My beast can't be a demon.

Chapter 272 The Tomb of the Ancient King

Hanabi caught the sand easily.

Its strength is far less than what the pioneers imagined, or because of the limitations of fireworks, it is unable to exert its true strength.

Manman looked at the sand element in front of him with great interest: "It turns out that there is such a spiritual beast. Interesting, really interesting."

Sha's face was full of dejection, and the arrogance he had just had was no longer there.

"You humans are so unethical!" Sha said indignantly, "You actually use this method to deal with me!"

"You just said that this is the king's mausoleum." Zhou Lu ignored Sha's complaints and asked directly, "Which king?"

"Of course it's the King of Rui'an." Sha said as a matter of course, and then looked at the people present curiously, "I say...you guys in strange clothes actually dare to break in here without permission, aren't you afraid of being sentenced to death by the kingdom?"

Obviously, the spirit beast in front of it did not know that the Kingdom of Rui'an had long disappeared in history. Except for particularly professional archaeologists, almost no one knew of the existence of this country.

Xu Dalong immediately ordered his men to protect the place.

If this is really the royal tomb of the Rui'an Kingdom, then it is of great research value to human history.

Zhou Lu was not interested in these things, but was very interested in the sand in his hands.

As an ancient spiritual beast, it did not have the distinct morphological stages like modern spiritual beasts. In addition, without other similar creatures for reference, it was difficult for Zhou Lu to determine what rank of spiritual pet it was - unless he signed a beast taming contract with the other party.

In fact, Zhou Lu did exactly that.

As the beastmaster who defeated Sha, Zhou Lu easily obtained the contract rights of Sha.

In a sense, the talent of a beastmaster is a super domineering skill just like that of an immortal.

It’s just that modern education has intentionally or unintentionally weakened this attribute and placed more emphasis on cultivating a relationship of mutual trust between beastmasters and their pets.

Shaya felt the contract between himself and Zhou Lu: "Hey, hey, hey! What did you do to me?"

"Is it actually the fourth level?" Zhou Lu looked at the level of the sand and was not surprised at all.

"Ahhhhh! What on earth have you done to me!?"

"The beast control contract." Zhou Lu introduced to Sha, "Don't worry, if you really don't want to be my spirit pet, I will release the contract."

"Beast Taming Contract? What is this?" Obviously, in Sha's impression, such a thing does not exist.

"It's a human race skill. Don't you know about it?"

"How is that possible!" Sand immediately retorted, "Isn't the racial skill of humans wisdom?"

"Wisdom?" Zhou Lu was stunned.

As the ancestors of modern humans, the Rui'an people lived in an era when humans had not yet evolved the skills of immortals and beastmasters.

Just like the racial skill of early mammals was breastfeeding, as ancient humans, their racial skill [wisdom] has been integrated into human genes, becoming a characteristic that can be possessed without the need for awakening or evolution.

After humans acquired universal wisdom, their ambitions grew, and eventually they gradually evolved into [Immortals] and [Beast Tamers].

Listening to Sha's description, Zhou Lu seemed to have grasped a trace of human ancestors millions of years ago.

[Wisdom] This racial skill, from the perspective of modern people, seems to be the existence of the creation of the world and is the cornerstone of human civilization.

However, in that barbaric era, this racial skill that did not significantly improve physical combat actually pushed humanity to the brink of extinction.

In the end, it was a tribe called the Ryan who, relying on the wisdom bestowed by their racial skills, learned how to make tools, form tribes, and hunt together, and they also recorded and passed on the characteristics of various prey.

It was during this process that human civilization gradually emerged, and Rui'an gradually became one of the earliest kingdoms of mankind.

In fact, Ryan is just a part of the countless human tribes trying to survive in the secret wilderness. In order to survive, different tribes have created various different methods using the wisdom given by their racial skills.

When these tribes began to come into contact, they began to exchange their survival skills. Because of the bonus of [wisdom], they quickly learned these skills, allowing the human race as a whole to rapidly grow stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It is just like the domestication of sand, but different tribes domesticated various spiritual animals according to their respective environments to serve their own tribe's hunting.

