Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Edited by Aelryinth
Zhang Che was far too deep into the beast world. He wouldn’t be able to return to Mercury in just a day or two. So, he wasn’t in a hurry.
When the sky gradually darkened, he found a huge mountain and had the Purple Crystal Tortoise dig out a large cave, hiding in there with the elemental queen and settling down for the night.
However, Zhang Che felt a little awkward about this. Was this considered going spelunking with a woman? {TLN: Sexual innuendo.}
Well, just from appearances alone, the elemental queen would be considered a woman…
Zhang Che had tried, but he couldn’t let the elemental queen turn into a mass of light and enter his spiritual sea like his subdued beasts and pets. It was probably because they were a different type of lifeform.
With that, from now on the elemental queen would be permanently following Zhang Che by his side in that appearance.
“But why do I have a vague sense of happiness?” Zhang Che shook his head, dispelling his strange thoughts. He warned himself once more to not be like the Monkey King from A Chinese Odyssey. Even though his physique was at a superhuman level, he definitely wouldn’t be able to withstand the burns from the flames.
Moreover, those weren’t ordinary flames, but the powerful force of the fire elements!
While hiding in the cave, Zhang Che took out a large piece of exotic beast meat. The scarlet and white sword light flew about for a brief moment and cut the meat into smaller pieces. Afterwards, he had the Purple Crystal Tortoise spit out several bone spikes, skewering the meat and stabbing them into the rock wall.
The elemental queen blinked her bright eyes continuously, watching Zhang Che going through the series of action, feeling a sense of novelty.
Suddenly, Zhang Che turned to look at her and instructed, “Here, give me a hand. Use your smallest flame to try roasting them.”
The elemental queen nodded, her eyes full of curiosity. She reached out with her jade white hand, and a weak tiny flame sprouted from her palm, roasting the meat skewers.
Zhang Che observed for a few seconds. He nodded in satisfaction and said, “Turn your flames a little stronger!”
The elemental queen was very perceptive. The flames on her jade hands immediately intensified a little.
After a few more adjustments, the elemental queen mastered the techniques on her own and became a passable meat roaster, her skills even above that of the Scarlet Flame Drake.
Zhang Che grew excited. With this, he wouldn’t have to worry about not having delicious roasted meat to eat in the future!
When the fats were starting to melt and drip off the roasted meat, Zhang Che retrieved a ladle of spiritual honey and applied a layer of it to the meat evenly. The combination of exotic beast meat and spiritual honey was rich in spiritual force, and several times more delicious. Naturally Zhang Che would make good use of such a good resource.
Zhang Che had missed it, but the curiosity in the elemental queen’s eyes grew stronger as she controlled her flames to roast the meat. Her nose also twitched a few times, and she even stuck out her little tongue, licking her lips.
When the roasted meat had turned golden yellow, Zhang Che instructed the elemental queen to retract her flames. After thinking for a moment, he summoned out the frisky monkey.
This time, he had broken his promise to find the frisky monkey a spiritual herb that would allow him to rank up. He’d better compensate his pet with some roasted meat; the latter would probably forgive his master daddy.
As expected, the frisky monkey was about to cast a resentful gaze at Zhang Che when he appeared. He took a whiff and was immediately drawn to the fragrance of roasted meat, a thread of saliva flowing out of his mouth.
However, when he saw the elemental queen sitting in front of the roasted meat, he immediately showed a look of confusion.
“Baba, muther…” The frisky monkey acted like he had just discovered a new continent, pointing at the elemental queen, looking at Zhang Che curiously.
He clearly remembered the original “muther” next to his master daddy wasn’t this person…
-Oh, wait. This thing isn’t…-
Just as the frisky monkey reacted to this, the elemental queen suddenly turned around and sent the frisky monkey flying with a slap, slamming into the rock wall behind, his head spinning and seeing stars.
The elemental queen shot a glance at him, her gaze filled with disdain.
-How dare you little creature point a finger at me. Don’t you know I’m Master’s most beloved baby?-
The frisky monkey crawled up, feeling wronged. He quickly turned to look at Zhang Che, tears welling up in his eyes.
“Baba, pain…”
Zhang Che rolled his eyes, “Serves you right!”
-Who told you to not get a good look at the situation?
-Didn’t you see the elemental queen had already become the royal meat roaster? Not only that, her strength was far above yours, not to mention she looks pleasing to the eyes. She’s much better than you, this little damn monkey!-
The frisky monkey felt even more hurt. He felt like his master daddy had a change of heart.
When Zhang Che and the frisky monkey started tearing large mouthfuls of roasted meat to eat, the former suddenly realized something was off. He stopped chewing and saw the elemental queen looking at the skewered meat in anticipation, sticking her tongue out to lick her lips.
-Heavens! This action is too alluring!-
Zhang Che quickly thought of the scene where the monkey king’s pants caught fire. He pointed at the roasted meat and asked, “Why, you want to eat too?”
The elemental queen immediately nodded like a chicken pecking on rice, answering, “Master, may I?”
Zhang Che fell silent. He sighed inside, -Another freaking glutton…-
The thing was, wasn’t this girl a fiery creature? Was she able to eat?
As things would have it, the elemental queen could not only eat, her appetite was pretty shocking, too! She could eat the combined amount of Zhang Che and the frisky monkey’s appetite all by herself!
In the end, Zhang Che could only take out another pile of meat and skewer them, then let the elemental queen start roasting them.
After eating their dinner, Zhang Che washed up quickly and took out his sleeping bag, slipping his way inside, ready to go to sleep.
