Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear

A black shadow slowly stepped out from behind a tree.

Xue Lingyun's feet paused, stopping on a thick branch.

He did not retreat, nor did he rush to attack.

Beneath his feet, soul rings rose.

Yellow, purple, purple, black.

Four soul rings slowly revolved around him.

Sunlight passed through the gaps in the canopy and fell on that figure, and a dark-gold gleam flashed by. It was a giant bear.

It stood over three meters tall, its entire body covered in long dark-gold fur that looked as if it had been cast from metal. Every strand was as hard and coarse as a steel needle, giving off a cold sheen in the shifting light. Its shoulders were as broad as a moving city wall, and its two forearms were abnormally thick and long, hanging almost to its knees. The bulging lines of muscle along its arm bones held a power that made one's scalp tingle.

Most shocking of all were its claws. At the ends of its forelimbs, five dark-gold claw blades, each two feet long, curved slightly, like five scimitars welded to its palms.

The cold gleam at the claw tips flickered in and out under the sunlight. With every breath it took, the claw blades trembled faintly with the rise and fall of its chest, as if they would tear the air apart in the next second.

Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.

Xue Lingyun's gaze swept from its murky dark-yellow eyes to its dark-gold fur, then to the pair of giant claws hanging down to its knees.

The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear was one of the continent's top-tier Assault Department soul beasts, with remnants of the ancient Behemoth bloodline flowing in its veins. Its dark-gold fur naturally possessed ultimate physical and elemental defense; ordinary soul skills hitting it were