Mystic Bird

Immediately, several screams rang out. Dense Steel Tail Scorpions crowded around the legs of the mounts, their tails, tips gleaming with cold light, stabbing at the hooves and legs of the mounts.

The Alloy Grade mounts could withstand the scorpion tails' stings, but the legs and hooves of the steel pets were not so lucky. Stung by countless scorpion tails, they were startled and desperately kicked and leaped, nearly throwing off several Gene Mutators.

"Save them, charge through!" Wang Tianer made a decisive decision, spurred his mount forward, and directly pulled over a Wang Family Gene Mutator who was about to be thrown off. The two rode on one mount.

Everyone followed suit, pulling the Gene Mutators without Alloy Grade mounts onto their own mounts, and then quickly charged forward.

They had already gone seven or eight miles deep into the Flower Road. Retreating was even further, so they might as well charge straight ahead.

Fortunately, the scorpion tails of the Steel Tail Scorpions could hardly damage the Alloy Grade pets. Everyone charged through wildly, trampling countless Steel Tail Scorpions to death.

They charged wildly for four or five miles. The road was full of densely surging Steel Tail Scorpions. There was no telling how many of these things there were.

From a distance, they saw a canyon ahead. The canyon was connected to the Flower Road, yet despite being only a line apart, there wasn't a single colorful steel flower in the canyon. The dense Steel Tail Scorpions also seemed to be blocked by a mysterious force, no matter how crowded they were, they did not surge into the canyon.

Everyone's spirits lifted, and they accelerated towards the canyon.

Just as the people at the very front were about to rush to the mouth of the canyon, they suddenly saw a colorful light and shadow drill out from underground. The Gene Mutator at the very front, along with his mount, was pierced through.

The man lowered his head and looked at the bloody hole in his chest and the huge, colorful scorpion tail piercing out diagonally. His face was full of horror. He opened his mouth to say something, but couldn't make a sound, only streams of blood gushed out.

In the shocked eyes of the crowd, the man's body, along with his mount, was directly lifted up and suspended in the air. A giant, colorful scorpion tail behind him slowly swayed, causing the man's body and mount to also sway in the air.

Their eyes were filled with horror. One had to know that both the man and his mount were Alloy Grade, yet they were pierced through so easily. The hardness of that scorpion tail was astonishing.

Several mounts couldn't stop in time and tried to charge past from the side, but two more colorful scorpion tails drilled out from underground, instantly piercing through their mounts.

Fortunately, these two Alloy Gene Mutators reacted quickly enough, leaped off their mounts sideways, and landed in the dense scorpion tide.

The scorpion tails of the Steel Tail Scorpions stabbed at them, making a constant clanging sound. Fortunately, the Steel Tail Scorpions were not strong enough to pierce their Alloy Carapaces.

The two swept away the Steel Tail Scorpions on them, immediately jumped up again, and landed on the mounts of the waiting Gene Mutators.

The ground cracked open, and colorful steel flowers scattered. A scorpion as huge as an elephant, with a colorful body, drilled out from underground. Three scorpion tails behind it danced eerily, hanging bodies.

"That's an Alloy Grade Armored Demon Scorpion King... No... An Armored Demon Scorpion King should only have one scorpion tail... How can it have three..." Lao Ye blocked in front of Lin Shen, saying with some horror.

The Armored Demon Scorpion King's three scorpion tails suddenly whipped, and the bodies hanging on them were immediately flung out like cannonballs, smashing heavily onto the ground. The ground was smashed into a large pit, and in an instant, it was submerged by the surging Steel Tail Scorpions. They were definitely not alive.

The Scorpion King swung its scorpion tails, wanting to stab other Gene Mutators. An Alloy Gene Mutator couldn't dodge in time and could only use his alloy-wrapped arm to block the scorpion tail.

Unexpectedly, the force of that scorpion tail was extremely powerful. That Alloy Gene Mutator, along with his mount, was smashed to the ground, and cracks appeared on the Alloy Carapace of his arm.

Seeing this, the other Gene Mutators dodged one after another. The ferocious Three-Tailed Scorpion King blocked the front of the canyon, and for a time, no one dared to charge through.

"Damn it, you're courting death." Wang Tianer saw that two of his own Alloy Gene Mutators had been killed and, in a fit of rage, threw out a black crystal-like Pet Capsule.

The Pet Capsule transformed into a pitch-black black crystal bird in mid-air. Its wingspan was four or five meters long. It turned into a black lightning bolt and charged towards the Three-Tailed Scorpion King.

The Three-Tailed Scorpion King brandished its terrifying scorpion tails and stabbed at the charging black crystal bird, but the black crystal bird extended its claws and actually grabbed one scorpion tail with each claw.

The third scorpion tail stabbed towards the bird's chest. The bird lowered its head and pecked, actually breaking the hard, colorful alloy scorpion tail in half.

Its sharp claws, like hooks and blades, exerted force, and the other two scorpion tails also broke immediately.

The bird let out a strange cry, grabbed the broken tails, and flung the huge body of the Scorpion King into the air.

