"Di Tian, come out and meet me!"
Murong Huai's voice passed straight through Life Lake and reached its depths.
The moment Murong Huai finished speaking, about three breaths later, ripples spread across the entire Life Lake. Then, the water gradually began to darken, growing deeper and deeper in color until it became an unfathomable black.
Immediately afterward, a terrifying sphere of black energy blasted out from the lakebed, breaking the surface as it hurtled toward Murong Huai. Murong Huai simply raised his right hand. The Dark Gold Terrorclaw condensed golden light, and with a single swipe, he shattered the attack. Then he sank beneath the lake's surface. In the next instant, an incomparably overbearing, rough voice rang out from the lakebed.
"Human! Why do you carry the aura of my clan's flesh and blood!"
A deafening roar exploded, and the tranquil lake suddenly erupted in waves more than ten meters high. Water sprayed dozens of meters into the air, forming an enormous curtain of water.
Then, a mountain-sized figure slowly rose from the lakebed. Its dark golden fur resembled threads of molten metal, gleaming with a cold luster beneath the sunlight. Xiong Jun's body stood more than twenty zhang tall, and when its thick limbs stepped into the lake, they forced the water level down by half a foot. Its scarlet eyes were like twin blood moons, fixed firmly upon Murong Huai.
Its bear paws were incomparably massive, their claw tips glinting coldly. With a casual squeeze, it crushed a huge boulder rising from the lakebed. The pressure of the Soul Power radiating from its body made even the lakewater seem to sink several degrees lower.
This was the foremost bear of present-day Douluo Continent, the patriarch of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear clan—a ferocious beast with over four hundred