Suddenly, the elemental queen at the side looked at Zhang Che’s sleeping bag curiously. Tempted to try it, she asked, “Master, may this servant come in and sleep?”
Zhang Che’s body nearly swelled up. He subconsciously wanted to agree to it, but he quickly shook his head and said in an annoyed tone, “No, you don’t even need to rest!”
-Heck, I nearly lost all reason!-
“But this servant wants to try.”
Well, the elemental queen was purely curious about it. She wanted to copy whatever she saw Zhang Che doing. Heavens knew how dull her life was in the flaming mountains. Whatever novelty she saw, she would want to try.
How could Zhang Che agree to such a ridiculous request? But, when he saw her pitiful appearance, he would think maybe it wasn’t that bad to let her try…
“I’ll buy one for you next time. Only one person can sleep in this thing.”
-Heh, what a joke. Is your master so easily seduced?-
The elemental queen nodded. She sat cross-legged on the ground next to Zhang Che and closed her eyes.
Seeing this, Zhang Che finally let out a long sigh of relief. Luckily she didn’t insist on it, or it’d be hard to predict what the end results would be like.
-Mmm, the monkey king is really miserable. I better not copy him.-
Zhang Che closed his eyes, but sleepiness had yet to catch up to him yet. He suddenly opened his eyes again, a hint of joy flashed across his face.
In his spiritual sea, the light representing the Umbra Wind God Leopard quickly shone a few times, seemingly about to wake up from his slumber.
The little fellow had been in a deep slumber ever since he had consumed the two dark exotic beasts’ corpses last time. Today he finally showed some signs of activity.
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Soon, the Umbra Wind God Leopard woke up completely.
Zhang Che quickly sat up in his sleeping bag. A streak of light shot out from his brow. An exotic beast with a three-meter-long body resembling a panther, covered in greenish-black fur, appeared in front of Zhang Che.
“He actually grew so much bigger!” Zhang Che was exhilarated when he saw the Umbra Wind God Leopard had grown a few times bigger.
Didn’t that mean that the little fellow had finally grown out of his newborn phase and had truly grown up?
Zhang Che hurriedly used his data eyes, sweeping his gaze out to settle on the Umbra Wind God Leopard, bursting into laughter the next instant.
It was indeed as he had expected. The little fellow had really grown out of his newborn phase!
The elemental queen at the side opened her eyes in astonishment. She focused her stare on the Umbra Wind God Leopard apprehensively.
Of course, she wasn’t in fear of the little fellow’s strength. Although he had grown out of his newborn phase, the Umbra Wind God Leopard was still too weak as of now. The elemental queen could send him flying with a slap.
What she feared was the Umbra Wind God Leopard’s potential. The little fellow had obviously just gotten through his newborn phase. He would become extremely terrifying when he matured into adulthood!
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[Umbra Wind God Leopard]
Level: Five Star (Level 50) [Able to Reach Nine Stars When Fully Grown]
Quality: Dark Gold [Able to Reach Super Divine When Fully Grown]
Characteristics: Darkness and Wind Dual-Attributed Beast. Has Perfect Control of Dark and Wind Energies When Matured
Weakness: Restrained by Light Attributed Beasts of Equal Level and Quality
Innate Attribute: Dark and Wind Elemental Mastery. Able to Borrow the Powers of Both Elements to Take Flight, Attack, Defend, and Conceal Itself. [Is Too Weak Currently, Unable to Make Use of Its Concealing and Flight Abilities.]
Skill: Shield of Darkness. Able to Erupt the Dark Elements in its Body After Activation, Forming a Dark Elemental Shield on the Surface of Its Body. Among the Same Level, Only Light Elemental Attacks Can Penetrate the Shield. Skill Lasts 1 Hour. Requires 1 Day to Recover Its Energy Before It is Able to Use It Again.
Domain: Unawakened
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Zhang Che was both happy and confused when he saw the Umbra Wind God Leopard’s new attributes.
Zhang Che was happy that the fellow had finally grown out of his newborn phase, and he looked pretty strong, too.
On the other hand, he was confused as to why the fellow didn’t have a Halo effect, despite being at dark gold-quality.
Could it be that the Umbra Wind God Leopard would only awaken his Domain powers when he achieved super divine-quality, and he wouldn’t have a transition Halo effect?¹
Thinking about it, it really seemed highly possible. After all, the fellow’s attributes were too unique. There were huge differences between his and average exotic beasts’ attributes.
-Forget it. I can’t count on this little fellow for now. It’d be some time in the future before he really shines.-
Zhang Che recalled the little fellow back into his spiritual sea, then shut his eyes, slowly slipping into the land of dreams.
In his dream, there seemed to be a burning hot body silently slipping into his sleeping bag, and nature took its course, some indescribable event happened…
All of a sudden, blazing flames erupted from the hot body, charring Zhang Che black. His skin and flesh whirled about, overturned, falling off piece by piece…
“Oh shit!” Zhang Che suddenly sat up in his sleeping bag, his forehead covered in sweat.
He looked around. Sitting at the side, the elemental queen opened her eyes, too, looking at Zhang Che in confusion, not understanding why her Master had such a horrified look on his face. There was clearly no enemy ambush..?
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Translator’s Note:
1: Now that the author mentioned this, I checked my glossary and found that all epic-quality beasts introduced thus far have no Halo effects if they have a False Domain. Only the 7-star Demonic Energy Large Boar Zhang Che acquired recently at Chapter 420 has a Halo effect, but no False Domain. Still, that doesn’t explain why the Scarlet Flame Drake had no flame resistance Halo effect in play at the flaming mountains.
