Chapter 685! (1/2)
AST 685 – ‘Raiding’ the Snow White Sacred Fruit
A White Jade Jiao was crawling on the ground!
The White Jade Jiao was also known as the ‘White Jiao’ or the ‘Silver Jiao’. It was one of the most highly ranked of the Jiao species. According to legend, the White Jade Jiao had, since ancient times, harbored the blood of the White Jade Dragon in its veins.
The gigantic body of the White Jade Jiao was about 100 meters in length, and appeared very eye-catching as it crawled majestically on the icy snow ground. Qing Shui was utterly shocked when he took a careful look at the White Jade Jiao. He hadn’t thought that he would find a powerful demonic beast just 300 li into the Mountain of Longevity.
Most importantly, Qing Shui was able to notice a small horn on top of the White Jade Jiao’s gigantic head. This horn was the most shocking part about the White Jade Jiao.
Legend stated that if a Jiao managed to grow a horn on its head, it would be considered the king of its kind. The aptitude and growth of the White Jade Jiao would always be far superior to other Jiaos. Theoretically, the White Jade Jiao could evolve into one of the legendary beasts given enough time.
Qing Shui was quite perplexed at the current situation. He had been told that there wouldn’t be any demonic beast that had the strength to surpass the Old Ancestor of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect within 300 meters of the mountains’ borders. Qing Shui didn’t need to sense the White Jade Jiao’s power to be certain that it had already surpassed the strength of 10,000 countries.
If this was the strength of a human martial warrior, he would have already passed the level of Peak Martial Saint. However, in the world of demonic beasts, the White Jade Jiao wouldn’t even be considered a Peak Martial Saint. Suddenly, the White Jade Jiao began to move in a spiraling motion and curled into a shape of a small mountain. It glared at Qing Shui with its ferocious eyes and spouted a three-meter long breath of cold air in between its nose.
Ang!
It was a clear sound that sounded like a cow’s cry, and at the same time, like a dragon’s roar. Even though Qing Shui had never seen a dragon before, he had heard their roars from dubbed voices in media and historical records during his past life. The clear cries of the White Jade Jiao were oddly similar, especially the dignified tone of its roar. The sound could provoke a sense of fear and agitation to those who heard the cries.
According to legend, there would also always be treasures nearby whenever a White Jade Jiao appeared in an area. This was to be expected as the White Jade Jiao mostly acted as guardians to such treasures. Normally, these kind of demonic beasts would guard treasures such as fruits, herbs, and anything else considered edible. Moreover, the treasures the guardian beast protected would be quite useful for their own consumption. A demonic beast would often guard a treasure for a few dozen years, and in certain cases, even for a century.
Although Qing Shui’s current strength was way inferior to that of the White Jade Jiao, he didn’t feel afraid. It was a good thing that he was wearing the Nine Continent Boots. Even if an unavoidable situation arose, he could use the Nine Continent Steps Effect to evade the impending crisis.
Moreover, Qing Shui had decent amounts of agility and speed.Taken together with the ultimate Cloudmist Steps that he had cultivated from combining numerous step techniques, he could move cunningly and as quick as the wind.
He darted his gaze around, hoping to find the treasure that the gigantic beast was trying to guard, as well as assessing if the treasure was worth the risk to perform a ‘raid’.
Ang!
The White Jade Jiao roared loudly at Qing Shui once again, but it didn’t try to leave its spot to chase him away. Because of that, he speculated that there was something valuable hidden underneath that humongous body of the White Jade Jiao.
Qing Shui stood nearby as he hesitated to attempt the ‘raid’. He observed the situation closely – the White Jade Jiao didn’t seem like it planned to leave this place any time soon.
“It’s good that it didn’t move. Otherwise I would have had to run away as fast as I could. Alright, I will try for now. If anything happens, I can always run away and try another time. Like they always say: If there is no risk, there is no reward.” Qing Shui held this monologue in his mind for a while.
If he couldn’t defeat this White Jade Jiao, then there would always be other ways to force it to leave its spot. However, it was unknown whether these methods would actually work.
Mighty Elephant Stomp?
After pondering this idea for a moment, he shook his head. He also put on hold his thoughts about the treasure underneath that massive beast for now. After all, he still wasn’t qualified to fight head on with the White Jade Jiao given that his own power was only 4000 countries of strength.
Descending Heavens Talisman!
Qing Shui took out the Descending Heavens Talisman and ‘slapped’ it instantaneously towards the White Jade Jiao’s body.
With the Descending Heavens Talisman and some other weakening abilities, Qing Shui could instantly estimate the White Jade Jiao’s strength.
After decreasing about 240 countries of strength…..
Even though he had initially guessed that the White Jade Jiao at least possessed the power of 10,000 countries of strength, he was nevertheless shocked at what he saw – 2% of its overall power was about 240 countries of strength.
This meant the White Jade Jiao’s overall power was about 12,000 countries of strength.
Before this, Qing Shui actually had thought luck was on his side, because if the White Jade Jiao had the power equivalent of about 10,000 countries of strength, there was a possibility he could kill it with his current abilities. But now, all of that seemed nearly impossible.
There was a great disparity between his strength and the White Jade Jiao’s strength.
“I will try to decrease its strength first. If that doesn’t work, then I still can run away from it quite easily.” Qing Shui thought about it and regained a bit of hope. Today, his goal was to snatch the treasure away from the White Jade Jiao.
Ang!
The White Jade Jiao let out a deep roar while staring with its terrifying eyes at Qing Shui. The enormous eyes gazed at him with an expression of disdain. Taking away 240 countries of strength was a sign of disrespect to the gigantic demonic beast.
Qing Shui then summoned his Diamond Gigantic Elephant.
The Diamond Gigantic Elephant possessed the Instantaneous Diamond Evasion skill, so it was still in a safe zone. Of course, it would be another story if the opponent decided to use all of its 12,000 countries of strength. However, Qing Shui had made all the necessary preparations to defend against the White Jade Jiao.
Vajra Subdues Demons!
The Diamond Gigantic Elephant went straight into its battle mode and inflicted the skill that could infuriate any opponent onto the White Jade Jiao. In an instant, the White Jade Jiao’s power had been weakened by a further 10%.
At that point, the White Jade Jiao that originally had 12,000 countries of strength began to feel uncomfortable. It felt some fear when it realized the potential threat Qing Shui and his Diamond Gigantic Elephant were beginning to pose. The look of disdain the White Jade Jiao gave to Qing Shui earlier was because it thought it was still far more powerful than him.
Fiery Golden Eyes!
This technique decreased the Jiao’s power by another 1000 countries of strength!
Ang Ang!