Chapter 128 - Landslide?
Soon, millions of Sacred Beetle Descendants surrounded the Radiant Sacred Beetle again.
Hum!
The Radiant Sacred Beetle let out a hum. The recovered Sacred Beetle Descendant army once again surged like a tide towards the mountain range.
Seeing the Sacred Beetle Descendants move again, the other monsters became excited and once again began their massacre. The amount of gains that they were receiving was not small.
A few Fire Crows had grown while the Scarlet Pheasant's flames increased in intensity. As for the six limbed, four winged snake, the sand that they controlled had increased in density.
Seeing this scene, Wei Xiao Bei was left feeling slightly enlightened.
The white mice that were cooperating in the laboratory building popped up in his mind. He was able to roughly understand that massacres were the best way to gain strength.
After these monsters killed their enemies, they would be able to obtain power to strengthen themselves.
Naturally, it was not as meticulous as his status panel. He had already felt that his status panel's existence was somehow amplifying his gains.
While Wei Xiao Bei was thinking of these things, the Sacred Beetles were now under attack once again as they dug at the mountain wall and counter attacked from time to time.
However, not long after, the giant beetles had formed a line, flapped their wings, and charged forward.
Wei Xiao Bei had temporarily named them large Sacred Beetles.
The large Sacred Beetles appearance had changed the situation on the battlefield situation.
Just like the Sacred Beetle Descendants, the large Sacred Beetles were also covered in a golden light when they left the golden radiance. Moreover, their bodies were huge, and their shells were incredibly hard. The impact upon collision would be very strong.
Even if the Fire Crows wanted to burn it to death, they would not be able to do so in the similar short amount of time.
As for the Scarlet Pheasants that liked to kill their enemies with their speed and flames, they simply did not dare fight the large Sacred Beetle straight on. They could only fly past them and attempt to ignite them.
Whoosh, whoosh. Countless six limbed, four winged snakes worked together to make the sand rise and move towards the large Sacred Beetles.
Under the effect of the sand storm, the large beetles seemed as if they were stuck in mud as their speed rapidly decreased. The golden light around them had also been suppressed by the sand.
However, the six limbed, four winged snakes could only control a certain area, not everywhere. The majority of large Sacred Beetles acted like tanks as they bashed and collided with anything in their path. They broke through the wall of monsters and caused a loud bang as they hit the mountain wall.
The collision force of these beetles was very powerful. As the countless large beetles bashed against the mountain, the ground shook.
Every Fire Crow that was hit along the way died in an instant.
Even the Sacred Beetles that were working on the mountain wall were bashed to death.
Their large jaws collided against the mountain wall and had actually got stuck in it. Afterwards, they started to struggle free from it, causing soil and stone to crumble down the mountain.
In a few seconds, the large beetles had dug out a huge hole on the mountain wall.
The Sacred Beetle Descendants moving behind the large Sacred Beetles became even more busy. Their work of digging and transporting was turned into transporting only, increasing the efficiency of the whole army by a lot.
Huge volumes of soil and stone were transported to the Radiant Sacred Beetle ready for consumption.
In reality, Wei Xiao Bei was a bit suspicious as he looked at this scene. He questioned why the Radiant Sacred Beetle did not eat anything else but the soil and stone of the fiery red mountain range.
Could it be that the soil and stone of the mountain was full of nutrients?
Thinking about this, Wei Xiao Bei suddenly became slightly terrified.
His intuition was sending him a warning.
Wei Xiao Bei's intuition was already at 11 points. After being supplemented by the negative jing, his ability to sense danger and foresee it had become much stronger.
Wei Xiao Bei immediately focused and did not allow himself to get even a little bit careless. Without a doubt, the entire battle will change once the Radiant Sacred Beetle made its move.
Wei Xiao Bei unravelled the strips of cloth on his arms to check up on his injury. The injuries caused by the Sacred Beetle Descendants had almost fully recovered. Although there were still scars left and was not fully healed, it would not have much of an effect on Wei Xiao Bei's movements.
Wei Xiao Bei turned around and then moved his hands and feet as he crawled away from the fiery red mountain range.
At this period of time, the Fire Crows, Scarlet Pheasants, and six limbed, four winged snakes slowly lost control of the battle after the large beetles came out.
Killing these large beetles in such a short amount of time would be hard for them. Just the golden light alone would take them a lot of time to remove. Moreover, the large beetles' hard shells made them sink even more into despair.
