great-warnovel Chapter 301 The First Ferocious Beast Tamed by Nezha
Chapter 301 The First Ferocious Beast Tamed by Nezha
The bronze coffin remained in the inverted stone city. The first team bypassed the broken chain and descended along the drainage well at the bottom of the stone city.
The well wall was nailed with empty medicine tubes, from which gray-green miasma dripped, only to be swept away by the pumping below halfway down.
The miasma sac on the top of the head is squeezed outside the bone layer, and thin tubes extend from the sac wall to send the swallowed divinity to the depths.
Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye was activated, and the golden light followed only along the well wall, avoiding the pulsating sacs.
Nezha walked in the middle of the group, his copper whistle pressed against his palm, the old tooth marks on the whistle pressing against his armor.
Before reaching the outer ring, he had already blown the cornet twice, but there was no response from the bottom of the valley, only the friction of the iron cage hitting the rocks.
At the end of the drainage well, there is a broken bridge, and the mountainside outside the bridge has been carved into a circular animal enclosure.
Thousands of animal cages were lined up along the rock strata, each with a copper nail from the Chinese military formation pressed down at the bottom.
The copper nails pierced through the animal bones and disappeared into the earth's veins, their surfaces engraved with the military markings of the Jade Void Palace's garrison.
Silver lines emerged from the edges of the copper nails, connecting to the transistor circuit on the top of the cage, and then converged into the black hole in the center of the arena.
Qin Wuyi held the main plate in her hand and rotated the sixteen positions around the plate.
"These cages were originally under the control of the military, but the Holy Church has connected the control lines to them."
Lu Yan stopped in the middle of the broken bridge.
"Don't touch the copper nails yet."
Wen Yue raised her crossbow to press down on the high platform on the left, and three rangefinding arrows were driven into different cage doors.
The vibrations transmitted back from the arrow shafts interlocked, and nine layers of interconnected locks were hidden at the bottom of the arena.
The innermost iron cage crashed through the bars first, and a three-headed beast stepped out of the shadows, its broken chains propelling it out.
It stands over three meters tall at the shoulder, with black armor covering its forelimbs and half a silver team emblem embedded in its carapace.
The team emblem bears the insignia of the first squad, and its numbering position has been changed to seventh.
He uttered Qin Zheng's words from his left.
"No clothes, the northwest stone slabs can't hold it down, come to the seventh gate."
Zhong Shou imitated Zhao Leiguang's voice.
"Old Zhao, activate your shield on the right flank and clear a path for me."
He bowed his head to Nezha on the right.
"The vanguard retreats seven paces, with the bronze whistle serving as proof."
The three sentences landed in three directions, and Zhao Leiguang's shield had already shifted to the right, while Qin Wuyi's array plate also rose towards the northwest.
Nezha stood still.
The military order reported by the person on the right used the third drumbeat, which had been abolished by the Jade Void Palace for many years.
According to old military regulations, the flag must be checked after the third drumbeat. Anyone who fails to check the flag will be put in a cage and treated as someone who has disobeyed orders.
"Zhengya".
Nezha placed his Fire-Tipped Spear horizontally beside the Broken Bridge.
"Don't hand it to anyone."
The copper whistle was brought close to his lips, and three long and two short commands were given across the arena.
Return to the flag.
Upon receiving this order, the ferocious beast guarding the cave was to retract its claws, bow its head, and await the flag bearer's verification of the military insignia.
The three heads of the ferocious beast raised simultaneously, and the silver emblem on its back began to rotate.
Nezha crossed the broken bridge and entered the open iron cage.
The fanged front claws dug at the ground three times, and rock fragments rolled down along the claw marks.
The one on the left bowed low, the one in the middle pressed down on the iron chain, and the one on the right also lowered its head.
Zhao Leiguang created an opening in the outer shield wall.
At that moment, the fangs on the middle head closed, aiming straight for the back of Nezha's neck.
Five gaps appeared in the silver team emblem on his back, and chains shot out from under the emblem, wrapped around Nezha's shoulder armor, and hooked towards his divine patterns.
Yang Jian stepped into the cage, his three-pointed, double-edged sword thrusting horizontally between the upper and lower fangs, the hilt of the blade tipped against the beast's mouth.
The chains tightened, and rows of iron cages around the arena lit up, the roars of the beasts inside drowning out the vibrations of the copper nails.
Lu Yan raised the Void Disc, and the data stream passed through the surface of the team emblem.
When the seventh yard was cleared, the space left by the silver-masked man was revealed.
The beast soul of the Fangtooth was not taken over.
The team emblem retains its original obedience to military orders, only the affiliation field has been changed to the team emblem number.
Whoever makes the ferocious fangs submit will be registered as the new master by the chains, and their divinity will be dragged into the beast horde's control network.
"It doesn't recognize me."
Nezha raised his hand and grabbed the team emblem.
"It recognizes this piece of sheet metal."
