Chapter 10: Good Luck Comes Too Suddenly (Part 1)

Flying up to the hillside, the mutated and aberrant beasts lying on the ground covered the slope. Some of the mutated beasts continued to climb. Guo Shier and the handsome old man were stunned—this place was nothing short of a slaughterhouse. They exchanged a glance, and the handsome old man said, “What are we waiting for? Let’s get to work. Collect the Soul Beads. I’ll take care of the corpses.”

The two money-minded men could hardly run anymore. There were treasures everywhere. Even if Guo Shier wanted to leave, he couldn’t bring himself to do so. So he started collecting as much as he could—this opportunity was far too rare.

The handsome old man had a sharp eye and immediately identified many rare mutated beasts. He mainly collected the essence and blood from their hearts, as well as their bones and furs. Guo Shier, on the other hand, directed Gu Xi Bi to extract souls—especially those of freshly dead or dying mutated beasts—to form Soul Beads for storage. These Soul Beads could be used as sacrifices at any time.

Once the essence and blood from the hearts were purified and condensed, they would form Essence Blood Beads. For professionals, these were extremely precious materials that could be consumed directly, as they contained highly pure life force. They could also be used to craft talismans for healing.

With countless freshly dead mutated beasts here, the handsome old man’s method was simple: he dragged the corpses into his talisman storage space, quickly collected what he needed, and then threw the corpses out. Due to the limited space in his storage, he couldn’t keep the corpses. It was only by discarding the corpses and low-grade materials he had collected before that he could free up space.

At this moment, both the handsome old man and Guo Shier longed for a secluded secret realm.

Avoiding those powerful aberrant beasts, they continued collecting while flying up the hillside. The base of the mountain alone was tens of thousands of kilometers wide, and the slope was even wider. This solitary Bone Mountain was astonishingly vast. Even professionals would need some time to traverse it, not to mention Guo Shier, who stopped from time to time to collect more items.

The threat from the mutated beasts on the slope was no longer significant, but Guo Shier remained cautious. Dying mutated beasts could become frenzied, and he didn’t want to get bitten unexpectedly.

Boom!

An aberrant snow dragon crashed to the ground, scattering bones everywhere. It had only one last breath left, with two thick streams of cold air blowing from its large nostrils, and its crimson pupils gradually dimming.

Guo Shier immediately flew to its head. The tentacles of the Guxi Bian quickly pierced into its skull, drawing out its soul in an instant. Then, the Abnormal Snow Dragon disappeared, having been dragged onto the altar by the old man. In just a few dozen seconds, the Snow Dragon reappeared, its body in tatters.

The old man took out the crystal talisman from the Snow Dragon’s skull, the precious blood from its heart, several silver horns from its head, the best scales from its back, and some meat—as this was Guo Shier’s request. Being a glutton, he had already told the old man that he wanted to keep some edible meat from any mutated or abnormal beasts.

Guo Shier was ecstatic. They were all high-level mutated and abnormal beasts. Usually, it was lucky to see just one, and even then, there was no guarantee of killing it. Here, they were everywhere, so he didn’t even pay attention to where Li Ran and Zhen Wuji had gone.

Suddenly, the old man shouted, “Quick, get out of the way!”

Without looking, Guo Shier immediately drove the altar and flew sideways along the slope desperately.

Boom! Boom! Boom…

The Mountain Snow Ape was frantically climbing up the mountain, with the Tu Ba Dragon in hot pursuit. The two abnormal beasts climbed upward wildly. The Mountain Snow Ape was covered in blood; its snow-white fur was soaked in blood, which had frozen into patches of blood-red ice armor. The Abnormal Tu Ba Dragon also looked battered—its tail was broken, revealing bare bones, and a large part of its mouth was missing, with several of its seven- or eight-meter-long teeth broken as it pursued the Mountain Snow Ape desperately.

Looking back, Guo Shier said with lingering fear, “I almost got hit… Those two beasts are insane.”

The old man said, “Fly higher. There are even higher-level mutated beasts up there!”

Guo Shier glanced around and noticed that the higher up they went, the more advanced the mutated beasts became. Those that could climb this far were already extremely powerful, but there were even more formidable ones above. He said, “Okay, let’s go up.”

Looking down from the slope at the foot of the mountain, a layer of red mist had risen. Vaguely, one could see the beasts fighting beneath the mist. The blood mist was formed from spewed blood, which turned into blood-colored vapor when it encountered the cold air, rising to form large patches of mist.

At that moment, the disturbances suddenly weakened. Guo Shier flew along the slope on the altar. Looking down, he saw large groups of mutated beasts fleeing desperately as if granted amnesty. Those that had already reached the mountain continued to climb, but at a significantly slower pace, struggling greatly.

