Chapter 429 (1/2)

”I guess it stopped when I cut it…”

Zhang Dong gave out a sigh of relief as he discovered that he had managed to destroy the device that was used for teleportation. After cleaving his last opponent in half he continued deeper into the large fortress that was now sliced into two parts.

This wasn't all, the huge worm beast that had carried this thing all the way here was also dead. It wasn't giving out any life signs and his spiritual sense was also not picking out anything. Everything that was here was now dead and he was the last survivor.

Only thanks to surrounding himself with a barrier of golden flames that could burn away anything that came close to him was he successfully able to not be covered in blood and guts.

The carnage remained outside as it seemed that everyone that was here decided to rush him. The reason for it was probably the huge enemy with the hammer behind them, they could either die in battle with him or get turned to minced meat by him instead.

Now he was looking at something that seemed like a teleportation gate. With the help of his Ai helper, he was able to successfully identify this alien technology.

'This looks somewhat organic…'

Zhang Dong picked out a strange tube from the ground that was connected to the teleportation gate. At first, he thought it was a power cable, or for fuel but inside of it was some strange green liquid that seemed more like blood.

'This almost looks like organs and veins… I can even feel some faint life coming from this, but it's fading quickly…'

The battle mostly took place in the courtyard of this large fortress. The huge one-horned boss also charged at him before he could really enter into the whole structure. His sword strike left it destroyed and after looking around for a moment he found a certain room.

”Is this a heart?”

On the ground, there was some kind of deflated organ covered in more green goop. It was radiating his sword intent and was clearly damaged by him. This seems like the power room but it had collapsed unto itself along with most of the fortress.

Without thinking too much he used his spiritual energy to raise the rubble around this section. The damaged organ was then floated over and deposited into his spatial ring. Now was not the time to examine these things but he needed to take some samples and have his sect members examine them later.

To his surprise, these monsters didn't seem to have any spatial technology. He didn't discover any rings or bags that could carry more items. Maybe they didn't feel like they needed anything like pills and more weapons to carry around if they could produce them from their own bodies?

The boss that he had sliced in half was also deposited into his spatial ring along with a few other body samples that weren't too damaged. There was also a strange sphere on a platform made from bones and with some of those veins attached to it. He could feel some strange energies coming from it, thus it also made its way into his belongings.

”How did they build this thing… did they disassemble some beasts or somehow grow this organic mass?”

This place was strange indeed but even more baffling was the mystery behind building it. From the outside, it looked like a pile of bones, but on the inside, it clearly had organic components, even things that looked like organs and a circulatory system.

While he was continuing with the examination he noticed that he had new visitors. They were fast approaching and there was quite a big group of them.

”It must be the cavalry? Fashionably late to the party, aren't they?”

He was not in any danger as the new arrivals came from the same sect that he visited today. It was clear that after the elders escaped they rallied the troops to defend themselves. While he wanted to compliment their resolve, they would have been dead if they tried attacking these monsters alone.

They probably brought about thirty to forty percent of their forces here while the rest remained on standby. It was normal for them not to give up without a fight or measuring their enemies' might. These monsters were body refiners so their combat abilities were hard to measure with spiritual sense as the amount of Qi they possessed wasn't that high.

”Body refiners… no wonder there isn't anything here that can store spiritual energy…”

After wandering around for a few minutes and scanning everything his hopes of getting some loot were crushed. The only bounty was the strange hammer that he sliced in half, its spiritual energy disrupting capabilities were interesting and clearly, it was due to the material it was made from. Besides it, there was nothing else of much value that he could spot.

”They don't need to craft weapons as they can just use their body parts and don't use pills or spiritual stones to increase their strength, this will be an annoying enemy…”

For Wang Long, this might have been a nice opponent as they would drop spirit points for him. But to him they were somewhat worthless, that is unless he figured out a way to utilize these organic components that they were using.