Three Beast Generals

"Vroom──!"

Between the high-rises.

A flock of black birds shot past at incredible speed, stirring up gusts of wind that lingered in their wake.

Fang Yi leaned against the wall in a concealed room on one of the floors.

His left eye, with its Double Pupil Eyes, analyzed everything around him. Naturally, he spotted the flock of black birds streaking past.

"More than twenty Advanced Beast Soldier-level Black Prison Beast Birds. They're incredibly fast, with sharp beaks. Ordinary War General-level Martial Artists would think twice before approaching them, but they're not worth much."

After resting for a while, Fang Yi felt his energy gradually returning.

It was just getting light, so he went up to the rooftop and began weaving through the city.

He made his way from the outskirts toward the center.

He hadn't gone far when his Pupil Source Analysis Power detected three enormous Lion Mastiff Dogs, each as big as a truck!

Their bodies were covered in silver fur and scales, and small bumps protruded from their foreheads. They were resting inside an abandoned hotel.

A few seconds later,

four Intermediate Beast General-level Lion Mastiff Dogs gradually came into view, stationed around them like guards.

At the sight, Fang Yi's lips curled upward.

"No wonder they call this a Demon Cave. I haven't even gone far, and I've already come across three Advanced Beast Generals... The parts from these Lion Mastiff Dogs could easily fetch several hundred million."

Materials from an Advanced Beast General could generally sell for anywhere from fifty million to six or seven hundred million. Even this little pack was worth a fortune.

He had his target.

Fang Yi didn't hesitate. His Double Pupil Eyes had already scanned everything within a kilometer, and there were no other beasts in range.

For now, he didn't have to worry about other monsters interfering.

"Whoosh!"

Fang Yi stepped onto the edge of a high-rise. His legs sprang like coiled springs, launching him straight through the hotel's enormous floor-to-ceiling window.

"Crash──!"

The old hotel glass shattered in an instant, as the Intermediate Beast General-level Lion Mastiff Dogs stared at him in shock.

Fang Yi struck first. After a brief windup, his fist shot out like a cannonball──"Bang!"

It punched straight through a Lion Mastiff Dog's skull!

"Awooo──!"

The other Lion Mastiff Dogs let out furious, wary snarls, rousing the three sleeping Advanced Beast General-level Lion Mastiff Dogs.

The awakened beasts fixed their terrifying eyes on the human who had invaded their territory.

Fang Yi looked up. In an instant, his gaze met theirs, and both sides revealed their ferocity.

In the space of a breath,

Fang Yi threw another punch, while controlling the Black Shield to attack at the same time. His fist took down another Lion Mastiff Dog, while the Black Shield spun at high speed and slammed into another that had tried to fight back, sending it several meters away.

Fang Yi then crushed the last Intermediate Beast General-level Lion Mastiff Dog's neck with a stomp, using its body to vault toward the Advanced Beast Generals.

In midair,

the three Beast Generals moved their massive bodies, shaking the entire hotel floor.

The floor beneath them seemed on the verge of collapse.

"Awooo──!" One Advanced Beast General-level Lion Mastiff Dog suddenly swiped at him with a powerful claw, but Fang Yi easily dodged it with the help of his Double Pupil Eyes and his own speed.

"Boom!"

The spot where Fang Yi had been standing was blasted into a huge hole by the Lion Mastiff Dog's paw.

A mass of rubble tumbled down to the floor below,

kicking up clouds of dust.

The other two Beast Generals attacked from either side. Fang Yi twisted and moved through the air, using the shield to block the one on his left before leaping onto the head of the other.

"The Lion Mastiff Dogs are much faster than the Bloodthirsty Tank."

Fang Yi looked delighted.

As he marveled at their speed, he unleashed a flurry of punches against the Beast General.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang──!"

Fang Yi's fists were like rapid-fire machine-gun rounds, striking one after another along the Beast General's body.

Within seconds, cracks appeared in its scales, and the bones inside its body were shattered.

"Awooo──!"

The Beast General let out a pained howl.

The other Beast General, whose attack had missed, hurried forward, trying to knock Fang Yi off its companion.

But Fang Yi's left eye, with its Double Pupil Eyes, suddenly pulsed!

The next instant,

countless eyes appeared in the surrounding space and opened all at once, staring straight at the Lion Mastiff Dog.

A searing pain flared through its body.

Fang Yi drove one final elbow into the neck of the Lion Mastiff Dog beneath him, killing it outright.

Then he leaped through the air, springing from the corpse toward the Beast General that had been struck by the Illusion Technique.

He threw both fists at once, punching through its skull at the vulnerable spots around its eyes!

"Squelch──"

Flesh tore and blood sprayed.

Under the combined physical and mental assault, the second Lion Mastiff Dog had no chance of survival.

"Awooo──!!!"

Watching its companions and guards die one by one before its eyes at the hands of this detestable human, the Advanced Beast General-level Lion Mastiff Dog erupted in fury.

Its roar

echoed through the hotel and along several nearby streets.

Its massive body began charging wildly, knocking the shield into a stone wall at the edge of the floor.

It bared its fangs, powerful enough to pierce stone!

"Bang, bang, bang──"

The man and beast appeared and disappeared across the hotel floor as one wall after another crumbled.

Fang Yi dodged, searching for an opening.

At last, with dust billowing around them and chunks of rubble blocking the beast's view, he charged onto its head.

He recalled the shield and slammed it into the beast's left claw, throwing off its balance.

Then,

Fang Yi grabbed the fur on the Lion Mastiff Dog's head with his left hand. His right fist had been gathering force for some time! The punch unleashed three waves of Hidden Force, delivering a terrifying force of nearly 130,000 kilograms.

During the more than ten days he had spent training,

Fang Yi had grown increasingly skilled at Force Output, progressing from two layers of Hidden Force to three.

"Bang──!"

Fang Yi's right fist moved so fast that all anyone could see was a flash of black.

Then came the sound of bone and flesh tearing apart. The scales along the edge were torn away from the flesh by the punch, and blood and pale matter spilled out.

"Awooo...!"

The Lion Mastiff Dog howled in agony, but it still had a little strength left. Fang Yi seized its skull roughly, gripping deep into the bone.

He planted his feet and pushed off.

Then he hurled the truck-sized beast to one side!

Several stone walls collapsed in quick succession.

Fang Yi held the Lion Mastiff Dog's shattered skull in his hand. He watched the corpse twitch in the distance, then go still, and calmly wiped the blood from himself.

"Done."

This battle had also given Fang Yi a better sense of his own strength.

"At the same level, I'm no longer afraid of any monster. I already defeated a Bloodthirsty Tank that was a level above me, and now, with the Illusion Technique and analytical vision of my Double Pupil Eyes, plus Triple Dark Force, I can easily take down three Advanced Beast Generals... Next, I should try a Lord Rank beast."

Fang Yi called the shield back and took tools from his backpack to carve up the Lion Mastiff Dogs.

Some time later,

he had finished removing and storing all the valuable parts from the three Lion Mastiff Dogs.

"These things are huge. The rare materials from just one of them already take up a lot of space." Fang Yi sealed his backpack, then looked at the remaining parts.

Those parts were worth a lot too, but his backpack didn't have much room left.

He still had other high-level monsters to kill, so for now he would only collect the most valuable parts.

"If only I could get my hands on a Space Ring... Never mind. There's no need to rush; that can wait."

After packing up, Fang Yi continued deeper into the Demon Cave.