Half a month later, Double Fork Ridge.
Qin He's Golden Body Dharma Aspect strode through the air.
Each step carried him a hundred li, his speed reaching the utmost limit.
His enormous body stood between heaven and earth. With every footfall, the whole world trembled, as though a deity were strolling through the mortal realm.
In the deepest part of Double Fork Ridge, four mountain ridges pierced straight into the heavens like sharp prongs, cold and keen-edged.
For a thousand li around, not a blade of grass or tree remained. Endless dark clouds shrouded the land, and withered bones littered the ground, making it seem like a hell on earth.
Qin He had yet to arrive, but his powerful aura had already crushed down like mountains collapsing and seas overturning, shaking Double Fork Ridge until heaven and earth turned upside down. The ground cracked, and whole stretches of mountain ranges came crashing down.
"Insolence!"
An incomparably cold furious shout came from deep underground.
Immediately afterward, the four mountain ridges shaped like sharp prongs rose from the earth and began to sway, flinging out countless clumps of dirt and stone that pattered down like waterfalls.
Then, beneath the mountain ridges, two pairs of scarlet eyes slowly opened from the darkness. They stared into the distance, cold and sinister.
Those four mountain ridges were, astonishingly, the horns and ears of two colossal beasts.
"Roar!"
The giant beasts howled, rapidly awakening from the slumber of endless ages.
The roar shook heaven and cowed earth. The surrounding soil and rocks exploded one after another, and terrifying sound waves swept in all directions, temporarily driving back that dreadful pressure.
When the dust and stones settled, the true forms of the two giant beasts emerged from the endless dark clouds.
One was a four-hoofed antelope ox,