The Ferocious Beast King Came, and His Teeth Broke Again
The Heaven-Splitting Hou was incredibly fast.
A dark red streak cut across the sky, rolling clouds of Sha parting to either side in its wake.
The crushing pressure of a Taiyi Golden Immortal poured out without restraint, forcing countless ferocious beasts along the way to prostrate themselves.
Some of the ferocious beasts with intelligence caught sight of the familiar figure, and fear sprang into their eyes.
"Roar!"
Low beast roars rose and fell among the mountains and forests.
All the ferocious beasts nearby knew.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou was angry.
Furious, in fact.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou rarely left his canyon.
To this ferocious beast king, the ordinary ferocious beasts in the surrounding region were not worthy of making him act in person.
Now that the Heaven-Splitting Hou himself had set out, something truly serious had clearly happened.
A few bolder ferocious beasts soon followed.
They dared not approach, trailing far behind instead.
Ferocious beasts were violent by nature.
They had a natural interest in clashes between the strong as well.
As he drew closer to the earth vein, the Heaven-Splitting Hou grew angrier.
For he could clearly sense it.
The fierce Sha Qi in the earth vein was still dwindling.
And at an astonishing rate.
A large earth vein that had once held enough to sustain his cultivation for countless years was now more than half depleted.
"Damn it!"
A low growl rumbled from the Heaven-Splitting Hou's mouth.
The terrifying sound waves shattered several mountain peaks along his path.
He had already made up his mind.
No matter who had touched his earth vein, he would tear them to pieces today and swallow every scrap of their flesh and blood.
A ferocious beast king at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level was powerful enough to dominate a region of the present-day Northern Land.
Aside from those who truly stood at the pinnacle of the ferocious beast race, there were few beings the Heaven-Splitting Hou feared.
Several hours later.
He finally approached the earth vein.
But as soon as he arrived in the vicinity, the Heaven-Splitting Hou slowed down.
For the first time, unmistakable puzzlement appeared in his scarlet eyes.
The terrain ahead looked nothing like he remembered.
The earth vein had originally been buried deep underground.
A stretch of mountains spanning hundreds of thousands of miles had covered the surface.
But now.
The mountains had been torn open.
Vast expanses of strata lay exposed, and bottomless fissures crisscrossed the earth.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou flew overhead, his gaze sweeping the ground.
"Roar..."
He let out a low growl.
The ferocious beasts trailing behind him arrived one after another.
At first, they kept their distance with great care.
Then they saw the Heaven-Splitting Hou hovering in the sky, remaining motionless for a long time.
Some of the stronger ferocious beasts mustered their courage and ventured closer.
Soon.
They noticed something strange as well.
An enormous black mountain range had appeared on the ground.
The mountain range was simply too long.
From where they stood, they could not see its end at all.
One of the ferocious beasts wrinkled its nose and sniffed, a trace of confusion appearing in its eyes.
It had been here before.
There had not seemed to be a mountain range like this nearby.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou had clearly realized the same thing.
He hovered high in the sky, his gaze traveling along the dark golden "mountain range."
The more he looked.
The more puzzled he became.
The shape of this mountain was simply bizarre.
Beneath the black layers of rock on its surface, patches of dark gold showed through here and there.
Those areas were unnaturally smooth.
Faint silver-white star patterns could even be seen on them.
"What is that?"
The Heaven-Splitting Hou was highly intelligent.
He did not approach immediately.
His vast Divine Sense spread out swiftly, probing toward the mountain range ahead.
The next moment.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou's body went rigid.
His eyes widened bit by bit.
The ferocious beasts following him had no idea what had happened.
All they saw was the normally violent and overbearing Heaven-Splitting Hou suddenly stop, the anger on his face gradually giving way to an indescribable look of shock and suspicion.
A Golden Immortal ferocious beast could not resist flying several hundred miles forward.
It followed the Heaven-Splitting Hou's gaze.
Just then.
The distant "mountain range" shifted slightly.
Rumble!
Countless rocks tumbled down.
The surrounding mountains trembled in unison.
Immediately afterward, a golden eye so enormous that the beasts could scarcely comprehend it slowly opened at the far end of the mountains.
Every hair on the Golden Immortal ferocious beast's body stood on end.
"Awooo!"
