Chapter 355: Mysterious Egg Inside the Heavenly Peak Mountain?
“Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger?”
w.a.n.g Che looked at the half of a head on the ground.
Its head was round and one could tell at a glance that it was the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger they had encountered in the Earth Fire Compet.i.tion.
It was fate that they could meet here.
This place was still a distance from the area of the Earth Fire Compet.i.tion.
!!
“Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!”
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger crawled out of the ground and sized up w.a.n.g Che, then looked at the little caterpillar, Bear Treasure, and the other two.
‘Why are you here?’ It asked.
“Then why are you here?” w.a.n.g Che smiled and asked, “Have you found your home?”
After the Earth Fire Compet.i.tion ended, he had parted ways with this guy on the seventh level.
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger nodded solemnly and shook its head.
“Roar!”
Bear Treasure immediately walked over and happily greeted the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger.
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger had taught it the Rock Fighting move and could be considered a temporary master.
“Woo?”
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger glanced at Bear Treasure and looked at w.a.n.g Che in confusion.
‘Is this your bear cub?’
Why was there such a huge difference?
“It evolved,” w.a.n.g Che said.
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger looked at Bear Treasure in surprise and shouted.
The general meaning was that there was a problem with this place. It had walked for the entire night and had not walked out.
Then, it sensed the aura of humans here and wanted to come and take a look.
“Is there a problem?”
w.a.n.g Che’s heart jumped.
The sky had not changed since last night.
There was indeed a problem here.
There was a lot of thick fog around. This fog also blocked the perception of mental strength, causing the communication signal to be cut off.
w.a.n.g Che felt that it should have been trapped by an array formation, the Soul Guiding Diagram.
Or was it some mysterious power?
It might even be related to the Oracle Phantom Spirit.
Actually, it was fine if there were accidents.
With w.a.n.g Che’s experience, if nothing happened, it would be even more impossible to find the Oracle Phantom Spirit.
“Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!”
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger looked around and extended its paw to w.a.n.g Che.
Then, it burrowed into the ground and moved in another direction.
“Let’s go and follow!”
w.a.n.g Che called the three of them and immediately followed.
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger should have been here for a while. Although it did not know the reason, it was definitely more familiar with this place than him.
This familiarity was not just on the map.
Instead, it was a sense of familiarity.
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger circled around, but w.a.n.g Che gradually felt a faint sense of danger.
“The danger in the area of the Heavenly Peak Mountain is only limited to soul beasts…”
“The other factions shouldn’t exist… Since the Heavenly King said that he had eliminated them, there shouldn’t be such an accident.”
“Then other than soul beasts… the other unknown dangers can only come from inside the Heavenly Peak Mountain… Since the Oracle Phantom Spirit appeared here, there must be something strange here.”
Before long, the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger stopped and crawled out of the mound, revealing a head. It held a finger to its mouth like a human and shushed it before pointing ahead.
w.a.n.g Che glanced ahead.
This should be the foot of the Heavenly Peak Mountain. The terrain was dangerous. There were many dangerous rocks and trees around. Most of the plants had been burned by the Earth Fire, and the ground was desolate.
The location the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger pointed at was a dark hole.
There were many such holes in the Heavenly Peak Mountain. Most of them were holes burned by the Earth Fire. There was nothing special about them.
“Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!”
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger hissed.
It meant that the tremor just now came from this hole.
Not only that, it had just entered to investigate and discovered that the hole was bottomless. Occasionally, a low roar came from the abyss.
Even with its personality, it could not help but want to retreat, so it did not continue asking.
Moreover, last night, when the thick fog first appeared, a portion of it came from this cave.
It was very mysterious.
“Ssss!”
The little caterpillar seemed to be quite excited about this hole. It let out a cry and wanted to rush in to explore.
Charge! Charge!
It had recently read the Sword Shrouding Heaven story and heard that the protagonist, the caterpillar, was exploring some mysterious lands. Its interest in exploration had increased greatly.
w.a.n.g Che grabbed its tail and stopped it from rushing over.
Soon, the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger let out two more cries.
w.a.n.g Che pondered for a few seconds.
