Chapter 204 – Stone Gravel Beast
Translated by: Berrrybunzun
Edited by: TranslationNations, Leo and De Andre
Tang Tian opened his eyes, feeling that his body was full of energy. He had an awesome sleep. After consistently training for seven days straight, he would fall into a deep and beautiful sleep.
Physical power could be recovered by meditating, but the fatigue and tiredness in the mind and heart could not be removed. That is where sleep, which is extremely outstanding in removing that comes in. Also, after a long duration of high intensity training, where the meridians were being toughened up, it would leave behind some hidden injuries, thus sleep would enable True Power to heal those hidden injuries.
Even the strongest experts, after a period of time, needed to sleep.
Looking at the ceiling, Tang Tian’s thoughts started to drift.
It was a brand new day!
Shua, both of his shoulders lifted up, Tang Tian who was lying on the bed shouted: “Tang Tian, you can do it!”
After shouting, he nimbly got out of bed, after washing up, he headed towards the carriage head. Walking to it, he could see the handsome silver heavenly steed, this heavenly steed was not real ,and was created by using the True Power from Star Rocks.
The silver Heavenly Steed pulled the silver carriage, going through the clouds at a very fast speed.
Tang Tian looked at the scenery below him flying past very quickly, the carriage had a layer of True Power, preventing wind from blowing in. Yet another pile of cotton clouds flew past, it was extremely interesting. Tang Tian was puzzled, after sitting for so many days, did he only find out how interesting the feeling of riding was.
The Silver Heavenly Steed carriage, compared to all the other carriages he had sat on before, was much more high class. Whether it was comparing altitude or speed, it was much more outstanding.
“Master! “ The coachman noticed Tang Tian, and immediately bowed.
Tang Tian snickered: “This carriage is good right.”
“Extremely great!” The coachman could not resist to praise: “As expected of the Silver Heavenly Steed, it is my first time riding such a high class carriage, and it feels too great!”
“Hahahaha!” Tang Tian was extremely happy, and bent his waist while laughing.
“But Master.” The coachman said. “We need to find a place to stop for a while to restock our water and food, the ones we are carrying on the carriage are depleting and are not sufficient.”
“Are there any cities nearby?” Tang Tian asked.
“There aren’t.” The coachman was experienced, and immediately gave another suggestion: “But to replenish food and water, we can just find a sword village.”
“Sword Village?” It was the first time Tang Tian heard of that noun.
“En.” The coachman said: “Corvus Constellation is very desolate, and also very barren. This place practically doesn’t have any produce, also the water and food is very little, so there are very little cities, the most are the villages. Corvus Constellations villages are mostly sword villages. Who knows why Corvus Constellation is not suitable to cultivate produce.”
“Then where do they get their food from?” Tang Tian was unsure.
“Most of it is bought from caravans from outside.” The coachman explained.” They need to use Corvus gold to exchange for food.”
“Corvus gold? What is that?” Tang TIan was even more curious.
“Corvus Constellation has a very peculiar star spirit beast, all the locals call it the Stone Gravel Beast. Stone Gravel Beast loves to swallow all types of sand and stone, and their insides would always leave a huge amount of metal lumps, and only Corvus Constellation has these metal lumps, so everyone calls it Corvus Gold. All the traders from outside, love to collect Corvus Gold, so everyone uses it to exchange for food.”
“Such a weird place.” Tang Tian was surprised, suddenly he noticed that there was movements below: “Hey, what is that?”
Below was a village, and was currently facing an intense battle.”
“Not good!” the coachman’s face changed: “Those are Stone Gravel Beasts! They are surrounding the village! God, how are there so many of them? Unless there is a Stone Gravel Beast King?”
“Are those Stone Gravel Beasts?” Tang Tian’s eyes widened, as he curiously sized them up.
The Stone Gravel Beasts had a huge stature, with a head and four limbs, roughly four to five meters tall, some were even tall enough to hit seven metres. Their bodies were completely formed by a mixture of gravel and stone, their appearance was ugly. Although they were not nimble, but their movements were not slow either, and they released powerful amounts of strength. Their fists were an entire piece of huge rock, one punch could certainly shake mountains and cause the earth to splash.
All the villagers below, were retreating step by step.
“The Stone Gravel Beasts are all quite stupid, and will definitely not form up to attack this way, there must be a Stone Gravel Beast King!” The coachman’s face was one of panic and fear.
Tang Tian felt that the coachman was right, the Stone Gravel Beasts were pouring in like a waterfall, numbered close to a thousand. The defense of the village was already heavily damaged, and the imminent crisis was falling upon them.
Such a large scale attack, there is probably a king beast that was leading the charge.
But Tang Tian’s gaze kept on sweeping about on the Stone Gravel Beasts, but did not find any trace of the king beast. And the villagers below were not going to make it anymore, there were faint indicators of collapsing.
“Little Xu Xu! Come out!”
Tang Tian shouted, stepping onto the protective fence, his peacock feathers opening up. He was very excited, after grinding for so many days, the dull and tedious taste made him want to puke.
Looking at the exciting battlefield below, Tang Tian could feel his blood meridians boiling, his fighting intent surging.
Stepping on the protective fence, Tang Tian stretched out his arms, and leaped outwards.
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Xie Qing stabbed his sword into the stone gravel beast in front of him, True Power bubbling out, Peng, the stone gravel beast’s body had another huge deep hole.
The Stone Gravel Beast’s body became sluggish, the light in its eyes dimming, turning into a pile of sand and stone.