It let out a shrill cry of alarm and retreated frantically, almost by instinct.
The ferocious beasts behind it, who had yet to see what was happening, were startled by its reaction.
Then more and more ferocious beasts caught sight of the eye.
An uproar erupted in an instant.
"Roar!"
"Awoo—!"
Thousands of ferocious beasts retreated at once.
The wings of some beasts flying in the sky began to tremble.
They finally understood.
That endless black mountain range ahead was a living being!
The Heaven-Splitting Hou remained hovering at the front.
Compared to the ordinary ferocious beasts behind him, he was even more shaken.
His Divine Sense had shown him more.
More than eighty thousand miles.
The other being's body stretched for over eighty thousand miles!
The Heaven-Splitting Hou had lived for countless years.
He had seen no shortage of enormous ferocious beasts.
Some unusual variants could reach several thousand or even ten thousand miles in length once fully grown.
Yet the life force the giant beast before him had released upon awakening bore no mark of great age.
It even had a distinct sense of youth.
This was a living being that was still growing.
The discovery shook the Heaven-Splitting Hou even more deeply.
Even so, he was a ferocious beast king who ruled a region.
After a brief moment of shock and doubt, his violent nature swiftly regained the upper hand.
Especially when he saw that more than half the fierce Sha Qi in the earth vein had vanished, his anger flared up again.
"Was it you who swallowed this king's Sha Vein?"
The Heaven-Splitting Hou opened his great jaws, his deep voice resounding through heaven and earth.
Lu Yuan had noticed him long ago.
The presence of a Taiyi Golden Immortal was unmistakable.
Compared to the ordinary ferocious beasts around him, this giant Hou, ten thousand zhang tall, was indeed worthy of a little of Lu Yuan's attention.
He stopped devouring and slowly turned his head.
"This thing has an owner?"
Lu Yuan's tone was perfectly normal.
But the Heaven-Splitting Hou grew even more enraged when he heard it.
"This king rules this entire territory, so this Sha Vein naturally belongs to me!"
The Heaven-Splitting Hou fixed his scarlet eyes on Lu Yuan, ivory-white fangs showing at the corners of his mouth. "You dared to swallow this king's Sha Vein. Today, you'll repay me with your flesh and blood!"
The thousands of ferocious beasts around them immediately stirred at those words.
A Golden Immortal ferocious beast that had followed the Heaven-Splitting Hou for many years had a fierce gleam flash in its eyes, and it could not help letting out an excited growl.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou had dominated the surrounding region for ages.
They naturally knew how powerful this ferocious beast king was.
Even if the giant beast before them was absurdly large, it might not gain the upper hand in an actual fight.
More ferocious beasts remained silent.
They had seen Lu Yuan devour the fierce Sha Qi with their own eyes.
They were still full of apprehension toward this colossal creature they could not make sense of.
Lu Yuan did not continue arguing over who owned the earth vein.
In a place like the Primordial World, resources naturally belonged to whoever had the bigger fist.
He had only recently awakened, but he still understood that principle.
"Then what are you going to do?"
Lu Yuan looked at the Heaven-Splitting Hou.
At those words, the Heaven-Splitting Hou immediately broke into a savage grin.
"Devour you!"
He wasted no more words.
His four limbs shattered the void beneath him, and his massive body became a dark red afterimage in an instant.
Boom!
He slammed straight through the air, sending out a ring of white shock waves.
The ferocious beasts behind him saw only a blur before the Heaven-Splitting Hou appeared above Lu Yuan's back.
"So fast!"
A ferocious beast at the Late Golden Immortal stage widened its eyes.
Even with its cultivation, it could barely make out an afterimage left by the Heaven-Splitting Hou.
Awe immediately filled the eyes of several ferocious beasts beside it.
This was a ferocious beast king at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level.
His speed alone was already far beyond the limits of their perception.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou was clearly supremely confident in his physical body.
He used no Divine Ability.
Opening his great, fang-filled jaws, he aimed at an exposed patch of dark golden scales on Lu Yuan's back and bit down viciously!
Boom!
A terrifying bite force erupted in an instant.
The shock wave shattered the rock strata for thousands of miles around.
All the ferocious beasts behind him stared intently.
Some of them were already growing excited.
"Roar!"
