Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 229 Deep into the Crater

Although all the people were called in, their actual impact was not as significant as expected.

The reason is simple: the environment is too harsh.

The numerous active volcanoes that are constantly erupting and the freely flowing lava pools that could erupt at any moment make the surrounding environment both dangerous and fragile.

Even for grandmasters of extraordinary strength, navigating safely through dangerous volcanoes and lava pools to find the dragon egg that Chanan needs is no easy task.

Cha Nan has already asked the Winter-Calling Beast.

Although the Vortex Dragon is fundamentally different from other dragon-type mythical beasts, its eggs are still of the 'giant dragon egg' type.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to locate the Void Dragon's egg and open it based solely on its extraordinary appearance.

Besides, this place has already been polluted; it's the backyard of those extraterrestrial visitors. If the Vortex Dragon's egg is exposed too obviously, wouldn't it be easily found, destroyed, or polluted by them?

Ultimately, a larger and broader search will have to be done by Cha Nan himself.

"Are you sure the Void Dragon's egg is still there?" Cha Nan rode on the back of the Winter Summoner, its long wings sweeping across the sky, scattering ice crystals.

Such a high-profile approach naturally attracted the attention of some alien mythical beasts from outer space, as well as some polluted local fire-type mythical beasts.

However, even without the advantage of home field, the Winter Summoning Beast only needs a simple icy aura to freeze everything around it, imprisoning those who were watching in the ice crystals until their death.

"Of course! The teleportation point on the other side of the world is still active, which means that the Vortex Dragon's divine power has never dissipated," the Winter Summoner said confidently.

However, after flying for several hours, the man and the beast covered thousands of miles, and all they could see was scorched earth. In the crater, in the scorched earth mounds, and in the lava lake, they found a precious Great Hot Palu egg. But unless it was displayed as a 'giant dragon egg', there was absolutely no possibility that they were Vortex Dragons.

It's important to know that what might hatch from a giant dragon egg is not necessarily what.

In areas filled with lava and volcanoes, the dragon egg is more likely to hatch into a Flame Dragon.

These powerful fire-type mythical beasts possess destructive power approaching that of divine beasts in their home environment. Even though they are relatively rare, after searching for so long, it's unlikely that not even a single giant dragon egg has been found.

The sky is always the color of congealed blood, with murky dark red clouds hanging low, making it hard to breathe. The surging volcanic ash is like bone dust shaken off by a giant. Beneath the cracked, charred rock shell at your feet, golden-red magma beats and surges like the pulse of purgatory in the bottomless fissures.

The air is a scalding razor; every inhalation burns the lungs.

Cha Nan had already sent the summoned grandmasters back, leaving only some high-level fire-type phantom beasts behind, and instructed them to help with the search.

“We have to take some risks!” Cha Nan said to the Winter-Calling Beast, pointing to the largest volcano in the distance.

At this time, Cha Nan had already put on his best fireproof and heatproof equipment.

Even so, he was prepared to reopen.

In the distance, a massive volcano, like a festering sore, intermittently spews columns of smoke carrying seeds of destruction, while burning boulders, like hammers of divine punishment, crash down with a deafening roar, carving new lava pools into the scorched earth.

Looking at that enormous active volcano was like witnessing the end of the world.

Previously, Cha Nan and Huan Dong Beast had been searching around it.

Now... he has to go deeper.

Danger is mutual.

In some places, he and the Winter-Calling Beast felt it was dangerous, and those alien beings from outer space would surely find it unbearable as well.

Perhaps we'll have to look there for the Void Dragon's egg.

As the cold wind rose, Cha Nan clung tightly to the back of the Winter-Calling Beast, which seemed to be constructed from millennia-old ice.

The biting cold emanating from the ice crystal saddle was the only anchor point in this furnace hell, barely resisting the all-pervasive destructive heatwave.

The enormous body of the Winter Summoning Beast, with its flowing, dark blue veins, floated above the sweltering heat. Its four hooves did not actually touch the scorched earth; beneath its hooves, a ring of icy energy, constantly expanding yet continuously eroded by the high temperature, stubbornly maintained itself.

At the edge of the domain, the air hissed sharply, condensing into pale white ice crystals that fell in a flurry. The moment they touched the scorching rock below, they hissed and rose into thick fog, like the fleeting icy footprints left by a giant beast as it traversed a sea of ​​lava.

Cha Nan lay on the dragon's back, spreading out like a radar detector through the immense spiritual power shared by the demon seed, searching for traces of life below the crater.

The massive, frost-covered body sliced ​​through the scorching air as it charged toward its target.

Ahead, a jagged forest of black spires, naturally formed from cooled lava, pierced the murky sky like the fangs of hell.

The tower is covered with honeycomb-like holes, with veins of golden-red magma flowing through it.

