Chapter 388: Nightmare Clan Cultivation System, Calamity Spirit History
No matter what, three five-eyed Nightmare Beasts were enough to make him feel troublesome.
If it were three True Martial Spirit Masters, Xia Feng wouldn’t have thought it difficult, as he could deprive the opponent of their spirit artifact and then fight back. However, dealing with the Nightmare Clan was different.
“Fifth-stage?” A deep, muffled voice came from the shadow monster in the rain curtain. It then let out a light laugh. “That foolish human is truly cautious, having us team up to kill a mere Rank 5.”
As they spoke in low voices, their figures fully materialized from the rain curtain. They were three humanoid creatures resembling black-furred monkeys, over two meters tall. Their protruding mouths and black fur-covered faces had five blood-red eyes, and a silver-white horn protruded from the center of their foreheads.
Xia Feng recognized this type of Nightmare Beast at a glance.
**Calamity Spirit Clan**
Within the Nightmare Clan, there were thousands of different species, each with its own Racial Talent, similar to human spirit artifacts. However, human spirit artifacts required luck to awaken, while Nightmare Beasts possessed them naturally. Some Nightmare Beast talents were powerful, while others were weak. As for the Calamity Spirit Clan’s talent, it was very simple: creating Calamity Spirit Pearls!
Calamity Spirit Pearls were aggregations of pure Calamity Force, an effective means of increasing combat power. High-level Calamity Spirit Pearls, which were extremely difficult to produce, could greatly amplify the combat power of one or even several Nightmare Beasts. This was also why the Calamity Spirit Clan held a relatively high status among the Nightmare Clan.
The attack methods of the Calamity Spirit Clan were very limited; they could produce high-concentration Calamity Force attacks against enemies. For this reason, their attacks were only effective against humans, not against their own kind. According to “History of the Nightmare Clan” that Xia Feng had learned, due to the harmlessness of the Calamity Spirit Clan’s talent to other species, this race was oppressed and enslaved for a long time, producing Calamity Spirit Pearls day and night. It was only until the appearance of the first Calamity Spirit Great Calamity that the Calamity Spirit Clan’s miserable fate ended, and their status gradually improved.
Looking at these three Calamity Spirit Clan members, a gentle smile appeared at the corner of Xia Feng’s lips. If it were any other Nightmare Clan species, he might have had to fight a bloody battle. But the Calamity Spirit Clan? I’m sorry, I’m not targeting anyone specifically; I’m saying the entire Calamity Spirit Clan is trash.
Seeing that the human remained motionless, appearing stunned, the three Calamity Spirit Clan members did not attack immediately. Instead, they unhurriedly took out a black bead. The terrifying Calamity Force emanating from the bead made Xia Feng’s pupils contract.
“My goodness, a high-level Calamity Spirit Pearl?” The bead floated into the air, and abyssal black terrifying energy overflowed from it, raising the aura of the three five-eyed Calamity Spirit Clan members layer by layer.
“Human, you should feel honored.” A deep voice sounded. The silver-white horns on the foreheads of the three Calamity Spirit Clan members emitted a silver-gray flash, converging into a terrifying Six-eyed Level Calamity Force aura.
“Roar!!!” The gray stream shot out like a light cannon, forcing Xia Feng back a full sixteenth of a step. He lowered his head to look at the terrifying energy that had dissipated before his chest, then blinked, raised his head, and smiled slightly: “Is that it?”
“???” This pure Calamity Force energy increased the progress of Xia Feng’s Calamity Demon Heart by 0.00001%, which was not even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth. However, it was fortunate that these three Calamity Spirit Clan brothers actually carried high-level Calamity Spirit Pearls with them! They were like good Nightmare offerings.
Ten seconds later.
The heads of the three ape-like Nightmare Beasts fell to the ground, rolling to Xia Feng’s feet. Xia Feng bent down and picked up the black beads from the ground. The pure Calamity Spirit Fluid contained within made his whole body excited, and his heart throbbed. With a gentle squeeze, the bead shattered, turning into countless ink-black liquid streams that flowed into his palm and into the Calamity Demon Heart.