The large beetles might not have strong fighting abilities, but their spine tingling defense already made Wei Xiao Bei give up on thinking of any ideas of trying to kill them.
Even the six limbed, four winged snakes could only slow down the large beetles' advance, but were unable to breakthrough their shells to absorb their water content. The large beetles had already exceeded the six limbed, four winged snakes ability.
After five minutes, Wei Xiao Bei had crawled onto the side of a sand dune. He immediately leapt like a frog to get rid of the sand on him. After that, he stuck close to the ground without letting his torso touch the ground, and crawled towards another sand dune.
Wei Xiao Bei was feeling slightly emotional thinking about his crawling method.
Before his agility attribute had increased, Wei Xiao Bei was very slow at this crawling method. At the very least, he was only a bit faster than a normal walking pace.
However, now that his agility had increased and his hand-eye coordination and flexibility had increased to 16 points, Wei Xiao Bei could move at a faster speed without letting anything trip him. His reflex and balance on the other hand, allowed him to be almost immune to all obstacles.
In a way, his crawling method had become spider-like. The speed was not that much slower than his normal jogging pace.
In reality, animals using four limbs to run instead of two was a reasonable finding. Animals that moved on all fours were not slow, except for naturally slow animals like turtles.
As he was quickly crawled on all limbs, Wei Xiao Bei had quickly distanced himself from the fiery red mountain range. He moved until he was back at the valley filled with Giant Black Scorpions. He sat down on the peak of a sand dune and slowly ate the hardtack he brought in his backpack, while staring at the mountains.
Wei Xiao Bei had not fought much, but due to the increasing temperature near the mountain range, he had lost a lot of energy especially after crawling back.
However, he felt that he was now in a safe zone, though he still did not let his guard down.
At this time, the Radiant Sacred Beetle was feeling fully rejuvenated after eating.
The large Sacred Beetles were hitting the wall and the Sacred Beetle Descendants were transporting soil and stone in large quantities. Their speed was so fast that the transportation speed had surpassed the Radiant Sacred Beetle's eating speed.
As this trend continued, the monsters that lived in the fiery red mountain range could only stare at the Radiant Sacred Beetle as it ate. They were uncertain if the Radiant Sacred Beetle would attack the mountain and kill them all after it ate its fill.
The battle strength between two sides would not even need to be mentioned. Just the size of the Radiant Sacred Beetle's could tell you that the monsters of the mountain range were no match for it.
Just a single bash from it would leave all of them breathless. Moreover, the Radiant Sacred Beetle still had other unknown abilities.
The digging speed of the large beetles was fast. The mountain wall was like tofu in front of their big jaws. By just inserting the jaws into the mountain wall and pulling it back had easily created huge holes in the mountain.
Some of the large beetles that seemed to be single minded continued to dig through the mountain with their bodies already inside.
Bang! A large Sacred Beetle seemed to had hit something hard as it dug.
However, it did not give up at all. It retreated ten meters and then flapped its wings to increase its momentum as it striked through the giant hole.
Boom!
The sound of the beetle hitting something bell-like echoed from within the hole. The large beetle looked extremely disoriented as it came out of the hole. It seemed to have hit something and heavily regretted it.
Following this fierce strike, the fiery red mountain range shook.
This shaking was definitely not caused by the large Sacred Beetle's strike. It was also impossible for it to be the Radiant Sacred Beetle.
Boom! The fiery red mountain range shook again. This time, even the sand around the mountains were also shaken.
The Fie Crows, Scarlet Pheasants, and six limbed, four winged snakes were immediately frightened. They had even let go of the Sacred Beetle Descendants that were already in their mouths. They immediately turned around and flew up high in the sky.
In contrast to their actions, the Sacred Beetle Descendants and the large Sacred Beetles were still digging at the mountain wall. Even in the face of the fierce shaking, they did not sway at all as they calmly continued their tasks.
Only the Radiant Sacred Beetle changed, and stopped eating. Its antenna, that was more than 30 meters long, began to sway, as if it was trying to pick up something.
The shaking from the mountain range increased in intensity. Even Wei Xiao Bei who was five kilometers away could feel it.
This scene made Wei Xiao Bei remember the scene of the Radiant Sacred Beetle's appearance.
