Lu Yao asked Sarina to talk about the state of the Calamity Beasts over the years.
“My lord, the Calamity Beasts themselves are of average strength. When they are first born, they are usually around LV20, if left alone, they can grow with natural disasters, and the highest that has ever appeared was a LV36 Calamity Beast.”
“It was hidden in the depths of [Egil’s Fire], it was a fire-attribute Calamity Beast that ran out after a volcanic eruption, so I restored it to the element of fire.”
Tyrant nodded, “I later told Snowman to let Pasha deal with the Calamity Beast, so that it would allow the dragon to increase its real-world combat experience, and also help it practice its Dragon Grammar.”
Lu Yao asked again about the dangers of the Calamity Beasts.
“To ordinary people, they are very dangerous.”
Sarina said, “Calamity Beasts are different from most Transcendents, they are endowed with special powers by the rules, even between individuals of the same class there are differences, and the way they behave is also influenced by the rules ……”
Calamity beasts are mutated species catalysed by natural disasters.
Such as the crocodile plague beast that was killed by Pasha, it was born in a flood, which in turn would further expand the area of the flooding, attracting more rainfall and Jedi. Calamity beasts and disasters feed off each other.
The three cities of the Yao Clan were preventative with regard to the plague beasts, and as soon as they were discovered, they would send out their armour-bearers to eliminate them, preventing them from growing further.
In the earliest three years, droughts, floods and fires caused many people to be displaced, and thousands of ordinary people disappeared and died in the natural disasters.
After paying a heavy price, the Yao Clan quickly took targeted precautions against both disasters and plague beasts.
Going forward, the damage caused by both volcanoes and torrential rains was greatly reduced.
Because of the frequent natural disasters, the profession of engineer was officially introduced to the Yao tribe. Engineers remodelled houses and dams, reconstructed aqueducts and farmlands, and concocted fire-resistant slurry coatings, which protected the lives and properties of many people.
Sarina concluded, “Calamitous beasts are no longer a problem these days, and the Martial Cultivators and Armour Bearers are very experienced in handling them. Compared to the Calamity Beasts, the Poisonous Spotted Mosquitoes are more troublesome, it’s good that the Locust Jue’s did a good job with the locust swarms in Crystal City before, they are happy to come over and hunt the mosquito swarms.”
Lu Yao regretted in his heart.
Sometimes developing too well could cause trouble.
This Era Update was obviously a big cut to the Yao Race, but from the world’s various data, it had instead gone up against the trend, and the intensification of natural disasters had in turn stimulated the Yao Race’s creativity.
Lu Yao looked to the upper right corner.
The Faith Reserve had reached 4.35 million.
The total population also exceeded 430,000 people.
Population: 430, 390
Yao City: 103,278
Salt City: 117, 765
Saniro: 40, 811
Crystal City: 82,173
Udar City: 23,770
Canopy City: 58,302
Others: 4,291
The current population is nearly three times what it was before the Era Update. Even if you exclude the ghosts in Crystal City and the squirrels in Tree Crown City, the population increase over these 36 years is quite good.
Lu Yao thought silently in his heart.
As expected, with a solid base, it would be much easier to operate, the subsequent population growth could bring in a large amount of Flame of Faith, the hardest part was to start from 0 to 1.
He shifted his gaze back, the current focus was to find a disaster beast.
When disaster was needed, disaster always hid.
Lu Yao couldn’t help but look at the props bar, did he really need to hatch the [Calamity Branches]?
He looked around and suddenly realised that there were actually two Calamity Beasts in Crystal City. They were frantically tearing each other apart in a farmland outside the city.
One of them was shaped like an eel, LV24, a Water Elemental Beast, while the other was a nearly extinct Sand Lizard, LV25, an Earth Elemental Beast.
The two ferocious beasts fought so hard that the ground around them turned into a sticky quagmire.
The White God in boar form was watching from the sidelines.
Sensing Lu Yao’s gaze, the White God shivered, “Lord Zheng Shen, you’ve come to visit, I’m humbled!”
Lu Yao told Him to cut the crap and say what was going on here.
The White God spoke, “Lord Zheng Shen, there is a plague beast outside the Crystal City, that Sand Lizard, which keeps creating droughts outside. The Lesser God was about to deal with it, but it turned out that the Uda City next door sent someone to ask for help, saying that a plague beast had appeared at their place as well.”
“The one in Uda City is that long snake, it made it so that the rainstorms over there didn’t stop, and the Uzi tribe was very distressed. Coupled with the fact that King Wu Ji’s buddy was out on a mission, the Little God went over to deal with that side first.”
“At that time, the Little God had an idea, since the calamity beasts each have their own territory, if the one that deals with droughts and the one that deals with floods collide together, will they fight? So the Little God put the two of them together in a pile, and it turned out that they were really fighting, and they were both laying down deadly blows.”
