Feng Bo Yu Shi

Four days later.

"Danzhu, don't run so fast... Wouldn't it be nice to sit on my shoulder?"

At the edge of the forest, Xu Yanwu watched Danzhu frolicking ahead of him, feeling somewhat helpless.

Weren't you supposed to be a shut-in? How were you having such a blast in this godforsaken wilderness? You had betrayed the faith of shut-ins!

But despite saying that, Xu Yanwu hurried after her with Cang Xuan sitting on his shoulder. His enormous energy body thundered across the ground with every step.

Over the past few days, Xu Yanwu had made a few adjustments to his energy body.

Since he still could not condense a normal human body for the time being... Xu Yanwu simply went all in and started developing in the direction of bizarre forms.

For example, his current body was one of his forms. It stood over ten meters tall, and Cang Xuan sitting on its shoulder truly looked like a figurine...

If one ignored Xu Yanwu's tiny head, which did not match the body's size at all, this body could genuinely be called imposing. After all, Danzhu, that figurine-making fanatic, had helped sculpt it for him. Danzhu's figurines were physical objects that could be created directly, while Xu Yanwu's body was a fluid construct of energy that required his own control rather than a wish, so she could not sculpt the character herself. Still, paired with Xu Yanwu's little head, it looked hilarious no matter how one looked at it...

Xu Yanwu could have made a matching head, but he felt like he could not breathe properly inside it, so he had not made one for now. He would put it on when he needed it...

Because of this, Danzhu seemed to have gotten angry at him. The moment Xu Yanwu dismissed his head, she jumped directly off his shoulder and sulkily refused to let him carry her.

"No way!" Danzhu turned back and made a face at him. "I'm not sitting on a headless Titan!"

"...But it gets stuffy with my head in there..."

"I'm not listening, I'm not listening!"

Danzhu sat on a tree branch at the forest's edge, puffing out her cheeks like a hamster.

Xu Yanwu squatted down with a headache and looked at Danzhu.

"...Oh, got it? Are you angry?"

"I'm not angry!"

Danzhu awkwardly turned her face away.

"Danzhu, stop making trouble. We still need to find Ji Xuanyuan."

Cang Xuan called out to Danzhu.

"Hmph! ╭(╯^╰)╮" Danzhu reluctantly jumped onto Xu Yanwu's other shoulder.

Seeing that Danzhu had listened, Cang Xuan turned to Xu Yanwu and asked, "Xu Yanwu, are you really sure Ji Xuanyuan will be here?"

"...Probably?"

Xu Yanwu was a little hesitant. The records in his world said that the Yellow Emperor had been somewhere around the Yellow River Basin...

And the direction he got from his wish was this way as well, but why had they been walking for days without even seeing a river?

On the other hand, Honkai Beasts had been becoming more numerous as time passed.

"Probably?"

Cang Xuan's face darkened.

Sensing the killing intent gathering to the left of his head, Xu Yanwu shuddered and hurriedly said, "If we still can't find her today, I'll cover all your expenses from now on!"

Only then did Cang Xuan's expression ease. "That's more like it."

"..."

As expected of money-grubbing Cang Xuan.

"But this direction should be right... Why can't we find her..." Xu Yanwu muttered quietly.

"How should I know?"

Cang Xuan rolled her eyes at Xu Yanwu.

"Big Sister..."

Danzhu suddenly spoke, her voice trembling. "There seem to be... a lot of Honkai Energy signatures ahead!"

"Quick! Everyone! Escape to higher ground!"

Jiang Zhu stood atop a boulder, constantly directing the people of the tribe to flee from the area.

Below the boulder, floodwaters swallowed the tribe that had once been their home. Hideous monsters rampaged through the flood, pursuing the tribespeople.

The two strongest Honkai Beasts among them were each being held back one-on-one by Ji Xuanyuan and Chi Yuan. One was as large as a mountain, with the body of a deer, the head of a bird, horns, a serpent's tail, and leopard markings. The other was a colossal serpent dozens of meters long, with the head of an evil dragon, a crimson body, and white bony horns growing from its head.

But because of that, they had no energy to spare for dealing with the other Honkai Beasts. They could only watch helplessly as the monsters tore into the tribespeople, and even they themselves were struggling to protect themselves from the attacks of those two Honkai Beasts.

"Feng Bo! Yu Shi!"

As Jiang Zhu looked at those two enormous Honkai Beasts, he nearly ground his teeth to pieces in hatred. This flood had been brought about by those two strongest Honkai Beasts!

Yet there was nothing he could do. He could only futilely direct the people to escape, then watch as they were torn to pieces by the Honkai Beasts and swallowed whole.

The Liuli hanging from Jiang Zhu's chest began to shake violently, as though whatever was inside wanted to break free from its seal. But Jiang Zhu... had no mind to pay attention to it now.

Watching this scene, he fell helplessly to his knees and covered his face as he wept.

"Heavens... why..."

"Who can... save us..."

"Roar------!"

A resounding cry suddenly came from the distant horizon, shaking the entire battlefield. Some of the weaker Honkai Beasts could not withstand it and collapsed to the ground, foam spilling from their mouths.

With tears in his eyes, Jiang Zhu looked up and saw a massive shadow shooting toward them from the distant sky.

It had wings on its back, scales and spines along its body, a large elongated head, a pointed snout, tiny nose, eyes, and ears, large eye sockets, high brow ridges, sharp teeth, a protruding forehead, a long pointed tail, antler-like horns, the head of a camel, the neck of a snake, the belly of a clam, fish-like scales, eagle-like claws, tiger-like paws, and ox-like ears.

"Another monster... The tribe... is finished..."

Jiang Zhu's face turned ashen, while the Liuli on his chest shook even more violently as the shadow drew near.

Meanwhile, below the boulder.

A tiger-like Honkai Beast was tearing into the corpse of a woman beneath it. Nearby, a trembling little girl watched the woman being devoured, crying as she rushed forward and pounded on the tiger-like Honkai Beast's head. "Give me back my mother! Give me back my mother!"

The tiger-like Honkai Beast became impatient from the little girl's pounding. It stopped feeding, opened its jaws, and bit at her!

Boom!

Blue light shot out from Jiang Zhu's chest and slammed the tiger-like Honkai Beast into the ground just as it was about to bite the little girl.

It was a headless man wearing nothing but a beast-hide skirt. He rode atop the tiger-like Honkai Beast and hammered down punch after punch, smashing the howling creature into a pulp.

Though he had no head, he seemed able to sense everything. He picked up the little girl, leaped directly before Jiang Zhu, and handed her over to him.

"X-Xingtian?!"

Jiang Zhu held the little girl, unable to believe his eyes.

PS

Xu Renshuang: I'm very sorry. For the past two days, due to research and some personal reasons, there was only one update. There should not be any fewer updates today...