Chapter 85: Zombie Dragon
Hei Lou Lan placed the yellow jade lion into her immortal aperture, her gaze was shining as she seemed to have made up her mind, saying: "The three desolate beasts we had encountered had their blood drained for some reason. Very likely, Shi Lei's group is trying to complete some procedure. Maybe this was the reason why the star hall in the sky appeared.
After all, when we first appeared in this place, the sky was still empty. How many desolate beast corpses do you think are around here now?"
Fang Yuan laughed upon hearing this: "Even if you did not mention this, I was going to talk about it. Indeed, looking at this situation, there are definitely many desolate beast corpses around. One desolate beast corpse can be sold for around forty immortal essence stones optimally. It is truly an effortless profit for us to pick up these desolate beast corpses.
The benefits are huge, yet we are paying zero costs. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, moreover, we might not have the opportunity again. We should secure these profits first, that is the safest measure."
The two had the same plot in mind, they changed their tactics and started scouring for desolate beast corpses.
They could not use investigative Gu openly, but the clues were very obvious.
Star Lord Wan Xiang's original plan was to keep these desolate beast corpses around first, and deal with them after taking down the eighth star hall.
Shi Lei was in charge of fighting, while Star Lord Wan Xiang was in charge of setting up investigative Gu worms. Naturally, he would place more investigative Gu around the corpses of the desolate beasts.
But he would never have guessed that putting all of these investigative Gu together was the biggest clue in itself, they were guides for Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan to find the corpses.
"This is the chestnut yak, its meat tastes like chestnut, it can be eaten raw. It has a mild nature and is a somewhat unusual desolate beast. Mm, let's keep it, keep it." Hei Lou Lan was laughing happily.
"Oh, there is a golden pangolin. It is a pity its armor is tattered, otherwise, it could be sold for a higher price." Fang Yuan said with some disappointment.
"Flying bear, there is a flying bear corpse. Great, excellent, I want this corpse!" Hei Lou Lan was overjoyed.
"Hmm? Star demon bat! I knew this rotten poisonous swamp was very familiar. It is a pity that the bat wings are in bad shape, it would greatly affect my movement speed if I transplant it like this. I wonder if I can fix it first." Fang Yuan also stole the corpse of the star demon bat.
The two obtained nearly ten desolate beast corpses, it was a windfall. After the two searched around and ensured that there was no lingering desolate beast corpses, they hurried towards the bottom of the eighth star hall.
But when they arrived, a figure like a small hill crashed onto the ground.
"This is the ancient desolate beast, astral wind flying heavenly boar!"
"It is dead! This is the corpse of an ancient desolate beast."
Although Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan were moved, they did not close in on it.
The two looked up towards the sky at the same time.
They saw that high in the air, the eighth star hall was shaking slightly. Loud explosions and the growls of fierce beasts could be heard from within the hall.
With a loud bang, the star hall shook intensely, a pillar of fire burst up from the roof of the star hall, creating a huge hole on it.
A pillar of smoke flew up outwards into the sky.
"What an intense battle." Hei Lou Lan sighed.
"Fight, fight, the more intense the better it is." Fang Yuan muttered.
In the eighth star hall, it was a mess, the two sides were fiercely engaged in combat.
A heavily injured desolate beast flame tiger growled loudly, shooting out a fireball from its mouth.
The fireball shot a huge tree, while it was in the air, the flame tiger moved its claws and followed behind the fireball, attacking towards the huge tree.
The huge tree moved its huge branches.
With a loud thud, a tentacle-like branch destroyed a fireball.
With another whipping noise, a branch swung over, causing the flame tiger who was behind the fireball to be sent flying.
The flame tiger cried out in pain, it flew for up to a hundred steps and crashed onto the ground. With a burst of bright light, it returned to a human form — it was Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei.
Shi Lei spat out three teeth, his expression was excited and crazed: "What a great walking meat tree, as expected of something of legend, this ancient desolate plant is truly incredible."
Star Lord Wan Xiang who was beside him continued to unleash starlight attacks while transmitting helplessly when he heard Shi Lei's words: "Lord Immortal Monkey King, the enemy is very powerful, stop playing with it and use your earth path main battle strength."
Shi Lei was not an ignorant person, he did not hesitate as he said: "Alright, I have already used my transformation path battle strength to kill an astral wind flying heavenly boar, I am satisfied. Next, I will use my true earth path cultivation and destroy this energetic walking meat tree."
Shi Lei sat down on a rock in the hall, healing himself: "Star Lord Wan Xiang, hold on for now, when I remove the fire path dao marks on my body, I will use my earth path methods."
Star Lord Wan Xiang heard this and almost scolded him in anger.
Star Lord Wan Xiang could only hold in his anger and agree, flying forward and facing off against the walking meat tree.
Beams of starlight shot out like grand pillars, towards the walking meat tree.
The walking meat tree moved three branches to retaliate.
