Chapter 203: An Adventure with King Level Colossal Beasts (I)

Once he had confirmed that Li Fei had a decent reputation, Chen Chu returned to his room, pondering over this transaction.

The trace of a late-stage level 5 mutated beast, along with the possibility of a spatial distortion area containing natural treasures... was this information truly worth 50 contribution points?

It seemed reasonable, but for Li Fei, it was essentially free profit. He didn't need to put himself at risk by hunting down that mutated beast or exploring that spacial zone for the potential natural treasures.

Of course, where there were gains, there were also losses. If Chen Chu managed to slay the mutated beast and find resources, this trip would be worth at least 500 contribution points, a huge profit.

However, if no resources could be recovered other than the beast, the trip would yield only a little over 100 contribution points. This was assuming Chen Chu also killed one or two level 4 beasts on his way back. It wouldn't be a loss, but it also wouldn’t be worth it, considering he had to split 50 points with Li Fei.

Moreover, who had been spreading the news of him slaying the level 5 mutated beast with a king-level bloodline? Within the team that went on the mission, Li Hao was another genius who had also reached the Fourth Heavenly Realm. He had the potential to kill the king beast as well, but why was Li Fei so certain that Chen Chu was the one who had killed the king beast?

There was something fishy about this.

After thinking it through, Chen Chu went to take a shower before lying down in bed to rest. At the same time, he directed a part of his consciousness toward the Thunder Fiery Colossal Beast.

After absorbing the ancient blood, while the Thunder Beast was fast asleep, Chen Chu would experience a feeling of being half awake and half unconscious. This had left him drowsy and unable to focus the past two days during his travels. Now, after two days, that drowsy feeling was finally fading away.

Beneath the roiling magma of the blazing volcano, a colossal beast, its body measuring thirty-five meters in length and engulfed in golden-red flames, slowly opened its eyes.

After two days of slumber, the Thunder Beast’s size had increased by several meters, and its appearance had undergone some changes. Now, its head resembled that of an Eastern dragon. The black horns now leaned backward, and had grown sharper, longer, and denser, covering its head like a mane.

On the sides of its head, three pairs of blood-red feathered horns flared open, with golden flames burning atop them, forming a crowning ring of fire that gave off an inexplicable sense of majestic sacredness.

Apart from that, its body structure had become more robust, with powerful and muscular claws, and its hind legs bulging with power.

Huff!

The Thunder Beast opened its mouth slightly, and immediately a terrifying golden flame spewed forth, shooting out ten meters through the magma and completely liquifying it.

Although magma could also be a type of liquid, it was usually semi-solid under normal circumstances. However, under the golden flames that the Thunder Beast had shot out, that substances had melted into nearly pure liquid, becoming hotter than before.

This was one thing the Thunder Beast had gained from its slumber this time—energy control.

Before this, when it exhaled, it needed to gather all of the heat energy within its body to create its explosive move. It couldn’t control the intensity of it; it was as if the breath only had an on or off button. But after waking from its slumber, the Thunder Beast discovered it could more easily control the flames and lightning within its body. Now, with a single thought, it could control the condensation of energy within.

The Thunder Beast suddenly paused in its thoughts and extended its right claw. Instantly, the flames flickering on its right arm gathered and compressed together at its claw tips, which gradually turned a dazzling bright gold.

Then, with a gentle wave of the Thunder Beast’s arm, the magma where its claw tips swiped through was instantly annihilated, forming five black rifts of varying lengths that soon disappeared under the lava.

Hiss!

What power!

The Thunder Beast was somewhat surprised. With the scorching flames of over two thousand degrees compressed and condensed tenfold at the tips of its claws, they could now become incredibly sharp, sharper than any weapons.

The surface of its claw tips were covered in a golden energy that exceeded tens of thousands of degrees, even possessing the ability to dissolve matter. With this, the Thunder Beast could now easily tear through the protective energy and thick scales of mutated beasts on the same level.

Let's call this move the Golden Flaming Dragon Claw,

the Thunder Beast thought.

However, this was just a basic application of energy compression.

The Thunder Beast raised its head and looked upward, as the flames on its body suddenly converged. Blue lightning began to flicker and spread across its entire body, stimulating all of its muscles and releasing an infinite power in an instant.

