Chapter 15 Stone Ball

"Lord Snake, this thing was making noises just now!"

Hu San was astonished, his eyes wide. He had carried the round stone ball all this way and hadn't heard a thing, but here with Lord Snake, it was emitting a peculiar sound.

Zhang Ji narrowed his eyes. His senses were sharp, and he had naturally heard it clearly. After being stained with his blood, the round stone ball did indeed emit a sound.

"It's alive!" Zhang Ji said in a deep voice. "Are there many of these things in the secret realm?"

Hu San hurriedly shook his head. "Only this one. Your subordinate found it in the deepest part of the inheritance temple in the Dog Phase Secret Realm. Many people were chasing after it at the time."

"But in the end, your subordinate managed to snatch it!"

He grinned, a look of smugness on his face.

Huang An, his trusted aide, quickly chimed in obsequiously, "Yes, the leader was very brave at the time. He single-handedly bit to death a dozen ferocious dogs from another realm and snatched this stone ball from their mouths, all to offer it to Lord Snake."

Zhang Ji smiled slightly. "Little San, you've worked hard. I haven't spoiled you for nothing!"

Hu San immediately wore a look of flattered joy and said loudly, "Serving Lord Snake is your subordinate's honor!"

Just then, Liu Youshan arrived through the fog, overhearing this last sentence. His tone was somewhat sour as he said, "Leader Hu, shouldn't you be smiling like that?!

"Before we left, Lord Snake made it very clear that he wanted the inheritance light orbs from the secret realm. What do you mean by bringing back a stone ball?"

Zhang Ji also looked at Hu San.

Indeed, compared to this round stone ball of unknown origin, what he needed more were evolution points, because evolution points were what could truly and tangibly increase his strength.

Hu San saw the look in Zhang Ji's eyes and said in a panic, "Lord Snake, please forgive me! Your subordinate searched the entire secret realm but couldn't find any inheritance light orbs. There weren't any in the inheritance temple either, only this stone ball that could fly and run."

"So, your subordinate brought it back."

Zhang Ji nodded, knowing that Hu San was telling the truth, because the latter was a demonic seed that he had personally transformed. He would naturally know if he was lying.

He looked at the round stone ball in his claw. It was perfectly round and regular, with mysterious patterns covering the gray-black stone skin like blood vessels. The overall texture felt very unique, both cool and resilient.

At the moment, it had become much quieter, rolling around in Zhang Ji's claw.

A bit naughty.

"Pa~"

Zhang Ji dropped it on the ground, but it bounced back up like a rubber ball and landed back in Zhang Ji's claw, then "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" rolled along Zhang Ji's scales.

Zhang Ji grabbed it and hurled it towards a half-collapsed building in the distance. The extremely strong force created a whirring sound in the air.

In the distance, there was a "boom" as the building was smashed straight through, with steel and concrete exploding.

Then, it rotated in the air and "whoosh" flew back into Zhang Ji's hand, completely unscathed.

"This thing is quite useful. It can be used as a hidden weapon, and it even knows to come back on its own!"

Zhang Ji was surprised.

He tried sending it into the mouth of a mutated ferocious monster to chew on, but it still couldn't be bitten through.

It was really too hard.

Even with his terrifying bite force, which could crush the bones of a demon king, he was helpless. He didn't know what it was.

Zhang Ji's mutated ferocious monster mouth continued to chew on it, and the snake mouth opened to ask:

"The Dragon Phase Secret Realm, the Horse Phase Secret Realm, and the Pig Phase Secret Realm, were there any gains?"

As the words fell, figures swayed in the fog.

The gang members who had returned alive from the three branches had arrived.

The Dragon Branch, the Horse Branch, and the Pig Branch.

The Dragon Branch had basically returned at full strength. As Bei Liu had said, they possessed the bloodline of the dragon and were naturally powerful. After being transformed into demonic seeds by Zhang Ji's bloodline, they were even more extraordinary and terrifying. Each of them was filled with a sinister demonic aura and was full of ferocity.

After going to the secret realm, they had rampaged and were unmatched. They had obviously obtained many benefits, and their strength had greatly increased. Each of them had reached over eighty meters in height.

Especially the leader of the branch, Long Si Hai.

He had transformed into a dragon turtle. After being transformed by Zhang Ji, he was even more ferocious, with fangs bared. His body was a hundred meters tall, carrying a huge silver-white turtle shell like a silver mountain, emitting a metallic luster. It was stained with blood, the blood of his enemies.

Clearly, he had killed many in the secret realm.

Hearing Zhang Ji's question, he hurriedly stepped forward and respectfully saluted.

