[Mad Beast Unleashed, Part Two]

The rage on Meng Qingshuang's face subsided slightly when he saw the newcomer. Letting out a soft breath, he said, "Sorry to trouble you, Uncle Zhao."

This man was named Zhao Gou. He was the chief instructor of the Red Fire Mine's guard unit. Though he was only in the Inner Strengthening Realm, his seniority within the Four Seas Gang was high. Even Meng Qingshuang had to treat him with respect.

(Four Steps of Foundation Establishment: Nurturing Strength, Rigidity and Flexibility, Internal Strengthening, Divine Strength.)

True to his name, Zhao Gou had a dog's nose. He could smell, distinguish, and remember many scents that ordinary people could not detect.

"This indeed wasn't done by one of our own. Of course, Tong Liao cannot be ruled out either."

Zhao Gou twitched his nose, his expression turning slightly grave. "The lingering scent left by the attacker gives this old man a faint sense of danger. At the very least, he is a martial artist at the peak of Internal Strengthening. Hmm?"

As he spoke.

Zhao Gou's expression suddenly changed. Narrowing his eyes, he said, "He's here."

Meng Qingshuang's expression froze. He slowly turned his head, his blood-red vertical pupils looking toward the gate.

Crash—

The other Four Seas Gang members also sensed that something was wrong. It felt as if some vicious beast of the forest was staring at them from behind, making their hair stand on end. They whirled around!

The next moment.

Everyone's faces filled with astonishment, and the same thought rose in their hearts—

Why was this wild man so huge and brawny?

Whoosh—

The morning wind, carrying a trace of chill, swept through the doorway, sending countless thick, wild strands of waist-length black hair flying.

That iron-tower body, two and a half meters tall, stood beneath the doorway like a colossal god blocking the passage!

Most importantly...

The Four Seas Gang members lowered their gazes.

They saw Wu Dao's inhuman hands and feet—twenty nails four or five centimeters long, like the claws of a tiger or eagle, gleaming with a sinister black metallic sheen.

And...

Within that slowly curling, split-open mouth were two rows of sharp triangular shark teeth, interlocking like steel sawblades!

This was not a man!

This was a Mad Beast standing at the top of the food chain!

Gulp—

Their hearts and courage trembled, their legs shook.

Overwhelmed by the surging aura of a Beast King, the several dozen Four Seas Gang guards before him were like rabbits being watched by tigers and bears. Their teeth chattered as they involuntarily retreated.

But when they turned back and saw Meng Qingshuang's icy gaze, they gritted their teeth and held their ground. Covered in cold sweat, they drew the long blades at their waists and raised the spears in their hands.

This "giant beast," whether man or monster, possessed an overwhelming presence.

But compared to the unknown, they feared Meng Qingshuang's ruthless methods even more.

"Fourth Master, this visitor comes with ill intent."

Zhao Gou, standing beside Meng Qingshuang, had already removed the Refined Iron Spear from his back. Frowning, he solemnly warned Meng Qingshuang.

The brutal, wild aura on Wu Dao's body reminded him of the Violent Bear he had encountered in the mountains as a child!

That naturally radiating aura of the King of Ten Thousand Beasts was primitive, savage, soul-shaking, and supremely dangerous!!

"Ill intent? Heh."

Meng Qingshuang smiled cruelly. His vertical pupils turned completely crimson as he stared at Wu Dao like a great python hunting in the mountains. "Speak. What is your name? Who sent you? One of my dear brothers, or another gang? And..."

By the end, Meng Qingshuang was gritting his teeth. "Where is my medicine?!"

Although Wu Dao gave him a faint sense of danger, that was all. Within the Foundation Establishment Realm, no one could consume so much Great Medicine in a single night.

Therefore.

Meng Qingshuang was certain that those "medicines" were still somewhere. As long as he found them, everything could be treated as though it had never happened.

Of course.

This foolhardy madman who dared to steal from him had to be subjected to Lingchi—no, he should be swallowed alive and flayed alive—to soothe Meng Qingshuang's hatred!

At this thought.

Meng Qingshuang extended his inhuman snake tongue and greedily licked his lips.

Facing the Four Seas Gang members standing ready for battle and Meng Qingshuang, who wished he could tear him apart bone by bone and tendon by tendon, Wu Dao did not mock or boast. He merely turned around without a word and shut the two heavy doors.

Creak—

The slowly closing doors made a harsh, teeth-aching sound.

