Chapter 539: Chapter 282: Sandstone Scorpion, the King’s Goodwill, and the Progenitor Ancestor Giant Beast
"Hmm?"
Watching the anxious and frantic look of the monkey exotic beast, Lu Sheng pondered for a moment and then issued a low voice.
"Come in!"
Outside the valley, the monkey exotic beast was scratching its ears and cheeks, thinking about how to meet Lu Sheng, when it heard Lu Sheng’s voice.
The monkey exotic beast was first taken aback, then a look of fanaticism welled up in its eyes. It respectfully bowed towards the valley before walking in.
But upon seeing Lu Sheng inside the valley, with a terrifying body size of two hundred meters, the monkey exotic beast’s eyes were filled with even more shock.
Then the monkey said to Lu Sheng: "King, outside the forest, there is a giant beast visiting, saying it wants to meet you!"
As it spoke, the monkey prostrated itself on the ground, eyes full of respect for Lu Sheng.
"Hmm? A giant beast wants to meet me? Not a giant beast from the forest?"
Lu Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly, immediately showing a hint of interest.
Since descending into the Beast Realm, Lu Sheng had always lingered within the forest and had never encountered the situation outside the forest.
"I have just become tier five, and already there is a giant beast wanting to meet me. It seems... behind this giant beast, there might be a more powerful beast!"
Lu Sheng said lightly, the corners of his mouth curving slightly.
Then under the gaze of the monkey exotic beast, Lu Sheng’s body began to shrink continuously, finally reducing to only just over ten meters tall.
After a moment of adapting to the new body, Lu Sheng slowly walked out of the valley towards the outskirts of the forest.
Soon, Lu Sheng saw outside the forest, a scorpion giant beast as tall as several tens of meters.
The body of this scorpion exotic beast was a gray-yellow color; during his time in the forest, Lu Sheng had also recognized the species.
Sandstone Scorpion, considered a rather decent tribe.
At the moment, the Sandstone Scorpion also sensed Lu Sheng’s presence, and it did not show any disrespect just because Lu Sheng was only over ten meters tall. Instead, it smiled and spoke to Lu Sheng.
"Congratulations, Lizard King, for becoming the ruler of this forest!"
Faced with the Sandstone Scorpion’s blessings, Lu Sheng naturally couldn’t show too much coldness. After all, Lu Sheng never strikes a smiling face unkindly.
The other party gave him respect, so Lu Sheng also returned a bit of respect in return.
"Thank you, may I know what brought you here?"
Lu Sheng said softly.
A giant beast suddenly appearing in his own territory must have a reason; otherwise, it wouldn’t have shown up here.
After all, in the Beast Realm, territorial instincts among major beasts are extremely strong. A giant beast rarely appears outside others’ territories, as it can easily cause misunderstandings.
"I am here to express our king’s goodwill!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly.
"As expected, just as I suspected, there is an even more powerful giant beast behind this Sandstone Scorpion. However... what kind of goodwill is the other party expressing towards me?"
Lu Sheng was somewhat curious in his heart. He looked at the Sandstone Scorpion in front of him and asked.
"What does your king wish to tell me?"
The Sandstone Scorpion smiled slightly without saying a word, just took out an ancient-looking stone tablet. The tablet was mottled, but it faintly emitted traces of energy fluctuations.
"The King of the Forest just needs to touch this stone tablet, and everything will be known!"
Lu Sheng looked at the stone tablet handed over by the Sandstone Scorpion, his eyes narrowing slightly. In the end, he raised his claw and placed it on the stone tablet.
In an instant, as Lu Sheng’s claw rested on the stone tablet, a surge of energy suddenly emanated from within the tablet and poured into Lu Sheng’s body.
Soon after, Lu Sheng sensed an abundance of information flooding into his mind.
Digesting the information in his mind, Lu Sheng also gained a deeper understanding of the Beast Realm.
When Lu Sheng opened his eyes again, a hint of surprise emerged.
"According to the information from the stone tablet, for a giant beast to advance from tier four to tier five, it must master the King’s Domain?"
"And the birth of a King’s Domain requires a giant beast to command an area for a long period, gradually giving rise to a domain through countless struggles."
"In this way, to master the King’s Domain and advance to tier five, these giant beasts need to continuously engage in battles and struggles."
"Therefore, previously in this forest, the nine giant beasts established different tribal groups to compete with other beasts, in order to be the first to give birth to a King’s Domain and step into tier five!"
"I didn’t expect that as soon as I stepped into the fourth tier, I would grasp the King’s Domain. All the resources stored in their group ended up benefiting me!"
