130 Dividing the spoils. (1/2)
Li Yang stabilized his body, Fang Ying supporting his shoulder and making sure that he didn't immediately fall over. The explosion caused by the energy of such a strong Divine beast going rampant was nothing to scoff at, even if he was shielded by the flesh of the hydra, so Li Yang's entire brain had been shaken so badly that his vision was currently blurry and spinning. Li Yang luckily had a strong body so he quickly managed to regain his stability and normal vision, his gaze landing on the pieces of the hydra that were splattered around the area.
”Hah~ fuck, I knew it was gonna make an absolute mess of the area.”
Fang Ying could only giggle when she heard Li Yang's complaints, only he was the type of person who could think of complaining after they killed such a strong Divine beast. She knew what he wanted to do next so she raised her left arm, some of the splattered blood in the surrounding area rising up and gathering around her, swirling around her like a curtain of crimson rain.
Li Yang stretched out both arms and opened his hands so that his palms were facing the sky, fire gathering in one and lightning in the other. Some of the drops of blood swirling around Fang Ying moved slightly when the fire and lightning appeared, moving an inch closer and seemingly rotating around the fire and lightning. Li Yang had the fire and lightning disappear and then snatched the drops of blood, using them to draw up two palm-sized arrays that looked like three drops circling around each other.
Li Yang poured his Qi into the arrays to activate them, the two arrays immediately performing their one task, gathering in any surrounding energy that shared the same element as the materials used to draw them. They were the most common and simple type of array, but right now they were just what Li Yang needed. With the arrays activating and spreading their influence, more and more of the blood that had splashed throughout the area started to move, flying towards the arrays and gathering into two orbs, one above each array.
Not all the blood flew over, only the blood that carried the element of fire or lightning came flying over, this was the blood that would be most useful to Li Yang. Only two out of the seven heads of the hydra contained the elements he was looking for so it only took half a minute for the arrays to gather up all the blood, forming two orbs of blood that were both about a meter wide and tall.
Once all the blood was gathered, Li Yang inspected it closely, his eyes lighting up slightly when he found what he was looking for. Hidden away within the two orbs were a few small drops of blood that clearly contained far more power than the rest of the blood, the Hydra's Essence Blood. Li Yang guessed that the hydra had likely transferred most of its Essence Blood into the remaining body that it was hiding away, only leaving behind a small amount to make it seem like it had truly died.
But despite the fact that there were only a few drops here, Li Yang was still happy. This Essence Blood was the concentrated might and lifeforce of the hydra, a proper Divine beast. Giving this blood to Shenlong and Jinwu might not be enough to awaken them, but it would most certainly be enough to stabilize them to a point where he no longer had to worry that they might never wake up again. Depending on how much it stabilized them Li Yang might even be able to start activating his bloodline for a few seconds without having to worry about it draining all the remaining strength in their bodies.
Li Yang looked at the orbs of blood with glimmering eyes, Fang Ying smiling faintly at him from behind. He had already told her about Jinwu and Shenlong so she knew what this blood was for, and she was happy that Li Yang's previously narrow circle of people he cared about had grown, even if only slightly. Li Yang quickly put the blood into his interspatial ring, his eyes narrowing slightly as he swept Tian Zheng and the others with a sharp gaze.
”I'll say it directly, I don't care what you do with the rest of the spoils, but the fire and lightning elemental, as well as these two orbs of blood,belong to me.”
Li Yang's words didn't leave an inch of room for discussion, anyone who tried to take either of these things would likely have to fight him for them. Xiong Xieren and the others simply shrugged their shoulders, clearly not willing to start a fight with Li Yang right now. They thought that they had gotten an elementary understanding of him up to this point, but that thought was swiftly shattered when he killed the hydra. The law of lightning and ice didn't have any utilization that could cause an enemy to explode like that, and while the law of fire did have one such usage, Li Yang clearly didn't specialize in that particular aspect.
In that case, just how had he made the hydra explode like that? The battle didn't answer any questions about Li Yang's strength, it simply created more of them that Yuan Peng and the others had to try and figure out. Tian Zheng could be the one here considered to have the most familiar relationship with Li Yang, so he was the first one to speak up, pointing at the two arrays floating in front of Li Yang.
”No problem, you've worked hard enough to warrant at least that. But I hope you won't mind me troubling you with creating a few more of those arrays so that we can easily gather up the remaining blood and neatly separate it. Also, Junior Sister Ying, are there any specific parts you want?”
Fang Ying's strength was close to Tian Zheng's and the others, and Li Yang had the advantage that his true strength was completely unknown for now. Letting the two of them choose which spoils to take first would serve to increase their opinion of Tian Zheng and the others, allowing them to get closer for possible future co-operation.
As for asking Li Yang to create more of those small arrays, it was simply because, among everyone present, he was the one most proficient in arrays, it was natural to leave such a job to him. Li Yang nodded his head and started to work on separating the different types of blood around Fang Ying so that he could draw up the arrays, Fang Ying inspecting the different types of blood while he was doing so.
”I'll take the life elemental and the life element, the rest you can divide amongst yourself.”
The elements that remained would be water, wind, wood, earth, meaning that everyone present would receive one of the elements, with Li Yang acquiring two. Li Yang guessed that wind would most likely go to Yuan Peng, wood to Xiong Xieren, earth to Cui Xiyuing, and water to Tian Zheng. The four others discussed amongst each other for a bit before dividing up the last four elements amongst each other, proving Li Yang's guess slightly incorrect. Yuan Peng did indeed get wind and Tian Zheng water, but Cui Xiuying was the one who ended up getting the wood element while Xiong Xieren gladly accepted the earth element.