Immortality from Taming Elephant-Chapter 252 - 146: The Road Ahead
Like a devil fish from a past life, it lightly fluttered its dark red wings, its tail dragging a long, hammer-like appendage, covered with fine tendrils above.
Under such pressure, its body was gentle, flipping over, seeming to sense Xu Guang’s presence, slowly approaching.
Xu Guang’s Qi Force lightly breathed in and out, worried that this thing might be carnivorous.
Unexpectedly, it was purely curious and quietly stayed in front of him.
A burst of ’giggle’ laughter suddenly came from the water, as the monster’s milky white soft belly slowly grew a human face.
It was Xu Guang’s own.
The monster’s soft wings also continuously flipped, slowly growing human-like traces.
But for some reason, they suddenly stopped.
Hiss~
From its lower abdomen, it sprayed out blood-colored, eyeball-sized Crystal Stones, inside which some image vaguely formed.
It was Xu Guang himself.
Once it finished spraying out these things, it seemed to lose interest in Xu Guang, flapping its wings, slowly drifting away in the water.
Xu Guang’s expression turned odd.
"Is this thing trying to produce itself?"
He picked up one of the Crystal Stones, squeezed it; it was soft, like jelly.
After a moment of hesitation, he put it in his mouth and chewed.
A sweet flavor emerged, like lychee, and the texture was also similar to jelly.
Moreover, the energy contained within it was very abundant, comparable to a Sixth-Grade Elixir.
Last time Jiang Zi Yun mentioned "Zhou You Record," Xu Guang had also read nearly all of it, and there was no record of such an Alien Species.
This world has a plethora of Alien Species, and though the Zhou You Record has been written for over eight hundred years, even with continuous updates over those years, countless undiscovered Alien Species remain, as not every place is suitable for humans, and these places may all harbor Alien Species.
Xu Guang collected all the soft jelly-like Crystal Stones.
Recalling that Alien Species’ behavior earlier, a strange feeling inexplicably arose.
These things, could they be excrement?
He continued to explore the water’s depths, indeed not finding any other creatures, instead encountering that devil fish-like monster again, which this time ignored him entirely.
Xu Guang chuckled, standing up to head to shore.
This venture to the bottom of the Blood River was fruitful; these Treasure Medicines can all be used for alchemy. Though currently, he doesn’t have enough children to sign on, if he can stably refine a Sixth-Grade Elixir daily, the experience gained would be considerable.
The Crystal Stones excreted by that devil fish are incredibly rich in energy.
Xu Guang kept some, while giving most to General Wei as reserve rations.
In the following days, Xu Guang engrossed himself in the study of Pill Formulas within the Ghostly Land, attempting to cultivate the two True Skills given by Li Qian, alongside visiting that crevice at the Blood River’s bottom every day.
The terrain there is unique, and perhaps it holds further discoveries.
After several days of observation,
Xu Guang finally understood what these jelly Crystal Stones were.
The monster lived at this watery bottom where the pressure was immense and the temperature so low that it seemed even the flowing Spirit Charm could freeze.
Thus, a very special landscape formed; plants turned into Treasure Medicines, and animals into Alien Species.
Of course, only a few were able to survive.
And that devil fish-like monster, due to an overabundance of food, its internal energy became excessively full; it couldn’t cultivate and was compressed by the tremendous water pressure, necessitating periodic discharge of internal energy.
Much like a bee collecting nectar.
However, perhaps due to excessive boredom, it liked to craft the expelled energy into forms it preferred.
Among the beads Xu Guang saw it expelling, besides his own likeness, there were also forms of plants or oddly shaped stones.
’Not feces, not feces.’
Xu Guang forced himself to accept this concept.