However, humans at that time were not able to directly capture and contract adult spirit beasts like today's beastmasters do. Instead, they usually started to tame them from the young ones.

Sha's parents were spirit beasts tamed by King Ryan, so it has existed as the prince's spirit beast since childhood, and has been accompanying its master from birth to coronation and then to death.

After having a general understanding of Sha's past, Zhou Lu also began to test Sha's abilities.

This world is different from the settings in many novels. The older the world is, the more powerful it is - and of course, the more modern the world is, the more powerful it is not.

The so-called powerful is how humans define spiritual beasts.

For spiritual animals, as long as they can survive in the world and pass on their genes, the shape of their body can be used as is.

And when this trait that is produced for survival happens to be in the interests of human beings, it will be called powerful.

Therefore, whether the spiritual beasts in this world are powerful or not has nothing to do with the time of their evolution and birth. It is a completely random thing.

And as human beings develop, the definition and demand for strength also change.

However, the abilities of some spiritual beasts can be considered powerful no matter what era they are in.

Sand is a typical spiritual beast of this type.

Its racial ability is to control sand and be able to crush and weather rocks.

The scope of control is astonishing.

As the war machine of the Rui'an Kingdom, the sand elements helped the Rui'an tribe defeat the surrounding human tribes one after another, and finally established the amazing Rui'an Kingdom.

As long as there is enough sand, it can create a huge sandstorm in an instant and form a huge army of sand men in the sandstorm.

Based on this alone, its strength is enough to rank among the quasi-gods.

If Fireworks had not taken steady steps and used division to fix the sand in the surrounding desert, the sand would have probably caused considerable trouble to the pioneer army.

Of course, the sand is also involved.

Because it saw that the people coming were humans, out of loyalty to humans, it did not kill them immediately, but only tried to stop them.

Even after it noticed Hanabi's behavior, it did not strike back with all its might. As a result, Hanabi's step-by-step advances gradually devoured its strength to resist.

Zhou Lu looked at Sha who was still blaming Hua Huo, and couldn't help but admire him in his heart.

Even though millions of years have passed, Sand still remains loyal to his master and even his master's race.

In an age without beast taming contracts, this kind of loyalty is so precious.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Sha looked at Zhou Lu strangely.

"Hey? Why did you cancel the contract again?" Then it felt that Zhou Lu had canceled the beast taming contract with it.

Although it was a good thing that the beast control contract that made it uncomfortable was terminated, Sha was puzzled by Zhou Lu's motive for doing so. Zhou Lu said seriously: "Respect for a loyal spirit beast."

Well... Mainly because Zhou Lu felt that the ability of sand was too restricted by terrain and didn't quite meet his needs, so he did a favor.

Of course, although the beast taming contract between Zhou Lu and Sha has been terminated, the official is expected to make a new deal with Sha.

As for whether Sha will become the official beastmaster's pet to protect the royal mausoleum, or enter the Invalides to become a quasi-god ready to help at any time, it all depends on the official's negotiation skills.

Zhou Lu had just finished talking with Sha when Manman flew over with great interest.

"How is it? Did you gain anything?" Zhou Lu asked with a smile when he saw Manman so happy.

Manman was very excited: "Yeah! I learned a lot of knowledge that I didn't know before. It will definitely be of great help to my mother."

"Does this discovery have any meaning for the Tao-seeking tree?"

"A mother's strength is closely related to the amount of knowledge she has mastered." Manman said very seriously, "The more knowledge she has, the greater the power she can mobilize."

After hearing this, Zhou Lu became even more curious about Qiu Dao Mu's strength.

Manman continued to talk incessantly about this great discovery.

This is indeed the royal tomb of the Rui'an Kingdom. The history recorded in the ground buildings and the life stories of the tomb owner alone are enough to make human archaeology leap forward a million years.

Zhou Lu, who is not an archaeologist, just listened to these.

Due to the discovery of sand and royal tombs, the mission of this pioneering army was changed on the spot.

Xu Dalong immediately asked his beastmaster to pass on his discovery.

Soon, more pioneers arrived in this desert.