He understood what the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger meant.
It did not want to go down because it was afraid of death. It wanted to go out.
It had come to the Heavenly Peak Mountain a few times. This time, it was mainly to find evolution materials for its underlings who were about to evolve.
It was to help the underlings evolve smoothly.
In the end, they did not expect to not be able to leave after entering. Be it underground or underground, it was as if there was an invisible membrane covering them. Once they crossed over, they would discover that they were only pa.s.sing through the Heavenly Peak Mountain.
Now that it felt that it was not strong, it might die before it could discover what it was.
After conversing with the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger, w.a.n.g Che learned the situation.
According to what the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger knew, it had come to the Heavenly Peak Mountain many times.
Such a special situation had never happened before.
“Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!”
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger suddenly let out a few cries!
“What else did you think of?” w.a.n.g Che asked.
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger immediately hissed as if it was telling a story.
It was born a thousand years ago and had been in the Transversal Peak Mountain Range since it was young.
At that time, its parents, grandparents, and family were still in the Transversal Peak Mountain Range.
Later on, when it had just turned a hundred and was ignorant, its parents handed it to its old grandparents and left the family.
It went to the mysterious interior of the Heavenly Peak Mountain. From then on, its parents never returned.
At that time, there were many soul beasts in the Transversal Peak Mountain Range.
Its father was the leader of the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badgers. It was powerful and had a soul power cultivation of ten thousand years.
Therefore, even in the Transversal Peak Mountain Range, other soul beasts usually did not provoke them.
However, after its parents left, the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badgers became leaderless and slowly began to decline. In fact, not a single Honey Fire Badger could evolve into a Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger for hundreds of years.
With the decline of the family, they were naturally chased out of the core area of the Transversal Peak Mountain Range.
It was in the area of Heavenly Peak Mountain.
At that time, the area of the Heavenly Peak Mountain was the core of the Transversal Peak Mountain Range.
This place was filled with soul power, various rare plants, and countless strange flowers and fruits.
It was definitely a good place for wild soul beasts to cultivate.
After being chased out, it slowly grew up. Its grandparents unfortunately pa.s.sed away due to aging and fighting other soul beasts.
Fortunately, it had outstanding talent since it was young. Even if it was chased out of the Heavenly Peak Mountain area, it had some achievements after hundreds of years of cultivation.
It even successfully evolved into a Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger.
“Woo!” The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger said solemnly.
After growing up, it went to the Heavenly Peak Mountain several times to find its parents.
It was useless.
According to what it knew, its parents had gone to the interior of the Heavenly Peak Mountain to find a way to break through the upper limit of the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger.
It was rumored that some rare treasures would grow in the Heavenly Peak Mountain every once in a while.
These rare treasures were said to be able to help them break through their upper limit.
As for this rumor, it had always been circulating among the soul beasts near the Heavenly Peak Mountain.
When w.a.n.g Che heard this, he felt that it was a trap.
It was both good and bad.
Among humans, unless they had an extremely deep understanding of soul beasts outside the mountains, they might not know this history.
“Inside the Heavenly Peak Mountain…”
w.a.n.g Che frowned slightly, “The Ancient Fiend is below the Heavenly Peak Mountain… Interesting, why did this Ancient Fiend choose to live on the Heavenly Peak Mountain? Could it be related to the Ancient Fiend? But if it caused such a commotion, it means that it might have already awakened?”
However, if it woke up, there would definitely be news from the Divine Light Whale.
If it did not wake up, how was this situation related to it?
Or could it be that there were other secrets hidden in this mountain?
w.a.n.g Che closed his eyes and looked back at the Transversal Peak Mountain Range.
In terms of terrain, the Transversal Peak Mountain Range spanned millions of miles and was vast and boundless.
Among them, this Heavenly Peak Mountain was located to the west of the Transversal Peak Mountain Range, the place of origin.
In the basic subjects of high school, there were brief records and descriptions of the Transversal Peak Mountain Range.
The formation of the mountain range had existed since ancient times, but it was not so wide back then.
However, the Heavenly Peak Mountain was different.
