Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In the following days, Gao Peng brought Moneymaker along to make a clean sweep of all the treasure in the treasure chamber. By closing the door of the last room, Gao Peng had lived up to the good habit of closing doors when entering and exiting rooms.
In the few days that Gao Peng swept through the entire treasure chamber, the treasure found wasn’t considered a lot, but not very little either. Many of the rooms were empty, with nothing left, whereas in some of the rooms, the treasure preserved within had lost its spirituality over the years, turning completely into a pile of rotted wood or scrap metal.
“With this harvest, my fortune is probably no worse than those top tribes,” Gao Peng said while carrying Silly in his arms and petting its smooth belly. Silly was so comfortable being held and petted by Gao Peng that it began making weird noises through its mouth.
Only Gao Peng knew how great this harvest was. Initially, the greatest difference between him and the big tribes was their fortunes and backing, as the big tribes had rich supplies. Fortune was simply treasure that had been handed down from generation to generation or hidden cards that they held unbeknownst to others.
Even if only one top treasure was harvested in 100 years, that would still mean an accumulation of a hundred treasures in 10,000 years. Of course, in a strict sense, it couldn’t be calculated this way. However, there wasn’t much difference on the whole.
While sometimes, certain treasure would be of no use at the time, as long as it was accumulated, it was still part of the fortune, and could quite possibly be of great use one day. Naturally, Gao Peng had also accumulated many materials for evolution this time.
Right as Gao Peng was pondering, the surrounding void distorted and Gao Peng, as well as his familiars, could only feel the surrounding imagery flickering as they were transmitted to the entrance in a flash. There were a lot of people standing near the entrance, and all of them stared at Gao Peng.
Gao Peng felt very awkward. Is there anything on my face?
“Why are you all staring at me?” Gao Peng laughed.
“No particular reason.” Those who stood nearest shook their heads, and some even took a step back.
A short youngster with a large nose and big eyes complained to Qing Yunnan, “Sir, that’s him. He’s the one who snatched our maps in the secret border.”
“I was just borrowing them. In any event, I didn’t even look at them for free. Didn’t I say that I would help you all build a base station for free?” Gao Peng sighed.
“How are you such a grumpy young man? We just borrowed your maps for a look. I can’t believe you’re complaining to him like a little b*tch.” Gao Peng was speechless, since he thought that something serious had happened.
Upon hearing Gao Peng call him a little b*tch, the young man who had snitched pulled a face as if he had suffered some sort of tremendous indignity. He glared at Gao Peng with his fists clenched tightly.
“I even thought of the perfect lines for you. What goes around, comes around, and the world changes constantly. Don’t bully a young man who’s poor.” Gao Peng chuckled.
“I… I’m not poor! My grandfather is a chief!” The young man mustered up his courage to respond.
Qing Yunnan furrowed his brows and said, “All right, let’s just leave the matter here.” Qing Yunnan had a lot of authority, so since he had spoken, the others naturally kept quiet.
After all, Gao Peng wasn’t a member of their tribe, hence Qing Yunnan wouldn’t try to control him. He merely turned to look at Gao Peng, hesitant to speak.
“Come on. Let’s head back to the tribe.” Qing Yunnan turned and left without asking the others if there had been a good harvest.
Qing Yunnan walked in front, followed by the others. The monster trainers gathered together excitedly, discussing the treasures they had each gained, the monsters they had seen in the secret border, and all kinds of peculiar situations they had encountered.
There were also some of them that appeared sad and covered their faces as they wept. This was because some of their companions hadn’t come back and would stay forever in the secret border. There were some that were happy and others that grieved.
“ROAR!” Boom. The air echoed with a deafening growl.
The crack in the area in front of them suddenly broke apart. The space that had once been firm became extremely fragile at this moment with the space torn apart in large cracks. It looked extremely terrifying. Just like a collapsed building, the void collapsed like an avalanche as layers of space fell from the fragmented sky and left half of the sky shattering.
Qing Yunnan’s face changed. “Back up!”
A long howl echoed from the depths of the broken space. Behind the broken void was the large Vanity Turbulence. Disorderly and lawless, it wanted to destroy everything in front of them.
Gao Peng saw the Destructive Behemoth for the first time with the last ray of light that emanated from the broken space. Just like a giant whale that had come up from the endless deep sea, its bright silver jaw was patterned with wavy lines that spread all the way to its sides. In the area that spread to its ears, the color became deeper where the dark purple skin was smooth and clean. There were eight orange-colored eyes in total, like orange lamps on both sides of a submarine.
Although the area it took up was small, it was particularly eye-catching.
“Roar!” The Destructive Behemoth opened its huge jaws and bit down venomously on a lofty peak in front of it.
Snap. Like biting a crispy rice cake, the peak was bitten off with a crisp snap, pulling the trees and creatures on it with it like sesame crumbs sprinkled on top of a cake. With a roll of its big red tongue, nothing was left.
“Roar!” The nose seemed to come into contact with air for too long, and black spots had begun to grow on it. The Destructive Behemoth stepped backward quickly, hiding in the Turbulent Vanity tp stalk its prey that was on land.
[Monster Name]: Giant Destructive Butcher Whale
[Monster Tier]: Medium God
Gao Peng could only see these two rows of data as he watched the Giant Whale that was lurking within the Vanity Turbulence. This was the first time he had met a monster at God tier… or rather, the monster of a God. Gao Peng was utterly attracted to it from the first moment it appeared.
Howl! This was the second time Gao Peng had heard this noise.
A humming came from the nose of the Giant Destructive Butcher Whale as its eyes became bright, and its gigantic mouth slowly opened to turn the echoing howl into a berserk and blood-lusting roar!
Destructive Whale Swallow! A dark ray shot from its gigantic mouth like a black hole that sucked everything before it into its mouth, including space debris, mountains, rivers, and even continental plates—everything went into its mouth.
This time, it was finally full and turned around to leave indifferently, swimming back into the depths of the vanity. As for Gao Peng and the others, including Qing Yunnan, it didn’t even spare them a glance.
It was just like a hungry man on the street who tiptoed to pluck two fruits from a tree to satiate his hunger, never even noticing the many ants on the branches of the tree.
“The road that we used when we came is broken. Let’s take a new route,” Qing Yunnan said helplessly while looking at the collapsed world.
Moreover, it was too dangerous here. The collapse of the world’s walls meant a big gap that had a big possibility of attracting other Destructive Behemoths.
“Maybe in the next hundred years, the secret border will be gone. You guys will probably be the last people to explore the secret border,” Qing Yunnan said in a low tone.
“Ah, that’s a pity. There are so many spiritual treasures in the secret border.”
“Yeah, there are so many spiritual treasures that we haven’t gotten our hands on,” someone sighed.
