The Medallion
Chapter 996 Fire Rock Turtle

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

There was a process of change during the experiment, and this change would not show anytime soon, 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 and Robin 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-grade treasures, which were quite useless for someone with his strength. But then, this was better than nothing. 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, but they could not replace even a sliver of its shadow. Sure, they did kill many spirit-manipulated beasts and collected a lot of blood essence and low-grade treasures on the way, but they were useless in the long run.

The strength of these spirit-manipulated beasts had increased from the fourth grade of the four-star level to the fourth grade of the five-star level, which put a lot of pressure on Rocky and the two beasts. "Ken, can you please fight harder? If it goes on like this, I'm afraid I'll be exhausted before I replace the spiritual treasure," Rocky remarked with a bitter smile after they had killed a spirit-manipulated beast 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 not my fault." Of course, it wasn't Ken's fault at all. The Hell of Dragon Fang was too big, and the areas that they had visited in the past two or three days were only the tip of the iceberg. He hadn't met any treasure hunting teams, including Woods' team. It was another testament that showed just how enormous 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 us months!" Rocky thought with great frustration. He felt that they were just wasting time, not to mention, the energy and spiritual power that they were spending to fight beasts that they didn't have to fight.

Just as he was distracted, Ken suddenly became restless again. It seemed to have found something from 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 he followed 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. It looked 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 cave alone.

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

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

'Is it a spiritual treasure?' Based on how strong the light was, it didn't seem to be an ordinary treasure. 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 he walked 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 he had seen came from a fiery pit, which was constantly erupting with fierce flames, and it was strong enough to illuminate the whole cave. And the spiritual power he had sensed suddenly disappeared.

Upon seeing this, Rocky's shoulders fell in disappointment. Since he did not replace any spiritual treasure, he was about to go back, but all of a sudden, the fire before him erupted even higher than it already was. The flame wavered and shook violently, which sent ripples of shadow along the walls of the cave.

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

He stopped in his tracks and hid behind a protruding rock, where he poked his head out to observe the spreading flame ripples. After a long time, a large piece of crystal that resembled a turtle shell slowly emerged from the fiery pit. The crystal also emitted a strong aura of spiritual power, which was 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 to behold after all. Its aura alone was stronger than that of a middle-grade Dark Heaven Egg, or even as strong as an advanced Dark Heaven Egg.

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

He was proven right when, after a few minutes, a head about the size of a football emerged from the pit. It looked a little like the turtle's head, but it was rounder and bigger. Its two bright eyes shone 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 was similar 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 for information. 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 could produce rare treasures. It was even rarer than the Dark Heaven Insect, as there were very few of them in the entire Wild Spirit Land.

The treasure produced by the Fire Rock Turtle was a turtle shell-shaped crystal, which was called an ethereal crystal. And the lowest-grade ethereal crystal was equivalent to an advanced Dark Heaven Egg. However, Fire Rock Turtles could only produce low-grade ethereal crystals after reaching the third grade of the three-star level. It could also be upgraded to a five-star level at most, and the advanced ethereal crystal that was produced by a Fire Rock Turtle at the five-star level could be considered 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 at the 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 like the Dark Heaven Insect.