Chapter 1561: Cactus
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"What do you want?" Han Sen looked at Luo Yu, frowning.
Luo Yu curled his lips and said, "You want to go hunt some super creatures, right? Then, to respect Luo Lan, I'll give you this chance."
Han Sen was a bit surprised. He thought that Luo Yu meant him some harm, yet the man was inviting him to hunt super creatures. The super creatures must have been the ones discovered by Jia Shidao.
"Is that really necessary?" Han Sen looked at Luo Yu, his expression veiled. He had some idea of what Luo Yu intended.
"Are you too chicken to go?" said Luo Yu, disrespectfully.
"Of course I can go with you, but I'll get half the super creatures I hunt." Han Sen didn't care much about what Luo Yu thought. If he could get life geno essences, he would totally go.
"No problem, as long as you can bring them down," Luo Yu promised him easily.
"When shall we go?" Han Sen didn't want to say anything more.
"Tomorrow," said Luo Yu.
"Okay," answered Han Sen. He then left the courtyard and went to meet Little Silver.
"Second brother, we tried so hard to find common ground with Jia Shidao and get rid of Han Sen. Why are we bringing him now?" asked Luo Hui.
Luo Yu said coldly, "I was going to kick him out before because I wanted to show him the power of our family, and I'm bringing him now to show him our power again. And I also want to show our great-grandfather that there are talents in our family. He's just not giving us a chance."
"That's right. What was our great-grandfather thinking? Why is he using the Han's instead of us?" muttered Luo Hui.
Luo Haitang's choice had upset many from the Luo's family. They were in no position to judge his decision, but none of them were happy about it. Now that they had finally met Han Sen, they wanted to perform well in front of Luo Haitang. They wanted Luo Haitang to know that they were better than Han Sen.
Luo Yu didn't think he was any worse than Han Sen. Han Sen might have been the first Super Aristocrat in the Alliance, but to them, that was only a joke.
With the help of Luo Haitang, the Luo's had already gained super genes, but because of the rules of the Luo family, they didn't publicize it.
Luo Li could only smile inside as she listened to Luo Yu rant. She knew Luo Yu and Luo Hui extremely well.
They indeed had some power, but neither of them was exceptional, and with the status of Luo Haitang in Godslayer Shelter, they had been spoiled since the day they were born. Even other demigods in the Alliance had to pay them so much respect that they thought they were the most powerful demigods in existence other than Luo Haitang and several other great beings. They despised ordinary demigods with all their hearts, and they overestimated themselves.
The next day, Han Sen took Little Silver to the square of Godslayer Shelter and found Luo Yu already standing there.
Jia Shidao was also there, and he was surprised to see Han Sen. He pretended to smile. "What a coincidence, Brother Han."
"Not a coincidence. I called him, and he'll be following us this time," said Luo Yu.
Jia Shidao coughed, feeling awkward. He had no idea what Luo Yu was thinking. It had been Luo Yu who asked Jia Shidao to kick Han Sen out, yet now the man had asked Han Sen to come with them.
Luo Yu took Han Sen to see several creatures, but he didn't say much. After all, it was not an easy job to domesticate powerful creatures. There were only a few super creatures in Godslayer Shelter, besides, even those super creatures in the shelter wouldn't let them drive them like this.
It was way more difficult to enslave super creatures than to kill them. Han Sen's super creatures were basically raised by him when they were only children. Mature ones like the little red horse wouldn't be as obedient as those like Little Silver, and it was difficult to manipulate them.
Everyone traveled under Jia Shidao's guidance, and Luo Li also followed them. Her fighting power wasn't great, as she only had a gemstone geno core. Luo Yu and Luo Hui weren't counting on her help; they just took her because they wanted her to be a witness.
Luo Li wasn't a Luo by blood, but she was responsible for assisting Luo Haitang with mundane tasks, so she spent more time with Luo Haitang than they did. If Luo Li saw it, that meant Luo Haitang also saw it.
