"No! The Calamity Beast is advancing!" Tiangu Yue shouted. He was the first to turn and run. The beast had already been their equal. If it rose another rank, it would reach Ninth-Rank Middle Grade—or rather, by the Elf World's reckoning, the initial grade of the Ninth Rank was called the "spirit" level, the middle grade the "motion" level, and above that lay the legendary "freedom" level. At that point, one was supposed to "leave" this world and pass into legend. Every expert present was still at the spirit level. If the eight of them faced a Calamity Beast a full level above them... this would not be a case of two fists being no match for four hands. It would be a one-sided rout.
Luo Qian watched the field descend into chaos. The mighty "supreme experts" fled like homeless dogs, and he felt certain his scheme was halfway to success. But when he looked toward the other half of his plan, he frowned. As things stood, that half clearly had no intention of cooperating willingly.
Golden light swelled the Calamity Beast's body to more than twice its former size. Already enormous, it grew into a moving mountain of flesh as it advanced. That immense bulk made it clumsy, but it also gave it strength so formidable that even Luo Qian struggled to gauge it.
"Roar! Roar! Roar!" The transformed Calamity Beast let loose three earthshaking roars. Three golden waves of force shot into the sky, striking three of the supreme experts and sending them plummeting to the ground!
The Golden Core from the Immortal Realm clashed with the life energy of this world inside the Calamity Beast, creating a monster. Its level had probably reached "freedom," leaving it only one step from departing this world. Luo Qian was not