by Fang Xiang
Xu Zheng Wei’s old face blushed. “This old man has come to enter Island Master’s faction!”
Zuo Mo paused again and then said with a smile, “Elder Xu, please don’t joke.”
It was normal for low level xiuzhe to join him, but Xu Zheng Wei was a jindan and shouldn’t have any problems with survival.
“This is no joke.” Xu Zheng Wei gave a long sigh. “Ah, Island Master must not know how they have ruined Xu Ling City! Those people have been fighting and killing all day and they don’t know to how to stop. This old man almost died a few times.”
Seeing the fragility of Xu Zheng Wei, Zuo Mo finally learned that the situation was much more serious than he had imagined. He hurriedly said, “Come in, let’s talk inside the island.”
After he finished speaking, he ushered Xu Zheng Wei into the island.
The fighting inside the city had been very serious. Previously, Shang Wei Ming had been lightly wounded so Zuo Mo got him to return to the island. Therefore up until now, he did not know what these people had come for. Xu Zheng Wei was a jindan and definitely should know a bit regarding this.
As expected, as Zuo Mo inquired closely, the matter slowly floated out of the water.
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Someone had heard there was the ruins of an ancient Sun Tribe Shen Hall near Xu Ling City, and was sleeping in the sea near Xu Ling City.
At the start, those that heard the news all snorted at it.
In these days, it would be unusual if stuff like ruins, treasure hoards, and immortal residences did not show up several times in a year. The rumors would be heavily inflated as though they were really real. But after losing many lives, everyone would discover it was a con.
But as the news spread, more details were revealed and gradually attracted the attention of those watching.
When a damaged Sun Tribe mask suddenly appeared in a large auction house, it caused everyone to believe the rumors. Many xiuzhe skilled in forging were invited to certify this damaged ancient mask. When each person returned, they all marveled at the mask without exception.
The ancient presence on it caused every xiuzhe that came into contact with it to feel shock.
Another rumor was also floating on the market. The biggest sect in Xu Ling City, Xu Ling Sect, had been secretly searching for these ruins during these past years. This mask was also one of their spoils but had been leaked onto the market for some reason.
Supposedly, there was a greater power behind Xu Ling Sect, and Xu Ling Sect had been founded just to find and explore these ruins!
All kinds of news quickly spread through the entire Cloud Sea Jie.
For some unknown reason, after Zuo Mo heard Xu Zheng Talk, he instantly felt that the rumors were true! Because Xu Ling Sect’s actions were too strange. He had been fighting so fiercely with the Tian Family but Xu Ling Sect had not acted at all. Any local power that was ruling the surroundings definitely would not ignore this unless their attention was not on maintaining their power at all!
Learning the cause of the matter, he finally understood why so many jindan were gathering at Xu Ling City.
“Is there no response from Xu Ling Sect?” Zuo Mo suddenly thought of a question.
“None.” Xu Zheng Wei shook his head. “How can they react? With this many jindan! Right now, many people are talking about going to Xu Ling Sect and pressuring Lu Zhen to reveal the location of the ruins.”
Zuo Mo thought that it was correct. Xu Ling Sect was not a match for this many jindan. They were most likely seeking aid from the power backing them.
“How many jindan have come?” Zuo Mo asked.
“Probably about half of the jindan of the entire Cloud Sea Jie,” Xu Zheng Wei said, “Any that have any ambition would not give up this chance. Any tribe with the sun as its totem would be a powerful tribe. If they can really get one or two talismans, then they’ve struck it rich.”
Zuo Mo did not speak. People died for wealth, birds for food, this principle did not change over time.
Danger was everywhere under the cloud sea with all kinds of powerful yao beasts. So what if they were jindan, they would also be unable to retreat unharmed. After experiencing the Sealed Extinction battlefield, no one was clearer to the dangers of ancient ruins than Zuo Mo and his group. If the strange corpse, Shi, wasn’t there then it was unknown if they could have walked out of there.
Thinking to this point, he couldn’t help but think of the strange corpse.
