CHAPTER 334 A LAND OF WONDER

Rocky spent the whole evening in the cave, where he studied the Mysterious Beast Transformation

Skill. The next morning, he observed the injury on the Rainbow Glow Unicorn's foot and checked if it

was healing properly. When he ascertained that the Rainbow Glow Unicorn had healed enough to walk

comfortably without assistance, he decided to continue to go to the Myriad Beasts Ground together

with the three beasts.

He found that there were more higher level wild spirit-manipulated beasts as he got closer to his

destination. He observed that when he had just begun the journey, the spirit-manipulated beasts he

saw were often one-star bottom grade wild spirit-manipulated beasts. After a while, two-star second

grade wild spirit-manipulated beasts replaced their weaker counterparts, gathered around in groups. As

he traveled farther, he started seeing three-star second grade or even three-star third grade wild spirit-

manipulated beasts. With this pattern, he expected to see precious and rare spirit-manipulated beasts

as he got nearer to their destination. Plus, such spirit-manipulated beasts would surely show up driven

by their attraction to Uriah's savory saliva. Nevertheless, a sense of crisis came over Rocky on his way.

As a result, he had to reorganize his objectives and plans. He especially had to dwell on his goals that

he needed to achieve while he was in this place. He determined that the widening of his horizon and

collection of information would be his primary objective. Second to this, he wanted to find treasures that

could help him make a breakthrough and reach the Heavenly Stage.

Fortunately, none of the three-star third grade wild spirit-manipulated beasts he met later was as tough

as the Three-tailed Aquatic Lizard to beat. It was even unnecessary for him to fight against them by

himself. Uriah and Rubygon were able to beat them by themselves, which made him feel absolutely

proud of them. All the while, the Rainbow Glow Unicorn only watched the fights from a distance and

avoided confronting the fierce wild spirit-manipulated beasts by itself. Rocky shook his head at the

remembrance that he had such a cowardly but greedy beast.

Along the way, Rocky was deliriously happy when he found several extremely rare treasures that were

similarly effective as a primary Dark Heaven Egg. He also met quite a few spirit-manipulated beast

species that he had never seen before, which he enthusiastically searched for in the Beast

Encyclopedia as soon as he saw them. Some of them were rare species, such as Nine Tattoo Lion,

Black Blood Neofelis and Runaway Cony Cat. None of them proved very capable, but meeting them

was a good experience for Rocky. He not only increased his knowledge but also collected many

samples.

After he beat three three-star second grade Clouded Buffaloes, Rocky and the three beasts

replenished their strength and continued on. Before long, Rocky saw a vast forest in front of his eyes.

Densely distributed, the trees looked so tall that they almost touched the clouds. The sun was covered,

and the thickness of the trees muffled the sounds from outside. The forest seemed to be perpetually

enveloped in dark mist that added to its already frightening appearance.

As they walked through the place, the strong aura of wild spirit-manipulated beasts came from inside

the forest. It felt like innumerable wild spirit-manipulated beasts were hiding in the forest, which

ratcheted up its frightening atmosphere to terrifying levels.

"It seems that I will arrive at Myriad Beasts Ground as soon as we get past this forest," Rocky mumbled

to himself after careful thought. He was a little bit nervous but at the same time, his body was almost

trembling in excitement at the thought of what would happen and what he would find as soon as he

stepped foot at their final destination. From his analysis, the forest could be viewed as the periphery of

the Myriad Beasts Ground. They would touch the Myriad Beasts Ground as soon as they passed

through the forest.

They were still a good distance away from the Myriad Beasts Ground, but even its periphery, the forest,

already felt so horrifying and intimidating. Rocky believed wholeheartedly that the Myriad Beasts

Ground was an extremely dangerous place.

In the past, when he had just arrived at the Wild Spirit Land, Rocky had heard that there were many

miraculous places that inhabited wild spirit-manipulated beasts. Beast-slaughtering Valley and Cloud

Deity Gully were both famous in Wild Spirit Land but they were actually just moderately dangerous

places when compared to the Myriad Beasts Ground that he was about to reach. Side by side, the

beasts in Beast-slaughtering Valley and Cloud Deity Gully would look like innocent lambs next to the

beasts of the Myriad Beasts Grounds. And there were still many similarly dangerous places in the Wild

Spirit Land, still undiscovered and unexplored. Human population had long been stamped out in the

most dangerous places. Only spirit manipulators above the Divine Stage dared to enter there. Despite

their skills, they still needed to be very careful when they traveled through those places, otherwise, they

could lose their lives at any time.