The depression at the center of the spire complex is not a lava lake, but a relatively calm lava swamp that boils and churns with viscous bubbles, its surface covered with a layer of dark slag that constantly breaks and regenerates.

In the very heart of this deadly swamp, atop a massive, half-submerged, dark red pumice, stands a giant black egg.

The surface of the giant egg is covered with fine, intricate cracks, resembling those naturally formed by cooled lava.

A deep, dark red light, like solidified amber, pulsated with a steady and powerful rhythm.

Each pulsation caused even larger ripples in the viscous lava swamp below, emanating a primal, life-giving pressure that seemed to freeze the air.

"A giant dragon egg!" Cha Nan exclaimed in surprise.

This is the first giant dragon egg found.

However, it remains uncertain whether the life growing inside the egg is the anticipated Vortex Dragon or some other dragon-like mythical beast.

Even after finding the first egg, getting it is not easy.

Because around this dragon egg, there were more than a dozen fire-type mythical beasts wandering around.

For a moment, Cha Nan couldn't even distinguish their specific species.

Their bodies are made of flowing, highly compressed dark red lava, and their surfaces are covered with fine, shimmering obsidian scales that gleam with an intense white light.

It has no wings; it flies by relying on the hot, piercing jet of air ejected from its tail.

On the triangular lava head, two clusters of leaping white flames replaced eyes, locking onto the intruder, the Wintercaller, which exuded an aura of icy cold that they found utterly repulsive.

"What are these things?" Cha Nan asked the Winter Beast.

“I don’t know either. I’ve never seen it before. It must be a new species that was born after being contaminated,” said the Winter-Calling Beast.

"Then keep an eye out for me later. I'll catch a few and take them back to breed!" Cha Nan said immediately. He couldn't help it... his collecting habit had kicked in.

Some mythical beasts don't actually have much value in training or much use, but you just feel uneasy if you don't collect a few of them.

A sharp whooshing sound suddenly rang out, and dozens of strange fire-type phantom beasts, like enraged flaming arrows, shot towards the Winter Caller from all directions and tricky angles.

They left scorching trails in the air, opening their massive mouths filled with lava teeth, spewing out condensed rays of light that were white with intense heat.

The rays tore through the air, emitting a chilling shriek, and intertwined into a destructive, blazing white net of fire.

With a sudden downward flick of its nimble tail, the rhomboid ice crystals covering the tail detached from the main body and began to spin and recombine at supersonic speed around the beast.

hum!
A massive spherical shield, composed of tens of thousands of wildly spinning ice crystals that cut through space, instantly took shape.

The crystal dust shield spun rapidly, emitting a deep and deadly hum, like countless miniature ice stars roaring together.

*Puff puff puff puff!* Dense rays slammed into the rapidly spinning crystal barrier.

The moment the blazing white destructive ray touched the wildly spinning crystal dust, the terrifying heat contained within it was frantically neutralized and frozen by the absolute zero cold energy contained within the crystal dust.

The tip of the ray is instantly cooled and solidified into a fragile, black, glassy substance.

Immediately afterwards, these solidified parts were instantly pulverized and annihilated into fine, sparkling ashes under the combined effects of subsequent X-ray impact and high-speed crystal dust cutting.

The surface of the crystal wall erupted with continuous bursts of light, a mixture of eerie blue light and fiery red fragments.

It was as if a deathly ring of ice and fire was blooming around the Winter-Calling Beast.

However, those mutated fire-type magical beasts were like maggots clinging to a bone.

One wave of rays is blocked, but the next wave is already here.

The more cunning ones even circled around to the bottom, suddenly leaping out of the lava swamp and spitting rays directly at the Winter Summoner's relatively vulnerable abdomen.

The eerie blue light in the Winter-Calling Beast's eye sockets flickered violently, clearly indicating that even with its good temper, it was somewhat annoyed.

"Go all out and kill them! Don't hold back, I'll seize the opportunity to strike!" Cha Nan knew that the Winter Summoning Beast's restraint was obviously due to his previous request, so he immediately changed his tune.

The Winter-Calling Beast suddenly raised its head, its mouth emitting a blinding, pale light.

The invisible, soul-freezing icy will spread instantly like a shockwave.

Those fire-type phantom beasts that were rushing around at high speed and spitting out rays froze instantly.

The flowing lava on its surface solidified instantly, losing its luster, as if it had been thrown into an extremely cold abyss. The obsidian scales covering it were covered with dark blue ice cracks, and the flames at the tail of the jet of air suddenly went out.

The next instant, the Winter Summoner's enormous, crystalline-scale-covered membranous wings suddenly flapped to both sides.

call--!
Instead of pushing air, the space around the wing surface was suddenly frozen and contracted by the ultra-low temperature, and a cold storm mixed with extreme cold and high pressure suddenly erupted.

