The Might of the Seventy-Two Transformations, Hunting the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc

Screech!!!

Accompanied by a piercing cry, the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc swiftly swept across the skies above the Star Dou Great Forest.

With a light flap of its golden wings, which spanned fifteen meters, it sheared off a vast stretch of treetops.

Several streaks of golden lightning came with them, scorching everything in their path.

One careless moment could cause a wildfire.

Without a doubt, the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc was the overlord of this territory. Within a hundred-mile radius, scarcely any ten-thousand-year soul beast dared enter this place.

Most thousand-year soul beasts were merely reserve food for the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc.

But today, the ruler of this airspace was attacked from the ground.

The Golden-Winged Thunder Roc circled high above, just about to land atop an enormous tree.

A black spear suddenly shot up from the ground, aimed directly at the roc's wing.

Faced with the sudden attack, the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc merely raised its wings before itself.

Clang!

The spear striking its wing actually produced the sound of metal colliding.

This proved that its metallic feathers, black and gold and covering its entire body,

gave it defenses tougher than steel.

Although the strike had not harmed the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc,

it was clearly enraged. Since its birth, no ant crawling upon the ground had ever dared attack this ruler of the skies.

It had always been the one doing the hunting.

The Golden-Winged Thunder Roc spread its wings and let out a long cry toward the heavens.

Then, lightning seemed to flicker within its dark golden eyes. Its sharp gaze instantly locked onto the figure on the ground.

The one standing on the ground and throwing the spear was Bai Yi.

He had transformed the Golden Cudgel into a spear to throw at the great bird, but unfortunately, he had failed.

The next instant,

the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc dove down. The feathers on its wings were shaped like blades, sharp as knives, instantly severing every tree in its path.

Not only did this not affect the speed of its dive, it only made it faster and faster.

Until its entire body was covered in golden lightning, like an enormous bolt striking down from the sky.

Yet strangely, Bai Yi stood still without making any move, as though welcoming the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc's attack.

In the blink of an eye, the golden lightning pierced through Bai Yi's entire body.

The remaining impact blasted a huge crater into the earth, while faint flames ignited among the trees around it.

They had been scorched by the lightning.

The Golden-Winged Thunder Roc had thought it had killed this overconfident ant.

But Bai Yi's body slowly vanished, leaving only a single strand of hair drifting through the air.

Just as the roc wondered why it could not smell the familiar scent of blood,

seven or eight Bai Yis suddenly appeared out of thin air around it, raising their Golden Cudgels at once.

They smashed them viciously toward the roc's head.

Mountain Crushing Peak Suppressing!

With a tremendous boom, shattered rocks flew everywhere, and the crater in the ground became even deeper.

The several clones of Bai Yi also dispersed into hairs after unleashing that strike.

But the attack was not over.

At that moment, a figure riding a cloud charged through the air.

It was Bai Yi's true body. He held the Golden Cudgel high overhead, its surface wreathed in blazing flames.

Borrowing the momentum of his charge, he spun two and a half times in midair before smashing down fiercely.

Boom!!!

Flames surged upward alongside a shrill cry.

The Golden-Winged Thunder Roc struggled with all its strength, slashing with its massive wings to extinguish the flames clinging to its body.

The power of the nine-thousand-year Earth Fire Dragon Breath truly was still insufficient to burn away the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc's feathers.

Bai Yi examined the roc's injuries.

Its most serious wound was the blow from the cudgel just now, which had broken a section of its left wing and burned away a small portion of its feathers.

The clones' attack had been intended to briefly stun the roc.

All of this had been meant to weaken the roc's most powerful weapon—its speed.

As long as one wing was broken, a bird-type soul beast's overall combat strength would be greatly reduced.

His chances of hunting it would also become much higher.

Bai Yi plucked out several more hairs and blew lightly on them, turning them into several identical clones.

The Golden-Winged Thunder Roc before him was a thirty-thousand-year bird-type soul beast.

In terms of combat strength, it was among the very best at its level.

Even during its thousand-year stage, it could hunt ten-thousand-year soul beasts.

Therefore, keeping the roc grounded was merely to give him the means to fight it.

Screech!

The Golden-Winged Thunder Roc let out a sharp cry, its aura becoming exceptionally ferocious.

Its piercing eyes locked firmly onto the several Bai Yis before it.

Then it leaped forward. Though its two wings could no longer soar through the skies,

they could still increase its speed and allow it to glide briefly.

And this was for another of the roc's deadly weapons.

Those dark golden talons!

The roc raised its claws and viciously hooked them toward Bai Yi.

The sharpness of its claws seemed to tear through the air, producing a shrieking whistle.

But both claws struck nothing.

Only clones stood before the roc.

Bai Yi's true body had long since turned invisible nearby, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

This was one of the spells he had learned over the past two years: the Invisibility Technique.

It was one of the Seventy-Two Transformations.

In truth, the Seventy-Two Transformations were not merely about changing form, but seventy-two methods and principles of transformation.

They were great spells capable of avoiding the Three Calamities and attaining immortality.

The Body Outside Body Technique and the Immobilization Technique were also among the Seventy-Two Transformations.

Thus, passing the Second Trial of the Heaven-Equal had only given him the means to learn and use the Seventy-Two Transformations.

To master them, he still needed continuous practice and tempering.

However, relying on only a few transformations now was enough to toy with the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc.

The power of the Seventy-Two Transformations was plain to see.

Bai Yi watched the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc recklessly destroy its surroundings. This was precisely when it was most agitated.

He waited patiently for a long time, until the roc began to show a slight lack of stamina.

Then, he lengthened the Golden Cudgel and thrust it out in a single strike.

Screech!!!

Another shriek rang out. The Golden Cudgel pierced straight through the wound on the roc's left wing, and blood immediately began to flow without stopping.

After landing the strike, Bai Yi immediately used the Invisibility Technique to hide.

When the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc saw Bai Yi vanish again,

it instantly became frenzied. The golden crest feathers atop its head began gathering power fiercely, while golden lightning wound around its entire body.

This fellow was preparing an indiscriminate attack.

Bai Yi instantly guessed the roc's intention. Since it could not find him, it intended to destroy everything around it.

This was a dangerous signal.

Although he could withstand this attack, he would still be severely injured. After all, it was the full-force attack of a thirty-thousand-year soul beast.

It also meant that the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc had been driven into a corner. After using this move, it would basically lose its ability to fight.

The next second,

a golden radiance brilliant to the extreme erupted, and this stretch of forest was instantly swallowed by blazing white light.

Only after the light spread an unknown distance did a thunderclap explosively ring out.

Meanwhile, Bai Yi rode the Somersault Cloud, observing this spectacle from far away.

It seemed this bird was really quite angry.

But since all its attacks had missed, wasn't it even angrier now?

In the blink of an eye, Bai Yi streaked back to the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc's side.

The roc now lay weakly sprawled on the ground. The moment its golden eyes saw Bai Yi appear again,

they began to lose focus, as though it had never imagined that this detestable human had not died.

He was like a ghost that appeared and vanished without warning.

Bai Yi did not waste any time. With one clean, decisive strike of his cudgel, he ended the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc's life.