Chapter 338: Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug!
Translator: AstralGhost Editor: Kurisu
Large fluffy clouds drifted lazily around the ancient Daoist temple atop the tall cliff, causing it to look like a detached immortal abode. It was emanating an air of aloofness, as though it had nothing to do with the mortal world.
Although his surroundings were exceptionally peaceful, Bei Feng’s heart was currently filled with tumultuous waves which refused to calm down. This was essentially the beginning of a terrifying plan to cleanse the entire world of all the Controlled Dan Heavenly Experts outside of China!
From the looks of it, the Controlled Dan Heavenly Experts in China had been hatching this plan for at least several decades. Bei Feng was also not in any position to say much. There was no disputing that this world was simply a set of chains, restricting these peak level experts!
Who could say if their actions to pursue a chance to extend their lifespans were right or wrong? Everyone simply wanted to make one last gamble while they still had some vitality in their blood.
Bei Feng would not be able to extricate himself from this matter as well… unless he had the strength to suppress all the experts in China!
In other words, from the moment Kong Ming Zi told him of this plan, he had been given only two choices. It was, either he joined the rest of the world to oppose the entire Chinese martial circle, or he joined them in their dark plan to wipe out all the Controlled Dan Heavenly Experts outside of China!
Bei Feng had an extremely constipated expression on his face as he nodded his head speechlessly.
The two continued chatting a little longer on the matters of the martial world before he bade his farewell and left.
Bei Feng was not as optimistic as Kong Ming Zi at all. How could it be so simple to kill all the Controlled Dan Heavenly Experts in the world? Even if he decided to take an optimistic view towards all this, there was still the matter of the Extreme Yin Demonic Corpse in the underground crypt!
While it was still an incomplete creature, it was already a creature at Grade 9 level of strength! Without any exaggerations, a single Extreme Yin Demonic Corpse was more than sufficient to sweep through the entire world’s martial realm!
Bei Feng felt his heart sink at this. However, the plan was already in motion, and could not be stopped just because of him. All the Controlled Dan Heavenly Experts in China had already joined hands, all for the sake of taking a peek at the realms above Controlled Dan!
At this point, whoever dared to stand in their way would definitely be smashed aside by the entire group!
“Badump!”
“Hm?”
Bei Feng stopped his steps and turned around as he looked up from his deep thoughts.
The martial trade was bustling with activity, and the crowd of martial practitioners was moving around excitedly, looking for the treasures they wanted.
Bei Feng’s gaze landed on a 40-something years old middle-aged stall owner. Before him were three simple items. A piece of rock half the height of a human, a palm-sized charcoal-colored metal piece, and a stalk of spirit herb which barely reached Grade 2.
Right now, he was looking at the medium-sized rock with interest. With his mental power spread out in a 60 meter range a moment ago, he noticed something that seemed to be rather fun.
“There’s actually something alive inside of this rock? How inconceivable!” Bei Feng muttered with amusement. The powerful heartbeat he sensed a moment ago actually came from that rock!
Bei Feng walked over to the owner quickly, “I’m buying this rock. Name a price.”
“S-senior! If you like it, I can give it to you as a gift!”
Lei Man’s face turned slightly pale as he saw Bei Feng approaching. With a nervous laugh, he hurriedly stepped to the side and offered the rock to Bei Feng.
‘Why is this malignant star here? Who the f*ck would dare to quote him a price for any of their goods?’
Lei Man’s back was drenched in sweat. He was already anticipating the dreaded “I’ll offer a life in exchange for this treasure” opener.
This fellow had a notoriously long track record for being absolutely unpredictable. Even the Kong Ming Valley could not do anything to him. If this fellow was somehow in a bad mood, he wouldn’t even know how he died!
The other stall owners around Lei Man was also swallowing nervously, cursing their own luck. If this malignant star took a fancy to their treasures as well, do they hand it over or not?
Seeing this ridiculous scene of everyone looking at him as though he were some psychopathic robber, Bei Feng shook his head speechlessly. With a flick of his finger, a jade box appeared before Lei Man. Bei Feng then stretched out his hand wordlessly and grabbed the large rock, dragging it away behind him.
When Bei Feng had finally disappeared far away into the distance, the crowd around the stall finally burst into a commotion, surging over and surrounding Lei Man.