Did the strange corpse find his birthplace … …
As his thoughts turned in his mind, Zuo Mo decided to not participate in this matter. The enormous Turtle Island was rich in its products and he did not have to worry about making a living. He would wait a few months and see if he could buy Water Cloud Embryo to heal A Gui. If he couldn’t buy it, then they would have to make a trip into the cloud sea themselves.
Treasure was good but he would not unnecessarily gamble with his life over it.
Seeing that Zuo Mo was disinterested, Xu Zheng Wei couldn’t help but be puzzled. “Is Island Master uninterested?”
“Too many people, and too little food. Look at the amount of people, there is no place for us,” Zuo Mo said unconcernedly. He then comforted Xu Zheng Wei, “Elder Xu, don’t worry, rest your heart and stay on the island.”
Zuo Mo had interacted with Xu Zheng Wei and knew this was a honest person.
Learning the cause, Zuo Mo closed the formation and buried his head in cultivation. The low level xiuzhe on the island also settled down and the cultivation classes started again.
After arranging everything and releasing a breath, Zuo Mo suddenly saw Lil’ Pagoda fly in front of him.
The chubby Lil’ Pagoda’s eaves were like round fleshy paws, and increasingly adorable. When it saw Zuo Mo, it seemed to see a savior, its little fleshy paws grabbing on Zuo Mo’s clothing.
“Good son, Daddy doesn’t have to time to play with you! Go play!” Zuo Mo patted Lil’ Pagoda with affection.
Lil’ Pagoda was extremely panicked, furiously pulling Zuo Mo’s clothing and flying in one direction.
“Don’t mess around!” Zuo Mo scolded with laughter. He didn’t expect Lil’ Pagoda to pull even harder and detected that something was wrong.
His heart suddenly jumped. Had something happened?
Lil’ Pagoda saw that Zuo Mo seemed to understand and hurriedly flew forward with Zuo Mo tightly following behind.
Zuo Mo quickly came to the entrance of a cave.
Translator Ramblings: In the great span of things, the last little arc with the Tian Family was just to introduce people to Cloud Sea Jie and the people of Xu Ling City. We’re heading into more substantial stuff now.
Chapter 482: Brutish Bird
When Zuo Mo reached the cave entrance, he heard a sharp shriek, and his expression changed.
Silly Bird!
He charged in without hesitation!
Entering the cave, the lighting became dim, but for Zuo Mo it was as though it was lit up by daylight. There was a thick layer of insect corpses on the ground but he did not care to look at them and dashed lightning fast towards the deep reaches of the cave.
A short while later, Zuo Mo saw Silly Bird and his heart relaxed slightly.
Silly Bird was facing off against an enormous insect!
In a corner nearby, Tenth Grade was holding its sword as it furiously panted. It was at the end of its strength.
When Zuo Mo’s attention turned from Silly Bird and Tenth Grade to the enormous insect, he couldn’t help but inhale sharply. This large insect was shaped like a small hill and wrapped in black armor that looked extremely hard. It had large limbs that were like that of a spider, each was extremely thick and had rows of slightly curved spikes extended outward, making its legs look as though they were covered in teeth. Zuo Mo believed that if even one leg swept its target, it would tear off skin and flesh!
At the end of its legs, hooked bone spikes tightly gripped the ground. In front of these feet, the hard rock was lik
e mud that was easily penetrated.
The two eerie red eyes of the enormous insect stared at Silly Bird. It had a destructive presence that held a thread of decay came from its body.
Zuo Mo had never expected that such a dangerous yao beast was living on his island!
At this time, Silly Bird moved!
In the air, an afterimage flashed across Zuo Mo’s vision like lightning, so fast he could not capture it!
Clink!
The sound of metal colliding!
In the darkness, a ball of sparks shot out!
The enormous insect wasn’t an average yao beast and was extremely alert. Its two front legs shielded its face and did not show any openings.
The armor on its body was abnormally strong. Silly Bird’s claws that could easily penetrate talismans could not do anything to its armor.
