NOVEL NEXT Chapter 371 Mysterious Warcraft
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The Wolf Head Mercenary Group had a significant presence in Green Mountain Town, practically dominating the entire town. Because of this, Little Fairy Doctor didn't return there. Instead, she researched the "Seven-Colored Poison Classic," which she had obtained in the cave, within a canyon she discovered in the Monster Mountains.
After a few days of residing in this beautiful, tranquil, and ethereal canyon, Xiao Yan departed to train in the dangerous areas of the Monster Mountains.
A comfortable and harmonious life with a beauty by one's side was certainly appealing, but Xiao Yan had reasons to keep moving forward.
However, these short few days became a beautiful memory shared by the young man and woman, one worth cherishing for a lifetime.
Of course, it would have been even better without those little animals with white circles around their right eyes popping up from time to time to make their presence known.
In the past two days, Xiao Yan had also gone on a rampage, catching a white rabbit with dark circles around its eyes and roasting it to eat...
He thought something might happen, but there was still no feedback... However, the rabbit tasted surprisingly good.
Within the Monster Mountains, towering trees that required several people to encircle were everywhere. The young man, carrying a large ruler on his back, carefully advanced through the dense forest.
The jungle was fraught with peril, with the constant threat of deadly beasts launching surprise attacks... And it wasn't necessarily just magical beasts; some venomous insects and snakes could be just as fatal to Dou Practitioner whose Dou Qi cultivation wasn't yet profound.
However, Xiao Yan himself was an alchemist, and with Yao Chen by his side, ordinary beastly poisons were nothing to worry about.
He passed through a dense forest and arrived at a pool of water, where a small waterfall flowed down from the river above, cascading into the pool.
The water crashed into the surface of the pool, creating thousands of water droplets, like sparkling pearls.
"Teacher, I think it would be good to use this place as a base during our training. There's a clean water source here, and the view is wide, making it easier to spot danger," Xiao Yan said.
"Hmm, a good analysis. However, you forgot one thing: certain high-level magical beasts might also like this kind of environment. This might even be their nest," Yao Chen said with a smile, looking at a cave next to the waterfall.
"Ah? What?" Xiao Yan immediately became nervous and hurriedly looked around, cautiously asking, "I wouldn't be that unlucky, would I?"
"Hehe..." Yao Chen chuckled. "You're in luck. There used to be a powerful magical beast living here a few years ago, but it should have left... There haven't been any new signs of life for a long time."
Only then did Xiao Yan breathe a sigh of relief, wiping his forehead. "I knew it, I wouldn't be that unlucky."
He climbed up the cliff face using a few footholds, grabbed the lower edge of the cave, and with a forceful push from his right hand, lifted his body into the cave.
As soon as he entered the cave, Xiao Yan was stunned by the scene inside.
Within the spacious cave, densely packed piles of magical beast bones were stacked like mountains. Judging from the hardness of these bones, many of these magical beasts were quite strong.
He looked at a huge snake skeleton and said, "I feel like this magical beast must have been very strong in life. I'm afraid even ten of me couldn't beat it."
Yao Chen scoffed. "It should have been a Rank 4 magical beast when it was alive. A hundred of you would just be food."
Xiao Yan's eyes widened in horror. "The original owner of this cave must have had a huge appetite, right? It actually ate so many magical beasts."
Yao Chen nodded, frowning slightly. "This magical beast is a bit strange. There are no obvious signs of large creatures living in the cave, but the magical beasts it preyed on seem to have died relatively close together, all within the last 10 years..."
"It's really hard to imagine what kind of magical beast could have such a big appetite... If it were a Rank 7 magical beast, I could accept it."
"But if its own rank was very low, what a terrifying existence it would become as it grew?"
"It probably wouldn't take a few years before it ate the entire Monster Mountains clean."
Xiao Yan was taken aback, muttering, "N... No way, right?"
Yao Chen laughed. "The Dou Qi Continent is vast and boundless. It wouldn't be strange for any kind of peculiar race to appear. Take the Nihility Devouring Flame, ranked second on the Heavenly Flame Chart, which is said to be able to devour everything. This magical beast can eat, but compared to that kind of natural treasure, it's still far behind."
Hearing Yao Chen's description, Xiao Yan couldn't help but gulp. "The second-ranked Heavenly Flame is already so terrifying, so what is the first?"
To his surprise, his knowledgeable teacher didn't provide an answer this time.
"Don't know."
"Eh?"
"Just don't know," Yao Chen shook his head. "There are no records of this kind of Heavenly Flame."
"But isn't there something called the Heavenly Flame Chart?"
"The Heavenly Flame Chart records the twenty-two types of Heavenly Flame ranked from second to twenty-third. The first is left blank..."
"Could it be that even the person who wrote the Heavenly Flame Chart didn't know about that existence?" Xiao Yan guessed.
"Probably knew. The other Heavenly Flames on the Heavenly Flame Chart are all recorded very clearly, but as for why this first Heavenly Flame wasn't recorded, the alchemist world is full of different opinions," Yao Chen was also somewhat lost in thought.
That kind of existence was something he could only look up to, even at his peak.
