Qi Gang!

Qi Gang!

Screech!

The fledgling eagle cried for the first time!

Gu Shaoshang was overjoyed. He crouched and held out his hand. The chick-like young bird chirped softly and hopped onto his palm.

A feeling of blood kinship arose spontaneously!

"It's different from its mother!" Gu Shaoshang examined it closely, recalling the Golden-Eyed Eagle's corpse he had seen before.

"Its mother had scarlet eyes, but Little Tadpole's are gold!" Gu Shaoshang was astonished. With a casual flick, purple light flashed as he opened the appraisal for the fledgling.

Golden-Eyed Eagle fledgling (unnamed): Pet beast of Mirror Master Gu Shaoshang. Originally a One-Star Level Golden-Eyed Eagle fledgling, its bloodline is undergoing mutation after being tempered by the Primordial Ancient Sacred Body Bloodline! (Final potential: Six-Star Perfect-Level Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird)

"Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird? Isn't that a Divine Beast from the legends of my previous life? Little Tadpole can actually mutate into such a Divine Beast?" Gu Shaoshang was taken aback. He had never imagined such a thing was possible!

The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird was an incomparably powerful Divine Beast from the myths of his previous life!

Legend had it that Phoenix gave birth to Peacock and Great Peng! Peacock had been evil from the moment it was born, devouring people whole from fifty miles away! It possessed such divine powers just after birth—how terrifying was that!

There were even legends that Peacock had once swallowed Buddha Shakyamuni! It had later been revered as the Mother Buddha Peacock Great Bright King Bodhisattva of myth and legend!

If Peacock, born of the same mother, possessed such power, then though the Golden-Winged Great Peng had its shortcomings, its divine abilities were likewise boundless!

Legend said that the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird possessed the fastest speed under heaven. With one flap of its wings, it could fly ninety thousand miles! Even the legendary Victorious Fighting Buddha Sun Wukong had once been captured by it!

How overbearing! How terrifying!

Watching the fledgling chirping in his palm, Gu Shaoshang was overjoyed. He extended a finger and gently stroked its tiny head, which was covered only in a thin layer of down.

"From now on, I'll call you Anger! I suppose you won't object. Hehe."

The fledgling rubbed softly against Gu Shaoshang's finger and chirped quietly, its dependence on him beyond words.

The mountain forest was filled with figures. More than ten people had tracked their way here, leading massive mastiffs. They were Qi Gang's group.

"Chief! The mastiff stopped here and won't move any farther! Sun Hailong clearly stopped here before!" The short, fat middle-aged man led a vicious mastiff as huge as a lion and reported to Qi Gang.

This was precisely where Sun Hailong had killed Gu Shaohan!

The beast led by the short, fat middle-aged man was a Crimson Gold Mastiff, an unusual beast exceptionally skilled at tracking. Not only was it extremely expensive, but it also loved human flesh. Ordinary respectable wealthy families would never raise one.

Only powerful bandits like Qi Gang would keep such beasts. The dazzling red gleam from its crimson fur was enough to show that it had tasted human flesh!

"The smell of blood still lingers here. Sun Hailong must have encountered a mountain hunter or herb gatherer here!" A bald young man took a deep breath and spoke calmly.

"Fifth, all you do is spout nonsense! That child's corpse had clearly been drained of all its flesh and bone essence. Even wild beasts in the mountains had no interest in gnawing it!" The speaker was a long-faced man with two sabers at his waist. He impatiently cut off the bald youth.

"Fourth! Are you courting death?" The bald young man spread his hands, and a pair of crystalline jade gloves emitted a faint yellow radiance.

"Heh! Is that any way to speak to your Fourth Brother? Don't want that bald head of yours anymore?" The long-faced man grinned viciously, gripping the hilts of his sabers.

"Fuck, Old Donkey, you want to die?" Veins bulged across the bald man's face as he clenched his fist and prepared to pounce!

"Enough! Shut up, all of you!"

Qi Gang, towering like a demonic beast, stood to one side with his arms folded over his chest. His expression was cold as he spoke.

"Hmph!"

The two snorted at the same time, then turned and walked aside, not daring to argue.

"Zheng Dong! Continue tracking him! Sun Hailong took one of my Buddha's Wrath Palms. He won't live much longer! Don't let someone else snatch the item away!" Qi Gang swept his gaze over the long-faced man and the other, then gave his orders indifferently.

"Yes, Chief!" The short, fat middle-aged man, Zheng Dong, lowered his head in acknowledgment.

"Go!" He immediately directed the Crimson Gold Mastiff to continue the pursuit.

