Chapter 118 Dragon tendons, broken bones
Within a radius of several miles, all the birds and beasts ran away.
The huge fish's head and body were separated, and blood flowed into the lake, which made Liang Qu very sad. If the Tianshui centipede drank all that blood, wouldn't it take off on the spot?
Yang Dongxiong stood among the rocks, took out a piece of silk cloth to wipe the blade, applied some oil on it, and then sheathed the blade.
"Okay, come down!"
Liang Qu couldn't wait to jump into the lake, climb up the stone platform, and observe the huge corpse of the sturgeon king.
Even after death, the corpse still exudes a strong aura of oppression, making it difficult for ordinary people to approach.
Sixty meters long, it weighs at least a thousand tons, and it cannot be eaten up at all, so it has to be sent to the ice cellar.
The best option is to sell most of it and keep the rest to eat before it rots.
"This sturgeon king knows how to enjoy himself. It built a nest for itself?" Xu Zishuai looked around and marveled at the wisdom of the sturgeon king.
Yang Dongxiong shouted, "Don't worry about it, come over and help me take out the most important dragon tendon!"
The sturgeon tendons are the most essential part of its flesh and blood.
The large tendons of monster-level creatures are enough to prolong a person's life, so they are also called dragon tendons.
Removing the dragon tendons was the most anticipated part, and everyone started to cut up the fish carcass excitedly.
Liang Qu inserted a green wolf's knife into the fish skin and chopped it until he was out of breath, but with little success, he only made a small cut less than one centimeter.
The fish skin is too tough.
In the end, it was Senior Brother Yu Dun who took action and cut open the fish skin and meat, revealing the back of the sturgeon king.
Yang Dongxiong reached his hand in and fumbled around, and felt a texture that was completely different from ordinary flesh and blood tissue. He reached out and grabbed it, and pulled it out with force.
"Come out, come out."
"Why is it so thin?"
"The color is a little off. It's completely different from what's written in the book. Shouldn't it be milky white?"
To everyone's surprise, the tendon that Yang Dongxiong pulled out was light golden in color and only as thick as a human wrist.
Ordinary dragon tendons are as white as jade, but why is this one in front of me golden?
Furthermore, judging from the size of the king sturgeon in front of us, in proportion, the big tendon should be at least as thick as a human waist, so how could it have shrunk?
The moment the tendons were exposed, the Tianshui centipede on Liang Qu's wrist conveyed an extremely strong desire to devour.
The small fish in the water that had luckily survived jumped onto the platform one after another, struggling to get closer to the body of the sturgeon king.
That is the most primitive attraction of life!
It is the oasis most desired by desert travelers!
Yang Dongxiong, who was holding the tendon, couldn't believe the scene before him. He had never expected that such a thing could be pulled out from the body of the sturgeon king.
"This is not a sturgeon tendon, it's half a dragon tendon"
Everyone was shocked and full of doubts.
"Dragon tendon?"
"How could it be a dragon tendon?"
"Why does a sturgeon have dragon tendons?"
The big tendons in the sturgeon's body are called dragon tendons. That's a nice name, but it's fake. How come people can actually catch dragon tendons now?
“It’s not a complete dragon tendon, but it definitely carries the aura of a dragon, otherwise it wouldn’t be so attractive.” Yang Dongxiong pointed to the big fish jumping in the lake.
They were acting like crazy.
Liang Qu didn't understand, but was greatly shocked. He guessed, "Is it related to the reason why the sturgeon snailed?"
It is very strange that a sixty-meter-long monster lives in a small lake that is more than half a mile long and wide. The whole proportion is like a cat entering a cardboard box.
He suspected from the beginning that there was something in the lake that attracted the king sturgeon, which was why he was willing to live in it.
“It’s almost certain. Let’s go and take a look.” Yang Dongxiong stuffed the tendons into the fish bodies. With the flesh and blood as a barrier, all the fish in the lake calmed down.
Everyone came to the palace, entered through the gaps in the stone pillars, and went all the way down to see a structure that was almost a vertical shaft, filled with lake water.
They held their breath and dived downstream, and made an amazing discovery at a depth of two hundred meters from the ground.
A huge broken animal bone lay flat in the water, full of holes and emitting a rotten smell.
Over the long course of history, this huge piece of animal bone has long lost all vitality.
Yang Dongxiong pulled the remains out of the mud, searched around, and after making sure there was nothing else, he took it out of the water and returned to the stone platform in front of the "palace".
Xu Zishuai looked at the huge remains of bones and scratched his head: "Master, what is this?"
Yang Dongxiong shook his head: "I can't tell, but I guess it might be a dragon bone."
"keel?"
Liang Qu fell into deep thought.
If it is really a dragon bone, then the wandering of the sturgeon can be explained, and it is also consistent with the legend of the Dragon River.
No wonder a monster is willing to shrink in this small lake and is unwilling to leave. Why can it grow half a "dragon tendon" that is inconsistent with its identity!
"This sturgeon must have discovered this bone by accident a long time ago, and has been absorbing the remaining nutrients in the keel to grow stronger,"
Yang Dongxiong touched the remains and could not sense any life. They were almost in a half-ruined state.
A complete dragon bone would never decay naturally, but the one in front of us was full of holes, and it was obvious that all the good stuff inside had been sucked out.
It is not an exaggeration to say that a monster was raised with just a piece of bone.
If it is a whole dragon skeleton, wouldn't it be able to create one or two big monsters?
Add to that dragon meat and dragon blood, it is truly a moving treasure trove.
Xiang Changsong was puzzled: "Why didn't it take the remaining bones with it, but instead huddled in this small place to absorb them?"
Yang Dongxiong pointed to the lake and said, "Did you see the dragon tendon just now? Everyone went crazy!
The breath of the dragon species is too strong and has a fatal attraction to them. If the sturgeon brings the remaining bones back to the Jianghuai marshes, it will be torn into pieces by other monsters and it will not be its turn to eat them all.
We came at the right time. If it had been a few months, the sturgeon king might have sucked the dragon bones dry and returned to the swamps. By then, it would have been swimming in the sea and we would have been impossible to find it.
It is using half of its dragon tendon to slowly transform its blood. I may not be able to kill it."
In this situation, Liang Qu inexplicably thought of the fable about the fox that crawled into a tree hole to eat meat, but became too fat and could not climb out of the tree hole, and was finally killed by the hunter.
After hearing this, everyone felt lucky and couldn't help but turn their eyes to Liang Qu.
Lu Gang was never a talkative person, but at this moment he couldn't help but sigh: "Junior brother, you are so blessed."
Even if the dragon tendon is placed outside, Master Zhenxiang would be tempted, so how could it be their turn?
Without Liang Qu, such a treasure could only be seen in books.
Everyone salvaged the rest of the monsters and extracted the other tendons so that they would not be wasted.
However, the most important thing is the sturgeon king tendon that carries a hint of dragon's aura.
Yang Dongxiong pulled out the entire dragon tendon. Fortunately, the dragon tendon was thin, but long enough, more than thirty-seven meters, and could not be covered with one hand.
He kicked a big fish that jumped over and back into the river. "I'll take zhang, Liang Qu will take zhang, Yu Dun, Lu Gang, and Xu Zishuai will each take 10 zhang, and the remaining people will take 3 feet each."
No one has any objection.
After all, it was the master who was the only one who did the hard work. Liang Qu made the greater contribution, and the others just came to lend a hand.
Liang Qu felt like he had picked up the item for free. He just gave a piece of information about the location, and at the end of the day he had a sturgeon tendon that was two and a half meters long.
Where can I find such a good thing?
(End of this chapter)
