novelraw Chapter 749 - 723: Blood Descent
Chapter 749 - 723: Blood Descent
Zhou Leng led the army back to the Mammoth lands with the treasure, and the feast began.
The legendary Demon Spirit Masters silently used their Demon Spirit Techniques to weld legendary or half-divine artifact materials into massive cauldrons, over a hundred, lined up in a row.
The meat of numerous Fierce Beasts was chopped into large pieces and simmered with spices and Medicinal Fruits.
The fragrant aroma soared into the sky, and the Fierce Beasts drooled incessantly.
Zhou Leng used two cauldrons alone; the four gigantic wolf claws couldn’t fit in one.
The meat of the Demigod wolf claw was too difficult to cook, so the legendary Demon Spirit Masters had to transform into humanoid pressure cookers, using Demon Spirit Techniques to maintain the cauldrons at high temperature and pressure.
After cooking for a whole day and night, the Demigod wolf claws were finally done.
Using a half-divine artifact long knife, he sliced one open and held it up before him.
Thick gel covered the surface of the large piece of meat, appearing semi-transparent and tendon-like. With a slight shake, it quivered elastically.
He put it in his mouth and gently chewed. The rich meat juice, flavorsome, thick, salty, smooth, tender, and bouncy, burst in his mouth, incredibly delightful.
"Very good."
Zhou Leng nodded, feeling the thick heat flow into his body, gradually replenishing his energy, enhancing his power.
Within the Fierce Beast meat lies Exotic Power not found in ordinary beast meat.
He sliced another piece, tossed it upward, and Huang, kicking off the ground, leaped high and snapped it up, tilting his head to chew and swallow.
Huang squinted his eyes, yearning for more, but in an instant, his skin turned beet red, emitting wisps of white smoke.
Feeling an overwhelming heat, Huang stuck out his tongue and sprinted madly.
Xiaoba pouted, as if saying, "Look at you, making such a scene just after eating a piece of meat."
Reaching out his elephant trunk, Zhou Leng gave him a piece.
After eating it, he also turned red all over and dashed out, following Huang, frantically running off the heat inside.
The other Fierce Beasts dared not share food with the Demigods, only eating their ordinary Grandmaster-grade beast meat.
Zhou Leng brought over two more cauldrons, took out a Demigod Demon Dragon corpse, chopped it up, and tossed it into the cauldrons to simmer.
The Fierce Beasts secretly admired him; this furless Fierce Ape was indeed strong, having even won a Demigod Demon Dragon’s spoils.
The Demon Spirit Masters exchanged glances, realizing the rumors were true; Zhou Leng was on good terms with the Blood of Tyranny. It seems it was the Blood of Tyranny who killed the Demigod in the Demon Purgatory, and Zhou Leng found a way to buy one.
The Demigod Twilight Wolf’s claw was massive, equivalent in size to four or five elephants alone, and its weight far exceeded that.
Even the appetite of a Martial Saint couldn’t handle it, but Zhou Leng, advancing closer to the Starry Sky Body and absorbing the Elephant Monarch’s power, was as robust as a Fierce Beast.
Zhou Leng himself, forcefully finished the entire gigantic wolf claw.
By the end, his belly was protruding, unable to be fully digested within a short time.
Huang and Xiaoba still ran crazily, venting the heat inside.
By the time they finished running, the dragon meat was ready.
Zhou Leng cut two pieces and tossed them simultaneously.
Huang and Xiaoba each caught a piece, chewing happily.
After eating, the mammoth and the dog looked at each other, their bodies turning red again and steaming.
They once more dashed out, running madly around the tribal land.
They carved out a deep moat outside.
After Zhou Leng finished eating, he fell into a deep sleep, having been without a comfortable nap for many days.
Halfway through his sleep, he was startled awake by a giant roaring sound.
He quickly got up and went outside to see an orb of blood-red light brighter than the moon hovering above the fifth level of the Celestial Ladder.
The blood-red orb exuded a heavy aura that suffocated.
Looking out, countless Fierce Beasts crouched on the ground, trembling.
Yet their eyes, aside from fear, were full of fervor and excitement.
Ancient Beast Blood.
Rumble...
The thunder sounded, and the blood-red orb exploded.
It shattered into thousands of blood-red globes, resembling a meteor shower, flying toward the Ten Realms.
Meanwhile, from across the ancestral lands, strong Demigod auras soared up to the sky.
Soon, most Demigod auras dispersed, leaving only the intangible Peak Demigod auras.
Zhou Leng’s eyes couldn’t see them, but in his perception, twisted air pillars shot skyward, announcing the mighty Demigod powers.
Some of the few air pillars condensed at the top into semi-transparent ancient beast phantoms.
Divine Shape.
Zhou Leng sighed lightly.
It’s clear now, this is the second layer of the Celestial Tier Trial.
With the Peak Demigods present, the chances for lower-ranked Demigods were almost nonexistent.
As soon as the Ancient Beast Blood drops into the Fierce Beast World, if it did, it would be completely absorbed by the Peak Demigods, with not a drop leaking out.
Zhou Leng, along with all the Fierce Beasts, looked up, watching as thousands of blood-red globes vanished in the sky, waiting for them to descend upon the Fierce Beast World.
But, in the Fierce Beast World’s sky, nothing appeared.
After a while, the Ascension Divinity Ladder gave a hint.
The Ancient Beast Blood had already entered the Ten Realms; Demigods in a certain range could sense it, and one must search for it themselves.
Only then did everyone understand; to prevent the Peak Demigods from seizing it, the Ladder had hidden the Ancient Beast Blood.
Moments later, tremendous roars echoed throughout the Fierce Beast World.
The Demon Spirit Masters helped translate.
