studiobondurri Chapter 229: Capture beast
Chapter 229: Capture beast
Chapter 229: Capture beast
Inside the lair, the Vortex Beast had just devoured a Thousand Needle Fish and was contentedly closing its eyes to sleep when its nose twitched, catching a scent but not paying it much attention. Before long, however, the creature abruptly lifted its head and looked outside, its eyes revealing a wariness.
As time passed, its eyes slowly reddened, its expression growing agitated as if it wanted to burst out, yet it hesitated. ...The Sea Serpent, hiding in a nearby crevice, watched the Vortex Beast intently.
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Above the sea, Yuan Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
His biggest concern had been that the seawater would block the scent of the beast lure, which is why he went to great lengths to carry the lure’s mist in a black glove to the vicinity of the Vortex Beast’s lair before releasing it. Now it seemed he had worried unnecessarily; at most, the seawater only affected the spread of the scent, not its effectiveness.
Yuan Ming used a Soul Crow to control another hunted sea beast, lurking near the seabed lair with a second glove, releasing the white mist of the lure in the same manner. Gradually, the Vortex Beast’s eyes turned even redder, as if blood would drip from them, and its lower abdomen swelled with a bloody hue, its scales opening and closing. Moments later, unable to endure any longer, the Vortex Beast shot out of its lair.
Seeing this, Yuan Ming quickly took out an incense burner and lit the beast lure incense, releasing plumes of white mist.
He then took out a homemade poison incense, a Seven-Step Down Dizziness Incense, and inserted it into the burner to light it.
After doing all this, Yuan Ming affixed a blue talisman to his body, donned a Cloak of Invisibility, and submerged into the sea.
This blue talisman, called the "Water Avoidance Talisman," could isolate currents, allowing the caster to lurk underwater for a long time. With the Cloak of Invisibility on, even the magical fluctuations of the Water Avoidance Talisman were completely blocked.
Above the sea, only an incense burner floated quietly, the white mist of the lure rapidly spreading.
Amid the "Whooshing" sound of water, a lizard sea beast with red eyes swam over quickly. It was a first-grade lower-tier ferocious beast that suddenly leaped from the water, pouncing towards the incense burner.
However, just as the beast was about to reach it, the green incense burner "whooshed" up into the sky, hovering several yards away. The lizard sea beast swam anxiously below, unable to reach the incense burner as it could not fly.
The sound of water continued to echo as more sea beasts were attracted. Soon, over a dozen had gathered, all low-tier, with two reaching first-grade upper-tier.
Yuan Ming, hiding in the nearby sea, was secretly pleased with the effect of the lure incense from the burner. In the future, if he wanted to hunt ferocious beasts, there was no need to search hard; just light the incense, and they would come on their own.
At that moment, with a "Splash" on the water near the Coral Island, the Vortex Beast emerged, its eyes completely blood-red, drooling thick saliva, excitedly pouncing towards the floating incense burner.
The Vortex Beast’s shoulder burst open, its right arm flying off, and its huge body was sent flying. Yuan Ming was overjoyed and controlled the Cold Star Sword and the Nine Rings Golden Knife, which had been waiting behind, to strike with full force on the Vortex Beast’s back. Two half-foot-long wounds were slashed into the Vortex Beast’s back, but the flesh wounds were not deep.
Yuan Ming’s eyes darkened, knowing that his current cultivation was far too inferior to the Vortex Beast, and that any further attacks would be futile. He focused most of his energy on controlling the Thousand Knot Water Rope Array and the White Ape.
Thick water ropes shot out from the sea surface, once again entangling the Vortex Beast, firmly restraining it, while the White Ape turned into a white shadow, relentlessly pursuing.
The pain from the Vortex Beast’s severed limb was unbearable, suppressing the influence of the lure incense. The blood in its eyes dissipated significantly, and it seemed to regain its senses, with only its left arm emitting a bright blue light, waving in the void. Suddenly, several waves, each several yards high, rose from the nearby sea surface, like giant palms covering the sky, slapping towards the White Ape.
The White Ape’s arms blurred, striking out in a chain, shattering the incoming waves, but its figure was also blocked. The Vortex Beast growled lowly, its left arm suddenly bursting with blinding blue lightning, an aura of destruction erupting.
Yuan Ming, feeling the hairs on his skin stand from a distance, sounded the alarm in his heart and decisively abandoned his hiding spot, summoning a white jade shuttle to shoot up into the sky, taking the incense burner, the Cold Star Sword, and the Nine Rings Golden Knife with him.
With a "Sizzle," all the water ropes were easily cut.
The lightning blade then exploded, turning into dense blue lightning that engulfed the area for several yards around, each arc of electricity as powerful as a strike from a Lightning Talisman.
The sea surface boiled instantly, the water ropes of the Thousand Knot Water Rope Array were shattered, and the array laid on the seabed was damaged, unable to continue operating.
The White Ape was also affected by the blue lightning. The body of the Heavenly Serpent, wrapped in ape skin and belonging to the dead, was vulnerable to the power of lightning, which was its nemesis. Yuan Ming quickly controlled it to retreat. ...The Vortex Beast continued to exert its divine powers, its aura weakening considerably,
Turning into a black shadow, it dived towards the deep sea, as if drunk. Yuan Ming’s eyes lit up, knowing that the poison incense and the Seven-Step Down were finally taking effect. He quickly surfaced, waved his hand, and threw a round bronze ball, hitting the Vortex Beast in front, which was a Heart-Splitting Thunder.
A dazzling streak of light, the Heart-Splitting Thunder suddenly split open, a burst of brilliant silver-white lightning erupting, instantly forming a striking column of lightning, heavily striking the Vortex Beast’s chest. The Vortex Beast’s chest was split open with a huge wound, staggering backward.
The White Ape shot from the side, a fan-shaped golden sword light appearing out of thin air.
In a flash, it stood behind the Vortex Beast, holding a golden long sword, the very Golden Serpent Sword. A flash of golden light, and the Vortex Beast’s head tilted and fell, a fountain of blood spraying out, its large body swaying twice before collapsing into the water.
Yuan Ming relaxed, quickly waved his hand to collect the Vortex Beast’s corpse, even retrieving the severed limb, and took out the Thousand Knot Water Rope Array buried on the seabed. After the Soul Crow returned with the two gloves, he put away the Soul Crow, summoned the jade shuttle magical tool, and shot away into the distance.