I Can Transform Into a World-Destroying Colossal Beast-Chapter 153 - 148: Celestial Fire Supreme Treasure
The ruins are vast and appear bustling with life, but following Xia Longyuan to the foot of the mountain where the building is located, the Dark Armored Giant Ape saw no sign of any life.
No ferocious beasts, monsters, or birds and insects, eerily quiet.
Bang!
The Dark Armored Giant Ape leapt high into the air, spanning several hundred meters, and with a few jumps reached the mountainside, where Xia Longyuan had reverted to human form, standing atop a collapsed stone statue.
The shattered half of the statue’s head remained as tall as several dozen meters, implying its complete form was colossal.
From the fractures on the fragmented stones, it was evident that the statue was smashed not long ago, with the air still tinged with pure, domineering light attribute power.
Besides the statue, the ground ahead was shattered, forming a long crack extending several hundred meters, with trees within a kilometer radius nearly cut down at the waist.
Clearly, a fierce battle erupted here.
Traversing through the ruins, the Dark Armored Giant Ape and Xia Longyuan arrived before a majestic palace, hundreds of meters tall, supported by numerous enormous stone pillars and built with giant white stones.
At this moment, the palace floor was shattered, several pillars had collapsed, and in the middle lay a pit several hundred meters in diameter, with the corpse of a Demon God quietly lying at the bottom.
But the Dark Demon Fox was now no more than skin and bones, resembling a skeleton covered with black fur, with a single fox tail left hanging limply, half severed, on the ground.
The Fox Demon’s fatal wound was a magnificent Dragon Spear over thirty meters long, piercing through its head, nailing it to the pit’s bottom.
Looking at the massive Demon God corpse, the Dark Armored Giant Ape inexplicably felt somewhat bewildered.
It felt as though the assault by the Demon God wasn’t as daunting as imagined.
Of course, it thought this because its current combat strength was formidable, aside from Jiang Ruochan being the top strongman in Yidu, making it feel this confrontation was relatively easy.
If it hadn’t reached Tier Six, even though Jiang Ruochan alone suppressed the Demon God and subdued three Tier Six Peak beasts and monsters, while Xia Longyuan blocked the monstrous tide.
Just a few Tier Five and Six beasts and monsters charging into the rear artillery positions, or even crossing out of the alien space, would instantly cause massive casualties.
Xia Longyuan sighed, "As expected of Director Jiang, her power is astonishing. Slaying these Tier Seven Demon Gods is as easy as us killing ordinary Tier Six ferocious beasts."
Phew!
The body of the Dark Armored Giant Ape rapidly shrank, and in the blink of an eye, Jiang Hou returned to human form holding the Demon Blade, his surface emitting black arcs of electricity in a humanoid killing form.
With the Demon God dead, he no longer needed to maintain the beast form.
Mainly because the beast form was unable to speak, making communication difficult.
Jiang Hou was curious, "Minister Xia, why do you call the chairman Director Jiang? Did she have some military role as a director before?"
Xia Longyuan shook his head, "I call her Director Jiang because she is the leader of a ruin expedition team."
"That team is composed entirely of Transcendents, the weakest being Tier Six Peak, with the main force starting at Tier Seven."
A main force starting at Tier Seven expedition team. Jiang Hou instinctively took a deep breath, understanding why Jiang Ruochan appeared so relaxed while subduing the Demon God.
"Hey! You’re all here."
As the voice echoed, the battle form was retracted, and Jiang Ruochan appeared out of thin air donning a black trench coat.
"I conducted a simple survey of this ruin, spanning over fifty kilometers in area and penetrating the void by more than three hundred kilometers, classified as a medium space-type ruin."
"This ruin is rich in minerals including Purple Steel Sand, Celestial Bronze, and I’ve also found an intermediate Extraordinary Metal Ore Vein deep inside."
"Roughly calculated, the resources of this ruin are worth over two million points." With this, the black-haired girl’s face broke into a smile.
Usually, the harvest from blocking the Demon God’s invasion and suppressing the Demon God during ruins exploration, seventy percent is allocated as a reward, shared among Xia Longyuan, Jiang Hou, and other division members.
Director Jiang had already calculated that the profits from this venture would be enough to pay off her loan.
She had her eye on an Ancient Relic in the headquarters inventory, and once the loan was paid off, she planned to borrow another two million to acquire the Ancient Relic.
"Director Jiang, did you find the energy entrance?" Compared to resource gains, Xia Longyuan was more concerned about this.