"It’s a message from the Peak Demigod Fierce Beasts, stating that whoever finds the Ancient Beast Blood and hands it over will be richly rewarded. If anyone dares to hoard it for themselves and is discovered, they will surely die."
"Oh, and beneath the Demigod level, one cannot absorb the Ancient Beast Blood. Absorbing it means death."
The Fierce Beast World descended into chaos, with countless Fierce Beasts running in all directions, scouring the world for Ancient Beast Blood.
Moments later, a few hundred kilometers away, violent explosions erupted, and the ground shook.
Zhou Leng stepped into the air, gazing into the distance.
A platinum dragon-lion demigod and a terror wolf demigod are engaged in a fierce battle.
The terror wolf demigod’s body is emanating a strong blood light.
Blood of the ancient beast.
"Hand over the ancient beast’s blood!"
"This belongs to our terror wolf clan!"
"Kill!" A second platinum dragon-lion demigod joins the fray.
"Kill!" The rest of the terror wolf demigods follow suit.
The battle among the demigod tribes erupts.
Zhou Leng watches from afar.
The demigods fight fiercely on the ground and in the air, creating expansive zones of power spillover.
Packs of fierce beasts are crushed into meat paste by the immense power, collapsing and burying with the earth.
The blood of the ancient beast continues to glow on the terror wolf demigod’s body.
The aura of the ancient beast’s blood is weakening at a very slow pace, taking over ten days to absorb at this rate.
Suddenly, a peak platinum dragon-lion reveals the form of an ancient beast behind it and strikes suddenly.
With a single claw, the heavens and earth explode, sending all nearby demigods flying, and the terror wolf demigod shatters into a mist of blood on the spot.
Amidst the blood mist, a fist-sized ball of blood light shines brightly.
The peak demigod platinum dragon-lion reaches out and grabs the blood orb.
Before it can swallow, a divine light crashes into its body — a peak demigod terror wolf.
The two peak demigods begin their battle.
"Retreat everyone!" Elder Mammoth shouts, as everyone runs to the distance.
Though this is hundreds of kilometers away, a peak demigod, if insane, could arrive in no time, and all fierce beasts would be smashed by the terrifying demigod power.
Zhou Leng says, "I’ll return to the Blue Star first, be careful, and don’t get involved in the struggle for the ancient beast’s blood."
After instructing, Zhou Leng heads straight for the Frost Giant Tree.
The world of fierce beasts is too dangerous, full of peak demigods.
The Blue Star is still the better choice, with its strongest being upper-rank demigods, and not too many of them.
However, now battles should have erupted on the Blue Star as well, and I must return quickly.
Zhou Leng runs and walks through mid-air at a speed of Mach 15.
Occasionally, when other fierce beast demigods pass by, they exchange a glance and move apart.
After running for thousands of miles, a flash of blood light appears in the distance.
Upon closer inspection, a middle-rank demigod dual-bodied fierce bear emits blood light while running, only to be toppled by a middle-rank demigod steel giant elephant from behind.
The two middle-rank demigods engage in an intense battle on the ground.
Zhou Leng hesitates for a moment and continues forward.
In the world of fierce beasts, one must tread carefully, awaiting other worlds before launching a powerful strike.
After running several hundred miles, a massive rumble comes from behind, and upon looking back, an upper-rank demigod has joined the fray.
At Mach 15 speed, one can sprint over eighteen thousand kilometers in an hour.
Before long, he arrives near the second starry sky altar.
Previously, there had been a clash of powers here, knocking away nine new demigod fierce beasts, but ultimately defeated in the face of the giant python of the world’s most powerful race.
"Hmm?"
Zhou Leng senses an aura of ancient beast’s blood in the mountains not far from the second starry sky altar.
His body involuntarily flies over there.
It isn’t long before he reaches the mountains, quickly locating a specific mountain.
Zhou Leng squints his eyes.
That mountain seems natural, but in its subtle details, the power of a demigod has altered the mountain body.
Moreover, the aura of the ancient beast’s blood is slowly extending underground.
Surely a demigod has obtained the ancient beast’s blood and has hidden underground, trying to avoid detection by other demigods.
After a brief contemplation, Zhou Leng flies to the entrance affected by the demigod’s power, carefully observing the surrounding traces.
The ground bears the tracks of a massive serpent slithering by.
Judging by its size, it is a new demigod-level giant python.
"Could it be that opponent from before..."
In a battle of strength, Zhou Leng is no match.
But in a life-or-death struggle, that’s a different story.
He retrieves the Demon Spirit Artifact Ground Chariot, quickly burrows underground, and approaches the giant python.
Before long, he nears the giant python, stealthily entering the tunnel dug by the python, and puts away the Ground Chariot, swiftly advancing along the tunnel.
"Who goes there!"
The giant python senses the approaching demigod aura from behind, its scales bristle, and it lets out a hiss, twisting its body to shatter the nearby ground, looking up at the ceiling of the tunnel.
A familiar figure appears in its enormous eyes.
"It’s you! You made me heal at the starry sky altar for so long, I’ve been wanting to challenge you again!"
The giant python lowers its voice and charges at Zhou Leng with its colossal body.
Zhou Leng sees the blood light emanating from the giant python’s body, confirming its fortune of acquiring the ancient beast’s blood.
As they draw closer, in the blink of an eye, the giant python’s eyelid twitches.
The opponent’s aura, why is it so much stronger than before?
However, as the strongest species in the world of fierce beasts, how could it show weakness? With a roar, the nearby earth and rocks quickly cover its body, highly condensing to form formidable armor, no less than an ordinary half-divine artifact.
Boom!
The massive snake tail pierces through the ground, striking Zhou Leng from the side.
At the same time, the giant python snaps its jaws at him.