Based on the opinions from above, Xu Dalong did not choose to open the royal tomb.

Official archaeological operations will only open historical tombs when it is proven that the tombs will be destroyed. Otherwise, they rely on professional spirit pets to conduct investigations.

Soon, Zhou Lu met these professional archaeologists.

They summoned their own spiritual pets, and surprisingly, they were all ghost-type spiritual pets.

This kind of intangible spiritual pet can transmit information from underground in the tomb without destroying real objects, and it is indeed a powerful assistant to archaeological workers.

With the help of these ghost pets, the exploration of the royal tomb began.

After making sure that these humans would not dig up his master's tomb, the originally resistant Sha finally compromised.

Although it always felt that this kind of exploration was an offense to its master's soul, it was now unable to stop it.

But on second thought, it must be a good thing for this guy who likes to be in the spotlight that his master is once again famous in history after millions of years.

Based on Sha's understanding of his master, if this guy knew that he was treated like this after being dead for so many years, he would definitely kick over the coffin and drag these archaeologists to "take pictures".

In fact, at this point, Zhou Lu’s mission has been completed.

However, he did not choose to leave immediately, but instead consolidated Huahu's achievements in the desert with the help of Yueya.

Plants solidify the desert, which also allows Huahuo to rightfully own a large flower field.

The crescent moon transformed into a cloud again and used its ability to guide the water vapor to gather. Eventually it started to rain in the desert, nourishing the newly survived plants.

Thanks to the efforts of Yueya and Huahuo, 80% to 90% of these branches survived in the desert environment.

In order to expand the scale of his flower fields, Huahuo took this opportunity and continued to expand tirelessly.

This scene happened to be seen by the frontline reporters who rushed to the scene after hearing the news.

They didn't come for the desert management of Hua Huo, but mainly for the discovery of the royal tomb.

This is also something that the authorities have never stopped doing.

Once new mineral deposits, new spiritual animals or new historical discoveries like the one now appear, the authorities will quickly let the media report it.

The main purpose of doing this is to let people know that it is necessary to explore such unknown secret places.

After all, if people's hearts are unstable, many things will often not have very good results even if the authorities can force them to do so.

Fireworks' method of desert control is simple and crude, but extremely effective.

Zhou Lu originally thought that these reporters would write some praiseworthy reports.

The next day, I learned from Xu Dalong, who couldn't help laughing, that this group of reporters went back and wrote a report criticizing Zhou Lu for destroying the desert environment.

This left Zhou Lu speechless.

It would be fine if this desert had always existed.

But this desert was created over the years to protect the royal tombs.

I was thinking that this is not a natural desert, so how could it be considered as destroying the desert environment?

"Just get used to it, just get used to it." Xu Dalong patted Zhou Lu's shoulder and said.

"You know about the media," Lin Kexing chimed in. "For these guys, traffic is everything. It's normal for them to deliberately conceal some information for traffic and direct the entire report to the direction with the most comments."

Although Xu Dalong didn't know Zhou Lu's purpose of planting grass in the desert, it was definitely a good thing for the pioneering army.

If this place becomes a new oasis in the future due to the transformation of fireworks, then the mining work here should not be too hard, at least it will be much better than facing the yellow sand all day long.

"After graduation, are you interested in joining the pioneer army?" Xu Dalong suddenly asked.

After this incident, he also recognized the ability of the person in front of him.

Zhou Lu looks young, but his strength should not be underestimated.

It's not just Fireworks that has powerful spiritual pets, the one named Crescent Moon is also very powerful.

At least Xu Dalong didn't think that his quasi-divine pet could make it rain in the desert so easily.

"Of course I'm interested." Zhou Lu was planning to learn some information about the Immortal Palace ruins from the pioneer army to make adequate preparations for the growth of Fireworks, "especially exploring those immortal ruins."

"Are you interested in the immortal relics?"

“Very interested!”

Xu Dalong immediately smiled and said, "That's perfect. I will be transferred to the S3011 secret realm in a few days. There is an ancient fairyland city there that needs to be explored and rated. I wonder if you are interested?"

(End of this chapter)