Chapter 691

Chapter 691: Demon Beast

Penglai Continent

Li Qing and Zheng Yi entered the land of Penglai Continent. As soon as they set foot there, Li Qing felt strong nuclear radiation and had to increase her magical power and strengthen her protective shield.

"Are there still people alive in Penglai Continent?"

"According to the information, there are no more living people. When the world-destroying nuclear bomb detonated years ago, it wiped out about half of the population in Penglai Continent. Some people managed to hide in the mountains, but in the following years, the demons ravaged the land, and all the humans were killed. We sent many drones to investigate, but didn’t find any survivors."

"How tragic."

Li Qing sighed. Penglai Continent used to have a population of billions, but now it has become a deserted place. Only a few tens of millions managed to escape, while the rest perished. The situation was too horrible to describe.

"It’s truly tragic. The hatred between humans and demons is unbreakable."

Zheng Yi said. He didn’t understand why Li Qing was sighing. After all, hundreds of thousands of people from Penglai Continent fled to Ying Continent, only to be sent to the front lines by Li Qing herself as cannon fodder. Over the years, it was estimated that nearly a million people had died. The humans in Penglai Continent were extinct, and they also had a share of the blame.

"It’s a fight between different groups, it’s a fight to the end."

"Yes, leader."

"What about those scary demon beasts? Let’s go check."

"Okay, leader, follow me."

Zheng Yi nodded, then led Li Qing and others deep into the heart of Penglai Continent.

There were a total of more than ten nuclear weapons released on Penglai Continent, besides the one that could destroy the world, there were also some tactical nuclear weapons, but the contamination from these tactical nuclear weapons was greater.

Nuclear radiation has no effect on high-level cultivators and high-level demon beasts, as they can use their skills to expel the radiation from their bodies. However, for low-level cultivators and demon beasts, it is deadly.

Most organisms contaminated by nuclear radiation will tragically die, but there are still some lucky ones who survive and undergo mutations, becoming terrifying creatures called demon beasts.

"Leader, when it comes to human bodies, nuclear radiation mainly affects…"

On the road, Zheng Yi explained to Li Qing about the dangers of nuclear radiation, mainly that it can cause diseases like leukemia and cancer.

The reason why the surviving monsters are called demon beasts is mainly due to genetic mutations, which happen randomly and cannot be scientifically predicted.

In the mortal era, there were animal genetic mutations, but mostly they were changes in size, like rats bigger than dogs. However, in this era, it’s different. Because of their strong vitality, many demon beasts survived the mutation stage. Their genes are complex due to the diverse bloodlines, making the mutations even more unpredictable.

"Leader, this is the lair of a demon beast. Its original form should have been a Roaring Moon Wind Wolf, but now it’s hard to say. Here are the photos we took."

Zheng Yi handed a tablet to Li Qing. She saw a creature similar to a wolf on it, but it looked scary with many boils, fur like a mangy dog, and crimson eyes that were frightening. Surprisingly, it had two wolf heads on its neck.

"Was this Roaring Moon Wind Wolf born before or after the mutation?"

"It’s still not very clear, but scientists predict it was born after the mutation because the two-headed wolf situation never happened before."

"How strong is this demon beast?"

"Much stronger than monsters. They are more ruthless, bloodthirsty, irrational, have high pain tolerance, faster speed, greater strength, fast recovery, and they are also intelligent, skilled hunters."

"Wow, isn’t this the perfect direction for evolution?"

"It seems so, but this kind of evolution is terrifying, it’s chaotic and demon beasts are very bloodthirsty, almost killing all living beings."

Zheng Yi said he didn’t know the specific situation of demon beasts, scientists haven’t figured it out either, but he didn’t think this was a normal direction for evolution.

"Got it, go lure out the demon beast, I’ll personally handle it."

Li Qing quickly sent several cultivators to lure the demon beast, the Roaring Moon Wind Wolf soon appeared, Li Qing took action personally and captured it without any doubt.

