During this special enslavement process, Shao Xuan compared the Gomphos to the pterosaur.
Compared to the pterosaur, enslaving the Gomphos required a lot less energy and was much simpler. Part of the reason was that the Gomphos didn't have self-awareness, but the most important part was its nature.
Even though the Gomphos' bones were more active, they weren't of high quality. Simply put, their bones couldn't contain much fire seed energy. This was just a normal wild beast in the forest. It was at the bottom of the food chain, so its bones couldn't contain too much energy.
The pterosaur wasn't big either. In fact, it was even smaller than the Gomphos. However, while enslaving it, Shao Xuan noticed that the pterosaur's bones could fuse with more fire seed energy than the Gomphos'.
The amount of fire seed energy a bone marrow could fuse with had nothing to do with its size.
Then, could it be that the higher the rank of the species, the stronger the person, the more energy they could contain?
Shao Xuan decided to go to the vicious beast meat stall and catch a freshly slaughtered vicious beast.
Just as he was about to leave, Shao Xuan remembered the pterosaur that was still lying on the stone table. He turned around and saw the pterosaur twisting its neck to look at Shao Xuan.
Shao Xuan turned around and opened the door to the secret room. He walked out and closed the heavy stone door behind him.
The moment he closed the door, Shao Xuan released his control over the pterosaur. However, he didn't go far. Instead, he stood outside the secret room for a while.
Shao Xuan could feel the pterosaur's every movement. It was as if everything was projected into his mind. However, it wasn't an image of the pterosaur's entire body. It was just a skeleton that had fused with the fire seed energy. He could even "see" the creature's swaying tail clearly.
After Shao Xuan left, the pterosaur thought that it had regained its freedom. After it got up, it looked around cautiously and let out a cry. When it didn't see anything out of the ordinary, it cautiously waited for a while. Then, it crawled towards the Gomphos on the other side of the table.
Its wings were a little more flexible than when it had just thawed, and it could climb up faster.
The smell of the Gomphos' blood made it crawl even faster. Almost as soon as it reached the Gomphos, it stretched its neck and opened its mouth to bite the Gomphos. In the beginning, the meat that Shao Xuan had given it was not enough to satisfy its hunger.
It wasn't strong enough yet, so it could only use its fangs to scrape the flesh off the Gomphos' body bit by bit. It didn't scrape a lot of flesh off each time, but it ate very quickly.
Shao Xuan "watched" at the door of the secret chamber for a while before leaving. There was nothing important inside. No matter how hard the pterosaur tried, it would be useless. It couldn't pierce through the thick stone walls of the secret chamber, right?
At the same time, Shao Xuan also wanted to know how far he could effectively control the pterosaur.
The more he learned, the more Shao Xuan felt that there was a lot of information hidden in this book that would allow him to better understand the person who invented this special enslavement method.
Up until now, no one knew who or what group had enslaved these strange people. Yi Si said that the Yi family was involved in this, but no one knew how much they were involved. What role did the person who had left the Yi family a thousand years ago play in all of this?
Shao Xuan shook his head and continued to walk outside. He tried to feel the image in his mind. As long as it was within his effective control range, the image of the pterosaur should still be there.
Even after Shao Xuan walked out of the Flaming River Castle, the image in his mind was still clear. The pterosaur was still eating.
He went to the stall that sold vicious beast meat and picked up a freshly slaughtered vicious beast to carry back. The pterosaur, who had been biting into its food, heard the noise and immediately shrunk behind the Gomphos.
Shao Xuan ignored it and placed the vicious beast he carried back on the stone table. This vicious beast had already been slaughtered. Its organs had been removed, and the blood had been drained. It had also been roughly wiped clean, so only a small amount of blood had dripped onto the table.
The pterosaur, who was hiding behind the Gomphos, poked its head out to look at Shao Xuan when it smelled the blood. It seemed to be trying to determine if Shao Xuan would beat it to the ground again. Then, it looked at the vicious beast. It wanted to go forward but didn't dare to. Obviously, it was interested in the ferocious beast. The meat of a ferocious beast was different from that of an ordinary wild beast. Different animals were attracted to different kinds of meat.
This pterosaur was obviously more attracted to vicious beasts. It was just afraid of Shao Xuan, so it didn't dare to go forward.
Shao Xuan used the same method to enslave this vicious beast.
Just as Shao Xuan had guessed, vicious beast bones could absorb more fire seed energy than normal beasts. However, it still couldn't be compared to humans. When Shao Xuan was studying the strange man, although he didn't complete the experiment, he could still make a rough guess. Combined with the few experiments he had done so far, Shao Xuan guessed that compared to vicious beasts, humans had a much stronger affinity with fire seeds. This was probably why the people of Rock Hill City chose humans over desert beasts.
After the experiment, Shao Xuan prepared to carry the vicious beast out. He only wanted to test the enslavement method and the fire seed energy on this vicious beast. After the experiment, he could still eat it. Of course, he wouldn't sell it at the stall anymore. He would feed it to the Yanjiao people in the Flaming River Castle. These were the bones of a vicious beast with a fire seed, so it was different from others.
