Chapter 4859 — Endless Benefits
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
"Looking back over the whole history of flying spirit beasts, only the Ghost-Eyed Eagle King was truly their royal line. But when the King of Spirit Beasts first appeared on the scene, the Ghost-Eyed Eagle Kings did not choose to submit right away, and so they were all but wiped out. They were never fully exterminated in the end, but every Ghost-Eyed Eagle King of any real strength was killed or wounded, leaving only the old, the weak, the sick, and the crippled," Ghost Thing said with a sigh in his voice.
"And now?" Wei Zhao could not help asking.
"Now? The Ghost-Eyed Eagle King clan has declined completely. Search the whole spirit beast race and you would be hard pressed to find even a few with pure bloodlines. The Ghost-Eyed Eagle Kings you can see today are mostly crosses between those old, weak remnants and Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagles. Their strength is nothing like the Ghost-Eyed Eagle Kings of old who could dominate a whole region," Ghost Thing said with a curl of his lip.
"If that is so, doesn't the value of these Ghost-Eyed Eagle King wings drop by a huge margin too?" Wei Zhao could not help feeling it was a pity.
"Obviously. A pure-blooded adult Ghost-Eyed Eagle King would be at least at the Land-Opening stage, maybe even stronger—strong enough to contend for one of the four Great Elders' seats. You think just anyone could get their hands on its wings?" Ghost Thing was instantly amused by Wei Zhao's wild fantasy.
"That strong?" Wei Zhao was startled. If they were truly existences of that caliber, then forget three hundred thousand spirit jade—even thirty million might not buy a single pair of these wings.
"These impure-blooded ones today are far inferior, of course. But even so, they are still one of the few royal clans among the spirit beasts—royal at least in the past—and they are extremely rare. To let you pick up a bargain like this at an auction—your luck, kid, is beyond words," Ghost Thing could not help marveling.
"That's because nobody here knows what it's worth. Senior, hurry up and tell me—what exactly are these wings good for?" Wei Zhao asked, unable to wait any longer. That whole introduction had thoroughly roused his curiosity. Since the Ghost-Eyed Eagle King had such a formidable pedigree, then what these wings could do was surely worth looking forward to.
"By the rules of the spirit beast race, I actually am not supposed to tell a human this," Ghost Thing said after a pause.
"Why not?" Wei Zhao was taken aback.
"The reason is simple. The royal clans of the spirit beast race can be counted on one hand—only a few of them. They are not like the King of Spirit Beasts, who commands all spirit beasts, but each of them rules its own domain. In your human terms, they are kings of other surnames. Out of a duty to protect them, any information that might harm them is top secret. Especially information like this, which concerns their very survival—if word got out, human cultivators would probably start hunting Ghost-Eyed Eagle Kings en masse," Ghost Thing said gravely.
"That makes sense." Wei Zhao agreed wholeheartedly. Right now no one knew what the Ghost-Eyed Eagle King wings were good for; everyone assumed they were only ornaments and could not be bothered to hunt them specifically, killing a few by chance at most. But once people learned these things were highly useful, the situation would be entirely different.
Never mind that the Ghost-Eyed Eagle King clan had long since declined—even in their prime, against endless waves of human experts they could only await their deaths. Unless they fled to the great stronghold in the Southern Continent and never came out, they would be exterminated in the blink of an eye.