Li Qing and the others caught several demon beasts in a row before returning to Ying Continent. They then handed over the demon beasts to the Spiritual Energy Research Institute in Ying Continent. Ying Continent’s technological level was not as advanced as Shen Continent’s, but it had some research capabilities.

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Haigang City

Lin Jiang was reading a document about demon beasts from Penglai Continent. The matter of demon beasts from Penglai Continent has always been of interest to Huaxia. There are crazy scientists suggesting mass-producing demon beasts in Huaxia and releasing them into Fangzhang Continent to let the demon clan and demon beasts fight each other, hoping to benefit from the infighting.

"These scientists are getting crazier, this application will not be approved."

After reading it, Lin Jiang immediately rejected the proposal.

"It’s all your fault, those scientists keep coming up with crazy ideas to win projects, regardless of the consequences."

Cao Ying remarked on the side that Lin Jiang highly respects technology, which is why he also highly regards the scientists, leading them to propose all sorts of strange ideas just to win projects.

"Most scientists are good, only a few are crazy, we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater."

"Hehe, what if they are conducting secret research?"

"Don’t worry, they can’t escape my scrutiny."

Lin Jiang shook his head, having watched many sci-fi movies, realizing that many villains in those movies are evil scientists. Therefore, in the scientific community of Huaxia, his scrutiny covers almost everywhere, how could they escape his control?

"You can control the scientific community, but what about the cultivation world?"

"What does that mean?"

"Have you seen the briefing? There have been many new martial arts techniques appearing in Huaxia recently, like the Overlord Scroll."

"Overlord Scroll?"

"Yes."

"Show me the information."

Lin Jiang was surprised and asked the artificial intelligence to retrieve the information. He couldn’t handle everything himself all the time, as he would never have time to sleep. Therefore, many messages were sorted by priority, and unless they were urgent, the artificial intelligence handled them.

"Indeed, it is the Overlord Scroll."

Lin Jiang said that the Overlord Scroll was the first high-level martial arts technique he had received, and it was given to him for free. Although he remembered it well, he hadn’t practiced it because it had significant flaws.

"Your artificial intelligence database is not comprehensive enough. If I hadn’t seen this message just now, we would have missed it completely! Do you realize how dangerous this martial arts technique can be?"

"I understand, I will update in time. Someone is planning this technique and they deliberately left out the flaws."

Lin Jiang nodded. His artificial intelligence database is not very high because he wants to control it, he is afraid of artificial intelligence knowing all the secrets and causing problems that cannot be countered.

"Yes, not just this book, I found several others too. Someone is stirring up trouble."

"Who do you think did it?"

"The only ones truly inheriting the cultivation techniques from the Xianxia era are our family, the Li Qing family from Ying Continent, and another family of demons."

"Do you suspect Li Qing?"

"In total, there are three families. Apart from us, there are only two left. Li Qing should account for at least fifty percent."

"You’re mistaken. Li Qing is not foolish. If they truly wanted to promote it, they wouldn’t need to do it through us. They can play around with it in Ying Continent. These few successful techniques come at a great cost – reaching the peak of cultivation to Soul Changing, but with a very short lifespan. It’s a true cannon fodder technique. She has no reason to do this."

"Then it must be the demons."

"I think so too, the monsters are good at using spies. We caught a group of them before, but I think they have sent new spies. Spies can cause a lot of damage, so I asked Wu Li to investigate."

Lin Jiang said he doesn’t think Li Qing did it. Li Qing didn’t need to do it. He thinks it was the monsters who did it. The monsters took away many treasures in the past, including a lot of secret techniques. This is what he sees now.

Lin Jiang called Wu Li to start investigating. The search is not only in Huaxia but also in other areas. They also need to educate people, telling those who got the techniques where the weaknesses are. They shouldn’t be deceived.

Lin Jiang is not taking this matter lightly. In this era, the distribution of wealth in society is very unequal, with too many poor people. Becoming a cultivator now is the best way to move up in class. Many poor people want to take risks, feeling that being too poor is scarier than death. At least becoming a cultivator seems simpler than doing illegal things and getting killed.