“Brother Lei, quickly open the box and see what the Heavenly Expert gave you!”
“Right, the Heavenly Expert’s gestures would definitely not be light!”
The crowd began to scoff at and egg Lei Man on with mocking expressions on their faces. From the way Yan Mobei was slaughtered like a dog for the sake of a bow, it was clear without thinking that this Heavenly Expert was not any generous person.
Although Bei Feng had later said that the bow was originally his, not a single person believed him.
‘Bunch of bastards!’ Lei Man cursed darkly in his heart. These people were obviously just waiting to see him being made a laughing stock!
The most darned thing was that he could not afford to offend these people at all. He was only a peak level Evolved Jing master, while those people surrounding him were mostly Xiantian Lords!
Lei Man pursed his lip and resigned himself to his fate as he opened the jade box unwillingly. But as he did so, a shockingly pure energy with a refreshing fragrance surged out of the jade box, stimulating the blood and Qi of all who smelt it!
“Th-this…”
Lei Man’s face was frozen with shock. A single Grade 5 Lava Python gall was nested within the jade box, gleaming beautifully in the light like a bloody crimson ruby!
“Heavens! What a generous gesture!”
“As expected of a Controlled Dan Heavenly Expert!”
“You’ve profited greatly this time!”
The crowd nearly spat out their teeth with disbelief. None of them had expected that an unassuming piece of rock like that was actually traded for such a valuable treasure!
A silly smile hung on Lei Man’s face as he admired the fist-sized python gall before him. But after a while, he hurriedly snapped back to reality as he quickly closed the box and looked at the crowd with caution.
***
By this time, Bei Feng had already returned to his room with the stone egg. Right, that strange rock was actually a stone egg!
As soon as he touched it, the System had already informed him of everything about the stone egg.
This was actually a Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur’s egg! But right now, it seemed to have become the nest of some other creature. [ED/N: Pterosaur is a winged reptile from dinosaurs’ age]
Bei Feng drew his fingernail lightly across the surface of the stone egg, easily splitting it apart!
“Sou!”
A gray shadow shot out of the stone egg as soon as it opened. Its speed was so fast that only the afterimages of it could be seen!
“Hmph!”
Bei Feng was prepared for it long ago. He snorted coldly, causing the gray shadow to freeze in its path before dropping downwards!
Only now could the original appearance of the gray shadow could be seen. It was a strange lice-like bug about the size of a palm. Its entire body was a glossy black, and as hard as steel!
“This is the Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug?”
Bei Feng’s snort had been imbued with a powerful blood and Qi energy attack. With a single strike, he’d caused the Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug to fall unconscious.
This Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug was unexpectedly a Grade 7 creature! It was a bug that loved to drink the blood of other large organisms.
The most scary thing about it was its speed, and its frightening appetite!
Although this Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug was only the size of a palm, it was completely capable of draining all the blood from an elephant in an instant!
The large amounts of blood would be digested and refined with extreme speed, leaving only the purest energy!
The oddest thing about the Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug was that it would always fall into a long period of slumber after drinking blood from ten thousand different lifeforms!
These long slumbers were counted in centuries. When in this special state of hibernation, the Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bugs’ body and lifespan would be similar to being frozen in time!
And the blood of the ten thousand different beasts would also merge together, turning into a drop of the purest Myriad Blood Essence!
If it was not discovered within a period of time, this drop of Myriad Blood Essence would turn into a source of fuel for the Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug’s advancement!
How long the Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug would sleep each time depended greatly on the quality of the lifeforms’ blood it’d consumed. The stronger the beasts which it consumed, the shorter the time it would need to sleep would become!
Similarly, the weaker the beasts’ blood, the longer it’d need to stay asleep!
By now, Bei Feng also understood that the System’s valuation of a certain thing’s grade was not exactly the same as the martial worlds’ methods of classification. Many a time, it would assign a grade based on the usefulness of the item itself!
Take this Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug for instance. If one looked at it based on its cultivation level, it was at best at the Evolved Jing level of strength. However, it was actually evaluated as Grade 7 here!
Within the Ten Thousand Vampiric Blood Bug’s transparent abdomen, one could see a beautiful jewel-like ball. This ball was pulsing with powerful bloody aura, and a massive blood and Qi aura swirled around it, appearing extremely realistic, like a prismatic ruby!
