Chapter 858 Nurturing A High Speed Cultivation
Chapter 858: Nurturing A High Speed Cultivation
"You lost a tooth from laughing? Hahaha, you actually lost a tooth? You're really making this Scarlet-Eyed Lord die out of laughter, hahaha. Huh? No wait, your face. Haha, how did your face become an old man!" The Scarlet-Eyed Beast was still laughing, but it thought something was wrong. The Big-Eared Mouse was now a declining old man, the type that would die in the blink of an eye.
"Cough, cough!" The Big-Eared Mouse could no longer laugh and it fell to the ground.
At this moment, the Flying Dragon Lizard's laughter had abruptly stopped.
Like a clean swing of a blade.
Its entire being was frightened, expression cold as if it fell into an ice cellar.
Something must have happened for this Big-Eared Mouse to regress into this state so suddenly.
According to the tragic deaths of Pi Yi, Samson, and the resident Bai Lu, the Big-Eared Mouse must be cursed by the Divine Power of Calamity.
Thinking of this, the Flying Dragon Lizard suddenly burst into cold sweat. In a hurry, it didn't care about wanting to get the first kill and roared, "Flower Belly, something is wrong, let's withdraw!"
But the entire lake was empty, not a trace of a reply. The Flying Dragon Lizard quickly searched for a while with its eyes. Apart from the rippling surface of the lake and the Reaper Mantis, who's movements were as dainty as a dragonfly, there were no traces of its allies, and not even a single breath of life.
Could it be… At the moment, even if the Flying Dragon Lizard was a fool, he knew that the situation was not good.
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It looked not far to the side— the Scarlet-Eyed Beast continued to laugh, exasperations becoming wilder the longer he basked in laughter. Even the Scarlet-Eyed Beast itself realized that something was wrong, unable to control itself either. Its lonely laughter reverberated throughout the dead silent surroundings, spreading out towards the far, far distance. The laughter at this time no longer contained sarcasm, but anxiety, anger, and panic. This kind of uncontrollable laughter was a hundred times worse than crying! The Scarlet-Eyed Beast squeezed its throat hard. But even so, it couldn't stop the laughter from coming out, and if it didn't seem to laugh forcibly, its laughter would blow off the lobes of the lungs and directly open a hole in its chest.
The Reaper Mantis flew over the head of the dying Big-Eared Mouse.
Although the Big-Eared Mouse knew that it was as good as dead, its murderous intentions were still there.
Before dying, it intentionally raised its paws and hit the Reaper Mantis with a strong force, planning to take her along with it to have someone massage its back in the afterlife.
This attack had exhausted the last of its energy, and the Big-Eared Mouse patted weakly on the pair of sickle arms of the Reaper Mantis's rotating body, before dying stiffly.
The body quickly withered and dissipated with the wind.
The breeze blew past from the surface of the lake. In less than half a minute, there was only one remaining part of the Big-Eared Mouse that remained.
The Reaper Mantis gently waved her arms, levitating a green magic crystal which she happily caught.
The Flying Dragon Lizard was trembling all over when he saw the Reaper Mantis rushing towards him, which led to him emanating a large shockwave uncontrollably.
In the eyes of the two bystanders, Sickle Weasel and Ryoma, an ultra-perfect Cross-shaped Lightning appeared in front of the Reaper Mantis.
Then, space was split!
The shockwave of the Flying Dragon Lizard was perfectly cut into four halves.
The lightning had split the shockwave backwards, but ingeniously, it managed to avoid conflicting damage to the skin of the Flying Dragon Lizard. All the attack power dissipated right in front of the Flying Dragon Lizard. The Scarlet-Eyed Beast who was still laughing wildly had already ordered its thousands of children to attack the Reaper Mantis. Its body was still struggling in an attempt to escape the fit of laughter.
The body of the Reaper Mantis was faster than the speed of light, cleverly passing through the sky full of bats.
She avoided each of the attacks one by one.
Incomparably, she lightly stopped in front of the Scarlet-Eyed Beast.
Seeing this, the Sickle Weasel and Ryoma suddenly smiled bitterly at each other.
The ultra-perfect Cross Lightning Kill and the Dance of the Trailing Lights were originally the proud skills of the Sickle Weasel and Ryoma respectively. Now, these skills were compatible in someone else's body. The beast had even completely made the skills her own, completely outperforming the original creators.