The White God had originally watched for fun and waited until they were pretty much done fighting before taking out both sources of calamity.
Lu Yao said fortunately.
The White God could sometimes serve an inexplicable and unexpected purpose.
Lu Yao enlisted the Great Serpent, the representative of the water disaster.
Throwing the Great Serpent over there to see if it could rain down and improve the overly dry desert.
As for the rest of the arid sand lizards, Lu Yao told Bai Shen to keep them well for now, they could be used as dryers during heavy rains, and might be useful for subsequent experiments.
Bai Shen immediately said, “Xiao Shen understands, don’t worry, this disaster beast Xiao Shen is keeping it well.”
……
The plague beast was captured by Isabel and dropped into the Cloud Temple.
As soon as it gained freedom, the great serpent roared up to the sky and took heavy steps, moving across the sand dunes, its footprints emitting black smoke.
Although its rank was only LV25, it had a special ability in addition to [Advanced Water Elemental].
……
[Water Gathering Beast]
Being able to grow in water, the water elementals would converge towards it.
……
Lu Yao observed the Calamity Beast’s every move.
Wherever it went, some damp water stains surfaced where its tail passed by, and it tilted its head and opened its mouth wide as it endeavoured to collect the water elements of this world.
It was just that the rules pertaining to the Cloud Temple were so broken that its hard work was almost fruitless; not only did the Calamity fail to bring in water, but it itself was dried out by the sun.
Gradually, the Calamity Beast showed a kind of annoyance.
Lu Yao didn’t know if it was because of the problem with the power of the rules here, or because of something else.
In short, the great snake gradually faded away.
Its posture as it snaked through the desert was no longer as dignified as it was initially, and it became slow to move, its head hanging low.
When it came across the shell c*ckroaches, the beast became excited again.
It crushed the weak shell c*ckroaches along the way, leaving these fragile bugs with a trail of debris.
After a short period of exuberance, the Calamity Beast became listless again.
Lu Yao estimated that probably killing a group of unresisting bugs was like crushing a pile of rocks, and there was really no thrill of striking for the Calamity Beast.
In the end, the Calamity Beast slumped down in the desert and didn’t move a muscle.
It tilted its head up and looked up into the distance, and there were exactly the same sand dunes everywhere.
Lu Yao looked at it and scratched his head.
Is this …… a whole depression?
Lu Yao opened the Golden Wilderness backstage and checked the [Calamity Beast] entry.
He found that the original Calamity Beasts were affected by the power of the rules, causing them to become crazy and full of aggression. And after coming to the Temple in the Clouds, the Calamity Beast lost contact with the [Rainfall] and [Flood] that didn’t exist here, like a robot whose commands were lost.
The good news was that the great serpent had in turn regained some of its past self here, gradually becoming calmer. It no longer strangled the shell c*ckroaches.
At that moment, the huge-bodied robin monk swam over from the sand.
“O guest from afar, you are welcome to the Temple of the Clouds, and the little monk is the Knowing Monk here.”
“Do you have much confusion?”
“I can see that you have a lot of things you can’t let go of.”
“Cultivation should be done in a dashing manner, to be infatuated with a world, you may not want to be with it for the rest of your life, to like a cloud, you may not want it to stay in the shape you want.”
“If you don’t mind, please follow me, let the little monk introduce you to the past of this place, and hopefully the answers you can find in it.”
As if the Calamity Beast could understand, it hesitated for a moment, slowly straightened its body, and followed the Knowing Monk.
The Knowing Monk rambled on all the way, leading the great serpent on a world walk.
This series of developments made Lu Yao feel a bit psychedelic.
The Cloud Temple was indeed a lifeless world, and the Calamity Beasts were lost here.
It seemed that the path of taking tricks with Calamity Beasts would not work, or he would have to write his own rules bit by bit.
Lu Yao sighed.
At this time, a message surfaced on the screen.
[A Calamity Beast has sprouted wisdom and has taken the initiative to offer the Flame of Faith to you, your prestige amongst the Calamity Beasts has increased significantly.]
Lu Yao froze.
He clicked on the word.
The screen indeed jumped to the Great Serpent next to the Knowing Monk.
“Thank you for …… pointing this out.”
“This world …… is …… really big.”
The Knowing Monk just said, “This is the Temple in the Clouds, and the Temple in the Clouds is like this. Guest you are good at making water, by all means try.”
“No …… I …… I’m too weak …… The rules of water …… feeldifficult ……”
Big Snake was already able to stutter and communicate with the Knowing Monk.
Lu Yao realised a new use for the Temple in the Clouds.
Perhaps it was possible to capture all the calamitous beasts and let them compete with this world first, and the Knowing Monk would then give them lessons to correct their thoughts, and perhaps they could be transformed into Rui Beasts that actively participated in the construction.
