"That mountain... it seems alive."
As Qin Shi drew closer, the enormous Copper Mountain embedded upside down in the ground seemed to throb with a heartbeat-like rhythm.
He narrowed his eyes. His Mental Strength spread farther as he focused his mind and listened. Somehow, he could hear a battle cry and roar filled with a savage, primordial spirit.
"The pressure in the central area really is different."
Qin Shi suddenly stopped, suppressing his presence as a humanoid creature over twenty meters tall tramped past with heavy footsteps.
It looked like a crimson giant stripped of its skin. Wherever it went, waves of heat surged through the air, melting the gravel.
Its Life Force was terrifyingly immense, a nearly tangible tide crashing through the space and leaving one breathless, like a tiny fish battered by raging waves and flung back onto the shore.
"Professional Level! And it's reached that level after several stages of evolution!"
Qin Shi silently hid in a corner, waiting for the crimson giant to leave.
Even if this strange creature stood still and let him unleash Dimensional Slash with his bare hands, he doubted he could kill it.
"No wonder hardly anyone in the group sent to the central area is hunting. The chances of becoming prey are just too high."
Qin Shi proceeded with caution. He noticed that the powerful strange creatures all seemed unwilling to approach the Bronze Demonic Mountain, as if they feared or dreaded it.
"So the mountain is actually the safest place."
He moved at incredible speed. Once Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum's "swift as the wind" took effect, his figure seemed to merge with the airflow, meeting no resistance. Before long, he reached the "foot of the mountain."
Strictly speaking, the end stuck into the ground was the summit. But because it