Chapter 4591 — Half a Master
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Ha, that's impossible. If this senior sea beast really had a complete primal spirit, why would it pass it on to me for no reason? I'm not a sea beast, and I'm not its disciple. For all I know, its first instinct would have been to seize my body and be reborn..." Wei Zhao only laughed aloud, feeling no regret at all. There had never been any "if" in this world, and he was not in the habit of indulging in idle fancy.
"That's true enough." Ghost Thing smiled faintly. Thinking of itself was enough to understand: even without any thought of seizing a body and being reborn, no one would ever seek their own death by passing everything on to a human they had never met. A wretched life beat a good death; lingering on in a broken primal spirit was still better than dying.
Even as Wei Zhao and Ghost Thing were speaking, the vast corpse right before him, close enough to touch, suddenly collapsed with a thunderous roar for no discernible reason. The colossal thing, once as grand as a hill, crumbled to pieces in but a moment, turning into a great heap of powder that swiftly dispersed with the ocean currents.
It happened without the slightest warning. Staring at the empty stretch of ground before him, Wei Zhao was struck dumb, unable to string together a whole sentence for a long while.
"This... what in the world is going on?" It was a good while before Wei Zhao finally got a sentence out, and he nearly bit off his own tongue.
"Just what it looks like—the corpse fell apart," Ghost Thing said, evidently unsurprised.
"Uh, but isn't that a bit too fast? It was perfectly fine just before—how does it just fall apart at the drop of a hat?" Wei Zhao said, gaping. He had even tried prying off a scale earlier; though the attempt had been cut short by the sudden influx of the memory fragment, the corpse had been exceedingly solid—of that there could be no doubt.
"Its obsession hadn't dispersed before, so it could still hold the corpse together. But now that the obsession—that umbrella of protection—is gone, this corpse is like an unearthed artifact suddenly exposed to the light of day. Isn't that a common sight in your mortal world? Think about how many years this corpse has lain here—even if not a thousand, by the look of it, several hundred at least. Without the obsession clinging to it, it would long since have been bones and nothing more; seawater is far more corrosive than dry land," Ghost Thing explained.
"All right, so that's what it was. I thought I'd accidentally triggered some taboo!" Wei Zhao let out a breath of lingering fear, then his face fell with regret. He had been meaning to get some treasures off this corpse—with the giant electric eel's terrifying power, anything plucked from it would surely be a peerless treasure unmatched in the world. But now that chance was gone.
"Heh heh, stop dwelling on this and that. I'd advise you to get up there quickly, brat—linger here a moment longer and we'll likely be keeping this thing company," Ghost Thing suddenly warned with a strange chuckle.
Wei Zhao's heart tightened at once, and only then did he realize this was no place to stay. Earlier, the giant electric eel's oppressive aura had kept every other sea beast from daring to come near, but now that the obsession was gone, that umbrella of protection had been taken away with it—this place would soon turn into a land of lurking peril. (To be continued..)