With his back to the crowd, Wu Dao pushed the door panels shut. The muscles rising across his back resembled an Ancient Demon Crab, majestic enough to blot out the sky and make hearts pound in terror.

"Kill!!"

Feeling ignored, the raging fire in Meng Qingshuang's chest suddenly boiled over, and he spat out a single word through clenched teeth.

"Hack him to death!!"

The hundred-plus Four Seas Gang guards first exchanged looks, then had no choice but to crush down their fear and charge forward with gritted teeth.

Click!

The ironwood door bolt dropped into place.

Wu Dao turned around. Facing the Four Seas Gang guards flooding in from all directions, his savage beast eyes crossed over the crowd and fixed on Meng Qingshuang with a vicious smile.

Boom, boom, boom—

His unhurried steps seemed like a leisurely stroll through a courtyard, yet also like war drums pounding. The strength accumulated in his body and the brutal killing intent in his bones awakened in full, like a Heavenly Blade leaving its sheath!

Whoosh!

A spear thrust toward him first.

Without even shifting his gaze, Wu Dao kept that savage smile on his face. His large yellow-jade hand shot out like lightning, seized the shaft, and exerted force. With a crack, the ironwood snapped in an instant.

His bear-like, powerful body pressed forward, and Wu Dao's left hand grabbed the hair of a Four Seas Gang member before him.

Splat!

Under the man's terrified gaze, Wu Dao smiled cruelly. The spearhead in his right hand stabbed upward through the man's lower jaw and burst from the crown of his skull, hot blood spraying across Wu Dao's face.

His large hand swept down.

It gripped the man's neck!

Then he swung him like a hammer in every direction.

Bang bang bang!!

Savage Elephant Strength erupted. The Four Seas Gang members surrounding him were instantly sent sprawling, their bones broken and tendons torn. Screams rang out in chaos as more than ten guards lost their ability to fight in an instant.

"Die!"

Yet agile men still managed to reach Wu Dao. Their long blades flashed coldly as they whistled toward him in horizontal slashes.

Wu Dao's expression did not change in the slightest. With the reaction speed of a wildcat, everyone around him seemed to move in slow motion, posing no threat at all.

But he had no intention of dodging.

As the blade struck, his bloody maw opened wide. The two rows of triangular shark teeth snapped shut.

Clang!

Sparks flew!

He caught a blade bare-mouthed!

Clang!

His cheeks bulged as his chewing muscles flexed. Before countless horrified eyes, the iron blade in his mouth was bitten cleanly in half!

Whoosh!!

Immediately afterward, his palm, as large as a fan, swept out like a tiger claw. His fingers curved, his hooked claws like blades, tearing through the air with a whistling roar as they struck the attacker's face.

Bang!

Rip!

Flesh, bone, and sinew ruptured!

Before the blade-wielding guard could recover from his shock, half his head had been torn into fragments by Wu Dao's tiger palm. Red and white matter sprayed through the air, the broken blade fell, and the mangled body was hurled heavily away.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The evil wind raged.

Two more men came slashing at him from behind.

It was as if Wu Dao had eyes in the back of his head. He twisted aside and dodged the blades.

Bang bang!

The power of his waist drove his Python Dragon legs. One high spinning kick blasted both men's heads apart on the spot, red and white spraying across the air.

Once slaughter began, there was no intermission!

Boom!

The dragon-coiling, tiger-crouching muscles on Wu Dao's thighs, each as thick as an ordinary man's waist, suddenly tightened. His body sank, his knees bent, and as a crater exploded in the muddy ground, his Savage Bear-like figure leapt into the crowd.

Rip!!

Bang bang bang!

"Ah!!"

A fierce tiger descending the mountain, a Mad Beast unleashed from its cage!

There was no technique—only the pure release of primitive, savage power, a one-sided slaughter!

Howls rang out without end. Flesh and severed arms flew everywhere, and the world seemed to become a black ink painting, splashed again and again with glaring scarlet blood.

Brutal! Bloody!

A graze meant injury; a touch meant death!

Sharp weapons were like toys, incapable of harming that terrifying tyrannosaur-like body!

Within five meters around Wu Dao, blood flowed in torrents and severed limbs lay everywhere, like a hell of flesh and blood.

Fear spread, death pressed down!

In no more than ten seconds of rabbit-rising and falcon-falling!

