Chapter 204 – Beast Wisdom (1/2)

Chapter 204 - Beast Wisdom

“This is ridiculous! The Ye’s will become the strongest family in the region very soon with these treasures!” Images of nine locations flashed inside Ye Wei’s head, followed by the image of a precise runic array design. Ye Wei quickly realized that it was a selective translocation array.

Before his death, Supreme Ye Yu had predicted where the nine treasure spawns were going to be, and placed the arrays to transport the more powerful artefacts from the nine spawns to the tenth location. A location that was chosen by him, protected by ten drops of his own blood.

‘Supreme Ye Yu had created a runic vault…’ Ye Wei thought to himself in shock. ‘The other nine spots are insignificant if the arrays functioned as intended!’

Having prepared to give up all the marks left him no hopes for gaining anything but peace for the city, Ye Wei was startled by what he just discovered.

“How hilarious would it be if they killed each other for the mediocre treasure left by the arrays. Ha.” Ye Wei imagined the conflicts outside that was caused by the nine surfacing sacred marks, chuckled and muttered to himself.

With Helian Jieyuan as a guardian, Ye Wei was not at all worried about the Drakehead location being exposed. The young Runemaster must now gain experience and get inspired from the outside world, staying in the Drakehead would not help him figure out he should transform his cultivation to the returned prime stage.

“This is great! Once I manage to break through I will come back to consolidate my cultivation.” Ye Wei closed his eyes and planned the near future in his head. ‘I will tell granddad about the Drakehead when I become strong enough and when the family has control over the treasures and artefacts...’

After carefully putting the mark away, Ye Wei decided to continue studying the Eternal Star stance. He wanted to stay close to Green Moon City while the storm and battles for the rights to the sacred marks raged on.

‘I will prepare myself!’ The young Runemaster glanced across the hall and saw Helian Jieyuan cultivating, went to sit next to sage-like old man. Both of them were still as statues, the occasional sound of water current crushing was the only sound.

The pillar-shaped will-force reached the stars, drew energy from the constellations back down to Ye Wei. Inside a globe of twinkling energy, the young Runemaster began to interpret the second runic pattern.

***

While Ye Wei was focused on cultivating at the Supreme Yu palace, the Skeleton Demon King’s army, Quadwing Barren Beast’s horde and the Huyan’s forces were shedding each other’s blood, fighting for the marks.

The home to ancient trees and historical rivers was ravaged by the fire of war. Skirmishes between the powerful forces turned woods into desert, many of the North Barren Mountain’s magnificent peaks were flattened to small deserts.

Out of the nine marks, four were obtained by the Skeleton Demon King, two by the Quadwing Barren Beast and two by the Huyan’s. All three forces traced the last mark to a lake three hundred miles north of the bay area.

“Bones, you’ve gotten four already, don’t you think you are a bit greedy?! Get out of the way!” Huyan Haoze, the royal family’s young seven star returned prime Warrior was outraged by his inferiors’ incompetent, which he thought was the reason why he only got his hands on two marks.

“Swoosh!”

A jade colored fire-blade drew a line in the sky, flew right at the Demon King’s right hand where he held the marks.

“The North Barren Mountains is my territory, both of you need to show some damn respect!” The leader of the beast said as his four wings flapped in a quick succession. His body was immediately sped up by the thrust, his twenty-feet-long claws were pointed right at the seven-star returned prime Warrior.

The blood stains on the beast claws were set aflame by the speed it traveled, the smelly of rusty iron filled the air when the paw struck onto the fire-blade, hundreds of shock-waves were sent outwards from the point of impact.

“Stop that winged abomination!” Huyan Haoze commanded, went on to confront the Skeleton Demon King. Three of the royal family’s elders, who were exchanging blows with other demons and beasts, knocked their opponents back and leaped towards the beast’s head.

“The last mark is ours you filthy animal!” They empowered their bodies with Qi, glowing golden and fell at the beast like comets.

On top of a towering peak just a few miles away from the battleground, a sleek-figured girl sat quietly spectating the brawl. She was calmly still, while her cyan dress and violet hair flowed in the pungent wind.

“Your highness, are you sure we should leave the mark be?” The silver-haired old man energetically darted his eyes around to keep up with the fights, turned and asked in an urgent pace, slightly nervous.

“The Dragon ridge is left by a Ye, so it belongs to the Ye’s.” Lin Ziyan stood up slowly and said emotionlessly. Her delicate facial features made the battlefield seem more vile than it already was.