Luo Qian was delighted. Wei Shandong had never tended his planet and had no idea what lived on it. After ascending to become a Saint, he had glanced at the planet from outside, then headed straight for a more populated place. Over a thousand years of breeding, the animals had grown surprisingly numerous. The forests and oceans in particular held plenty of enormous, ferocious beasts. Luo Qian thought selling them as part of his Landscaping Industry would be a fine idea. Or he could develop the planet into a hunting destination.
The four of them glided over the sea. A huge dark shape burst from the water with startling force, opening its blood-red maw to bite at them. The monster looked somewhat like a shark, but it had a crocodile's head. It was three or four hundred meters long, and its head alone made up a third of its body. Rows of teeth lined its mouth like a meat grinder. A row of nostrils atop its head fired jets of water that packed a decent punch.
One bodyguard did not even look at the monster. He pointed a finger, and without any great display, the creature shuddered all over. The seawater around it crackled. Strength suddenly drained from its immense body, and it sank limply beneath the waves, leaving a small whirlpool on the surface.
Sometimes a beast's instincts were frightening. The four of them were invisible, yet the monster had pinpointed its prey by scent alone. It was astonishing.
They flew around the planet and gained a rough grasp of its present state. Luo Qian breathed a sigh of relief. "Good. No intelligent life has appeared." The planet was essentially in a primordial stage like Earth's. Supergiants inhabited its seas, and any land creature that dared approach the ocean