Chapter 2269: Valley of the Sacred Elephant
Chapter 2269: Valley of the Sacred Elephant
Although the Valley of the Sacred Elephant had a lot of good things, it was a rare destination for a lot of cultivators. The valley wasn’t the territory for humans. It had the canyon’s strongest beasts, the Crazed Elephant.
The Crazed Elephants were famous beasts in Gale Canyon. Their race had always lived in the Valley of the Sacred Elephant where water was clear and the land was fertile. This was the most suitable location for their race to survive.
Crazed Elephants have their name because of their fighting style. Their clan also had a lot of powerful beings. Particularly strong crazed elephants could defeat cultivators in the Teleportation Stage.
Although Zhao Hai didn’t know if there were more powerful crazed elephants in the valley, he was certain that the place wasn’t as simple as it seems.
Strong Ape Mountain was known to only have Teleportation Stage Experts, which wasn’t true. The Valley of the Sacred Elephant was also known to only have Teleportation Stage Experts. However, Zhao Hai doesn’t believe that there are no experts that are stronger than Teleportation Stage in the valley.
The Valley of the Sacred Elephant was located in a remote corner of Gale Canyon. Although it was very remote, there were still a few cultivators who went there every year.
Of these few cultivators, all of them went into the valley but a few of them managed to come out. All of them were killed by crazed elephants. Those who manage to leave would never go even to the peripheral areas of the valley. They were all afraid of being killed by crazed elephants.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the Valley of the Sacred Elephant might not be as dangerous as Strong Ape Mountain. At least, you can survive if you enter the early regions of the valley. But as long as you’ve been to the valley, this thinking would disappear. You would think that the Valley of the Sacred Elephant was definitely more dangerous than Strong Ape Mountain.
The inner parts of the Valley of the Sacred Elephant were different as it had the Domain of the Sacred Elephant. Even Teleportation Realm experts wouldn’t dare enter the inner parts of the valley. Even Teleportation Stage experts wouldn’t come out alive if they entered the inner area.
Compared to the outer region, the inner region of the valley would seem like a completely different world. The inner valley had a large number of crazed elephants. And once those elephants became enraged, they were very terrifying.
There were also Diamond Body Realm crazed elephants spotted in the inner region of the valley. No cultivator would dare go there to cause trouble, unless they no longer valued their lives.
Cultivators don’t only think about the strength of crazed elephants. As long as there were no accidents, the crazed elephants also lived longer than humans. The longer they lived, the stronger one could become. Therefore, those with information deemed the Valley of the Sacred Elephant more dangerous than Strong Ape Mountain.
Zhao Hai was now in the outer region of the valley. There were almost no elephants in this region, only other beasts. These beasts were also very strong. They cannot be easily provoked.
There weren’t a lot of cultivators even in the outer regions of the valley. This was because they were afraid of meeting a crazed elephant randomly. Crazed elephants in the Earth Monarch Stage were much stronger than Earth Monarch Stage cultivators. In other words, the majority of cultivators in Gale Canyon were no match to an average crazed elephant.
Zhao Hai doesn’t care about any of this. He stood on a high point in the valley and looked around. In Zhao Hai’s mind, this wasn’t a valley at all, it was a huge plain. There were some trees on the plane, but not a lot. What was present the most were grass.
Looking around and sensing no danger as well as the lack of valuable resources, Zhao Hai proceeded inwards.
The valuable resources that Zhao Hai sought naturally weren’t things like herbs and ores. There were actually plenty of spiritual herbs in the outer region of the valley, at least much more than outside.
However, Zhao Hai didn’t care about those things. There are only two reasons why Zhao Hai was attracted to the valley, the first was essence gold and the second was the large outer region of the valley. With Zhao Hai’s speed, it took more than a day to reach the boundary between the outer and the inner region of the valley. Although Zhao Hai didn’t see any special resource, the inner and the outer region’s terrain was a little special. The two regions were connected like a gourd. The border of the inner and outer region was narrow, like the neck of a gourd.
Cultivators who explored the valley in the past erected a stone stele at the boundary, so Zhao Hai couldn’t be wrong. Zhao Hai looked silently at the stone stele before stepping into the inner region of the valley.
Unlike Zhao Hai’s imagination, he didn’t immediately see crazed elephants once he stepped into the valley’s inner region. What he saw instead was a forest in the distance.
