Pfft.
Wei He caught the red line midair with a single finger.
But the red line recoiled the instant it touched him, flying back in the blink of an eye.
From the darkness, a massive black shadow suddenly charged out. Its body stood over three meters tall, and its appearance was identical to the other Pus Lizards.
This giant was the leader of the other Pus Lizards.
"A whole clan?" Wei He sized up the creature before him and found that it was merely an enlarged Pus Lizard, with no other changes. He promptly lost interest.
He casually snapped off a branch beside him, infused it with force, and flung it forward.
A shrill whistle tore through the air as the branch sank into the side of the giant Pus Lizard's belly in the blink of an eye.
Then—
Boom!!
A mass of Returning True Force exploded inside the Pus Lizard's stomach.
Amid the mangled flesh, vast amounts of Wei He's Returning True Force began forcibly flooding into the giant Pus Lizard's body.
Two seconds later, the giant Pus Lizard crashed heavily to the ground.
Wei He collected its star core and continued onward at will.
Along the way, he killed another four Pus Lizards in succession.
At last, he reached the shore.
Only then did he see for the first time what it looked like when Sea Beasts invaded an island.
Upon the beach at night, Pus Lizards crawled slowly out of the seawater in dense, swarming masses.
Some threw back their heads and roared. Some scraped at the ground with their claws. Others swayed their heads from side to side, as though they had yet to awaken.
Standing at the edge of the forest, Wei He looked into the distance. The stretch of beach before him alone held