It is because of this danger that the majority of human population would never know exactly how

amazing the Wild Spirit Land was.

"Be careful when we enter the forest, unless you're feeling generous and want to feed yourselves to the

other spirit-manipulated beasts here," Rocky said in warning to the three beasts as he looked at them

with smiling eyes. All the three beasts looked quite vigilant. As spirit-manipulated beasts, their senses

were more sensitive, which made them more capable of detecting foreign presence than spirit

manipulators. At the moment, they could clearly sense the threats in the forest.

"Let's go," Rocky ordered as he gestured the beasts to follow him. With a deep breath, he led the three

beasts and walked into the forest.

As soon as they entered the forest, Rocky saw how the trees blocked the sun's rays and darkened the

whole forest. He walked cautiously, uncomfortable that he could only see things within a few meters. If

something dangerous showed up, it would be too near to defend himself. There were lush plants and

trees everywhere, and even the grass was as high as his knees. Rocky felt like he was walking in an

ancient forest except that there was no naked ape to see.

Fortunately, Uriah could serve as a living illumination device. The moment it lit a flame on its body, the

surroundings became more visible. It was a little dangerous because the light could draw the attention

of wild spirit-manipulated beasts. However, Rocky believed it was better to be attacked when they

could see and defend though, than being attacked by some foxy wild spirit-manipulated beasts by

surprise and completely defenseless.

When they had fought against the last two groups of wild spirit-manipulated beasts before they entered

the forest, Rocky had noticed that those wild spirit-manipulated beasts were smarter than those they

had met earlier. They seemed to be capable of an ambush and they could attack them in surprise. But

most surprising of all, they seemed to know how to choose an advantageous position. Therefore,

Rocky thought that the wild spirit-manipulated beasts became more cautious and intelligent as a result

of their living environment—the cruel mechanism of survival of the fittest.

"Unlike domestic spirit-manipulated beasts who have masters, the wild spirit-manipulated beasts have

no choice but to do their best to adapt to the severe environment they have in order to survive. This

allows them to reach their potential, or they could die defenseless. That's the reason that wild spirit-

manipulated beasts look stronger than their domestic counterparts." Rocky uttered his analysis as he

stroked his chin slightly.

All of a sudden, a deafening noise, which sounded like the trumpet of an elephant came through.

Rocky swore it could wake the dead as he desperately tried to cover his ears. He noticed the trees a

few meters from him began shaking fiercely. Then with a burst of great noise, a group of big trees fell

on the ground one by one, as if they were hit by something extremely heavy.

Rocky's brows furrowed at the scene. With his eyes, he hinted the three beasts to step backwards This material belongs to .

immediately. As they moved, the nearest trees started falling as well. From there, a giant, about a

height of five or six meters appeared in front of their eyes.

The giant stood upright like a human. Its six arms waved up and down as it walked. It had hoofs for its

feet and they looked humongous. Rocky's brain supplied that when encircled, its arms were as tall as

two men. The giant could stamp down a tree with a height of more than ten meters with only one hoof.

It had a long nose, like that of an elephant's. As powerful as a tornado, the nose could blow big trees

down.

Rocky felt himself erupt in cold sweat. He had seen this giant in the Beast Encyclopedia. It could be a

Trunk Giant. According to the Beast Encyclopedia, a Trunk Giant was like a forest guardian. It would

walk around the whole forest in a specific route. Along the way, it would clear away wild spirit-

manipulated beasts. In this way, it maintained the balance among species in the whole forest. Trunk

Giants lived only in ancient and sunless forests, which were mysterious and largely unexplored places.

Rocky never even thought he would be able to see one.

The lowest grade of Trunk Giants were in three-star level, while the highest grade of them were in five-

star level, which had the same strength as spirit manipulators at the Supernal Stage. It showed that the

highest grade of Trunk Giants were horrifyingly capable war beasts. The Trunk Giant was also included

in the list of war beasts among the spirit-manipulated beasts. It was known for its fierce attack force.

Fortunately, the Trunk Giant in front of Rocky's eyes at the moment was only of three-star third grade.

Nevertheless, this Trunk Giant was giving out a similar aura to that of Uriah or the Three-tailed Aquatic

Lizard they had met before.