Could it be that another large monster is going to appear around the mountain range? Could it be that it's the one that's creating all the shaking?
At this time, the Radiant Sacred Beetle let out a hum as it seemed to have found some kind of danger. It did not even care about the stone and soil in front of it and moved backwards, pushing its back part into the sand.
However, compared to the speed it came out from the sand, returning back inside was much slower.
Before half of the Radiant Sacred Beetle's body had been drilled back into the sand, a loud boom sounded. Even with blurry sight, Wei Xiao Bei could see that there had been a landslide on the mountain range.
This was truly a real version of a landslide. In an instant, there was an earthquake and the mountains shooked. Countless rocks fell down the mountain wall.
At this point in time, the Radiant Sacred Beetle came back from its standstill and quickly escaped.
However, it was already too late. Most of the Sacred Beetle Descendants had been directly buried under the rocks. As for the large Sacred Beetles, they used the momentum of the fall to leave the vicinity of the mountain.
It was initially not that bad as only a few small stones fell. With the large beetles' shells and body size, this was not a big problem. However, when rocks larger than them suddenly began falling, their shells began to let out cracking sounds after being hit. It was to the point that they had a hard time crawling back up. A few large Sacred Beetles were still able fly, but they were smashed to the ground by large rocks from above, trapping them underneath.
In the vicinity of a hundred meters around the fiery red mountain range, it had become a disaster site as rocks of different sizes dropped down like meteors.
A large amount of the Sacred Beetle Descendants and large Sacred Beetles had also been buried under the rocks.
At this time, the landslide seemed to have reached its peak. The entire mountain range that appeared as if it was completely buried, instantly blew up.
Countless rocks flew everywhere.
The skies and earth had been completely covered in rocks.
The most unlucky one was the Radiant Sacred Beetle. A few rocks, over 30 meters wide, directly hit against it and its body that was already half buried was sent flying by the rocks.
It had flown a kilometer away and then landed on its head, burying its head in the sand.
Even the hundred meter long Radiant Sacred Beetle had been knocked flying by a few big rocks, let alone the rest of the Sacred Beetle army.
After the fiery red mountain range collapsed, a large shockwave swept outwards. Everything had been engulfed in it, creating a huge sandstorm.
The Sacred Beetle Descendants and the large Sacred Beetles could not even touch the ground as they were blown away by the sandstorm.
Naturally, the Radiant Sacred Beetle's side was not the only one that suffered casualties. When the large sandstorm engulfed everything, the Fire Crows, Scarlet Pheasants and six limbed, four winged snakes that were observing above the skies were also dragged in.
In an instant, the fiery red mountain range had been submerged in the sandstorm to the point that its outline could not even be seen anymore.
This sandstorm had even spread, until it was quite close to the sand dune Wei Xiao Bei was on.
Chapter 129 - Terrifying Fire Dragon!
In reality, if Wei Xiao Bei had not rushed to dig a hole in the sand dune and hide inside it, just the large stones that were sent flying by the sandstorm would have been enough to do him in.
Even with Wei Xiao Bei's health reaching 20 points and his sturdiness that had reached 14 points, this did not signify that he would not die if he got hit by such a large stone like that.
Even an elephant or a whale would probably die after being hit by such a large stone.
Even when Wei Xiao Bei was hiding 5-6 meters under the sand, he could still feel the continuous violent shaking. He felt as if he had been placed on a massage chair that was still turned on and vibrating.
After a while, the shaking stopped. Wei Xiao Bei ignored his wobbly body that had been affected by the continuous shaking, as he strived to dig himself out of the sand.
After finally digging himself out, he took a deep breath. If he had stayed in there for another moment, he would have probably suffocated to death.
At this moment, the sand dune had changed shape. Large amounts of stones had been scattered around the desert. Some large stones that had exceeded 3 meters had even sunk in the sand.
It was easy to imagine what Wei Xiao Bei's ending would be if he had not hid himself in the sand.
When Wei Xiao Bei was inspecting his surroundings another shockwave spread towards him from afar.
Eh?
It's from the direction of the fiery red mountain range!
Wei Xiao Bei quickly moved to another sand dune and looked towards the mountain range.
Eh?
What is that?
At this time, the sand storm in the direction of the mountain range had disappeared. Everything looked blurry from the distance Wei Xiao Bei was at, but he was able to see that another huge monster had appeared in the mountain range.
