The Ascension of Contracted Spirits

Chapter 754 - 310: Ye Lanlan_3

This is a big no-no in role-playing, after all that hard training in self-discipline, how could one possibly stumble here?

"Big Tadpole, look, there are more over there!"

Even its flying movements deliberately slowed, GuaGua pointed towards the rear of the sleeping giant otters.

About a thousand meters away, at least four more sleeping giant otters stood upright, deeply immersed in their dreams.

From a bird’s-eye view, one might think this was some unspeakable ancient ritual.

But upon closer observation or a thorough understanding of the sleeping giant otters’ species, it wasn’t hard to see that they had a communal living habit.

Sleeping giant otters enjoyed group sleeping. The overlapping snores of the whole group, one after another, were like pleasant lullabies that relaxed both their bodies and souls.

Keeping watch? No need, the sleeping giant otters didn’t require such an arrangement in their group.

Like sleep demons, their defense was at its highest during sleep. To harm even a hair, one had to exert more than five times the usual force.

"They are sleeping so soundly, why don’t I snore when I sleep?"

Cautiously exploring for half a round, GuaGua gradually grew bolder.

Being a Pure Beast, it wasn’t easily noticed as long as it didn’t provoke its targets.

After confirming there were no issues, it jumped onto one of the sleeping giant otters’ heads and touched its gray fur.

"Wow, it’s so soft and thick, feels so good!"

GuaGua felt a bit envious, but then remembered it had the skill of transformation, and that envy was promptly tossed out of its mind.

Hmph, the hair color of the sleeping otters was fixed, but as long as it could master the form, red, green, yellow... Long, short, bald... What couldn’t it change into?

"Eh, what’s that?"

Sitting high allowed one to see far, and GuaGua, perched atop the sleeping giant otter’s head, suddenly noticed something standing erect not far away, looking stiff and very strange.

Ye Hanjun had seen it too, and in fact, before GuaGua even noticed, some instinct had driven him to walk straight to the object.

It was a tomb.

The obsidian gravestone bore a few claw marks, suggesting that a creature with sharp claws had contributed to its construction.

And on the gravestone, devoid of any inscription, there was only a dark green hairpin, which, despite its dullness, still flowed with a unique charm.

"Big Tadpole, this wouldn’t happen to be the tomb of your kin, would it?"

GuaGua came over and looked it up and down, randomly guessing.

"I think so too."

Ye Hanjun’s eyes suddenly switched to The Darkest Demon Eye, and a profound dim light attached to him as he radiated an aura as calm as still water.

He glanced at the sleeping giant otters behind him, and at that moment, all five otters awoke simultaneously.

But they did not roar, just slowly converged, the ferocity in their large animal eyes fainting from strength to weakness.

And all this, incredibly, was just because of his eyes.

"Human, you possess a pair of absolutely black eyes, just like our ancestors."

"There is an ancestral decree that if a kin visits, they may take her relic, and we are not to obstruct."

The largest sleeping giant otter pressed a claw to its chest, making an extremely forced and rather comical bow.

"Are you... descendants of Contracted Spirit Fond Spirits?"

Ye Hanjun made such a guess, still somewhat in disbelief.

The reproduction of the sleeping giant otter species had never been linked with simplicity.

That they had adapted to the environment of Asura’s Tomb and survived to this day as an alien species, how much of that was luck and how much was strength?

"Yes."

The sleeping giant otter species possessed wisdom, and even if not overly smart, they carried inherited memory in their bloodline, and they repeated according to those steps:

"Our ancestor is named ’Ye Lanlan,’ her motto ’Heaven made me to be useful, today’s matters can be done tomorrow.’"

"Our esteemed ancestor entered the tomb at the beginning of the tenth epoch of the Near Ancient Era, persisted for fifteen years, and stepped gradually toward death due to inescapable toxins."

"You mean you have continued for twenty thousand years?"

Ye Hanjun was even more astonished, he had assumed it was an entombed individual from the beginning of the last epoch, but now he realized it went back another ten thousand years.

"The ancestor also had her own gains within the tomb, one of which was related to enhancing reproductive ability."

"In distant times, the number of sleeping giant otters inside this valley peaked at nearly fifty."

"Nowadays, as we gradually decline, it won’t be long before we become food for other predators."

The leading sleeping giant otter spoke indifferently, as if mentioning something inconsequential.

Ye Hanjun pondered, always a sense of witnessing the ravages of history swirling in his mind, and then he felt a wistful sense of loss.

"All this time, this is the first time we have encountered the kin of our ancestor."

Another sleeping giant otter scratched its head, not so brightly:

"How did you get in here? There is suffocating miasma over our heads. Creatures that fall in inadvertently make perfect food for us. Without going out to hunt, this is also one of the main reasons we’ve survived for so long."

"Wow, you guys are way too homebody, there are so many fun places out there!"

GuaGua blinked, showing a look of disbelief.

"Hm?"

Five sleeping giant otters, as if just noticing GuaGua for the first time, had their eyes wide open.

"Human, take the hairpin and leave this place."

The third sleeping giant otter yawned and urged:

"I’m very sleepy, I want to sleep."

"You are disturbing our sleep, and we can’t even beat you for it, it leaves us feeling frustrated."

"Sorry."

Ye Hanjun bowed slightly, "Are there any supplies you are lacking? If possible, I would like to trade with you for valuable information from the tomb."

"Trade for what?"

The fourth sleeping giant otter, pushing away the third, eagerly said:

"We’re short of wives!"

"In our generation, five males, racking our brains out and we still don’t know how to have babies!"

"Can you get us a wife? We’d be grateful to your ancestors for eight lifetimes!"