Chapter 2842 — The Thunder Pig's Intervention
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However, though the giant ape was not weak, its nature was not vicious. To its mind, Wei Zhao was a kind of spirit beast, so naturally it would not attack him. Puzzled as it was, it had still left—and the other human cultivators were far away, so there was no need for it to go out of its way to attack them either.
As for the black ferocious tiger that came afterward, savage as it was, its strength was only at the early Mystic Rank, while in its eyes Wei Zhao was a late Earth Rank spirit beast. Given the rank suppression among spirit beasts, no matter how savage its nature, it could only bully Yellow Rank spirit beasts. Whether or not Wei Zhao resembled a spirit beast, it dared not look at him for long and hurried away.
This was also why the Thunder Pig had not acted. It knew about the perfume sachet Tian Chan had given Wei Zhao, and being a spirit beast itself, it had personally felt the sachet's marvel—so it was not worried that Wei Zhao would be attacked by spirit beasts!
The saying "once, twice, but never a third time" proved remarkably accurate. Wei Zhao successfully evaded the first two spirit beasts, but before long, a Heaven Rank eight-legged lizard came crawling slowly past. This lizard possessed the strength of the mid Heaven Rank. Though it crawled very slowly, its power was not to be underestimated—at a glance, it was clearly not to be trifled with. Its two eyes blood-red, it stared at Wei Zhao, who was running about not far away!
"I hope Brother Leader can dodge this one too. But it should be fine, shouldn't it?" Zhao Qilei was not especially nervous this time.
"Indeed. Though Brother Lin is in a frenzied state, the spirit beasts all seem rather friendly toward him. There must be some secret to it..." Feng Shihua had noticed the pattern as well.
"That does seem to be the case..." Ge Xian nodded. "I've heard of a secret art that can disguise a human cultivator with the aura of a spirit beast. I don't know whether it's true, but from the look of things, Brother Lin may well have mastered it!"
Everyone had stopped panicking this time—but the Thunder Pig was scared half to death, its fur standing completely on end! Others might not know, but it did: Heaven Rank spirit beasts all had considerable intelligence, and Wei Zhao's sachet could still deceive spirit beasts below the Heaven Rank, but against those at Heaven Rank and above, it began to fail. And from the look in the Heaven Rank eight-legged lizard's eyes, one could tell it was rather annoyed with Wei Zhao and was preparing to go finish him off!
Yet even having noticed this problem, the Thunder Pig did not know what to do. Its strength was what it was—even if it went up, it could not stop the lizard, could not suppress the eight-legged lizard spirit beast at all. But even so, the Thunder Pig had no choice but to grit its teeth and go negotiate...
The eight-legged lizard spirit beast was slowly crawling toward Wei Zhao, preparing to finish off this human cultivator who kept flitting about before its eyes in provocation!
"Squeak, squeak... (Hello, my name is Thunder Pig. I am this human cultivator's contracted spirit beast...)" The Thunder Pig dashed over and spoke to the eight-legged lizard spirit beast.
"Whoo, whoo—(Little one, so you're the contracted spirit beast of that human cultivator who provoked me? You were forced into becoming his contracted spirit beast, weren't you? Rest assured, I'll help you kill him. From then on you'll be free—you can cultivate freely in the Five Evils Mountain Range!)" said the eight-legged lizard spirit beast.