Chapter 168: Phantom Beast

I was a little disappointed, and I wanted to get out of here, but my feet were on top of the sludge, and the sludge was trampled to the sides, and all of a sudden, I saw some small star beasts that looked like earthworms in the sludge.

They came out of the sludge and then quickly went back into the sludge and disappeared, and they moved so quickly in the sludge that they were lost before I could see clearly.

Curious, I reached out to dig through the mud and grabbed an earthworm-like star beast that had no time to escape.

The captured earthworm-like star beast tried to escape, but after leaving the sludge, its movement became very slow, and there was no way to escape.

I took a closer look at this star beast, and my mind carefully recalled the various star beast atlases I had seen.

After a while, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I suddenly thought of a spirit beast that had been extinct for a long time.

I've read a book about this star beast I caught.

This star beast is called a phantom beast, and it is a star beast that constantly changes its form as it grows.

Just like a butterfly, different stages are different shapes, and the origin of the name Phantom Beast is precisely because of its constantly changing shape.

The Phantom Beast is not aggressive, it is a low-level star beast that feeds on small bugs in the sludge and is at the lower end of the food chain.

In the past, here in the New World, they were everywhere.

When the phantom beast is small, it has an earthworm-like form, and when it grows up, it will take the form of a fish.

An adult phantom beast has the same form as a winged bird.

Adult phantom beasts are one of the most delicious foods, raw and cooked, they are all excellent delicacy, and they are a very famous delicacy in the New World.

It is because they are very tasty food, loved by humans and the vast majority of carnivorous star beasts, endlessly caught, and have been extinct for hundreds of years.

I also saw the introduction of phantom beasts, saying that humans capture phantom beasts, and the more important reason is that the body surface of adult phantom beasts will secrete a white gelatinous substance, which is a natural elixir that can prolong human life.

This white gelatinous substance, named as a longevity cream by humans, is said to make an ordinary person live for ten more years by taking one or two of these longevity creams.

If you are a martial artist, because you can absorb it more thoroughly, this number has reached an astonishing twenty years.

For human beings, whether it is ten years or twenty years, it is very precious, and it is difficult to buy and hard to find.

The lifespan of a human being, under normal circumstances, is only about a hundred years, and even if a martial artist cultivates to a very high level, he will only have a lifespan of a few decades at most.

And taking the life extension cream, you will suddenly have an extra ten or twenty years of life, and anyone who changes will try their best to get this life extension cream.

So many years ago, when humans discovered this, they began to hunt phantom beasts endlessly, trying to raise them, and when they became adults, they would get longevity balm from them.

Over time, no matter where the phantom beast was, it was captured by humans, and a wild phantom beast could no longer be found.

And those phantom beasts in human captivity, I don't know what's going on, they slowly degenerated, and after they reproduced for several generations, they slowly stopped reproducing, and no new phantom beasts were born.

Phantom beasts will also grow old and die, so under the premise that no new phantom beasts are born, those phantom beasts that are in human captivity will have one less for every death, and there will be no one until the last one, completely disappearing from the sight of humans.

If I hadn't read a lot of books before, I wouldn't have been able to recognize them all at once, let alone know so much.

I was ecstatic when I accidentally found a Phantom Beast that had been extinct for hundreds of years, knowing that I had encountered the same good fortune as the last time I found the Immortal Jade Fruit in the Endless Swamp.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a God-given opportunity, and it can be regarded as compensation for me saving the big guy, and I take it for myself with peace of mind.

I hurriedly wanted to catch some phantom beasts and raise them back, but when I thought of my current situation, I changed my attention temporarily.

If I just grab these rare phantom beasts and take them with me at this time, I will probably be discovered by others.

At that time, I will have to take these phantoms out and share them with everyone, or they will be directly taken away by the National Academy.

I don't want to share my discovery with those strangers, I still want to raise a phantom beast so that my parents and relatives can live a little longer.

I thought of my parents and relatives in Binhu Village, and I also thought of Zhou Shuangyin and Zhou Xiaoying, who are also my relatives and the objects I must care about.

As for these people around me, it's okay to help out or simply rescue them, but it's too early for me to treat them as my relatives.

Everyone has selfish intentions, and I am no exception, so I changed my mind and decided not to take these phantom beasts away for the time being.

However, it doesn't seem appropriate to leave them here, and the unknown star beasts I saw just now that look like birds will eat them all.

I was in a dilemma for a while, looking at the phantom beast that kept writhing in my hands, there was a kind of chicken ribs.

Wang Jingshi conspired to harm me, and I found an opportunity to leave the army and found a rare treasure here, I don't know if this is because I am too lucky, or God expects from me and deliberately gives me these good things.

But now I can't just take these phantom beasts away, I have to stay here for at least nine days, and it is really easy for others to find these phantom beasts with me.

Moreover, there is no way for me to take these phantom beasts with me for nine days, they are either dying of thirst or starvation.

Juvenile phantom beasts that leave the sludge will not survive for long.

I racked my brains and thought about it for a long time before I came up with the best solution, which was to recall Hoglins and let them stay here.

In this way, the phantom beasts will not starve because they follow me, and no other star beast will dare to come and harm them, killing two birds with one stone.

Before I do that, I'm going to use the Beast Warrior once again to take these phantom beasts into my arms first.

I didn't want to protect them, and when I came to take them away, I found that I couldn't do that.

Only the subdued star beasts can follow me out of here obediently, which is even more convenient than catching them directly.

These phantom beasts, which had been staying with the hoglins in the first place, were secured, and I was proud of my idea, so I hurried back to the side where the turtlemon was.