Chapter 177: Double Flowered Ice Camellia
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Chapter 177: Double Flowered Ice Camellia
Killing his way through the metal jungle, Song Lu Tian followed the directions on the map and traveled for quite some distance before the atmosphere seemed to change. He felt the temperature in the area drop, and he started to see dozens of large pillar shapes covered in metallic coils. The pillars were softly humming and had tiny blinking lights upon them. Each of the pillars was blowing out icy cold air from the top, which contrasted with the warmer air from the area he was just in. Each of the pillars had a huge cloud of mist billowing from the top and dispersing into the densely packed metal weaving above them.
Finding nothing dangerous about them, he continued onwards, the temperature in the area continuing to drop and the misty clouds no longer present over the pillars with the blinking lights. One of the blinking lights reflected off something in front of him and Song Lu Tian knew he had reached the final checkpoint. The little glimmer was caused by a thread of silk, one which Song Lu Tian used a sword to slice through, finally showing a bit of caution. As the map said, once he ran into spider silk, he had reached the outer edges of the Double Flowered Ice Camellias area. This was also the most dangerous area for his retrieval task, the map listed that the number of spider species in this area was innumerable.
With his skills, Song Lu Tian took no chances and brought forth his Sword Formation. The dozen swords flickered with energy and sword Qi sprung forth from their edges. Waving his hand, the swords started to spin, rotating around his body like the spokes of a wheel. They formed into four three pointed wheels, varying in angle with each rotation to turn him into a walking blender. The energy expenditure wasnt light, but he wanted to get this task over with and start exploring the areas on the map that were still listed as unvisited.
Of course, if he had taken the chance to look closer he would have recognized that the beetle was a reddish black color, with a single large horn and a strange concave underbelly. It was in fact a Charming Lance Beetle, one which Sage had linked with and purposely chosen to leave at its minimum strength after hatching from an egg. After Song Lu Tian had moved far enough away, the little beetle walked under one of the shrugs and hid itself beneath a metal outcropping. From out of the beetles body a ghostly apparition slowly slid out. The spirit was shaped like a humanoid and it took a quick look around before focusing in a spider nearby. Floating towards it, the spirit disappeared into the spiders body and a few seconds later the spider curled up and fell to the ground. The beetle stabbed its horn into the dead spiders body and drained it of its blood and fluids, converting them into energy and starting to rapidly increase in strength and size.
The spirit, Sages Twin Soul, immediately found a second, third, and fourth target. Creating a food supply for the beetle. Once it had grown from the size of half a finger into a palm, it lifted its wings and carefully released a passenger. It was a small ant with a large and elongated abdomen. As the Twin Soul killed more of the nearby spiders, caterpillars and butterflies, the Beetle began to dissect them and feed them to the ant. Within just an hour the Beetle had already reached the size of a large dog, while the ant had grown to the size of a thumb and was laying eggs endlessly. With the help of the beetle they fed the first few ants that hatched, but soon enough there was an army of ants tending to the queen and processing the dead insects and even the nearby vegetation to feed the queen and newly hatched larvae.
Sage was linked to the Charming Lance Beetle, having snuck it into the Beast Bag hed given to Song Lu Tian. At the same time he put his Twin Soul into its internal space and also hidden a Queen Ant underneath its outer shell. It prevented the Beetle from using its wings, since that would make the ant fall out, but it was just a gamble in the first place. While it took a good amount of work to increase the strength of his Twin Soul, Sage considered it a worthy sacrifice for a chance to explore Thunder Mountain Bridge. He was far too old and nowhere near the standard of a genius so there was no way hed ever get here on his own. Instead he took the risk that the Merge link with the Beetle wouldnt be cancelled and that souls wouldnt be tested upon entering the bridge. When Song Lu Tian entered Thunder Mountain Bridge, Sage felt something brush against the Twin Soul, but thankfully from within its hiding place inside the Beetle, the energy seemed diminished and neither of the two connections were broken. He didnt expect to accomplish much here, but some basic exploration would be enough to simply sate his curiosity.
