Chapter 34 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Those few shadows were quick. As soon as Wutian and others disappeared, the shadows came to the cliff in the valley of the demonic wolves. They were all in awe when they saw the scene ahead of them.

“What happened here? How strong one’s combat strength needs to be to cause such devastation? Could the resurrection of the Primordial Scorpion be true?” Elder Wu was shocked.

Huoshi looked around, the look in his eyes was telling. “I think we have come too late. We just missed something exciting.”

“I am afraid it was not only exciting but also horrifying. I couldn’t imagine what fought with the Primordial Scorpion.” Liuyan frowned.

“It doesn’t matter what it is. It has nothing to do with us. Our priority is to complete the mission Father has assigned us.” Huoshi looked at the burly man. “Carry out the plan. Liuyan and I will head back to the Zhao family while you inform everyone to kill anyone who enters Mount Scorpius.”

“Got it.” Elder Wu looked hesitant a bit, but he still nodded in acknowledgment. He then leaped away and disappeared into the woods.

“Do you really need to kill everyone, Huoshi? If news of us, the Fire Cloud Clan, cultivating Spirit-devouring Manual leaks out, those mainstream sects would come after us,” said Liuyan.

“Those so-called mainstream sects only looked good on the outside. They are all hypocrites. So what if they find out? With the strength of the Fire Cloud Clan, we could wipe out any sect in the Redsun Mountains, including the Yan Clan.”

“Let’s move. It is time.” Huoshi looked long and hard at the lava lake down below, only then he spun around and left.

Liuyan was in a pickle. Huoshi was becoming more and more sinister, his way of doing things even more brutal. She did not know if it was right, but she would still quietly throw her support behind him. That was because he was the person whom she most loved.

She sighed and followed behind him swiftly, like a white butterfly.

As the sky started to turn bright, the chill air gradually dissipated.

At the other end of the valley was an endless wetland. The place was overgrown with bushes and roaming with poisonous insects. A blanket of fog covered the area. Visibility was only about a thousand feet.

Wetlands were typically the most dangerous places around the mountains. There were many poisonous beasts living in the wetland. Staying safe was difficult in such a place, especially when there was heavy fog. Countless people and beasts were killed in the wetlands of the Samsara Continent every day.

Under normal circumstances, people would go around the wetlands. But now, three people were knowingly coming into the wetland.

“There is no solid ground to step on. How are we going to cross?” The one speaking was a young man dressed in purple clothes. He looked into the distance at a mound and groused.

The mound was a hundred feet across, overgrown with vegetation and rugged rocks, which meant it was a place they could stay. Surrounding the mound was the vast wetland, in which the mud was blackish and bubbling with a disgusting odor.

“The place is so disgusting, Wutian. I couldn’t concentrate to refine the divine liquid. Besides, it was a wetland all around. Who knows what vicious beasts are hiding here? With our current physical condition, I am afraid that a Beta stage demonic beast could even kill us. I think we better find another place!”

These three people were none other than Wutian, Han Tian, and Little Tian. They stood on the edge of the wetland, scanning the surroundings. The dustpan-sized egg was still shimmering. The leaking essence was driving the miasma.

“Here it is. We are not going to switch places,” said Wutian. The miasma-covered place was the most ideal hiding place. No one would come to this place.

When they left the valley, he saw a few shadows coming in that direction. It meant the noise had alerted the outside world. Those people could be only the first wave. There could be more to come.

The giant egg was unique and not some mortal item. If found, people could get green-eyed and another round of endless fighting and killing would happen. So they had better find a hidden spot, finishing the refinement first, then only they would go out.

This place was undoubtedly the best choice as the mound was in the center of the wetland, covered in a blanket of fog. It was difficult to be spotted.

“Caw, caw!” Little Tian nodded in agreement. It looked at the egg and was drooling big time. It could not wait to eat it right on the spot.

“But how are we going to cross over? Are you expecting me to swim in the wetland? I don’t think I can do that,” said Han Tian.

Little Tian stepped forward and patted its chests, basically meaning it had got an idea.

It went not far away and held up a giant rock that looked weighing twenty or thirty pounds, then threw it out with all its might. The rock crashed into the wetland, splashing up a ton of mud and the accompanying foul odor.

Roar!

A roar immediately came as a black vicious beast lunged out of the mud. It was as big as a small hill, its bucket-sized eyes glinting menacingly.

Its upper body was round, much like a giant meatball, and slippery. Its lower body had dozens of tentacles, some thick, some slender, some long, and some short, looking as if squirming vines, or giant snakes.

This was a Mud Beast, living in the wetland. Its body was as black as ink, extremely smelly and disgusting. It was capable of spurting blackish, corrosive fluid.

The Mud Beast was furious. It frenziedly waves its tentacles, splashing up mud tens of feet high in the air.