"In my previous life, if I'd run into you," Jiang Tian said, staring at the Polar Bear with a slight curl of his lips, "I'm afraid even one of me wouldn't have been enough to fill your belly."
He flexed his fingers. The ten Sword Pellets hummed inside his dantian, sword intent surging like a tide, as if sensing the battle intent churning in their master's chest.
"But the me I am now..."
He stopped midsentence.
He had noticed a remarkably lively glint flash through the giant bear's black eyes the instant the words "Polar Bear" left his mouth.
That was no look a wild beast should have had.
Jiang Tian's smile froze for a moment.
Could this bear... understand what he was saying?
But just as quickly, the giant bear's gaze returned to normal, growing murky and ferocious once more, as though that flash of intelligence had been nothing but Jiang Tian's imagination.
But Jiang Tian knew it hadn't been.
At the same time as the Polar Bear's eyes had shifted, he had also sensed, from somewhere beyond the veil, a gaze piercing through the swirling snow and settling on him.
The instant that gaze fell upon him, every hair on Jiang Tian's body stood on end. It was as if some ancient monster had fixed its eyes on him, a chill racing up his spine to the back of his head.
"ROAR—!"
The Polar Bear let out another earth-shaking roar. Its massive body, which had just risen upright, slammed back down onto all fours, making the ground shudder.
Snow burst into the air, billowing into a cloud of white mist.
It gathered strength in its limbs, its huge body like a white mountain as it lunged straight at Jiang Tian!
First level of the secret realm.
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