Catastrophic Necromancer TL

 Chapter 3274: Treating the Symptoms Not the Root Cause, Buying Time for Now

The mutated giant beast's power decreased very quickly. In no time, its power had dropped to the seventh level Dao Venerable realm.

From eighth to seventh level Dao Venerable, it seemed to have only dropped one level, but in reality the difference in power was several times less.

With eighth level Dao Venerable power, it could have shattered the array if sustained for a period of time. 

But at seventh level, it would take ten times longer to break the Sealing Array.

Moreover, the mutated giant beast's power continued to weaken, soon dropping to sixth level, even fifth level Dao Venerable.

Along with its power, its defense was also falling. Lin Moyu could sense its defensive power continuously weakening.

The mutated giant beast was completely unaware of its own changes. It only had instincts, constantly crashing against the array.

Suddenly Long Sheng received a transmission from Lin Moyu, "Elder Sheng, come up and take a look!"

Long Sheng immediately flew over towards Lin Moyu's location.

Lin Moyu and he were not in the same layer of space. After he flew over, Lin Moyu opened a door to let Long Sheng enter.

Long Sheng arrived in Lin Moyu's space and also saw the mutated giant beast trapped in the array.

Long Sheng asked, "Has Elder Lin seen something?"

Lin Moyu said, "Almost, just a bit more, wait and see."

Long Sheng was very patient and watched quietly.

After waiting a while longer, Lin Moyu suddenly entered the array and came before the mutated giant beast.

He raised his hand and grasped. An illusory large hand appeared, grabbing the mutated giant beast in one move, then squeezing hard.

With a bang, the mutated giant beast was instantly crushed to powder.

Long Sheng, not understanding, watched with widened eyes as Lin Moyu crushed the mutated giant beast with one hand.

If he were at his peak, he could have done it.

But now he couldn't do it. Even the ninth level Dao Venerable great elders of the dragon race couldn't do it. He didn't understand how Lin Moyu had done it.

After crushing the mutated giant beast, Lin Moyu simultaneously removed the array, then stared unblinkingly at the ground.

In his vision, a trace of true spirit fell, sinking into the earth.

The true spirit hadn't been crushed. True spirits have no form or substance, so crushing them isn't easy.

Watching the true spirit sink into the earth, Lin Moyu's experiment was completely finished. The conclusion was already in his mind.

Clapping his hands, Lin Moyu said, "Alright, I've found the root cause."

Long Sheng asked eagerly, "Where is the root cause?"

Lin Moyu said, "The root cause is in the ancestral grounds itself. To be precise, it should come from that primitive stone the Ancestor Dragon used to forge the ancestral grounds back then."

Long Sheng frowned, not understanding.

Lin Moyu said, "I don't know what primitive stone is, but I can now be certain that primitive stone contains a strange power."

"This power acts on all the dragon bodies in the dragon tomb."

"This power pulls the true spirits out of the dragon bodies, pulls them into the earth, then makes the true spirits merge with the earth and mutate, becoming strangely shaped beasts."

"These giant beasts then absorb power from the dragon bodies to grow, becoming stronger and stronger. At the same time, this earth has some special connection with the giant beasts, giving them extremely abnormal regenerative abilities."

"Just now I used the Sealing Array to trap the giant beast. They lost connection with the earth and couldn't continuously obtain power, so their power became weaker and weaker."

"When I went to kill it just now, its power had actually dropped to fourth level Dao Venerable."

After listening, Long Sheng murmured, "So the problem actually comes from the ancestral grounds itself. Then can we use this method to kill them all?"

Lin Moyu said, "Killing them all is no problem, but if the root cause isn't solved, killing them all is useless."

"I just killed it, but the true spirit wasn't destroyed. The true spirit entered the earth again, and will eventually evolve into a new mutated giant beast."

"Moreover, as I walked along, I saw that the true spirits in many dragon bodies are about to be pulled into the earth. When that happens, they will also become mutated giant beasts."

Long Sheng had a sudden realization, "So that's how it is. No wonder I could never kill them all before no matter what."

Lin Moyu said, "So to solve this problem, we can only solve it from the root cause in the ancestral grounds. Otherwise there's no way."

True spirits can be destroyed. Lin Moyu naturally had methods to destroy true spirits, but he certainly wouldn't destroy them.

These true spirits were all ancestors of the dragon race. Destroying their true spirits would create enormous karma with the dragon race.

Lin Moyu wasn't afraid, but there was no need.

Perhaps someday in the future, when he accompanies Antares to slaughter the dragon race in the Great Dao beyond the sky, they will kill until blood flows like rivers, also creating enormous karma.

But that karma would be willingly accepted by Lin Moyu, unlike now.

He had already found the root of the problem. As for whether it could be solved, that was Long Sheng's own business. It was none of his concern.

Let Long Sheng worry about it from now on. He couldn't be bothered to deal with it.

Long Sheng thought for a long time but couldn't think of any good solution.

Long Sheng murmured, "Back then the Ancestor Dragon used primitive stone to forge the dragon race ancestral grounds, but we have no idea what primitive stone is. We have no way to solve this problem."

"What should we do?"

Lin Moyu thought for a moment, "I have a method that treats the symptoms but not the root cause. Does Elder Sheng want to try it first?"

Long Sheng was racking his brains trying to think of a good solution. Hearing Lin Moyu say this, he immediately responded, "Please explain in detail, Elder Lin."

Lin Moyu said, "I'll help heal your injury. Though it may not fully recover, it should heal seven or eight tenths at least."

"Then I'll refine some Sealing Array discs for you. That way you can bring the dragon race great elders to periodically come here and clean up."

"Though this method only treats the symptoms and not the root cause, I think it should be able to delay the mutation of the inner dragon tomb."

"During this time, you can go look for your Crown Prince. Perhaps he'll have a way."

Lin Moyu casually mentioned Antares. He wanted to see Long Sheng's reaction, to see if Long Sheng really didn't know about Antares.

In fact, Long Sheng's reaction told him they really didn't know about Antares.

When Ao Luo saw Antares back then, he had only instinctively called out "Crown Prince". At the time, Ao Luo wasn't completely certain. Clearly Ao Luo didn't recognize Antares either.

Long Sheng thought for a moment, then said softly, "It seems this is the only way for now."

Though Lin Moyu's method only treated the symptoms and not the root cause, at least it could buy a lot of time.

They would always need to come to the ancestral grounds. They would always need to soak in the dragon blood lake. If a genius appeared in the clan, they would definitely need to go to the dragon blood waterfall.

If they couldn't solve the current problem, they would have to fight a big battle every time they went to the dragon blood waterfall. And as the mutated giant beasts increased, the battles would become more and more difficult.

This method would at least let them temporarily return to normal.

As for the Crown Prince, they could only go look for him. If they really found him someday, perhaps they could thoroughly solve the problem.

Long Sheng said, "Then I'll trouble Elder Lin."

Lin Moyu smiled and said, "I'm half a member of the dragon race after all. I should do something."

As he spoke, he took out a spirit flower and handed it to Long Sheng, "Activate it."

Long Sheng didn't doubt him and immediately activated the spirit flower.

The spirit flower bloomed, enveloping Long Sheng, beginning to heal his injuries.

Lin Moyu then began refining Sealing Array discs again.

To heal Long Sheng, one spirit flower certainly wasn't enough. Whenever one spirit flower was used up, Lin Moyu would give another. Long Sheng's injuries began to slowly recover.