Wrong. The mountain range was no longer the thousand meter long mountain range anymore!
It had already been occupied by a long snake that was more than 600 meters!
Long snake?
No! That's not a long snake!
The shape of the figure in his eyes was too familiar. It's head was shaped like a bull. It had deer-like horns, prawn-like beady eyes, elephant-like ears, snake-like neck and abdomen, fish-like scales, phoenix-like claws, and tiger-like palms!
Every Chinese citizen should know what this thing was.
It was a dragon!
The symbol of China!
However, the dragon that appeared only had 3 claws.
Regardless of that fact Wei Xiao Bei was extremely excited. This was his first time seeing a dragon.
In Chinese legends, dragons had appeared many times. Every single line where the Yellow River was mentioned, dragons would also be mentioned. Moreover, there were also mentions of dragon shrines and sacrificial offerings that would bring forth rain.
Moreover, ancient Chinese Emperors would often brag about how they were descendants of dragons and wore clothes that were called dragon robes. The beds that they slept in would be called dragon beds and their illnesses would be called a dragon's indisposition. When an emperor rose into power it would be called a dragon's excitement. The places where the emperor's stayed at before they were enthroned would be called the dragon's residence. If their wives become pregnant they would call it 'bearing a dragon's child.' And their children would be named as a dragon's grandson.
The royal families in ancient China would use ornaments with dragon motifs and designs. If a cabinet minister had infuriated the emperor, it would be called assaulting a dragon's scales!
Feng Shui would call places with a lot of energy as dragon cavities and mountain ranges with a lot of energy as dragon veins.
In short, dragon's held a high position in Chinese culture. It was something that foreigners could not understand, but every offspring of China would.
This scene in front of him was something truly unexpected for Wei Xiao Bei.
He never would have imagined that the fiery mountain range was actually occupied by a dragon.
Perhaps because it had been asleep for too long, rocks had formed on its body, making it look like a mountain range.
This should be a fire dragon!
In Chinese legends, a majority of dragons flew into the skies to bring forth rain. In other words, they were experts at controlling rain.
The Dragon King of the four seas, Dragon Kings of the Yellow River and Yangtze River, as well as other Dragon Kings verified that dragons were really creatures that ruled water.
However, this did not mean dragons did not know how to play with fire.
In Master Qing Dong Xuan's work, 'Record of the Unusual', there was a passage that went, "On the tenth year, sixth month and forth day, in the county of Pinghu, a fire dragon appeared. Its body was covered in purple flames and it passed by the fields. Hundreds of hectares of land were burned to nothing."
Although this fire dragon was not covered in purple flames, its body was still covered in flames.
It was easy to see that the fire dragon had originally been asleep. In the end, the daring Radiant Sacred Beetle had awoken it from its slumber.
However, the mountain collapse was merely caused by the fire dragon's awakening.
This time, the dragon appeared to have fallen asleep once again.
In reality, Wei Xiao Bei felt depressed at this scene. He did not know how to describe it better.
You made such a huge movement and destroyed the two factions that were fighting, creating such disastrous losses, yet you are just going back to sleep?
Are you teasing us?
In reality, the fire dragon going back to sleep was a good thing. With the immense gap in power between Wei Xiao Bei and the dragon, although Wei Xiao Bei felt fond of it, he also feared it tremendously. Just making a few movements was enough to cause such destruction. If someone had actually provoked it, Wei Xiao Bei did not know what would happen, and did not want to know what would happen.
'Anything that could go wrong will go wrong.' Wei Xiao Bei was not clear what kind of philosophy this was, but what happened next proved exactly that.
Just as Wei Xiao Bei was thinking whether he should go closer take a look or not, suddenly, the Radiant Sacred Beetle that had been stuck in the sand for quite some time had moved.
It could be assumed that the Radiant Sacred Beetle had passed out after being hit by a large rock, but because of its hard shell and strong vitality, it was able to escape death.
After moving around a little, the Radiant Sacred Beetle increased its struggling force. After struggling for a while, it finally pulled its back part out of the sand.
Indeed, it was the back part that had gotten stuck in the sand. If it was the head that was buried in the sand, it would have probably just escaped by burrowing itself deep in the sand.
After pulling itself out, it, for some reason, did not immediately escape. It had probably been injured. As a result, it lied down on the sand and once again released the golden radiance from its body.