Boom!

The volcano erupted from deep within, creating a force that shook the heavens and earth, and the surging magma carried a figure surrounded by lightning up to the sea surface.

Boom!

The pillar of lava exploded in the sky, creating a meteor shower of liquid flames, among which a black and red dragon-like beast descended from the sky, then crashed fiercely into the sea. Instantly, massive waves splashed up, and the boiling sea water surged hundreds of meters high.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The black and red colossal beast created massive waves as it traveled through the sea. With each stroke of its claws, waves rose up over a dozen meters high, which then crashed back down with an explosive sound.

𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Each cell in its body was exploding with power, stimulated by the lightning energy within its muscles. The Thunder Beast was filled with strength, and it wanted to let it out all.

It quickly found that its control over its other abilities had also grown stronger. It could control the explosive power of its claws, maintaining it at twenty times its normal strength, making each claw swing akin to a missile explosion.

In addition, its agility ability, which had originally required pauses between each accumulated explosion, could now be performed twice in a row. The colossal beast had become significantly more powerful in both escaping and attacking, as its instantaneous explosive power was now thirty times more powerful on land and twenty times more powerful in the sea.

At the same time, it had also gained more control over its breath. If it wanted to breathe out flames at five thousand degrees Celsius, they would be at five thousand degrees. If it wanted to max out its power to ten thousand degrees, it would have an attack of ten thousand degrees. Coupled with the Golden Flaming Dragon Claw, the Thunder Beast’s combat power had suddenly increased by a whole level.

These results after its slumber left Chen Chu a little surprised. Once he had wreaked some havoc and got familiar with the changes in the Thunder Beast’s body, he summoned the attribute page in his mind.

After scanning the four main attributes, which had increased by an average of 100 points, Chen Chu’s gaze fell on the note beneath the Thunder Beast's description.

Avatar: Ancient Six-horned Thunder Fiery Colossal Beast.

Level: High-level mutated beast. A mutated king beast that possesses seven abilities and an activated bloodline that creates an ancient aura.

Note: An ancient aura originates from the mythical world. It is a special power that has existed since the beginning of time. When a creature’s level reaches the peak of high-level, it can activate an ancient aura to advance into a mythical colossal beast mentioned in ancient legends.

Upon seeing the newly condensed note at the bottom of the attribute page, Chen Chu couldn't help but reveal astonishment and surprise in his eyes.

He hadn’t expected that the ancient blood the Thunder Beast had seized to be so powerful, possessing the ability to allow a peak level 9 colossal beast to break through to the level of a mythical colossal beast.

Thinking back, it was no wonder why that level 9 colossal beast had pursued the Thunder Beast so frantically after sensing the aura from the ancient blood.

However, at the same time, this information made Chen Chu somewhat solemn. If colossal beasts required an ancient aura to break past level 9, what about human cultivators? Would it mean that, after reaching the peak of the Ninth Heavenly Realm, cultivators also needed an ancient aura to break through to the king level?

Lost in thought, Chen Chu's attention returned to the Thunder Beast. Right now, it had dove a few hundred meters under the surface, looking like a black and red torpedo as it moved hundreds of meters within the blink of an eye.

It was getting ready to visit the Single-horned Orca. If the guy was alive, this harvest would be considerable.

After the Thunder Beast had previously chosen to settle in the volcanic lava lake, the Single-horned Orca’s family had also settled in the shallow waters of a deserted island a few dozen kilometers away. As it swam over to meet them, it saw three small orcas of different sizes playing around, with lengths of sixteen, fifteen, and fourteen meters respectively.

Seeing their relaxed appearance as they swam around playfully, the Thunder Beast knew that the Orca family was doing fine. Otherwise, the little ones would be frowning with worry or making mournful faces, not playing.

...Could orcas even make mournful faces?

Seeing the Thunder Beast, the three little orcas excitedly approached.

Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Uncle, are you here to see dad?

The eldest exclaimed.

Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Uncle... Hello,

said the second orca.

Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!

The youngest one cried.

Watching the little orcas happily swimming around it, the Thunder Beast let out a low roar.

Roar! You guys go play, I'm going to see Big Horn

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