Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Edited by Aelryinth
“Haha, this kid really knows how to bluff!” one of the beastmasters immediately laughed out loud when he saw the Purple Crystal Tortoise opening its mouth again, thinking that Zhang Che was only scaring them.
In the end, his smile froze on his face. For eternity.
A few bone spikes moving so fast that they were invisible to the naked eye punched through his body. One of them even shot through his neck, throwing his head high up into the air, leaving him watching as his headless body fell to the ground.
On the other hand, Zhen Long’s bodyguards immediately sensed a great threat the instant they saw the Purple Crystal Tortoise opening its mouth. The chief bodyguard’s complexion darkened as he cried out loudly, “Long-shao, watch out!”
Even so, everything was too late.
An invisible storm swept in their direction, shrouding the few separated groups of beastmasters within.
A total of a hundred and seven bone spikes shot out at the same time. Even though there were over twenty beastmasters separated into a few groups, none of them could dodge the attack. Each of them were given their share of bone spikes.
Mists of blood erupted in the air at the same time, like crimson, blood-colored flowers blooming simultaneously.
A short wave of miserable screams rose, and subsided just as quickly.
Immediately after hearing his bodyguard’s warning, Zhen Long felt the hair on his back standing on end. Without sparing a moment to think, he laid down flat on the back of his flying beast, trying to dodge the unknown attack.
Even so, his actions were futile in the end.
A single bone spike penetrated Zhen Long’s armor from the shoulder, traveling through his body and punching a hole through to the other side, instantly rupturing his organs to bits.
Of course, he could no longer feel any pain. At almost the same time, another bone spike had directly punctured the helmet of his armor, blowing his head apart.
“Long-shao!” the chief bodyguard cried out. He was a high-tier beastmaster, after all. Although the high-tier dark gold-quality armor he wore couldn’t withstand the bone spike attack, he didn’t die right away.
Sensing the two wounds that had punctured through his body were quickly draining his vitality away, in addition to witnessing Zhen Long dying without a complete corpse, he immediately cried out miserably, then used the last of his strength to turn to look at Zhang Che and screamed, “Kid, I don’t care who you are, but you dare harm our Zhen family’s descendant! You can forget about escaping from our Zhen family’s investigation! You’re dead!”
-Zhen family?- Zhang Che’s eyes narrowed slightly. He didn’t expect to reap such a harvest. -Tsk, tsk. Looks like I should change my nickname. How about the ‘Terminator of Large Clans’ Descendents’?
-It sounds pretty awesome, doesn’t it?-
Zhang Che looked at the dying chief bodyguard and mocked, “So what if you’re from the Zhen family, or the Jia family?¹ Do you think we’re on Mercury, with satellites observing us from outer space? I don’t even have to destroy the evidence here; large amounts of exotic beasts will soon pick up on the scent of blood and come over, feasting on your corpses until not even the bones are left. I’ll see who can find out anything.”
(TLN: Zhen is a homonym for real, and Jia is a homonym for fake)
“You..!” The chief bodyguard’s eyes went wide, the whites became bloodshot. He finally roared furiously, “Brat, don’t be happy so soon! A day will come where the Zhen family will learn of what happened here! You’ll be dead! Dead!”
“How noisy!” Zhang Che dismissed his words. He couldn’t be bothered wasting any more time here. The Nirvana Snake King was about to be gone from his sight after this interference.
With a wave of his hand, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon quickly crossed two hundred meters and came to the dying chief bodyguard’s side. He swung the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword, cleaving the bodyguard’s body in two, which then fell towards the forest below.
Zhang Che pushed the Purple Crystal Tortoise off the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s back, commanding it, “Go retrieve every one of the bone spikes, then wait for me at the top of the tallest mountain ahead!”
Zhang Che flew off on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, chasing the Nirvana Snake King, who was about to disappear from his sight.
At this moment, that little snake was already a few kilometers away. If he didn’t hurry, the snake would really get away.
“Damn it, those people really deserved to die. They nearly messed up my matters!”
Zhang Che really wished he could kill those people all over again. If the Nirvana Snake King really got away, where was he supposed to go find it?
Now, Zhang Che could only hope for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to put in more effort and try to catch up to that cunning little snake while the dragon’s body could still withstand it. Otherwise, everything he had done on this trip would really be for naught.
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Fortunately, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon pulled through this time. After catching up to it, they finally cornered the Nirvana Snake King a few dozen kilometers away. With a breath of fire from the Scarlet Flame Drake, the cornered little snake was directly burned to ash.
Seeing the Nirvana Snake King finally turning into sparkles of five-colored light, Zhang Che finally felt a huge rock lifting from his chest.
“Luckily this fellow’s defense is pathetic, or it’d be hard to say if I could successfully kill it.”