Jiang Ruochan nodded, "The ruin’s core is just behind this palace, I checked, and it’s filled with energy sufficient for a Tier Six expert to absorb continuously for over a month."
"That much?" Xia Longyuan was somewhat surprised.
"The energy contains the world’s aura, allowing a Tier Six expert to feel the existence of the domain, and the pure energy can enhance the powers of Transcendents at Tier Six and below."
"But it’s useless to the awakened Tier Seven Saint-tier Demon Gods, these monsters are obsessed with invading the real world, and during this ruins activation period, the core has accumulated a large amount of energy."
"Oh, and I also discovered a treasury within the ruins."
"Resources like Celestial and Earthly Treasures have turned to dust due to the passage of time, but there are some remaining weapons, armors, and ancient relics. Pick one if you’re interested."
As she spoke, Jiang Ruochan waved, and immediately a pile of ’junk’ crashed to the ground, including a spear over ten meters long, and heavy armor.
Though these ancient weapons and armors appeared worn, rusted, and devoid of power, only left with the essence of sturdy Extraordinary materials.
As for other things...Jiang Hou’s sight shifted towards a fist-sized gray stone bead, adorned with fire motifs.
"Chairman, that looks like an item from the Celestial Fire Era, right?"
Due to the golden flame on the Magma Lake, Jiang Hou specifically researched items from the Celestial Fire Era, particularly the data on Celestial Fire Supreme Treasure.
Known unearthed items from the Celestial Fire Era each bear distinct flame patterns.
"That stone bead, huh."
Jiang Ruochan said, reaching out to grasp, and the stone bead appeared in her hand. After a slight inspection, she nodded, "Seems like it is, do you want it?"
"Yes." Jiang Hou decisively nodded.
"This item has lost its divinity. Unless Celestial Fire is infused to reactivate its Supreme Treasure source, it’s just a harder stone."
"But it still costs ten thousand points for its essence as a Supreme Treasure, here, take it, I’ll give it to you." With that, Jiang Ruochan casually tossed the stone bead to Jiang Hou.
These are her personal gains from the ruins, and she could just gift it or exchange it with the officials for points.
"Ahem, I’ll choose one too, I’ll take this spear." Xia Longyuan said, grabbing the worn spear around fifteen meters long without hesitation.
After witnessing the might of the Dark Armored Giant Ape wielding the Celestial Spirit Demon-Suppressing Pillar, striking at all directions, he too wanted to forge an Extraordinary Heavy Weapon.
"Alright, the division of spoils is done, the rest is mine." With this, the black-haired girl gleefully collected the ’junk.’
After discussing these, Jiang Ruochan brought up the main matter, "They should already be cleaning up the battlefield."
Xia Longyuan nodded, "It’s being handled, it should take two to three days to complete the preliminary sorting, especially dealing with those monster and ferocious beast corpses." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
"Minister Xia, Chairman, could you leave those Tier Five and Six ferocious beast corpses for me, as well as this Demon God skeleton?"
Ferocious beast corpses! Xia Longyuan paused, recalling Jiang Hou’s beast form devouring the ferocious beast flesh, advancing to Mid-tier Six.
Jiang Ruochan casually agreed, "Sure, but we need to deduct some of your points, especially for this Demon God corpse."
"Though it was hunted by me, repeatedly burning its essence blood, sacrificing flesh and blood essence to perform some Celestial Demon Forbidden Techniques, its value remains at around fifty thousand points."
"No problem." Jiang Hou’s face bore a smile.
Most of the High-tier Ferocious Beasts were slain by him, so the so-called deduction means during point calculation for this mission, they’ll exclude the value of ferocious beast corpses.
Despite the Demon God body having burned away its flesh and essence blood, the remaining ’edges’ still contain incredible energy, combined with the remaining monster corpses, should aid in advancing to Late-tier Six.
Additionally, the opportunity to enter the ruins core and absorb energy might enable him to leap to Tier Six Peak.
At this moment, Xia Longyuan pondered, "Director Jiang, I wish to enter the ruin’s core now."
As the Tier Seven Powerhouse descended from headquarters, Jiang Ruochan was the actual head of the division now, and Xia Longyuan needed her permission to enter the ruin’s core ahead of others.
"Go if you want, as division minister, you’re granted five days for cultivation inside."
"Jiang Hou, you too, after Xia Longyuan exits, you can enter for five days. How much energy you absorb and how much enhancement you gain depends on yourself."
