Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 529 - 25: Bottomless Abyss (Part 2)
Li Yan fumbled around in his personal seal for quite a while before finally producing a smooth, black stone.
Understanding the gesture, the Pig Dragon King could hardly wait to open its gaping maw, into which Li Yan promptly tossed the black stone.
[Green Autumn Stone]: Dust from the flowing moon emperor, if consumed by humans, will pass through and exit unchanged; if consumed by monsters, it can rejuvenate flesh and white bones, making it a peerless spiritual medicine.
A magnet that does not attract needles is called Green Autumn, also known as Emperor’s Flowing Pulp.
——"Stone Medicine Erya"
During the feast for Golden Mountain Old Ancestor’s daughter, when all heretics from around the world gathered, the [Green Autumn Stone] was one of the gifts received by Nine-Winged Sudu. Later, these items were all given to Li Yan by Nine-Winged Sudu in the form of presents.
The gifts sent by the heretics to Golden Mountain were mostly medicinal supplements for ghosts and monsters or other evil treasures.
To take this [Green Autumn Stone] as an example, even if normal people were to consume it, they could not digest it and would excrete it unchanged. However, for monsters, this [Green Autumn Stone] is as potent a supplement as Shunlian Pills.
A creepy swallowing noise arose from the dark riverbed. A series of bubbles surfaced.
As soon as the black stone entered its mouth, unstoppable golden light burst forth from the gaps between the Pig Dragon King’s sharp teeth, illuminating the riverbed for around four to five meters.
The body of the Pig Dragon King crackled like popping corn kernels. Its exposed dragon body, gnawed until only half a tailbone remained, suddenly jerked upwards, and segment after segment of new bone grew out like sesame blossoms, sprouting two meters in length. Between the bones, sinew, blood vessels, and flesh appeared. Many of the ghastly wounds on its torso instantly sprouted flesh buds. These buds entwined with each other, and red scales erupted from the flesh, growing rapidly like spring onions.
Even the two legs that it had lost had bulging growths that appeared as though something was about to burst out at any moment.
The Pig Dragon King gave a satisfying long sigh and abruptly surged upwards, facing the numerous Pig Dragon descendants and suddenly spat out large golden bubbles that enveloped its offspring and its severely injured mate.
After about five minutes, these golden bubbles burst clean, and the Pig Dragon descendants were all lively and almost fully recovered.
"Many thanks, my lord."
The Pig Dragon King swam up to Li Yan and said with a deep, muffled voice.
"What happened? Tell me slowly."
The Pig Dragon King possessed the cultivation of the Eight Extremes, and coupled with its dragon blood and monstrous nature, it was to be regarded even more highly.
It had fought side by side with Zhi Qilian in the past, and after submitting to Li Yan, it always shirked work through cunning and deceit, but that did not mean the Pig Dragon King was a pushover.
To put it briefly, Cha Xiaodao diving into the sea-lake might not necessarily come out as a match for the Pig Dragon King.
This time, the Pig Dragon clan faced a disaster that nearly exterminated them, and even the Pig Dragon King itself almost didn’t survive until Li Yan’s return; it hadn’t been slacking—it truly almost got wiped out.
Hearing Li Yan’s inquiry, the Pig Dragon King hastily said, "At first, all was going well; this little monster had spawned hundreds of descendants and was scouting the coastal area when, out of nowhere in this territory, several of my Dragon Sons and Grandsons died inexplicably. I led a group of descendants to investigate and didn’t expect... "
"Didn’t I tell you not to act rashly?"
Li Yan asked with a frown.
"It’s an absolute injustice!"
The Pig Dragon King protested loudly, "This little monster did not act rashly! I found that cursed place, which is a split that’s over two meters wide, and that split is not the strange part. I saw with my own eyes countless monsters pouring out from the crack, all heading straight for us! Especially this one!"
The Pig Dragon King, still visibly shaken, spat out two segments of a copper-green fish corpse from between its teeth.
[R’lyeh Water Tiger]
Status: Deceased
An extremely fierce and evil ghostly fish, an incarnation of the vengeful spirits from an ancient city submerged by erupting volcanoes long ago. It survives on its brutal and greedy hunting instincts, and all creatures with extraordinary abilities are considered delicacies by the R’lyeh Water Tiger.