Star Lord Wan Xiang's body suddenly shuddered, as five starlight clones split from his main body and together, they took up six positions, unleashing different star path killer moves and attacking the walking meat tree.
The walking meat tree was hit several times, it flew into a rage and moved more than ten branches to fight back.
Crack crack crack.
Star Lord Wan Xiang's starlight clones were all smashed, Star Lord Wan Xiang evaded the branches coming from left and right, he quickly got into a disadvantage.
Bang!
With a loud noise, Star Lord Wan Xiang could not defend himself and was sent flying. Along the way, he crashed through a thick pillar, but his momentum was not lost, as he directly flew out of the star hall.
Seeing that Star Lord Wan Xiang was gone, the walking meat tree moved its branches and assaulted Shi Lei who was sitting down.
"Useless!" Shi Lei opened his eyes, the battle intent in his golden pupils were surging, he shouted in anger as he stood up, attacking the walking meat tree.
Star Lord Wan Xiang flew a long way out of the star hall before stabilizing his body.
He sent himself flying on purpose, this way, he could force Shi Lei to fight.
He sucked in a breath of cold air, shock shining in his eyes: "When this walking meat tree hits me, it directly etches the dao marks of strength path into my body, causing my internal organs to suffer a huge blow!"
After a while, he opened his eyes, the injuries on him had healed.
He first took a look at the eighth star hall, before looking down at the huge corpse of the ancient desolate beast, astral wind flying heavenly boar. He then looked at the other areas of the battlefield, seeing the other desolate beast corpses.
"Forget it, I do not need to give Shi Lei an excuse later to make things difficult. In any case, there is no one else in this grotto-heaven, I should battle now and deal with the current situation."
Thinking of this, Star Lord Wan Xiang retrieved the star cloud bed Gu and flew away, entering the eighth star hall after traveling a short distance.
In the thick lush forest, Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan, who had concealed their auras, sighed in relief.
"Fang Yuan, the Gu worms that you left behind successfully deceived the enemy!" Hei Lou Lan said excitedly.
"My method can only create a hologram, it cannot deceive a proper investigation. Quick, let's not talk about this anymore, we should make this part of our earnings first!" Fang Yuan did not want to indulge in self praise, he moved ahead and sneaked towards the corpse of the astral wind flying heavenly boar.
The two quickly got to the side of the astral wind flying heavenly boar corpse.
After Fang Yuan completed his search, he started to collect the astral wind flying heavenly boar's soul.
But the result was very disappointing.
This astral wind flying heavenly boar's soul was heavily injured, only a little bit was left. Evidently, during the earlier battle, it was attacked by methods directed at the soul.
The astral wind flying heavenly boar corpse was quickly pushed into Hei Lou Lan's immortal aperture in a short time.
Meanwhile, Fang Yuan activated the several hundred Gu worms, remaining at the same spot as they continued to fly in the same manner as earlier.
They gave out bursts of light and shadow, forming into one figure, it was the image of the astral wind flying heavenly boar, it was very realistic! Simply looking at it, one would think this was really the astral wind flying heavenly boar in front of them.
"Your method is really good." Hei Lou Lan praised again.
Earlier, Star Lord Wan Xiang felt nothing wrong, he was deceived by this method.
Fang Yuan shook his head: "This simple method cannot deceive proper investigation. If I can elevate it to a killer move, the effect would be better."
"Hey, Fang Yuan, aren't you proficient in researching killer moves? When we go back, you should raise this to the level of a killer move, that would make it easier to use." Hei Lou Lan said in amusement.
"Do you think we will still encounter such good things later? This method is sufficient, we do not need to make it a killer move." Fang Yuan shook his head, before raising it and looking at the sky.
The roof of the star hall only had a small hole earlier, but now holes were all around the star hall.
As he was looking, a broken tree flew out of the star hall.
With a loud bang, the giant tree's branches crashed onto the ground, causing the ground below Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan's feet to tremble violently.
Next, the other half of the giant tree, the crown, also collapsed.
"This is a walking meat tree!" Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan opened their eyes which were shining brightly.
Hei Lou Lan stared with eyes wide open, looking at the broken tree trunk as well the tentacle-like branches, speaking in disbelief: "This is a walking meat tree?"
"Absolutely." Fang Yuan nodded, his gaze was heated as well.
"This walking meat tree has an amazing aura, it has rank seven battle strength at least! Even more amazingly, it is a rare strength path plant." Hei Lou Lan licked her lips, saying excitedly.
But when the two were going to sneak over and take the walking meat tree, there was a huge, thunderous explosion in the sky.
This was an unprecedentedly large explosion, it shook the sky as a formless sound wave spread out intensely.
Roar—!
The roar of a dragon could be heard, not any softer than the explosion earlier.
Next, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan saw Shi Lei and Star Lord Wan Xiang fly out of the star hall.
A huge dragon flew out of the star hall.
"Is this... a zombie dragon?" Hei Lou Lan exposed the identity of this dragon.