"Reporting to Lord Snake, there were no inheritance light orbs in the Dragon Phase Secret Realm. Your subordinates searched everywhere but couldn't find any."

Long Si Hai said loudly, then took out a pile of spiritual herbs and fruits from under his turtle shell. They were colorful and fragrant, all good things.

"Your subordinates only brought back some of these things for Lord Snake."

His expression was awkward, and he was somewhat ashamed.

Compared to the stone ball that Hu San of the Dog Branch had brought back, what he had brought back was very shabby.

Zhang Ji casually picked up a fruit and ate it, then looked at the Horse Branch and the Pig Branch.

Many people from the Pig Branch had also returned, but Zhu Da Gang, the leader of the Pig Branch, only offered Zhang Ji a five-colored fruit, which looked extraordinary. Zhang Ji ate it in one bite and only felt his flesh heat up slightly, with no other effect.

Zhang Ji didn't comment, and Liu Youshan hurriedly scolded in a low voice, "Branch Leader Zhu, what are you doing? You only brought back one fruit, not even enough for Lord Snake to satisfy his cravings? Your performance this time was terrible!"

Zhu Da Gang looked aggrieved.

It wasn't that he wasn't working hard, but the Pig Phase Secret Realm was too poor, and there were some monsters that were killing everywhere, moving quickly and strangely, drilling into the mouths of living creatures, then drilling out of their bellies, leaving behind desiccated corpses, which was extremely terrifying.

Fortunately, those monsters didn't attack them.

When the secret realm trial ended, he had personally seen several monsters drill into the bodies of other foreign powerhouses and follow them to other realms.

But he didn't dare say these words. If he did, he was afraid of being blamed by Lord Snake for shirking responsibility, so he simply lowered his head and admitted his mistake.

Zhang Ji slapped him away with a claw, telling him to go to the side and reflect.

Liu Youshan shouted, "Write a ten million-word self-criticism later!"

"Yes!"

Zhu Da Gang hurriedly replied, knowing that Liu Youshan was trying to excuse him. Otherwise, if Lord Snake got angry, the consequences would be more than just writing a self-criticism.

"Does the Horse Branch have any gains?" Zhang Ji asked the last branch, the Horse Branch.

Only three people from the Horse Branch had returned. The three looked at each other, all somewhat afraid of Zhang Ji's gaze. One of them mustered his courage and stepped forward, trembling, "Lord...Lord...Lord Snake! Our leader, Lu Wenquan, and the others are all dead. Only the three of us are left alive."

"We didn't find the inheritance light orb either."

His tone was frightened, and his body was shaking. He was shrouded by Zhang Ji's huge figure, and the fierce, bloody aura permeated the air, almost causing him to lose his balance.

But he was covered in blood, with sharp claws growing on his hooves. He was by no means a good person, but a ruthless character, otherwise he wouldn't have returned alive.

"But Lord Snake, the three of us have brought something delicious back for you!" he said with a terrified expression.

"Oh?! Something delicious?! Is it meat?" Zhang Ji's scarlet vertical pupils shone brightly.

The Horse Branch gang member nodded repeatedly, raised his horse's hoof, and pointed behind him. "Lord Snake, please look, it's that thing."

Zhang Ji looked over and only saw a dark mountain, a thousand meters tall, with rocks and weeds on it, and even a large pine tree that ten people could encircle.

"This is a mountain?" Zhang Ji frowned.

"This isn't a mountain, Lord Snake. This is a living thing. Look, it's meat, very fat meat!" The Horse Branch gang member said loudly, biting into the mountain, and sure enough, his mouth was full of blood.

"This guy looks like a mountain and doesn't seem to have any offensive power. It looks like a herbivore, but it's too big. We've seen it eating grass, but after eating, it just sleeps. No matter how we hit it, it doesn't wake up."

"The brothers thought there was nothing to bring back to Lord Snake. Thinking that you love to eat meat and drink blood, we brought it back for you. We hope you like it!"

Zhang Ji laughed loudly, staring at the mountain of meat with glowing eyes, and said with delight, "Like it, like it, like it very much!"

Such a large mountain of meat would definitely provide a lot of evolution points.

He dragged his huge snake body closer to the mountain of meat, lowered the front of his body, and stared closely.

But just as he leaned down.

"Whoosh~"

A bloody maw suddenly opened, swallowing all three of Zhang Ji's heads in one gulp!

Then, the soil and rocks on the thousand-meter-tall mountain of meat rustled and fell, and two blood-lake-sized scarlet eyes opened, emitting a fierce and sinister light, while letting out an excited laugh.......

"Hahaha, this old man has finally left the damned secret realm, and I have meat to eat as soon as I come out. How wonderful..."