The Heavenly Peak Mountain was a peak formed in the Fallen Ancient Era.
“In the words of the cultivation world… the terrain of the Heavenly Peak Mountain is high and dangerous. The earth vein is natural and is an excellent place to be born. From the map, the Heavenly Peak Mountain is the first part of the Transversal Peak Mountain Range. The vein is filled with spirit. No wonder a demon spirit like the Oracle Phantom Spirit was born.”
“There’s no spirit vein here. The abundant soul power here is related to the terrain.”
“But such a good place should be greatly developed by modern humans. However, there are no traces of development here.”
“Moreover, before the Oracle Heavenly King came, she did not say that the soul power here was rich and far inferior to before?”
“It seems that there’s indeed something in this mountain.”
Thinking of this, w.a.n.g Che glanced at the distant hole.
In the current situation, if it were anyone else, the best choice was to wait for the Heavenly King to arrive.
No matter how strange it was, to an existence like the Oracle Heavenly King, it was only a matter of time before it was broken.
“Since the Oracle Phantom Spirit appeared here, it means that there might be a disaster here. It’s probably not a calamity beast, but a spirit beast that can sense a disaster. It only appeared to resolve the disaster, not cause it…”
w.a.n.g Che opened his eyes and nodded, “Let’s go in and take a look.”
The little caterpillar shouted and rushed over with its tail wagging.
The Magnetic Sword and Bear Treasure followed.
The cave path was rugged, but it was not dark.
The cave was filled with rocks and spikes. The terrain was strange. There were many flowers and plants that emitted a dark purple light.
Some stones were like stalact.i.tes that flickered.
“Soul Forgetful Gra.s.s.”
w.a.n.g Che had a thought and continued walking along the stone path.
The terrain was falling. Interestingly, there were no forks.
There was only one way to descend.
The soul power became thicker and thicker, and the soul plants growing around increased.
“Woo!” The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger whispered.
It seemed to have a bad feeling.
There were more and more good things in the cave. It could be seen from the soul plants around.
However, the emptiness was the strangest thing!
How could such a good place… not be occupied by powerful soul beasts?
Before long, two violent roars came from ahead.
It was as if two soul beasts were fighting?
The cave shook as rocks flew. It was very difficult to stand firm.
The interior of the cave was very large. It could even accommodate a large soul beast that was tens of thousands of years old.
“From the sound… it doesn’t seem to be a soul beast from the Transversal Peak Mountain Range…”
w.a.n.g Che frowned slightly.
There was a strange roar mixed in the roar, like a devil-type soul beast?
Why were there devil-type soul beasts in the Heavenly Peak Mountain?
As he carefully approached, w.a.n.g Che saw a black soul beast with a spiral head and two feet. It looked like a bull and had six teachers.
“It’s indeed a devil-type soul beast… Six-legged Mara.”
“A wild demon-type soul beast… Why is it here?”
The Six-legged Mara was a devil-type soul beast. Its quality was at the peak of the King Realm. It was a rather violent devil-type soul beast.
w.a.n.g Che frowned slightly, but when it saw the soul beast opposite the Six-legged Mara, it was slightly stunned.
“Oracle Phantom Spirit?” w.a.n.g Che whispered.
The soul beast opposite the Six-legged Mara was the Oracle Phantom Spirit he had seen before.
The size was identical.
Its snow-white body flickered with starlight. Its small body of 20 centimeters still looked mysterious and strange!
Compared to the Six-legged Demon King that was more than ten meters tall, it was as small as a grain of rice.
w.a.n.g Che could not sense the cultivation of the Oracle Phantom Spirit.
To be precise, he could not feel it.
On the contrary, the Six-legged Mara could be sensed.
It was close to 20,000 years.
The Oracle Phantom Spirit shuttled between the Six-legged Mara’s body and streaked across the stars, but it was not injured at all.
The various powers unleashed by the Six-legged Mara seemed to be invisibly resolved!
Before long, the Oracle Phantom Spirit let out a low cry like a young beast. The Six-Legged mara seemed to have been struck by a mysterious force as its huge body fell to the ground.
