Chapter 28 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Wutian looked around in puzzlement. “Disappeared?”

Little Tian sniffed hard, then pointing at the river with his claw. Without needing an explanation, the two knew that the unscrupulous Taoist’s scent had vanished.

“Go check it out on the other side.” Han Tian lunged out and ran on water.

“Caw!” Little Tian followed suit by lunging forward, skipping over the water as if a dragonfly.

Wutian frowned. Picking up a few pieces of dead wood and throwing them to the river, he lunged out and crossed to the other side by stepping on the floating woods.

“Hey, little thing, did you smell the fat Taoist’s scent?” asked Han Tian after everyone had crossed the river.

Little Tian sniffed around a bit, then its eyes lit up with delight. It pointed at the peak of the mountain, basically saying that the Taoist was there.

But Han Tian did not move. He looked up at the towering peak in the clouds and frowned.

This mountain was weird. Standing at thousands of feet high, it had a flat top. One side of the peak was narrow and curled up like a scorpion’s tail.

“What is going on?” asked Wutian, feeling perplexed.

Han Tian sounded grave. “This is Mount Scorpius. Legend has it that an ancient divine scorpion died here. Its body did not decay but formed into a mountain peak over time. The terrain here is rugged and dangerous, with demonic beasts roaming around. People tried to explore the mountain, but none of them could come out alive. It is an inauspicious place!”

“Then what are we going to do? Are we giving up just like this?”

Han Tian let out an evil smile. “There is no giving up in my dictionary. I have long been wanting to explore this creepy, inauspicious place and see what it is up to. You dare to join me, Wutian?”

“I don’t think so.” Wutian was honest in his reply. He already had the God’s Left Hand. He did not have to take such a risk.

Blue veins popped up on Han Tian’s skin, smoke billowing from his head. Wutian should have turned around and left if he was afraid. Why did he still ask what they were going to do? He obviously was fooling around.

“Caw!”

Little Tian cawed and ignored the two of them as it lunged straight up the mountain.

“Stop!” Wutian got the shock of his life and quickly shouted. But Little Tian did not listen this time. It looked up at the peak of Mount Scorpius and saw a rare light of hope as if something up there was attracting it.

“Screw it!” Wutian gritted his teeth; he could not abandon Little Tian just like that.

“What makes the Gobbler so excited? I am curious to know.” Han Tian let out an evil smile. He saw the craving eyes of Little Tian and decided to follow it.

Mount Scorpius was massive. It did not feel so when looking from afar. But once getting closer to it, they realized that this place was unimaginably vast, almost boundless.

Towering ancient trees, lush green forest leaves, rugged rocky terrain, and wetlands.

The challenging terrains limited how fast they could move. After going for four hours, they were still at the mountain’s outskirts.

Wutian knew why Little Tian was so adamant about coming. It had told of mysterious energy that could greatly help in its growth. If Little Tian could take in this energy, it could very well kick-start its first stage of evolution.

But Wutian had a mixed feeling about this. He was happy if Little Tian could evolve because once succeeded, it would add one more powerful combat force to himself. But when he thought of the difficulty that a Gobbler had to experience in evolution, he could not help but be worried.

“Stop. Danger ahead.” Han Tian warned, his eyes narrowing as he squinted at a mound not far ahead.

The mound was not very high, only about a hundred feet high, overgrown with vegetation. There was a ruffling sound coming from the mound as if many demonic beasts were roaming about.

“Be careful.” Han Tian warned again as he crept forward.

Little Tian did not mess around this time. It just quietly rested on Wutian’s shoulder.

“Demonic wolf?” Before they got close, a disgusting smell attacked their nostrils.

A few moments later, the three of them lay on the mound and looked ahead. A thousand feet away, a pair of mountains stood at ten thousand feet high, side-by-side. Between them was a valley where shadows were wandering around. Their eyes were red, looking very vicious.

“So many demonic wolves? Is that their lair?”

The expressions on their faces did not look too good. There were no less than a thousand demonic wolves in the valley. These creatures might not be powerful, but they were simply too many of them. It was going to waste them a lot of time if they were to kill all the wolves.

“Little thing, did you smell anything?” asked Han Tian in a low voice.

Little Tian sniffled around, then quickly covered its nose and pointed at the valley. The foul smell was too overpowering, covering up the other scents. But it had managed to smell something.

“There is no other way except for killing our way in.” Han Tian sighed.

“How did he go in there?” Wutian was puzzled. The unscrupulous Taoist was just a mortal, yet he had not only come to this inauspicious place but also entered the wolf’s lair. This was something Wutian could not understand.

“Who cares how he entered? Let’s make this quick. We don’t want to get bogged down by a long fight. Little Thing, keep track of the fat Taoist’s scent, okay?”

Han Tian rose to his feet and performed his Power of Metal. A bright golden sun came out of him and illuminated the place while the Power of Wind was under his feet. He then shot out like an arrow in a split second.

Arh-woo!

The demonic wolves in the valley were alarmed, their howls ripping through the air. They charged forward and quickly surrounded Wutian and others, baring their fangs and staring menacingly at them with their red eyes.