Chapter 34: Chapter 34: Dragon Elephant!
"This is the ancient artifact of Great Zhou, known as the Celestial Register. It’s your honor to die beneath it."
The wild wind stirred Wei Shuangnian’s long hair. His black hair fluttered wildly in the wind, and with sixteen ghostly figures slowly becoming solid in front of him, he truly resembled a demon.
"Just relying on these little ghosts?"
The appearance of the ghosts was inherently a source of spreading fear, and Xu Guang couldn’t help but feel a sense of unease. He suppressed the unfounded fear in his heart and continued to speak mockingly.
"Hmph!"
With a snort of anger, the sixteen ghostly figures moved instantly, resembling a procession of ghosts in the night.
In a flash, they appeared in front of Xu Guang.
Xu Guang stood in front of General Wei, biting his tongue, suddenly spitting out a mouthful of hot blood.
Sizzle! Sizzle!
Sounds akin to concentrated sulfuric acid splashing into water exploded, and the little ghosts screamed, quickly floating backward.
Wei Shuangnian naturally knew that the cultivation of these little ghosts could not possibly kill Xu Guang. He raised his palm, the bloody Celestial Register trembled slightly, and the sixteen ghosts seemed to find their home.
"Assist me!"
With a shout of fury, Wei Shuangnian absorbed the sixteen ghosts, and his body began to swell, distort, and change at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Muscles seemed to sprout terrifying tumors, his eyes turned blood red, blood threads squirming like little worms, his body shrouded in black mist, appearing inhuman!
Disgusting to the extreme, but the aura emitted from him was overwhelmingly powerful, bringing a despair-inducing fear.
"I will crush you and this beast to pieces!"
Wei Shuangnian raised his hands, clenched his fists, seemingly grasping the wind within his palm.
The giant trees budding around rustled in fear.
Bang!
General Wei made his move, his long trunk swinging a giant tree, crashing toward Wei Shuangnian.
But this time, Wei Shuangnian did not intend to evade at all, blocking it with his horizontal fists.
With a thunderous explosion, wood chips showered everywhere, and a terrifying figure wrapped in black mist burst out from the debris, gripping General Wei’s long trunk with brute force and pulling hard...
However, Wei Shuangnian ultimately overestimated his strength. General Wei, weighing over fifteen tons, even with higher transcendent power due to possession, couldn’t be dragged by Wei Shuangnian.
Xu Guang had never measured General Wei’s weight, but the average African elephant in his past life had a shoulder height of about 2.8 meters and weighed over ten tons.
General Wei’s shoulder height was already 3.6 meters, making his weight even more daunting!
Gripped by his most sensitive trunk, General Wei winced, his eyes instantly turning blood red.
Seeing General Wei like this, Xu Guang stepped forward with a thunderous step.
Wei Shuangnian was taken aback, this time, Xu Guang’s speed...
And his strength...
Eighth Grade Minor Cultivation?
Has White Crane Ladder Cloud Soaring also improved in tandem?
What just happened?
He was somewhat surprised, but even more, he was greedy!
If he killed Xu Guang, all the secrets would be his.
Boom!
A punch collided, Xu Guang and Wei Shuangnian’s fists wrapped with a soft sword clashed.
Xu Guang’s palm was instantly pierced, and he finally understood the terrifying power surging within Wei Shuangnian.
In the instant the fists met, it was as if Wei Shuangnian’s fist had simultaneously manifested sixteen tiny fists. Although not strong individually, only Ninth Grade, sixteen almost synchronized punches aren’t merely simple addition.
With the coordination of Wei Shuangnian’s Eighth Grade Great Cultivation power, his strength exceeded that of Xu Guang at this moment!
Blood splattered across the sky as Xu Guang’s body flew backward.
Fortunately, Xu Guang felt the aura on Wei Shuangnian start to recede.
This state couldn’t be sustained by Wei Shuangnian for long.
But on the other side, General Wei...
Upon seeing Xu Guang flying backward, General Wei seemed to recall the humiliation suffered at the hands of menacing bandits, the memory of its mother being violently attacked by the bandits, and it cowering behind her, shivering.
Its trunk raised, emitting an earth-shaking roar.
The muscles on its body rippled for a moment, with countless bumps like goosebumps appearing on its long trunk.
A resonant bellow sounded, vastly different from General Wei’s previous sound, carrying the heavy tone of a bull’s call.
Something Xu Guang hadn’t expected happened.
Wei Shuangnian’s aura began to recede even faster. In just a moment, more than half of the black mist surrounding him vanished.
"This is..."
Wei Shuangnian had no time to think further as another attack from General Wei hit him.
Boom!
This time, the long trunk seemed like a phantom, or like thunder in the sky, and in the blink of an eye, it fell upon Wei Shuangnian’s shoulder.
Crack~
His shoulder was forcibly sunken, as if it had been sliced away.
