Sunlight pierced the branches of towering trees, casting dappled shadows among the bushes.
The Porcupine Beast crouched low, every quill standing erect like a drawn sword.
Its amber pupils locked onto the Crocodile Beast opposite it. Its protruding snout twitched, and the white vapor sprayed from its nostrils condensed into tiny droplets in the air.
Within its gaping maw, two rows of dagger-sharp fangs interlocked. Their edges gleamed with a cold, blue-black light, while drool dripped through the gaps between its teeth and splattered onto the ground, leaving tiny wet marks.
"Roar..."
The Crocodile Beast refused to be outdone. It suddenly raised its black-scaled neck and let out a deafening roar.
The sound wave swept outward like an invisible tidal wave, instantly kicking up dust and dead leaves from the ground and raising a hazy curtain of sand between the two beasts.
The fish gills on its abdomen opened and closed violently, every breath carrying a damp, fishy stench. Its sickle-like foreclaws lightly scraped the ground, carving deep furrows, while the cold glint on its claw tips was even more dazzling than the sunlight.
Lin Li hovered more than two hundred meters in the sky, his clothes snapping loudly in the wind.
He narrowed his eyes and carefully sensed the two powerful auras below.
They were Spiritual Energy fluctuations at the Second-Order Peak, churning through the air like boiling magma, with faint signs of breaking through to the third order.
These were the first two beasts Lin Li had encountered since entering the Ruins Space that possessed such formidable strength.
"Whoosh..."
The Porcupine Beast suddenly arched its back. As its muscles bulged, all its quills abruptly shot forward.
The Silver White quills tore through the air with shrill whistles, tracing dense parabolas overhead before enveloping the Crocodile Beast like a