With a flap of its wings, the bird flew upwards against the current, like a moon blade cutting the sky, instantly slicing the Scorpion King's incredibly hard body into two halves, which smashed heavily onto the ground, creating two large pits.

The large bird let out another long cry towards the sky, then flew back to Wang Tianer's side, circling above his head.

"Is that the Mystic Bird?" Lin Shen examined the large black crystal bird. It resembled a phoenix but lacked feathers, and while it looked like a crow, its cry was like a phoenix's.

The Blackbird Base was named as such because a nest of Crystal Gene Level Blackbird Eggs was discovered nearby. The Lin, Qi, and Wang families all rose to prominence relying on the Mystic Bird.

It is said that the ancestors of the Lin, Qi, and Wang families found the Mystic Bird nest together and each obtained a Blackbird Egg. Relying on the Mystic Bird's power, they established the Blackbird Base.

Later, the Lin Family lost their Mystic Bird and once declined to the point of almost being kicked out of the three families. Fortunately, the Lin Family produced Second Master Lin Yin, which allowed the Lin Family to stabilize the situation.

To this day, the Mystic Bird remains the strongest pet in the Blackbird Base. Even though the three families later acquired Crystal Gene Level pets through other channels, they still couldn't compare to the Mystic Bird. Legend has it that the Mystic Bird might be a top-tier Crystal Gene Creature with full stats in all four aspects.

Since the Lin Family no longer had a Mystic Bird, Lin Shen had never seen one. Everything he knew was from what his family members told him.

The Mystic Birds of the Qi and Wang families had been passed down and rarely appeared. Now that Qi Shuheng and Wang Tianer were the figureheads of their respective families, it was not surprising that the Mystic Bird was with them.

Whether it was due to being intimidated by the Mystic Bird's ferocity or because the Scorpion King was dead, the Steel Tail Scorpions, which had been like a tide, stopped attacking everyone. They burrowed underground and retreated completely within moments.

"Senior Brother Lin really didn't lie to me. The Mystic Bird is indeed a top-tier Crystal Gene Creature," Bai Shenfei said, gazing at the Mystic Bird.

"It's just a mere Mystic Bird. It's decent in a small place like ours, but in a place like Seahorn Base, it's nothing special," Wang Tianer said, instructing people to collect the Gene Mutation Fluid from the Scorpion King's body.

Everyone saw through his intentions. He used the Mystic Bird to kill the Scorpion King not only to avenge his family but likely more so to monopolize the Scorpion King.

That Scorpion King was clearly not an ordinary Alloy Creature. Both its body material and Gene Mutation Fluid were rare good things.

Since the Scorpion King was killed by Wang Tianer, naturally no one competed with him, allowing him to collect the Gene Mutation Fluid.

The Scorpion King's corpse naturally couldn't be left here. Wang Tianer directly had two Gene Mutators and their pets drag the corpse back to the base.

After everyone entered the canyon, it was already getting dark. After discussion, the families decided to rest here for the night and continue their journey early tomorrow morning.

Lin Shen and Lao Ye stayed in the same tent, while Wei Wufu kept watch outside the tent.

Lin Shen offered Lao Ye a tent, but Wei Wufu refused to use it. He just sat outside Lin Shen's tent, leaning against his backpack and resting with his eyes closed.

"Fourth Master, the situation at the Flower Road today seemed a bit off," Lao Ye said to Lin Shen in a low voice inside the tent.

"What was off?" Lin Shen asked.

"We scouted twice at first and didn't find any Steel Tail Scorpions. After we went in and reached a point where we couldn't advance or retreat, those Steel Tail Scorpions suddenly attacked. It was clearly premeditated, and ordinary Gene Mutation Creatures don't have that kind of intelligence. Moreover, that Armored Demon Scorpion King actually had three tails and was much stronger than the Armored Demon Scorpion Kings we've seen before. The Gene Mutation Creatures here are quite unusual," Lao Ye said.

"The Gene Mutation Creatures here are indeed a bit strange," Lin Shen nodded slightly.

"That's not the main problem. The truly strange thing is that Mystic Bird," Lao Ye's eyes flickered.

"Are you saying that Mystic Bird is too strong?" Lin Shen asked, puzzled.

Lao Ye shook his head and said, "The Mystic Bird is already very strong, there's no doubt about that. Otherwise, the three families wouldn't have been able to establish the base relying on the Mystic Bird."

After a pause, Lao Ye's voice lowered a few more degrees. "Didn't you notice? Those Steel Tail Scorpions were very afraid of the Mystic Bird. Not just the Steel Tail Scorpions, but even that Three-Tailed Armored Demon Scorpion King was very afraid of the Mystic Bird. When it saw the Mystic Bird, its movements became a bit stiff, otherwise it wouldn't have been killed in just two moves."

"Perhaps it's just because the Mystic Bird is too strong, after all, there's a difference in level," Lin Shen mused.

Lao Ye was noncommittal and said mysteriously, "Fifth Brother, I think I heard Fourth Master say that the place where the ancestors of the three families discovered the Blackbird Eggs was seemingly near this canyon."