General Wei, in extreme anger, completely lost his usual gentle demeanor, and what emerged was the ferocity and ruthlessness of a lord from the Kunlun Wilderness Mountain Range!
Bam!
The trunk lashed down again, accompanied by General Wei’s furious roar to the extreme, as Wei Shuangnian’s body got impaled on the pure white ivory.
The soft sword in his hand was still dancing, and the Celestial Register in his palm continued to emit a blood-red glow, but his eyes were bulging, as if about to pop out!
In his final moments, as lucidity briefly returned before his death, he gazed at the Kunlun Beast before him, as if it had turned into a... dragon!
The black aura around him suddenly expanded, those little devils let out shrill cries. In the sunlight, as if losing their life-supporting shelter, they turned into black smoke and dissipated.
Xu Guang, incredibly delighted, held tight to his bleeding wound and rushed forward to check on General Wei’s condition,
not caring about what spoils might burst out from killing Wei Shuangnian, with only one thought in his mind.
General Wei has ascended!
Only upon approaching did he finally see General Wei’s transformation clearly.
On General Wei’s long trunk, those previously conspicuous goosebumps had now formed something akin to snake scales, only incredibly fine, imperceptible unless looked at carefully.
He lifted his intact left hand and peeled away the long hair on General Wei’s body.
Discovering that its once rough skin had also sprouted this fine scale-like covering similar to snake scales.
Is this... a mutation?
Xu Guang blinked, suddenly recalling the Dragon Blood Stone that General Wei had swallowed earlier.
Then he widened his eyes, could it be, truly dragon blood? The kind from a flying Divine Dragon?
Xu Guang overjoyed beyond words.
Now, should General Wei be called a Dragon Elephant?
Yet, General Wei seemed somewhat listless, lacking its past vigor, and after confirming Xu Guang’s life was not in danger, it turned and walked toward the nearby dense forest, swinging its long trunk to devour leaves furiously.
Like a child starved for three days.
It seemed quite pitiful.
Xu Guang couldn’t bear the sight, quickly turning to check Wei Shuangnian’s corpse.
[Martial Artist’s Log: Encircle, encircle, it’s all about participation, Martial Artist experience +40]
[Elephant Envoy’s Log: Under your leadership, the Giant Elephant General Wei’s bloodline underwent a metamorphosis during battle; you successfully comprehended the skill - Encourage, Elephant Envoy experience +150]
Not bad, two hundred experience points, more than his daily earnings.
Xu Guang joyfully glanced at the description of the skill [Encourage].
[Encourage lv0 (0/100): Prerequisite upgrade condition - Unity of Man and Elephant lv5 or above, through mental connection stimulation, the Giant Elephant under your encouragement will have increased combat strength, stamina consumption rises, combat skills, and skill comprehension probability enhance, in extreme combat situations, there’s a small chance of bloodline mutation]
This skill...
is very strong.
Xu Guang’s eyes lit up, but this skill seems to consume a lot of experience.
The Unity of Man and Elephant skill had only reached lv1 (38/200) through persistent communication with General Wei. Elevating it to lv5 would require quite an investment of experience.
Forget it, the current lv0 level of encouragement is enough; besides, it serves as a trump card skill in the bottom drawer.
Take it slow, a strange light flickered in Xu Guang’s eyes.
There wasn’t much on Wei Shuangnian’s body, just that seemingly extraordinary soft sword, and the Celestial Register in his palm, which, following Wei Shuangnian’s complete death, fell from his palm, transforming into something like soft jade.
This thing... can it be touched? Is it poisonous?
Xu Guang couldn’t help but think of his talent as a Pharmacist.
If it’s poisonous, just take a bite to find out.
Finally, Xu Guang wrapped it in cloth and carefully put it away, intending to study it thoroughly once back.
This item is definitely extraordinary. He now had reason to suspect that the reason Song Di troubled Wei Shuangnian was for this Celestial Register.
After a while, General Wei finally returned, regaining its usual liveliness and letting out a complaining roar at Xu Guang. It was crying from hunger.
Xu Guang looked at the now bare forest not far away, his mouth twitching.
You do have quite the appetite, who can eat more than you?
Taking out a porcelain bottle from his gear, he poured out seven or eight Ginseng Pills, popping one into his mouth to replenish the qi and blood deficit from breaking through to Eighth Grade Minor Cultivation. The rest were all sucked up by General Wei’s trunk.
Joking aside, Xu Guang knew that besides his Golden Finger, General Wei was the greatest help to him currently, and he had never been stingy towards General Wei.
Once he felt his agitated qi and blood subside and fully adapted to the enhancement from Eighth Grade Minor Cultivation, he headed towards Jingming Temple with General Wei.
’The lesson everyone learns from history is that no one learns from history.’
This Wei Shuangnian returned, carrying so little. Perhaps he stashed a pile of treasures somewhere in Jingming Temple.
"General Wei, when we go back, I’ll make sure you have your fill!"