The strange bird that came out of the nest was about 7-8 meters long. It was much smaller than the other strange birds, however its eyes were golden in color and it even had three claws.
These claws were the symbol of a three-legged Golden Crow. Although this strange bird was obviously not a Golden Crow, it was still three-legged, which proved that its bloodline was extremely close to that of a three-legged Golden Crow. It was a lot stronger than the other strange birds.
Seeing this three-legged strange bird appear, Yi Yun’s expression became even uglier. He could feel that this three-legged strange bird was the leader of this group of strange birds. Its energy was more than ten times that of the other strange birds. This made it even more impossible for him to handle them all.
It would probably take an instant for that three-legged strange bird to rip him to pieces.
Also, its speed was definitely extremely terrifying!
With the strange bird leader here, how was he going to pick the lotus seeds?
Yi Yun felt speechless. The Great Empress mystic realm had given him such a good opportunity, but he was helpless at obtaining it. The difficulty was just too great.
Yi Yun believed that his strength was already at the top amongst people of his own age, but he did not dare pick the red lotus in front of him.
If it was anyone else, it would be even more in vain.
Picking the lotus seed was like seeking one’s own doom. If Yi Yun did not pick it, he would feel indignant about it. As such, he hid behind a large rock and entered a dilemma.
And at this moment, Yi Yun saw the three-legged bird that came out of the cave fly down. It flew to the center of the circle formed by the other strange birds and began inspecting the prey they caught.
“Tributes?”
Yi Yun first thought was that the other strange birds had caught prey to pay tribute to this leader bird, but later on, he realized he had guessed incorrectly.
The three-legged strange bird used its claws to spit open a prey’s corpse. From the preys’ corpse, it grabbed its heart.
The red heart was covered in flowing blood, and later on, the three-legged strange bird brought a meter long desolate beast bone from somewhere. It then used the top half of the bone as a container and let the blood in the prey’s heart flow out and filled the bone cup to the brim.
“Extracting the blood from the heart?”
Yi Yun was in awe. The blood from the heart was the essence of all the blood in a desolate beast’s body. What was this three-legged strange bird collecting the blood from the heart for?
After it obtained the blood from all the preys’ heart’s, the three-legged strange bird suddenly flew towards the magma lake. It then used its sharp claws to easily extract a few lotus seeds from the lotus seedpod.
Seeing this scene, Yi Yun’s heart sank. The strange bird had taken all the matured lotus seeds away.
For a treasure at such a rank, it was probably not easy to pick it, including its tubers, in one go. Its tubers may be invulnerable to the slashing from swords and sabers. Besides, with so many strange birds watching, Yi Yun did not have the confidence in doing so.
It would have been pretty impressive if he obtained a few lotus seeds, but now, all the matured lotus seeds had been plucked away by the three-legged strange bird.
The three-legged strange bird placed the lotus seeds into the bone cup and then carried the bone cup into the cave on the mountain cliff.
That cave that was situated on the cliff was an even clearer target. It even had the strange birds’ leader guarding it. Yi Yun turned speechless upon seeing this. It was now even more difficult to obtain!
“This strange bird extracted the lotus seeds and the blood from the heart. It even used a desolate beast’s clavicle bone as a cup. What is it doing?”
Yi Yun felt that the three-legged strange bird was probably not going to simply drink the desolate beast’s heart’s blood, if not, with a desolate beast’s nature, they would eat the raw meat and drink the blood. They could just swallow it down, so what was the point of the bone cup?
For a desolate beast like the three-legged strange bird, it would not have been an easy task to create a container. Using a bone cup to drink blood would be extremely taxing for it, it did not have to do so.
However, regardless of what the three-legged strange bird wanted to do, Yi Yun was helpless. With his strength, he could not do a thing in such a strange bird’s territory.
After the three-legged strange bird disappeared, only then did the other strange birds complete their odd rituals as they began to feast on the prey on the ground.