How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!-Chapter 196: Crystals of the Earthfall, Bones of Emperor Kun

Chapter 196: Chapter 196: Crystals of the Earthfall, Bones of Emperor Kun

The Earthfall Beast roared, seemingly accompanied by a strange vibration.

The entire cave underwent an unbelievable transformation.

Huge boulders fell from the cave ceiling.

The solid ground below resembled a treacherous quagmire.

Lin Xiaosu moved like a flash of lightning, darting through the falling rocks, his body twisting abruptly as he dove into the green sphere.

The records indicated that the Earthfall Beast’s claws were as terrifying as the most formidable mountain-cleaving axes, the most dangerous weapon it possessed.

Under normal circumstances, one should never get close.

But Lin Xiaosu approached in the first phase.

In close range, if the Earthfall Beast’s claws could move, one swipe and Lin Xiaosu would be in serious trouble.

However, the Earthfall Beast’s claws were firmly restrained by the green "shedding" and unable to move.

Driven by instinct, its mouth suddenly opened wide.

The opening seemed to form a void-like vortex.

So thrilling, yet so unbelievable.

But Lin Xiaosu was overjoyed.

He had created an opportunity, and finally, it was here...

In his seemingly empty palm...

A dagger appeared out of thin air!

Zip!

The dagger plunged directly into the Earthfall Beast’s wide-open mouth, aiming straight for its forehead.

The Earthfall Beast reacted quickly, its giant mouth snapping shut.

In that snap, its two rows of silver teeth came together like an overwhelming sword formation.

If Lin Xiaosu’s hand didn’t retreat in time, his arm would be lost.

But Lin Xiaosu didn’t pull back his arm.

Instead, his arm pushed forward!

The dagger sank deep into the Earthfall Beast’s forehead, blood gushing like a fountain, soaking his hand. The blood, chilling to the bone...

And in that instant, the Earthfall Beast’s two rows of razor-sharp teeth were less than a centimeter from Lin Xiaosu’s hand...

On the brink of mutual destruction.

Suddenly, Lin Xiaosu’s finger hooked.

A bead-like object was forcibly extracted from the Earthfall Beast’s forehead and stored in the Secret Realm Space.

The Earthfall Beast’s teeth had clamped onto Lin Xiaosu’s arm, sinking half an inch deep, reaching the bone, but then suddenly stopped.

Lin Xiaosu’s heart pounded wildly.

He had won the gamble!

Yes, this risky strike was a gamble!

The records showed that a mature Earthfall Beast possessed a Primordial Crystal, the source of all its power, its Essence Qi source, and the core of its Earth Rule abilities.

As long as its Primordial Crystal was taken, it would die!

If this Earthfall Beast were in normal condition, Lin Xiaosu had no way to deal with it.

Its scale armor provided the strongest protection, lying there for you to kill yet impossible to harm.

Its claws alone, Lin Xiaosu might not withstand a single swipe.

But this was under normal conditions.

The current situation was that the Earthfall Beast wasn’t normal; it was in the molting phase, its claws restrained by itself, unable to move, its attacks limited to crude Earth Rule powers, physically able to attack only with its mouth...

So Lin Xiaosu set a trap for it.

He approached the Earthfall Beast directly.

Forced it to open its mouth.

Once its mouth opened, he attacked through it.

Inside its mouth, there was no scale armor protection.

Of course, the Earthfall Beast could bite him.

His task was to bet on who was faster!

If the Earthfall Beast was faster, he’d lose his arm.

If he was faster, and snatched the Earthfall Beast’s Primordial Crystal first, it wouldn’t be able to bite...

The unbelievable battle took only an instant.

Lin Xiaosu won.

He snatched the Earthfall Beast’s Primordial Crystal first.

Once the Primordial Crystal left its body, the Earthfall Beast completely changed...

Its eyes lost their luster, as if filled with disbelief...

Its silver scale armor, once impossibly tight, began to loosen...

Lin Xiaosu extended his left hand, easily prying open the Earthfall Beast’s jaw, freeing his right hand...

While his right hand recovered from the injury, the green sphere around the Earthfall Beast’s body stopped flowing with blood and its light faded, becoming a dead sphere.

As his right arm fully recovered, with a small sound, a scale fell from the Earthfall Beast’s body.

Lin Xiaosu picked up the scale and examined it carefully.

The scale, like silver glass, shone with a glassy luster, its edge incredibly sharp, slicing through the stone behind it with ease, yet the scale remained undamaged.

Lin Xiaosu tried removing another piece.

It came off easily.

In about three minutes, he had plucked all the hundreds of scales off this bull-sized Earthfall Beast.

Its skin and flesh beneath were black, exuding a chilling aura.

Lin Xiaosu took one scale and lightly cut the Earthfall Beast’s neck, severing its head, revealing no bones inside, a characteristic of silicon-based creatures, no bones but their flesh and skin far tougher than anyone could imagine. What bones could do, these tissues achieved through alternative means.

