Feng Bo and Yu Shi

Four days later.

"Danzhu, why are you running so fast... Isn't it nice to just sit on my shoulders?"

At the edge of the forest, Xu Yanwu watched Danzhu frolicking ahead, feeling a little helpless.

What happened to you being a shut-in? You're running wild in the middle of nowhere! You've betrayed the very essence of being a shut-in!

Even so, Xu Yanwu quickly followed, carrying Cang Xuan who was sitting on his shoulder. His massive energy body rumbled as it struck the ground.

Xu Yanwu had made some minor adjustments to his energy body over the past few days.

Since Xu Yanwu couldn't form a normal human body for the time being, he decided to go all out and develop it into something more monstrous.

For example, Xu Yanwu's current body was just one of his forms. It stood over ten meters tall, making Cang Xuan, sitting on his shoulder, look like a mere figurine.

If you ignored Xu Yanwu's head, which was disproportionately small for his body, this form could be considered quite imposing. After all, Danzhu, the figurine fanatic, had helped Xu Yanwu sculpt it. (Danzhu's figurines were physical and could be created directly, while Xu Yanwu's body was a fluid construct of energy that he had to control himself rather than wish into existence, so she couldn't sculpt it perfectly.) However, with Xu Yanwu's tiny head, it looked utterly hilarious no matter how you looked at it.

Xu Yanwu could have created a matching head, but he felt a bit suffocated and decided not to for the time being, planning to attach one when needed.

Because of this, Danzhu seemed to be angry with Xu Yanwu. When Xu Yanwu removed his head, she jumped off his shoulder in a huff, refusing to be carried anymore.

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

"...But it's stuffy in there, with my head inside..."

"I don't want to hear it! I don't want to hear it!"

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

Xu Yanwu crouched down, rubbing his temples, and looked at Danzhu.

"...Ougada? [Are you angry?]"

"I'm not angry at all!"

Danzhu stubbornly turned her face away.

"Danzhu, stop messing around. We still need to find Ji Xuanyuan."

Cang Xuan called out to Danzhu.

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

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

"...Probably?"

Xu Yanwu hesitated. In the records of his world, the Yellow Emperor was said to be near the Yellow River Basin.

Moreover, the direction he wished for pointed this way. But why hadn't he seen a single river after walking for several days?

On the other hand, the Honkai Beasts were becoming more numerous as time went on.

"Probably?"

Cang Xuan's face darkened.

Sensing the killing intent coalescing to his left, Xu Yanwu shivered and quickly said, "If we don't find her today, I'll cover all your expenses from now on!"

Cang Xuan's expression finally softened. "That's better."

"..."

As expected, Cang Xuan was a money grubber.

"But the direction should be right... why can't I find her..." Xu Yanwu muttered softly.

"How should I know?"

Cang Xuan shot Xu Yanwu a glare.

"Sister..."

Danzhu suddenly spoke, her voice trembling slightly. "It looks like there are... a lot of Honkai Energy reactions ahead!"

"Quick! Everyone! Escape to higher ground!"

Jiang Zhu stood on a rock, frantically directing her tribe to flee an area.

Below the rock, floods had submerged their homes, and monstrous creatures rampaged in the water, chasing the tribespeople.

Among them, two of the most powerful Honkai Beasts were being held back one-on-one by the two girls, Ji Xuanyuan and Chi Yuan. One was mountain-sized with a deer's body, a sparrow's head, horns, and a snake's tail. The other was a massive serpent tens of meters long, with a head like an evil dragon, entirely crimson, and white bone horns growing from its head.

However, because of this, they couldn't spare any energy to deal with the other Honkai Beasts, and could only watch as they tore into the tribespeople. Even they themselves were struggling to cope with the attacks from these two behemoths.

"Feng Bo! Yu Shi!"

Looking at the two colossal Honkai Beasts, Jiang Zhu grit her teeth in hatred. This flood was brought about by these two most powerful Honkai Beasts!

But he was powerless to do anything, only able to futilely direct his people to escape, then watch as they were torn to shreds and swallowed by the Honkai Beasts.

The Liuli hanging from Jiang Zhu's chest began to shake violently, as if something within was trying to break free. But Jiang Zhu currently had no mind to deal with it.

Witnessing the scene, he sank to his knees powerlessly, covering his face and weeping.

"Oh, heavens... why..."

"Can anyone... save us..."

"ROAR—!"

A high-pitched roar suddenly echoed from the distant horizon, shaking the entire battlefield. Even weaker Honkai Beasts couldn't withstand it, foaming at the mouth and collapsing to the ground.

Tears welled in Jiang Zhu's eyes as she looked up at the distant horizon, seeing a colossal shadow streaking towards them.

It had wings on its back, a body covered in scales and spines, a large and long head, a pointed snout, small nose, eyes, and ears, large eye sockets, high brow ridges, sharp teeth, a protruding forehead, a long, pointed tail, and horns like a deer, a head like a camel, a neck like a snake, a belly like a mirage, scales like a fish, claws like an eagle, palms like a tiger, and ears like an ox.

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

Jiang Zhu's face turned ashen. Meanwhile, the Liuli on her chest began to shake more violently as the dark shadow approached.

At this moment, beneath the rocks.

A tiger-like Honkai Beast was tearing at the corpse of a woman beneath it. Beside it, a trembling little girl watched the woman being devoured and cried, rushing forward to beat the tiger-like Honkai Beast's head, "Give me back my mom! Give me back my mom!"

The tiger-like Honkai Beast grew impatient with the little girl's blows, stopping its chewing. It opened its maw and lunged at the girl!

"Boom!"

A blue light shot out from Jiang Zhu's chest, smashing the tiger-like Honkai Beast that was lunging at the little girl to the ground.

It was a man without a head, wearing only a beast-skin skirt. He rode on top of the tiger-like Honkai Beast, punching down again and again, smashing the howling beast into a pulp.

Although it had no head, it seemed to sense something. It picked up the little girl and leaped directly in front of Jiang Zhu, handing the girl to her.

"Xing... Xing Tian?!"

Jiang Zhu hugged the little girl, disbelief etched on her face.

PS

Xu Ren Shuang: I apologize for only having one update for the past two days due to needing to research materials and some personal reasons. Today should have more updates