Seeing this scene, Wei Xiao Bei understood that it was healing itself.
The effects of the golden light should be of a healing attribute.
However, when the golden radiance spread, the fire dragon that had gone back to sleep suddenly moved.
The Radiant Sacred Beetle simply did not notice this at all. It only continued to heal its injuries under the golden radiance and even increased the intensity of the light.
Very quickly, the dragon's head faced towards the Radiant Sacred Beetle's direction. With only less than a hundred meters of distance between them, the dragon's long and narrow eyes silently watched the Radiant Sacred Beetle.
Seeing this scene, Wei Xiao Bei did not know if he should call the Radiant Sacred Beetle stupid or brazen.
The fire dragon was already looking at it and the Radiant Sacred Beetle, itself, had already noticed the fire dragon, yet it did not escape at all. On the contrary, it stuck out its butt and tried to pull it back, as if it was about to release more eggs.
Without a doubt, the Radiant Sacred Beetle's action was meant to provoke the fire dragon. If Wei Xiao Bei was in the same position as the fire dragon, he would have responded with, 'You still dare point your ass at this daddy? I will definitely fuck you good!'.
The red dragon's following actions perfectly matched Wei Xiao Bei's thoughts.
Boom!
The red dragon raised one of its claws and smashed down towards the Radiant Sacred Beetle without any hesitation at all.
With a loud boom, the golden radiance was not able to block the force at all and instantly shattered. The Radiant Sacred Beetle's hard shell had been left caved in.
Perhaps because the red dragon's striking force had just the right amount of power, the Radiant Sacred Beetle's back part shot out large eggs, sending the eggs flying like artillery shells everywhere.
The red dragon did not even care where the eggs went at all. Boom! It striked with its claws again.
In the first strike, the shell had caved in. In the second strike, the Radiant Sacred Beetle's shell had been shattered to pieces. Some of the juices that came out from the shell had stuck to the dragon's claw. In an instant, like gasoline igniting on a torch, a ball of fire formed in the blink of an eye.
The fire dragon opened its mouth and sucked the ball of fire, making it disappear in an instant. After the dragon was done playing, he went back to its original spot. Once again, it went into resting position while lazily placing its head on its back, going back to sleep.
Wei Xiao Bei had roughly understood a lot of things from just witnessing the scene.
The Radiant Sacred Beetle had probably fancied the rocks that had accumulated on the fire dragon's body. After all, the fire dragon was such a strong existence. Even the rocks that made their home on its back probably had huge benefits.
At the very least, it looked attractive to a monster like the Radiant Sacred Beetle. It was so attractive, that the Radiant Sacred Beetle even ignored the monsters that had originally lived in the fiery red mountain range such as the Fire Crows, Scarlet Pheasants, and six limbed, four winged snakes.
However, what it never imagined was that the fiery red mountain range was actually a fire dragon. In the end, it was turned into a dismembered corpse with just two strikes from the dragon. Its body had even exploded and was swallowed by the fire dragon, leaving nothing behind.
At that time, Wei Xiao Bei could not help but rejoice at his crisis perception. Otherwise, he would have probably died without knowing what happened.
A single sneeze from an existence like the fire dragon would be able to easily break all his bones if he was close enough.
Wei Xiao Bei was only an ant in front of it.
Whoosh!
A supersonic sound suddenly passed by. Wei Xiao Bei barely had time to lie down on the ground and dodge, when something fast flew by, almost causing Wei Xiao Bei's death.
Ignoring the sand on his body, Wei Xiao Bei looked behind him and saw a large egg half buried in the sand dune behind him.
Right. That is the egg that was squeezed out!
The egg landing so close to him was an unexpected surprise for Wei Xiao Bei.
Wei Xiao Bei had previously witnessed how strong the large Sacred Beetles were, but when they had just come out from their shells, they were incredibly weak.
Chapter 130 - Damaged Sacred Beetle Ovary
Wei Xiao Bei stretched out his hand, grasped the great spear, and jumped down the sand dune. He dodged past the rocks that were stuck in the sand and sent out his spear towards the large eggs.
The large egg exceeded three meters in diameter. It was impossible for Wei Xiao Bei to miss it.
In an instant, the spear head pierced the egg.
Something Wei Xiao Bei did not expect, happened. The egg shell appeared very soft, but his sharp and flexible great spear was only able to insert an inch. Wei Xiao Bei was unable to break the shell in one go, and there was even a rebounding force which had sent his great spear bouncing out.
