Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Edited by Aelryinth
After flying a distance, Zhang Che suddenly felt something was amiss.
He couldn’t put his finger on what exactly was wrong, however. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly came to a realization.
-Damn, I almost died from my stupidity!-
Zhang Che suddenly recalled he had exposed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon back when he was headed for the secret plane!
So what if he changed his appearance now?
The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was totally different from ordinary exotic beasts. He was simply like a firefly in the dark night, destined to draw the attention from everyone nearby. If he came across anyone with ulterior motives, his identity would be exposed right away if they investigated a little!
Zhang Che suddenly felt the chills inside. Afterwards, he hurriedly had the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon land and recalled the dragon, then summoned the Golden Elephorse King, Hanxue, who hadn’t had a breather outside for a long time.
Hanxue was overjoyed. He was locked up in Zhang Che’s spiritual sea for a stupidly long time, and he finally got the chance to come out here. He immediately started galloping around.
Now that Hanxue had advanced to dark gold-quality, his running speed was much faster than before. Although it was still far from comparable to flying beasts, he could reach the speed of over three hundred kilometers per hour, like a supercar.
-Looks like it’s necessary for me to look for another flying beast in the beast world. Both the Purple Jade Condor and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon are at risk of exposing my identity. It’s fine if I use it occasionally, but it might bring me huge danger at crucial times.- Zhang Che reflected on his mistake, and started to plot for a new flying subdued beast or pet.
Unbeknownst to him, just a little while ago, he had a brush with life and death.
Zhen Long didn’t deliberately look for Zhang Che’s information. Otherwise, he would surely found out that Zhang Che’s flying mount was that distinctly featured Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon.
Of course, the main reason was that Zhen Manting didn’t want to enter into a huge conflict with the Huang family, and had no intentions of killing Zhang Che. As such, she didn’t mention much about Zhang Che’s information to her family members, and she even warned them sternly to not find trouble with Zhang Che in private.
Naturally it wasn’t out of goodwill that Zhen Manting didn’t want to hurt Zhang Che. The truth was Zhang Che’s battle with the Four-Winged White Tiger after being tricked by the Miyazaki Clan had given her too big of a shock.
Such a figure was almost impossible to defeat without any epic-quality subdued beasts. Even if they had epic-quality beasts now, it wasn’t guaranteed that they could take Zhang Che down!
It was because of all these reasons that Zhen Manting subconsciously held back on telling her clan members information about Zhang Che in detail, afraid that someone might not be convinced and go find trouble with him in secret.
Sometimes, people were strange like that. When facing someone who was weaker or equal to them, they would habitually choose to ignore them. However, when facing someone of the same age stronger than them, a strong sense of envy would be born inside them, wishing to step on them to establish their dominance.
After switching his mount to Hanxue, Zhang Che finally let out a long sigh of relief. Riding on Hanxue, they galloped off into the distance in the predetermined direction.
Hanxue was probably stuck in Zhang Che’s spiritual sea for too long. As he galloped, he grew more and more into it, and his speed rose by a large margin, approaching close to four hundred kilometers per hour.
“Slow down, slow down. Are you trying to shake my stomach acid out?” Zhang Che hurriedly slapped the back of Hanxue’s head lightly, signalling for him to go slower.
Even though Zhang Che had a superhuman physique, Hanxue wasn’t a car, after all. When the latter brought his speed up, the bumping was truly too much; Zhang Che couldn’t take it.
Since his master daddy had given the order, Hanxue neighed excitedly and slowly reduced his speed.
Even so, he still maintained his speed at about three hundred kilometers per hour, streaking through the flatlands between the mountains like a scarlet bolt of lightning.
From time to time, they would come across ravines. Hanxue would actually leap into the air, jumping over ten meters into the air and crossing them, not putting those little ravines in his eyes at all.
Zhang Che was truly on edge watching this unfold, afraid that this fellow might slip up and throw him off the cliff. Even if he didn’t die from this, it would be devastating.
A thousand kilometers sounded really far away, but with Hanxue speeding through the lands, they arrived in front of an endless mountain range after 4 PM.
Zhang Che knew he finally reached his destination.
The two groups of people in a stand off at the outskirts of the mountain range ahead very clearly indicated Zhang Che was at the right place.
One of the groups was small in numbers, but every one of their members were at least mid-tier beastmasters. They should be from the Black Locust Tree Hall. The other group, however, was highly varied. There were many smaller groups among them, obviously the beastmasters called here by that young beastmaster Zhang Che had seen earlier.
From the looks of it, quite a lot of people were hoping to strike a windfall here.
Zhang Che noticed Zhen Long’s group, too, but they were obviously not intent on standing out. Rather, they stood at the back of the group, observing the situation.
Due to Hanxue’s speed being inferior to flying beasts, by the time Zhang Che arrived here, it was obvious that the Black Locust Tree Hall had come to an agreement with the rag-tag group of beastmasters.
“Everyone, we, the Black Locust Tree Hall, aren’t unreasonable people. We have nothing to say against you guys wanting to enter the Five Poisons Mountain Range and get a slice of the pie yourselves.”
Within the Black Locust Tree Hall’s group, their leader was a tall middle-aged man with a cold and stern appearance. His gaze swept across the disorganized group on the other side as he said coldly, “However, this one surnamed Xu will say this in advance: This path here was cleared up by our Black Locust Tree Hall’s men after expending great efforts. You aren’t allowed to enter the Five Poisons Mountain Range through here. Please look for another way to get in yourselves.”
After saying his piece, he no longer paid any heed to the bunch of beastmasters at the bottom of the mountain, and he turned around and headed into the mountain range.
At the same time, the men from the Black Locust Tree Hall followed him and retreated up into the mountains, leaving the disorganized beastmasters behind, exchanging looks among themselves.
” Pei! The Five Poisons Mountain Range doesn’t belong to the Black Locust Tree Hall. By what right do they forbid us from entering here? Let’s rush up together! We’ll see if they dare to make a move against us!” someone from the crowd immediately cried out.
However, none of the beastmasters present responded to him.
Everyone had their own calculations in mind. The Black Locust Tree Hall was a first-rate faction in northern Hua Xia; it wasn’t something they could afford to offend so easily.
Since they had already made concessions and allowed them to enter the Five Poisons Mountain Range from another path to hunt the storage-type exotic beasts, should they really try to skimp out on that little bit of effort?
Instead of risking offending the Black Locust Tree Hall, why not spend some effort to clear the path into the mountain range from another direction? That was the safest path to take.
In any case, the mountain range was so wide. With only this small number of people going in, it was like throwing a handful of sesame into a wide river. It wouldn’t affect anything on the grander scale.
“Let’s go, let’s go. We’d better hurry to find another way into the mountains. That beastmaster from earlier was heading towards the safety zone. It’ll be more troublesome when more people come rushing over to vie for the storage-type exotic beasts.”
A small squad finally walked out of the crowd and mounted their flying subdued beasts, flying off to the side of the mountain range.
With someone making the first move, since the group wasn’t united to begin with, they immediately went their separate ways, each of them choosing a different direction to fly to.
“This place is called the Five Poisons Mountain Range. There should be huge amounts of poison-type exotic beasts in the mountain range, then.” Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly, signalling Hanxue to set off as well, galloping towards the other side of the mountain range.
Zhang Che would join in on such a lively occasion no matter what. He was very confident that with his army of capable babies, he wouldn’t run into any real danger if he acted more cautiously.
