Bone-Painting Fierce Spirits excelled at stealing Spirit Bones and disguising themselves as members of other races. They also possessed all manner of wondrous abilities, so they bore many insulting nicknames in Burial Saint Valley.
With a turn of his divine sense, Fang Yun understood the reason. The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit had discovered the Bone-Painting Fierce Spirit in advance, but it believed it could easily kill him. The Bone-Painting Fierce Spirit was not skilled at frontal combat, only ambushes and lurking, so the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit had not cared. Now that it was in danger, it could only seek help.
A gigantic shadow emerged from the rear of the corridor, its body more than a hundred zhang long. It was a Fierce Lizard of legend. In ancient times, the Fierce Lizard race had been the largest clan of fiendish creatures, but after overstepping their bounds by calling themselves Fierce Dragons, they had suffered the Dragon Race's frenzied assault and met with utter catastrophe.
Fierce Lizards resembled lizards enlarged hundreds or thousands of times over. Their general shapes were similar, though their finer details varied.
This Fierce Lizard was formed entirely from black shadow. When it rounded the bend, its body suddenly vanished, because its current body was a flat plane with no thickness, only length and height, making it extremely similar to the Shadow Race.
Then, a bang rang out from there. The black shadow exploded into countless streams of black air, which rapidly fused together and formed a complete Fierce Lizard.
This Fierce Lizard possessed thick, withered-yellow hide and two powerful, exceptionally long tails. Its head was entirely covered in diamond-shaped black scales, while its back bristled with dense spiraled spikes, each more than a zhang long.
Fang Yun had seen this Fierce Lizard in the great plaza