Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 148 Bonanza

Boom! A fireball landed on the spirit-manipulated beast's lower abdomen. The fireball hit the spirit-manipulated beast so hard the dagger went through its armored body, and out again in the openair. And with a hole in its torso, the spirit-manipulated fell down the ground. Another roaring soundwas made as his body hit the ground.

"Uriah!" Rocky was surprised by the level of Uriah's abilities. He had never seen Uriah use such skills.These special skills were only used by spiritual beasts. Uriah seemed to have develop new firecontrolling abilities, in additional to his capability to produce magical saliva.

“Could Uriah actually be a spiritual beast? It's probable it's still a juvenile one.’ Rocky speculated. Itwas unsure whether Uriah was a war beast or a spiritual beast. His skill of producing magical salivawas not helpful in determining his kind because such ability was also displayed by war beasts butthere were some cases that war beasts possessed such power. However, it was under extremecircumstance that Uriah developed a new ability. No war beasts had more than two special skills, sothese skills must be innate to Uriah. Uriah was a spiritual beast, there was no doubt about that. Hispowers had not been fully realized yet, and so far, there were only two skills learned.

While Rocky was still trying to decide which category Uriah belonged to, the fallen armored spirit-manipulated beast let out a pained shriek. It rolled over on its belly and died covered in its ownblood that came from the hole in its body bored by Uriah.

Uriah howled in excitement as it witnessed the fall of the spirit-manipulated beast it just defeated. Itran eagerly towards Rocky, jumping around as if waiting for a reward from its master.

"That was amazing, buddy!" Rocky lovingly held Uriah's body and petted its head affectionately.He'd most likely be dead if not for Uriah. He just realized how embarrassing he must have looked.His clothes were torn to pieces during the battle earlier. He barely had any energy left to walk.

And as if on cue, Uriah turned back to the body of the armored spirit-manipulated beast it justdefeated, as if it saw something. It made its way back to the corpse and jumped on top of it. With itsclaws, Uriah dug through the dead beast's wound and searched for something for a while. When itfinally found what it was looking for, it came back running to Rocky's side.

When Rocky noticed this, he followed Uriah back to the fallen armored spirit-manipulated beast andinspected it. From the body shot out two black beams of light. The light was coming out of thebeast's wound and a strong spiritual aura followed it.

"What the hell is this?" Rocky thought out loud. He crouched beside it to take a better look. As helooked closer, he noticed that the two slivers of light came from two oval worm eggs. Each egg wasaround half the size of a palm. Rocky could sense the spiritual aura leaking out of the eggs. Thisentire thing in front of them was rather strange.

Rocky curiously picked up the eggs. He examined the two closely in his palms. They were hard, butobviously neither stones nor crystals. They were definitely something Rocky had never seen before.He somehow got the feeling these eggs were vaguely similar to the yellow spiritual crystal GeneralMarcia gave him. It was just that the latter gave off a weaker spiritual power than that of thecrystals’.

It was when Rocky felt a strong air of energy closing in from above. He looked up and saw a familiarwar dragon flying towards him. It looked truly magnificent with its dark green colored scales andwidely spread wings.

"This is Marin's war dragon! Is she going to be here soon?" Rocky immediately recognized thisspirit-manipulated beast and who its master was. His eyes darted towards the dead armored spirit-manipulated beast. A plan was almost instantly formed in his mind. "Uriah!" he called. "We need tohurry and hide! No one should replace out we killed this big fella,” he explained. "The extent of ourstrength should remain unknown. Let's go somewhere we can hide."

Uriah let out a growl which let Rocky knew it understood his instructions. Rocky and Uriah quicklyleft the body of the fallen armored spirit-manipulated beast and went searching for a place to hide.Marin's war dragon followed a trail of scent all the way to where Rocky was. She was riding herdragon when she found a wild spirit-manipulated beast lying around in an open field. She pattedher spirit-manipulated beast's head, signaling it to fly at a lower height. Verdanim responded with asoft roar and immediately followed its master's whim and began descending slowly and carefully.The wild spirit-manipulated beast that Marin discovered was the one Rocky and Uriah just killed. Itwas the fallen armored spirit-manipulated beast.

The dark green dragon circled the body of the armored spirit-manipulated beast for a few times,and when it was sure it posed no harm, it landed. When it finally settled down the ground, itretracted its wings, stirring dust from down below.

Marin hopped off her war dragon. She moved closer to the body of the armored spirit-manipulatedbeast until she can thoroughly inspect it. She was astonished by what she discovered. "This is a DarkHeaven Insect! How could it die here?"

