Cultivation Online

After disembarking from the ship, Yuan followed Huang Xiao Li and her family onto the land.

'Giant's Continent… It's not in Tian Chengyu's memories. Did this place exist before his birth or after his death?' He wondered as he followed them.

Sometime later, he asked out of curiosity, "Where are we going now?"

"We're going to the Southern Stronghold. It's where most travelers like us go to exchange treasures with giants, so it's quite popular." Huang Xiao Li said.

"I don't know much about giants. Can you tell me about them?"

"Sure!" She nodded with enthusiasm, and she continued, "Giants are humans with the Mammoth Bloodline. Their ancestors were ordinary humans that have trained a unique technique called the Great Mammoth Body Refinement that gave them immense strength and a near indestructible body, but it also increased their body size temporarily."

"Their ancestors not only reached the peak with this technique, they had even altered it so that the technique would continuously affect their bodies and never deactivate, making them giants permanently. However, because such a feat required them to alter their genes and blood, their descendants would also be born with such blood and genes in their body, making them giants at birth."

Yuan was speechless after hearing this information.

Giants used to be humans before they altered their blood and genes with a technique? He didn't know techniques were even capable of such a feat, which was akin to creating their own bloodline and race!

Huang Xiao Li continued to speak, "The giants created their own family, and after cultivating that family for thousands of years, they moved to an uninhabited land that would soon to be known as the Giant's Continent."

"Giants nowadays are mostly isolated within the Giant's Continent, so you won't see them outside. In fact, most people live their entire life without meeting one. They're practically phoenixes and dragons."

"However, since they rarely leave the continent, they mostly rely on travelers like us to provide them with resources and treasures from the outside. It benefits us as well because there are resources and treasures that can only be found within the Giant's Continent."

"That's pretty neat, I guess." Yuan mumbled.

"Indeed. If you have any treasures you don't need, you can try to exchange or sell them to the giants."

A bittersweet smile appeared on his face after hearing her words. Even if he had plenty of treasures that he could and wanted to trade, he wouldn't actually acquire anything because he was inside the Stairway to Heaven and nothing there was real.

'Although I can learn techniques in the Stairway to Heaven, that is only possible because they only need to be memorized. However, treasures don't work that way. It's impossible for me to acquire real treasures during trials. How unfortunate.' He sighed inwardly, thinking how nice it would be if he could actually acquire something from the trial.

Suddenly, the head of the bodyguards, Dong Zhou, shouted, "We have company!"

Yuan panicked a little when he heard Dong Zhou's voice because he didn't sense anything with his divine sense that he's kept active this whole time.

massive bird that was so big that it could easily lift

came out of thin air, Yuan prepared to attack it, but then he

first time fighting an

coming!" Huang Xiao

confronted this massive bird in the sky right

"Ha!"

Sword Qi before sending it in the

The bird released a painful scream when it lost one of its claws to Yuan, who was surprised because he'd expected to kill the

he could get another strike on the bird, it turned around and

ran away…?" He muttered in a dumbfounded

Huang Xiao Li approached him

that magical beast was stronger

circumstances, his attack just now would've killed even a Spirit Emperor with

with the Mammoth Bloodline. The magical

feat through a technique! There's no way ordinary magical beasts could possibly comprehend techniques, much less master

acquire the Mammoth Bloodline through techniques. They acquired it through consuming the giants. I mentioned that the technique is never-ending, right? This is still true even when the giants die, so when a magical beast consumes their flesh and blood, they also acquire the

speechless

the Mammoth Bloodline coursing through their veins, they were much stronger than ordinary magical beasts from the

not strong enough to do our job as bodyguards, so we'll have to rely

make the bodyguards at least Spirit Kings so that they wouldn't be completely useless. After all, in their

to traverse this land, why don't you just return to the ship

the entities on this land, we must still do our jobs as bodyguards and accompany the Huang Family even if we die in the process!" Dong Zhou exclaimed in a

Yuan felt like facepalming.

bodyguard, can you still be considered as one?!' He cried

likely done by the Stairway to Heaven to make things

know, I am here to protect the Huang Family, so if you get in

worry, we won't drag you down." Dong Zhou said with

that…" He shook

Li pointed at the city walls in the distance and said in an excited voice, "We're almost there! I

quickened their moving speed after

got closer, Dong Zhou suddenly

surrounded them, and amongst these magical beasts was one with an injured claw— the same one

call your friends, huh?" Yuan couldn't help but chuckle at its