Chapter 288: A Belated Opportunity (3)
These days, unless it was a lesser creature, it was difficult to even glimpse a proper spirit beast… but the records themselves remained quite detailed.
It made sense—after all, up until Seo Mun-Hwarin’s generation, powerful spirit beasts were still discovered quite often, so it wasn’t ancient history to live in coexistence or competition with them.
Among all these, the spirit beasts with the most surviving records were those of the serpent and centipede types.
And the reason those two were particularly infamous was simple: they were generally large and nasty in temperament, frequently invading human territories.
Well, of course, there were also rare instances where humans invaded a spirit beast’s territory, like the Flood Dragon of the North Sea Ice Palace.
Still, the frequency of conflict meant they inevitably came to know a lot about each other.
Spirit beasts would diverge into many branches depending on their environments. And it didn’t take long to recognize one particular, extremely unusual species among them.
The Fire Centipede.
It wasn’t some terrifying giant centipede literally wreathed in seven types of fire, as the name might suggest.