Combat Emperor: Zhang Yu's Journey
Chapters... 24: Strange Metal Tube
"Yu'er, you stay away first. Recover your power." Zhang Long exclaimed from his place.
Zhang Yu had no other choice because if forced it would only be troublesome. He took a distance of dozens of feet, watching the fight still continue.
"really annoying! Am I just going to stay here as a spectator?!" Zhang Yu was annoyed at not being able to contribute more.
Although what he has done is much more meaningful, but like there is less when it cannot go down to fight.
Uh...
"What is it ...." The glint of light blinded the eyes. Zhang Yu rubbed his eyes with his palms then looked back in the same direction.
A metal. Not knowing the origin of the metal was there, if not mistaken it was the gathering point of the spiritual beast herd before realizing their existence and attacking.
It's suspicious!
Zhang Yu raised his foot moving to the tube-shaped metal spot. As it got closer, it could be seen a round slab like a plate being below. The metal tube stood on it and it seemed like these two objects were a single entity.
Out of curiosity Zhang Yu tried to pick it up, but the two-toed tube let out a bolt of lightning as the hand tried to touch its surface.
Akh...
Zhang Yu let out a voice in surprise. He immediately smothered his own mouth then stared at the flock of spiritual beasts that were busy facing the Zhang Clan group.
"Bad! Does this thing have consciousness?!" Zhang Yu tried to touch her again. Surprisingly for the second experiment this strange metal tube did not emit a lightning current like before.
"Eh .. Is it tame?" Zhang Yu picked up the strange object and watched it more closely. Other than letting out lightning currents there seemed to be nothing special anymore.
Zhang Yu tried to check by channeling Qi. But unexpectedly the strange metal tube was instead sucking out his Qi.
"Damn!" Zhang Yu retracted his Qi. Thinking it would solve the problem, but the more it tried to pull back, the metal tube instead sucked the faster.
"What the fuck is this!"
Spontaneously Zhang Yu swung his hand throwing a metal tube at a stone.
Prangs...
Metal tube directly separated with its slab. A moment later the metal tube split into two and took out hundreds of translucent tentacles.
Who would have thought that tentacle was moving towards the herd of spiritual beasts. Each tentacle was eyeing one spiritual beast, even one that was already a corpse.
The fight stopped because of this incident. Everyone's gazes were fixed on Zhang Yu who was standing a few steps away from the metal tube.
"What's going on? Their strength is weakening!" Zhang Lou exclaimed in astonishment.
Zhang Lei who was facing the lion atlas also felt the strength of this fifth level spiritual beast slowly descend. From the fifth level to the fourth level, it then changed again to the third level. His body had also shrunk by half.
"What's going on?!"
Unfortunately, no one knows for sure what happened. Clearly, now the strength of this spiritual beast herd was not as strong as before. The Zhang Clan's group moved spartans to finish them off. In a relatively short time less than a hundred spiritual beast herds were wiped out.
Zhang Yu at his place was still confused. His eyes stared at the metal tube.
"I don't know it either, Dad. But maybe this has something to do with that metal tube."
Metal tubes?
Zhang Long followed Zhang Yu's index direction. Gradually his eyes twitched to see the appearance of the strange object.
Not only Zhang Long, Zhang Lou, Zhang Yan even Zhang Lei was unable to figure out what kind of thing was in front of them.
Zhang Yu walked over while watching the corpse of the spiritual beast that was originally at the third level turn into the second level. He took out a leopard core crystal earlier, and as he expected it turned into a second level core crystal. Even the foreign aura that had previously enveloped the crystal was now no longer visible.
"Patriarch, Father, Fifth Elder, Fourth Elder, hasn't the flower valley been found since the beginning of the fourth and fifth level spiritual beasts?" All eyes stared at Zhang Yu.
"That's right. It is very strange to suddenly appear a herd of so many level three beasts and there are also fourth and fifth levels" Zhang Yan said.
Zhang Yu was silent for a moment, then took out the corpse of the second level leopard. Previously it was the third level.
"What if there really were no fifth and fourth level spiritual beasts in the flower valley?"
Zhang Long seemed to have gained enlightenment. "Yu'er, you mean ...."
"Really Dad. This spiritual beast was not weakened. Unless they get back to their original state." Zhang Yu pointed at the third level lion atlas. "They evolved due to the presence of metal tubes. When the metal tube shattered the power on every spiritual beast was pulled back."
"This thing ...." Zhang Lei took out a metal tube and took a closer look at her. "Whoever put this thing must have had hidden intentions."
"Patriark, if you can argue, it would be nice to keep the metal tube problem a secret. Let's just say we know nothing and succumb to the flock of spiritual beasts with great difficulty."
"I agree with Yu'er," Zhang Long exclaimed in support of his son's opinion.
Zhang Lei nodded. "That was a wise decision. We're gonna pretend we don't know about the metal tube."
They've found a deal. In the end they decided to go back without discussing about metal tubes. But of course Zhang Yu did not forget the abundant core crystals. Before leaving took the time to split the bodies of hundreds of spiritual beasts.
A total of ninety second level core crystals and twelve third level core crystals.
Very far from the initial expectations when looking at the herd of spiritual beasts. But that was enough and he could utilize it to break through the tiers.
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At night at the second elder's house.
"It's a shame ... It turned out that after breaking through to the master level, second level core crystals didn't help much." At least twenty second level core crystals had already been absorbed to the point of exhaustion. But Zhang Yu had yet to feel any signs of breaking through.
Zhang Yu wanted to continue on, but it seemed like it would be a waste if he still used second-rate core crystals. So Zhang Yu used a third level core crystal.
Hem...
"That's it, ... " When Zhang Yu had just started cultivating, his body was able to sense the energy fluctuations within the core crystal. It was really very different from a second level core crystal that was hollow like an empty shell.
Zhang Yu took out the remaining eleven third level core crystals. He had already determined in the previous fight after returning would increase his strength. This time the cultivation had already begun, so it would not come out before absorbing the twelve crystal cores.