Chapter 117: The Mutated Heart Devourer (1/2)

Bai Xiaofei sat cross-legged before the two large pythons. Huskie sat to his left, and Blackie was sprawled over his right shoulder. He suddenly felt that he may be more suited to be a beast tamer than to be a puppet master.

“Alright, now tell me what’s troubling you.” Bai Xiaofei took a deep breath and braced himself for what the “trial” fate had in store for him.

“We are being hunted…” Xing said, stunning Bai Xiaofei.

Holy shit, the two of you are already powerful enough. Yet you’re actually being hunted?

“By who?”

Bewilderment covered Bai Xiaofei’s face, and a sense of expectation surfaced within him. If the hunter is a human…

“A mutated Heart Devourer.”

Fine, my beautiful dream is shattered. The enemy is not a human… This was Bai Xiaofei’s initial reaction, followed immediately by extreme shock.

“Heart Devourer?!!!” he shrieked. If he wasn’t seated cross-legged at the moment, he would have also leapt up in surprise.

The so-called Heart Devourer was one of the rare magical beasts that did not have a fixed rank. Their strength depended on the prey they ate. Heart Devourers only had one inborn ability: Devour. Regardless of the prey and so long as the Heart Devourer ate the heart of its victim, it could inherit one of the prey's abilities. The heart was the fountain of life. Once consumed, the rank of the Heart Devourer would grow as well.

For humans, the Heart Devourer was both a disaster and a source of wealth. A Heart Devourer, once mature, was almost undefeatable when up against other beasts of the same rank. After all, one wouldn’t even know the abilities possessed by that particular Heart Devourer, so there was no way of planning countermeasures for it. The Heart Devourer, on the other hand, would have an eighty percent chance of finding an ability to counter its opponent after exchanging a couple blows.

Historically, there was indeed an incident where a Heart Devourer had wantonly slaughtered puppet masters. Ultimately, several big shots had to join hands in order to exterminate it. Similarly, the inborn ability Devour allowed the Heart Devourer to have unlimited abilities. After all, the Heart Devourer would gain the abilities of all the beasts it ate. Therefore, any masters who had the capabilities of turning it into their own animate puppet would benefit immensely.

Of course, this was just a theory, and it had never happened before. The mere thought of such a possibility, however, was enough to make one’s hair stand on end. It was a temptation nobody could resist. With such great power, one would be able to achieve the unimaginable.

This was why, when Bai Xiaofei heard the words “Heart Devourer”, he felt like he was already as good as halfway through the gates of hell.

“What’s wrong? Is there a problem?” Xing asked gloomily. Bai Xiaofei immediately shifted his expression back to normal.

“It’s nothing. I was just a little surprised, that’s all. I never expected your enemy to be a Heart Devourer.”

Wiping away his cold sweat, Bai Xiaofei was feeling extremely bitter.

The saying “no matter what, death is the result” perfectly describes my current situation.

“This isn’t just a normal Heart Devourer. Rather, it is a mutated Heart Devourer,” Xing emphasized, as if he would have no trouble dealing with a regular Heart Devourer.

Bai Xiaofei slightly blanked out then asked, “Mutated? What mutation could a Heart Devourer have?”

A regular Heart Devourer was already a cheat-like existence in and of itself. Even after a great mutation, it would still be a cheat!

“For some reason, this Heart Devourer can’t be killed. I once hit him with my Light of Obliteration and even blasted away half his head. Shortly after I left, his wounds completely healed, and he chased after us. What’s more, he became even stronger after recovering!

“Ever since then we’ve been on the run. If it weren’t for the fact we were out of options, we would never have used Hong’s ability to take on the appearance of a low rank magical beast like the Goldsilver Twin-headed Python.”

Looking dejected, Xing sighed. It was an absolute disgrace for a magical beast to fear revealing its true form. Xing’s words did not dishearten Bai Xiaofei. Rather, they had given him a glimmer of hope.

“You mean your Light of Obliteration is capable of damaging him?”

The most hopeless situation wasn’t when an opponent couldn’t be defeated, it was when one couldn’t even harm a hair on an opponent who could easily dish out heavy damage.