The Crimson Gold Mastiff circled in place, then lifted its mastiff head, thickly furred like that of a lion.

Woof! The Crimson Gold Mastiff shot forward, and the group followed after it.

Qi Gang walked at the rear. Expressionless, he glanced at the two gray-armored men behind him carrying an enormous Meteor Hammer.

He grabbed the Meteor Hammer in one hand and strode after them. Even carrying the thousand-pound weapon, he quickly caught up with the leading Crimson Gold Mastiff.

Before long, the group followed the mastiff to the place where Gu Shaoshang had killed Sun Hailong!

"Hm?" The long-faced man leaped several zhang in a single bound and landed beside Sun Hailong's corpse to inspect it.

"Big Brother! The item is gone! Sun Hailong died by a throwing knife!" The long-faced man took a step forward to Qi Gang and handed him a throwing knife.

"Sun Hailong obtained the God-level Secret Manual, the Blood Hell Divine Demonic Great Law, in his early years! He thought it too vicious and did not dare cultivate it, so he hid it in a secret location! If I hadn't driven his younger brother to death, he might never have cultivated this evil art!" Qi Gang's voice rumbled like thunder as a mocking smile tugged at his face.

"If he had cultivated the Blood Hell Divine Demonic Great Law sooner, he would at least be a Qi Sect Realm expert by now! Why would he have been driven to kill his brother by me, only to die in this desolate wilderness?" Everyone lowered their heads, not daring to speak. Even the vicious Crimson Gold Mastiff whimpered and lay at Zheng Dong's feet. Only Qi Gang's cruel, indifferent voice swept over the hillside like a cold gale.

"The weak can only obediently await the rule of the strong!"

"Zheng Dong! Find the owner of this throwing knife! Let's see who dares steal what belongs to me, Qi Gang!" Qi Gang's expression was cold, his mouth twisted into a savage grin.

"Yes, Chief!" Zheng Dong accepted the throwing knife and replied respectfully.

Woof! Woof! The Crimson Gold Mastiff sniffed the throwing knife a few times, circled the hillside, then darted swiftly in one direction.

That direction was precisely where Gu Shaoshang had gone!

Danger was drawing ever closer, yet Gu Shaoshang knew nothing!

After playing with the little Golden-Eyed Eagle, Anger, for a while, Gu Shaoshang took out some bait he had prepared earlier and fed it to the bird.

Chirp! The fledgling disdainfully turned its head away and refused to eat.

"This was prepared according to the recipe Miss Gu gave me! It's said to be the Golden-Eyed Eagle's favorite bait! This..." Gu Shaoshang was dumbfounded and at a loss.

Chirp! Chirp! The little fellow kept crying in Gu Shaoshang's palm, giving him a headache. In a fluster, he took out everything he had on him.

"This? Won't eat it! This? Won't eat that either? Sigh!... What are you..." After several attempts, Gu Shaoshang found that Anger refused every kind of beast meat. Yet before he knew it, the little fellow pounced onto Gu Shaoshang's stomach.

"...Could it be!" Gu Shaoshang held down the squirming Anger tightly, and his eyes lit up! He removed a leather pouch from his belt, making Anger struggle even more fiercely!

"This is an insect-repelling pouch made of snakeskin! Do you want to eat snakes?" Gu Shaoshang suddenly understood!

He remembered that, in the myths of his previous life, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird ate eight hundred dragons every day! Snakes had always been known as lesser dragons! This little fellow, whose Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird bloodline had just begun to awaken, perhaps wanted to eat snakes!

In the mountain forest during early spring, snakes that had just emerged from hibernation were highly active. Gu Shaoshang soon caught a small green snake!

With a casual shake of his hand, he tossed the snake into the air!

Blade Light flashed, cutting it into small pieces.

Anger chirped as it stepped forward and pecked at the meat.

"Eat slowly. Don't choke!" Gu Shaoshang gently tapped Anger's little head with his finger.

Woof! Woof!

Suddenly, barking came from nearby. Gu Shaoshang looked up, and his eyelid twitched!

What a brutish man!

Across both his past and present lives, Gu Shaoshang had never seen such a huge, burly villain!

The man's towering body, over ten feet tall, was clad in enormous brown chainmail. Thick cold-iron chains coiled around arms wider than Gu Shaoshang's waist, while a gigantic Meteor Hammer the size of a water vat was strapped across his back!

Rumble! Rumble!

Amid thunderous explosions, the ground in the valley shook violently, as though trampled by a stampeding herd of elephants! The burly man, like a demonic beast, strode into the valley!

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