After the Thunderbone Giant Python fell, its thousand-foot body still convulsed violently among the mountain woods.
Crimson-gold flames spread rapidly along its pitch-black vertebrae, while the Three-Legged Golden Crow circling overhead swallowed every strand of Heaven-Burying Thunder released by its shattered Thunder Core.
The surrounding thunder beasts all stopped in their tracks.
Pairs of scarlet eyes pierced the crimson mist, fixing on Lu Chen as he stood atop the giant python's head. The vicious aura of Mutant Beasts intertwined with cold thunder baleful energy, plunging the surrounding woods into deathly silence.
A Thunder-Armored Giant Rhinoceros lowered its head, its forehooves scraping the ground repeatedly.
It stood over forty feet tall, its entire body covered in thick black armor, with a twenty-foot horn projecting from its forehead. With every breath, two streams of black vapor laced with lightning arcs spurted from its nostrils.
Two Mountain-Splitting Bears with thunder spikes on their backs stood on either side, low growls rumbling in their throats.
Their paws struck the ground, making nearby loose stones jump. The black thunder spikes on their backs gradually lit up, like dozens of thunder spears poised to strike.
Farther away, a Thunderbone Demon Tiger crouched low, liquid lightning flowing between its pitch-black bones.
A Heavenly Thunder Giant Ape straightened up within the crimson mist, its enormous body nearly sixty feet tall. Its arms were as thick as stone pillars, and a translucent Thunder Core grew in the center of its chest. Every time its fists pounded its chest, the thunderclouds overhead rumbled in response.
More than a dozen thunder beasts slowly spread out.
Their movements seemed disorderly, but they had already sealed off Lu Chen's escape routes from every direction. Black lightning beneath their feet linked together, gradually forming a vast net of yin thunder that covered the woods.