The Four Seas Gang guards had suffered dozens of deaths and injuries. The courage that had just risen within them was reduced to nothing beneath Wu Dao's cruel methods. None of those remaining dared step forward again.

"Heh."

Wu Dao was drenched in red. Seeing the guards around him only surrounding him without attacking, he gave a derisive laugh and tossed away the head still attached to its spine.

Time for the main course.

He licked the blood and flesh from his face toward Meng Qingshuang with sadistic delight. A flash of ruthlessness passed through his eyes as his right foot fiercely kicked the butt of a spear lying in the blood-and-flesh mire.

Bang!

Whoosh!

Mud splattered, and the air wailed as it split!

"Move!"

The cry had barely risen!

Squelch, squelch, squelch!

The spear pierced through the chests, abdomens, and heads of five guards in succession like an arrow fired from a siege crossbow, stringing them together like candied hawthorns.

Whoosh!

The blood-red spear had not lost any momentum. After piercing through the crowd, it flew straight toward Meng Qingshuang's head.

Clang!

The large Refined Iron Spear swept through the air, knocking away the bloodied spear at the critical instant!

Bzzzzz—

The spear hummed, and Zhao Gou's tiger's mouth split open.

Zhao Gou's already jujube-red face turned even redder. His chest heaved violently, his arms trembled, and he felt as though he had just knocked aside an iron mountain.

"Fourth Master, this man has at least achieved Great Success of Divine Strength... If you do not act, we cannot handle him."

He panted heavily, his expression grave. At the same time, he was reminding Meng Qingshuang not to make pointless sacrifices.

A Divine Strength Martial Artist who had reached Great Success of Foundation Establishment was only one step away from the Rebirth Realm.

Their strength was like that of a savage elephant, their skin and flesh armored, faster than birds of prey, as nimble as wildcats, and their endurance could withstand a hundred battles without exhaustion. They were simply humanoid ferocious beasts.

Only a proper army, rigorously trained and perfectly coordinated, clad in heavy armor and armed with steel blades and Metal-Piercing Crossbows, could use numbers to besiege one.

Against ordinary stragglers and guards, not to mention one hundred—even five hundred would be like killing chickens and dogs. They could never hope to stop a martial artist who had achieved Great Success of Divine Strength.

"How would we know his strength without testing him?"

Meng Qingshuang twisted his neck, making it crackle. His aura gradually became dangerous as he handed the brocade box in his hand to Zhao Gou for safekeeping and spoke words that made one's hair stand on end.

Zhao Gou accepted the brocade box, the skin of his face twitching slightly.

With this little "test" of yours, at least dozens of Four Seas Gang experts had been torn into pieces.

If the enemy was unclear, do not move.

That was rational, but cruel.

One could only say that a tiger father had no dog sons. The Four Seas Gang's young masters, including the old gang leader, had never treated human lives as anything of value.

Boom!

A sound like a cannonball exploding suddenly rang out.

Within the crowd.

Wu Dao had also lost interest in tangling with shrimp and minnows. His enormous body bent slightly as his legs, like oversized grasshopper limbs, erupted with terrifying leaping power, blasting a huge muddy crater beneath him.

He sprang five or six meters into the air like a golden eagle diving for prey. Along the way, he stomped several unlucky men's heads apart, borrowing force twice and crossing nearly twenty meters in the blink of an eye!

Boom!

Mud and water splashed, earth and stones shot outward.

That sky-blocking figure landed steadily before Meng Qingshuang. His head hung low beneath flying disheveled hair, and his blood-sun crimson eyes stared silently down with cruel calm, as if examining a little white rabbit.

Drip, drip—

Chunks of flesh dripped constantly from his divine-mountain-like body. The pungent stench mixed with wild, scorching male hormones surged forth in waves.

Meng Qingshuang felt as if a furnace stood before him. The blazing masculine aura and the pressure of a predator at the top of the food chain stirred the thing within his body, causing it to radiate instinctive disgust.

"Within Guangqing Prefecture, a Divine Strength Martial Artist is no longer an unknown nobody. Who exactly are you, and which power do you belong to?"

With a life-and-death battle before him.

Meng Qingshuang still could not suppress the curiosity in his heart. He raised his head and questioned him coldly.

From beginning to end, Wu Dao had not spoken a word. He had killed bloodily like a mute. If that was truly the case, whom would Meng Qingshuang seek for revenge afterward?

Clearly, Meng Qingshuang was full of confidence. He was already considering whom to seek revenge against after killing Wu Dao.