Chapter 403: Lying in Wait?
Translated by Jouissance of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
The entire underground was up in arms about the appearance of the tal Swallowing Beast.
You XiaoMo who was busy digging up rocks suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound in disappointnt. Those people had arrived so quickly, he hadn’t dug up as much as he wanted yet.
Ling Xiao walked over. “We have to leave here soon. Another half hour and those people will arrive.”
You XiaoMo could only pack away his hamr and chisel before putting all the crystals he had dug out of the wall into his bag. These were all tal minerals. He had only thought of collecting so half an hour ago. This was his only hobby after coming underground.
“Master, hurry, I can feel a very powerful person coming.” PiQiu also walked in. He had already beco a teenager of around fifteen years. However, his voice was still very childlike. He was a kid who hadn’t entered puberty yet.
You XiaoMo sped up. “Alright, alright.”
Just over an hour ago, they had split up from LanQiu and the others. Ling Xiao had them go look for the Eye of Golden Earth. Though he didn’t know what the Eye of Golden Earth was, it must have sothing to do with what Ling Xiao had told him before. As for them, they were going to find sothing called the Eye of the Sun.
According to Ling Xiao, the Eye of the Sun would be the area richest in the elent of tal, so they were walking in the direction where there was more tal.
After they left, many others ca, as expected, all looking for the tal Swallowing Beast.
One person walked into the stone room You XiaoMo was digging up crystals in and saw the marks on the wall. He called out in surprise, “Look at this, everyone!”
The others outside imdiately ca inside after hearing this.
“It seems that the walls here have signs of being dug from by soone. Could it be the tal Swallowing Beast?” That person wondered aloud.
Another man walked over and frowned at the wall. “Why would the tal Swallowing Beast dig up the wall?”
That person said smugly, “You probably don’t know but the walls are filled with a type of tal. The hardness and quality of this tal is pretty good, so the tal Swallowing Beast definitely would enjoy it. It’s not impossible that it dug the walls up to eat.”
As soon as he finished, the others ran out.
That person was stunned for a mont before he paled and hurriedly pursued the others. How dumb of him. He shouldn’t have told anyone. If the marks on the wall really were left by the tal Swallowing Beast, that ant that it must still be nearby. Telling the others ant that he had given himself many competitors.
Thus, You XiaoMo evolved into the tal Swallowing Beast that everyone was fighting for.
Then, on You XiaoMo and Ling Xiao’s side, they followed the path with the richest elent of tal.
After checking repeatedly, Ling Xiao finally managed to figure out how this palace was designed. It was designed to be like the Taichi’s yin and yang eyes, with two elents, yin and yang.
t/n: yin: negative energy, yang: positive energy.
The yin referred to the place richest with the elent of earth. That was where the Eye of Golden Earth was.
The yang, on the other hand, was the area richest in Solar Power, and Solar Power was closely related with the elent of tal. So, the area richest in that elent was also called the Eye of the Sun.
Knowing that the palace was designed to be like a Taichi diagram made finding the Eye of Golden Earth much easier.
t/n: Taichi diagram: sen.wikipedia/wiki/Taijitu
However, the Underground Palace was too big. Though they knew that the Eye of the Sun was towards the south, it would be troubleso to find. What was even more troubleso was that the people who were looking for the tal Swallowing Beast were all going south.
The tal Swallowing Beast ate tal, so it would naturally flee towards more tal.
“Over there, I saw the tal Swallowing Beast go that way!”
It was then that a delighted voice called out. With this voice, there were more and more footsteps, but the sounds of footsteps quickly dispersed. Soon enough the tunnel was silent again.
After a few monts, a suspicious figure appeared in the tunnel. The person looked wretched, but his darkened eyes held a flash of clarity, laughing to himself creepily as he walked along.
“Idiots. I would never tell you that the tal Swallowing Beast actually ran this way. Now, there’s no one to compete with for the tal Swallowing Beast.”
After that, he quietly crept along the tunnel towards a room. The room looked like a waiting room and it was made entirely out of tal.
Just as he was about to reach the doorway, a blue figure suddenly darted out from inside and in front of him before rapidly fleeing in the other direction.
