213 Your Majesty (2/2)
He swept a glance through the cave and suddenly his eyes landed on Xue Wei. A bit of hesitation was evident on his face, but he seemed to eventually gather courage and walked towards the younger male.
Xue Wei frowned. He had never before met a Primordial Beast who could sense his bloodline as a Sovereign Beast before, but then he was reminded of Wan Qiang's ability to see through him despite him wearing a face mask all those months ago.
Was his cultivation rank too low to keep himself disguised? He was unsure, but when he saw the veneration in Lu Yuping's eyes, he knew that he was not in danger right now at least.
Lu Yuping walked towards Li Chen and Xue Wei with graceful steps that were almost as light as air. His bearing was that of a sovereign coming to visit his subjects, but his entire demeanor changed the moment he stood in front of Xue Wei.
He bowed slightly, something that the rest of the experts within the cave had never seen him do before, and then he straightened his back.
”Your majesty,” he said respectfully with compressed voice communication to Xue Wei, ”I recognized you right away. Your demeanor is that of a god descending to the mundane world, your aura so overwhelmingly powerful that even I, a Primordial Beast with a strength equivalent to an Earth Knight of the seventh layer, feel great pressure.”
”Your majesty, please listen to the prayer of a humble servant—please bestow upon me some of your blood. I have been stuck at this layer for many years now. If I wish to advance, then I need to rely on external resources.”
”It is because of these external resources that I went to these cage battles. Here I get pills, medicinal herbs, spirit fruits, and even essence stones, but after relying on them for some time, I have realized that it is impossible for me to advance normally. I need something much more powerful. Something sacred for every Primordial Beast. I need the blood of a Sovereign Beast.”
Xue Wei was taken back by the request that Lu Yuping made. He narrowed his eyes. ”I do not seem to know you though,” Xue Wei replied and did not deny the fact that he was a Sovereign Beast. Instead, he acknowledged it wholeheartedly and spoke with Lu Yuping as one would with a business partner. If Lu Yuping could take out something that was of use to him, then a bit of blood was no big deal.
Xue Wei did not know exactly what marvelous changes his blood caused to Primordial Beasts, but he was not completely clueless either. He had seen how Hei Gou had transformed from an average beast into a top-notch one.
Not only had it changed his bloodline, but it had also mutated his body. His strength had risen and he had gained a higher Qi-level than before. He could imagine that the same changes happened to every one of the Primordial Beasts if they were to get their hands on his blood.
”I am a loyal subject to your majesty!” Lu Yuping said eagerly. ”I have been so ever since I heard about the resurgence of a Sovereign Beast.”
Xue Wei frowned. ”Resurgence of the Sovereign Beast? Where did you hear this?” He was unhappy about the fact that these Primordial Beasts seemed to know about him, or more precisely, they seemed to know that the Sovereign Beasts had returned. But where had they returned from? Xue Wei was puzzled.
Seeing his frown, Lu Yuping quickly went on to explain, ”We have not had a Sovereign Beast to rally and control us for the last thousands of years.” He sighed. ”Back when they united the continent and made the beasts the leading race, they ruled it for a few hundred years, but after that they all seemed to vanish.”
”No one knows if the Sovereign Beasts decided to seclude themselves deep within the danger zones where even the Primordial Beasts cannot enter, or if they died out, or even whether they left the continent or not.”
”Then a few thousand years went by and we ended up having the humans rebelling against us. The Sovereign Beasts never emerged in all that time. They only watched as we were overwhelmed.” There was the slight trace of a grudge in Lu Yuping's voice.
”Since then, Sovereign Beasts have only appeared every now and then to save us from extinction. They have not been an active part of our lives, or so I was told.”
”But the funny thing is that a few days ago, I heard a rumor from my friend, a Blue-Blooded Heavenly Lion, about how a young Sovereign Beast had appeared on the continent.”
”I did not believe it, but I was hoping for it,” Lu Yuping admitted readily. ”Now that I have seen you, I feel that the royal air coming from you can only come from a noble being such as a Sovereign Beast.”
Xue Wei had received quite a bit of information from this conversation, but he did not trust it completely. Lu Yuping was not weak, but he was far from being one of the high-ranking experts in the Primordial Beast world. His knowledge was likely to be flawed. It was better to wait for the information he could get from Li Chen and the Intelligencer.
Returning to the subject at hand, Lu Yuping wanted his blood, but Xue Wei was not going to just hand it over. Although he had a body filled with it, he understood that it was rather precious.
At the same time, he was aware that flat out declining the request could possibly push Lu Yuping to forcibly steal his blood with force out of desperate need. It was a difficult position.
Sensing Xue Wei's hesitation, Lu Yuping understood what was going on in his mind and quickly smiled. ”I will not ask for it for free,” he said sleazily, ”I will, of course, compensate you for everything. I can give you pills and essence stones.”
Xue Wei narrowed his eyes ponderously. Then he agreed after a few moments. Although he was not short on pills, the ones he had were mainly either suitable for Heavenly Warriors or meant to provide a smoother breakthrough into the Ordinary Knight rank. The pills that Lu Yuping possessed clearly contained energy fit to benefit the cultivation of an Ordinary or even an Earth Knight.