Marin touched the beast's body and discovered that the blood was still warm. She knew instantlythat the Dark Heaven Insect was killed not long ago. She eagerly looked around, hoping she couldreplace out who was powerful enough to kill such a strong beast.

A couple of squads of spirit manipulators and a few hundreds of soldiers, all led by Jarrett, alsofound their way to where the body was discovered. They were all equally shocked to see a deadDark Heaven Insect. None of them thought someone possessed the strength enough to kill an all-powerful spirit-manipulated beast.

"Commander, isn't this one a rare Dark Heaven Insect? Was this the one that attacked an entirevillage?" Deputy Commander Chen asked, clearly still in shock of what he just saw. This was the firsttime he had seen a Dark Heaven Insect but knew everything about it. He studied every materialabout the said beast. It was one of the rarest spirit-manipulated beasts in the entire world, andseeing one personally was honestly a priceless experience for the commander.

"I started tracking its scent way back from that village. I have a hunch it attacked there not longago." Marin uttered, confirming his suspicion. It was known to be one of the most powerful beastsin the region. It was capable of launching an attack powerful enough to strike an entire village, afeat most common beasts couldn't achieve.

"This is such a shame. I can't help but wonder who's powerful enough to kill this Dark HeavenInsect. Seeing one alive would have been an opportunity of a lifetime. It sure would have beenprized had it been captured alive,” Deputy Commander Chen said sullenly, defeat clear in his voice."Maybe a high-level spirit manipulator was passing by and witnessed the attack. It's possible theystepped in and killed the beast to keep it from causing more damage to the village. Look! The blackeggs have been taken away from its body." Marin pointed out.

"A Dark Heaven Insect? Strangely enough, that does ring a bell.” Rocky was hiding behind a sandyhill, and luckily enough, it was not too far away and he was still able to eavesdrop from Marin andher right-hand man. The term Dark Heaven Insect stuck with him. It was very familiar, like he hadheard of it before

Rocky did not take his time and searched the Beast Encyclopedia he conveniently carried aroundwith him. He immediately searched for the Dark Heaven Beast entry and hastily took in every bit ofinformation the encyclopedia offered regarding the said beast. This turned out to be a real bonanzafor him.

The armored spirit-manipulated beast he had just slain was called a Dark Heaven Insect. It was amere war beast, but it possessed a unique ability to produce special stones. This stone was calledthe Dark Heaven Egg and was kept inside its body. The stone also harbored the same strongspiritual power as the spiritual crystals did. The difference between the two was whose power theycould help improve. Spiritual crystals were used to boost the strength of a spirit-manipulated beast.On the other hand, Dark Heaven Eggs were used by spirit manipulators to enhance their spiritualpowers.

The Dark Heaven Insect also fell into categories: three-star being the highest level. Dark HeavenEggs were also classified by levels corresponding to their host's rank. A first-grade Dark HeavenInsect of three-star level could produce a primary-grade Dark Heaven Egg while a second-gradeDark Heaven Insect of such a level could make a middle-grade Dark Heaven Egg. Advanced-gradeDark Heaven Egg, which was the most powerful, could only come from a third-grade Dark HeavenInsect of three-star level. An advanced-grade Dark Heaven Egg could raise a spirit manipulator'slevel from the Heavenly Stage to the Supernal Stage. Having one in hand would obviously be agame-changer for a spirit manipulator with a skill level between the Heavenly Stage and theSupernal Stage. If a spirit manipulator were to catch a Dark Heaven Insect alive and domesticate it,they would have an endless supply of Dark Heaven Eggs. Having such thing would result to apossibility of an ever-evolving prowess.

However, Dark Heaven Insects normally lived in underground burrows dozens of meters below. Thiswas mainly the reason they were difficult to spot. Even spirit manipulators above the Supernal Stagewanted to get ahold of one. Numerous elite spirit manipulators spent majority of their lives waitingto see a Dark Heaven Insect in flesh, let alone catch one alive. The Dark Heaven Insect was also oneof the rarest species of spirit-manipulated beasts. There were less than a hundred of them in theentire Wild Spirit Land. The royals that belonged to the Holy Dragon Empire were reported to ownonly a couple of them. The Gahanna Border that boasted unique geological properties was one ofthe places suitable for Dark Heaven Insect to live in, but no more than twenty were recorded in theregion. With their rarity, the Dark Heaven Insects were considered the most valuable of all the spirit-manipulated beasts.