A giant ape-like fierce beast pounded its chest, seemingly already picturing the Heaven-Splitting Hou tearing a chunk of flesh and blood from the giant beast.
The next moment.
Crack!
The clear sound of something breaking reached every fierce beast's ears.
The giant ape pounding its chest froze.
The other fierce beasts around it fell silent as well.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou's entire face went completely rigid.
A fang a full hundred zhang long fell from its mouth.
Thud!
The broken fang landed on Lu Yuan's back and rolled several times.
Another soft crack followed.
The second fang split at the root.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou's pupils contracted sharply.
It even forgot to continue attacking.
Pain shot through its mouth as a thick scent of blood rapidly spread.
The fierce beasts behind it erupted at the sight.
"Aooo!"
One fierce beast's eyes flew wide, and it stretched its neck forward, as if afraid it had seen wrong.
A Golden Immortal fierce beast beside it kept backing away, unable to contain the shock in its eyes.
They knew very well just how hard the Heaven-Splitting Hou's fangs were.
Only a few thousand years ago, a peak Golden Immortal fierce beast had challenged the Heaven-Splitting Hou. In a single exchange, its entire head had been crushed by those massive jaws.
But now.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou had bitten the enormous beast with all its strength.
The other beast's scales were completely unharmed.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou's own teeth had broken!
"Impossible!"
The Heaven-Splitting Hou finally let out a furious roar.
A trace of shock and doubt was clear in its thunderous voice.
Lu Yuan turned his head to look at the Heaven-Splitting Hou sprawled across his back.
He found the scene rather familiar too.
When he had just woken up, a group of little fierce beasts had seemingly been sprawled on him, biting him.
Lu Yuan sounded somewhat helpless. "Do all you fierce beasts of the Northern Land like using your teeth this much?"
The Heaven-Splitting Hou was in no mood to answer.
A fierce light blazed in its eyes, and its enormous body retreated thousands of li in an instant.
Immediately afterward.
Boom!
Law Power at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level erupted in full!
Billowing fierce Sha Qi poured from the Heaven-Splitting Hou's body, turning into a sea of black-and-red clouds in the sky.
The faces of the fierce beasts watching nearby changed drastically.
Several Golden Immortal fierce beasts immediately turned and fled.
"Roar!"
They let out urgent warnings as they fled.
This time, the Heaven-Splitting Hou was clearly getting serious.
If they stayed nearby, the aftermath alone could cost them their lives.
Lu Yuan also felt a distinct pressure.
He slowly raised his head.
The Heaven-Splitting Hou was hovering high in the sky thousands of li away, its scarlet eyes fixed on him as all the fierce Sha Qi before it continued to compress.
At last, it condensed into a black-and-red sphere of light thousands of li across.
The energy contained within it far exceeded anything Lu Yuan had swallowed before.
"Die for this king!"
The Heaven-Splitting Hou roared in fury.
The black-and-red sphere erupted in an instant.
A thick beam of Fierce Sha Divine Light pierced heaven and earth, blasting fiercely toward Lu Yuan's head!
Space warped continuously along its path.
Several mountain peaks below had not even touched the divine light before the energy spilling from it reduced them to powder.
Boom—!
The next moment.
The Fierce Sha Divine Light struck the side of Lu Yuan's face dead-on.
A piercing explosion shook heaven and earth.
Vast waves of black-and-red energy spread wildly.
The surrounding sea of clouds was completely vaporized.
The fierce beasts that had already fled tens of thousands of li away were still knocked about by the aftermath.
One slightly weaker fierce beast fell straight from the sky and crashed into the earth.
As the black-and-red light gradually faded.
Every fierce beast immediately looked toward Lu Yuan.
They were eager to know.
Whether the enormous beast had been hurt.
Lu Yuan slowly turned his head.
A dark-gold scale where the divine light had struck had turned slightly red.
A distinct sensation of pain also reached his consciousness.
Compared to the Heaven-Splitting Hou's bite earlier, this attack had finally made him truly feel threatened.
Lu Yuan raised a giant fin and lightly touched the spot that hurt.
Then he caught the thick scent of fierce Sha still lingering in the air.
His golden eyes gradually lit up.
"This..."
Lu Yuan looked again at the black-and-red Sha Qi churning around the Heaven-Splitting Hou, a touch of interest entering his voice.
"It smells better than those ores from earlier."