Upon seeing this scene, it would be weird if both the Sickle Weasel and Ryoma didn't feel bitter.
The Reaper Mantis didn't want to kill the Flying Dragon Lizard and the Scarlet-Eyed monster, she just wanted to let the Law of the Beast Valley recognise the battle between her and the two, just like how it played out with the case of Bai Lu and the Big-Eared Mouse. In this way, when the Flying Dragon Lizard and the Scarlet-Eyed Beast died, the Reaper Mantis could gain the energy of the other parties under the Law of the Beast Valley to improve at a faster rate. Besides the Reaper Mantis's first kill, Bai Lu, and more than twenty monsters after that, there were the double kills of the Flower-Bellied Python and the Big-Eared mouse just now. All of those have become the energy source for her improvement. And her current list will continue to add the Flying Dragon Lizard and Scarlet-Eyed Beast!
Everything was laid out perfectly by Yue Yang.
"Go away, hahaha. It's still, haha, too early for you to kill this Scarlet-Eyed Lord, haha…" Although the Scarlet-Eyed Beast's tone was fierce, its heart was very disturbed.
It attacked frantically.
All kinds of ultimate skills— Sonic Attacks, Sweeping Slashes, Whirling Blows, Scarlet-Eyed Rays, Bat Smoke, Flying Formations— these various attacks emerged in an endless stream. But, it was useless as it was basically accelerating the rate of its own struggling death. Looking at its panicked attacks, it couldn't exert its usual amount of power at all. If it weren't for the resistance of the Reaper Mantis, it would have escaped like the Flying Dragon Lizard.
Hahahahaha!
The bat children in the sky were killed by the Reaper Mantis one by one, but the Scarlet-Eyed Beast, whose speed was getting slower and weaker, could no longer control them.
It fell to the edge of the lake, supporting its own frame using both arms with difficulty.
It kept on immersing its head in the water, hoping to hold back a smile in some way.
Gurgle, gurgle, bubbles started to form. The Scarlet-Eyed Demon couldn't help but laugh wildly even when it dipped its head inside the lake. It sealed its eyes and nose with mud and sand, but the laughter was still trembling in its lungs. When the accumulation reached a certain level, it would break through the mud and sand, laughing a lot more frantically. The Scarlet-Eyed Beast almost suffocated with a straight smile and twitched all over, still unable to stop.
It was in a rage, stuffing a bunch of rag-like material into its throat with force.
Plugging its mouth and nose completely and tightly.
Its body had finally stopped jerking from its uncontrollable fit; its sound of laughter had finally stopped for one brief moment.
Student Yue Yang whistled, grilling a fish from the lake happily. He added seasonings to it from time to time, not even recognising the Scarlet-Eyed Beast in his eyes. In the sky, hundreds of bats fell like raindrops, and finally, death defeated fanaticism. It turns out that there were only a few children of the bat that remained alive, the rest who would rather die in battle were brutally murdered by the Reaper Mantis. The survivors left their father, the Scarlet-Eyed Beast, and fled to the outskirts. The Scarlet-Eyed Beast on the ground too, wanted to stand up and run away.
T/L Note: The author finally clarified the gender, so I'll change the Scarlet-Eyed Beast into a ‘he' prefix instead of an ‘it'.
However, as soon as he moved, his entire chest exploded.
The force was so powerful that it blasted a huge hole in his chest.
It seemed that this pain had to be expressed in the form of screams and hollers to be free from it. The Scarlet Eyed Demon frantically dug out the rags in his throat, intending to vent the unbearable wound with a scream of pain.
However, when he opened his mouth, it was nothing but a creepy cry of laughter, "Hahahaha… ah, please forgive me, hahaha…"
"Scarlet-Eyed Lord, what did you say?" Yue Yang pretended to not be able to hear him clearly.
"Spare me, hahahaha, hahaha…" The Scarlet-Eyed Beast smiled with blood splashing in his mouth and nose.
He had already exploded the lobe of its lung so it was impossible to laugh again.
The fact remains that it won't stop until his death.
Student Yue Yang used the attitude of the Scarlet-Eyed Beast when he teased him before, and opened his hand to his ear to listen, "What did you say? Speak louder!"
