Chapter 687 - 277: Xiangliu! (Part 2)
In the direction the two beasts were heading, a drop of Dragon Blood fell into the water. This drop of Dragon Blood was crystal clear and did not disperse upon entering the water; instead, it caused the surrounding thousand-foot radius of the wetland to boil.
Countless fish, shrimp, crabs, and snails were directly smashed into pieces.
Soon, the Tier Four Dragon Horned Crocodile and the Black-striped Snake Fish both arrived at the location of this drop of Dragon Blood. Upon seeing each other, the Dragon Horned Crocodile initiated the attack.
Battles to seize the Dragon Blood were not limited to this place alone; four such occurrences happened continuously in the vast waters south of the Giant Peak Mountain.
These places were all within the Tianze, formerly inhabited by the Huantou Race.
After the Huantou Race retreated, large areas of the wetland became habitats for Water Beasts.
In the depths of the vast wetlands, inside an underground palace.
Xiangliu, with nine heads, was snoring loudly, surrounded by piles of human bones.
Needless to say, when all nine heads snore with different rhythms, it formed a series of sound waves, causing constant ripples in the surrounding vast waters.
However, Xiangliu’s pitch-black body had numerous scars from burns, and even as a Tier Five Exotic Wild Beast, these scars couldn’t be fully restored.
These were left from when the Golden Crow passed through the area, its Golden Crow Celestial Fire had burned it badly.
Outside Xiangliu’s palace, a Water Snake was swimming, and even before it got close to the palace, the waves caused by Xiangliu’s snoring knocked it away.
However, this also startled the sleeping Xiangliu awake.
"What is it?"
The middle head of Xiangliu lifted, revealing a pair of scarlet eyes, casting a gloomy light throughout the dim palace.
The Water Snake, which was knocked away, quickly swam into the palace.
"Beast King, a Tier Five Dragon Blood has fallen, causing many Wild Beasts in the Great Marsh to fight over it."
"A Tier Five Dragon Blood fell, why wasn’t it offered to me?"
Xiangliu’s eyes became more bloodshot, and the other eight heads raised up too, with eighteen scarlet eyes appearing like eighteen blood moons rising from the water.
Immediately, it surged out of the palace with raging waters, countless bones turning to dust in the water’s turbulence.
Xiangliu moved swiftly, finding the Wild Beasts fighting for the Dragon Blood, and swallowed them on the spot, drinking the water where the Dragon Blood dropped with its nine huge mouths for a long while.
Not wasting a bit of Dragon Qi.
No choice, poverty makes it cautious.
In this barren land, with great difficulty, Tier Five resources fall down; none can be wasted.
"A Dragon Race has been injured."
After devouring the spots where four Dragon Bloods had fallen, Xiangliu confirmed that the Dragon Race, whose blood fell, came from the direction of the Giant Mountain Range.
And, the Qi stopped within the wetland.
A critically injured Dragon Race was healing within its territory.
The eyes on Xiangliu’s nine large heads shone brightly.
The judgment that it was heavily injured was mainly because even if the High-tier Wild Beast was injured, it would collect its blood tightly.
One beast blood left uncleaned might be an accident, but four consecutive spots are not accidents, more likely the injury was too severe to maintain itself.
And precisely because of the severe injury, it had to stop to heal.
That the Dragon Race would stop to heal wasn’t surprising to Xiangliu; most nearby Dragon Races were from the Zhangshui Dragon Kingdom.
From Giant Mountain to Dragon Kingdom, across millions of miles, it’s not safe on the way, with severe injuries, returning as prey.
Unexpectedly, over a hundred years, last time being unlucky, burned by the Golden Crow rolling in the dirt, this time fortune favored it.
The Dragon Race from the Zhangshui Dragon Kingdom, finally, it could have Dragon meat.
Not long after, Xiangliu found Huangmiao’s hiding deep pool through the water vein fluctuations of the Great Marsh.
"Sure enough, a reptile that can’t change the habit of burrowing into water pools."
After finding Huangmiao’s hiding place, Xiangliu did not act directly but drove over a dozen Tier Four Water Beasts towards the deep part of the pool.
Buzz!
When the Water Beasts rushed into the pool, a ripple emerged from the depths of the pool, bursting out snake-like lightning within.
In the blink of an eye, a massive lightning circle covering hundreds of miles blossomed, engulfing all the Water Beasts in the water.
Over a dozen Tier Four Water Beasts didn’t even have time to roar, turning into a pool of blood, merging with the surging water surface.
Upon seeing this, Xiangliu was shocked; this wasn’t right, why was the aura still so intense?
It sensed a destructive aura from the bottom of the pool, exceeding its resistible capacity.
"Go!"
Without hesitation, Xiangliu swayed its tail to flee with the water.
But it was still a step late; deep in the pool, in the Witch Hall, Huangmiao embedded thirty-six Tier Five Source Stones into the Witch Hall.
The Witch Hall shook, and a four-clawed dragon shadow charged out above the Witch Hall, heading straight for Xiangliu.
"Ah!"
Hundreds of miles away, Xiangliu screamed, its back torn open by the descending four-clawed dragon shadow, grabbing off a large piece of flesh, revealing dark golden vertebrae.
It dared not stop at all, instead speeding up its escape, fleeing westward.
Westward lies the Human Race Yongyi; before the Golden Crow came, it was sleeping in the waters near Yongyi.
Seeing Xiangliu wasn’t retained, Huangmiao sighed, as a grand Tier Five Middle Stage Dragon Race, it couldn’t even keep a Tier Five Early Stage Xiangliu.
Activating the Witch Hall twice in a row cost seventy-two Tier Five Source Stones; the remaining only over a hundred had to be reserved for healing and emergencies.
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Sensing Huangmiao not pursuing, Xiangliu breathed a sigh of relief, and heavily wounded as it was, it continued non-stop toward Yongyi.