Chapter 4904 — The City of Thunder Burials
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"All right. Remember—be careful, careful, and more careful still! The moment you spot danger, come straight back!" Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao cautioned him yet again, still uneasy.
"I know!" It was nagging to hear, but it warmed Wei Zhao's heart all the same. This was treatment reserved for him alone; with anyone else, they would never have troubled themselves to repeat such endless warnings.
Wei Zhao was just about to leap down into the basin when, before he could even stir, the voice of the Ghost Thing suddenly sounded in his mind: "Wait!"
"What is it?" Wei Zhao was startled. If even the Ghost Thing meant to stop him, then he really would have to weigh carefully whether to go at all.
Wang Xinyan and the others still did not know about the composite eight-spirit root within his body, but the Ghost Thing knew all of it perfectly well—and with his breadth of knowledge, he could judge with utter clarity whether Wei Zhao could withstand such danger. If he said it was impossible, then it was essentially truly impossible; going would be nothing but seeking death.
"This place... seems to be the legendary City of Thunder Burials!" the Ghost Thing said after a moment of musing.
"What do you mean?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. Ni Caiyue had only said there was a thunder burial here—but what in the world was a City of Thunder Burials?
"Mm, this should be the City of Thunder Burials, no mistake!" The Ghost Thing observed carefully for a while longer before reaching his final conclusion, then explained: "This is a hidden legend of the spirit beast clan—you humans rarely know of it. If I'm not mistaken, this place is the final resting ground of those powerful thunder-attribute spirit beasts!"
"Final resting ground?" Wei Zhao was stunned for a moment before it sank in: "You mean... this is a graveyard for thunder-attribute spirit beasts?"
"Exactly! Did you know that among the branches of our dragon clan, there is also a Thunder Dragon lineage?" said the Ghost Thing.
"Thunder Dragon lineage? Never heard of it." Wei Zhao shook his head. By now, apart from the Ghost Thing, this Azure Dragon, he had seen no small number of dragon kinds—from the Dragon of the Five Baleful Spirits he had encountered back in the mundane world, to the Five-Venom Flood Dragon of the Five-Venom Swamp, and later the Sea Dragon counted among the sea beasts. But a Thunder Dragon—that he had never heard of.
"Heh heh, the Thunder Dragon's bloodline isn't pure to begin with. It's actually the descendant of a Lightning Eagle and our dragon clan—but it's been entered into our clan's genealogy all the same, so I know a thing or two about it. Give me a moment, let me think it over carefully," the Ghost Thing said with a laugh.
"All right." Wei Zhao nodded, inwardly somewhat amused. The saying that dragon nature is lustful was truly no exaggeration—it seemed they could get together with any creature at all. Most absurd of all, they could even overcome a natural barrier like reproductive isolation, and had stubbornly produced a whole pile of assorted hybrid offspring under every name imaginable.
Legend had it that the flood dragon was a hybrid of dragon and snake, the sea dragon a hybrid of dragon and sea beast, and this Thunder Dragon a hybrid of dragon and Lightning Eagle. As for the Dragon of the Five Baleful Spirits—that half-dinosaur—Wei Zhao dared not imagine what mischief the dragon clan had wrought there. The sheer breadth of their romantic conquests was truly breathtaking.
Seeing Wei Zhao suddenly fall still and silent, Wang Xinyan and the others found it rather odd. They exchanged glances, assuming he was studying the situation in the basin below, and so did not disturb him, only waiting quietly at his side.
"Hm? Found it!" the Ghost Thing suddenly said with delight. At his level, "thinking it over carefully" was nothing like the ordinary act of recollection—he simply went straight into his own memory fragments and rummaged through them!