"Don't let it get away."
"Third Brother, it's escaping toward you! Stop it!"
"Got it, Big Brother. Don't worry! This beast won't be escaping alive today."
Three burly, powerfully built men were surrounding and hunting a Second-Order Peak mutated beast.
The beast was enormous, as large as a bus on Blue Star.
Its body was covered in thick fur, and its eyes were as black as ink. It looked very much like a lion.
"Third Brother, watch out for the Black-Eyed Lion's ability!" Liu Xinchang shouted.
The instant his voice fell, a pale golden light surfaced in the Black-Eyed Lion's pitch-black eyes. An invisible wave of energy spread outward, enveloping Zhang Jiangqi.
Although Zhang Jiangqi had been prepared, his cultivation was far weaker than the Black-Eyed Lion's. Affected by its ability, his expression immediately grew vacant, and his entire body became somewhat dazed, as if he had been immobilized. He stopped moving.
"Damn it, Third Brother's been hit!" Guan Xitao, who was only 1.6 meters tall and rather thin, shouted anxiously upon seeing this.
"Stop right there!" Seeing the mutated beast pounce toward Zhang Jiangqi, Liu Xinchang grew frantic and hurriedly used his ability to rescue him.
"Rustle..."
The bushes around the dazed Zhang Jiangqi shook violently. One emerald-green thorn-covered vine after another shot out from within them. They moved so quickly that ordinary people could neither react nor dodge them.
The Black-Eyed Lion's reflexes, however, far surpassed those of ordinary people. Even among human Cultivators of the same cultivation level, few could match it.
Faced with the vines winding toward it, the Black-Eyed Lion chose not to dodge.
It raised its sharp claws and swiftly slashed forward. Its dagger-sharp claws tore apart the vines blocking its path.
"Damn it." When Liu Xinchang and Guan Xitao saw that the Black-Eyed