I wonder what other sorts of treasures this place holds.
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Chapter 177: Double Flowered Ice Camellia
Killing his way through the metal jungle, Song Lu Tian followed the directions on the map and traveled for quite some distance before the atmosphere seemed to change. He felt the temperature in the area drop, and he started to see dozens of large pillar shapes covered in metallic coils. The pillars were softly humming and had tiny blinking lights upon them. Each of the pillars was blowing out icy cold air from the top, which contrasted with the warmer air from the area he was just in. Each of the pillars had a huge cloud of mist billowing from the top and dispersing into the densely packed metal weaving above them.
Finding nothing dangerous about them, he continued onwards, the temperature in the area continuing to drop and the misty clouds no longer present over the pillars with the blinking lights. One of the blinking lights reflected off something in front of him and Song Lu Tian knew he had reached the final checkpoint. The little glimmer was caused by a thread of silk, one which Song Lu Tian used a sword to slice through, finally showing a bit of caution. As the map said, once he ran into spider silk, he had reached the outer edges of the Double Flowered Ice Camellias area. This was also the most dangerous area for his retrieval task, the map listed that the number of spider species in this area was innumerable.
With his skills, Song Lu Tian took no chances and brought forth his Sword Formation. The dozen swords flickered with energy and sword Qi sprung forth from their edges. Waving his hand, the swords started to spin, rotating around his body like the spokes of a wheel. They formed into four three pointed wheels, varying in angle with each rotation to turn him into a walking blender. The energy expenditure wasnt light, but he wanted to get this task over with and start exploring the areas on the map that were still listed as unvisited.
Of course, if he had taken the chance to look closer he would have recognized that the beetle was a reddish black color, with a single large horn and a strange concave underbelly. It was in fact a Charming Lance Beetle, one which Sage had linked with and purposely chosen to leave at its minimum strength after hatching from an egg. After Song Lu Tian had moved far enough away, the little beetle walked under one of the shrugs and hid itself beneath a metal outcropping. From out of the beetles body a ghostly apparition slowly slid out. The spirit was shaped like a humanoid and it took a quick look around before focusing in a spider nearby. Floating towards it, the spirit disappeared into the spiders body and a few seconds later the spider curled up and fell to the ground. The beetle stabbed its horn into the dead spiders body and drained it of its blood and fluids, converting them into energy and starting to rapidly increase in strength and size.
The spirit, Sages Twin Soul, immediately found a second, third, and fourth target. Creating a food supply for the beetle. Once it had grown from the size of half a finger into a palm, it lifted its wings and carefully released a passenger. It was a small ant with a large and elongated abdomen. As the Twin Soul killed more of the nearby spiders, caterpillars and butterflies, the Beetle began to dissect them and feed them to the ant. Within just an hour the Beetle had already reached the size of a large dog, while the ant had grown to the size of a thumb and was laying eggs endlessly. With the help of the beetle they fed the first few ants that hatched, but soon enough there was an army of ants tending to the queen and processing the dead insects and even the nearby vegetation to feed the queen and newly hatched larvae.
Sage was linked to the Charming Lance Beetle, having snuck it into the Beast Bag hed given to Song Lu Tian. At the same time he put his Twin Soul into its internal space and also hidden a Queen Ant underneath its outer shell. It prevented the Beetle from using its wings, since that would make the ant fall out, but it was just a gamble in the first place. While it took a good amount of work to increase the strength of his Twin Soul, Sage considered it a worthy sacrifice for a chance to explore Thunder Mountain Bridge. He was far too old and nowhere near the standard of a genius so there was no way hed ever get here on his own. Instead he took the risk that the Merge link with the Beetle wouldnt be cancelled and that souls wouldnt be tested upon entering the bridge. When Song Lu Tian entered Thunder Mountain Bridge, Sage felt something brush against the Twin Soul, but thankfully from within its hiding place inside the Beetle, the energy seemed diminished and neither of the two connections were broken. He didnt expect to accomplish much here, but some basic exploration would be enough to simply sate his curiosity.
