Monster Paradise

scent after was activated, but he caught a whiff on the intense iron-like scent of blood in the air.
Aside from blood, he caught the scent of an unfamiliar odor that was similar to a plant but was very unpleasant.
Although his expression could not be seen as he was transformed into the Specter, Lin Huang was frowning.
The pungent smell made him uncomfortable.

He hesitated for a while and decided to look for the source of the bloody smell to get to the bottom of the mystery.
That was the one and only clue that might lead him to Leng Yuexin.

”Here… ” Lin Huang pointed towards the direction of the smell.
Bai nodded and led the way while Lin Huang followed behind him.
In the complicated underground cave, Lin Huang and Bai made many turns as they followed the scent.
Almost an hour later, they finally arrived near their destination.

”Slow down, be careful, ” Lin Huang said to Bai.
Bai then slowed down after he heard Lin Huang’s instructions.
10 minutes later, he saw a light after a turning.
He peered around at the light source.
It was a massive cave that was nearly 100 meters high.
In the middle of the cave, there was a light blue semi-transparent monster that floated in the air.
The light was coming from the monster’s body.
This monster looked like a deep-sea jellyfish from Earth.
To be exact, it was more like a deformed deep-sea jellyfish.
Not only was it many times bigger, there were countless eyeballs of different color on its body.
Some were closed while some were opened.
Those that were closed were filled with spots of various colors.
Its tentacles were swaying in the air like the flowing dress of a lady during the summer festival.

Lin Huang recognized it as the transcendent monster immediately as the aura coming off the monster was even stronger than the black python that he encountered earlier.
The unpleasant scent that he caught from Blood Hunt was coming from this monster together with the smell of blood.
Lin Huang then activated Boundless Vision and looked around the transcendent monster.
Aside from blood on the ground, he did not see Leng Yuexin and the rest.

”Could they have been eaten by the monster? ” Just when Lin Huang was thinking, the transcendent monster seemed to sense a disturbance.
Its light blue tentacles darted towards the cave entrance where Lin Huang was located at the speed of light.
Lin Huang recalled Bai immediately and flattened himself against the wall.
The light blue tentacles seemed to detect Lin Huang even though he went through the cave walls.
It looked around the cave and retracted its tentacles.
Since it did not find anything at all, the transcendent monster thought it was being too sensitive to its surroundings.

Lin Huang was drenched in cold sweat.
If he was a second too late, he would have been crushed to death by the monster.
The attack of transcendent monsters worked on spirit-type monsters.
He did not dare look in the monster’s direction anymore.

”Leng Yuexin and the rest should still be alive, if they were dead, Xiao Hei would definitely notify me that I failed the mission.
The blood on the ground could possibly be theirs as they might have been hurt as they entered the underwater cavern.
There were only two possibilities, they might be hidden by the monster somewhere else or they may have already escaped… ” he thought.

”But if they ’ve managed to escape, the description on the mission card would not ask me to look for Leng Yuexin and bring her back to Carefree City.
The description was clear – Leng Yuexin was in some kind of trouble, so the first possibility was more likely.
However, there’s another possibility where they may have managed to escape the battle but were badly injured so they were unable to leave Wangyou Forest… ”

Lin Huang analyzed the situation and came up with the two most likely scenarios.