Chapter 482: Caged Within the Heavens and Earth. Countermeasure

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

When the first batch of beastmasters entered the secret plane, their breaths were taken away by the fairyland-like scenery.

After they came back to themselves, other than those who appeared at the floating mountains, the rest of the beastmasters all flew to the floating mountains closest to themselves on their respective flying mounts as if they had come to an agreement beforehand.

Although this world was massive, the first hundred or so people that entered didn’t see any of their companions in sight, so it didn’t deter them from making the same choices.

Obviously, the most likely places to find treasures in this world were those floating mountain ranges!

However, after they entered those floating mountains one after another, their expressions quickly changed just like Zhang Che did, feeling astonished.

They also felt like they had passed through an invisible barrier and arrived at another world. When they tried to turn back and discovered they couldn’t leave the floating mountains no matter what, their hearts became extremely shaken, and their complexions paled considerably.

The beastmasters who went to the larger floating mountains were better off, able to console themselves. Perhaps the floating mountains before them contained some treasures. As long as they found them, they could peacefully wait for the secret plane gateway to open again and return to Mercury safely.

The beastmasters who entered the smaller floating mountains, found their expressions turning bitter.

The little mountain in front of them was only a few square kilometers wide. Even if there was good stuff to be found, the amount would be little. If they were trapped in there the whole time, it would be tragic!

No one had expected the secret plane this time would turn out to be such a world!

The world was like a bunch of cages sitting next to one another, trapping everyone inside them, with no choice to advance or retreat.

Not only that, some people were already praying inside, hoping for nothing troublesome to show up. Otherwise, being trapped in such a small floating mountain area, they wouldn’t have anyplace to run!

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Zhang Che had wandered around the floating mountain range for some time now. He had investigated the situation at the few nearby mountain peaks and some other places. The results were as he had expected.

At the inner area of the floating mountain range, spiritual herbs were truly abundant. The frisky monkey would cry out excitedly every time after moving a certain distance, then show a sad look on his face.

There were so many spiritual herbs around, but they couldn’t dig them out of the ground. It was simply driving them crazy!

Even though most of the spiritual herbs around them were only low-grade herbs, and mid-grade or higher were few and far between, their amount made up for the difference! After calculating the number of spiritual herbs in a certain area, the density was more than twice that of the depths of the beast world!

The inner area of this floating mountain range was neither large or small. It was a few hundred square kilometers wide. If they could scavenge all the spiritual herbs in this area, Zhang Che was sure the Huang family’s herbal field would have to expand more than ten times in size!

The production quantity of spiritual honey in the herbal field was between sixty to seventy grams a day. If the field was expanded tenfold, then the amount of high-grade spiritual honey produced a day would reach six to seven hundred grams a day!

Measuring their value in purple-gold crystal, a day of production was worth six to seven thousand purple crystal points; In a year, that would be more than two million purple crystal points!

The sum might seem little, only able to purchase two mid-tier legend-quality beast cards, but the true worth of the spiritual honey wasn’t to sell for money, but to use it for concocting medicinal pills.

If that high-grade spiritual honey was used as an ingredient to concoct medicine, the profit he stood to gain would increase by several times.

In other words, the final output value would reach about ten million purple crystal points in a year!

Even large clans like the Huang family wouldn’t be able to accumulate that much wealth without two or three years of time!

Done thinking, Zhang Che grew even more frustrated. So much good stuff was scattered across the mountains, and yet he wasn’t able to bring any of it away. He really wanted to cry…

“This won’t do. I must think of a way to bypass the restriction on the ground and dig out those spiritual herbs. Otherwise, this trip to the secret plane will really be a huge loss!” Zhang Che grit his teeth and had the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon turn back, flying towards the stone platform.

Afterwards, he tried all kinds of ideas, letting his subdued beasts and pets enter the stone platform in batches and trying all kinds of attacks. However, they only managed to deal insignificant damage to those puppet-animals before they had to retreat from the stone platform.

Obviously, those puppet-animals were strengthened by some kind of array. The source of their strength was endless. If he didn’t disable it, there was no way to kill them at all, unless Zhang Che had a divine-quality subdued beast. He could then try to brute force it and directly blast those puppet-animals to smithereens.

“What should I do? Is there really no way to go about it?” Zhang Che stopped at the peak of a nearby mountain, scanning the wide stone platform below. His gaze settled on a higher elevated area.

A spread of dense air circulated around the higher platform, as if something was hidden there. It was most likely linked to the puppet-animals and the restriction placed on the entire floating mountain range’s ground.

If he could obtain what was placed on the higher platform, he should be able to undo the restriction. Afterwards, the treasures on the floating mountain range would be free for the taking!

-There must be a way. There must be a way…- Zhang Che’s brain spun quickly, thinking of a way to sneak onto the stone platform and get close to the higher platform in the middle.

All of a sudden, Zhang Che thought of the Myriad Transformation Lizard’s shapeshifting ability. He shook his head immediately, however. -This won’t do. Even if I turned into a frog, I won’t be able to escape the senses of those puppet-animals. It isn’t a dead object after all. It won’t work…

-Not right! Isn’t the Myriad Transformation Lizard able to copy three exotic beasts as templates? If I can imitate one of those countless mysterious spiritual beasts on these mountains, will I be able to sneak onto the stone platform?-

At the idea, Zhang Che immediately grew excited. Although this possibility was very slim, he wouldn’t know without trying.

“I’ll give it a try, then! Who knows, what if I succeed?” With that thought, Zhang Che directly rushed down to the mountain forest below. Countless animals immediately charged at him!

However, those animals were too weak; Zhang Che didn’t care about them at all.

He directly reached out and grabbed a fox-like spiritual beast with his hand, then flew up on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon back to the stone platform’s vicinity. With a casual toss, he threw the fox-like spiritual beast inside.

As the spiritual beast was thrown onto the stone platform, light suddenly started flashing.

Zhang Che’s face sank. -Looks like it doesn’t work… Hmm? Wait a minute!-