Absorbing the Origin of Wood

Just as he was about to dig up the tree, ripples spread across the lake near Lake Heart Island.

The ripples radiated outward from the center of the lake, growing larger and denser, as if countless stones had been thrown into the water at once.

The surface began to churn, and bubbles rose from the depths with a gurgling sound.

Lake Heart Island trembled, the ground shaking. A colossal creature poked its head out from beneath the water.

An Iron-Armored Giant Crocodile.

It was over ten zhang long, its entire body covered in Dark Gold scales. Each scale was the size of a palm, layered tightly over one another without the slightest gap.

The scales had a metallic sheen, glinting coldly beneath the sun as if no blade or spear could pierce them.

Its head was enormous, its mouth taking up half of it. When it opened, two rows of razor-sharp teeth were visible, each as long as a dagger, stark white and flashing with a cold gleam.

Its eyes were vertical pupils, golden, cold, and cruel.

The giant crocodile slowly crawled ashore from the water, its limbs thick and powerful, its claws sharp as hooks. Every step left deep claw marks in the ground.

Its tail dragged behind it, as thick as an ordinary adult's waist.

There were ten bone spikes on its tail, nine long and one short. The spikes were sharp, glimmering faintly under the sunlight.

Xiao Yun's pupils contracted slightly. A ninety-nine-thousand-year Iron-Armored Giant Crocodile, only one step away from a hundred thousand years.

As long as that shorter bone spike grew another inch, it would break through to a hundred thousand years and become a true Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

The Iron-Armored Giant Crocodile's mental fluctuation was chaotic and violent.

It was not an intelligent soul