Dragon Beasts Appear

The next day, just as the sky began to lighten, Bai Yang was already up.

Since he had decided to create a secret art surpassing Beast Fist, he had pondered it last night and already had a preliminary idea.

His main goal was still combat and future realm breakthroughs, so the focus had to be on fighting—he couldn't just imitate for imitation's sake.

Thus, he decided to use Military Boxing as the foundation, blending in various form-imitation boxing styles as branches.

During this time, their group had fought in Magic City and seen many types of monsters.

So, he planned to use nine forms—dragon, tiger, leopard, bear, ape, deer, eagle, crane, and snake—as the veins of his secret art.

Starting with the dragon and ending with the snake, forming a complete cycle.

It seemed to grow weaker, but in truth, it borrowed the meaning of the [Ouroboros]—endless, always improving and advancing.

Considering his Monster King physique, these two beast forms would inevitably become his strongest techniques.

All currently known human boxing styles, he first categorized under the [Ape] class.

Then, step by step, he would fill in the other categories through combat.

"If only I could use the virtual space right now and set up any opponent I wanted.

I remember there are quite a few ape races in the universe, like King Zhenyan.

Fighting apes as opponents would definitely lead to huge progress," Bai Yang thought with some regret.

But there was no helping it for now. On Earth, the fastest way was to first head to War God Camp, challenge the Trial Tower, and only then get a chance to access these things.

For a real leap in improvement, he would need to enter the Virtual Universe Company's [Killing Field].

After everyone had breakfast, they went out hunting again.

To avoid trouble, the team chose a different area, far from the battlefield of yesterday's snake-bird battle.

Bai Yang sheathed the Mount Hua Sword. Whenever he spotted a beast at the Primary War God level, he stepped forward to challenge it, practicing various boxing forms.

With this approach, his boxing improved rapidly, and several of his main techniques became very polished.

He even incorporated some moves from the Silver-Back Ape he had seen yesterday.

Leveraging his terrifying physique after the first stage, the actual combat power was now no weaker than when he used weapons.

The combination of Psychokinesis and potent poison was nearly unstoppable among the beast hordes.

Bai Yang, aside from seizing the chance to practice boxing, only needed to keep replenishing his venom.

With their efficiency, it only took a few days to nearly clear out all the monsters in one area.

Beast hordes led by Intermediate War Gods, unless they occasionally numbered in the thousands, posed no real threat to them.

Due to the special shape of the ring layers, after more than ten days, they had unknowingly circled around the center of Magic City in a half-arc.

That day, as they pressed forward, they suddenly found themselves in a very strange area.

In the distant sky, dangerous flying monsters filled the air, while land beasts were almost completely absent.

Bai Yang was secretly startled. He pulled out the specially made communication watch from Mount Hua and began satellite positioning.

"So, without realizing it, we've approached the banks of the Huangpu River."

The Blood Brake Squad members exchanged glances. None of them had expected to end up here!

Without a doubt, this was the most dangerous area in every ring layer!

It could even be said to be more dangerous than many places in the next layer!

No one knew what terrifying species lurked in the sky or the river.

Bai Yang thought for a moment, then said, "You stay here. I'll go take a look alone."

The pressure from that Planetary Level monster the other day had been immense.

He desperately wanted to understand whether entering a certain range would inevitably attract the attention of a Planetary Level monster, or if he would be fine as long as he didn't transform.

This directly related to the future construction of the War Base, and he had to figure it out.

If it was the former, and he didn't understand the situation, attracting several Planetary Level monsters would spell total disaster.

The Huangpu River, as a vital passage for countless sea monsters from the East China Sea to invade inland, had seen decades of relentless waves of sea monsters. Its width and depth had long surpassed what they were before the Great Nirvana era.

In the vast, surging Huangpu River, countless aquatic monsters lurked unknown.

Bai Yang walked alone to the riverbank. One look and the width was almost like a lake, with thick mist hanging over the water.

For someone with ordinary vision, they might not even see the opposite shore.

He stood patiently by the river for a while, recalling the feeling when he had sensed that King-level monster.

After a long time, the entire river surface showed nothing unusual. Nothing happened.

Bai Yang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He truly felt nothing at all.

It seemed that as long as he didn't transform, he was safe.

Maybe at that time, I can use this trait to teach that king-level monster a proper lesson.

He even suspected that monster might be some special kind of Dragon Beast, which explained the strange connection—nothing to do with strength.

After confirming it was safe, Bai Yang called over his team members and continued the hunt.

Flying monsters had gathered here in large numbers for the fresh river-dwelling sea monsters.

They had almost eaten all the ordinary monsters on the ground.

They had been staying in Magic City for quite a while now.

And they had finally figured out ways to deal with them.

Bai Yang had previously secreted some scent gland fluid from these flying monsters and smeared it on everyone's protective suits.

As long as they didn't get too close to each other, they wouldn't be seen as prey by the monsters high in the sky.

Unlike the monsters on land, the monsters in the river didn't seem to have strict territorial divisions.

Bai Yang used his telekinesis to fish one out of the river. It might have been wary of his strength.

Or maybe it was afraid of the flying monster scent on him—either way, the river monsters didn't swarm ashore to attack.

He couldn't be bothered to care. After absorbing the gene for underwater breathing, he let it go.

The group began walking along the riverbank, enjoying a scenery that few in this era could probably calmly appreciate.

They walked further and further, encountering almost no enemies along the way, and soon approached the place called the [Second Circle].

The group was about to discuss whether to continue forward.

Suddenly, An Zhengxin stared at the ground and exclaimed, "Look!"

"Monster footprints! Right by the river!"

"There's hair here... Mm, thin and long, very prickly. This is a Steel-Spike Dragon!"

"That's an intermediate lord-level monster! No wonder it dared to come drink here alone."

Bai Yang was startled—they had actually run into a Dragon Beast!

He carefully picked up the hair from the ground and examined it closely.

This hair was silver and gold, thin, long, and unbelievably stiff.

He had to use a bit of force just to snap one strand.

If any monster had hair like this, it would resemble a porcupine more than a dragon.

Having seen many monsters by now, he could picture it just from the footprints on the ground.

This monster was probably over ten meters long—completely different from a Black-Line Snake.

A Steel-Spike Dragon of this size would definitely be at the peak of intermediate War God strength, and it was a Dragon Beast at that!

Though it seemed to be alone, its danger level was far from low.

Should they chase after it?