The wretched man wasn’t surprised but delighted and pursued without hesitation. He was a Three Star Emperor powerhouse and a speed oriented one. He had trained in many speed techniques, so he was very confident about his speed.
As expected, though the tal Swallowing Beast was fast, it was still being closed in on.
Anxiety flashed through the tal Swallowing Beast’s blue eyes, but then they lit up. He suddenly swerved and went in a different direction rich in the elent of tal.
The wretched man, seeing the tal Swallowing Beast choosing his path recklessly and heading towards a wide, open area, laughed frighteningly. “You can’t run. Just behave yourself and be mine.”
For speed-oriented practitioners, wide open spaces were the best place for them.
After a while, the tal Swallowing Beast threw itself head first into a mountain of tal.
The tal mountain was around forty to fifty ters tall, stretching hundreds of ters lengthwise with plenty of mined minerals on top. Most were black, red or gold, like the type of rock that You Ming and You Qingshan had discovered the tal Swallowing Beast in. However, the rock back then was tens of tis larger than the ones here, and the rocks here also had less tal elent.
Seeing the direction the tal Swallowing Beast ran in, the wretched man wanted to laugh about his luck. The tal Swallowing Beast had jumped into a cavern. So long as he pursued, he would eventually trap the tal Swallowing Beast inside and then it’ll be easy for him to get it.
To make sure nothing would go wrong, the wretched man imdiately gave chase.
The walls and floors of the cavern were all made of black gold sand and stones. If it wasn’t for the weak light that these tals emitted, it would be pitch black.
However, no matter how dark it was, it wouldn’t hinder the man’s sight. In this mont, he didn’t dare let his guard down.
After chasing for around two hundred ters in, the wretched man could sll the vapor in the air and the tal elent that was getting richer and richer, richer than any other place he had been. His spirits rose, and he sped up.
In the distance, he could see the fleeing figure of the tal Swallowing Beast. After a few seconds, he turned a corner.
The wretched man charged forwards. When he also turned the corner, he coincidentally saw the figure of the tal Swallowing Beast, glowing with a weak blue light in the darkness, jump into the air and land in... a person’s arms?
The wretched man paused.
He checked over and over again before confirming to himself that this was indeed a person.
It was just that this person seed to have a layer of black dirt on him, head to toe. He wasn’t clean anywhere, except for his startlingly bright eyes. But there seed to be a shorter person next to him.
The wretched man wasn’t sure it was as he was thinking. Though these two didn’t seem very powerful, he still cautiously asked, “My friend, could you give the demon beast in your arms?”
The person was silent for a mont before asking with a tone filled with suspicion, “Yours?”
The wretched man’s eyes flashed. “That’s right, it’s mine!”
“Liar.” This ti he had a much faster response.
The wretched man’s face fell. “What do you an? Are you trying to steal my demon beast?”
The other suddenly hugged the tal Swallowing Beast in his arms tight and said in a highly brattish tone, “This demon beast is obviously mine, how is it suddenly yours?”
The wretched man was lost for words. He hadn’t thought that such a shaless person existed. He had chased this tal Swallowing Beast here, so he was the clearest on if the tal Swallowing Beast had an owner or not. This person actually dared to say the tal Swallowing Beast belonged to him. Shaless! He had already forgotten that he had done the exact sa thing just now.
The wretched man said harshly. “Brat, give the tal Swallowing Beast in your arms, or else don’t bla for what I’ll do next.” Since the other ignored the carrot in favor of the stick, then there was no reason for him to hold back either.
He would’ve never thought that not only did the other not seem scared, his eyes even lit up with sothing that seed to be delight.
He imdiately asked, “You an this is the tal Swallowing Beast?”
His voice was filled with delighted surprise, imdiately managing to deal a blow to the wretched man’s heart. It couldn’t be that this man didn’t know that the demon beast in his arms was the highly-sought after tal Swallowing Beast? Then wouldn’t that an he had revealed this amazing news to the other?
In that instant, the wretched man felt extrely regretful and decided to deal with this as quick as possible.
“If you won’t hand it over, then I’ll send you and your friend to death.”
With that, the wretched man lightly kicked off with his feet, his form darting towards them with startling speed.
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