Whoosh, whoosh!
Wei Xiao Bei pulled back and thrusted again. In a few moments, he had made 7 thrusts on the egg shell, but the great spear was still not able to pierce through the shell at all.
When Wei Xiao Bei pulled back his great spear, the depressions on the large egg quickly recovered back to its original state.
Wei Xiao Bei stuck the great spear on the sand and frowned at the large egg.
This situation was something he had never imagined. If it was a normal insect egg, it would have been very weak and the insect's success in laying was calculated by numbers. Many insects would lay eggs everywhere and not lay it in a single place. And then, when the insect came out of the egg, they would make the place their home and multiply.
However, the Radiant Sacred Beetle's egg was different. After being sent flying this far, it did not break at all. Even his spear was unable to pierce through its shell. The shell was like an enhanced rubber board.
Wei Xiao Bei pondered for a while and then retreated 20 meters, stopping only when he reached the top of a sand dune. He spat out the muddy Qi residing in his body and with a light shout, he leapt down and increased his speed.
Iron Mountain Lean!
When he was about five meters from the egg, Wei Xiao Bei increased his speed again and focused all the power of his body into his left arm. He then striked the egg with this immense power.
Bang!
His elbow collided with the large egg, causing a large impact on the egg, until Wei Xiao Bei's entire body had sunk into the egg.
However, in the next instant, the egg once again had a rebound effect and sent him flying backwards.
If Wei Xiao Bei was not agile enough, he would have probably hit a large rock. When he was sent flying, he quickly grabbed onto the great spear and used the resistive force of the sand to stop himself from flying away.
With such a strong rebound force, Wei Xiao Bei would not have been able to get away from receiving heavy injuries if he had hit a large rock.
However, when he stopped his body, he had also spit out a mouthful of blood.
When he spat it out, he felt slightly more comfortable and looked at the large egg.
Although the large egg had shot him backwards, it had still received 40 percent of the impact, rebounding 60 percent of it.
Looking at it, the egg was unable to defend against the strong force. As a result, the egg vibrated, making the large Sacred Beetle inside restless and start to gnaw itself out of the egg.
Everything had a weakness.
This was an ancient truth.
Wei Xiao Bei could not deal with the flexibility of the egg shell, but because the large Sacred Beetle tore it open, a small hole had appeared on the egg shell and quickly expanded.
A soft bodied large Sacred Beetle climbed out form the egg.
Compared to a matured large Sacred Beetle, this large Sacred Beetle was without a doubt, weaker.
Without the brilliance of the golden radiance, it was not able to quickly harden its shell, and Wei Xiao Bei immediately pierced it.
Puchi!
The spearhead did not meet any obstructions at all as it pierced through the beetle. In fact, if Wei Xiao Bei had not pulled back his spear quick enough and kick the beetle away, the beetle would have probably bit him.
Even though its shell was weak, the large Sacred Beetle was still a 3-Star Creature. Its vitality was something the Wei Xiao Bei could not compare to.
Wei Xiao Bei had already took the time to look at his battlelog.
The large Sacred Beetle's true name was not called large Sacred Beetle, but just Sacred Beetle.
Moreover, it was a normal 3-Star Creature!
The three meter long great spear pierce was not enough to make it go down. On the contrary, this had only aroused the Sacred Beetle's fury, causing it to pounce towards him.
If the Sacred Beetle had been under the Radiant Sacred Beetle's golden radiance, it would have been able to harden its shell. Once its shell was completely hardened, Wei Xiao Bei would have no way of harming it at all.
No matter how strong Wei Xiao Bei was, he couldn't even compare to the six limbed, four winged snake.
However, it was different now.
Without the golden radiance, the Sacred Beetle had not yet fully matured. Adding the fact of its premature incubation, it had lacked two legs and its wings had not yet formed.
Moreover, with its shell softer, it could not block Wei Xiao Bei's great spear at all.
With these two factors, the Sacred Beetle's power was at rock bottom.
After almost being bitten by the Sacred Beetle, Wei Xiao Bei changed tactics. Everytime he attacked he would strike it from behind.
The Sacred Beetle's turning speed was slow. Moreover, since it was lacking a few legs and wings, its charging speed was also slow.
