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.

appeared before them a few seconds later, and it was a massive bird that was so big that it could easily lift an entire

of thin air, Yuan prepared to attack it, but then he realized its

is my first time fighting an opponent of this level!' He

Huang

massive bird in the sky right as

"Ha!"

the Empyrean Overlord with Sword Qi before sending it

a painful scream when it lost one of its claws to Yuan, who was surprised because

another strike on the bird, it turned around and flew

He muttered in

you okay, Yuan?!" Huang Xiao

But that magical beast was stronger

just now would've killed even a

mention this, but giants are not the only entity on this continent with the Mammoth Bloodline. The magical beasts on this continent

a feat through a technique! There's

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

Yuan was speechless by

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

seems we have underestimated the strength of this place. We're not strong enough to do our job as bodyguards,

make the bodyguards at least Spirit Kings so that they

just return to the ship and wait for

our jobs as bodyguards and accompany the Huang Family even if we die in the process!" Dong Zhou exclaimed in a prideful

Yuan felt like facepalming.

you cannot do your duties as a bodyguard, can you still be considered as

eventually stopped thinking about it since it was most likely done by the Stairway to Heaven to make things more difficult

to protect the

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

doubt that…" He shook

without encountering any magical beasts, Huang Xiao Li pointed at the city walls in the distance and said in an excited voice, "We're almost there! I can see the

quickened their moving speed after seeing the

Zhou suddenly stopped

of massive birds quickly surrounded them, and amongst these magical beasts was one with an injured claw— the

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