The enormous silhouette emerged fully from behind the dark-green hill. Its movements were slow, yet accompanied by a dull rumbling. With every step onto the dark-red earth, dust and gravel sprayed to either side, as though another small mountain had appeared in the world-a moving one.
Xiao Cheng studied his opponent, a trace of seriousness finally surfacing in his indifferent eyes.
Ba An, an advanced evolutionary form of a serpentine Abyssal Creature. He looked like the product of crushing a dragon and a mountain together, then piecing them back into shape. His gigantic dragonlike head was hideous, his mouth bristling with exposed fangs. Three of his four legs touched the ground, while a thick tail dragged behind him, plowing a deep trench through the earth.
His arms were extremely long, hanging all the way to the ground. Each of his claws measured over five meters across, larger than Xiao Cheng's entire body. Dark-green scales covered him, gleaming cold and hard in the dim light. His four scarlet eyes fixed from above on Xiao Cheng and the NPC cowering behind him.
"At least forty meters long," Xiao Cheng estimated. "Tch, with a body that size, did someone fill out the records with their feet?"
The NPC trembled behind a rock at his back. "He... he's coming..."
"I see him." Xiao Cheng tightened his grip on the alloy spear, its tip angled toward the ground. "Stay put. Don't move."
Ba An let out a low roar like muffled thunder. His three feet drove against the ground, and the giant beast charged at a startling speed utterly at odds with his size. His sweeping claws cut five deep furrows into the earth, then slammed toward Xiao Cheng, carrying fierce winds and terrifying force capable of tearing through even a Soul Saint's defenses.
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