Three-Headed Chimera

When Yue Yang teleported to Aries Palace, he found himself on a giant island floating in midair.

Below lay a bottomless abyss.

Yue Yang picked up a stone and tossed it down, but even after a long while, he heard no echo.

The moment he left the teleportation area around the rune crystal pillar, golden light rose from beneath his feet and formed a pale golden shield around him.

Grey Wolf was enveloped within it as well, but unlike Yue Yang, it could leave the shield. Whenever Yue Yang took a step, the shield moved with him.

"This is just like running an instance in an online game! But whatever exists has its reasons. Forget it—I'd better go see what this Three-Headed Chimera is like!" Yue Yang did not investigate, like some scientist, what force or laws controlled all this. Besides, not to mention Heaven-Piercing Tower—even his own body held many mysteries he could not explain.

Too lazy to dwell on it, he summoned Bull Shadow and had this Bull Shadow, which would never truly die, go ahead to scout the path.

After walking along a straight avenue nearly a hundred meters long and passing through a huge stone gate supported by pillars,

he found an enormous complex of buildings beyond it.

Dozens of war puppets wandered around the outer perimeter of the dark complex.

These war puppets stood around three meters tall. No one knew what kind of metal they were made from. They had ram heads and human bodies. They reacted aggressively to Yue Yang's appearance and immediately surrounded him. Set into their ram heads, which were covered in strange rune formations, were a pair of ruby eyes glowing red like flames. Yue Yang had fought Rock Golems before and knew these battle puppets' weaknesses. They had no life and no intelligence, and only knew to attack the nearest enemy. Fighting them head-on would be disadvantageous, but with a little strategy, he could easily toy with them.

Yue Yang did not have Bull Shadow fight them. Instead, he kicked Grey Wolf in the rump, signaling it to serve as bait and lure the battle puppets away.

The battle puppets were slow and clumsy, and they only knew how to attack the nearest enemy. If all it had to do was lure them away, the swift and agile Grey Wolf was more than qualified.

Seeing how slowly the ram-headed, human-bodied war puppets moved, Grey Wolf decided these metal racks were easy prey and immediately scampered over.

With a taunting attitude, it bounced around in front of every war puppet, drawing their attention.

It even arrogantly lifted a leg from time to time and peed on the war puppets' massive legs.

"Idiot, hurry up and lead them farther away! Don't waste my time!" Yue Yang was deeply dissatisfied with Grey Wolf's arrogance. This guy was the classic bully who feared the strong and picked on the weak. When they passed through Dragon Valley, he had sent it ahead to lure away the insect swarms. It pretended not to see fierce demon insects like Nest Spiders and Bird-Catching Mantises, but whenever it spotted weak Stink Bugs or Vomit Maggots, it charged in and bit them wildly. When it saw insect eggs, it showed no restraint at all and happily gobbled them up. If Grey Wolf had not caused trouble everywhere and enraged so many insect swarms, their passage through Dragon Valley would have gone even more smoothly.

If Yue Yang had not secretly intervened to save them, Ye Kong and the brothers Li Qie and Li Ge would probably have become the insects' dinner long ago.

The moment Grey Wolf heard Yue Yang lose his temper, it immediately behaved itself and hurriedly lured away the group of war puppets.

When Yue Yang reached the entrance of the complex, he discovered another battle waiting for him.

At the massive entrance stood a group of Demon Abyss creatures with the same red-glowing eyes: ram-headed monsters.

These creatures were alive. Though not intelligent, they were certainly not foolish enough to leave just because someone lured them away. They wielded black iron spears, and before charging forward with shouts, they would summon green light to bolster one another.

If Grey Wolf faced these Demon Abyss creatures, it definitely would not come out well.

Bull Shadow, however, was an exception. Yue Yang transferred Giant Shadow's power to Bull Shadow, and she instantly became a humanoid tank.

She rumbled forward, swinging her huge hands and smashing wildly at the ram-headed monsters.

The two-meter-tall ram-headed monsters looked like a group of dwarves before the three-meter-tall Bull Shadow. Their spears could not seriously harm Bull Shadow, whose tough hide possessed formidable defensive power. Besides, Bull Shadow was not yet a true living entity. She was only semi-material, still primarily a shadow, and did not possess the pain sensation of a living battle beast. Bull Shadow completely ignored the ram-headed monsters' attacks. She could not use weapons and had no concept of them, but under Yue Yang's mental command, she grabbed two ram-headed monsters as weapons and furiously smashed them into the others, beating the group into complete disarray.