Silly Bird was clearly angered by the opponent’s hardiness. With a long call, her wings suddenly spread, her eyes burning as a red flush came onto the beak like it was dripping with blood!
With a flap of her wings, she was like lightning!
Clink!
An even stronger burst of sparks blossomed in the air!
The enormous insect clearly could not stand against it and was forced half a zhang back, the rock under its feet shattering.
In a killing mood, Silly Bird furiously attacked!
Clink clink clink!
The enormous insect repeatedly fell back, the rock under its feet continuously shattering and being powdered under the repeated blows! Ripples spread outwards with the enormous insect as the center!
The body of the enormous worm continuously sank. Like it was a pillar of wood, it was being hammered into the ground!
It finally showed hints of terror but it was not so easy to escape a berserk Silly Bird! Silly Bird’s attacks were like a storm and the enormous insect didn’t even have a chance to breathe, much less escape.
If it wasn’t for its freakishly strong armor, it would have died long ago.
At the side, Zuo Mo gaped with wide eyes.
He had come with the panicked thought of rescue but at this time, there was only one thought in his mind, this insect was pitiful!
Of course, he pitied it but definitely would not rescue it!
He was also drooling as he looked at the freakishly strong armor of the insect. An armor that could stand up against such ferocious attacks was definitely a treasure! If he took this armor and made ling armor, he wouldn’t even need to dodge normal flying swords.
Treasure, treasure!
At this time, a sudden change happened!
The insect that had been on the defense all this time suddenly opened its mouth and spat out a ball of black energy. Silly Bird was caught unprepared and was hit by the black energy.
Silly Bird’s body suddenly froze, she lost control and dropped to the ground!
Dreaming about the ling armor, Zuo Mo hadn’t expected the insect to do this. He acted to attack when he saw the situation!
Yet he hadn’t expected to see Silly Bird sway like she was drunk as she leapt up from the ground.
Zuo Mo was slightly reassured. It seemed that Silly Bird didn’t have a major problem. He looked attentively at the enormous worm. If it showed any signs of ill intent towards Silly Bird, he would attack viciously. But the enormous insect also showed tiredness. That ball of black smoke probably was not something it could release easily.
The enormous insect stared at Zuo Mo and hissed from its mouth as its body retreated.
It wanted to escape!
Zuo Mo instantly judged the insect’s intentions. He decided to attack!
How could he let such a treasure slip from his hands?
Suddenly, a high and sharp shriek came from beside him and penetrated his ear. Zuo Mo’s expression changed and reflexively covered his ears! The rock on the cave ceiling started to fall and the fear the enormous insect held grew!
Silly Bird attack again!
Just like before, the enormous insect curled into a ball with its front limbs covering its face.
Just as Silly Bird was going to touch the insect’s body, her diving attack suddenly turned into a snatching motion!
Zuo Mo looked with shock as Silly Bird grabbed the enormous worm that was much larger than her, lifting it into the air like a condor grabbing a sheep!
The enormous insect instantly panicked, its six limbs dancing as it hissed.
Zuo Mo seemed to see Silly Bird smile viciously as she carried the enormous insect and then used her body as a pivot to swing the insect!
The enormous insect was like a hammer that left the hand. With a howl, it hit the wall of the cavern!
Dong!
An enormous sound, the cave shuddered and rock rained down!
Zuo Mo had a feeling that the cave was going to collapse!
No matter how hard of armor it had, the enormous insect was left stunned by this smash. It laid down in a pit of shattered rock. This was a pit that had been caused by its collision!
Before it could struggle up, its body suddenly felt light.
It was grabbed into the air again!
Another throw!
Dong!
Rocks hit Zuo Mo’s body but he didn’t notice them at all. He gaped at this crazy scene in front of him!
In a berserk rage, Silly bird threw the enormous insect over and over and the insect was like a hammer that was swung again and again and then struck the ground, the ceiling, the walls and the stalagmites. If one wasn’t seeing it with their own eyes, no one could have thought that there was such terrifying strength in Silly Bird’s not-so-powerful looking body!
