Chapter 584: Source Beast
The water shield at the bottom of the underground lake is about several miles in size.
Not long after, Duan Qing and Zhaixing walked to the center of the water shield.
Along the way, the two did not see a complete building, nor did anything unusual happen.
As for the origin of these dilapidated buildings, Zhaixing, who was born in Taihuang Sect and had been dealing with wasteland since childhood, felt confused.
As for Duan Qing, he was even more confused.
However, he did not pay much attention to the situation around him. Most of his attention was on Zhaixing, guarding against Zhaixing's tricks.
When they walked to the center of the water shield, they found that there was no building in the center, but a huge pit.
As soon as the two approached the pit, they smelled a faint bloody smell.
For some reason, Duan Qing felt an ominous feeling in his heart.
When the two walked to the edge of the pit, they couldn't help but change their colors.
In the pit about a hundred feet in size, there was a pool of bright and slightly thick water.
Moreover, many broken limbs and arms were floating on the surface of the pool. Judging from the shape of the debris, they all seemed to belong to wild beasts.
If you look closely, you can find that the debris is slowly dissolving.
This...!
Duan Qing was confused and glanced at Zhaixing beside him, wondering if Zhaixing knew the origin of the thick pool water.
To his disappointment, Zhaixing was also surprised, as if he didn't know the origin of the pool water.
In fact, Zhaixing felt a little uneasy in addition to being surprised.
He thought that the variables at the bottom of the lake were those wild people, but now it seems that he thought things were too simple.
Although he didn't know what the thick pool water was, the debris floating on the pool water was obviously the debris of wild beasts in the water.
The appearance of wild beasts in the water is very different from that on land, and it is very easy to identify.
What happened that caused so many wild beasts in the water to dissolve in this pool?
At this moment, the sharp-eyed Duan Qing, through the gaps in the debris on the surface of the pool, vaguely saw a black shadow moving at the bottom of the pool.
"Huh!"
Duan Qing said in surprise and looked at the black shadow.
Noticing Duan Qing's abnormality, Zhaixing also followed Duan Qing's gaze and looked at the bottom of the pool.
Because he was sitting on A-di's shoulder, the angle was different, and his sight was just blocked by a piece of wild beast debris, so he didn't see anything.
"Playing tricks!" Zhaixing glared at Duan Qing and muttered.
Duan Qing ignored him, his face was solemn, and his eyes were fixed on the bottom of the pool. The vaguely visible black shadow made him feel more and more ominous.
The slowly moving black shadow gave him a sense of déjà vu.
But because he could only see part of the black shadow, he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.
Zhaixing saw that Duan Qing looked solemn and didn't seem to be fake, so he looked at the bottom of the pool again.
Maybe the shadow moved a little, or maybe the floating debris was dissolved a little. This time, Zhaixing also saw the shadow at the bottom of the pool.
Seeing this, Zhaixing's eyes were stern. In order to see more clearly, he directly controlled A Di and waved the giant sword in his hand towards the surface of the pool.
The giant sword brought a strong wind, blowing away a large area of debris on the surface of the pool, and the shadow at the bottom of the pool finally revealed its full appearance.
It was shaped like a triangle, with a tentacle on each of the three sides, two long and one short, and covered with strange patterns.
The two longer tentacles stretched out and almost touched the edge of the giant pit.
The shorter tentacle was slightly wriggling, as if it was swallowing and spitting out the pool water.
Seeing the huge triangular tentacle monster at the bottom of the pool, Duan Qing woke up from a dream and finally remembered where he had seen this thing.
At that time, he followed the order of his cheap master's wife to return to Jinxuan Sect to rescue his senior sister Luying. After using a trick to rescue his senior sister and others, he passed by a small town called Zhengdong on the way to meet up with her.
At that time, outside the town, he encountered a tentacle monster that was very similar to the monster in front of him, and at that time, the tentacle monster seemed to have eaten a boy named Xiaoliu in the town.
It was to chase the tentacle monster that he went deep underground, and later met Senior Sister Su and others in the underground river.
The tentacle monster's ability to split and regenerate left a deep impression on him at the time.
The tentacle monster at the bottom of the pool in front of him, except for its much larger size and strange patterns on its body surface, looks almost exactly the same as the tentacle monster he encountered at the beginning.
Just when Duan Qing recognized the tentacle monster, Zhaixing on the side suddenly exclaimed: "Source Beast!"
In addition to surprise, his voice also carried unconcealed fear and surprise.
He never dreamed that there would be a source beast in this wasteland!
In fact, source beasts are also a kind of wild beasts.
But compared with wild beasts, source beasts are much rarer. Maybe there is not a single source beast among billions of wild beasts.
There are more than a dozen Youzhou wastelands guarded by his Taihuang Sect, and the number of wild beasts in them is as numerous as the stars in the sky.
And among those more than a dozen wastelands, the only wasteland known to have source beasts is the largest primitive wasteland in Youzhou.
There is a reason why source beasts are so rare.
As far as he knows, source beasts are equivalent to the kings of wild beasts, and can command all wild beasts in the wasteland.
And only wastelands with source beasts have the possibility of going to the ground.
Just like cultivators cannot absorb wild air, wild beasts cannot absorb spiritual energy.
Therefore, wild beasts in the wasteland can only survive in the wasteland and cannot go out to the surface. Even if they force their way out of the surface, they will die soon.
And the source beasts have the power to change this situation.
Once the source beasts grow to a certain extent, they will emit something called source energy to transform other wild beasts in the wasteland.
Wild beasts infected by the source energy can absorb spiritual energy to survive and are no longer restricted by the wasteland.
Although his Taihuang Sect guards more than ten wastelands in Youzhou, the only real threat is the primitive wasteland where the source beasts exist.
Compared with the primitive wasteland, the troubles that can be caused by the other dozen wastelands are very limited.
Occasionally, some fearless wild beasts sneak out and slaughter creatures to create some wild people, which can be quickly solved by his Taihuang Sect.
But the wild beasts in the primitive wasteland are different. They can survive on the surface for a long time after being infected by the source energy of the source beasts. From time to time, they will invade the surface in groups on a large scale.
It is precisely because of this that the Taihuang Sect even built the sect outside the primitive wasteland.
If it were not for the Taihuang Sect’s personal suppression, the wild beasts in the primitive wasteland would probably have killed all the Youzhou.
In fact, his Taihuang Sect also wanted to get rid of the source beast in the original wasteland once and for all.
But countless attempts ended in failure.
The source beast can be said to be an existence that can change the pattern of the wasteland.
Zhaixing, who was born in the Taihuang Sect, knows this very well.
It is conceivable what Zhaixing felt when he saw the source beast in the barren wasteland of Yunzhou.
Once this source beast completes the transformation of the wild beasts in this wasteland, it will undoubtedly be a catastrophe for Yunzhou!
Even if this source beast sneaks into Youzhou and enters other wastelands, the consequences are simply unimaginable.