Her level was not high, currently only Bronze Level 3.

Although she was the same level as the ram-headed monsters, her strength completely surpassed theirs, even far exceeding the standard of Bronze Level 3. The Bronze Bull had been Level 5 before possession, but Yue Yang's Phantom was only Level 1, which had dragged down her level.

Yue Yang thought that if Bull Shadow's level rose in the future and all her attributes improved further, these ram-headed monsters would be even less than a match for her.

The only pity was that after smashing them around for so long, he had not seen her use Death Gaze.

It seemed the activation rate of Death Gaze was very low. Whether it triggered depended entirely on luck!

These ram-headed monsters and ram-headed, human-bodied war puppets merely existed to delay challengers. Anyone intending to challenge the Twelve Zodiac Palaces had some degree of ability, and any challenger should have been capable of taking them down. However, if too much time was wasted on them, then once the defensive shield vanished, the challenger's attempt would be doomed to fail. Before obtaining the Silence Scepter and Blindness Rune that countered the Three-Headed Chimera, even an idiot knew that for a warrior below Level 5 to defeat a Three-Headed Chimera at the level of a Golden King Beast was nothing but a fool's dream!

The ram-headed monsters' attack power was not particularly high, but they were also thick-skinned, sturdy defensive monsters that were difficult to kill.

Their recovery ability was also quite good. Even after being knocked down, they could soon get back up and fight again.

Their eyes were filled with bloodthirsty fanaticism, as though they had been hypnotized. Even when Bull Shadow beat them into a miserable rout, they did not flee and stubbornly clung to the fight. As soon as Yue Yang noticed this, he immediately quickened his pace, crossed the battlefield himself, ran through the long passageway, and entered the Aries Palace guarded by the Golden King Beast.

To Yue Yang's disappointment, this Aries Palace was completely different from the stone temple in Saint Seiya.

This place was practically false advertising.

The Aries Palace before him was not a palace at all, but an incomparably huge arena.

The arena's interior was several times larger than a football field. In its center, a gigantic pale-golden monster lay lazily on the ground, fast asleep.

Its enormous body resembled a small mountain, yet a pair of crimson flesh wings grew from its back. Yue Yang simply could not imagine how it could possibly fly with those thin wings. The monster lay sprawled in the arena, snoring loudly. Yue Yang could clearly see that it had three heads. On the left was a ferocious dragon head. It did not resemble an Eastern divine dragon, but rather a Western giant dragon, with rows of savage fangs, a flickering red tongue, and venom dripping from its mouth.

In the middle was the huge head of a male lion, its mane blazing with raging flames. Every breath from its gaping maw spewed out a burst of fire.

On the right was a white ram's head.

This ram's head did not appear threatening in the slightest. Instead, it gave off an illusion of holiness and kindness.

A small, exquisite golden bell hung beneath the white ram's neck. The three completely different heads looked incredibly bizarre, yet upon closer inspection, their existence seemed to possess an inexplicable sense of harmony. Yue Yang frowned as he looked at the gigantic monster radiating pale golden light. Even while asleep, this Three-Headed Chimera gave him an indescribable sense of pressure.

It was very powerful. There was no doubt about that.

However, Yue Yang believed the Three-Headed Chimera's strongest feature was neither the venom-dripping dragon head on the left nor the flame-wreathed lion head in the middle.

It was the white ram's head, which looked completely harmless...

A Golden Level 6 King Beast was far less terrifying than Demon King Hashin, but it could still exert immense pressure on Yue Yang. Grey Wolf, which had slipped in after shaking off the war puppets, immediately lost all its previous arrogance. Looking at the Three-Headed Chimera's mountain-like body, it began trembling all over and hid behind Yue Yang in fear.

Yue Yang sent it flying with a kick. Only then did Grey Wolf put on a desperate fighting stance and stand beside Yue Yang, but no matter what, it refused to move even a single step forward.

Sure enough, this Bronze Level 3 Iron-Spine Demon Wolf could only stand by and watch.

Golden Thorn Flower was still digesting Demon King Hashin's arm and could not join the battle. With only Bull Shadow and Little Wenli now, this battle...

How was he supposed to fight it?