Luo Yu and Luo Hui didn't make a single attack on their way. When they ran into groups of creatures, the demigods following them took care of the threat. Those demigods had attached themselves to the Luo's, but they didn't have the blood of the Luo's, so they couldn't practice the Falsified-Sky Sutra.
After more than four days, they finally arrived at the dune Jia Shidao had talked about.
The ground was covered in white sand, and Han Sen could see some random green shadows in the distance. They were enormous, bulbous cacti.
Jia Shidao pointed at those cacti and said, "Be careful, everyone. The cacti aren't plants; they're creatures. The super creatures that I talked about are the cacti at the heart of this dune."
"What kind of power do these cacti have?" asked Luo Yu.
Jia Shidao wasn't willing to say anything before they arrived, so Luo Yu didn't know any more than Han Sen.
Jia Shidao found no reason to conceal it anymore. He pointed at the cactus closest to them and said, "Those cacti aren't able to move, but they can spew their thorns out. The thorns can travel more than half a mile, so we need to be careful."
"No worries." Luo Yu summoned a beast soul shield, and he walked toward one of the cacti.
When they were only a thousand feet away from the cactus, it noticed Luo Yu. All of a sudden, thorns that were inches long spewed out. There were at least a hundred of them.
However, those thorns weren't able to pierce through Luo Yu's shield. The shield warded off everything, while Luo Yu kept marching toward the cactus. The cactus seemed to have endless thorns. After it finished firing the first round of thorns, they immediately grew back and started to spew out again.
However, none of the thorns were very strong, so the shield was able to ward them off. Luo Yu ran up to the cactus and slashed it in half.
"It is a creature, but it's only a mutant creature. Jia Shidao, are you sure there are cacti at the super level?" Luo Yu asked Jia Shidao after killing the cactus.
"There are, definitely. I accidentally got in here before, and I saw a cactus made of gold, and that's at sacred blood level. There's another one that looks like a crystal pillar, and that's definitely a super creature," said Jia Shidao.
"Then let's keep going." Luo Yu looked farther into the dune, then led the way with his shield.
Chapter 1562: Crystal Cactus
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Ordinary cacti were not a threat to Luo Yu and the others. They had the power of Falsified Sky, and none of the cacti could even defend themselves against them.
However, Han Sen also realized that Luo Yu and the others had only practiced the first half of the Falsified-Sky Sutra. He didn't understand why Luo Haitang hadn't even taught his direct family members the complete version of the Falsified-Sky Sutra.
As for Luo Yu's body, it also looked strange to Han Sen. Both his strength and speed seemed to have reached super level, but his life force didn't seem as strong as it should have been. Instead, it had stayed at the sacred-blood level.
Han Sen didn't know that Luo Haitang had obtained a life geno essence a long time ago, but he wasn't able to absorb the life geno essence because of his practice of Shura Change.
The other Luo's like Luo Yu were ordinary humans, but they hadn't figured out a method of absorbing life geno essences from the First God's Sanctuary, not to mention the Fourth God's Sanctuary.
Back then, the gene liquid that most people now used to absorb life geno essences hadn't been invented yet. Those from the generation of Luo Yu's and Luo Hui's father studied it for a long time, and they finally came up with a special method to use life geno essences.
That method wasn't the same as the conventional method of absorbing life geno essences. They borrowed it from a geno solution designed for a Qi Gong, and it treated life geno essence as a geno solution.
Though the technique didn't allow the user to merge the life geno essence with their own flesh and blood, it did create a strange geno solution with the origin of power of the Luo's. The Luo's had another kind of special power aside from the power of Falsified Sky.
When they arrived at the Fourth God's Sanctuary, the geno solution they had condensed was transformed into a self geno core. More importantly, that self geno core still had the same ability to absorb life geno essences. When the geno core formed, it was automatically at super level.
Aside from that self geno core, they could also condense a second self geno core from the Falsified-Sky Sutra, which was why the Luo's were so proud.
Having two self geno cores, with one of those cores immediately rising to super level, gave the Luo's the leverage to roam the Alliance.
However, there was a huge downside to this method; their bodies hadn't reached super level, so the Luo's were physically weak. Their life forces hadn't reached super level, which was why they felt strange to Han Sen.
