Poison Maggot was fleeing for his life.
Ordinarily, with his undying body and the fighting strength of tens of thousands of bloodthirsty maggot-men, even enemies slightly stronger than him could do nothing to him. But this time, Poison Maggot had suffered the worst misfortune of eighteen lifetimes, running into Metal Little Beast, Star-Pattern Sky Scorpion, Taotie, and Swallowing Heaven Beast. There was no need to mention Metal Little Beast—the one and only Heaven-Ascending Battle Beast beneath heaven. It was still only a juvenile; once it grew up, it would become a Heaven-Ascending divine beast looking down upon the myriad living beings of the world. Poison Maggot had no hope of defeating it in this lifetime.
If it had only been that little thing, it would have been one matter.
After all, it was still young.
But Taotie, repeatedly refined and nurtured by Yue Yang, was an incomparably formidable earth divine weapon. Its might could swallow heaven and devour earth, unmatched by anything.
Star-Pattern Sky Scorpion was likewise an earth divine weapon, an existence on equal footing with Taotie. Perhaps it was a tiny bit inferior to Taotie in some respects, but in poison, runes, and assassinations, it far surpassed it. Anyone who dared underestimate it would be putting one foot into the coffin.
Among that whole gang of little troublemakers, only the newly born Swallowing Heaven Beast was slightly inferior.
Of course, Poison Maggot did not see it that way.
All his attacks had been swallowed into Swallowing Heaven Beast's belly, as though the little thing's mouth, throat, and chest had been forged from divine-extinguishing secret gold, never to be damaged. Poison Maggot would never know that Swallowing Heaven Beast could devour the energy of his attacks and ignore all damage because it was the sheath of the Tiger Prison