Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 822 - 182: Peach Blossom Calamity

Yitiao was indeed a crane with a story, just as Liu Zhenhan had expected, and his lapse was indeed related to emotional entanglements.

"Give me a cigar," Yitiao said, reaching out to the bartender.

A furry giant hand and a little claw reached out at the same time. ƒгeewebnovёl_com

It was Gude and Guoguo.

Ning Yu twisted Guoguo’s little cheek with a mixture of love and hate.

So, four exaggeratedly large cigars began to puff clouds of smoke together.

Yitiao’s gaze became profound, and the dusty memories slowly unfolded with the opening of the Pandora’s box...

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In the distant Silk Continent, creatures naturally endowed with powerful mana and superior intelligence are reverently referred to as "Divine Beasts," just as the Giant Dragons are esteemed in the Aegean Continent. Bolangsha cranes also belong to the upper echelon of "Divine Beasts" on the Silk Continent, at the very pinnacle of the pyramid.

For Bolangsha cranes, even newly hatched chicks possess mana that ordinary "Divine Beasts" cannot rival.

The Bolangsha crane clan believes that emotions are the greatest obstacle to cultivation. Thus, every crane mother would lay her egg in the body of a "Fire Sand Giant Silkworm" that is massive and slow-moving, deep in the mountain forests, choosing then to flap their wings and fly far away.

After hatching, the delectable flesh and blood of the "Fire Sand Giant Silkworms" are the best feast for the blind chicks, and by the time they finish devouring the entire enormity of the "Fire Sand Giant Silkworm," they are finally able to open their eyes. Generally speaking, the first creature they see is mistaken for their mother, an error that is gradually corrected as they grow and mature.

It can be said that every Bolangsha crane, from the moment of birth, is destined to live in solitude and pride, an irreconcilable contradiction rooted in the powerful abilities of their parents and the loneliness of abandonment by their kin.

Yitiao spent three thousand years in the "Tea Mountain" of his birthplace on the Silk Continent, cultivating himself to become an ultra-rank Divine Beast with formidable strength. Yitiao did not know what to call his own spells, so he named all of them after different types of tea leaves.

Unlike the Aegean Continent where only members of the Giant Dragon Clan can transform into human form upon reaching the fourth rank, ... on the distant and mystical Silk Continent, due to the abundant spiritual essence of heaven and earth, ordinary Divine Beasts could transform into human form if they were willing after only a few hundred years of cultivation, albeit their mana would be weak compared to the Magic Power of the common Magical Beasts of the Aegean Continent, which, although more difficult to achieve human form than ascending Xiang Pa, possess stronger magic power.

Divine Beasts capable of transforming into human form are referred to as "Mountain Spirits and Water Monsters" in the eyes of the common folk on the Silk Continent, who of course keep their distance out of respect, while warriors and mages do not consider them much of an issue.

The only exception is ultra-rank Divine Beasts like the Bolangsha crane. For ultra-rank Divine Beasts on the Silk Continent to achieve transformation into human form is particularly challenging. The more exceptional their abilities, the more this is true, yet if they manage to overcome the difficulties and cultivate into human form, their strength would skyrocket exponentially.

In fact, Yitiao had already mastered the "Mending Dew Great Method" on the Silk Continent, which allowed him to transform from crane to human form. Among the Bolangsha cranes with a theoretical lifespan of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years, it would generally take at least four thousand years for an ordinary Bolangsha crane to master the "Mending Dew Great Method" to transform into human form—a regrettable fact for ultra-rank Divine Beasts. If it were an ordinary Divine Beast of the Silk Continent, this process would take only a few hundred years to accomplish.

To achieve this a thousand years ahead of time was certainly a mark of genius in Yitiao.

Yitiao had always lived reclusively in the secluded Tea Mountain, practicing his skills out of interest and passion, never thinking about competing with anyone.

Unlike the typical solitary nature of ordinary Bolangsha cranes, Yitiao was naturally cheerful from a young age. When he first cracked his eggshell and opened his eyes, he saw a squirrel, which young Yitiao mistook for his mother. Remarkably, this squirrel mother was very spiritual, not as foolish as common wild beasts, and treated young Yitiao well, picking lice from his feathers, fetching him hazelnuts, and frolicking with him in the forest day and night.

This beautiful sense of being cherished by family allowed Yitiao to grow up without falling into desolation and becoming unsociable due to being abandoned by his birth parents. On the contrary, the fond memories of his childhood left by his squirrel mother meant that his emotional world wasn’t tainted with a single gray streak... This emotion was evident when Yitiao hit it off with Guoguo at first sight. Guoguo’s appearance greatly resembled the squirrel mother from the Silk Continent, and Guoguo’s gesture of catching lice for Yitiao at their first meeting reminded him of his long-buried feelings, gushing forth like a spring. This made it easy to understand why he was able to sign a "Soul Contract" with Guoguo so smoothly.

After successfully practicing the "Mending Dew Great Method" in Tea Mountain, reaching a higher level of cultivation was not something achievable within five or six thousand years. Therefore, Yitiao, who had thoroughly contemplated his life, chose to leave the mountain to explore the mundane world. With his chivalrous spirit, whether in human or crane form, his immense strength won him great fame in the human world, earning him the beautiful moniker "Eternal Aurora." The prosperity of the mortal world also gave Yitiao a growing sense of longing and belonging... Many ultra-rank Divine Beasts are reluctant to involve themselves in the mortal world for this reason: the bargain blooms of chaos can confuse the eye, the worldly realm is exactly this chaos that benefits cultivation in no way.