123: Chapter 123 The Giant Beast Dies
News of the Xuanwu spread like wildfire.
Especially among the upper echelons of the great powers.
It must be known that a year and a half ago, the Five Divine Beasts spanned multiple continents, a fact that remained etched in the minds of all those in high positions.
The fact that the Five Divine Beasts dissipated simultaneously in different locations cast a shadow over the entire event.
Immediately, the upper echelons of various countries began intensive negotiations.
Unlike ordinary people.
As the elite of humanity, these high-ranking officials considered far more than the average person.
With the resurgence of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, all things were evolving.
The fortunate thing was that other living creatures showed limitations in their development.
Lacking intelligence meant their will was unclear, and this chaotic will restricted creatures from advancing further.
As of now, the evolutionary end point for abnormal creatures was merely at the level of a Vicious Beast.
Even those entities known as Beast Kings were fundamentally nothing more than creatures that drew upon Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to cause their bodies to swell.
Without the condensation of will, there was a limit to how much their bodies could grow.
Therefore, the biological evolution in the natural world was nothing more than lambs waiting to be slaughtered by humans, posing no threat.
However.
The phantom images of the Five Divine Beasts from a year and a half ago, however, had shaken their views.
They still vividly remembered the sense of crisis they felt when seeing those phantom images.
Whether it was the true resurgence of mythology or the evolution of Vicious Beasts.
It all meant that something beyond their control had appeared.
Furthermore, if this was an opportunity for Vicious Beasts to evolve, it would be a shock to modern society.
If those massive Vicious Beasts were to advance further, it was feared that even Xiantian Experts would struggle to take them down.
After all, a larger body size meant more stored Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
With more Spiritual Qi, the power they could exert and the destructive force they brought would be greater.
"Are you certain it is that Xuanwu!?"
"According to existing evidence, even if it is not that specific one, it is inevitably deeply connected to it!"
The meeting room fell silent.
"Since that is the case, then hunt it down; there cannot be a second intelligent creature on Blue Star!"
The entire tone was thus set.
Various countries selected their elites to form a joint team.
The sixth year of the resurgence of Spiritual Qi.
Other Xiantian Experts were born in the Land of Huaxia.
Both Buddhism and Daoism had them.
And what drew the most attention was the birth of a Xiantian Expert belonging to the Republic's official organization.
Of course.
Other countries also began to sporadically produce their own Xiantian Experts or Half-step Xiantian Experts.
By now, the influence of Huaxia had become even more apparent.
They took the initiative to establish Martial Arts Academies in other countries, helping them spread martial arts.
The fact that other countries could produce Xiantian Experts, or even Half-step Xiantian Experts, was due to taking advantage of this.
However, the number of Xiantian Experts was simply too small.
Only a few great powers had one or two, sporadically.
It was not like Huaxia.
With Daoism, Buddhism, and even those supported by the Republic's officials, there were as many as seven Xiantian Experts.
For the joint team, the technological power was mainly led by the Russian Bear country, while the martial arts experts were led by the Huaxia side.
To convince everyone, the Huaxia side even sent a Half-step Xiantian to oversee the operation.
The strength of the team was very powerful.
In terms of technology, they dispatched several nuclear submarines, and as for the martial arts experts, the lowest among them were at the Peak of the Second-rate.
The massive team set off.
But the development of events indeed headed in the direction that everyone feared.
That giant beast resembling a Xuanwu had a body size of over fifty meters, and most crucially, it could draw upon a massive amount of water-attribute Spiritual Qi.
Within that Spiritual Qi, a faint, strange trace of Divine Will was detected.
Immediately, the governments of various countries became nervous and issued a direct kill order.
Hunt it down at all costs!
With that, artillery fire filled the sky, torpedoes were launched continuously, and even the martial arts experts of the joint team were deployed one after another.
Wave after wave of attacks landed on the behemoth.
The beast's roar, echoing through the sky, was filled with earth-shattering wails.
Even though the giant beast was exceptionally powerful, even though it could draw upon massive amounts of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, and even though it stirred up waves over a hundred meters high.
In the face of human determination and the combined blow of technology and martial arts, it ended up dying in the sea.
Blood stained the Arctic Ocean red.
Countless creatures were affected.
The joint team paid a heavy price.
Of the three nuclear submarines, two were severely damaged and lost power.
And the martial arts experts in the team were also severely injured.
Seven First-rate Experts were even lost.
That Half-step Xiantian, in order to protect the team, had even taken the giant beast's Spiritual Qi impact head-on, coughing up blood.
Without three months of rest, it was basically impossible to recover.
Such losses caused the high-ranking officials of all countries to lose color.
At this point, a consensus was almost reached.
If Vicious Beasts were allowed to develop Divine Will, it would bring about a great catastrophe.
Without another word, all the countries that participated in this operation divided up the giant beast.
Flesh, blood, and bones were continuously divided and sent into laboratories.
Even the blood in the sea, just in case, was sprayed with various agents to clear the bloodstains.
However, what surprised everyone was that although there were traces of Divine Will in the giant beast's flesh, during the exploration by Advanced Martial Artists, not a single fragment of Divine Will was found.
It must be known that Divine Will is a condensed state of will and Mental Energy.
Even if the creature died, it would not dissipate so quickly.
More often, it would be shattered into fragments.
Although they did not find the reason why the giant beast developed Divine Will, nor did they find any fragments of Divine Will.
But in terms of scientific research on the flesh, a major Breakthrough was discovered.
The giant beast's flesh was filled with an inexplicable energy, and this energy could actually extend human life and repair telomerase.
This research instantly caused an uproar among the upper echelons.
The researcher who first discovered this became famous overnight.
The researcher, who had gained both fame and fortune, often marveled at the wonder of fate.
He had just been short of meat while having a hotpot in the laboratory and had a sudden whim to taste the giant beast meat; he never expected that this one chopstick would bring him fame and fortune in an instant, allowing him to overtake others on the path of destiny.
Furthermore.
All the flesh was confiscated by the upper-level personnel.
This was the case for every country.
However.
Even though the giant beast's flesh was vast, it was still not enough to go around.
Various countries began to turn their attention to the other Divine Beast phantom images.
They felt that this giant beast had a direct relationship with that Xuanwu phantom image, and it might even have been born under the influence of that Xuanwu phantom image.
Therefore, since it was possible with Xuanwu, had other phantom images also given birth to giant beasts!?
In an instant, various countries mobilized frequently and began to investigate the places where the Divine Beast phantom images had dissipated.
...
Time rewinds.
Beneath the deep blue eternal ice crevice.
The pit that had been dug out was once again covered by cold ice.
Somewhere within the thick, ten-thousand-year-old ice, a five-colored light faintly shimmered.
Returning to the moment the Xuanwu giant beast died, the five-colored light suddenly trembled.
The blue light around the figure coiled within it instantly flared up.
A profound and mysterious ripple came from afar and instantly merged into that body.