Chapter 72: Swamp Beast

  Under Lao Ma's lead, Zheng Feng and his group arrived at another room.

  As soon as I entered the room, I could smell a musty odor and the floor was very damp. The room was large, but the lighting was poor, making it abnormally dark, and I couldn't see the situation in the room clearly.

  Ordinary people would inevitably feel oppressed when entering such an environment, but Duanyan seemed to like the environment here and quickened his pace.

  Zheng Feng felt that every step he took would land on wet ground. He knew that this environment shouldn't have been here originally, and it was probably changed to accommodate the soul beast.

  The attribute of the cliff is swamp, and indeed there is a bit of similarity with the environment of the swamp. What exactly is that special soul beast that Old Horse was talking about?

  The old horse walked to a corner on the left and touched it with his hand. The beast crystal sensing light lit up.

  Zheng Feng and they also saw clearly what was in the room at this time.

  This room is more than twice the price of the previous one where the Stormwind Iron Rhino was kept. In the center of the room, there is a huge glass box and a ladder, nothing else.

  The glass box was roughly a cube with sides of three meters. What struck Zheng Feng as strange was that inside the glass box, there were no soul beasts, but rather a whole boxful of dirt.

  Yes, the entire glass box was filled with mud, almost filling up the whole box, leaving only about 20 centimeters of space at the top.

  If one had to say something other than mud, it would be that the mud was mixed with many vines and rotting plants, such as leaves, branches, trunks and weeds.

  Bubbles kept emerging from the mud one after another.

  Zheng Feng saw the cliff and put his hand on the glass box, as if sensing something.

  "Tail, could this soul beast be in the mud?"

  "Haha~~~ You ignorant fool, what kind of Soul Beast would live in this pile of dirt? The soil in this glass box is the Soul Beast!"

  What!?! This pile of dirt is actually a Soul Beast!!! Isn't this too strange?!

  It's not just Zheng Feng who feels strange. Fu Yanjie asked directly, "Old Ma, why did you bring us to see this box of dirt? Where is the Soul Beast?"

  The old horse was also somewhat embarrassed and said, "Young master, you should know that some variant attribute soul beasts are not easy to find, and they must be above the level of a mad beast. In fact, this pile of mud is a soul beast."

  Seeing Fu Yanjie's "You're also too much!" gaze, Lao Ma became even more depressed. He had no choice but to continue explaining with a thick face.

  "Young master, I don't know what kind of soul beast this is either. This was sold to us by a mercenary group after our Chamber of Commerce offered a high price for the purchase of swamp attribute soul beasts."

  Fu Yanjie couldn't help but interrupt when he heard Old Ma himself didn't know what it was.

  "What, you don't even know what this is and yet you dare to buy it at a high price! What if this is just a pile of worthless earth? Old Ma, how can you be so careless?"

  "Young master, don't be impatient. If this were ordinary soil, I wouldn't have bought it. The mercenary captain said that they discovered the Soul Beast by chance while hunting in the Kalimdor Swamp. They were operating at the edge of the swamp when one person suddenly fell into the swamp for no reason, and they thought it would be fine to just pull him back up."

  "Who knew the marsh's wet soil would automatically wrap itself around that member's body. It quickly wrapped that member up tightly and pulled it down rapidly. After that member sank, the entire marsh was completely still. The mercenary captain had never seen anything like this before, but he steeled himself, found a huge glass box, and with great difficulty managed to get the entire block of wet soil inside, then brought it to our guild."

  "After being detected by experts, the wet soil in this glass box indeed contains marsh attribute beast soul power, and it's not low either. It's absolutely above the upper rank of wild beasts. The specific value is hard to measure through the box. But one thing can be determined: this is a new type of marsh soul beast. After all, there are too many soul beasts that have not been discovered by humans yet, and the types of soul beasts are updated every day."

  After hearing Lao Ma's incomplete introduction, Zheng Feng asked about the 'encyclopedia' he carried with him.

  "Tail, since you know this pile of wet soil is a Soul Beast, shouldn't you also know its origin?"

  "Of course, they were originally ancient tree people with autonomous consciousness, stubbornly guarding their territory. However, after a long period of time, they slowly withered and died, turning into a pile of dry wood buried in the mud. Most of them died directly, but under certain specific environments, the withered ancient tree people would slowly merge with the surrounding mud, forming another type of soul beast."

  "This soul beast is the swamp beast you see now, but the swamp beast doesn't have any consciousness of autonomous action, it will only instinctively devour and absorb the creatures that enter its body, perhaps this instinct comes from the strong attachment to guarding its territory in its previous life, who knows?"

  "The Marsh Beast can't evolve, but it can strengthen itself by swallowing other creatures. If the 'geographical location' is good and there are enough 'unlucky' creatures around, I've seen the largest Marsh Beasts reach over a hundred cubic meters in size. However, since the Marsh Beast doesn't have its own consciousness, it won't attack other creatures on its own, making it hard to grow. That mercenary was unlucky too - if he hadn't stepped into the Marsh Beast's territory, even standing next to it for ten days and nights wouldn't have triggered an attack."

  In the end, the tail did not forget to mock the unlucky mercenary who was swallowed by the swamp beast.

  Zheng Feng looked at the mere several cubic meters of swamp beast, and then thought about the hundreds of cubic meters of swamp beast that Wei Ba had mentioned. He really couldn't imagine such a huge soul beast, and sighed: "That's not even bigger than your original body?"

  The tail waved dismissively: "Hmph, brainless monsters are useless no matter how big they get. A few hundred cubic meters and they're still just sitting there waiting for prey to come to them. Even if these stupid swamp beasts were all swallowed up by the Super God Beast, the world would still be at peace."

  As for the tail, Zheng Feng just smiled and said, "That's a wild swamp beast, what if it's a swamp beast with an owner's command?"

  "I've said it before, the Marsh Beast doesn't have any consciousness, do you think it can understand its master's commands? At most, it will only listen to its host's orders under the compulsion of the Beast Soul Contract, but whether it eats or not, when the host summons it, it will still stupidly stand in place waiting for prey to come to it, wanting it to move is impossible!"

  "You see the enemy summon a big lump of shit-like thing, would you go and touch it? Who would touch such a disgusting thing, and the swamp beast only swallows directly, nothing else. As long as you stay away, there's no danger. Also, don't forget that the level of the soul beast is restricted by the host, if you want the swamp beast to reach super beast through swallowing, you yourself must be a beast god first. So, it's still not very useful."

  Zheng Feng listened to Wei Ba's words and looked at the wet soil in the glass box, which really did look a bit like a big lump of feces. Anyone with some common sense wouldn't dare touch it, but he also didn't think that the swamp beast was as useless as Wei Ba said.

  He then said to Duanyan: "I saw this soul beast in an ancient soul beast data book, it's called Swamp Beast, and is formed by..."

  Zheng Feng told Cliff about the words he had said to his tail, selectively telling him, and as for whether or not to sign the Beast Soul Contract in the end, it was up to Cliff's own decision.

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