How could the Scarlet-Eyed Beast still have the strength to speak. He twitched whilst laughing and countless internal organs exploded. Because of his hysterical laughter, blood kept splashing out of the hole, making the Scarlet-Eyed beast shed tears. At this moment, he just wanted to die quickly. However, the only thing he could do was to continue to laugh in an undying state. During the ten-minute wait for death, his heart popped out of its body as he was still ‘laughing’ in pain.
Tears of regret and blood mixed together.
If the Scarlet-Eyed Beast could turn back time and have a choice, he would definitely rather commit suicide than have Yue Yang as an enemy.
It's just that there was no chance for a retry in his life. At least, a guy like him, who was extremely sinful, rampant and cruel, will not have another chance in life.
At the same time over at the Seven Star Crag, where only Kings were usually allowed to assemble, nearly a hundred beasts were surrounding the dying Flying Dragon Lizard. At this time, the Flying Dragon Lizard's skin and muscles were peeled off as if it was done by a knife, separating that layer from its skeleton. Except for the head, its whole body was exposed in dense bones.
"What kind of curse did that newcomer say?" The Lion King, Toad King, and Human-Faced Tiger were all present, questioning the Flying Dragon Lizard who had escaped.
"No…curse…" The pupils in the eyes of the Flying Dragon Lizard began to dilate and lose its light.
"Wh-what happened? How did it happen? Who did it, Dragon Lizard, what do you want to say? Who is the enemy?" Under such a miserable situation, the Flying Dragon Lizard's Leader, the Eagle King, couldn't help but rush for an answer after seeing the state that its subordinate was in.
Maybe because its leader had arrived, the Flying Dragon Lizard's eyes moved. Its eyes shimmered with a sliver of light and it said weakly, "Don't say that…"
Before it was finished, the skeleton of the Flying Dragon Lizard hollowed, and the skin of the skull seemed to be peeled off by the work of a blade.
A gush of blood poured out.
The Flying Dragon Lizard with only its head, turned into a pale skeleton in full view.
The look of horror made all the beasts onlookers retreat a few steps away, fearing that they would also be contaminated with this curse of disaster.
The Lion King advised the Eagle King to calm down, "When you were fighting at the rear, another newcomer came to the fortress. He should be a disciple of Ji Wu Ri or Zhong Hua. Before the Dragon Lizard died, it had said that the Scarlet-Eyed Beast had investigated the background of the newcomer who just came into the Beast Valley. Brother Toad also confirmed that this news was real. I don’t know if the newcomer acquired Ji Wu Ri or Zhong Hua’s treasure. It was a trigger curse treasure called ‘Pandora's Box'. There were three types of boxes— one of gold, silver, and bronze each. It wouldn't be lethal if he was the one who opened them himself, but once triggered, the one who opened it would be cursed by various divine powers. Pi Yi died of dehydration, Samson died of drowning, Bai Lu exploded, whereas the Dragon Lizard had also said that the curse of the Big-Eared Mouse was aging…"
The Human-Faced Butterfly Wing Poisonous Bee King also came. Seeing such a miserable situation, it shook its head and sighed, "I don't know why you must provoke him; that young man gives me bad feelings. He and Ji Wu Ri and Zhong Hua were the same, they're not people who we can provoke. Not to mention the high-ranking ones in the Central Palace, the Magic Doctor Wei Jinglue, the Ghost-Eye King, and the 6th Pan King, who also humiliated us. I don’t understand why we are going against them; they just wanted to clear the Level, having no intention whatsoever to start a feud with us. Now things are great, you attacked baselessly and killed their beasts, forcing them to form a group to defend themselves and declare war on us. Even if we win this battle in the end, it would only be a miserable victory!"
"The problem now is that even if we wanted to stop the war, I don't think the opposite party would agree to this," The Human-Faced Tiger also felt that this was not the way to go.
"Ghost-Eye King and its beasts have not been cultivated yet, we still have a chance," The Toad King was the most greedy among all the beasts.
"If it hadn’t been for the two failed challengers from the Central Palace and ten thousand beasts, they would have counterattacked long ago. What they were really afraid of was the two Palace Masters second only to Ji Wu Ri! Besides, the newcomer is also dangerous. The Three Chiefs of residents have already stated that they won't care about him. If you all continue to die pointlessly, there would be no second option besides becoming the nutrition for the growth of his newborn beast," The Poisonous Bee King declared that it did not want to provoke Yue Yang again. It also ordered its subordinates to not offend this future rival.
