, he would’ve become a great benefactor to them. When that person becomes a master apothecary in the future, the benefits the Second-rank Prince could gain would be far greater compared to a Nexus Pill.”
“The Second-rank Prince can’t foretell the future, unlike those people from the Oracle Sect. How could he have known that this person would be able to reverse his hopeless situation after having suffered such serious damages to his meridians and proceed to become a genius at cultivation within such a short amount of time?”
The people sighed among themselves. Indeed, one could never know what would happen in the future. At this point, even if the Second-rank Prince of Donglin made up his mind to annihilate the House of Ye, he would most likely end up offending the Master Apothecary Xuanyi, who was the only master apothecary of the Xiwu Empire!
While the people were still chatting in the restaurant, two chirping sounds could be heard from outside as two dark silhouettes swept across the sky. Instantly, the streets fell into chaos.
“What are those things?” Many people pointed at the Raven Hawk and the Vermillion Spirit Condor in the sky.
“Those are mystical beasts — a Raven Hawk and a Vermillion Spirit Condor!”
“Could these mystical beasts be planning to attack the city?”
Donglin City was in a state of disorder and panic. Nonetheless, when the people saw that the Raven Hawk and the Vermillion Spirit did not swoop down to prey on any of them but continued flying toward the Second-Prince’s Palace, they became anxious and uncertain as they could not understand what was going on.
Outside the city wall, a group of Donglin City guards were chatting among themselves when they suddenly caught sight of an enormous white figure charging in their direction from afar. Trees kept tumbling down around the beast while dust and dirt rose from the ground and filled the air. The sound of this enormous beast running over echoed like rumbling thunder and caused these guards’ expressions to change at once. What on earth was happening?
When they could finally get a clearer view of this white figure, they found that it was a giant white ape that was around four to five meters tall. Their hearts trembled in fear when they saw how tall it was.
“Mystical beasts are attacking the city!”
“Mystical beasts are attacking the city!”
Fire beacons were lit on the city walls as all the guards became nervous and got drenched in cold sweat. They wondered what level this mystical beast was, given its enormous body size.
They began operating the huge crossbows and catapults on the city wall and launched large rocks to attack the Zephyr White Ape.
“Roar!” The Zephyr White Ape thumped its chest while roaring furiously. When it saw the incoming rocks, it swung its arms around abruptly and smashed them into pieces. As those large rocks shattered in the air one after another in a string of booming noises, broken pieces of rocks flew all over the place.
As some of the broken rocks fell on the Zephyr White Ape, it seemed as though these shattered rock pieces were falling on a steel plate seeing as they did no harm to the beast at all and merely bounced off its body. These large rocks might have been more of a threat against Ninth Level combatants but were useless against Tenth Level fighters.
The Zephyr White Ape suddenly increased its speed and charged toward the city gate.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. A wave of arrows shot toward the Zephyr White Ape but it paid no attention to them and allowed the arrows to shower down on its body. Ding, ding, ding. Countless arrows were bent or broken by the time they fell to the ground yet the Zephyr White Ape remained completely unscathed.
One round of attack from the crossbows and catapults on the city wall was sufficient to kill any Ninth Level mystical beast. However, at that moment, these weapons could not do the slightest harm to the Zephyr White Ape. This was an extremely powerful Tenth Level mystical beast! The guards on the city wall turned pale with fright as they found that compared to facing a magnificent army with thousands of men and horses, it was more terrifying to go up against a Tenth Level beast like this one!