Zhang Ping's Stance

You're asking for it!

Zhang Ping opened his narrowed eyes a fraction, his gaze locking onto the Mourning Crone Bird.

Three thousand meters above and behind him, the Floating Cannon Gem fired a beam of light fifty centimeters wide.

Boom!

The golden beam struck the Mourning Crone Bird. Before it could make a sound, its body exploded.

The Mourning Crone Bird's abilities were terrifying, but even the most terrifying ability came with one condition: it had to be used.

In the past, Zhang Ping would have been helpless. But now that he had the power of the King's Gem, any Mutated Beast that couldn't dodge fast enough was meat on his chopping block.

The sudden attack startled Liu Sishan and both Zhao Yanlong and Zhao Yanhu. Zhang Ping had given no warning whatsoever. His strike came like a bolt from the blue.

All three instinctively asked themselves whether they could have dodged it.

They arrived at the same answer.

No!

The Floating Cannon Gem's attack was too fast.

Worse, before it fired, there was no telling what angle it would strike from. By the time they saw it, the beam would probably be in their faces.

Liu Sishan looked at Zhang Ping, her feelings tangled.

She had watched him grow stronger step by step. Now she was struggling to keep up with him.

"All right. I'll go take a look. Wait here, and don't do anything rash," Zhang Ping said when he saw that the female Mourning Crone Bird was dead.

"Yes, Lord Zhang Ping!" Zhao Yanlong and Zhao Yanhu answered together.

"Be careful," Liu Sishan told him.

Zhang Ping smiled faintly, jumped down from Big One's back, and walked toward the red tree.

Having seen the female Mourning Crone Bird's attributes, Zhang Ping knew the tree was far from