"This newcomer, don’t irk him for the time being. At the very least, don’t mess around before figuring out Pandora's Box. But as for the Magic Doctor and the Ghost-Eye King, we must keep them here and we must grow stronger. The residents are getting stronger and stronger each day, so if we don't fight hard, it will only lead to the clan's fall," The Human-Faced Tiger said worryingly.
"If only you weren't stupid enough to provoke Ji Wu Ri and ZHong Hua. Otherwise, the attacks wouldn't be this heavy," The Poisonous Bee King was angry when he said it.
"Don't argue, we still have a certain advantage," The Lion King hurriedly suppressed the scene.
"Right. If the residents die again, they will just become our subordinates obediently! The Magic Doctor, the Ghost-Eye King and the others already have their beasts face death twice. If we just work harder, they will completely lose the qualifications to pass the Level and become our subordinates. If you miss such an opportunity and don't pounce on it, wouldn't you be sorry for yourself?" The Toad King tried its best to persuade all the other beasts to participate in its combat plan.
"Don't worry, we still have enough time. Those guys' Battle-type Beasts have not really grown yet. Even if they had grown, it was not that easy to pass through the Beast Valley. They are not like Ji Wu Ri and Zhong Hua, whose strength were close to the existence of the Gods, " The Lion King comforted the leaders and reluctantly gathered the beasts with different opinions on the same front.
After the beasts dispersed, the Lion King was thinking about another question.
What was the ‘don't say that' that the Dragon Lizard said? Was this sentence a curse, or did it not say the whole sentence?
If I can clarify the truth of this curse and kill that annoying newcomer, my prestige for domination will undoubtedly be greatly enhanced! Of course, it would be very dangerous. In the Beast Valley, there have been many powerful challengers. The strength of those people were terrifying as once they were provoked, it was practiaclly tantamount to suicide.
Since there was no hope anymore,I better just settle for the status quo and don't think too much.
So as not to cause a ‘murder’.
In the Beast Valley, because of the terrifying curse caused by Pandora's Box, there was a wave of panic about the Divine Power of Calamity's curse everywhere. Within a hundred miles, except for the wild beasts without intelligence, no one dared to provoke Yue Yang. Even the Sickle Weasel and Ryoma who were tracking him all the way resorted to just stalking him from far away, not daring to walk within ten kilometers of the Yue Yang's center of activity.
Time passed, day by day.
The Reaper Mantis also grew day by day. Now, if they considered the wings on her back, she had grown to the size of a palm.
The energy cultivation of the resident Bai Lu, the Scarlet-Eyed Beast, the Big-Eared Mouse, the Flower-Bellied Python, and the Flying Dragon Lizard helped immensely. Especially the first four, and more than 20 beasts killed in between, the Reaper Mantis obtained Fighting Energy. There was also the magic crystal that was meant for the initial growth of the Reaper Mantis. Now, it had formed a volcanic eruption-like boosting force for her.
With this boost, it would be difficult for her growth to be slow.
Every day, the Reaper Mantis had a new breakthrough, and every day she had new improvements.
In the entire Beast Valley, no one besides the Sickle Weasel and Ryoma who tracked and observed them knew that the growth of this newborn beast had exceeded beyond compare.
Her growth rate, compared to the growth rate of the other Battle-type Beasts cultivated by other challengers, were a hundred times higher.
Perhaps even hundreds of times.
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Even if there were countless great people who came to the Beast Valley to challenge the Level, Yue Yang's speed of cultivating the Reaper Mantis was unprecedented. Yue Yang had found out about the two followers, the Sickle Weasel and Ryoma, a long time ago but just ignored them. Sometimes, keeping one or two pieces will be the key to a good game of chess. Student Yue Yang not only thought so, but he also taught the Reaper Mantis this concept.
"Okay!" The Reaper Mantis nodded obediently.
This time, she didn't fully understand.
However, she had already engraved Yue Yang's words firmly in her heart.
The teachings that she didn't understand now will surely be understood when she has a higher level of wisdom in the future.