At that moment, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon suddenly let out a cry. He turned into a five-colored ray and flew back to Zhang Che’s spiritual sea, and Zhang Che fell a few dozen meters to the ground.
In his panic, Zhang Che summoned the Rotten Ent Prowler and lashed it at the crown of the tree below, coiling around it to secure his fall, feeling some fear inside. “Shit, that was close!”
If the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had tired out just a few seconds earlier, he really would have failed to kill the Nirvana Snake King today.
While lamenting in his heart, he ordered the Purple Jade Condor in the sky to come down and pick up the Nirvana Snake King card. He swept his gaze across it.
“All the Gods in the heavens, please let it be a storage-type beast card!”
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[Nirvana Snake King]
Level: Five Star (Level 48)
Quality: Legend
Type: Original Combat Body, Storage Dual Types
Characteristics: Spatial Attributed Exotic Beast, Born with the Ability to Control Space, Contains 200 Cubic Meters of Space in its Body
Weakness: Darkness Elemental Attacks
Innate Attribute: Jet Flight. The Inside of Its Body Contains a Space of Its Own, Able to Take in the Air from Outside and Quickly Expel it. Flight Can Be Attained With the Huge Force Generated, Or It Can Be Shot as a High Speed Current of Air to Hurt Its Enemies.
Skill: Nirvana of Nothingness. After Activation, Releases a Spatial Ball of Light with Powerful Suction, Pulling Its Prey In and Uses the Power of Nirvana to Tear Any Prey to Pieces. Lasts 1 Minute, Cooldown Time: 30 Minutes.
Halo: Amplified Nirvana
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“Original Combat Body, Storage Dual Type!”
Zhang Che was stunned for a while, then his face flushed red from his excitement as he roared out in laughter uncontrollably.
His efforts today weren’t in vain, indeed. He didn’t expect the Nirvana Snake King to give him such a huge surprise!
A dual type beast card; as its name suggested, it meant that this fellow could either materialize into its original form to take part in combat, or turn into a storage equipment to keep his things.
This truly was an all new type of beast card, the first he’d ever seen!
Zhang Che had seen the Nirvana Snake King’s combat form earlier. Although its defenses were a little poor, its attack was very scary. It had the ability to turn the situation around at crucial moments.
As long as the Nirvana of Nothingness could hit its target, even a divine-quality beast would have to suffer a huge loss!
As a storage-type beast card, this fellow’s storage ability was shocking, too, with two hundred cubic meters worth of space. It could be considered a mobile storage unit!
For comparison, the five-star dark gold-quality Meso Worm storage equipment he had only had fifty cubic meters of space!
The difference was simply too great. It seemed like different species of storage-type exotic beasts had differing amounts of space inside their bodies.
Of course, the Purple Crystal Tortoise was considered an outlier. It was only a four-star legend-quality beast, a rank lower than the Nirvana Snake King, yet the space in its body was five times greater than the Nirvana Snake King had!
-Mmm, that fellow is a strange one. It can’t be compared with other storage-type exotic beasts…,- Zhang Che thought to himself. He immediately activated the beast card and branded his spiritual imprint on it. Afterwards, as he willed it, a translucent snake-shaped belt appeared in Zhang Che’s hand.
“Hmm? It’s actually a belt. Interesting!”
Zhang Che wasn’t used to wearing a belt. Usually, to accommodate his beast card armor and not having a belt restrict him, Zhang Che wore leisure sportswear. He never had to wear a belt.
“Looks like I have to consider changing my clothing habits from now on!” Zhang Che sighed. He willed it once more, and the translucent belt suddenly transformed and turned into a nimble little snake, swimming in the air around him happily.
Zhang Che could hear a soft, engine-like sound coming from the Nirvana Snake King’s body. It seemed like this fellow truly relied on expelling the air at high speed to gain the ability to fly.
“Here, open your mouth. Let me see if you can store things this way.”
An idea struck Zhang Che. He picked up a random little rock on the ground and brought it in front of the Nirvana Snake King, trying to have it store the rock into his body.
However, the Nirvana Snake King didn’t show any reaction at all, only swimming around happily.
Zhang Che let out a sigh, a little disappointed, “As expected, in its Original Combat Body form, this fellow can’t use its storage ability.”
Although he was already expecting it, when he found out this fellow couldn’t get the best of both worlds at the same time, Zhang Che couldn’t help but feel a little regret.
“Tsk, tsk. I knew exotic beasts like my unique little tortoise, who can both fight and store objects at the same time, are too rare. Not only that, it can also provide a tough defense to its owner. It’s simply the best subdued beast in the world!”
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Faraway, the Purple Crystal Tortoise, having just retrieved all the bone spikes after much effort, was currently moving through the earth towards the tall mountain ahead. It suddenly felt a grave chill.
-What’s going on? Is there another powerful exotic beast that can move through the earth nearby? –
