Monster Paradise - Chapter 256

Chapter 256

The sun rose in the morning and the air in the lush jungle was extraordinarily fresh . Lin Huang stretched his body in the hammock that was strung between two branches, then with sleepy eyes, he sat up . He looked around him, the lush leaves reminding him that he was in the desert oasis . After confirming the direction of the lake, Lin Huang hopped down from the hammock and walked to the nearby lake barefooted .

There were a couple of tiny monsters drinking water at the lake . Seeing Lin Huang, they looked at him with their guards up . They seemed to be zoned out, looking like stupid but adorable monsters . Lin Huang waved at the monsters .

"Good morning! Are you here to drink? Do you mind if I take a shower here?"

Not understanding what he was talking about, Lin Huang’s hand that was lifted up scared them . They ran away immediately, two of them even running into each other and before falling . They got up immediately and disappeared .

"Oh, they’re so timid…" Although different monsters had different characters, it was the first time Lin Huang saw such timid ones . The monsters that he encountered would always attack humans . Monsters would only run away when they saw powerful summoning beasts with Lin Huang . He shook his head and laughed . He then took off all his clothes and put everything in his storage space before leaping into the lake .

It was spring and although the temperature in the desert was slightly high, the lake water was cool . As Lin Huang’s physique was comparable to a gold-level rank-3, he did not think it was cold; it felt cool against his skin . Entering the lake, Bloody returned to its normal size with its 1,000 meter-long vine, swimming in the water . Although it was a parasite, it was still a plant that loved water . Seeing it having fun in the water, Lin Huang did not want to stop it .

"Have fun in the lake, I’m going back to the hammock after I’m done bathing . "

Bloody nodded as it heard Lin Huang and headed deeper into the water . Lin Huang swam for a little while after he bathed so that he could stretch his body before leaving . The body that he used for Ye Xiu’s identity was exactly the same as his old one on Earth; even his body ratio was the same . He looked like a closet hunk about 1 . 83 meters tall in his mid-twenties . Now that he had arrived in this world, his six packs had developed into eight and his abs were even more defined on his body .

He walked to the shore naked, wiped himself with a dry towel and put on his clothes . The lake was quiet . Bloody was nowhere to be seen and Lin Huang had no idea where did it go . However, he was not concerned about its safety . Even if it encountered a gold-level rank-3 monster, Bloody which was a double mutated silver-level rank-3 might not be able to fight it but it would be easy for it to escape . As long as it did not encounter any Transcendent monster, then it would be alright . Bloody’s intelligence was terrifyingly high now, so it was impossible that it would find fault with any Transcendent monster .

Lin Huang returned to his hammock and sat down . He read the news while eating some snacks for breakfast .

"Wow, Zhu Nian has been promoted to a senior executive officer . . . " Seeing the picture of the middle-aged man in the top news, Lin Huang was stunned . He remembered the man was the Transcendent who had been defeated by the Ghastly Clown outside of Daxi City .

"No wonder he’s so much more powerful than the other people of holy fire-level . Only immortal-level people could be a senior executive officer . Now that he is promoted in the Division7 Hunter Association, that means he’s now an immortal-level . Although he was not immortal-level yet when he fought the Ghastly Clown last year, he should have been close by then . " Lin Huang did not expect that the Zhu Nian that he saved using a seal card earlier could achieve such an impressive accomplishment .

Apart from the first to the third safety zones, all of the Hunter Association divisions in the safety zones would have less than 20 senior executive officers in each division . In Division7, there were only 12 of them before Zhu Nian was promoted . They now had 13 senior executive officers in Division7 . Lin Huang then read his personal biography .

"He graduated from basic military college when he was 28 with only a pass…He was not accepted into any privilege military school…With his own abilities, he managed to get to holy fire-level when he was 58 and immortal-level when he was 75…This guy's a late bloomer!" Lin Huang exclaimed after reading Zhu Nian’s biography .

In reality, his being such a genius was not terrifying but many of them could not accomplish anything as they had not put in enough effort . Lin Huang had heard similar stories when he was on Earth . However, it was even crueler in this world . Not only would geniuses be lacking if not enough effort was made, they might even be assassinated by the dark world . Moreover, the younger one achieved fame, the more arrogant one would usually be . Once he encountered any failures, he would not be able to get up and that would be the end of his glory .

However, people such as Zhu Nian was scary as he had stood up many times from countless failures . Through the struggles and many lessons in life, with enough experience, he grabbed his opportunity to achieve what he had today . Zhu Nian was the classic example of such a case . Many people thought that famous people were born geniuses and that that was how they achieved what they had today . Many did not know that most of them were the same as the rest; they were just ordinary people . Most of the mythical stories about the powerful people when they were young were either exaggerated or made up . The truth was that the effort they put in as they grew were much more than the others, hence contributing to their accomplishments . Hard work was much more important than talent!

Because of that, Lin Huang had never stopped training himself although he had a powerful Goldfinger . After reading the news about Zhu Nian, Lin Huang glanced at other news . Just when he was done with breakfast, a red glow plunged towards him like lightning, twisting around his arm . Lin Huang knew that it was Bloody . However, it seemed to be in a rush .

"What’s wrong?" Seeing that Bloody was pulling him down, Lin Huang leaped onto the ground immediately .

Bloody then detached from his arm and gestured to Lin Huang to follow it before hurrying away . Lin Huang followed it immediately . As they arrived at the edge of the lake, Bloody wrote on the ground beside the lake, "I found the Starlight Beast’s lair . It’s at the bottom of the lake!"