A couple hundred miles into the dune, they began to find cacti made of gold. They were all sacred-blood creatures, yet they were still killed by Luo Yu and Luo Hui with one strike. The power of half the Falsified-Sky Sutra was already extraordinary.
Han Sen also killed several golden cacti with his Taia and gained a beast soul. It was a heavy mace that was made of gold, and it looked forceful.
However, Han Sen didn't know how to use this kind of unpopular weapon, so he would have to trade it.
The cacti were bizarre. They were grown in the sand, so they couldn't move at all, and the only attack techniques they had were thorns. Their flesh and blood weren't edible either. If Han Sen hadn't already killed some, he wouldn't even have thought they were creatures.
Luo Yu and the others weren't surprised to see Han Sen slaying the sacred-blood creatures. If Han Sen couldn't even do that, Luo Haitang wouldn't have valued him.
"Those cacti!" After walking a thousand miles into the dune, Jia Shidao pointed in front of them.
Han Sen and Luo Yu and the others all followed Jia Shidao's gaze. They saw a cactus that was ten feet tall, made of crystal, simmering under the sun. And it wasn't the only cactus. Behind that cactus were many other crystal cacti with a variety of shapes.
Everyone stopped walking, and nobody dared to move forward anymore. Even Luo Yu and Luo Hui had to be careful when they faced super creatures.
After all, their bodies were only as sturdy as sacred-blood creatures, so they might be killed by super creatures.
"You want to kill a super creature, right? Now it's your chance to do so. Let's see whether you can actually do it or not," said Luo Yu, looking at Han Sen.
Han Sen took a look at those cacti made of crystal. He shook his head and said, "I don't even know what those cacti are capable of yet, so I'd better test them first."
Although the previous cacti couldn't move at all, nobody could guarantee that these cacti wouldn't be able to move either, so Han Sen didn't want to risk it.
"If you're too scared to try it, then I'll do it first," said Luo Yu while summoning his geno core.
A red crystal armor covered Luo Yu's body, and a blade appeared in his hands.
That red crystal armor looked bizarre. Han Sen felt that it was made of life geno essence, but he couldn't tell how that had been done.
Luo Yu's blade looked like the She-King Blade, but it wasn't as delicate.
"This is so weird. The power of that crystal armor doesn't seem to be connected to the Falsified-Sky Sutra at all, but it gives Luo Yu terrific power." Han Sen's interest was piqued.
Luo Yu lifted his shield and dashed toward the cactus closest to him. Just like the ordinary cacti, it spewed out many thorns that looked like crystal. The thorns flew toward Luo Yu like a storm.
Dang!
The thorns pierced Luo Yu's sacred-blood shield. However, the thorns that hit his body were warded off by the crystal armor, so they didn't injure him at all.
Han Sen nodded. "The Luo's indeed have something to be proud of. With that armor, only a few humans like Gu Qingcheng would actually be able to hurt him."
Luo Yu rushed toward the crystal cactus like a heavy-armored soldier. The thorns hit his armor, making a sound like rain on a tin roof, but they still failed to pierce through the armor. Luo Yu was getting closer and closer to the cactus. The blade in his hand that contained the mysterious power of Falsified Sky slashed toward the crystal cactus.
Jia Shidao was exhilarated, and he couldn't help yelling, "Luo Yu is incredible! We can't even compare with him."
Luo Hui smiled. "It was right of you to cooperate with us. Big brother's geno core has both attacks and defense. Killing creatures that can't move their bodies will be easy for him. Just wait here for the rewards."
Luo Yu's blade hit the crystal cactus as they spoke, but in the next second, Luo Yu's face fell.
The geno core blade that contained the power of Falsified Sky slashed the crystal cactus, but it couldn't injure the crystal cactus in the slightest.
The geno core blade was a geno core condensed from the Falsified-Sky Sutra, so it couldn't grow immediately to super level like the first self geno core. It was still a gemstone core.
The body of the crystal cactus was too solid. Even if it had the power of Falsified Sky, the sword couldn't break the body of the crystal cactus at all.