As for those near the foot of the mountain, even though they were severely injured, they still tried hard to climb out, trying to escape from this place.

The wails shook the heavens and earth.
Guo Shier couldn’t help but say, “That’s terrible!”
The old hero replied, “Fortunately, it wasn’t targeted at professionals; otherwise, it would have been even worse.”
Guo Shier asked, “Should we continue gathering or chase up Brother Li Ran?” He too was torn, seeing corpses of high-level mutated beasts everywhere, unsure of what to do.
The old hero said, “Let’s go up first. The fighting here won’t stop. I don’t know how many years it took to build such a bone mountain, nor where all those mutated beasts came from…” Before he could finish, the entire ground began to tremble, and the bone mountain shook. Mountains of bones collapsed, falling like waterfalls, including huge bones as tall as buildings that crashed down with a roar.
Guo Shier cursed loudly, desperately dodging while riding his altar. The Moon Blade circled, cutting through the falling bones.
After a while, the tremors gradually subsided. Guo Shier said, “This place is fucking weird. Let’s hurry up and go up…”
The bone mountain was enormous and extremely tall. Its formation consisted of layers of bones and ice. Due to the particularly thick bones of the mutated beasts, they had gradually compressed together as the mountain shook, with the gaps filled by ice and snow, making the entire mountain even more solid than ordinary mountains.
Soon, Guo Shier caught up with Li Ran at the mountain’s middle.
Li Ran smiled and said, “Why did it take you so long? We’ve been waiting for ages.”
Zhen Wuji said, “There are so many mutated beasts down there. If it weren’t for our urgency to find out what’s up there, I too would have struggled to move forward, hehe.”
Hong Yuguang said, “This place is a huge treasure trove. Any professional who comes here will struggle to move forward.”
The five of them were standing on the skull of a giant dragon-like mutated beast, more precisely on its brow bone, where there was a space of about ten square meters.
Guo Shier said, “The path here was tough—too dangerous. I almost couldn’t make it.”
Li Ran said, “I don’t believe you can’t make it. You’re Tian Tan, not just an ordinary professional.”
Guo Shier smiled bitterly. It seemed Li Ran had great confidence in him. He knew that without the help of the old hero, it would have been very difficult to get up here—the mutated beasts were simply too fierce.
Li Ran looked up and said, “I don’t know what’s up there. Let’s be careful once we get there. Shier, sit on my altar. Zhen Wuji, protect the other two.”
Zhen Wuji nodded and said, “Okay. You two should also come on my altar.”

Hong Yuguang and Hong Mu nodded; they both understood that even if they reached the level of the eighth-tier altar, they still had to be cautious. The two packed up their altars and flew up to Zhen Wuji’s altar. Li Ran also deployed his altar and said, “Guo Shier, come up.” Guo Shier put away his altar, and an extremely cold aura invaded his body. He shivered and said, “It’s so cold!” He immediately flew onto Li Ran’s altar and said, “This place isn’t suitable for humans…” Li Ran said, “Let’s go!” The two of them, along with Zhen Wuji, flew upward rapidly with their altars. As they rose higher, Guo Shier said, “These are all the bones of high-level aberrant beasts… Uh, what’s that thing…” He was almost lying on the altar, looking up. The fluctuations were so intense that they shook his heart, making him feel breathless. Li Ran said, “Shier, recite the scriptures.” Guo Shier immediately began reciting silently, and waves of spiritual energy spread out, dispelling the suffocating sensation right away. Zhen Wuji was surprised and said, “Huh, what are you doing?” Although he didn’t know what those fluctuations were, it didn’t stop him from approaching quickly. Hong Yuguang and Hong Mu also sensed those fluctuations and showed extreme surprise on their faces. The two altars were almost side by side as they continued ascending. They flew for about twenty minutes—remember, this was a flight between a ninth-tier altar and one beyond that level. If it were Guo Shier flying, it would take him at least an hour to reach this place. As the altars got closer to the mountain peak, the fluctuations became even more terrifying. Cold winds howled around them, and even Li Ran cast a spell. Countless runes descended from the canopy above the altar, quickly protecting it. Guo Shier didn’t even have time to look around; he just kept reciting the scriptures. Thump! Thump! Thump… It felt like a heart beating. Soon, the two altars reached the mountain peak. Li Ran exclaimed in shock, “Damn, what the hell is this?” At the top of the mountain was something like a volcanic crater—empty in the middle, with a circular opening formed by giant bones. Above it hung a huge black object, from which the fluctuations were emanating. Guo Shier opened his eyes and stopped reciting. By then, Li Ran had activated the strongest protection, minimizing external influences, allowing him to withstand those strange fluctuations.