Before he carried it out, Shao Xuan saw that the pterosaur was still staring at him, so he cut off a piece of meat and placed it on the stone table. Then, he carried the vicious beast and left.
After leaving the secret room, Shao Xuan handed the vicious beast to the people in the Flaming River Castle who were preparing for lunch.
"Cut off the bones and boil them into soup. Don't waste the marrow inside. These are bones with a fire seed," Shao Xuan said.
The Yanjiao warrior who took the vicious beast was confused. He looked at the vicious beast in his hand and felt that something was wrong. Since he couldn't figure it out, the warrior didn't think too much about it. He just followed the Grand Elder's instructions. After taking a few steps, he slapped his head. The Grand Elder's words could be summed up in one word. Wasn't it just "eating"? He understood!
When he returned to the secret room, almost a third of the vicious beast meat that Shao Xuan left there before he left had been eaten. The meat that Shao Xuan left behind was about the same size as the pterosaur's body. Judging from the pterosaur's posture, it didn't seem like it had any intention of stopping. Shao Xuan didn't know how much it would eat in the end.
Perhaps it realized that Shao Xuan didn't attack it twice, so the pterosaur became bolder. It was mainly because it was in front of food, so it became bolder than usual. However, it still didn't dare to approach Shao Xuan. It looked at Shao Xuan with eyes full of fear.
Shao Xuan only glanced at the pterosaur and didn't look at it anymore. He planned to test out the half-rotten Gomphos. After all, he had already brought it here. It would be a waste if he didn't use it.
When Shao Xuan was trying to enslave it, he also spared some time to observe the pterosaur's reaction. When he was enslaving the vicious beast, the pterosaur showed a terrified expression. Although it didn't scream, it hid behind the Gomphos. In Shao Xuan's mind, he could even "see" the pterosaur's trembling face.
Now, when Shao Xuan's hand was on fire, the pterosaur didn't even care about the temptation of food. It immediately looked for a place to hide. In its panic, it fell off the stone table. If it hadn't spread its wings to cushion the fall, its newly thawed body wouldn't have been able to withstand the fall. It might even have broken bones.
The half-rotten Gomphos didn't take too long for Shao Xuan to enslave. It was the fastest out of the three beasts that Shao Xuan tried to enslave. However, under Shao Xuan's control, the half-rotten Gomphos' bones started to fall apart as it walked. It was like a malfunctioning machine that couldn't be controlled accurately.
"It's not working if it's not active enough."
As expected, it was because of the active bones. No wonder the monsters that the people from Rock Hill City made weren't rotten. Although they looked a little strange, it was obvious that they had been processed. The people who enslaved the monsters seemed to value the quality of the monsters.
After Shao Xuan cracked the secret of the mysterious desert monsters, Shao Xuan also told everyone the secret during a meeting with the Yanjiao's higher-ups.
However, not everyone could use this method to enslave a dead beast. Other than Shao Xuan, the excited Zheng Luo, Duo Kang, and the two retired shamans all failed. Gui Ze didn't try because he was researching a type of herb. Therefore, among the people in the Yanjiao tribe who knew the secret, only Shao Xuan was able to successfully enslave a beast using this method.
After learning that the ancient beast that Shao Xuan brought back was alive, the Yanjiao people were very curious.
The other ice cubes were either melted or turned into fertilizer. Only a few special ones were kept in good condition. The two retired shamans found a cave on a high mountain to store them. They said they wanted to keep them as a memento for the future generations of Yanjiao to see. After all, these were things from a long, long time ago. They might even be older than their ancestors.
But now, they heard that one of them was alive. The two retired shamans couldn't wait to see this strange little monster. According to Duo Kang, it looked like a bird but wasn't a bird.
For the past few days, Shao Xuan had been training the pterosaur in the secret underground room. After all, it was an ancient beast. Even if it was small, it couldn't be underestimated. After the pterosaur's rapid recovery, Shao Xuan had already seen its ferocity. It wouldn't be good if he let it out and let it attack his own people.
Therefore, when the group of people ran to the Flaming River Castle and followed Shao Xuan to the secret underground room and opened the door, the first thing they smelled was the stench of blood and a foul odor.
Shao Xuan also felt that the smell was very strong, but before he could train the pterosaur properly, he could only keep it this way.
On the stone table, there was a piece of meat that had been bitten. It looked like it had eaten a lot.
The water moon stones on the wall were still lit up. In the corner, there was a birdcage made of rattan. The birdcage didn't have a door and was empty inside. There was even feces at the bottom of the cage.
If they only relied on their hearing, they wouldn't be able to tell where the pterosaur was hiding. But with the fire seed's aura, they could sense its presence.
Under the table, in the shadows, there was a figure that looked like a bat hanging upside down on the edge of the table. Because of the angle and the light, it was difficult for the people standing at the door to see it.
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