Chapter 236: Animal Hides And Progenitor Wushang (1/2)

They landed heavily on the ground and immediately separated from each other.

The Ghost Monkey was stunned, “How did you wake up so easily? Not even an Explorer could recover that quickly fast.”

Lu Yin casually crushed the Void Wanderer. Since humans had no use for such an astral beast, he might as well destroy it and prevent the Ghost Monkey from escaping with it.

The Ghost Monkey’s eyes widened even further. “Human, you’re asking to die!” He then retrieved the skin from before and thrust it towards Lu Yin once again. Lu Yin’s eyes flashed and he retrieved a similar skin and brandished it at the Ghost Monkey. Lu Yin had just recalled that he also had a similar-looking piece of skin that he had once obtained from Pilfer. Also, the piece of skin that Lu Yin had was much bigger than the monkey’s.

The Ghost Monkey never expected that Lu Yin would also have a skin, and it shrieked in disbelief. Lu Yin firmly pressed the short monkey into the ground. “Shut up.”

“You- how can you have that?! That’s impossible! It belongs to our star realm. Why does a human have it?!” the Ghost Monkey wailed.

Lu Yin frowned, snatched the Ghost Monkey’s skin, and stored it in his cosmic ring. One could not look at this thing without being affected.

“What is this thing?” Lu Yin asked.

The Ghost Monkey ignored him and kept muttering in disbelief. “Impossible, why does a human have that?”

Lu Yin pressed his foot down onto the Ghost Monkey’s chest, causing it to spit out a mouthful of blood. “Speak, what is this?”

The Ghost Monkey mournfully wailed and then glared at Lu Yin. “Human, don’t think that you can get any information out of me!”

Lu Yin’s eyes flashed with a cold light. “Then you can go and die.”

He pressed down with his palm, causing the Ghost Monkey’s fur to stand on end. “Human, do you really want to kill me?! No one can tell you about this object’s origins if you kill me. Even in the entire Astral Beast Domain, only absolute powerhouses know anything about this object, and you won’t be able to get any information from them!”

Lu Yin coldly replied, “Since you won’t tell me, then there’s no point in keeping you around.”

“Wait, I can tell you a little!” the Ghost Monkey cried as it stared at Lu Yin, horrified.

Lu Yin sneered. “How will I know if you tell me the truth?”

“I can swear!” the Ghost Monkey hurriedly promised.

Lu Yin raised his palm again as the overwhelming pressure descended again, causing the Ghost Monkey to scream, “Human! Don’t be mistaken! This object is related to Progenitor Wushang. Do you really not want to know what it is?”

Lu Yin hesitated. “Progenitor Wushang? Who’s Progenitor Wushang?”

The Ghost Monkey’s eyes turned round as he proudly explained, “Progenitor Wushang is my ancestor! It is one of the most terrifying beings in the Astral Beast Domain. It’s rumored that if you gather all the beast hides, then you can find Progenitor Wushang and receive its inheritance.”

Lu Yin squinted. “If it’s your ancestor, then why do you still need to gather the beast hides? Don’t you know where your own ancestor is?”

“Our Ghost Monkey clan has too many beasts, and I’m only from a subsidiary branch. It was only by chance that I obtained this small piece,” the Ghost Monkey meekly replied.

“How strong is Progenitor Wushang?” Lu Yin was curious.

“Very strong. It can swallow stars and planets, it can tear through the Astral River, and it’s even rumored that it has an indestructible body that’s become a landmass that other beasts live upon. The legends say that if one obtains Progenitor Wushang’s inheritance, then their power level will soar to the heavens and that Realmbreakers, the powerhouses on Skymender’s List, and Ten Arbiters alike will all be trash before them.”

Lu Yin was amused by the description. “That was a good speech. Very smooth and it had a good flow to it too. It’s a pity that I don’t believe you and you’ve said too much. Just die.” He then swatted mercilessly at the Ghost Monkey.

“Human-” the Ghost Monkey cried out sharply, but it could not avoid its fate of being slapped to death by Lu Yin.

Lu Yin looked at the Ghost Monkey’s corpse and thought to himself, This bastard probably fabricated most of that, but Progenitor Wushang itself must exist, as it would not dare lie about such an obvious thing when facing death. Rather, it must have spouted some random facts to make Progenitor Wushang look more appealing. But the rest of the information must be fake, and since I can’t be confident that it was telling the truth, I’ll just forget about it.

Lu Yin did not feel that he would be so lucky as to one day go to the Astral Beast Domain and obtain some Progenitor Wushang’s inheritance; he was not some darling child of the universe.

He glanced at the Ghost Monkey’s corpse again, looked around himself, and then at his gadget. There was no signal, or perhaps the battle outside of Planet Conan had scrambled the surroundings so much that even Lu Yin’s gadget could not receive any incoming signals. He couldn’t even determine his own location and he wasn’t even sure if he was still on Planet Conan.

He contemplated his situation briefly before turning to leave—his first priority was undoubtedly to figure out his location.

As he started walking away, he had a strange feeling that something was not right. He frowned, took out the emperor giant’s third eye from his cosmic ring, and shrouded his body with the Cosmic Art. He then turned around to see a shadow squirming right below the ground’s surface. “You’re really not dead. This must be your real body.” He then grabbed at the underground shadow.

The shadow shrieked, “Human! Spare me! It really is related to Progenitor Wushang’s inheritance! I can even tell you where his grave is! Don’t kill me!”

“You’re too crafty. Sorry, but you must die.” Lu Yin then prepared to attack.