These items held immense research value.

Xiang Yixiu would definitely need them.

Qianlong also needed them.

Tonight, Hu Ya had already harvested one Earthfall Beast, but it was not of the same caliber. This one was a mature Earthfall Beast, while hers was at best a juvenile.

If Hu Ya couldn’t earn a formal Gold Medal with the juvenile, he’d give her this head to help her achieve her promotion, sparing her from Xinyue’s predicament of being stuck in the Reserve and going mad...

Lin Xiaosu collected all these gains into the Secret Realm Space and faced the ultimate problem.

Why did the Earthfall Beast break free?

This was a tremendously serious issue.

The Earthfall Beast was just an ordinary fierce beast among the underground races, but the pressure and mystery it brought matched that of the master sister in Kun Cang Shenghua Valley.

If the underground races appeared en masse, the threat to this world might rival that of the Ancient Wilderness.

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Lin Xiaosu cautiously advanced through the cave.

Darkness enveloped him completely.

Suddenly, under the Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye, a mysterious light flashed, Array Path Inscriptions.

His heart pounded, stepping forward, revealing a peculiar cave below, shaking him to his core.

This cave stretched infinitely deep, a lone stone peak standing on a platform.

All around the platform, inscriptions spread out, though incomplete.

He moved down the cliff to the platform.

The platform’s pattern densely packed, an ancient Array Platform.

Under the Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye, Array Path Inscriptions filled the space, yet incomplete.

The main reason was a crack in the platform.

Lin Xiaosu peered into the crack, sensing a bottomless depth, revealing an unknown world beneath.

Feeling the chilling aura from the depths, much colder than from the Earthfall Beast.

No wind, but the chill was more piercing than any wind.

No sound, yet in the endless dark void, countless demons seemed to slumber.

Lin Xiaosu’s gaze slowly lifted, staring at the stone peak before him, his heartbeat accelerating.

The stone peak, irregular, curved like a human rib...

A legend surfaced in his mind: Long ago, Emperor Kun took thirteen ribs from his body, forming eighty-one Earth Suppressing Bone Nails to create an unrivaled array, sealing the Earth Core Clan in what’s called the Absolute Earth Communication.

Sealing the Ancient Great World, known as the Severed Heaven Passage.

From there, Earth entered a long journey called "Severed Heaven Absolute Earth Communication"...

This stone peak, a section of Emperor Kun’s rib?

If so, this great array had a problem.

The platform was cracked, inscriptions scattered, allowing the Earthfall Beast to escape its underground prison.

The only solution to this hidden danger was to repair the great array!

Lin Xiaosu stepped over the intertwined inscriptions on the platform, sensing every energy’s critical point, then sat cross-legged near the crack.

Sitting for a day and night.

Finally, his eyes opened, his bronze pen touching a broken inscription.

With a void touch, the silent platform seemed to ripple...

Rippling waves passed, cracks appeared over the stone peak...

Lin Xiaosu, without delay, drove the five elements spiritual energy with the bronze pen, mending the second point following the methods in "Cycle Formation" teachings.

The platform’s tremors became more pronounced.

The third point, from the deep abyss below, a roar seemed to echo.

Cold sweat broke out on Lin Xiaosu’s back.

Rushing on to repair the fourth point.

An angry howl from below, seemingly of a giant beast nearing, the platform wavering like in a storm.

The final point...

Lin Xiaosu’s bronze pen stabbed down!

With a hum, the platform and stone peak shook, the crack sealed.

A nearby low growl was cut off.

Lin Xiaosu collapsed weakly.

After a long while, his gaze rose. Under the Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye, the Array Path Inscriptions reconnected, forming a complete Array Platform.

Above, stones crumbled, the peak shedding its eons-formed rocky shell, revealing a jade-like luster.

A segment of a giant’s rib.

Still absolute darkness around, but the temperature seemed to rise, no longer bone-chilling.

Lin Xiaosu huddled by the platform, observing the now complete array under the Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye.

The array, resembling the Ancient Array Sect’s recorded Heaven Locking Array, yet its intricacies far exceeded the documentation.

Spending an hour noting every key point of the array, he climbed back, returning to the Earthfall Beast’s corpse beside.

Raising his hand, a golden bead emerged in his palm.

The bead, size of an egg but immensely heavy, bore a familiar energy aura.

What kind of aura?

The Earth Element Spirit Stone’s aura.

The Earth Element Spirit Stone obtained from Shenghua Valley, there were three, but their aura was insignificant compared to this Earthfall Beast’s Primordial Crystal.

The Earthfall Beast’s Primordial Crystal brimmed with infinite spiritual energy.

How to use this Primordial Crystal?

Shenghua Valley’s Lord Hua Miaoyi once said, Alien Species’ Primordial Crystals are unusable directly.

Refining such a Crystal consumed more True Yuan than it replenished.

Meaning the investment outweighed the return, making it unfeasible.

But for Lin Xiaosu, these principles had long been overturned.

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