Xie Qing could not bother wiping of his sweat, he noticed his little sister in danger, he stepped forward with True Qi bursting out, his body was like lightning, in a flash appearing on the Stone Gravel Beast, the long sword in his hand stabbing into the body.
The sword tip touched onto a hard and solid texture, a strict look appeared in Xie Qing’s eyes, his True Power bursting forth.
Bang!
A deep and crude hole appeared on the Stone Gravel Beast, and it instantly turned into sand and stones.
“Brother!” Xie Wan was out of breath, perspiration dripping down, the hand holding onto the sword was shivering. Her face was quite pale.
“Go to the back!” Xie Qing instructed her, his little sister was still a girl, her body was weaker, and in this kind of battle, to persevere until now is totally risking her life.
Seeing smoke coming out from the village, Xie Qing’s eyes flashed pain. He had forgotten how many Stone Gravel Beasts he had killed, but all the Stone Gravel Beasts in front of him, were still packed and numerous in number, like a tide with no end.
Is it the end of our Sword Village today?
Suddenly, Xie Qing quivered, one of the beast had entered his vision, the arm which was as thick as a water bucket, suddenly smashed towards Xie Wan!
Damn it!
Xie Qing’s eyes immediately became bloodshot, without thinking, he and his sword flew, a red ray of light flashing through!
The Stone Gravel Beast stood frozen in it’s spot, a big hole appearing in its chest.
Xie Qing was out of breath, his True Power was almost fully exhausted, and the village did not seem to be able to hold up anymore. He clenched his teeth, turned and told Xie Wan: “Tell Second Uncle, to tell the whole village to fall back to the mountains….”
Xie Qing stopped talking, his eyes widening.
That was…
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Tang Tian was like a meteor flying down, the strong winds blowing onto his face were like knives, and the scenery below him enlarging very quickly due to his velocity, his fighting intent was increasing.
Seeing that he was reaching the ground, he bellowed: “Peacock!”
The peacock wings behind his back opened up, Tang Tian’s speed instantly turned sluggish, he could only feel a very strong force on his back, his body stopped in midair.
Borrowing the power from the wings, Tang Tian’s legs stomped onto the ground heavily.
Bang!
The astonishing Qi resonated outwards, the floor around his legs, formed cracks that etched out like spiderwebs.
He instantly jumped into the mess of Stone Gravel Beasts, instantly being surrounded. The surrounding Stone Gravel Beasts all roared in rage, waving their big stone heads, they rushed towards Tang Tian.
Tang Tian did not want to be outdone, and roared out loudly as well, taking the initiative to attack.
Zi la la!
Dazzling sparks blossomed in the air, Tang Tian’s five fingers were like hooks, in a flash penetrating into the Stone Gravel Beasts body!
Dong!
The exploding sound was like a soft thunder, coming out from the Stone Gravel Beast’s stomach. The Stone Gravel Beast’s body suddenly exploded, and all the stone and sand was like rain falling down.
Xie Qing and Xie Wan stared blankly at that scene, they momentarily forgot that they were still in the battlefield!
To kill a Stone Gravel Beast in one strike was not impressive, Xie Qing could do it too.
But to do that, to directly cause the Stone Gravel Beast to explode, Xie Qing speculated that he was absolutely unable to do that!
They were fighting the stone gravel beasts everyday, so they knew the characteristics of these beasts from head to toe. They were not hard to kill, as long as the spirit nucleus in their body was destroyed, they would die and transform into sand and stone. But their bodies, were much tougher than what people thought. All the sand and stone forming together, gelled together by a type of bizarre sticky liquid, to explode their entire body was extremely difficult.
Tang Tian’s Fire Scythe Ghost Claw, although it had not reached the grandmaster grade yet, but it was rather mature already.
Another Stone Gravel Beast raised its right shoulder, its stone fist smashing down towards Tang Tian.
Tang Tian did not have any intention to dodge, without retreating, he brazenly entered the beast’s bosom.
Boom!
The stone fist crashed into the sand behind Tang Tian, Tang Tian’s five fingers brought along dazzling sparks, fiercely piercing into the Stone Gravel Beast’s chest.
Bang!
The Stone Gravel Beast in front of him suddenly exploded!
FIre Scythe Ghost Claw was originally a firm and fierce known claw technique, and Tang Tian’s current Fire Scythe Ghost Claw, had not reached that state yet. Every claw of his would unnaturally use all his strength. This meant that his control over the strength of using it, was still far off.
But this fault, to be used here, was perfect.
Tang Tian was like a fierce tiger killing its way in a herd of sheep, his figure was faintly discernible in the brilliant and dazzling sparks, every claw was like a terrifying heavy hammer!
There was not one Stone Gravel Beast that could block his attacks!
Just then a low thunderous sound was heard, the stone gravel and the sparks were mixed up in the rain, Tang Tian suddenly went forward, sweeping everything before him, his power was like a devastation on rotten and dried up twigs.
Dang!
Tang TIan’s Fire Scythe Ghost Claw, was blocked by a Stone Gravel Beast.
The sparks flew everywhere, and Tang Tian and that gravel spirit beast both retreated simultaneously.
This Stone Gravel Beast in front of Tang Tian was different from all the rest, it’s figure was roughly the same as a normal human, its eyes were two brown sparkling and translucent rocks, its body had a mixture of sparkly metal pieces of gravel inside. Its figure was not obese at all, but possessed some sort of inconceivable sense of beauty.
When Xie Qing saw that stone gravel beast, he shouted out in surprise: “Stone Gravel Beast King!”
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