Deep within the Heaven-Reaching River.
Two enormous Mutant Beasts were locked in battle.
One was a Purple Long Serpent dozens of meters long, with countless sharp horns atop its head. The other was an equally long great fish covered in black scales, its mouth full of sharp teeth.
The two fierce beasts kept biting and crashing into each other, stirring up surging undercurrents along the riverbed.
After a long while, the Purple Long Serpent was the first to give out. With a sweep of its tail, it knocked the Black Fish aside, then slipped into the depths of the riverbed while the Black Fish was adjusting its direction.
The Black Fish did not continue the pursuit. After coming to its senses and circling twice in place, it too swiftly departed.
Somewhere underwater.
The badly injured Purple Long Serpent was coiled into a ring, floating in the water.
It concealed its aura, like a lifeless stone, quietly recovering.
Yet before long, an underwater current startled it awake.
The moment it opened its eyes, it saw a Giant Turtle Shell two or three times its own size appear not far away at some unknown time.
Just as the Strange Serpent tried to flee, a Thunder Net wrapped around its body. Its already grievously wounded body struggled only a few times before losing all life, becoming completely stiff and motionless.
More than a dozen Qi Refining cultivators, each enclosed in a Water-Repelling Bubble, flew out of the turtle shell and skillfully used secret arts to bind up the Strange Serpent's corpse.
"Strange."
"How so?"
"Lately, we keep running into solitary Mutant Beasts. And they're either injured or weak. It's very strange," one Qi Refining cultivator said in puzzlement.
"Better to say the Divine Ability is remarkable," another shook his head.
"There must be