I wonder what other sorts of treasures this place holds.
Chapter 177: Double Flowered Ice CamelliaKilling his way through the metal jungle, Song Lu Tian followed the directions on the map and traveled for quite some distance before the atmosphere seemed to change. He felt the temperature in the area drop, and he started to see dozens of large pillar shapes covered in metallic coils. The pillars were softly humming and had tiny blinking lights upon them. Each of the pillars was blowing out icy cold air from the top, which contrasted with the warmer air from the area he was just in. Each of the pillars had a huge cloud of mist billowing from the top and dispersing into the densely packed metal weaving above them. Finding nothing dangerous about them, he continued onwards, the temperature in the area continuing to drop and the misty clouds no longer present over the pillars with the blinking lights. One of the blinking lights reflected off something in front of him and Song Lu Tian knew he had reached the final checkpoint. The little glimmer was caused by a thread of silk, one which Song Lu Tian used a sword to slice through, finally showing a bit of caution. As the map said, once he ran into spider silk, he had reached the outer edges of the Double Flowered Ice Camellias area. This was also the most dangerous area for his retrieval task, the map listed that the number of spider species in this area was innumerable.With his skills, Song Lu Tian took no chances and brought forth his Sword Formation. The dozen swords flickered with energy and sword Qi sprung forth from their edges. Waving his hand, the swords started to spin, rotating around his body like the spokes of a wheel. They formed into four three pointed wheels, varying in angle with each rotation to turn him into a walking blender. The energy expenditure wasnt light, but he wanted to get this task over with and start exploring the areas on the map that were still listed as unvisited. Of course, if he had taken the chance to look closer he would have recognized that the beetle was a reddish black color, with a single large horn and a strange concave underbelly. It was in fact a Charming Lance Beetle, one which Sage had linked with and purposely chosen to leave at its minimum strength after hatching from an egg. After Song Lu Tian had moved far enough away, the little beetle walked under one of the shrugs and hid itself beneath a metal outcropping. From out of the beetles body a ghostly apparition slowly slid out. The spirit was shaped like a humanoid and it took a quick look around before focusing in a spider nearby. Floating towards it, the spirit disappeared into the spiders body and a few seconds later the spider curled up and fell to the ground. The beetle stabbed its horn into the dead spiders body and drained it of its blood and fluids, converting them into energy and starting to rapidly increase in strength and size. The spirit, Sages Twin Soul, immediately found a second, third, and fourth target. Creating a food supply for the beetle. Once it had grown from the size of half a finger into a palm, it lifted its wings and carefully released a passenger. It was a small ant with a large and elongated abdomen. As the Twin Soul killed more of the nearby spiders, caterpillars and butterflies, the Beetle began to dissect them and feed them to the ant. Within just an hour the Beetle had already reached the size of a large dog, while the ant had grown to the size of a thumb and was laying eggs endlessly. With the help of the beetle they fed the first few ants that hatched, but soon enough there was an army of ants tending to the queen and processing the dead insects and even the nearby vegetation to feed the queen and newly hatched larvae. Sage was linked to the Charming Lance Beetle, having snuck it into the Beast Bag hed given to Song Lu Tian. At the same time he put his Twin Soul into its internal space and also hidden a Queen Ant underneath its outer shell. It prevented the Beetle from using its wings, since that would make the ant fall out, but it was just a gamble in the first place. While it took a good amount of work to increase the strength of his Twin Soul, Sage considered it a worthy sacrifice for a chance to explore Thunder Mountain Bridge. He was far too old and nowhere near the standard of a genius so there was no way hed ever get here on his own. Instead he took the risk that the Merge link with the Beetle wouldnt be cancelled and that souls wouldnt be tested upon entering the bridge. When Song Lu Tian entered Thunder Mountain Bridge, Sage felt something brush against the Twin Soul, but thankfully from within its hiding place inside the Beetle, the energy seemed diminished and neither of the two connections were broken. He didnt expect to accomplish much here, but some basic exploration would be enough to simply sate his curiosity.I wonder what other sorts of treasures this place holds.