Seeing this, Zhao Hai’s eyes shone. Then he moved and went straight into the forest. He found a few spiritual herbs that couldn’t be found outside as well as special plants. Zhao Hai didn’t hesitate and received all these plants for the Space.
After an hour, Zhao Hai heard rustling sounds. The sound came from a distance. If it weren’t for Zhao Hai’s more than average hearing, he would not have heard this sound.
Zhao Hai knew that there were almost no other beasts in the inner region of the valley. Inside were mostly crazed elephants. But since the crazed elephants were his target, Zhao Hai carefully moved forward.
Before long, Zhao Hai saw several crazed elephants eating. It must be said that the crazed elephants looked very much like elephants found on earth. But they looked closer to mammoths than existing elephants.
The crazed elephants were enormous with heights exceeding ten meters. Their bodies had some fur, but they weren’t very thick. They also had two ivory tusks that curved like scimitars.
Zhao Hai looked at the crazed elephants but didn’t make a move. He knew that elephants are social animals and attached great importance to their offsprings. If he abducted crazed elephants right now, it would definitely cause the entire valley to come after him. He has to find essence gold first.
Essence gold was a special resource in the Valley of the Sacred Elephant. However, the outer region of the valley has been mined out of essence gold. Although cultivators didn’t dare mine essence gold on a large scale, there were still enough cultivators in the outer regions to exhaust the essence gold present. Naturally, this was after numerous searches and battles against both cultivators and crazed elephants.
Now, Zhao Hai’s plan was to find essence gold first and then take a crazed elephant for the Space. So, he just looked at the crazed elephants and moved on. 𝑅а₦оᛒΕs̈
Before entering Gale Canyon, Zhao Hai already had some understanding of it. He knew about the specialties of the canyon. Therefore, he wasn’t in a hurry and slowly searched.
However, the inner region of the Valley of the Sacred Elephant was different than people think. In addition to essence gold, there were also a lot of valuable spiritual plants, but all of these were guarded by crazed elephants. It was clear that these were useful to them. As for essence gold, Zhao Hai has yet to see it.
The day passed and Zhao Hai still hasn’t found essence gold. Zhao Hai looked for a place to rest. Although he could act during the evening, he didn’t do so because the valley would be filled with action during the night. The common beasts in the valley weren’t a threat to Zhao Hai, but he didn’t want his presence to be discovered by any crazed elephants.
Fortunately, Zhao Hai’s abilities are formidable. He was able to go through the night safely and without getting discovered. The next day, Zhao Hai didn’t bother any crazed elephants and continued to look for essence gold.
Three days passed and Zhao Hai still hasn’t found any essence gold. This surprised Zhao Hai. He heard that there is plenty of essence gold in the valley. However, he hasn’t found any after searching for three days.
On the fourth day, Zhao Hai found a piece of dark ore. The ore was placed in a very covert place. If it weren’t for Zhao Hai’s heightened senses, he wouldn’t have found it. The whole ore was the size of a basketball. If essence gold were extracted, it would only be as big as a ping pong ball.
However, this amount was already enough for Zhao Hai. As long as there’s a piece of gold essence present, the Space could produce a mine later on. Then from that point, Zhao Hai would have an unlimited amount of essence gold.
After obtaining essence gold, Zhao Hai’s thoughts returned to the crazed elephants. Elephants are social animals. In the previous group that Zhao Hai spotted, one of them was at the Teleportation Stage. In this case, it would be impossible for Zhao Hai to take one crazed elephant without being detected.
Zhao Hai didn’t act immediately. He observed the crazed elephants first. He looked at their habits to understand them more. Then he would take one crazed elephant when nobody is looking.
After observing for an entire day, Zhao Hai discovered that the crazed elephants weren’t very united. Crazed elephants would eliminate members that were frail.
After going around the valley, Zhao Hai found an old crazed elephant. This elephant was very old with very wrinkly skin. Moreover, its muscles were very thin and it walked slow. The elephant just walked and walked. It did not stop to eat nor drink water. It was as if those things had lost their appeal to him.
Seeing this crazed elephant, Zhao Hai remembered an old tale. It was said that when an elephant was about to die, it would leave and go to an elephant graveyard. Then it would die quietly there. If the crazed elephants were indeed true elephants, then this old elephant was more likely going to the graveyard to die.
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