It raised countless rocks and dust.
The three of them stood in a row and watched with interest. Their eyes widened.
“Something is wrong…”
w.a.n.g Che pondered.
After the Six-legged Mara fell, the Oracle Phantom Spirit seemed to have discovered w.a.n.g Che.
It let out a cry and disappeared into the air.
w.a.n.g Che was not in a hurry to catch up. Instead, he stood where he was and pondered.
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger urged.
‘Hurry up and chase!’
Perhaps the situation on the Heavenly Peak Mountain was caused by that soul beast!
‘Catch it first!’
w.a.n.g Che did not chase after it. Instead, he turned around and walked back.
This stunned the Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger.
The little caterpillar and the others did not understand either. They were about to charge over when they saw w.a.n.g Che suddenly walk back. It felt very strange but they still followed.
However, after walking for a while, the path was dark.
The soul plants he had seen on the way had also disappeared. Everything seemed to be an illusion.
It was pitch-black.
The little caterpillar spat out a wisp of flames. The light seemed to be unable to shine out, but it also seemed to be sealed.
There was nothing around, no path.
“Use your Spirit Eyes to look around again.” w.a.n.g Che immediately said.
Bear Treasure walked out. Its eyes flashed golden as the three types of flames spun rapidly. The surrounding world immediately changed.
After a while, Bear Treasure shook its head, indicating that it did not see any changes.
This meant that the surroundings were real and there were no illusions.
“Interesting…”
w.a.n.g Che pondered for a few seconds and turned around.
With every step he took, after a while, w.a.n.g Che looked back and everything seemed to have disappeared.
It was as if s.p.a.ce had been destroyed.
They could only move forward and not retreat.
Walking past the body of the Six-legged Mara, w.a.n.g Che glanced at it. He could still feel abundant life force from this soul beast.
However, it was lying on the ground motionless. No one knew what had happened.
w.a.n.g Che stopped and looked at the Six-legged Mara. He suddenly said to Bear Treasure, “Look at it with your Spirit Eyes.”
Bear Treasure immediately looked at the Six-legged Mara and was shocked.
“Let it show its true form!”
w.a.n.g Che said in a low voice, “After using the Spirit Eyes to see through illusions, it will reveal itself.”
A pale golden light shot out of Bear Treasure’s eyes and shone on the Six-legged Mara.
The next moment, the size of this Six-legged Mara began to change.
From a size of more than ten meters, it slowly shrunk.
The two horns on its head began to disappear.
In the end, it became a normal rock-type soul beast, the Rock Horn Rhino.
When the little caterpillar and the Magnetic Sword saw this, they were immediately shocked.
“It’s not injured… Let’s go.”
w.a.n.g Che glanced at the Rock Horn Rhino and said slowly.
As they continued forward, they encountered a few more fallen soul beasts.
They were all devil-type, but they were all fake.
After Bear Treasure used the Samadhi Spirit Eyes to shine, they returned to their original state. They were all normal rock-type soul beasts in the cave.
“Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!”
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger was confused.
They did not know what was going on.
The path behind was gone. Walking back seemed to be a dark abyss.
The soul beasts they encountered as they advanced were all fake.
There was also the mysterious Oracle Phantom Spirit.
This cave seemed to be strange everywhere.
“We should not be at the Heavenly Peak Mountain anymore.” w.a.n.g Che said lightly.
“?”
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger was stunned.
It did not understand.
“I don’t know where it is, but this place shouldn’t be the Heavenly Peak Mountain anymore.”
“What can we encounter if we continue forward…”
w.a.n.g Che was not sure either.
However, that Oracle Phantom Spirit…
The path ahead seemed to have no end. The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger walked for an unknown period of time.
It felt as long as a century. There were a few times when it could not hold it in anymore.
Among them, only the little caterpillar and the others were still excited.
At this moment, a light flickered in the distance, as if it was the exit.
The Th.o.r.n.y Fire Badger pointed ahead and shouted excitedly.
The light meant that the exit was finally reaching the end?
w.a.n.g Che walked over in silence. Before long, he saw the source of the light.