The commotion deep underground grew louder and louder.
The shattered bones throughout the canyon bounced up and down. Dull rumbles came from the rock beneath his feet, and even several distant peaks began to shake.
This was no earthquake.
Two enormous creatures were fighting each other to the death.
Lu Heng pushed off with his toes and floated lightly into the air, drawing all his Chaos Dou Qi deep into his meridians.
His soul power, at the peak of the Mid-Spirit Realm, spread out like an invisible net, creeping forward along the gray-white mountain rock.
In a basin thirty li away, two terrifyingly massive masses of energy were colliding furiously.
Every clash shook the surrounding space into rippling folds.
"Mid-stage Eighth-Rank."
Lu Heng quickly calculated to himself.
That was equivalent to a human six-star Dou Zun.
In a place like the Beast Region, mid-stage Eighth-Rank magical beasts were generally overlords in their own right. They usually claimed a mountain as their domain and rarely engaged in such reckless, close-quarters combat.
Rather than tear through space to reach them, he concealed himself within a folded spatial crevice and slowly crept forward through the shadows along the ridge.
After passing two barren mountains, his view suddenly opened up.
A vast basin stretched several dozen li across before him.
The once-level basin had been plowed into ruins. Enormous ravines a hundred zhang deep scarred the ground, and fallen boulders had been crushed to powder.
At the center of the basin, two towering behemoths that blotted out the sky were locked together.
On the left was a giant bear covered in heavy, blue-black armor. Even on all fours, the bear stood nearly a hundred zhang tall, with thick forelegs several times wider than the stone pillars of an ordinary palace.
Every downward slap of