[Repair Progress: 2.9808%]
[Absorbing High-level Calamity Spirit Pearl—]
[2.9919%]
[3.3012%]
[Repair Progress: 4.4799%]
At the same time, Xia Feng noticed that within his excitedly throbbing Calamity Demon Heart, six light spots vaguely appeared. Two of them had already been activated, emitting a golden radiance, representing the Shadow of the Blood Fiend and Calamity Spirit Touch, respectively. The remaining four light spots were dim. One of them had also begun to emit a light golden radiance as the repair progress increased, although it was not obvious. Reaching 10% would repair this light spot, activating the third Demonic Energy. A high-level Calamity Spirit Pearl could repair at most 1.5% of the progress, meaning he still needed four more high-level Calamity Spirit Pearls.
While Xia Feng was calculating this in his heart, he began interrogating the souls of the three Nightmare Beasts.
Using Yue Hongli’s Gui Scroll’s mind-reading ability, he quickly understood the reason these Nightmare Beasts had come to kill him. It was because of Che Tai Xian! Che Tai Xian’s spirit artifact, the Yin-Yang Mirror, not only allowed for dual cultivation for himself but also for others. Therefore, although Che Tai Xian was a wanted criminal and a Burning Heaven Evil Disciple, many high-ranking officials in the empire secretly maintained good relations with him, providing benefits in exchange for the right to use the Yin-Yang Mirror.
Xia Feng had directly killed Che Tai Xian, naturally angering many powerful figures. These dignitaries then pressured Ye Li, the City Lord of Helyan City, demanding that the killer be apprehended! To avenge Che Tai Xian! Of course, the real reason was that Che Tai Xian possessed the Sky-Mending Stone Embryo and a large amount of Obsidian. Since he died in Helyan City, these treasures naturally could not be allowed to flow out.
Xia Feng flipped his hand and took out a Water Obsidian he had snatched from Che Tai Xian from his Nascent Ten Space. After careful observation, he found that red dots flickered faintly within the Obsidian, appearing to be the effect of a positioning spirit artifact. This positioning light spot would automatically activate and reveal its current location if it didn’t sense anything for a month. Ye Li must have found him using this. Xia Feng crushed the Obsidian with force, and the red positioning dot dispersed.
He then carefully checked all the treasures in his Nascent Ten Space, and only after confirming there were no other positioning items did he feel relieved. He had to admit that this kind of non-offensive spirit artifact was hard to guard against; his copying ability couldn’t detect it at all, which was very disgusting.
However, according to the Calamity Spirit Clan’s confession, they had been lurking in the human world for a hundred years. This gathering and cooperation with Ye Li was for the promotion and transfer ritual of the **Shouling Great Calamity**. Assassinating Xia Feng was just a secondary objective. These Nightmare Beasts would later need to help Ye Li complete something, and in return, Ye Li would provide the materials needed for the Shouling Great Calamity’s transfer, such as large amounts of Calamity Spirit Pearls!
The so-called “transfer” was a special term in the Nightmare Clan’s cultivation system. Great Calamities and Great Disasters were not born naturally; these calamities, which controlled powerful rules, were all “transferred” from ordinary Calamity Beasts. The gap between those who had transferred and those who hadn’t was vast. It could be said that those of the ‘Calamity’ and ‘Disaster’ ranks could generally suppress those of the same eye-level ‘Calamity’ rank.
Generally, Nightmare Beasts were qualified to transfer upon reaching the Five-eyed stage. However, once they transferred, their eye-level cultivation would be fixed. While gaining rule power, they could no longer advance for the rest of their lives. For this reason, most Nightmare Beasts would choose to transfer at the Six-eyed stage at the earliest. Those with some ambition would choose the Seven-eyed stage, and exceptionally arrogant geniuses who wished to reach the Divine Realm might choose the Eight-eyed stage before transferring. Of course, such geniuses had not been seen for thousands of years.
