Chapter 88: Dirty Tricks
Yu Xian picked up his phone and opened the message, only to see a creepy text from Bat.
Bat: Salted Fish, don't let Zhong Wuliang's body go to waste. Sell it to me. I can give you three thousand merit points.
Yu Xian frowned. What does he mean by don't let the body go to waste? God, that is so morbid and creepy!
He sent Bat a voice message. "What do you want Zhong Wuliang's body for?"
Not long after he tapped send, Bat replied.
Bat: For research. Zhong Wuliang was the sole successor of Tower City's Eight Treasures Sect. The Eight Treasures Elephant-Suppression Art he cultivated is one of the best body-tempering arts in Huaxia. It has always been passed down orally from one generation to the next, with no written records. That's why I want to study his body and try to reverse-engineer the Eight Treasures Elephant-Suppression Art.
Yu Xian had to admit that Zhong Wuliang's defense was indeed strong. More than five hundred explosives had failed to kill him. After that, Yu Xian had wasted several hundred more before finally finishing him off.
The key point was that Zhong Wuliang was only at Wolf rank. If he had been at Tiger rank, Yu Xian would probably have been unable to do anything to him even with all his explosives.
Salted Fish: If you figure it out, remember to give me a copy.
Bat: No problem.
With a flicker of his thought, Yu Xian immediately turned the spatial bubble around and flew back. Fortunately, because of the smoke from the explosion, no animals had dared approach Zhong Wuliang's body in those few short minutes. Yu Xian emptied the ring Zhong Wuliang had used to store meat, then placed the corpse inside it.
Suddenly, he remembered that one of Zhong Wuliang's arms was still in the crater, so he took out his phone.
Salted Fish: One of his arms was broken off. Do you need me to recover it too?
Bat: Yes. A body-tempering martial artist's body will definitely contain traces of his cultivation. Losing one arm means the art we reverse-engineer might be incomplete!
Salted Fish: All right. I'll recover it.
Yu Xian quickly returned to the crater. He remembered that Zhong Wuliang's severed arm had landed on a rock and had been bleeding quite a lot. But when he found that rock, there was only a pool of blood. The arm had vanished without a trace. Yu Xian looked around, dumbfounded.
Where is the arm?
He scanned his surroundings but found no animal tracks. So, he strengthened his sense of smell and carefully sniffed the air. A faint scent of blood extended upward, clearly indicating that some carnivorous bird, perhaps an eagle, had carried the arm away. If he had known earlier that Bat wanted Zhong Wuliang's body, he would have put the severed arm away to avoid any unexpected complications.
Yu Xian sighed, controlled the spatial bubble, and followed the scent of blood. Afraid that the creature would eat Zhong Wuliang's arm, he increased his speed to the fastest speed the spatial bubble could withstand, which was twenty times the speed of sound.
About half a minute later, he saw a large black bird resembling a vulture flying through the air with Zhong Wuliang's arm. The bird also noticed Yu Xian. It immediately sped up and dove downward, trying to shake off Yu Xian's pursuit.
A chase unfolded in the sky between man and bird. The bird was definitely a supernatural creature. At full speed, it was actually slightly faster than Yu Xian. And since Yu Xian was the one chasing it, not the other way around, the bird led him around the nose. By changing directions, the bird would pull far ahead, making it impossible for Yu Xian to catch up.
Yu Xian extended his hand and shot a large number of silver threads from his fingertips. The large bird sensed the danger and beat its wings even faster. At the same time, it spun, and its flight path veered sharply to the left. By the time Yu Xian followed and turned, it had already flown several hundred meters away.
Yu Xian gritted his teeth. Great, a sudden power surge. Of course.
His attempt to fold the surrounding space also failed because the large bird was flying too fast. He had only just locked onto a coordinate, and before he could fold the space, the bird had already flown beyond the distance he could bend.
In the end, he simply gave up on intercepting it and abandoned all unnecessary methods. As long as he did not lose track of it, that was enough. Yu Xian had absolute faith in his stamina. He refused to believe this bird had infinite stamina. Once the bird grew tired, it would naturally stop.
Sure enough, after he continued chasing it for a few more minutes, the large bird started running on fumes. It decisively released Zhong Wuliang's arm to lighten its load. Yu Xian quickly dove down and bound Zhong Wuliang's arm with silver threads.
He finally let out a slight breath of relief. I finally got it back.
After placing the arm into his spatial ring, he looked around and took out his phone to check his location. He had been focused solely on chasing that bird. Wherever the bird flew, he followed. As a result, he had gotten lost. When he opened the map, it was glowing red, along with a warning message.
Yu Xian's expression changed. Holy crap, a restricted zone!
He had not expected to chase the bird all the way into a restricted zone. But he really could not be blamed for this. After all, he had been following the large bird, and to that bird, there probably was no such thing as a restricted zone in this world.
Just as Yu Xian was about to teleport away, a massive blue shadow flashed across a colossal lake not far ahead. A split second later, a colossal blue dragon broke the surface, its massive eyes locking onto Yu Xian.
The dragon's head alone was the size of the ancient national stadium in Yanjing. Its eyes radiated a terrifying draconic aura, and under its gaze, Yu Xian was completely frozen.
Yu Xian's Pangu Heart suddenly convulsed. His near-frozen mind regained a fraction of its clarity, and he instinctively swallowed hard. For some reason, his heart stirred. He activated Appraisal on the blue dragon, then teleported away the very next second.
When Yu Xian used Appraisal, the dragon, which had originally only been staring at him, showed a flicker of anger in its eyes. The gemstone on its forehead shot out a thick beam of deep blue light.
The beam swept across the sky, shattering the bubble that Yu Xian had left behind. Even the clouds above were affected, sliced open with a massive gash.
Elsewhere, Yu Xian returned to one of the bubbles he had left behind earlier and let out a long breath of relief. That dragon was far too terrifying. The wilderness really is full of dangers.
Yu Xian shifted his attention to the attributes panel, and once again, he was dumbfounded.
Name
- Extreme Dragon
Codename
- None
Race
- Dragon
Gender
- None
Age
- ???
Lifespan
- ???
Rank
- ???
Affiliation
- ???
[Abilities]
???
Summary
- ???
This was the first time Yu Xian had ever appraised something and gotten nothing but question marks. His first suspicion was that Appraisal's rank was not high enough to determine the Extreme Dragon's attributes. Appraisal was a Dragon-rank ability, so in theory, he could appraise the attributes of only creatures below Dragon rank.
Could that giant dragon's strength have already surpassed Dragon rank and reached the legendary God rank?
At this moment, he was once again filled with reverence toward restricted zones. Although restricted zones contained friendly supernatural creatures like the Dragon King Golden Toad, they also contained terrifyingly powerful monsters like the Extreme Dragon, which might not necessarily be friendly.
Fortunately, even if he was lacking in other areas, his ability to run away was first-rate. Otherwise, accidentally entering a restricted zone would truly be a death sentence.
Just then, a bold idea occurred to him. Previously, he had thought about leaving bubbles at Qilin's headquarters. That way, if he encountered an enemy he could not defeat, he could teleport them to headquarters and let the big shots gang up on them. Obviously, he could not implement that plan.
But what if I placed bubbles around the Extreme Dragon?
The moment Yu Xian imagined the scene of an enemy being teleported over and seeing the Extreme Dragon, the impulse in his heart grew stronger and stronger.