Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 996 Fire Rock Turtle

After six hours, Rocky recovered more than half of his spiritual power, thanks to the help of the SeaBlue Magic Jade. With that done, he got up and checked on the four larvae of the Dark HeavenInsect, which were undergoing genetic modification experiments. He checked their progresscarefully, as he recorded it.

There was a process of change during the experiment, and this change would not show anytimesoon, so it would take some time to know for sure whether the experiments were successful or not.Once he finished with that, Rocky walked out of the Magic Spiritual Space. Seeing that Ken andRobin had almost recovered, he and the two beasts continued their journey.

Although Ken was very sensitive to all kinds of spiritual treasures, it was not omnipotent. Moreover,any treasure with spiritual power would attract its attention regardless if it was Rocky's target or not,so, to his frustration, they had taken many unnecessary detours. They found some low-gradetreasures, which were quite useless for someone with his strength. But then, this was better thannothing. At least, it could make up for his hard work.

By now, they had wasted almost the whole day walking and looking for the spiritual treasure, butthey could not replace even a sliver of its shadow. Sure, they did kill many spirit-manipulated beastsand collected a lot of blood essence and low-grade treasures on the way, but they were useless inthe long run.

The strength of these spirit-manipulated beasts had increased from the fourth grade of the four-starlevel to the fourth grade of the five-star level, which put a lot of pressure on Rocky and the twobeasts.

"Ken, can you please fight harder? If it goes on like this, I'm afraid I'll be exhausted before I replace thespiritual treasure,” Rocky remarked with a bitter smile after they had killed a spirit-manipulatedbeast in the fourth grade of the five-star level.

On the other hand, Ken also raised its head with an annoyed expression as if it was saying, "It's notmy fault." Of course, it wasn't Ken's fault at all. The Hell of Dragon Fang was too big, and the areasthat they had visited in the past two or three days were only the tip of the iceberg. He hadn't metany treasure hunting teams, including Woods’ team. It was another testament that showed just howenormous the Hell of Dragon Fang truly was.

"We can't go on like this! We have to think of another way. If we only rely on Ken, this can take usmonths!" Rocky thought with great frustration. He felt that they were just wasting time, not tomention, the energy and spiritual power that they were spending to fight beasts that they didn'thave to fight.

Just as he was distracted, Ken suddenly became restless again. It seemed to have found somethingfrom the south, as it turned its head to that direction sharply.

"What do you replace this time? Go and take a look!" Rocky immediately patted Ken, and then hefollowed the two beasts, as they headed to that particular direction.

After they had walked for about two hundred meters, Rocky found a natural cave in front of him. Itlooked like some kind of nest for spirit-manipulated beasts, but judging from the height of the cave,the spirit-manipulated beasts that were using it were probably small in stature. With that in mind,he carefully let Robin and Ken return to the Magic Spiritual Space. Then, he walked into the cavealone.

He looked around, observing the interior of the cave, as soon as he stepped foot inside. Eventhough he could not see any visible sources of light, it wasn't very dark inside, and he could see thewhole cave from where he was standing. It was a small cave and was only about a hundred squaremeters big.

While he was looking around, Rocky noticed that there was something that was shining deep in thecave. It was also emitting an aura of spiritual power.

'ls it a spiritual treasure?’ Based on how strong the light was, it didn’t seem to be an ordinarytreasure. It appeared larger than normal, so it could be the spiritual treasure he was looking for.Therefore, he looked around the cave vigilantly and made sure there was no danger before hewalked deeper into the cave.

However, when he approached the place where the light was coming from, he found nothing there.Even the spiritual treasure that he sensed earlier had disappeared without a trace. The light that hehad seen came from a fiery pit, which was constantly erupting with fierce flames, and it was strongenough to illuminate the whole cave. And the spiritual power he had sensed suddenly disappearedUpon seeing this, Rocky's shoulders fell in disappointment. Since he did not replace any spiritualtreasure, he was about to go back, but all of a sudden, the fire before him erupted even higher thanit already was. The flame wavered and shook violently, which sent ripples of shadow along the wallsof the cave.

At the same time, the faint spiritual power appeared again and immediately attracted Rocky'sattention.

He stopped in his tracks and hid behind a protruding rock, where he poked his head out to observethe spreading flame ripples. After a long time, a large piece of crystal that resembled a turtle shellslowly emerged from the fiery pit. The crystal also emitted a strong aura of spiritual power, whichwas much stronger than the spiritual power he had sensed just now.

"What is this?" He could not help but mutter to himself in confusion. It was an unusual sight tobehold after all. Its aura alone was stronger than that of a middle-grade Dark Heaven Egg, or evenas strong as an advanced Dark Heaven Egg.

However, Rocky was not in a hurry to investigate what it was, because he felt that there wassomething else hiding under the fiery pit.

He was proven right when, after a few minutes, a head about the size of a football emerged fromthe pit. It looked a little like the turtle's head, but it was rounder and bigger. Its two bright eyesshone in the faint darkness like luminous pearls.

After the round head popped out, a long and flat body appeared under the big crystal. Its body wassimilar to the turtle. Obviously, it was a spirit-manipulated beast.

Rocky observed the beast and reviewed the Beast Encyclopedia in his head carefully to search forinformation. Soon, his eyes lit up with surprise. “Is this the Fire Rock Turtle?"

Like the Dark Heaven Insect, the Fire Rock Turtle was a rare spirit-manipulated beast that couldproduce rare treasures. It was even rarer than the Dark Heaven Insect, as there were very few ofthem in the entire Wild Spirit Land.

The treasure produced by the Fire Rock Turtle was a turtle shell-shaped crystal, which was called anethereal crystal. And the lowest-grade ethereal crystal was equivalent to an advanced Dark HeavenEgg. However, Fire Rock Turtles could only produce low-grade ethereal crystals after reaching thethird grade of the three-star level. It could also be upgraded to a five-star level at most, and theadvanced ethereal crystal that was produced by a Fire Rock Turtle at the five-star level could beconsidered a great treasure among the middle-grade treasures.

From its shape and the change of its appearance, he deduced that it was just a Fire Rock Turtle atthe three-star level. Thus, it could probably produce low-grade ethereal crystals.

"What a coincidence! We didn't replace any spiritual treasure, but we met a rare Fire Rock Turtle first.”Rocky knew how precious the Fire Rock Turtle was, so he wanted to capture it and then raise it likethe Dark Heaven Insect.