A golden storm soared into the sky.
Within the golden light, a pair of sapphire-blue eyes locked onto An Jing—or rather, onto the "Taibai Immortal Foundation" he had just "condensed out of thin air" in his hand!
It was a ferocious, brutal giant bird of Divine Anomaly, much like a Golden-Winged Peng, but with an even more violent aura. Its blood energy surged into the heavens, and its entire body was covered in feathers as brilliant as a Golden Sun. Every plume burned fiercely, yet remained fixed upon the surface of its body.
It was clearly the predator of this domain. With its wings spread, it spanned nearly a hundred zhang, and within the golden radiance rising from it, profound Dao Patterns born of heaven and earth flowed and revolved.
Before its cry had faded, it vanished abruptly—the giant peng's pouncing speed was nearly that of light. Profound runes flowed across its wings, forming a special Taixu membrane that seemed to resonate with the surrounding space-time. It did not beat its wings by relying on physical force, but exchanged momentum with the very structure of the world itself!
This involved Taixu, making it equivalent to a Divine Treasury Adept's Supernatural Ability strike. Yet for this strange giant peng, it was merely an ordinary hunt. Its speed was incomparably swift; if an ordinary Divine Treasury Adept encountered it, they would surely be bloodied, perhaps even fall!
Yet this swift, violent ambush, enough to instantly kill an ordinary Adept, gradually came to a stop as it charged toward An Jing.
Terror surfaced in the giant peng's glasslike sapphire-blue eyes, which had originally overflowed with savage intent.
—It could no longer fly!
Before the peng had flapped its wings, An Jing seemed to have noticed it already. He turned his head and looked