Chapter 141: Diving Maniac

Myriad Heads Hydras were born with a certain number of heads and that dictated many of their traits.

Like most beasts in the main world, the Myriad Heads Hydras were not intelligent and simply possessed outstanding battle strength.

However, when a Myriad Heads Hydra is born with seven heads or more, such a beast would become sentient.

Throughout the lifetime of a Myriad Heads Hydra, the number of heads would remain the same but a very small fraction of the sentient Myriad Heads Hydras could grow another head.

This was known as mutation.

Lu Zheng could tell that the seven headed Myriad Heads Hydra was a mutated one as it had limbs but it only had seven heads. That meant that its mutation was still incomplete.

When a seven headed Myriad Heads Hydra mutated, it would grow another head, a pair of wings and strong limbs. Its battle strength would also increase greatly.

Lu Zheng had deduced that the seven headed beast had paused its mutation to fend them off as when Myriad Heads Hydras underwent mutation, their battle strength would reach an all-time low.

Because of this phenomenon, the eight beast core that would be in the extra head would be stored in the central head of the seven headed beast.

Lu Zheng took advantage of the ignorance of Houyan Meili and the others and took the mutated beast core for himself.

The beast core in Lu Zheng's palms was filled to the brim with pure Essence. It was like a vita; stone but its contents were much more.

Moreover, the beast core did not contain Qi but rather, Essence.

Essence was a much more concentrated version of Qi and was the primary source of energy for Acquisition realm experts and rank seven beasts.

Lu Zheng knew, this beast core would be of immense help when he attempted breaking through to the third tier of Void Passage realm.

"Sadly, rank seven beasts are not easy to kill" Lu Zheng muttered dejectedly.

For Lu Zheng to kill a rank seven beast on his own, he would have to go all out without holding back in the least.

Clearing his mind of all useless thoughts, Lu Zheng held the beast core firmly and began absorbing the Essence within it.

Time passed slowly as minutes became hours. Only after fifteen hours did Lu Zheng stop and even then, he had only absorbed a very small fragment of the beast core.

Lu Zheng smiled as he stored the beast core in his spatial ring. After cooking and eating some of the high grade beast meat in his spatial ring, he left for the Sea of Nirvana.

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"Eh?! Isn't that the Diving Maniac?" A man from the Spirit race pointed at a man in red robes.

"Hmm. He is the one. I can recognise that cold gaze even in my sleep" Another man replied. "Word around is that he has reached the seventh layer of the Sea of Nirvana"

"What!? That is even higher than the Thunder Soul Monarch!" A third man who was also from the Spirit race exclaimed in shock.

"Idiot! What do you know!?" The second man rebuked. "The only reason the Thunder Soul Monarch is stuck at the sixth layer of the Sea of Nirvana is because of his extremely high soul foundation"

"What do you mean?" The third man was confused.

"Iain is right" The first man said. "The higher one's soul foundation, the more painful the Nirvana Flames become. Not to mention that we of the Spirit race are extremely sensitive to the soul"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Diving Maniac has very low soul foundation. He is after all a measly human" The man named Iain sneered before his expression changed into pure awe. "Hey, I heard that the Thunder Soul Monarch has a soul foundation above the eight million man soul level"

"I heard it may even be higher" The first man added in full admiration.

"Hmph!" The third man snorted. "I still believe it is a great thing for the Diving Maniac to reach the seventh layer of the Sea of Nirvana even as a human"

Lu Zheng who was currently garbed in his usual red robes had overheard the three men's conversation.

Obviously, he was the Diving Maniac but he did not care what the others may think. Such matters were thoroughly pointless.

Like he had been doing since he came to Chang Court, Lu Zheng dived into the pink flames of the Sea of Nirvana.