Lu Sheng thought to himself, unable to hold back a smile.
No matter how the King’s Domain in the Beast Realm was created, it ultimately stems from a kind of perception of the Cosmic Dao by the creatures of the Beast Realm. Being fundamentally a seventh-tier Cosmic Life, Lu Sheng naturally has a deep understanding of the Cosmic Dao.
This is why, when he stepped into the fourth tier, he could give birth to the King’s Domain purely through his own understanding of the Cosmic Dao, without needing to go through struggles.
"In this regard, the way the creatures of the Beast Realm advance is rather like raising gu bugs!"
Lu Sheng’s eyes narrowed slightly as he recalled the way of life he’d been living since entering the Beast Realm, fighting numerous battles with other Exotic Beasts, growing step by step.
This is clearly the most crucial step in the gu raising model.
Bring countless Exotic Beasts together, allowing them to fight amongst each other to select the strongest Exotic Beast.
In this way... the gu raising is thoroughly completed.
"So... being called a king is merely the final result of raising gu bugs!"
Lu Sheng’s eyebrows raised slightly, then he began to continue digesting the information in his mind.
"The giant beasts constantly compete and fight to birth the King’s Domain, but the Giant Beast Kings who have mastered the King’s Domain instead maintain balance within their territories, reducing unnecessary conflicts."
"Such balancing could also likely be to prevent another giant beast with a King’s Domain from emerging within their territory, thereby threatening their position."
"After all... according to the information on the stone slabs, a Giant Beast King who masters the King’s Domain is also qualified to be called an Ancestor Giant Beast."
"But what exactly is this Ancestor Giant Beast?"
Lu Sheng searched in his mind for information but found nothing about the Ancestor Giant Beast, so he simply turned and asked the Gravel Scorpion nearby.
"What is an Ancestor Giant Beast?"
The Gravel Scorpion, seemingly anticipating Lu Sheng’s question, smiled slightly and explained to him, "The so-called Ancestor Giant Beast is the origin of all giant beast evolution!"
"Once you become an Ancestor Giant Beast, your bloodline will eternally flow in this world. Your descendants, regardless of how long they live, will always carry a trace of your bloodline within them."
"Unless, of course, they intentionally remove that part of your bloodline from their bodies, it’ll remain there forever."
"The birth of the world we live in now is due to the gift from the death of an Ancestor Giant Beast. It’s because of that Ancestor Giant Beast’s gift that we have this world as it is today."
"Surely... you’ve noticed there is a force of bloodline within you, likely originating from the Ancestor Giant Beast!"
The Gravel Scorpion smiled slightly at Lu Sheng.
Lu Sheng’s eyebrows raised slightly: "So, my bloodline purity, stuck at the final ninety-nine percent, with the last bit unable to be completely refined, is because this bloodline power comes from an Ancestor Giant Beast?"
"The very source of this bloodline power that I’ve sensed—it’s suspected to be a seventh-tier being?"
When he first entered the Beast Realm and learned the route to advance his bloodline power, Lu Sheng realized there was a lineage within him from a suspected seventh-tier Exotic Beast.
It turns out to be from the source Ancestor Giant Beast of this world.
"The bloodline power within you comes from the source Ancestor Giant Beast of our world—Entropy Phantom!"
Lu Sheng, hearing this, understood.
"No wonder I couldn’t clearly identify the bloodline power within me; it came from the source Ancestor Giant Beast."
"The Ancestor Giant Beast is already a seventh-tier Exotic Beast, while the source Ancestor Giant Beast has existed since the creation of the world, a rank even more powerful than an Ancestor Giant Beast."
"Even compared to my true form, its life level might surpass that of this source Ancestor Giant Beast."
"However..."
Lu Sheng thought to himself.
"Although this bloodline in my body comes from the source Ancestor Giant Beast, according to the Gravel Scorpion, this source giant beast should truly be dead."
"Otherwise, it couldn’t have left its bloodline in this world, as a seventh-tier Cosmic Life wouldn’t voluntarily bestow upon a Life Realm."
"The reason for doing so..."
Lu Sheng pondered, his eyes couldn’t help but narrow slightly.
"Passing down the bloodline power and nurturing stronger Exotic Beasts through a gu-raising-like method in the Beast Realm."
"And the Exotic Beasts raised through this gu-raising method must be tremendously powerful, possessing the bloodline power of the source Ancestor Giant Beast, becoming a new life form containing the source bloodline."
"What is the purpose of the source Ancestor Giant Beast’s actions? To cultivate its successor? Or..."
A faint light flickered in Lu Sheng’s eyes, and a thought quietly emerged in his heart.