Countless tiny, razor-sharp ice crystal fragments, as if shot from a thousand powerful bows, hurtled towards the solidified fire-type phantom beasts in all directions.

puff! puff! puff! puff!
A dense, piercing sound, like raindrops pattering on banana leaves, rang out!

The fire-type phantom beasts, frozen in place by the roar and their movements stiff, were like fragile glass in the face of this terrifying storm of shattered crystals.

Their bodies were easily pierced and torn apart by countless ice crystal fragments. Their solidified lava bodies and obsidian scales crumbled and shattered under the cutting force of absolute zero.

The blazing white eyes were extinguished in an instant, like matches that were lit and then extinguished in a flash. In the billowing black smoke of the lava, they exploded into clouds of death mixed with black fragments and sparks, falling into the lava swamp below with a hissing sound as they melted away.

The Winter Summoner's body slowly descended onto the huge dark red floating rock in the center of the lava swamp.

As the ice crystals stomped down, a thick layer of white frost instantly covered the surface of the floating rocks, emitting a hissing sound of resistance, and the lava swamp at the edge boiled violently.

The extremely hot environment here made the Winter-Calling Beast very uncomfortable. Although it didn't say anything, Cha Nan knew very well that it wanted to be moved as soon as possible.

Cha Nan rolled over and landed, the floating rocks beneath her feet were still scorching hot, and wisps of white smoke rose from the soles of her boots.

Ignoring the high temperature, he strode towards the giant dragon egg in the center of the floating rock.

The closer he got, the heavier the heartbeat, originating from deep within the eggshell and like a furnace at the Earth's core, became, each beat seeming to crash against his mental barrier.

“This egg…!” Cha Nan reached out and touched the egg’s surface.

For some reason, my face feels a little sore.

Not long ago, he thought that the Void Dragon's egg was no different from a regular giant dragon egg.

Click!

A crisp sound suddenly came from the dragon egg shell.

Almost instinctively, Cha Nan pushed forward with his palm.

Roar!
A frost dragon formed from true energy roared out and knocked away the dragon egg that was about to be obtained.

The giant dragon egg disintegrated in mid-air.

A bizarrely shaped and exceptionally large Yama King, covered in eerie blue flames, emerged from the egg.

This is a powerful fire-type mythical beast on par with the Tengyan Dragon.

He is the lord of death, purgatory, and fire.

Cha Nan has already successfully unlocked this mythical beast in his breeding ranch.

However, the Yama King that Cha Nan trained seemed much more 'naive' and 'docile' compared to the one in front of him.

"It actually survived my palm strike... This phantom beast is strange!" Cha Nan took a few steps back and stood side by side with the flying Winter Calling Beast.

Although the mythical beasts in this mythical beast world do not have a juvenile or mature stage, and are fully formed on the day they hatch, they do have different levels.

Even the most powerful mythical beast is just a weakling if it's only level one.

Theoretically speaking, a level 20 or 30 Cotton Yoyo can kill a level 1 Divine Beast.

Of course, this is only in theory.

As the Winter Summoner once said, as long as it is a divine beast, even if it is restored to an egg and re-hatched, it will start at level 35.

Therefore, the probability of being instantly killed by a low-level high-level monster right after hatching is nonexistent.

However, Yama, the King of Hell, should not have the same advantages as divine beasts.

When it hatched, it was at most a level three or five Hell King. How could it possibly withstand a palm strike from Cha Nan now?
Even though Cha Nan didn't use his full strength and acted hastily.

"It has been corrupted by evil energy! It is far more powerful than an ordinary Yama King."

"Watch out... step back, let me handle this!" The Winter Summoning Beast exhaled a chilling breath, took a step forward, and was about to finish off this newly born Hell King.

Suddenly, a pair of huge hands burst out from below, grabbing the Winter Summoning Beast's two hooves tightly, intending to drag it directly into the magma inferno.

"Flame Blaze... no, Devastation!" The Winter Summoning Beast exhaled icy breath, struggled violently, and roared angrily.

Cha Nan reacted swiftly, using the Palu Ball to forcibly recall the Winter Summoning Beast before it was completely dragged into the lava. Then, with the speed of the wind, she rushed into the sky and released the Winter Summoning Beast.

"Be careful, it used to be a divine beast like me... and a fire-type divine beast that opposed me, but now it has fallen and become a henchman of those outsiders!"

"It's very powerful!" the Winter-Calling Beast reminded Cha Nan.

Looking at the phantom beast that was gradually emerging from the lava, resembling an ancient giant, Cha Nan knew very well that this would definitely be a tough battle.

As a divine beast, Yanhuang has golden-red skin all over its body, and the curved horns on its arms and head are like a combination of magma and obsidian.

However, after transforming into the Calamity, not only is its system larger and its aura more violent, but its skin color has also turned purplish-black. What flows in its arms and horns is no longer magma, but a blackish-purple evil fire stream.

(End of this chapter)