Chapter 398 Expecting an Old Friend (1/2)
”That should be it.” The Desolate Frost Lion nodded with a pensive attitude. Both the man and the familiar looked into each other's eyes and smiled at the same time.
The road to the mountain was rugged, and Tian Zhu mountain was in the midst of howling wilderness. Before the disaster, there were only a couple of people living in the mountain. However, right after the disaster, it became an uninhabited restricted area. It was difficult for human beings to survive there. As for the human world today, Tian Zhu mountain was an abandoned area.
It was a consensus that a place with a special meaning behind it or a phenomenal landscape would likely be the birthplace for strong familiars.
For example, on the Sun and Moon mountain, there lurked a Sun and Moon Golden Goose King, whose greed had become its second nature.
Not far from the Sun and Moon mountain, there was a lake called Lake Qing Hai. It was known as the first lake in the Huaxia District, and it contained a large number of pikes. The Lord-level pikes that had been discovered were more than ten. Rumor said that there could have been more Emperor-level pikes living in the deeper ocean.
On top of Mount Emei, there lived a hoolock that was in charge of protecting the creatures.
Basically, the majority of the famous mountains, including Mount Tai, Mount Huang, and Mount Hua, were occupied by strong monsters...
However, it was fortunate that some of these monsters were closer to human beings. They tended to show kindness to human beings and consume the incense and candles given by human beings in exchange for protecting the creatures around their areas.
On the other hand, the monsters that were cold-hearted toward humans refused to approach them. So far, there hadn't been any incidents of monsters attacking human base cities from any of the famous mountains. Looking at it this way, it was likely that there were some powerful monsters living on top of Mount Tianzhu.
”'The one with morality owns the treasure.' I like this quote from human beings.” The Desolate Frost Lion swung its head, comforting Gao Peng, who was hesitating. ”We're just here to help them keep the treasure. Moreover, these treasures don't have their names written on them. Does that mean the treasure is only available on a first-come-first-serve basis? I've never heard of that rule before.”
Gao Peng took a glance at it. ”I was just thinking about what to do if we failed to defeat those monsters on top of the mountain. Where would we go in this snowy place?”
”Why don't you have some confidence in us. I was once a king.” The Desolate Frost Lion was speechless.
After three days, Gao Peng had successfully passed through Mount Tian Zhu along with his familiars. What surprised him was that he didn't encounter any monster attacks on Mount Tian Zhu. The huge mountain peak was dead silent.
There would definitely be some treasures on the mountain. However, these treasures were far from Gao Peng's expectations, not to mention that to recover the strength of the Desolate Frost Lion, it would have to be worth a good price. Gao Peng didn't bother to take these lower treasures, and therefore, he gave them to the Treasure Sniffing Rodent. These low-level treasures were all stashed by the rodent, although they didn't know where it kept all the treasures.
The place where this rodent kept things was weird. There was a time when Gao Peng sat on the sofa and was poked by something in the butt. He then lifted the sofa cushions and found out that there was a hole there with over a dozen Elite monster core crystals hidden inside.
”You're not going to search for it anymore?” the Desolate Frost Lion said.
”No.” Gao Peng shook his head. ”We've wasted enough time here. Our main purpose was to find the Essence of the Undying Heart and raise Dumby's grade to Mythical.”
”Mythical grade. That skull is at Legendary-grade, too?” The Desolate Frost Lion was surprised. It had witnessed that this skull wasn't strong at all few days earlier. It was even weaker compared to the duck. It had thought it was only at Perfect-grade or Epic-grade.
”Dumby's main ability isn't fighting. It has a special ability, which is called Resurrection,” Gao Peng explained.
”Resurrection? That's a rare ability that can only be possessed by high-level Ghoul monsters.” The Desolate Frost Lion looked at Dumby because it hadn't expected this ugly skull to have such an extraordinary skill.