Xiao Yan didn't dwell on the Heavenly Flame and the mysterious magical beast that had once existed in the cave for too long. He would look forward to the future, but he would also be practical.
He began to set up a perimeter at the entrance of the cave, scattering powders with pungent odors that magical beasts disliked.
He also set up simple traps.
As he finished everything and prepared to take a bath in the pool, a chanting sound suddenly came.
"The young man learns swordsmanship, surpassing the white ape. A pearl robe trails a silk belt, a dagger inserted into Wu Hong."
The chanting sound echoed through the mountains, its tone ethereal, like clouds, like mist, like wind, like smoke, as if far away in the sky, yet close at hand.
Xiao Yan couldn't help but conjure up an image of a reclusive, celestial-like senior expert in his mind.
"Could it be that a master is living in seclusion here?" he blurted out.
Yao Chen's illusory soul body floated behind him like a spirit. After investigating with his soul power, his expression was indescribably strange:
"Seclusion is probably seclusion... As for whether or not it can be called a senior expert... I wouldn't dare to make a judgment."
Sensing the strange emotion in Yao Chen's tone, Xiao Yan asked, "Teacher, what do you mean by this?"
"Well... well, you'll know when you meet it yourself."
Xiao Yan's doubts didn't last long. In his extremely shocked and astonished gaze, a figure wearing a bamboo hat and a straw raincoat, holding a dark, somewhat distorted wooden stick in his right hand, appeared in his field of vision.
The other party casually rested the wooden stick on his shoulder, strolling leisurely through the dangerous Monster Mountains...
It certainly matched the image of a senior expert in Xiao Yan's mind... if you didn't consider that it was a monkey.
Dumbfounded, it took Xiao Yan a long time to recover. He twitched the corner of his mouth: "Teacher, if I'm not mistaken, that's a... Wind Ape?"
"Yes, that's a Wind Ape," Yao Chen nodded in affirmation.
"A talking Wind Ape?"
"Yes, a talking Wind Ape."
Yao Chen had also never seen anything like this before.
High-level Wind Apes were rare, but not impossible to find. But a Wind Ape that could give people a sense of reclusiveness and freedom was truly unheard of.
"Speaking of which, Teacher, what's the minimum rank for a magical beast to be able to speak?" Xiao Yan suddenly thought of this question.
"Rank 5... Generally, magical beasts need to be Rank 6, but some ape-like or special magical beasts can do it at Rank 5."
"Hiss..." Xiao Yan couldn't help but gasp. The Wind Ape in front of him was actually a terrifying existence comparable to a Dou King powerhouse?
"You're probably mistaken. This Wind Ape is probably even more special. Its strength should be at the peak of Rank 4, with one foot across the threshold of Rank 5."
Although it wasn't the Dou King he had guessed earlier, being at the top of Rank 4 was still quite terrifying. You had to know that the overlords of most large cities in the Jia Ma Empire were only at the Dou Spirit level.
Just then, the white Wind Ape raised its head and looked at him.
That one glance made Xiao Yan's scalp tingle... a monocle, it was a monocle again!
It had been obscured by the bamboo hat earlier, but after the other party raised its head, Xiao Yan immediately saw the highly recognizable crystal monocle! It was stuck in the other party's right eye socket.
The Wind Ape looked at Xiao Yan, its gaze slightly focused. Finally, it gripped the curved wooden stick in a sword-holding posture.
With lightning speed, it thrust towards Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan leaned back to dodge the thrust, but was then struck in the face by the downward sweep.
A burning pain came, and Xiao Yan couldn't help but cry out, "It hurts."
He quickly retreated, calling out to Yao Chen in his heart, urgently saying:
"Teacher, Teacher, please help! A half-step Rank 5 magical beast, I can't beat it... This is already a crisis of life and death!"
Yao Chen's laughter came: "Hehe, think carefully, if the other party wanted to kill you, would you still be alive after that sweep just now?"
Hearing this, Xiao Yan also calmed down. "That's right, if it wanted to kill me, I would have died just now... Teacher, you knew it didn't have any killing intent, so you didn't remind me?"
"May I ask for the esteemed name of this senior?" Xiao Yan asked aloud.
"You can call me Ape Lord," the white Wind Ape replied.
A mocking smile appeared on its face. Then, with a stomp of its right foot, it moved so fast that it seemed to leave afterimages.
Ape Lord launched another attack. The speed and strength of the attack were controlled very subtly, putting pressure on Xiao Yan without overwhelming him.
After taking a few hits, Xiao Yan realized that Ape Lord seemed to be feeding him moves...
Had he really encountered a senior expert? Xiao Yan wondered in his heart.
He mustered his courage, took out the black ruler, and fought with Ape Lord.
Ape Lord was nimble, jumping up and down, dodging Xiao Yan's ruler time and time again, occasionally tapping him with the wooden stick.
Before long, Xiao Yan was covered in bumps.
He was knocked down several times, and got up several times, until he was exhausted and even moving his fingers was difficult.
Yao Chen had been closely monitoring the battle. He felt that this magical beast had good intentions, but he didn't dare to trust it too much.
Ape Lord looked at Xiao Yan, seemingly nodded in satisfaction, and turned to leave.
Leaving behind a bewildered Xiao Yan and Yao Chen.
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