Its features are as follows:
[Endless Curse]:
The R’lyeh Water Tiger is always in a state of hunger and bloodlust, capable of biting through the shells of all living beings,
The teeth of the R’lyeh Water Tiger are coated with a deadly venom, capable of suppressing or even destroying all supernatural features.
The living conditions for the R’lyeh Water Tiger are extremely harsh, if it cannot meet its living conditions, it will die within twenty-four hours, but at the same time, no matter how poor the environment is, as long as a certain degree of limb activity is ensured, the R’lyeh Water Tiger can also survive for a full twenty-four hours before it dies.
Note: When the light of Polaris penetrates into the depths of the river abyss, indescribable creatures of flesh emerge from the waves, seeking revenge upon the chanters of the black-robed emperor...
"Was it just this one at the time?"
Li Yan asked knowingly.
The Pig Dragon King grimaced, "They were everywhere! Countless!"
The Pig Dragon King lamented, "These monsters are almost devoid of intelligence, and their cultivation is also very shallow, but, but..."
He could hardly speak.
The R’lyeh Water Tiger before him had been bitten in half by the Pig Dragon, the wound rotten, but once it touched the living water, both halves of the corpse started to twist strangely in the water. Li Yan narrowed his eyes and deliberately stretched out a finger to the mouth of the hollow-eyed fish head. The half fish head’s eyeball twisted, and then suddenly lunged forward, biting Li Yan’s finger!
There was a crisp snap, and the fish corpse froze into an ice sculpture and slowly fell into the mud, but a dot of blood appeared on Li Yan’s finger.
The blood mist spread through the water, and it took about four or five seconds before the Surgery Element in Li Yan’s blood vessels finally snapped out of it and began to operate wildly, and the wound on Li Yan’s finger healed as before.
Warning: An excessive amount of curse toxins could lead to the complete failure of "Quanlang Sea Ghost" and "Destiny Yak"!
Warning: An excessive amount of curse toxins may cause a permanent decline in the Awakening Degree of the Yan Fu Heritage!
"..."
After a moment of silence, Li Yan beckoned, "Are there any more? Bring me a live one."
The Pig Dragon King twisted to the left and right, and after a while, he spat out another half-dead R’lyeh Water Tiger from between his teeth.
Li Yan grabbed the wildly squirming R’lyeh Water Tiger with one hand, eyes intently staring at it.
"Calamity Faction!"
The R’lyeh Water Tiger suddenly stiffened.
Li Yan tried to let go, and the water tiger fish, seemingly seized, fell straight into the riverbed like a stone.
Suddenly, the strange fish leapt up, darting like an arrow towards Li Yan’s throat! But before it could make contact, it froze into an ice sculpture and sank into the silt.
"Where is that crack? Take me there immediately."
The Pig Dragon King understood, twisted his body to lift Li Yan and headed south.
On the way, no living creature could be seen. After about ten minutes, Li Yan gradually saw a riverbed crack about twenty meters long and four to five meters wide, shaped like a crescent, similar to the smile of a circus clown.
"This is strange! It wasn’t this big just now!"
The Pig Dragon King muttered. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
Li Yan looked closely and noticed that the traces at both ends of the crack were fresh, clearly something had passed through the crack and forcibly widened it.
Li Yan had a rough understanding of what had happened. Those strange creatures from within the cracks predated on living beings with "extraordinary features," or, in other words, magical powers. Originally, in the Mississippi River, there were only ordinary fish species, which lived in harmony. But as soon as the Pig Dragon arrived, it devoured all of the fish around it, these fish being Dragon Breed by nature and inherently possessing extraordinary abilities. These were exactly the delicacies that monsters like the "R’lyeh Water Tiger" craved.
Some uncivilized Pig Dragons must have broken into the riverbed crack, disturbing the creatures within it, and thus caused the current chaos to unfold.
Li Yan could almost visualize this scene in his mind.
A few small Pig Dragons rampaged through the river, and by chance, they discovered a huge crack. The naive offspring of the Pig Dragons recklessly charged into the abyss, and not long after, a few skeletons drifted out from the crack. Following that, a host of malevolent and hideous creatures from the abyss surged out of the crack...
