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Chapter 84 Sacred Remains Scorpion (July 20th, please subscribe)

Deep inside, in the main hall of the temple.

A colossal creature lay prone on the ground. It resembled a giant scorpion, its body covered with an outward-turned, bony exoskeleton. These menacing shells made the beast look formidable.

This was naturally the Sacred Corpse Poison Scorpion that Wang Yan and Farusan had speculated about. As a lightning elemental monster, its body, especially its huge pincers and sharp tail stinger, was surrounded by purple lightning.

At this moment, these lightning bolts occasionally dissipated into the air, increasing the concentration of lightning elements in the surrounding area, to the point that they formed a visible purple fog. From time to time, faint flashes of electricity crackled, illuminating the surrounding broken and exquisite reliefs.

Within this dense area of ​​lightning element, hundreds of ordinary poisonous scorpions gathered densely around the Sacred Remains Scorpion.

They crawled restlessly, occasionally raising their heads to try and inhale and exhale the scattered lightning elements around them.

This is actually not in accordance with the laws of nature.

Not only are ordinary people unable to use elemental power, but even ordinary wild beasts cannot adapt to high concentrations of elemental power.

Scorpions are just ordinary wild animals.

A sharp, painful hiss suddenly rang out in the air. A scorpion curled up, trembling violently, and cracks began to appear on its carapace, with purple lightning leaping through the cracks.

After convulsing a few times, it went completely limp and showed no signs of life.

Its body simply couldn't withstand the raging lightning element, so it died.

What's chilling is that the surrounding scorpions showed no fear whatsoever.

On the contrary, the moment the scorpion died, dozens of its kind swarmed forward, tearing open the dead creature's carapace with their sharp pincers and greedily devouring its body.

The scorpions that had devoured their own kind began to show faint purple patterns on their bodies, indicating a slight increase in their resistance to, or rather, their ability to withstand, lightning elements.

"Raising Gu poison—"

Standing at the entrance of the main hall, Wang Yan crouched down, his gaze sweeping over the scene inside, and murmured something under his breath.

Farusan also crouched on the ground, watching the scene inside the hall.

"Teacher, what's going on?" Wang Yan asked in a low voice.

He had never seen this scene in the game.

"It's very simple. As I said before, when the Holy Beast gets old, its physical quality declines, but its control over elemental power increases. However, its body is no longer able to bear so much elemental power, so it will actively dissipate the elemental power within its body."

"At this stage, its power will gradually decline. As a result, some sacred skeleton beasts will gather a group of their lower-ranking kin around them and forcibly transform these kin with elemental power to use them as guards."

"Among monsters, higher-ranking monsters have a certain degree of control over lower-ranking monsters. After these scorpions absorbed its elemental power and underwent mutation, this control became even stronger."

"After this sacred scorpion mutated these scorpions, it no longer needed to risk going out to hunt. These mutated scorpions would form a supply system, providing it with a continuous source of food."

After a slight pause, Farusan's eyes were filled with complex emotions: "If this situation continues, after a few years, when this Sacred Remains Scorpion dies, a leader will emerge from among its guards and devour its remains, with a chance of evolving into a new Sacred Remains Scorpion."

Wang Yan listened attentively. This was knowledge that wasn't in the game, and he hadn't seen it in books before either, so it was all very new to him.

As they spoke, inside the main hall of the temple, even more scorpions continued to try to absorb elemental power.

Every now and then, a few more painful screams could be heard, accompanied by new deaths.

Then came another round of frenzied consumption.

In this brutal selection process, some scorpions gradually adapted to the lightning element in their environment.

Their carapaces began to glow with a faint purple light, and their size gradually increased. Dark purple stripes appeared on their originally yellowish-brown shells—a characteristic of the mutated scorpions that had attacked them earlier.

Wang Yan noticed that the scorpions that had fully adapted to the lightning element and completed their mutation were gradually moving to the outer edge of the area. They began to slowly crawl around the central sacred scorpion, forming a kind of protective formation.

Meanwhile, in the central area, many more ordinary scorpions are still undergoing a brutal selection process.

"Mentor, we can't let it continue to transform, or we'll both be in big trouble," Wang Yan said.

Farusan nodded: "No rush, let's go out first and prepare some things."

As she spoke, she lowered her body and slowly backed away.

Wang Yan quickly followed.

Returning to the front hall, the surrounding flower reliefs were lively and beautiful, much more pleasing to the eye than those poisonous scorpions.

"What should we do, mentor?" Wang Yan asked in a low voice.

He was also afraid of disturbing the venomous scorpions inside. He had just glanced at them and there were about a hundred mutated venomous scorpions. If they all rushed out at once, He Yao's multifaceted body might not be able to protect him.

Farusan didn't answer directly, but looked at Wang Yan: "What do you think? How should this situation be resolved?"

Her purpose for this trip was always clear: not to gain a lot of knowledge, but to bring Wang Yan out of his shell and help him improve.

Wang Yan frowned, pondered for a moment, and said, "That Sacred Remains Scorpion has been releasing lightning element. Perhaps we can use elemental reaction to deal with it?"

"Hmm, good idea." Falusan nodded in satisfaction. "What are the details?"

"I have fragments of fire element that can be embedded in crossbow bolts. With a slight modification to the runes, the fire element can be diffused using wind element, and then react with the lightning element emanating from the sacred beast. Given the concentration of lightning element inside, that should be enough to deal with them."

Wang Yan gestured and drew a wind element rune that seemed to spread out in the air, then took out a fire element fragment from his small bag.

The plan sounded great, but Farussan rolled her eyes.

"What are we here for?" she asked irritably.

Wang Yan was taken aback, then said sullenly, "We're here to investigate the ruins."

"So, what happened after you fired that crossbow bolt?"

"Okay, mentor, I know I was wrong." Wang Yan readily admitted his mistake.

The power of the lightning and fire reaction was enough to kill the mutated scorpions inside, but—it could also destroy the main hall of the ruins.

If it's dangerous, then so be it if it's destroyed; life is the most important thing.

But it's clear that we can't resort to such a desperate measure right now.

After giving the foolish apprentice a small blow, Farusan continued, "It's best to avoid explosive damage like lightning and fire overload within the ruins, as it can easily injure them."

Reality is not a game.

In the game, after killing a Sacred Beast, there was a slight mark in the sand, but it quickly disappeared.

In reality, however, to kill a Sacred Beast, the battle could affect a large area, or even alter the terrain on a small scale.

Ruins turned into ruins, well—that's a tradition of great adventurers.

"However, your approach of using elemental reactions is correct." Farusan affirmed the foolish apprentice again. "Instead of using lightning and fire, we can choose lightning-water electro-electricity or the super-bloom reaction. These two reactions cause relatively less damage to the surrounding environment. These mutated scorpions should have some lightning resistance, so we'll use the super-bloom reaction."

Wang Yan nodded thoughtfully, but quickly asked with doubt, "But mentor, the Super Bloom reaction requires water plants to produce seeds. I can use wind element to diffuse water element, but grass element—we don't have enough fragments, do we?"

Grass element does not absorb wind diffusion.