Zuo Mo shook. At the same time, Tenth Grade that was gaping in the corner also shook.
So scary … …
… ….
Five hundred and fifty one … … five hundred and fifty two … …
… …
One should offend a villain before offending Silly Bird!
Silly Bird! What kind of silly bird was this? This was clearly a brute bird!
Pia!
The freakishly strong insect body was not freakish enough compared to Silly Bird and was split into five pieces!
Silly Bird finally threw away the insect legs in her claws with satisfaction, raised her bird head and stalked her female bird walk as she left. In the entire process, she didn’t even glance at Zuo Mo.
We are generous and won’t argue with a brutish bird … …
It was impossible for non-freakish people to argue!
Zuo Mo went to clean up the insect corpse with great self-awareness.
Pitiful insect, didn’t it just spit out a mouthful of black smoke? It was smashed to death! So pitiful!
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“Daren! Daren! This is great! This is a wonderful thing!” Gu Ming Gong rubbed his hands as he looked with bright eyes at the five pieces of the insect corpse in front of him excitedly. “This is the first time this subordinate has seen such a large deep granite leaf insect! Is this the insect queen? Right right right, this is the insect queen!”
Zuo Mo knew that the insect was something good, but he did not recognize it so he brought it to Gu Ming Gong’s for appraised. He believed that with Gu Ming Gong’s knowledge, he would definitely recognize it.
“Deep granite leaf insect?”
“Deep granite leaf insects mostly live in dark and deep caverns. They are extremely reliant on earth energy. Normal deep granite leaf insects are a cun long and each group will have an insect queen. What is most useful about the deep granite leaf insect is its armor! This is the famous black gold leaf armor!”
The excited Gu Ming Gong spoke quickly.
“Each black gold leaf shell is just a bit larger than a willow leaf, it naturally has exceptional defensives. With three hundred pieces, it is possible to forge a black wave leaf armor, that is fifth-grade ling armor!”
Zuo Mo thought of the dense layer of insect corpses in the cave and was instantly excited. So many corpses, there was hundreds
of thousands!
Fifth-grade ling armor
Zuo Mo’s mind was blown by this good fortune that had dropped out of the sky!
Gu Ming Gon did not notice Zuo Mo’s expression. He looked with a burning gaze at the five pieces of insect corpse in front of him, his voice filled with disbelieving excitement. “This insect corpse is even better! Using this, this subordinate has the confidence to forge a sixth-grade ling armor which can rank on the talisman rankings! Such a perfect insect queen is almost unbelievable!”
Sixth-grade ling armor that could go rank in the talisman rankings!
Zuo Mo almost fainted. He had never worn sixth-grade ling armor!
A sixth-grade ling armor that could go onto the talisman ranking, would he become jindan just by putting it on … …
“This expert really has uncanny skill! Even able to dismember the insect queen, really powerful! Look at this cut, clean and without any hesitation … …”
Gu Ming Gon’s expression was intoxicated.
Zuo Mo shook and returned to normality.
He thought of a certain brute bird.
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On the Yinyang Twin Butterfly, Tenth Grade was completely naked, black energy shrouding his entire body. His eyes were tightly closed and clearly was at an important time.
Threads of black energy continuously came out of his body and entered the black butterfly wing under his feet. What was strange was that the border between black and white was not pushing towards the white wing, but into the black.
Each thread of black energy seemed to be nutrients for the white wing, nurturing it.
Gradually, a light layer of white light appeared on the white wing.
Dots of white light shed off the white wing and floated upwards. When it reached the same height as Tenth Grade, these dots of white light gathered into a ball to become a rice-sized ball of white light.
When the ball formed, the speed it absorbed white light suddenly increased.
The white light on the white wing was quickly absorbed and its body became the same size as Tenth Grade.
Tenth Grade opened its eyes. Looking at the white ball of light, it showed rare joy.
He sat with legs crossed and waited silently.
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