The fanged hind legs pressed into the rocky ground, while the middle head dragged the three-pointed double-edged sword forward.
Nezha was pushed into the cage wall, his carapace brushing against the copper nails, and the iron bars curved outward to create a gap.
Zhao Leiguang raised his shield to enter the cage, but Nezha held up the rock wall.
"Hold the line outside."
The Hun Tian Ling passed between the three beast heads, wrapped around their upper and lower jaws, and then went around the silver emblem on their back armor.
Nezha inserted a broken Jade Void Flag into the cage, and then placed the Kunlun rock soil and the arm armor removed by the guards in front of the flag.
"Follow the flag, not the sign."
"Recognize the soil, not the chain."
"Shoujia, not guarding what's behind the door."
The three menacing fangs pressed close to the tattered flag, their nostrils flaring.
The left head held the corner of the flag, the middle head pressed down on the rock and soil, and the right head licked the military markings on the arm armor.
The three silver lines inside the carapace lost their footing, detached from the seams, and drilled into the pipe at the top of the cage.
Nezha tightened the Heavenly Ribbon, and the bronze whistle sounded the order to return the flag once more.
The fanged creature's four legs sank into the rocky ground, and the silver team emblem on its back was uprooted.
It turned and crashed into the animal cage next to it, causing the iron gate to derail and half of the copper nails to be knocked out.
The second and third animal cages then opened.
Seventeen wounded beasts dragged their chains out of the cage. Some had broken horns, some had their wing bones turned outward, and several had their abdominal armor inlaid with silver crystals.
They did not pounce on the crowd, but instead gathered around the Nezha cage and crouched down.
The seventeen brand marks on the back of the neck turned upwards, and the fifth guarding cave sequence of the Kunlun North Gate was engraved in the brand marks.
Nezha squatted beside Zhengya, gently touching its forehead with his copper whistle.
According to the old military records of Qianyuan Mountain, the guardian beast would only hand over the brand on the back of its neck to the flag bearer when the position was lost.
What these ferocious beasts handed over was not an order, but the remaining roster of the garrison.
Su Yunqing walked to the outer edge of the beast horde, but did not immediately cast a healing spell.
Yao Guang first opened a semi-circular shield, creating a gap between the wound and the miasma on the outside.
Two healing beams fell alternately, never crossing the shield while repairing the flesh.
Zhao Leiguang squatted down and watched for a long time.
"Do all seventeen heads need treatment?"
"You asked this question when you were injured," Su Yunqing said.
"That was a work injury."
Wen Yue removed a silver crystal and placed it into the sealed archive.
"This batch is considered overtime."
After the silver crystal was removed from the beast's wound, its edges adhered to each other, and the mountain's structure unfolded layer by layer.
An upside-down beast garden appeared on the terminal, labeled as the Beast Garden Without Daylight.
Yang Jian pressed the Beast Court layer into the old Kunlun map, placing the three-pointed double-edged sword in the center.
"The Beast King is here."
The terminal projected a giant beast skeleton, with the Nine Lotus Lantern embedded in the center of the sternum, and nine petals extending along the ribs to the nine beast groups.
Each lamp petal is a military command anchor point.
If a piece of the lamp petal breaks off, the corresponding herd of beasts will lose its restraint.
With all nine pieces broken, the ferocious beasts from the outer ring to the depths of the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave will break away from the army formation.
Zhao Leiguang fastened the two shields back in place.
"Does getting a lamp require a physical examination of all the ferocious beasts in Kunlun?"
Wen Yue closed the sealed archive.
"Your medical checkup includes one extra item: check if there's water in the shield."
"That's called tactical reserves."
Su Yunqing withdrew the last beam of healing light.
"First, we need to examine the Beast King's wounds. Whether the lamp can be removed depends on what's pressing under its sternum."
However, Zhengya did not head towards the Beast Court of No Day.
All three heads bowed down simultaneously, their foreheads pressing against the rocky ground, and each front paw drew a military crest.
Nezha looked at the three claw marks and spun the bronze whistle halfway in his palm.
"It's in the reporting position."
Qin Wuyi lifted the main plate and deduced the pattern following the direction of the claw marks.
Below the Beast Court is another cavity, which is being pressed down by the Beast King's massive skeleton.
The ferocious beast raised its left head and let out a low growl towards the Beast Court of No Day.
Nezha put the broken Jade Void Flag back on the frame.
"The Beast King is still obeying military orders."
"It pressed the lamp into its sternum, and it also pressed the deeper thing beneath itself."
Lu Yan put away the silver team badge, the black lotus pattern covering the number seven on it.
On the Beast Court map, the command lines of the nine beast hordes all bypassed the Beast King and headed towards that nameless cavity.
An impact came from deep within the cavity.
The ferocious beasts and the seventeen other beasts simultaneously lowered their heads, and the branding on the back of their necks lit up with warning military markings.