Chapter 757
Wu Qi did not know that the enraged princess had made such a scene in Zhong Province . He was now heading to the lair of the primitive heavenly ghosts with 378 strong heavenly ghosts and his soldiers . The heavenly ghosts were running hard on the ground while he was flying above them, sitting on Ao Buzun's back . Miles behind them, the flying ship was inching along, shrouded in dark clouds and thick mists .
Along the way, the bitter, cold wind kept blowing in his face . If it were in the outside world, a wind as strong and biting as this could easily dissolve any ordinary immortal's body and soul . But here in the ghost realm, such winds never stopped blowing; and as a result, the creatures here were much stronger than those in the outside world . The flesh of a creature of Nascent Divinity realm, who was born and grew up here, was strong enough to compete with those Heaven Immortals who focused in the cultivation of their fleshly bodies .
The heavenly ghosts who were leading the way down below were the perfect example . They were running at a speed almost equivalent to that of heaven immortals flying with swords . Well-fed, they could run at this speed for three days and three nights without rest . And, if they were willing to use some of their energy essence, they could run ten times faster for hours . With only their sturdy bodies, they could fight any heaven immortal .
It was only that they could not travel through the void when they were in the ghost realm . In fact, these heavenly ghosts could not penetrate the void as long as it was filled with innate ghost energy . But, once summoned to the outside world, the ability of traveling through the void to attack the enemies came to them naturally . On the contrary, the place filled with innate ghost energy was an absolute blind alley for ordinary immortals . Even a Gold Immortal who strayed into the ghost realm could not fly freely here . So, the heavenly ghosts' ability to run so fast here had proved their mightiness .
It had only taken these heavenly ghosts ten minutes to travel across the distance of hundreds of miles . Soon, they came to a stretch of rocky shore along a hundred miles wide river, riddled with jagged black rocks that messily piled up together like the teeth of thousands of wild dogs . Amidst these rocks, some tall heavenly ghosts could be seen crazily fighting against each other . From time to time a strong heavenly ghost threw his opponent to the ground, then excitedly grabbed the boulder beside him and beat his opponent's head hard .
This was a popular sport among the primitive heavenly ghosts . By throwing the opponents to the ground and beating their heads with boulders, the winners got to enjoy the females and flesh to their hearts' content while the losers had to hunt to feed these powerful members of the clan .
There was a popular saying among the immortals of the outside world, that the reason these primitive heavenly ghosts were able to produce descendants with intelligence after dozens of generations had to do with this brutal and bloody sport . By having their heads constantly beaten with boulders, it actually stimulated the evolution of their brains, allowing their chicken-egg-sized brains to grow larger; eventually making them more and more intelligent .
Of course, it was nothing more than a joke told by immortals who despised the primitive heavenly ghosts . But when Wu Qi saw them in such activities, he had a different thought . The strong ones were beating the weak at will, and the weak ones were beaten bloody days and nights, so they had to think of ways to turn the tables . And when physical strength had failed, it was only natural for them to scheme their opponents with intelligence . Eventually, it stimulated their evolution .
At the moment, there were thousands of heavenly ghosts playing this sport with great enthusiasm across the vast rocky shore . More than two thousand unlucky losers were pinned to the ground while the victors were beating their heads with hundred feet wide boulders in high spirits . These primitive heavenly ghosts had large heads, at least as big as two or three water buckets, but they contained only egg-sized brains . So, the air rang with thunderous booms as the boulders hit their heads that were mostly bones, where sparks could be seen darting out from time to time .
The spectacle of more than two thousand heavenly ghosts pinned to the ground and hit on the heads by boulders seemed to be both overwhelming and hilarious . Wu Qi twitched his mouth and said nothing, but Huang Liang and others were already grinning from ear to ear in the ship behind him .
In the heart of the rocky shore, on a patch of sandy ground surrounded by a screen-shaped black reef, a group of young heavenly ghosts was feeding frantically . Of these juveniles, the largest ones were about thirty feet long, their age equivalent of three to five years old human children; the smallest ones were only about one foot long, who had just been born not too long ago .
There was no such thing as respecting the old and caring for the young among the primitive heavenly ghosts . The older ones were gobbling up food wildly, and whenever some younger ones came to them and took a few bites at their prey, the former would give them a round of brutal beating . The scene of a thirty-feet-long heavenly ghost beating at a younger one that was only about one foot long looked almost like a burly adult hitting a small hen . It was both hilarious and cruel, and left Wu Qi speechless for the customs of these primitive heavenly ghosts .
Next to these little heavenly ghosts, thousands of male adults were madly mating with a group of female adults whose number was lesser . As their huge bodies slammed with one another, their hard bone shells and bone spikes constantly knocked against one another to fill the air with loud thuds and dazzling sparks . Occasionally, some worked their bodies so violently that their slender and powerful tails tore through the void and lashed the others like whips, leaving wounds so deep that bones could be seen through them .
Some heavenly ghosts who were accidentally wounded lurched to their feet while howling furiously, and battles began next . But, some others did not mind the wounds and still clung themselves to the females beneath them while sprinting for the finish lines .
This was the life of the primitive heavenly ghosts—after eating and drinking to their heart's content, they focused their minds in producing the next generation!
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