Why were there such vast numbers of magical beasts and starry sky behemoths within the Taotie Domain? There were countless theories. Taotie devoured everything—as long as it contained energy, whether planets and star systems or spiders and ants. So let us make an assumption: among the magical beast eggs and beast eggs Taotie had swallowed in its lifetime, some lucky ones, much like the divine weapons and treasures that had not been corroded within Taotie's belly, had been preserved. The immense energy within Taotie provided them with the energy needed to survive, allowing them to hatch and live within its body. According to this assumption, the longer a Taotie lived, the richer the variety of species within it became. Given enough time, it might even form an entire world inside its body!
Who knew? Perhaps we lifeforms had always been living inside the body of an unimaginably enormous Taotie...
—Magical Beast scholar Darwin, On the Evolution of Magical Beasts
The golden light gradually faded, revealing the bodies of the three magical beasts.
One was a Cyclops over three hundred meters tall. It held the trunk of a giant tree in its hand, its body completely naked and muscles bulging. Between its legs, a long spear swayed brazenly in the wind.
"Damn, this guy's just too huge. Otherwise, that spear between his legs alone would fetch who knows what price at an auction. A magical beast like this is practically every rich lady's dream!" one of the experts behind Julius could not help but remark.
Beside the Cyclops was a gigantic crab, with a blue-green shell, white belly, yellow fur, and golden claws. It looked exactly like a Yangcheng Lake hairy crab enlarged ten thousandfold!
The hairy crab—uh, pfft, the gigantic crab—had a Treant to its right. That Treant looked extraordinarily