Chapter 2806 — The Five Fierce Mountains
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The moment it spotted Wei Zhao, it hurtled straight at him, and his heart gave a violent start! This was a bat of mid Mystic-rank strength—but fortunately, the Heavenly Thunder Pig was a spirit beast at the peak of the late Mystic rank.
"Oink, oink!" The Heavenly Thunder Pig said something or other to the black bat.
"Wooo..." The black bat visibly faltered at the sight of the Heavenly Thunder Pig, plainly taken aback—unable to fathom why it would be keeping company with a human cultivator.
"Oink, oink!" The Heavenly Thunder Pig began negotiating with the black bat once more.
The two spirit beasts exchanged a few more words, and then the black bat turned and flew off. The Heavenly Thunder Pig, however, addressed Wei Zhao: "Oink, oink..."
Then it pointed downward, meaning for Wei Zhao to leave this place.
"What's going on?" Wei Zhao jumped down with the Heavenly Thunder Pig in his arms and returned to the ground.
The Heavenly Thunder Pig wrote in the dirt: "That black bat meant to attack you. I used my strength to command it away by force, but if we run into a higher-grade flying spirit beast, there will be nothing I can do. I fear that black bat has gone back to summon more of its kind, so we had best get out of here at once."
"That works." Wei Zhao nodded, and could not help a bitter smile. This place belonged to the world of spirit beasts—how utterly insignificant was a human cultivator here? He wondered how Zhao Qilei and the others were faring.
"Oink, oink..." The Heavenly Thunder Pig began writing on the ground again.
"Oh? You're saying there's good treasure over there?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. The Heavenly Thunder Pig had written a line in the dirt: There's treasure over there!
"Oink, oink!" The Heavenly Thunder Pig nodded.
Seeing what the Heavenly Thunder Pig had written, Wei Zhao hesitated. The purpose of his coming here was merely to gather spirit herbs in exchange for third-grade pills, and along the way to look after Zhao Qilei. But now the Heavenly Thunder Pig said there was treasure here. To be honest, reason told him not to go.
Yet having come all this way, Wei Zhao truly could not bring himself to leave without at least seeing what it was.
"That treasure—it would be very useful to me?" Wei Zhao asked after a moment's hesitation.
"Oink, oink!" The Heavenly Thunder Pig nodded.
"Then let's go take a look!" Wei Zhao gritted his teeth. "But if we come across any of the herbs required for the trial along the way, you help me find them too!"
"Oink, oink!" The Heavenly Thunder Pig nodded, indicating there was no problem.
And so the man and the pig set off in the direction the Heavenly Thunder Pig had indicated. In any case, Wei Zhao had no idea which way the safe location marked on the map lay for the moment—the terrain had not yet been confirmed—so he might as well go first to the place the Heavenly Thunder Pig had spoken of and have a look.
The Heavenly Thunder Pig had keen senses; whenever there were spirit beasts in the distance, it would always warn Wei Zhao. Wei Zhao was in no hurry—he would simply find the nearest safe spot and hide. The journey was nerve-racking but not truly dangerous. What vexed Wei Zhao, however, was that along the whole way he had not obtained a single spirit herb!
There were indeed spirit herbs, but they all grew by lakesides, marshes, and the like—places that were invariably the lairs of spirit beasts. Wei Zhao could not avoid them fast enough; how could he possibly go pick them himself? Having come to the trial grounds, Wei Zhao finally understood why the Xuan Dan Sect's trial offered such lavish rewards.
Even with the Heavenly Thunder Pig at his side, it was like this for him. Those without a Heavenly Thunder Pig would likely find every step here a struggle. No wonder only a handful survived; never mind those who actually obtained spirit herbs.