Amethyst Winged Lion King

The Azure Scale Viper Snake's cold, sinister eyes remained fixed on Mo Yun. Having reached the fifth tier, its intelligence was naturally not weak. From Mo Yun, it sensed an intense danger.

Yet what angered it most was the three fourth-tier magical beasts under its command: the Green Ring Leaf Snake, the Silver Ring Poisonous Snake, and the Scarlet Flame Pattern Python.

When the Azure Scale Viper Snake had fluttered its wings earlier, it had been sending a signal. Yet those three snakes had not even responded. They had even directly betrayed it and submitted to the human before them. That was what infuriated the Azure Scale Viper Snake most.

"Hiss~" The Azure Scale Viper Snake shifted its body, but its gaze never left Mo Yun.

Its slightly darkened forked tongue indicated that its venom was extremely potent.

After a moment of silence, the Azure Scale Viper Snake suddenly attacked. Its enormous body instantly coiled around Mo Yun, its exaggerated bloody maw opening wide as a pair of gleaming venomous fangs emerged. Just as it was about to swallow Mo Yun, its entire body froze there against its will.

The snake body wrapped around Mo Yun slowly loosened as well. The savagery in the Azure Scale Viper Snake's eyes vanished completely, replaced by a trace of bewilderment, followed by absolute submission...

Southeastern Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Within a massive cave, purple light spilled everywhere.

An enormous magical beast rested with its head lowered and eyes half-closed. Its seven- or eight-meter-long body was covered in a layer of purple crystals, reflecting irregular purple glimmers.

The magical beast's head was a huge lion's head, vicious and ferocious in appearance. Its beast eyes were blood-red and glinted with an unusual purple light, while its huge mouth was filled with thick fangs. At that moment, strands of crystalline liquid occasionally dripped from it.

A fiery red spiral horn rose from its lion head. On either side of its powerful lion body grew a pair of enormous purple wings. Each flap of those wings stirred clusters of purple flames. Its sturdy paws were likewise encased in purple crystals, as though providing ample protection for its hunts.

Whenever the giant beast shifted in its sleep, the cave trembled slightly.

Across the entire Jia Ma Empire, likely few dared to casually offend this giant beast. It was one of the overlords of the Magical Beast Forest, a sixth-tier magical beast—the Amethyst Winged Lion King!

"Chitter, chitter~"

Outside the cave, it suddenly grew noisy, as if monkeys were making a racket.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King slowly opened its purple-glinting beast eyes. With a heavy exhale, purple flames burst from its mouth. Then, facing the cave entrance, it actually spoke in human language. "Get in here!"

As the impatient voice fell, hurried footsteps of uneven weight soon sounded at the entrance. A Tree Crown Macaque bounced into view before the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

It was merely a second-tier Tree Crown Macaque. Before the Amethyst Winged Lion King, it could not help feeling frightened and nervous, but it still gestured wildly as it tried to explain something.

"Chitter... chitter~"

However, as it continued expressing itself, the Amethyst Winged Lion King's expression grew increasingly displeased, as if it were on the verge of erupting. "Hm? You said the Azure Scale Viper Snake ignored you? It refused to hand over this month's medicinal herbs?"

The Tree Crown Macaque nodded, then combined gestures and cries in another round of explanation. "Chitter~"

"The Azure Scale Viper Snake betrayed me... and sided with a human?"

The Tree Crown Macaque continued nodding.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King fiercely stomped with its forepaw. The entire cave immediately shook violently, and a blast of air swept out, directly blowing the Tree Crown Macaque away.

"Roar!"

With a thunderous lion's roar, the Amethyst Winged Lion King slowly rose and roared, "The Azure Scale Viper Snake has betrayed me and sided with humans! All magical beasts, heed my command! Tear the Azure Scale Viper Snake's faction and that human to pieces!"

The sound waves echoed through the Magical Beast Forest. The magical beasts within several miles were all stirred, and the eyes of many soon flashed with ferocity.

The Magical Beast Forest had an extremely strong sense of territoriality. Within this domain, the Amethyst Winged Lion King was the true king. The three fifth-tier magical beasts under its command each governed a separate region for it.

Besides satisfying their own hunger, they also had to regularly hand over a portion of the medicinal herbs within the Magical Beast Forest. After all, the most direct way for magical beasts to cultivate was to consume medicinal herbs.

The Azure Scale Viper Snake's betrayal meant that one-third of the Amethyst Winged Lion King's territory had slipped from its control. How could it not be furious?

After arranging everything, the Amethyst Winged Lion King lay back down.

On a stone platform piled from Amethyst Stone, a little head poked out. Then, an entire chubby body clumsily crawled onto the platform and happily began lapping at a pool of purple liquid on it.

It was a smaller Amethyst Winged Lion King. Compared to the Amethyst Winged Lion King, its somewhat plump body lacked a measure of majesty and ferocity, carrying a little more foolish adorableness instead. Yet this little beast had already broken through to the third tier not long ago. Relying on its bloodline, it could even defeat most third-tier magical beasts.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King moved its massive claw and affectionately patted Little Lion, then took a lick of the purple liquid on the stone platform as well.

That single lick from the Amethyst Winged Lion King drained the purple liquid on the platform completely.

Little Lion was quite dissatisfied. It raised its head and growled softly at the Amethyst Winged Lion King. "Awoo~ Awoo~"

With a swipe of the Amethyst Winged Lion King's claw, the little fellow rolled aside. Then the Amethyst Winged Lion King rose, took out a purple sphere, and tossed it toward Little Lion.

The purple sphere struck Little Lion, making it cry out in pain. But upon seeing the denser purple energy within the sphere, its large purple-glinting eyes instantly lit up. It patted at the sphere and began frolicking beside it.

"Awoo~" From time to time, it even howled at the Amethyst Winged Lion King again.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King impatiently shook its huge head. "Wait until you reach the fourth tier before consuming the Amethyst Source inside!"

After saying that, it ignored Little Lion and lowered its head again, half-closing its eyes to rest.

If not for the need to watch over this little fellow, the Amethyst Winged Lion King would likely have gone to deal with the Azure Scale Viper Snake and that human personally.

At that moment, Mo Yun naturally had no idea about the changes in the distant Magical Beast Forest.

He was standing inside a huge snake nest not far from the entrance of the Azure Scale Viper Snake's cave. The place was piled full of medicinal herbs, their rich fragrance assaulting his nose. The quantity was clearly considerable.

Even Mo Yun had not expected a fifth-tier magical beast to possess such a stockpile.

After his shock passed, Mo Yun immediately began stuffing everything into the system warehouse.

Yet the entire process was fully observed by a Cloud Mist Luan Eagle high in the sky...