Wei Xiao Bei moved like he was dancing as he continuously thrust the great spear towards the Sacred Beetle. Every time the Sacred Beetle was pierced, a bowl-sized injury would be left.
Gradually, the Sacred Beetle's shell was hardening to the point that Wei Xiao Bei's great spear started bouncing back.
However, it was already too late. Even if the Sacred Beetle was able to stop its injuries from increasing, the holes already on its body were leaking out fluids, further weakening the Sacred Beetle.
In the end, Wei Xiao Bei thrust his spear three times to cut off its head. In the end, it could not stand still anymore and dropped to the ground. Its four limbs could only twitch as it lost its earlier ferocity.
After following a careful and consistent method, Wei Xiao Bei continued to thrust his great spear until the evolution points in his status panel changed.
Afterwards, Wei Xiao Bei did not rest at all. He pulled out the White Mist Knife and dissected the beetle. Everytime he cut out an organ, he would take a look at his status panel to see if the organ had any uses.
After busying himself for a while, Wei Xiao Bei put his knife away and rested on the sand.
The Sacred Beetle's death had given Wei Xiao Bei generous rewards.
Just the evolution points alone had given 480 points.
Among the monsters that Wei Xiao Bei had defeated, this was the one that gave him the most rewards.
Other than that, he gained 2 items on hand, Damaged Sacred Beetle Ovary and Sacred Beetle Jaw.
Moreover, perhaps because his White Mist Knife had been stained with the strong monster's blood, a change had occurred.
White Mist Knife (sharp, slight corrosive property, currently evolving)
After paying attention to the words in his status panel, a brief description appeared. To evolve the White Mist Knife, it needed to be stained with more strong monster blood.
As for the other items, they came from the Sacred Beetle, but their uses were different.
If the Damaged Sacred Beetle Ovary was in perfect condition, it would have been able to create 1000 eggs and turn into 1000 Sacred Beetle Descendants.
However, after being damaged by the great spear, it only had one use.
Feed, increases obedience.
After inspecting it some more and finding that there was no other description, he temporarily placed it inside his backpack.
The Sacred Beetle Ovary seemed to have orb-like things inside. There were no blood stains on it, or any smell, so he did not have to worry about it ruining the backpack.
As for the Sacred Beetle Jaw, there was only one side. It was very hard to the point that the White Mist Knife was only able to leave a small scratch on it. The other side was not fully developed. As a result, it was not as soft as to be destroyed in one of Wei Xiao Bei's attacks.
As for the description of the Sacred Beetle Jaw, it was much more simple: Material.
In other words, it was used as material to create other objects.
Wei Xiao Bei looked at it. It was around one meter long and was shaped like a bent knife. He made a note to search for a way to later on turn it into a knife.
Wei Xiao Bei could not just put the jaw inside his backpack. As a result, he used a strip of cloth to make a scabbard and bound it to his back.
These two items however, should not have been everything that it could offer. As a normal 3-Star Creature, the benefits he could gain should not be only this. However, because the beetle was not yet mature, and because Wei Xiao Bei had heavily damaged it, this had made it hard for him to obtain any more benefits from it.
After finishing his tasks, Wei Xiao Bei looked at the distant fire dragon and shook his head.
I would probably not be able to come back to this desert for a long time.
With the fire dragon there, a small amount of carelessness would mean death!
After inspecting everything once again, Wei Xiao Bei moved away from the fire dragon.
Although the fire dragon's movements had changed the landscape, Wei Xiao Bei was still able to remember the direction, so he did not worry about getting lost.
The way back, however, was not smooth sailing.
He did not know if this was caused by the fire dragon's movement, but on his way back, he did not see a single Giant Black Scorpion at all. He only saw countless stones and boulders.
Ssss!
After walking for a while, Wei Xiao Bei suddenly felt a sharp pain on the soles of his feet. When he raised it up, he saw that a Sacred Beetle Descendant was biting his soles. Even after it being in the air, It did not release its hold at all.
Wei Xiao Bei frowned and released electricity. A blue spark flowed through his blood and shocked the Sacred Beetle Descendant hanging onto his foot.
The Sacred Beetle Descendant's tight grip suddenly loosened, and after falling down, Wei Xiao Bei stepped on it to its death.
How great would it be if I had an intact pair of shoes.
As Wei Xiao Bei thought this, he waited until the injury healed before continuing onward.