Chapter 50 (1/2)

As if made of gold, the huge claws stuck out of the ground, shading the sky!

At that moment, even Lin Xun got so shocked that he felt cold all over his body. What on earth was that?

However, only in a moment, the golden claw and light disappeared. Everything recovered its previous state and even the earth didn’t shake any more.

It was so abrupt that Lin Xun could never expect it. How did the terrifying thing happen?

Lin Xun didn’t run his horse forward until he regained peace, and became more cautious than previously.

As expected, the Three Thousand Mountains were drastically risky. He had been caught up with such a horrifying situation, which was probably caused by a monster, when he was just less than five hundred kilometers away from Feiyun Village.

Having run another five kilometers, he saw the trail of a hill cracking, with many rocks weighing from tens of thousands of kilograms to hundreds of thousands of kilograms scattering among it.

The region was also extremely depressing and desolate with a scorched and lifeless surface of no grass, which formed a distinguished contrast with the forests far away which were flourishing with various plants.

Lin Xun remembered the huge golden claw was sticking out of the region but he couldn’t be certain of where on earth it came from.

After arriving here, the horse became unsettled again with its hooves shaking, seemingly paralyzed and was about to fall down.

A shock grew in Lin Xun’s heart, too. He dared not hang about and chose a roundabout to avoid this region carefully instead.

After running miles away, the shock in his heart finally died down. And the horse got its peace back as well.

“That was weird.” Pondering for a long while, Lin Xun still couldn’t figure out what happened. Shaking his head, he had to keep moving.

Until late in the afternoon, when the night was about to fall, there appeared a raging river with roaring waves, running among the mountains.

The waves were dyed jacinth like burning blood under the sunset, which was gorgeous.

Lin Xun got off from the horse and came to the riverbank. He found a safe place near a pile of rocks and intended to rest there for a night before restarting his journey tomorrow morning.

Having captured two fishes in the river, Lin Xun set up a campfire and began to prepare himself dinner, with his horse leaning lazily sideways and snoring comfortably.

The atmosphere was extraordinarily peaceful.

Meantime, a group of people were walking quickly five kilometers away. The head was a youngster wearing a gorgeous coat, with a pair of narrow eyes and an eagle-shaped nose, who projected a cold killing aura.

There were more than ten strong persons around him, each of whom seemed brilliant. Among them, there was an old man in gray in particular, whose eyes were sharp like purple lightening and whose breaths were deep like dark abyss, extremely terrifying.

However, his face was a little white. What’s more, there was a scaring wound on his shoulder, with skin cut open and flesh torn out, nearly showing a white bone .

Although the scar had already stopped bleeding, there were rain-like golden lights burning on it, making the scar unable to heal.

“Thanks to Master Xing Teng, we finally took away the invaluable treasure from the beast. After I return home, I’ll ask for rewards for your meritorious deeds from my father!”

The youngster in front suddenly burst into laughter, full of excitement and pride.

“My Childe, I’m really flattered.”

The old man in gray said with a forced smile. His face was white and the scar on his shoulder was burning in the golden fire. With his eyebrows locked, it was apparent that he was oppressing the pain.

“Master,  you sure you are okay？”

The youngster asked with concern.

“Although the power of ‘the Burning of the Mysterious Magpie’ is unbelievably diabolic, I would recover from it given some time. However, I couldn’t fly now, which delayed your trip.”

The old man apparently showed great respect to the youngster, with his words full of modesty.

“It doesn’t matter. Moreover, we might be found by the beast if we fly. The aftermath would be beyond imagination.”

The youngster suddenly recalled something at the time and couldn’t help laughing complacently, saying, “Master, do you think this is the ‘Peerless Treasure’ mentioned by the Flamen at the Observatory of the Forbidden City?”

Xing Teng thought for a while and answered, “My Childe, maybe you are right as far as I’m concerned, for the origin of the treasure is mysterious and it ought not belong to the beast.”

The youngster laughed, saying, “Nevertheless, this time the ‘Peerless Treasure’ has attracted lots of eminent people in the Forbidden City to the Three Thousand Mountains, which could be called as a gathering of the strongest and most powerful people, and caught the eyes of the whole world. However, the treasure was attained by us now and they were doomed to get nowhere!”

Xing Teng frowned and suggested, “My Childe, please pay attention to your words. We have to keep quite about this in case others will come to take it away from us.”

The youngster nodded his head, saying, “Yeah, yeah, you are right.”

In a while, a coldness flashed by in his eyes. Glancing at the group of the attendants, he said, “Did you hear what Master Xing Teng just said? From now on, nobody is allowed to speak about this and I will be relentless to whoever lets it out!”

The fellows hurried to reply “yes”.

It wasn’t long before a vast long river appeared in their vision.

“My Childe, it’s already dark. How about resting here and continuing our journey tomorrow?”

Xing Teng suddenly asked.

“Alright.”

Pondering for a while, the youngster approved. Equipped with a fighting power at the level of Spiritual Sea Realm, Xing Teng was the strongest among them. However, he suffered some injuries now and asked for a rest, the youngster surely couldn’t refuse it.