Chapter 4893 — Spirit Medicine Turned to Cabbages
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"A Lightning Eagle!" Gui Dongxi's tone carried a note of wistful emotion. "The breed is extremely rare; they are no longer to be found even at the main camp on the Southern Isle. I never thought we would run into one in a place like this—though small wonder. They live in company with thunder and lightning, and one would be hard pressed to find a better roost anywhere under heaven than this Thunder Plain Isle."
"It's frighteningly strong. That one bolt was a match for a minor tribulation. If we hadn't been warned just now, it would have ended badly," Wei Zhao said, still shaken.
"In the old days a Lightning Eagle could be spoken of in the same breath as the Ghost-Eyed Eagle King, the royal blood of the eagle clan," Gui Dongxi said expansively. "It is only because their numbers are so few that they never prevailed over the Ghost-Eyed Eagle King. They are past masters at trifling with thunder and lightning. That one just now was likely near full maturity—its strength at minimum at the great perfection of the Xuan Sheng stage, if not the Kaishan stage. And especially in a place thick with thunderclouds like this, it can casually fight far above its own level."
"No wonder it was so savage. But why did it strike me once and then just fly off? Are all Lightning Eagles so easy to reason with?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled.
"Easy to reason with? They are notorious as the fiercest of eagles! A single Lightning Eagle will dare to challenge four or five Ghost-Eyed Eagle Kings at once. Do you really think they are the sort to be reasoned with?" Gui Dongxi could not help but laugh.
"Then why did it suddenly let us off?" Wei Zhao was all the more puzzled.
He did not for a moment believe he had overawed the Lightning Eagle. Though he had never met one at close quarters, he could sense that he was no match for this bird—at best he could use his immunity to lightning to tangle with it a while. As for Wang Xinyan and the others, they could not withstand even a casual blow from the creature.
"I'd guess it took you for one of its own kind, lad, and that's why it didn't press the attack," Gui Dongxi said with a laugh.
"One of its own kind?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. His first thought was that it was absurd, but then the sense of it caught up with him. Spirit beasts that reached the Lightning Eagle's level could naturally take human form, and besides, a creature that could take a bolt like that without a scratch was likely to be found only among the Lightning Eagle clan.
After the Lightning Eagle episode, Wei Zhao led the others onward. This time their faces were noticeably grimmer, and every step was taken with wary care.
Earlier, their new status as early-stage Xuan Sheng experts had made them a touch overconfident. But now that they had witnessed the Lightning Eagle's power, they understood at last that the road of the giants here was truly riddled with peril. The strength of a mere early-stage Xuan Sheng was no guarantee of anything; one slip, and death could come calling in an instant.
Yet before long their faces were filled with amazement once more—not because some fresh and dangerous spirit beast had appeared, but because the scene before their eyes was so utterly dreamlike. The ground was covered in heavenly treasures and earthly materials!
Wei Zhao, Wang Xinyan, Huang Xiaotao, and Lu Xiaozhong had all seen something of the world, and all of them had encountered no small number of rare treasures. Yet none of them had ever seen a sight like this: heavenly treasures and earthly materials scattered everywhere like wild grass, a whole heap of them crushed underfoot with every couple of steps.
"By all the immortals' holy breeches! Since when did spirit medicine become cabbages by the roadside?" Lu Xiaozhong's eyes were round as saucers.